## Arakhin Daf 12b

###### Arakhin 12b:1
[Arakhin 12b:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Arakhin/r/12b:1)

שְׁנִיָּה עָלָה וְכִיבֵּשׁ יְהוֹיָקִים.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**in** his **second** year **he ascended** to Eretz Yisrael **and conquered Jehoiakim.**


###### Arakhin 12b:2
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וְכֵן בַּשְּׁנִיָּה.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
§ The Gemara continues its discussion of the *baraita*, which teaches: When the Temple was destroyed for the first time, that day was the Ninth of Av; and it was the conclusion of Shabbat; and it was the year after a Sabbatical Year; **and likewise,** the same happened **when the Second** Temple was destroyed.


###### Arakhin 12b:3
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וּשְׁנִיָּה בְּמוֹצָאֵי שְׁבִיעִית מִי מַשְׁכַּחַתְּ לַהּ? מִכְּדִי בַּיִת שֵׁנִי כַּמָּה קָם? אַרְבַּע מְאָה וְעֶשְׂרִים. אַרְבַּע מְאָה — תְּמָנְיָא יוֹבֵלֵי, אַרְבֵּסְרֵי — תְּרֵי שָׁבוּעַ, פָּשׁוּ לְהוּ שֵׁית, הָוֵה לֵיהּ בְּשִׁיתָּא בַּשָּׁבוּעַ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **Can you find** such a possibility, that the **Second** Temple was destroyed **in the year after a Sabbatical Year? Now,** for **how many** years did **the Second Temple stand?** It stood for **420** years. **Four hundred** years include exactly **eight Jubilees,** as the Jubilee cycle is fifty years. An additional **fourteen** years consist of **two Sabbatical cycles.** There are **six** years **remaining** during which the Temple stood, which means that the last year **was the sixth** year **of the Sabbatical cycle,** and therefore when the Temple was destroyed the following year it was a Sabbatical Year, not the year after the Sabbatical Year.


###### Arakhin 12b:4
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הָא מַנִּי? רַבִּי יְהוּדָה הִיא, דְּאָמַר: ״שְׁנַת חֲמִשִּׁים עוֹלָה לְכָאן וּלְכָאן״, אַיְיתִי תְּמָנְיָא מִתְּמָנְיָא יוֹבֵלֵי, וְהָנֵי שֵׁית — הָוֵי אַרְבֵּיסַר, אִישְׁתְּכַח דִּבְמוֹצָאֵי שְׁבִיעִית חֲרוּב.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara answers: In accordance with **whose** opinion **is this** *baraita* stated? **It is** in accordance with the opinion of **Rabbi Yehuda, who says** that **the fiftieth year is counted for here and for there,** i.e., it is both the Jubilee Year and the first year of the next Sabbatical cycle and Jubilee cycle, and therefore each Jubilee cycle is only forty-nine years rather than fifty years. Consequently, when calculating the number of years of the Sabbatical and Jubilee cycles until the destruction of the Second Temple, **bring** an additional **eight** years **from the eight** complete Jubilee cycles during which the Temple stood. The eight years **and those six** years that remained according to the previous calculation **equal fourteen** years, which are two complete Sabbatical cycles. Therefore, **it is found that** the Second Temple **was destroyed in the year following the Sabbatical** Year.


###### Arakhin 12b:5
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אִי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה, בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה לָא מַשְׁכַּחַתְּ לַהּ! דְּתַנְיָא: שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר יוֹבֵלוֹת מָנוּ יִשְׂרָאֵל מִשֶּׁנִּכְנְסוּ לָאָרֶץ וְעַד שֶׁיָּצְאוּ, וְאִי אַתָּה יָכוֹל לוֹמַר מִשָּׁעָה שֶׁנִּכְנְסוּ מָנוּ, שֶׁאִם אַתָּה אוֹמֵר כֵּן — נִמְצָא בַּיִת חָרֵב בִּתְחִילַּת יוֹבֵל, וְאִי אַתָּה מוֹצֵא ״בְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה אַחַר אֲשֶׁר הֻכְּתָה הָעִיר״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara objects: But **if** one explains the *baraita* in accordance with the opinion of **Rabbi Yehuda,** the first clause of the *baraita* is problematic, as **you do not find** that **the first** time the Temple was destroyed was in the year after the Sabbatical Year. **As it is taught** in a *baraita*: **The Jewish people counted seventeen Jubilees from when they entered Eretz** Yisrael **until they left,** when the First Temple was destroyed. **And you cannot say** that **they counted from the time they entered, because if you say this, the result is** that **the Temple was destroyed at the beginning of the Jubilee** cycle, **and you do not find** that the Jubilee Year was **“in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten”** (Ezekiel 40:1).


