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Avodah Zarah 9b: the year after which no field is bought

Babylonian Talmud, Avodah Zarah · Avodah Zarah 9b, Sefaria segment 3; new English translation

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Rabbi Ḥanina said: After four hundred [years] from the destruction of the Temple, if a man says to you, “Take a field worth a thousand dinars for one dinar,” do not take it. In a baraita it was taught: After four thousand two hundred and thirty-one years from the creation of the world, if a man says to you, “Take for yourself a field worth a thousand dinars for one dinar,” do not take it. What is between them? There are three years between them, for the baraita exceeds by three years.

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1000 BCE010001500180019002000400 years after the destruction · Hebrew 4228 · 467–468 CE · Predicted date · Rabbi Ḥanina: after 400 years from the Temple’s destruction, buy no fieldHebrew 4231 · 470–471 CE · Predicted date · The baraita: after 4,231 years from creation, buy no field
  1. 400 years after the destruction · Hebrew 4228 · 467–468 CERabbi Ḥanina: after 400 years from the Temple’s destruction, buy no field Predicted date
  2. Hebrew 4231 · 470–471 CEThe baraita: after 4,231 years from creation, buy no field Predicted date

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