Study Shabbat folio 91A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Lest you say that in doing so his original intention is completely nullified, since when he carries it out he is no longer conscious of the reason that he stored it, the tanna of the Mishnah teaches us that anyone who performs an action with an object with which he had dealings in the past, perform
Rav Yehuda said that Shmuel said: R' Meir deemed liable one who carried out even a single wheat seed for sowing on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: This is obvious. We learned in the Mishnah that the measure that determines liability for one who carries out seeds for sowing on Shabbat is any amount. Since
We also learned in the Mishnah: And any other person is only liable for carrying it out on Shabbat if he carries out its measure for liability. The Talmud comments: The Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon ben Elazar, as it was taught in a baraita that R' Shimon ben Elazar stat
Rava said that Rav Naḥman said: If one carried out on Shabbat a dried fig-bulk of seeds for eating, and along the way he reconsidered and decided to use them for sowing; or, alternatively, if one intended to carry them out for sowing and reconsidered and decided to use them for eating, he is liab
On the basis of this halakha, Rava raised a dilemma: With regard to one who carried out half a dried fig-bulk of seeds for the purpose of sowing, which is less than the measure that determines liability, and in the meantime the seeds became moist and expanded to a dried fig-bulk, and he reconsider