Study Shabbat folio 148B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
If you say that, in order to draw water in an unusual manner, we should require a woman to spread a cloth over the vessel, she may come to violate the prohibition of squeezing water from the cloth. And if we would cover it with a lid, sometimes it is severed from the pitcher, and one will then come
And Rava bar Rav Ḥanan said to Abaye: Did we not learn in a Mishnah that one may not clap hands, or clap one’s hand against one’s body, or dance on a Festival? And we see, however, that people do these things, and we do not say anything to stop them. Abaye responded: And according to your reasoni
There were those who understood from this statement that this halakha applies only to rabbinic prohibitions but not to Torah prohibitions, with regard to which we must certainly reprimand transgressors. However, that is not so. There is no difference between rabbinic prohibitions and Torah prohibiti
We learned in the Mishnah: And similarly, a woman may borrow loaves of bread from another on Shabbat. However, as in the previous halakha, she may not ask for them using the word loan. The Talmud asks: Is it only on Shabbat that it is prohibited, but on a weekday it seems well. Is it permitted to b
The Talmud answers: Even if you say that the Mishnah is in accordance with the opinion of Hillel, we may distinguish between the cases such that there is no contradiction: This case, in which the Mishnah permits borrowing a loaf of bread as a loan, is applicable in a place where the price of the lo