Women and minors are not counted in a zimun. [Only minors who do not know to whom they are blessing; but a minor who does know is counted in a zimun. And there are some of our rabbis who say that they said this ("a minor who does know, etc.") only in respect to a boy aged thirteen years and one day, who did not yet develop two (pubic) hairs, such a boy being called "katan poreach" (see Berachoth 47b); but a younger boy is not counted for a zimun even if he does know to whom he is blessing. And in Yerushalmi they state as halachah that a minor is not counted for a zimun at all, until he becomes an adult (i.e., thirteen) and shows two hairs. Women form a zimun for themselves and bondsmen for themselves, but not together, because of (apprehension of) promiscuity.] What is the (minimum) amount (of food) required for a zimun? An olive-size. [This is the halachah, and not as R. Yehudah says.] R. Yehudah says: An egg-size.
Jerusalem Talmud Nazir
HALAKHAH: “If a person vowed to be a nazir and went to bring his animal,” etc. Where do we hold? If he saw an animal passing on the market and said, I am a nazir on that animal which passed by, he is a nazir even if the animal was stolen114Since the animal was not his and he could not be sure that the owners would sell it to him, his vow was not dependent on that animal (unless he would spell out that he would not be a nazir unless the animal was sold to him).. If he thought that he had one and it turned out that he did not, would we say if he was rich and became poor, the nezirut would be invalidated? But we must hold that he said, I am a nazir on the animal I have at home, then went and found it stolen. If he vowed before the animal was stolen he is a nazir, after the animal was stolen he is not a nazir. The students of Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Julianus say: Rebbi Jehudah asked: If the thieves returned it in the night, did his nezirut return to him retroactively115From the moment of his vow. or for the future116He has to start anew from the moment the animal was returned. No answer is given.?
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Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah
MISHNAH: It happened that one brought Rabban Joḥanan ben Zakkai a dish to taste, and Rabban Gamliel two dates and a pail of water and they said, bring them to the sukkah67They did not want to avail themselves of the leniency of Mishnah 5.. But when one gave Rebbi Ṣadoq food68Including bread. in the volume of less than an egg he took it with a napkin69He covered his hands with the towel so he did not have to wash them before touching the bread., ate it outside of the sukkah, and did not recite a benediction70He did not say Grace for volumes less than a chicken egg. afterwards.
