Five things cause forgetfulness:—­Partaking of what has been gnawed by a mouse or a cat, eating bullock’s heart, habitual use of olives, drinking water that has been washed in, and placing the feet one upon the other while bathing.

Horayoth, fol. 13, col. 2.

Five things restore the memory again:—­Bread baked upon coals, soft-boiled eggs without salt, habitual use of olive oil, mulled wine, and plenty of salt.

Ibid.

He who does not cheer the bridegroom whose wedding breakfast he has enjoyed transgresses against the five voices (mentioned in Jer. xxxiii.  II):—­“The voice of joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say ‘Praise ye the Lord of Hosts.’”

Berachoth, fol. 6, col. 2.

Mount Sinai had five names:—­(1.) Wilderness of Zin, because on it the Israelites were commanded to observe the law; (2.) Wilderness of Kadesh, because on it the Israelites were consecrated to receive the law; (3.) Wilderness of Kedemoth, because precedence was there given to Israel over all other nations; (4.) Wilderness of Paran, because there the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied; (5.) Wilderness of Sinai, because from it enmity came to be cherished to the Gentiles.  It was denominated Horeb according to Rabbi Abhu, because from it came down destruction to the Gentiles.

Shabbath, fol. 89, cols, 1, 2.

Mar (the master) has said, “From dawn to the appearance of the sun is five miles.”  How is this proved?  It is written (Gen. xix. 15), “When the dawn arose the angels hurried Lot;” and it is added (verse 25), “The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.”  And Rabbi Chanena said, “I myself have seen that place, and the distance is five miles.”

P’sachim, fol. 93, col. 2.

He that cooks in milk the ischiadic sinew on an annual festival is to be scourged five times forty stripes save one:—­For cooking the sinew, for eating the sinew, for cooking flesh in milk, for eating flesh cooked in milk, and for lighting the fire.

Baitza, fol. 12, col. 1.

    To this very day this sinew is extracted from the hind quarters
    of all animals before it is allowable for a Jew to eat them. 
    This operation, in popular parlance, is termed porging.

The mysteries of the law are not to be communicated except to those who possess the faculties of these five in combination:—­“The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator” (see Isa. iii. 3).

Chaggigah, fol. 13, col. 1.

“Captain of fifty.”  This should be read, not captain of fifty, but captain of five, that is, such as knew how to manage the five-fifths of the law (or Pentateuch).

Ibid., fol. 14, col. 1.

Five characteristics were ascribed to the fire upon the altar:—­It crouched there like a lion, it shone as the sun, it was perceptible to the touch, it consumed liquids as though they were dry materials, it caused no smoke.