Yerushalmi Avodah Zarah 5:8 ירושלמי עבודה זרה ה׳:ח׳

MISHNAH: If an investigative unit¹⁰⁴Police or military who enter all houses. came to a village in times of peace, open amphoras are forbidden¹⁰⁵One may assume that they take from the wine whether or not it is legal. and sealed ones permitted. In times of war these and those are permitted since there is no time to make libations¹⁰⁶The soldiers cannot risk getting drunk..

HALAKHAH: “If an investigative unit came to a village,” etc. In times of a religious persecution all is forbidden¹⁰⁷This does not refer to the Mishnah but to a text similar to Tosephta 5:6: Pedestals erected by Gentiles in times of religious persecution (as base for statues of the Emperor or of Rome, Halakhah 3:10 Note 231) are never annulled.; it is impossible that there was not a single Jew who worshipped it under duress. This implies that an idol which was worshipped by a Jew is never invalidated¹⁰⁸This is a statement in Halakhah 4:4, Note 30, for which proof was not given there.. Rebbi Yose said, you infer from this that an idol which was worshipped by a Jew under duress is never invalidated¹⁰⁹The statement is much stronger than the one stated in Halakhah 4:4 since there one speaks of idols genuinely worshipped by a Jew. But here it follows that the act of worship by a Jew makes it permanently forbidden even if the only intent of the Jew was to escape martyrdom. Cf. Babli 54a..

Rebbi Joḥanan said, there is no “forbidden” here, only “permitted”. Rebbi Ze`ira said, there is “forbidden” here<sup>110</sup>R. Joḥanan deletes the first part of the Mishnah; R. Ze`irah confirms the text of the Mishnah.. For if he reaches it he will inform him; if he does reach it he will not inform him, lest he owe him a favor¹¹¹If the investigator opens the wine amphora, he will inform the owner. Then the wine will be forbidden under the general rules of wine touched by a pagan; the Mishnah is not necessary in this case. If he does not open the amphora the owner may assume that the investigator did not inform him out of malice; even if there was time for new clay to dry (following Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel) one may assume that the amphora was not touched. It is this later statement which R. Ze`ira objects to.. Rebbi Immi in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: If the investigative unit comes in peaceful or warring manner¹¹²It is not a question whether the investigators are sent by the villagers’ own government or a hostile power but whether they come with friendly or adversary intent, expecting collaboration or hostile reception..

A snake when pursuing him fell in a pit. The case came before the rabbis who declared it usable. They said, there was no time to deposit poison¹¹³This is an unrelated story; its connection with the Mishnah is the expression “there was no time” to cause damage. The problem here is the general prohibition to drink water or wine that was left standing unsupervised. This is a sanitary, not a religious, rule since we are afraid that a poisonous snake could have drunk from the fluid and in the process left its own poison in the fluid; Halakhah 2:3. Here it is noted that if the snake fell into a cistern full of wine while attacking (a human?, an animal?) it is not intent on drinking but will try to get out, so as not to drown, as fast as possible. Therefore there is no health hazard in drinking the wine..