The following is an example of a communal law (*takkanah) on gambling: Nobody may play at cards or dice or any other games whatsoever that the mouth could speak or the heart think, even on Rosh-???odesh, ???anukkah, Purim, ???ol ha-mo'ed, and other days on which no Ta???anun is said, and even at the bed of a woman confined in childbirth or at a sickbed ??? and everybody whoever it may be, includi