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19. B. Bekhorot 29a, and B. Qiddushin 56b. 20. B. Ketubot 105s.

21. M. Bekhorot IV.5.

22. B. Bekhorot 28b-29a.

23. This concept of compensation for tirha is further defined in B. Qiddushin 58b, where payment is acceptable in compensation for the physical act of bringing the ashes Tg the water but no payment is permitted for sprinkling the waters, which is the actual act of sanctification.

24. B. Nedarim 62b. 25. Ibid., 62a-62b.

26. J.T. Ma'aser Sheni 5.5, 56b; Lee I. Levine , The Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity, Jerusalem , 1989, p: 71.

27. This is made clear in Hagahot HaBah, note#7. 28. Leviticus 21.8; B. Nedarim 62a.

29. B. Baba Batra 8a.

30. Ezra 7.24.

. B. Nedarim 62b.