Synopsis of Subjects
CHAPTER I.
MISHNA I. TO V. If, after the court
had decreed the transgression of one of all the commandments prescribed
in the Torah, an individual guided by this decree acted erroneously,
etc. If upon issuing the decree the court becomes aware of its being
conceived in error and retracts, and mean while an individual commits
a transgression upon their decree, etc. If while the court was deciding,
one of its members who perceived their error drew their attention to
it, etc. If causing the whole people to act erroneously, etc. If upon
the erroneous decree of the court the whole people, or its majority,
acted, etc.,
CHAPTER II.
MISHNA I. TO VII. If an anointed priest
has erroneously rendered an unlawful decision against himself and acted
accordingly by mistake, etc. If he (the said priest) both decided and
acted for himself, etc. The court is not liable unless the issued decree
concerns Korath and sin-offering respectively. It is also not liable
for a decree concerning a command or a prohibition with regard to (polluting)
the sanctuary. There is no liability when the decree concerns an adjuring
challenge to testify, a hastily made vow, etc. Concerning a ruler and
the high priest's offerings for their sin,
CHAPTER III.
MISHNA I. TO VII. An anointed priest
who has sinned and was removed from his office, etc. If they were appointed
to their respective positions after they had sinned, etc. Who is the
anointed priest? He who was consecrated to priesthood by the holy ointment,
etc. The high priest rends his garment from below; the common priest,
from the top, etc. What is more common precedes the less common. The
man has the preference over the woman, etc. In captivity his master
has the preference over his father. His mother, however, has the preference
over all. The following precede one another
in order of arrangement, etc. Why does the dog know his master, and
the cat does not? Why do all reign over the mice? Five objects are conducive
to one's forgetting his studies, etc. Five are apt to strengthen one's
memory, etc. The following ten objects are cumbrous to one's studies,
etc. When the prince enters, all the people present in college rise
to their feet, without again taking their seats until he tells them
to do so. When the chief justice enters, the people occupying two rows
of seats facing the entrance rise, etc. The legend which happened to
Raban Simon b. Gamaliel with R. Mair and R. Nathan. How the latter were
removed from the college. An erudite scholar and a dialectician, who
has the preference? How Abaye rose to be the chief of the College of
Sura,
Sources: Biblical
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