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to delay its decomposition. Similarly, one may tie the jaw of a corpse that is in the process of opening. One may not move it directly so that it will rise back to its original position, but so that it will not continue to open. And similarly, if one has a roof beam that has broken on Shabbat, one
Talmud: The Talmud questions the Mishnah’s lenient ruling with regard to smearing oil on a corpse: But didn’t Rav Yehuda say that Shmuel said: There was an incident with a student of R' Meir who followed him into the bathhouse on Shabbat. The student wanted to rinse the ground. R' Meir said to him
We learned in the Mishnah that one may attend to all the needs of the dead on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: What does the word all include in the Mishnah’s ruling that one may have thought is not included? The Talmud answers: It is meant to include that which A baraita states: One may bring cold vessels
And King Solomon also said in his wisdom with regard to old age and death: “Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falls, shattered, into the pit” (Ecclesiastes 12:6), which the Talmud explains as follows:
And similarly, it says in the verse: “And I will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your Festival offerings” (Malachi 2:3). Rav Huna said, and some say that it was Rav Ḥagga who said: This verse is referring to those people who neglect the words of the Torah and turn all of their days in