Taanis 28a

תענית כ״ח ע״א

Taanit 28a

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Topic

The מעמד's Torah readings, the special wood-offering days, and the stories and families behind them

Overview

The amud opens with the last words of an earlier discussion about splitting a short Torah paragraph between readers. Next the גמרא asks how to read the משנה about the אנשי מעמד: was the מוסף reading done from a ספר תורה or by heart? A ברייתא shows that שחרית and מוסף were read from the scroll and only מנחה was by heart. רבי יוסי adds that at מנחה everyone said it together, like שמע. The גמרא then explains that a קרבן מוסף day cancels more of the מעמד than a קרבן עצים day, because the first comes from the Torah and the second is rabbinic. A ברייתא tells how the wood-offering days began: families donated wood when the returning exiles found none, and the נביאים made those days permanent. Two stories explain odd family names. One family hid בכורים under dried figs and carried a pestle past the guards. The other, בני סלמאי, disguised their wood as ladders. The גמרא then identifies the families of פחת מואב and עדין and asks which תנא the משנה follows, answering that it fits one version of רבי יוסי's view. The amud ends as מר קשישא begins a question to רב אשי about the first of טבת, and the question continues on the next amud.

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The steps (31)

1. ConclusionThe second reader has room to continue
2. StatementThe משנה about reading a long passage
3. QuestionWas מוסף read from the scroll or by heart?
4. ProofA ברייתא: שחרית and מוסף from the scroll
5. Challengeרבי יוסי: everyone reads together by heart
6. StatementThe משנה: days with הלל have no מעמד
7. QuestionWhy the two days are treated differently
8. ResponseTorah law versus rabbinic law
9. QuestionWhy did the משנה need to list the wood-offering days?
10. ResponseThe returning exiles found no wood, so these families donated
11. ResponseThe נביאים made the donation days permanent
12. ProofA פסוק in נחמיה supports the fixed wood times
13. QuestionWho were 'בני גונבי עלי' and 'בני קוצעי קציעות'?
14. ResponseThe wicked kingdom's decree and the roadblocks
15. ResponseHiding the first fruits under dried figs
16. StatementThese were the descendants of סלמאי הנתופתי
17. QuestionWho were בני סלמאי הנתופתי?
18. ResponseA ban on bringing wood for the מזבח
19. ResponseCarrying the wood as ladders
20. ConclusionThe memory of the righteous is a blessing
21. Statementרבי מאיר: בני פחת מואב are the family of דוד
22. Statementרבי יוסי: they are the family of יואב
23. Statementרבי יהודה: בני עדין are the family of דוד
24. Statementרבי יוסי again says יואב's family
25. QuestionWhose view does the משנה follow?
26. ChallengeIt fits none of the three תנאים
27. ProofWhy it can't be רבי מאיר
28. ProofWhy it can't be רבי יהודה
29. ProofWhy it can't be רבי יוסי
30. ResolutionThe משנה Follows רבי יוסי After All
31. StatementQuoting the משנה About the First of טבת