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Talmud for Chagigah 3:6

הַגַּבָּאִין שֶׁנִּכְנְסוּ לְתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת, וְכֵן הַגַּנָּבִים שֶׁהֶחֱזִירוּ אֶת הַכֵּלִים, נֶאֱמָנִין לוֹמַר, לֹא נָגָעְנוּ. וּבִירוּשָׁלַיִם נֶאֱמָנִין עַל הַקֹּדֶשׁ, וּבִשְׁעַת הָרֶגֶל אַף עַל הַתְּרוּמָה:

Collectors [Jews, amei ha'aretz, who are deputed by the king to collect taxes from other Jews], who entered the house [to take the pledge], and likewise, thieves, who returned [earthenware] vessels [that they stole] are believed to say: "We did not touch them" [on the inside. This, if they returned them in voluntary penance, but not out of fear.] And in Jerusalem they are believed in respect to kodesh. [They are believed for all earthenware, both large and small, to say that they are clean for kodesh; for they do not make (potters') ovens in Jerusalem. For this reason they believed them and did not decree against them.] And, during the time of the festival, (they were believed) even for terumah, [it being written (Judges 20:11): "And all the men of Israel gathered together against the city as one man, chaverim." When they are all gathered together, Scripture calls them "chaverim." And a festival is a time of gathering.]

Jerusalem Talmud Bava Kamma

It was stated: “One does not raise chickens in Jerusalem because of the sacrifices, nor may Cohanim in the Land of Israel because of purities.” I could think also in Jerusalem in this way98That people eating sacrifices may not raise chickens but all others may., but it might follow what Rebbi Joshua ben Levi said, “Jerusalem the built-up99Ps. 122:3. The argument is about the second half of the verse which is not quoted: “A city joined together.” All its inhabitants are joined in its holiness.
In Ḥagigah 3:6, The same remark by R. Joshua ben Levi’s is given quite a different interpretation.
” etc., the city which joins Israel one to the other.
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