משנה: אֵיזֶהוּ דֶּבֶר עִיר הַמּוֹצִיאָה חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת רַגְלִי יָֽצְאוּ מִמֶּנָּה שְׁלשָׁה מֵתִים בִּשְׁלשָׁה יָמִים זֶה אַחַר זֶה. MISHNAH: What is an epidemic54That one fasts and/or blows the shofar to bring people to repentance.? A town which could mobilize 500 soldiers55Able bodied males between the ages of 20 and 50. and there were taken out three dead persons on three consecutive days56Who die because of the same disease..
הלכה: אָמַר רִבִּי לֵוִי. כָּתוּב יַדְבֵּ֧ק י֙י בְּךָ֖ אֶת־הַדָּ֑בֶר. לָאִשָּׁה הַזֹּאת שֶׁהִיא מַדְבֶּקֶת שְׁלֹשָׁה כִכָּרִים זֶה אַחַר זֶה. הָא עֲבִידָא אֵינוֹ יוֹתֵר מִיכָּן צְרִיכָה שֵׁיעוּר אַחֵר. נִישְׁמְעִינָהּ מִן הָדָא. אֲפִילוּ עִיר גְּדוֹלָה כְאַנְטוֹכִיָּא וְיָֽצְאוּ מִמֶּנָּה שְׁלשָׁה מֵתִים בִּשְׁלשָׁה יָמִים זֶה אַחַר זֶה. הָדָא אָֽמְרָה. יוֹתֵר מִיכֵּן צְרִיכָה שֵׁיעוּר אַחֵר. בָּתִּים שֶׁאָֽמְרוּ בְרִיאִים אֶבָל לֹא מְרוּעָרָעִים. וְדִכְוָתָהּ. בַּחוּרִים אֲבָל לֹא זְקֵינים. תַּנֵּי. אַסְכָּרָה. כָּל־שֶׁהִיא שְׁנַיִם בַּדֶּבֶר וְאֶחָד בְּאַסְכָּרָה. אִיתָא חֲמִי. אַסְכָּרָה כָּל־שֶׁהִיא. וְאַתְּ אָמַר הָכֵין. לָכֵן צְרִיכָה. כְּשֶׁהִתְרִיעוּ עַל הָאַסְכָּרָה וְהָֽלְכָה לָהּ. וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵתוּ שְׁנַיִם בַּדֶּבֶר וְאֶחָד בְּאַסְכָּרָה. HALAKHAH: Rebbi Levi said, it is written57Deut. 28:21.: The Eternal will stick to you the epidemic. {A parable} of a woman who sticks three loaves together58A plague for which one fasts is a infectious disease.. How is this acted on? Is it not that larger it needs another rate59Goes a town larger than that mentioned in the Mishnah by different rules both in the number of victims and in the number of days?? Let us hear it from the following: Even a city large as Antiochia, and there were brought out three dead persons during three consecutive days. This implies that larger it needs another rate60The interpretation of this sentence depends on the interpretation of the expression “rate”. If this means “percentage” then instead of “needs” one has to read “does not need”. If it means “absolute numbers” then the text as it stands is correct. Since there is no corrector’s addition, the second interpretation is to be accepted.. The houses about which they spoke61In Mishnah 4; one fasts only for unforeseeable building collapses., healthy but not shaky. And similarly, young people but not old ones. It was stated: Diphtheria any; two by plague and one by diphtheria. Come and see, “diphtheria any” and you are saying so62If one fasts for one deadly case of diphtheria (Tosephta 2:9), why the mention of two deaths by another communicable disease?? It is needed for the case that they blew the shofar about diphtheria and it went away and after that two died of a plague and one of diphtheria63In the case of diphtheria, the requirement is waived that to declare an epidemic the causes of death must be the same infection..