Study Shabbat folio 29B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
If one placed it in a box, everyone agrees that it can become ritually impure because his placing the cloth in a box indicates that he considers the cloth significant and is keeping it in order to use it. They only disagreed in a case where one hung the garment on a dryer, i.e., a stake in the wall
The Talmud comments: And R' Akiva retracted his opinion in favor of the opinion of R' Yehoshua and held in accordance with his opinion. And from where do we know this? Rava said: From the term that we learned in our Mishnah: The wick of a garment [petilat habeged]. Why did it specifically teach: The
Mishnah: The fundamental dispute in this Mishnah is with regard to the determination whether or not indirect acts of kindling and extinguishing fall within the parameters of the prohibition on Shabbat. The Rabbis said: A person may not pierce a hole in an eggshell and fill it with oil, and place it
Talmud: The Talmud comments on the fact that the Mishnah cited 3 cases that all share the same rationale: And it was necessary to cite all of the aforementioned cases because it is impossible to derive one from the other. As, had the Talmud only taught us the prohibition of an eggshell, I would ha
And we also learned in our Mishnah that if the craftsman attached the tube to the lamp from the outset, it is permitted to fill it with oil and use it. It was taught in a baraita that even if a homeowner attached it to the vessel before Shabbat by means of plaster or with dry potter’s clay, it is pe