Shabbat 110b — the Talmud in English

And we said:

And if not,

that she has no cup of ikarim, or that it was ineffective.

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kafizi

a vessel measuring three log filled

with Persian shomkhei

Persian onions [which are large],

and let him boil them in wine and give it to her to drink

the woman suffering from ziva.

And let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

Cease from your ziva. [This is a segula-related matter, and so is everything stated below].

And if not, let him seat her

at a crossroads,

and let her take hold of

hold

a cup of wine in her hand, and let

let

a person come from behind

without her noticing,

and frighten her

and she will be frightened by him,

and let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring a fistful of cumin

let him take a fistful of cumin

and a fistful of turmeric

saffron

and a fistful of fenugreek

fenugreek

and let him boil them in wine and give it to her to drink, and let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring sixty covers of barrels

let him take sixty covers of barrels

and rub her with them

he should rub the woman suffering from ziva with them after soaking the covers in water

and let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring pashtina

a grass that does not grow tall but spreads over the ground

and let him boil it in wine, and rub her with it

he should rub her with it

and let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring harnuga de-higita

a type of grass that grows beside thorns called

romita, and let him burn it

he should burn the grass,

and in summer let him place it in worn linen garments

if it is summer, he should collect the ashes into worn linen garments

and in winter in worn cotton-wool garments

in winter he should collect them into worn cotton wool.

And if not, let him dig seven pits

he should dig seven pits,

and let him burn in them branches of a young vine that is orla

he should burn in them twigs of a new vineyard that is still orla,

and let her take a cup of wine in her hand,

and seat her over one of the pits

and let him raise her from this one and seat her on that one, and raise her from this one and seat her on that one

he should raise her from this pit and seat her on the second, and so on with all of them

and with each one

at every standing

let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring fine flour

flour of fine meal

and let him smear her from halfway down

they should smear her with it from half her body and below

and let him say to her: Arise from your ziva!

And if not, let him bring an ostrich egg

the egg of an ostrich,

and let him burn it, and place it in worn linen garments in summer and in worn cotton-wool garments in winter.

And if not, let him open a barrel of wine for her for her sake

that is, she should always drink much wine.

And if not, let him take

let him hold in her hand

a barley grain found in the dung of a white mule

a barley grain found in the dung of a white mule.

If she takes it

in her hand

for one day, it ceases

from her ziva

for two days; and if she takes it for two days, it ceases for three days; and if she takes it for three days, it ceases forever [Some versions read “one thread,” that is, that she held one grain, and likewise throughout].

некоторые читают: «одну нить», то есть если она держала одно зерно, и так во всех случаях].

Above we said

for yarkonta, two in beer, and it is uprooted.

And if not, let him bring the head of a shibuta

the head of a fish whose name is shibuta

salted

when it is salted

and let him boil it in beer and let him drink.

And if not, let him bring locust brine

brine of locusts

and if there is no locust brine, let him bring brine of nakirei

brine of a type of small birds

and let him bring it into the bathhouse

he should bring it into the bathhouse

and rub him with it

he should rub him with the brine.

And if there is no bathhouse, let him stand him between the oven and the wall

between the oven and the wall, which is a warm place, and he will perspire and the illness will leave.

Rabbi Yohanan said: One who wishes to warm him

the person suffering from yarkonta and heal him

should wipe him with his sheet

he should wrap him well in his sheet, which is warm, or in the sheet of another person suffering from yarkonta.

Rav Aha bar Yosef was afflicted by it

he became ill with yarkonta

Rav Kahana performed for him

this remedy of the sheet

and he was healed

he was cured.

And if not, let him bring three kafizi

three log

of Persian dates, and three kafizi of wax that drips from a beehive that has overflowed

wax dripping from a hive that has overflowed,

and three kafizi of ahala

a substance used for cleansing

red tole'ana

red, and let him boil them in beer and let him drink.

And if not, let him bring a young ass, the son of a male donkey

a foal, the son of she-asses,

and let him shave

the sick man

the middle of his head

the middle of his head,

and let him let blood from its forehead

he should let blood from the foal from its forehead,

and place it on his head

he should pour the blood onto his head, in the shaved place,

and let him beware of its eyes, lest he blind them

so that the blood should not enter its eyes and it become blind.

And if not, let him bring the head of a ram

the head of a ram

that is lying in pickling brine

that is pickled in vinegar or brine

and let him boil it in beer and let him drink.

And if not, let him bring a spotted wild boar

a boar spotted with patches

and let him tear it open and place it on his belly

he should place it upon him.

And if not, let him bring leeks from the middle of the garden bed

that which grows in the middle of the garden bed and is pungent.

A certain Arab

an Arab

who was afflicted by it

he became ill with yarkonta

said to the gardener

the owner of the garden:

Take my cloak

take my cloak

and give me a garden bed of leeks

a garden bed of leeks in exchange for it.

He gave it to him, and he ate it. He said to him

the Arab: Lend me

your cloak, and I will sleep in it a little

lend me the cloak, and I will sleep in it a little

I will wrap myself in it and

wrap himself and sleep in it.

When he became warm and rose

when he became warm and perspired

little by little it fell from him

pieces fell from the cloak little by little, because of the heat that came out of the sick man when he was cured of the illness.

And concerning that which we said

for yarkonta, two in beer, and it is uprooted.

we examined it:

But is it permitted

for a person to cause himself castration?

But it was taught in a beraita: From where is it derived that castration in a person is forbidden?

The verse states

in the passage concerning defects in offerings

“And crushed, and beaten, and torn, and cut off”

[all of which are defects in the reproductive organs] “You shall not offer to the Lord”

“And in your land you shall not do”

and we read: “You shall not be done,” meaning

you shall not do it to yourselves

castration,

the words of Rabbi Hanina.

And we answer:

These words apply where he intends

that he castrates the organ itself, but

here it happens by itself

for he does not touch the organ, but drinks a cup of ikarim and becomes castrated [according to the Rashba and the Ritva].

For Rabbi Yohanan said: One who wishes to castrate a rooster should remove its crest, and it becomes castrated by itself

thus, although it is forbidden to castrate living creatures, nevertheless, since he did not castrate it through the organ itself, it is permitted.

And we object: But Rav Ashi said: The rooster does not become castrated through this, rather

it is haughtiness

that has seized it

that it mourns over the removal of its splendor and does not mate. But to castrate it ממש is forbidden even without [doing so through] the organ?

And we answer:

Rather,

that which it is permitted to drink a cup of ikarim is

in the case of a eunuch

one who had already been a eunuch beforehand.