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1) [line 1] "ZORU RESHA'IM ME'RACHEM..." - "The wicked are estranged from the womb..." (Tehilim 58:4)

2) [line 2] SHABSAI ATZAR PEIREI - Shabsai, "the hoarder of produce," who hoarded produce in order to raise their market value

*3*) [line 3] V'ROFEI OMER EINO TZARICH - see Chart #18

4) [line 4] "LEV YODE'A MARAS NAFSHO..." - "The heart knows its own bitterness..." (Mishlei 14:10) - A person who is ill is the best judge of his condition.

5) [line 7] TUNBA HU D'NAKIT LEI - it is stupor that seized him (because of his sickness); [(O.F. estordison) dazing of the mind]

6) [line 11] V'LEISFU LEI - let them feed him
7) [line 17] BASAR DEI'OS AZLINAN - we follow the majority opinion
8) [line 20] EIN SHAM BEKI'IN TREI - if two experts are not present
*9*) [line 24] AVAL AMAR TZARICH ANI, EIN SHAM BEKI'IN KELAL - (The Gemara did not learn the Mishnah this way according to Rebbi Yanai, since he held that we *do* listen to medical experts to refrain from feeding the Choleh in one case: when there are two or more experts contradicting the Choleh and saying that he does not have to eat, and none supporting him.)

10) [line 25] EIN SHAM BEKI'IN KELAL - [if the sick person says he has to eat, then] there are no experts at all, i.e. their opinion is of no consequence

11) [line 26] BULMUS - a life-threatening illness that is caused by severe hunger, during which a person's eyes dim, making it hard for him to see. The sign of his recovery is that his eyesight returns

12) [line 27] SHE'YE'ORU EINAV - his eyesight returns
13) [line 27] KELEV SHOTEH - a rabid or mad dog
14) [line 27] CHATZAR KAVED - the Yoseres, which is either the diaphragm (RASHI, RADAK) or a lobe of the liver (RAV HAI GA'ON) [of the dog]

15) [line 28] HA'CHOSHESH BI'GERONO - one who feels pain in his throat
16) [line 30] MAPOLES - debris from a collapsed structure
17) [line 33] UV'TA'AMA - through taste; i.e. he can tell the difference between good food and spoiled food

18) [line 33] HA'KAL HA'KAL - the more lenient of the prohibited foods
19) [line 37] D'MASKENINAN LEI - we separate its Terumos and Ma'asros

20) [line 3] ATZITZ SHE'EINO NAKUV - [produce planted in] a flowerpot without a drainage hole (which does not receive sustenance from the ground underneath it, and from which the obligation to separate Terumos and Ma'asros is only mid'Rabanan)

21) [line 7] GOZEZIN LO ES HA'KEREISHIN - and we may cut leeks [that are still attached to the ground] (on Shabbos)

22) [line 22] MIGRAR GARIR - it increases his appetite (which intensifies the illness)

23) [line 23] PELACH DEVEILAH - a slice of a cake of pressed figs
24) [line 23] TZIMUKIM - raisins
25) [line 24] ALYAH B'DEVASH - very fatty meat cooked in honey
26) [line 25] SOLES NEKIYAH - finely sifted flour
27) [line 27] "UMI'MEGED TEVU'OS SHAMESH..." - "With the bounty of the sun's crops..." (Devarim 33:14)

28) [line 28] KAPCHEI L'RO'EH - he overpowered the shepherd
29) [line 28] ACHLEI L'RIFTA - and he ate his bread
30) [line 29] AHADRUHU B'LAGEI V'TZA'EI - the people of the city encircled him with bottles [of honey and sweet drinks] and dishes [of cooked foods]

31) [line 30] DAYIK B'SHEMA - paid attention to a person's name
32) [line 31] BA'U USHPIZA - they asked for a lodging, inn
33) [line 32] ASHLIMU LEI KISAIHU - handed over their purses to him (for safekeeping over Shabbos)

34) [line 32] BEI KIVREI D'AVUHA - in the grave of the father of the innkeeper
35) [line 33] ISCHAZI LEI B'CHELMEI - he (the dead father of the innkeeper) appeared to him (the innkeeper) in a dream

36) [line 33] TA SHAKIL KISA D'MANACH A'REISHA D'HAHU GAVRA - come and take the purse that is lying near that man's (my) head

37) [line 34] D'VEI SHIMSHEI - of Friday nights
38) [line 36] ACHZUKEI MI AMRI - did I say that one can presume unequivocally that a person is wicked based on his name?

39) [line 36] MASHCHUHU V'AILUHU L'CHANUSA [ASHKIYUHU CHAMRA (BACH)] - they lured him [out of his house] and brought him to a tavern [and got him drunk on wine until he passed out]

40) [line 36] CHAZU TELAFCHEI A'SIFMEI - they saw lentils on his moustache
41) [line 36] YAHAVU SIMANA L'DEVISHU - they gave his wife a sign; i.e. they said to his wife that he told them to ask her to give them the purses. As a sign that they could be trusted, they said that he told them to tell her that they (the innkeeper and his wife) ate lentils that day

42) [line 37] V'SHAKLUHU L'CHISAIHU V'AISU - and they took their purses and came [to Rebbi Meir]

43) [line 39] "VA'OMAR LA'BALAH NI'UFIM..." - "And I said of the one who had become worn out though adultery..." (Yechezkel 23:43) - This verse is part of a rebuke of Benei Yisrael that compares their choice of idol worship with adultery.

44) [line 40] RIRO NOTEF - his saliva drips
45) [line 41] AZNAV SERUCHOS - his ears hang down

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