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If a mouse falls into a liquid it shall be removed and sprinkled with holy water, and if it is alive it may be taken [for food]; but if it is dead, all the liquid shall be poured out and not given to man, and the vessel shall be cleansed . . 9 Fornication that occurs while violating incest taboos and heterosexual precepts is likewise punished. ”10 Sexual transgressions are fundamentally contrary to Christian medieval proscriptions. “If one commits fornication with his mother, he shall do penance for fifteen years and never change except on Sundays.
Alone, always. ” 22 With “no friend, no companion,” 23 Philoctetes is “an outcast,” 24 because of a savagely inflicted wound. A snakebite had rendered his foot diseased, oozing pus and seeping foul secretions. ” 25 This infected pariah resists the attempt to lure him back to Troy, a clever plot on the part of the duplicitous Odysseus who knows through a prophecy that Greek victory can only be assured through the very person they abandoned. ” 26 As Philoctetes says, resisting the attempt to integrate him back among the Greeks, “I, who am nothing now, am long since dead to you.
5 How a latrine should be constructed is graphically described: Q. On the Sabbath, may a Jew use latrines which are built in the city wall and open into a ditch surrounding the wall, so that the feces falling into the ditch are removed (by his force) from one Sabbath domain into another. A. He should fasten a board beneath the seat (within not more than three tefahim below the latrine walls) so that the feces first fall on the board and then into the ditch. Should the board break on the Sabbath, he would still be permitted to use the latrine that day.