למקטליה בדבר הנזרק.
killing it with an object that is thrown from a distance like an arrow rather than with one’s hands. If the dog is possessed by an evil spirit, one should avoid direct contact with it.
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למקטליה בדבר הנזרק.
killing it with an object that is thrown from a distance like an arrow rather than with one’s hands. If the dog is possessed by an evil spirit, one should avoid direct contact with it.
תניא כוותיה דשמואל. כשהורגין אותו — אין הורגין אותו אלא בדבר הנזרק. דחייף ביה — מסתכן, דנכית ליה — מיית. דחייף ביה — מסתכן: מאי תקנתיה? נישלח מאניה ונירהיט. רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע חף ביה חד מינייהו בשוקא, שלחינהו למאניה ורהיט. אמר: קיימתי בעצמי ״החכמה תחיה בעליה״.
The Talmud comments: This was taught in a baraita in accordance with the opinion of Shmuel: When one kills a mad dog, he should kill it only with a thrown object. Furthermore, one who is rubbed by a mad dog will become dangerously ill, while one bitten by the dog will die. The Talmud asks: What is the remedy for one who is rubbed by mad dog and becomes dangerously ill? The Talmud answers: Let him take off his clothing and run. The Talmud relates: Rav Huna, son of Rav Yehoshua, was rubbed by one of these mad dogs in the market, whereupon he took off his clothing and ran. He said: I have fulfilled the verse: “Wisdom preserves the lives of those who have it” (Ecclesiastes 7:12).
דנכית ליה מיית: מאי תקנתיה? אמר אביי: ניתי משכא דאפא דיכרא וניכתוב עליה: אנא פלניא בר פלניתא אמשכא דאפא דיכרא כתיבנא עלך: ״כנתי כנתי קלירוס״. ואמרי לה: ״קנדי קנדי קלורוס, יה יה ה׳ צבאות אמן אמן סלה״. ונשלחינהו למאניה ולקברינהו בי קברי עד תריסר ירחי שתא, ונפקינהו ונקלינהו בתנורא ונבדרינהו לקטמיה אפרשת דרכים. והנך תריסר ירחי שתא, כי שתי מיא — לא לישתי אלא בגובתא דנחשא, דילמא חזי בבואה דשידא וליסתכן. כי הא דאבא בר מרתא הוא אבא בר מניומי, עבדא ליה אימיה גובתא דדהבא.
The Talmud continues to discuss the baraita: One bitten by a mad dog will die. The Talmud asks: What is the remedy? Abaye said: Let him bring the skin of a male hyena and write on it: I, so-and-so, son of so-and-so, am writing this spell about you upon the skin of a male hyena: Kanti kanti kelirus. And some say he should write: Kandi kandi keloros. He then writes names of God, Yah, Yah, Lord of Hosts, amen amen Selah. And let him take off his clothes and bury them in a cemetery for 12 months of the year, after which he should take them out, and burn them in an oven, and scatter the ashes at a crossroads. And during those 12 months of the year, when his clothes are buried, when he drinks water, let him drink only from a copper tube and not from a spring, lest he see the image of the demon in the water and be endangered, like the case of Abba bar Marta, who is also called Abba bar Manyumi, whose mother made him a gold tube for this purpose.
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