## Avodah Zarah Daf 71a

###### Avodah Zarah 71a:1
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**גְּמָ׳** וּרְמִינְהִי: עִיר שֶׁכְּבָשׁוּהָ כַּרְקוֹם — כׇּל כֹּהֲנוֹת שֶׁבְּתוֹכָהּ פְּסוּלוֹת! אָמַר רַב מָרִי: לְנַסֵּךְ אֵין פְּנַאי, לִבְעוֹל יֵשׁ פְּנַאי.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** **And** the Gemara **raises a contradiction** to the assumption that soldiers during wartime do not have time to commit transgressions from that which is taught in another mishna (*Ketubot* 27a): With regard to **a city that was conquered by** an army laying **siege, all the women** married to **priests** located **in** the city **are unfit** and forbidden to their husbands, due to the concern that they were raped. **Rav Mari** resolved the contradiction and **said: They do not have time to pour** wine for **libations,** as their passion for idolatry is not pressing at that time, but **they have time to engage in intercourse,** because their lust is great even during wartime.


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:2
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**מַתְנִי׳** הָאוּמָּנִין שֶׁל יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁשָּׁלַח לָהֶם נׇכְרִי חָבִית שֶׁל יֵין נֶסֶךְ בִּשְׂכָרָן — מוּתָּר לוֹמַר: ״תֵּן לָנוּ אֶת דָּמֶיהָ״, מִשֶּׁנִּכְנְסָה לִרְשׁוּתָן — אָסוּר.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** With regard to **Jewish craftsmen to whom a gentile sent a barrel of wine** used for **a libation in** lieu of **their wage,** it is **permitted** for them **to say** to him: **Give us its monetary value** instead. But **once it has entered into their possession,** it is **prohibited** for them to say so, as that would be tantamount to selling the wine to the gentile and deriving benefit from it.


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:3
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**גְּמָ׳** אָמַר רַב יְהוּדָה אָמַר רַב: מוּתָּר לָאָדָם לוֹמַר לְגוֹי: ״צֵא וְהָפֵס עָלַי מְנָת הַמֶּלֶךְ״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** **Rav Yehuda says** that **Rav says:** It is **permitted for a person to say to a gentile: Go and placate** the collectors of **the governmental tax** on wine **for me,** and I will reimburse you subsequently, even if he pays the tax with wine used for a libation.


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:4
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מֵיתִיבִי: אַל יֹאמַר אָדָם לְגוֹי ״עוּל תַּחְתַּי לָעוֹצֵר״. אֲמַר לֵיהּ רַב: ״עוּל תַּחְתַּי לָעוֹצֵר״ קָאָמְרַתְּ? הָא לָא דָּמְיָא אֶלָּא לְהָא, אֲבָל אוֹמֵר לוֹ ״מַלְּטֵנִי מִן הָעוֹצֵר״.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
One of the Sages **raised an objection** from a *baraita*: **A person may not say to a gentile: Go in my stead to the commissary [*la’otzer*]** to pay the wine tax for me, if he pays it in wine used for a libation. **Rav said to him: You say** that the case I am referring to is similar to one who says to a gentile: **Go in my stead to the commissary?** In that case, since he says: In my stead, whatever the gentile gives the commissary is considered as though the Jew gave it himself. **This** case that I am referring to **is comparable only to that** which is taught in the *baraita*: **But** the Jew **may say to** a gentile: **Save me from the commissary.**


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:5
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**מַתְנִי׳** הַמּוֹכֵר יֵינוֹ לְנׇכְרִי, פָּסַק עַד שֶׁלֹּא מָדַד — דָּמָיו מוּתָּרִין, מָדַד עַד שֶׁלֹּא פָּסַק — דָּמָיו אֲסוּרִין.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** In the case of a Jew **who sells his wine to a gentile,** if **he fixed** a price **before he measured** the wine into the gentile’s vessel, deriving benefit from **the money** paid **for** the wine is **permitted.** It is not tantamount to selling wine used for a libation, as the gentile purchased the wine before it became forbidden, and the money already belonged to the Jew. But if the Jew **measured** the wine into the gentile’s vessel, thereby rendering it forbidden, **before he fixed** a price, **the money** paid **for** the wine is **forbidden.**


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:6
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**גְּמָ׳** אָמַר אַמֵּימָר: מְשִׁיכָה בְּגוֹי קוֹנָה, תִּדַּע, דְּהָנֵי פָּרְסָאֵי מְשַׁדְּרִי פַּרְדָּשְׁנֵי לַהֲדָדֵי וְלָא הָדְרִי בְּהוּ. רַב אָשֵׁי אָמַר: לְעוֹלָם אֵימָא לָךְ, מְשִׁיכָה בְּגוֹי אֵינָהּ קוֹנָה, וְהַאי דְּלָא הָדְרִי בְּהוּ — דְּרָמוּת רוּחָא הוּא דִּנְקִיטָא לְהוּ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** **Ameimar says:** The legal act of **acquiring** an object **by pulling** it applies **to a gentile. Know** that it is so, **as those Persians send gifts [*pardashnei*] to one another and do not retract them,** which shows that they acquire one from another by pulling the object alone, even without paying for it. **Rav Ashi says: Actually, I will say to you** that **pulling** an object **does not acquire** it **in** a transaction involving **a gentile, and** the fact **that they do not retract their** gifts is not due to the *halakhot* of acquisition but **because they are taken over by haughtiness,** and they consider it shameful to retract a gift.


###### Avodah Zarah 71a:7
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אָמַר רַב אָשֵׁי: מְנָא אָמֵינָא לַהּ? מִדְּאָמַר לְהוּ רַב לְהָנְהוּ סָבוֹיָתָא: כִּי כָיְילִיתוּ חַמְרָא לְגוֹיִם, שִׁקְלוּ זוּזֵי מִינַּיְיהוּ וַהֲדַר (כָּיְילָן) [כַּיְילוּ] לְהוּ, וְאִי לָא נְקִיטוּ בַּהֲדַיְיהוּ זוּזֵי, אוֹזִיפוּנְהוּ וַהֲדַר שְׁקִילוּ מִינַּיְיהוּ, כִּי הֵיכִי דְּתִיהְוֵי הַלְוָאָה גַּבַּיְיהוּ, דְּאִי לָא עָבְדִיתוּ הָכִי, כִּי קָא הָוֵי יֵין נֶסֶךְ — בִּרְשׁוּתַיְיכוּ קָא הָוֵי, וְכִי שָׁקְילִתוּ דְּמֵי יֵין נֶסֶךְ קָא שָׁקְילִתוּ. וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ מְשִׁיכָה בְּגוֹי קוֹנָה

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Ashi said: From where do I say that** acquisition by pulling does not apply to gentiles? It is **from** that **which Rav said to certain wine shopkeepers: When you measure wine for gentiles, take** the **dinars from them and then measure** the wine **for them. And if they do not have dinars with them** readily available, **lend them** dinars **and then take** those dinars back **from them, so that it will be a loan** provided **to them** that they are repaying. **As if you do not do so, when it becomes wine** used for **a libation it becomes** so **in your possession, and when you take** the money it will be **payment for wine** used for **a libation** that **you are taking.** Rav Ashi concludes his proof for his opinion: **And if it enters your mind** that **pulling** an object **acquires** it **in** a transaction involving **a gentile,**