Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah 1:5 ירושלמי עבודה זרה א׳:ה׳

MISHNAH: The following are forbidden to be sold to them: Pine cones¹⁴⁵Greek στρόβιλος “cone”., and white figs¹⁴⁶Cf. Demay1:1, Note 5. with their stalks, and incense, and white cocks. Rebbi Jehudah says, it is permitted to sell a white cock among chickens; when it is alone he cuts one claw and sells it since one does not sacrifice defective ones in pagan worship. All other things are permitted if unspecified¹⁴⁷If the Gentile does not specify that he needs the objects for pagan worship. but forbidden if specified. Rebbi Meïr says, it is also forbidden to sell good dates, and curved dates¹⁴⁸Cf. Note 155., and Nicolaos dates¹⁴⁹A kind of large Syrian dates, cf. Berakhot6:5, Note 162. to Gentiles.

HALAKHAH: “The following are forbidden.” Simeon bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: White figs with their stalks and pine cones with their attachments¹⁵⁰Which are needed to decorate the thyrsus in Dionysian rites. Babli 14a..

“And incense.” It was stated, if it was a bundle it is permitted. How many are a bundle? “Rebbi Jehudah ben Bathyra said, there are no less than five kinds in a bundle of incense¹⁵¹Babli 14a, Tosephta 1:21.. If he was a pagan priest it is forbidden¹⁵²A Jew may not sell him any of the items specified in the Mishnah even if he does not specify that he needs it for pagan worship., a medical man is permitted, a trader is permitted. A suspect trader is forbidden.”

We have stated, “a white cock.” Rebbi Ḥiyya stated unspecified “a cock.” Our Mishnah needs the baraita of Rebbi Ḥiyya and the baraita of Rebbi Ḥiyya needs our Mishnah. If we had stated but Rebbi Ḥiyya had not stated, we would have said, only a white cock but an unspecified cock would be permitted even alone. Therefore the baraita of Rebbi Ḥiyya is needed. Or if Rebbi Ḥiyya had stated but we had not stated, we would have said, this is only for an unspecified cock, but a white cock even among chickens is forbidden. Therefore our Mishnah is necessary and the baraita of Rebbi Ḥiyya is necessary. “A chicken to sell,” one may sell him a white cock. “A white cock to sell,” we say by itself it is forbidden, among chickens it is permitted. Rebbi Abun bar Ḥiyya asked: If one saw chickens grazing on a garbage heap and a white cock among them and said, whose is it? Is it as if he specified¹⁵³Since he showed interest in the white cock alone, even if later in negotiating for the sale he does not mention it. Cf. Babli 14a.?

If it had a defect. The verse says that they sacrifice defectives in pagan worship. If you present a blind one to be sacrificed, is there nothing bad¹⁵⁴Malachi1:8. If it had not been acceptable for the Gentiles, the Jews would not have thought of doing this.? This says that they sacrifice defectives in pagan worship.

“Rebbi Meïr says, it is also forbidden to sell good dates, and curved dates, and Nicolaos dates to Gentiles.” Rebbi Ḥama bar Uqba said, Caryotis¹⁵⁵Greek καρυῶτις “nut shaped kind of dates,” Babli 14b. The word חצד may be Arabic خضد “curved, bent”. The reading of the Yerushalmi is preferable to that of the Babli and the independent Mishnah mss., חָצָב, which designates a plant or bush having nothing to do with date palms (Peah2:1 Note 24).. Rebbi Eleazar ben Rebbi Yose said, it is a kind known as ḥaṣda. If somebody transgressed and sold? It will come similar to what Rebbi Eleazar said¹⁵⁶Halakhah 7, end., if he transgressed and built it is permitted, and here if he transgressed and sold it is permitted.