e proselytes with him?" "He need not repay his
children." "But if he repay them?" "The spirit of the Sages reposes on
him." All movables become property by acquisition; but everyone who keeps
his word,

THE SPIRIT
OF THE SAGES
REPOSES
ON
HIM.

NOTE.--At the Feast of Tabernacles in the Sabbatical year, the following
portions of Scripture were appointed to be read: Deut. i. 1-6; vi. 4-8;
xi. 13-22; xiv. 22; xv. 23; xvii. 14; xxvi. 12-19; xxvii.; xxviii. These
portions were read by the king or high priest from a wooden platform
erected in the Temple. The king or the high priest usually read them
sitting. King Agrippa, however, read them standing, and when he came to
the words "Thou mayst not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
brother" (Deut. xvii. 15), "tears dropped from his eyes." The people then
cried out to encourage him, "Thou art our brother--thou art our brother."
(Sotah, vii. 8).

On The Sabbath

Removals--Work to be Avoided--Discussion Between the Schools of
Shammai and Hillel as to What Constitutes Work--Work
Allowed--Lighting--Eve of the Sabbath--Cooking and Hot
Water--Retention of Heat--Burdens--Ornaments--Principal and Secondary
Work.

Chapter I

1. Removals(91) on the Sabbath are two. Of these removals four are inside
a place. And there are two other removals, of which four are outside a
place. "How?" "A beggar stands without, and the master of the house
within. The beggar reached his hand within, and gave something into the
hand of the master of the house, or took something from it and brought it
out?" "The beggar is guilty,(92) and the master of the house is free."
"The master of the house reached his hand outside and gave something into
the hand of the beggar, or took something from it and brought it in?" "The
master of the house is guilty, but the beggar is free." "The beggar
reached his hand within, and the master of the house took something from
it, or gave something into it, and the beggar brought it out?" "Both are
free." "The master of the house reached his hand without, and the beggar
took something from it, or gave something into it, and the master brought
it in?" "Both are free."

2. A man must not sit before the barber near to evening prayer,(93) until
he has prayed. He must not enter a bath, nor a tannery, nor eat, nor
judge. "But if they began?" "They need not cease." They may cease to read
the "Hear,"(94) etc., but they must not cease to p