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A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature: Volume I and II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Marcus Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature is a classic reference work and the standard dictionary on Talmudic literature. The subjects of this dictionary, writes Jastrow, “are as unlimited as are the interests of the human mind.” With his Dictionary, Jastrow made Talmudic studies accessible for English scholars, and helped establish...

נִתְפַּחֲמוּ פני הנשים מפני השמש the faces of the (Jewish) women had become black &c. Ib. s. 19, beg. ככלי פשתן … מִתְפַּחֲמִין קימעא וכ׳ (a scholar’s reputation is) like the fine linen clothes from Bethshan, if they are in the least stained, they are ruined; Koh. R. to I, 18 אם נִתְפַּחֲמוּ וכ׳. Ib. אם פָּחֲמוּ (Kal). Deut. R. s. 1 ונתפחמו ידיה and her hands were soiled with soot; אם מקנחת … מתפחם if she wipes her hands on the wall, the wall will be soiled; a. fr. , v. פָּחֵים.
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