Talmud for Moed Katan 2:3
מַכְנִיס אָדָם פֵּרוֹתָיו מִפְּנֵי הַגַּנָּבִים, וְשׁוֹלֶה פִשְׁתָּנוֹ מִן הַמִּשְׁרָה בִּשְׁבִיל שֶׁלֹּא תֹאבַד, וּבִלְבַד שֶׁלֹּא יְכַוֵּן אֶת מְלַאכְתּוֹ בַמּוֹעֵד. וְכֻלָּן אִם כִּוְּנוּ מְלַאכְתָּן בַּמּוֹעֵד, יֹאבֵדוּ:
One may gather in his fruits (to protect them) from thieves, and he may take out (sholeh) his flax from (the) soaking (trough) so that it not spoil. [Any drawing out of something from water is called "sholeh"], so long as he not plan to do so on Chol Hamoed. And all (of the above) if he planned to do them on Chol Hamoed, go lost. [Beth-din cause his gains to go lost by declaring them hefker (ownerless)].
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
HALAKHAH: “When is he guilty,” etc. Rebbi Yose said20The Amora R. Yose determines the amount required by the Sages as half that indicated by the Tanna R. Yose, a statement ascribed in the Babli to his teacher’s teacher R. Zeˋira. His statement implies that, as a weight, a mina (100 drachmas) was identified with the pound of 12 ounces, i. e. 96 denars. Since other talmudic data indicate that as a coin, drachma in the Eastern Roman Empire was the name of the silver denar, one has to assume that mina as a weight simply was a name for the Roman pound. [D. Sperber (Roman Palestine 200–400, Money and Prices, Ramat Gan 1974) consistently writes mina for the weight and maneh for the coin. But since a talmudic מנה always denotes 100 denars, there is no reason not to read the word as Μνᾶ, מְנָה.], the fourfold portion is half a Roman pound.
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