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If we say that did not rest means that it did not rest from labor, even from labor that is permitted? Wasn’t it taught in a baraita that over light that was kindled on Shabbat for a woman giving birth or a dangerously ill person, for whom one is permitted to perform prohibited labor on Shabbat, one
Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: What is meant by rested? Light that rested from labor of transgression on Shabbat. However, if the light burned for the entire Shabbat or was kindled on Shabbat in a permissible manner, one may recite a blessing over it. That halakha was also taught in a baraita: A lant
A baraita states: A non-Jew who lit a candle from a candle that was in the possession of a Jew or if a Jew lit a candle from a non-Jew, one may recite a blessing over it at the conclusion of Shabbat. However, if a non-Jew lit a candle from a non-Jew, one may not recite a blessing over it.
The Talmud asks: What is different about a candle that a non-Jew lit from a non-Jew, that one may not recite a blessing over it? Because the light did not rest on Shabbat. If so, the light of a Jew who lit a candle from a non-Jew also did not rest on Shabbat.
And if you say that this prohibited flame has gone and this flame is a new and different one which came into being in the possession of a Jew, as a flame is not a concrete, static object, but rather it constantly recreates itself; however, this halakha that was taught in a Tosefta in tractate Shabb