Jastrow: גָּרַם

גָּרַם (v. גרר) to drag along, carry with it.—Part. pass. גָּרוּם added in boot, additional measure, v. גֵּירוּמִין.—אַמָּה גְּרוּמָה a large cubit. Gen. R. s. 12 [read:] כאמה ג׳ the size of a liberal cubit (equal to a cubit and a half of strict measure; some ed. גד׳; vers. in ‘Rashi’ a. l. גרמידא ומחצה).—Y. Shek. VI, end, 50ᵇ אמה גרו׳, read גְּדוּמָה, v. גָּדַם. [Tosef. Bekh. V, 4 אצבעותיו גרומות Var., ed. Zuck. גְּדוּמוֹת.]—Trnsf. to carry with it, to be the cause of, to engender. דבר הגֹּורֵם לממון something which may be the cause of pecuniary profit or loss. B. Kam. 71ᵇ if one steals objects dedicated to the sanctuary for which the original owner is responsible in case of loss &c., he is bound to pay the thief’s fine (כֵּפֶל) to the owner; אלמא דבר הג׳ למ׳ כממון דמי which proves that that which may cause a pecuniary loss, is to be considered as the property of him to whom it may cause it. Ib. 98ᵇ according to the opinion of R. Shimeon who says דבר הגורם … מיחייב that what is the cause of monetary gain is considered as money, he who burns a note of indebtedness is bound to pay the full amount of the note; a. fr.—Snh. 104ᵃ גורם גלות לבניו causes his children to be exiled. Ber. 5ᵇ bot. ג׳ לשכינה וכ׳ is the cause of the Divine Presence departing from Israel. M. Kat. 25ᵃ בבל גָּרְמָה לו Babylonia was the cause (that the Shekhinah did not rest upon him). Ab. Zar. 8ᵇ bot. המקום גורם the place makes the act legal, i.e. only in the Temple hall can the Sanhedrin judge capital cases; Snh. 14ᵇ המקום ג׳ only in the Temple hall can a rebellious elder be judged; ib. 87ᵃ.—Y. Yeb. I, 2ᶜ top דבר שהוא בא מחמת הגורם וכ׳ if a prohibition arises from a cause (a person that causes it, e.g. the prohibition against C.’s marrying B. because B.’s sister A. is his wife)—when the cause is removed (through A.’s death), the prohibition ceases; but a prohibition which has not its cause in the action of a person (but in natural kinship, e.g. C.’s daughter married to C.’s brother whereby she becomes forbidden to him also as his brother’s wife), is not removed with the removal of the cause of the (additional) prohibition, i.e. C. cannot perform the levir’s marriage with his brother’s wife since she has not ceased to be his daughter; ib. III, beg., 4ᶜ; IV, 6ᵃ top.—זה וזה גורם a product of combined causes. Tem. 30ᵇ זה וזה ג׳ אסור a product of combined causes is forbidden, e.g. the offspring of a dam unfitted for the altar, and of a sire fit; Pes. 27ᵃ; a. fr.—Ib. 26ᵇ זה וזה ג׳ מי שמעת ליה can you prove that Rabbi adopts the rule forbidding the product of combined causes?—Nidd. 31ᵃ (homiletical play on Gen. XLIX, 14) חמור ג׳ ליששכר the braying of an ass was the cause of Isachar being begotten; Gen. R. s. 99; v. next w.