Study Shabbat folio 117B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Rather, Rav Ashi said: The rabbis in the Mishnah disagree with regard to the opinion of R' Eliezer: 3 walls and one post is an alley that is closed; 3 walls without a post at all is an open alley. And even according to R' Eliezer, who said we need two posts, one post being insufficient, those word
Mishnah: One may rescue food for 3 meals from a fire on Shabbat. One may rescue food that is suitable for a person for a person; and one may rescue food that is suitable for an animal for an animal. How so? If a fire ignited on Friday night before the Shabbat evening meal, one may rescue food for
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Now, since one is exerting himself to move permitted objects, let us rescue more. Why was he allowed to rescue food for only 3 meals? Rava said: Since a person is agitated about his property, if you permit him to move more, he will come to extinguish the fire. Abaye said t
Apropos this baraita, the Talmud discusses the matter itself: If one’s jug broke atop one’s roof on Shabbat, he may bring a vessel and place it under the jug to salvage its contents, and this is permitted provided that he does not bring another vessel and place it on the ground to catch the liquid,
The Talmud suggests: Let us say that R' Yosei bar Yehuda and the Rabbis disagree in the dispute between R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua, as it was taught in a baraita: With regard to it and its offspring that fell into a pit on a Festival, R' Eliezer says: One may raise the first in order to slaughter it