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The following things belonging to idol worshipers are forbidden and the prohibition extends to any benefit that may be derived from them: wine, or an idol worshiper's vinegar that was formerly wine, Hadrianic earthenware (2), skins pierced at the animal's heart. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: when its rent is round, [the skin] is forbidden, but if oblong it is permitted.
Leather flasks and earthenware jugs of idol worshipers in which wine of an Israelite is kept are forbidden and the prohibition extends to any benefit that may be derived from them; this is the opinion of Rabbi Meir. But the Sages say that the prohibition does not extend to deriving any benefit.
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