If [a Jew] buys [household] utensils from a non-Jew he should immerse [in water] that which it is customary to immerse, he should scald [that which it is customary] to scald and he should heat in fire [that which it is customary] to heat in fire. Spits and racks are to be heated in fire; [...]
In response the two sages quote to them the well known verse from Isaiah:
For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah and God’s word from Jersualem.[Isaiah 2:3]
They meant, of course, that Zion and Jerusalem were the source of God’s law and not Babylon. In the Talmud of Eretz-Israel [Sanhedrin 6a] we find a truly [...]
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