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The Jerusalem Talmud, or Yerushalmi, is a commentary on the oral law (the Mishnah) of Israel that ties that oral law to the written law (the Torah, the Hebrew Scripture). Completed about 200 years prior to The Babylonian Talmud. Now all thirty-nine Yerushalmi tractates, as translated by Professor Neusner and Tzvee Zahavy, have been brought together in a single searchable resource. In addition to...

stun [the sacrificial animals before they are slaughtered]: [B] These are the ones who would hit the heifer between its horns [to stun the beast before slaughter]. Yohanan the high priest said to them, “How long are you going to feed the altar animals with pierced brain membranes.” He went and made for them yoke-rings [to restrain the animals]. [C] R. Abba in the name of R. Judah: “The yoke rings that he made for them were wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.” [VIII:1 A] And until his time,