5. A citron stolen or withered is disallowed. One from an idolatrous grove, or from a city withdrawn to idolatry, is disallowed. One off an uncircumcised tree(252) is disallowed. One from an unclean heave-offering(253) is disallowed. From the clean heave-offering one is not to take a citron, but if it be taken, it is allowed. “One from what is doubtful as to payment of tithe?” The school of Shammai “disallow it,” but the school of Hillel “allow it.” One is not to take a citron from the second tithe in Jerusalem, but if it be taken it is allowed. 6. If a stain spread over the greater part (of the citron), if it have lost its crown, or its rind be peeled off, or if it be split, or bored, or if ever so little be wanting, it is disallowed. If a stain be spread over the smaller part of it, if it have lost its stalk, or if it be bored so that no part however small be wanting, it is allowed. A dusky citron is disallowed. A leek green one R. Meier “allows,” but R. Judah “disallows it.” 7. “What is the (legal) size of a small citron?” R. Meier says “like a nut.” R. Judah says “like an egg.” “And of a large citron?” “That one can hold two in his hand,” the words of R. Judah. But R. José says, “One if (it must be held) in two hands.” 8. “They must only tie the palm-branch with its own kind,” the words of R. Judah. But R. Meier says, “even with twine.” R. Meier said, “it happened that the men of Jerusalem tied their palm-branches with gold thread.” The Sages said to him, “underneath they tied them with their own kind.” 9. “When did they shake the palm-branch?” At the beginning and ending of “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord,”(254) and at “Save now, I beseech Thee, O Lord,”(255) the words of the school of Hillel. But the school of Shammai say, “also at ‘O Lord, I beseech Thee,’ send now prosperity.”(256) R. Akivah said, “I watched Rabban Gamaliel and R. Joshua; and when all the people shook their palm-branches, they only shook theirs at ‘Save now, I beseech Thee.’ ” If one be on the road, and have no palm-branch with him, he must, when he gets home, shake it at his table. If he have not done it in the morning, he must do it toward evening, as the whole day is allowed for the palm-branch. 10. If the hymns(257) be read to a man by a slave, or a woman, or a child,(258) he must repeat after them what they read, but it is a disgrace(259) to him. If a grown-up man read it to him, he must repeat after him, Hallelujah. 11. In a place where it is the custom to repeat,(260) a man must repeat; to simply read, a man must simply read; to bless after the palm-branch, a man must bless. In every case according to the custom of the country. If a person buy a palm-branch from his neighbor during the Sabbatical year, he must give him a citron as a gift, for it is not permitted to buy a citron during the Sabbatical year.