Precautions after Bloodletting
Aramaic
Rav and Samuel both say: One who did this thing [bloodletting] should tarry a while and afterward get up. As a master said: [Hebrew] In five matters, one is nearer to death than to life. And these are: one who ate and rose [immediately]; one who drank and rose [immediately]; one who slept and rose [immediately]; one who let blood and rose [immediately]; one who had sexual relations and rose [immediately].
Translated by Markham J. Geller and Lennart Lehmhaus.
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b. Shabbat 129b, trans. Markham J. Geller and Lennart Lehmhaus, publication forthcoming. Copyright Markham J. Geller and Lennart Lehmhaus. Used with permission of the translators.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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