and he wished

<<to declare it ownerless

<<for the poor.

<<Said

<<to him

<<his students:

<<Rabbi,

<<already

<<voted

<<concerning you

<<your colleagues

<<and permitted it.

<<Who are

<<‘your colleagues’?

<<Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai.

The reason is

<<that they voted;

<<but

<<had they not

<<voted,

<<no.

What is

<<‘and it says’?

<<This is what

<<it is saying:

<<now,

<<it is written:

<<‘be

<<ready

<<for three

<<days;

<<do not

<<approach

<<a woman’ —

<<‘go,

<<say

<<to them:

<<return

<<to your tents’ —

<<why do I need it?

<<Learn from it:

<<any

<<item

<<[enacted] by a vote

<<requires

<<a vote,

<<another,

<<to permit it.

And if you say:

<<for the mitzvah of

<<marital relations

<<it is

<<that it comes —

<<come and hear:

<<‘when sounds long

<<the ram's horn,

<<they

<<may go up

<<on the mountain.’

Now,

<<it is written:

<<‘also

<<the sheep

<<and the cattle

<<may not

<<graze

<<in front of

<<that mountain’;

<<‘when sounds long

<<the ram's horn’ —

<<why do I need it?

<<Learn from it:

<<an item

<<[enacted] by a vote

<<requires

<<a vote,

<<another,

<<to permit it.

And if you say

<<these things apply

<<in Torah law,

<<but

<<in rabbinic law

<<not —

<<come and hear:

<<a vineyard

<<of the fourth year.

<<But

<<a vineyard

<<of the fourth year

<<is rabbinic,

<<and they said

<<to him:

<<already

<<voted

<<concerning you

<<your colleagues

<<and permitted it.

And if you say:

<<an egg

<<too —

<<voted

<<about it

<<Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai

<<and permitted it.

<<When

<<they voted

<<about the testimony,

<<about an egg

<<they did not

<<vote.

Abaye said to him:

<<is it so that

<<an egg

<<by a vote

<<was [prohibited]?

<<The egg

<<on the testimony

<<depends —

<<the matter:

<<was restricted

<<testimony,

<<was prohibited

<<the egg;

<<was permitted

<<testimony,

<<was permitted

<<the egg.

Rav Ada

<<and Rav Shalman,

<<both

<<of Bei Kelochis,

<<say:

<<even

<<from the ordinance of

<<Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai

<<onward,

<<an egg

<<is prohibited.

<<What is the reason?

<<Speedily

<<will be built

<<the Temple,

<<and they will say:

<<last year

<<did we not

<<eat

<<an egg

<<on Yom Tov

<<the second?

<<Now

<<too

<<let us eat.

<<And they will not

<<know

<<that last year

<<two

<<sanctities

<<they were,

<<and now

<<a sanctity

<<one

<<it is.

If so,

<<testimony

<<too

<<let us not

<<accept —

<<what is the reason?

<<Speedily

<<will be built

<<the Temple,

<<and they will say:

<<last year

<<did we not

<<accept

<<testimony of

<<the new month

<<all

<<the day

<<entire?

<<Now

<<too

<<let us accept!

How can these be compared!

<<There,

<<testimony

<<is entrusted

<<to the court;

<<an egg

<<to everyone

<<is entrusted.

Rava

<<said:

<<even

<<from the ordinance of

<<Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai

<<onward,

<<an egg

<<is prohibited.

<<Does not

<<concede

<<Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai

<<that if

<<came

<<witnesses

<<from the afternoon offering

<<and onward,

<<they treat

<<that

<<day

<<as holy

<<and the next day

<<as holy?

And Rava said:

<<the halacha is

<<like

<<Rav

<<in these

<<three [cases],

<<whether

<<leniently

<<or

<<stringently.