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as there is honey in the beehive during the summer. However, during the winter in which there is not honey in the beehive, what can be said according to R' Yitzḥak to explain why it is permitted to cover the beehive at that time? The Talmud answers: This halakha is only applicable in order to permit
If so, this tanna who taught in that same baraita: As long as he does not intend to trap the bees, let him distinguish and teach with regard to that same halakha itself: In what case are these matters stated, that one is permitted to cover the hive? It is in a case where he thought of them before S
With regard to the matter itself, the Talmud asks: In accordance with whose opinion is this baraita? If it is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, he does not hold that there is a prohibition of set-aside. Consequently, there is no distinction between the different beehives. If it is in acc
Rav Ashi said that it can be resolved differently: Did the baraita teach: In the summer and in the winter? Actually, it taught: In the sun due to the sun and in the rain due to the rain. That can be interpreted as follows: In the days of Nisan and in the days of Tishrei, as then there is sun shini
Rav Sheshet said to the rabbis: Go out and tell R' Yitzḥak in Eretz Yisrael: Rav Huna already explained your halakha in Babylonia. There is nothing novel in the principle that you established that a vessel may only be moved for the sake of something that may be moved, as Rav Huna said: One may make