###### Arakhin 12b:6
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אֶלָּא צֵא מֵהֶם שֶׁבַע שֶׁכִּיבְּשׁוּ, וְשֶׁבַע שֶׁחִילְּקוּ, וְאַתָּה מוֹצֵא ״בְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה אַחַר אֲשֶׁר הֻכְּתָה הָעִיר״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rather, remove from them** the **seven** years **when they conquered** the land **and** the **seven** years **when they divided** the land, as they did not start counting the first Jubilee cycle until after those events. **And you** then **find** that the Jubilee Year was **“in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten.”**


###### Arakhin 12b:7
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וְאִי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה, אַיְיתִי שַׁבְסְרֵי מִשַּׁבְסְרֵי יוֹבֵלֵי, שְׁדִי אַהָנֵי — הֲוָה לֵיהּ בִּתְלָתָא בַּשָּׁבוּעַ!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara explains the difficulty from this *baraita*: **But if** one holds in accordance with the opinion of **Rabbi Yehuda,** that each Jubilee cycle is forty-nine years rather than fifty years, you must **bring** an additional **seventeen** years, one **from** each of **the seventeen Jubilee** cycles and **add** them **to these** seventeen cycles, and it turns out that the destruction of the Temple **was in the third** year **of the Sabbatical** cycle.


###### Arakhin 12b:8
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הָנָךְ שְׁנֵי דְּאַגְלִינְהוּ סַנְחֵרִיב, עַד דַּאֲתָא יִרְמְיָה אַהְדְּרִינְהוּ — לָא קָחָשֵׁיב לְהוּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara answers: Throughout **those years from** when **Sennacherib exiled** the ten tribes **until Jeremiah came and returned them** to their land, **they did not count** the Jubilee cycle, as the Jubilee applies only when all twelve tribes are in their ancestral lands. When the exiles returned, a new Jubilee cycle was started, and the Temple was destroyed thirty-six years later, in the year after a Sabbatical Year.


###### Arakhin 12b:9
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אִיבָּעֵית אֵימָא: לְעוֹלָם רַבָּנַן, וְכִי קָתָנֵי ״וְכֵן בַּשְּׁנִיָּה״ — אַשְּׁאָרָא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara suggests a second answer to its question about the statement of the *baraita* which equates the destructions of the First Temple and the Second Temple. **And if you wish, say** instead: **Actually,** the *baraita* is in accordance with the opinion of **the Rabbis, and when it teaches: And likewise,** the same happened **when the Second** Temple was destroyed, it is not asserting that the Temple was destroyed in a year after a Sabbatical Year, because in fact the Second Temple was destroyed during a Sabbatical Year. Rather, it is referring **to the other** details the *baraita* provides with regard to the timing of the destruction, i.e., that it occurred on the Ninth of Av and on a Sunday.


###### Arakhin 12b:10
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הָכִי נָמֵי מִסְתַּבְּרָא, דְּאִי לָא תֵּימָא הָכִי, מִשְׁמַרְתּוֹ שֶׁל יְהוֹיָרִיב בַּשְּׁנִיָּה מִי הֲוַאי?

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara comments: **So too, it is reasonable** to conclude that not all of the details pertaining to the destruction of the First Temple also apply to the destruction of the Second Temple. **As, if you do not say so,** then with regard to the statement that the destruction occurred during the week of the priestly watch of Jehoiarib, **was the priestly watch of Jehoiarib present during** the time of **the Second** Temple?


###### Arakhin 12b:11
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וְהָתַנְיָא: אַרְבַּע מִשְׁמָרוֹת עָלוּ מִן הַגּוֹלָה — יְדַעְיָה וְחָרִים פַּשְׁחוּר וְאִימֵּר, עָמְדוּ נְבִיאִים שֶׁבֵּינֵיהֶם וְחִלְּקוּם לְעֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבַּע מִשְׁמָרוֹת, בְּלָלוּם וּנְתָנוּם בַּקַּלְפִּי, בָּא יְדַעְיָה וְנָטַל חֶלְקוֹ וְחֵלֶק חֲבֵירָיו שֵׁשׁ,

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**But isn’t it taught** in a *baraita* that the watch of Jehoiarib did not exist during the Second Temple era? As it is taught: Only **four priestly watches ascended from the** Babylonian **exile,** while the other twenty stayed in Babylonia. And these are the watches who returned: The descendants of **Jedaiah, Harim, Pashḥur, and Immer. The prophets among** those who returned **arose and divided** these four families **into twenty-four watches.** They achieved this as follows: They wrote the names of these new twenty-four watches on pieces of paper, **mixed them up, and put them in a receptacle [*kalpi*]** from which lots were drawn. A representative from the family of **Jedaiah came and drew his portion and the lot of** five **other** watches, for a total of **six.**