📖 SATURDAY PRAYER: GEVURAH-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p177

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

A certain scholar taught in the presence of R. Na’hman: “Two men who carried out a reed used
by a weaver (into the street) are both not culpable.” R. Simeon, however, declares them
culpable. How can this be? (Is this not contrary to R. Simeon’s usage?), Read then (on the
contrary), the scholars said they are culpable and R. Simeon said they are not.
MISHNA VI.: If one carry victuals of less than the prescribed quantity in a vessel (out into the
street) he is not culpable even of (carrying) the vessel, for the vessel is of no consequence to the
victuals. If he carried a person on a litter he is not culpable even of (carrying) the litter, because
the litter is of no consequence to the person. If he carried a corpse on a cot he is culpable. The
same is the case if (he carries) a part of the corpse of the size of an olive or of a carcass the size
of an olive and of a reptile the size of a lentil. R. Simeon declares all of them free.
GEMARA: The rabbis taught: “If a man carry out victuals of the prescribed quantity in a vessel,
he is culpable of carrying the victuals, but not of (carrying) the vessel, because the vessel is of
no consequence to the victuals; but if the victuals are such that
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they cannot be carried otherwise than in a vessel, he is culpable of (carrying) the vessel also.”
Shall we assume from this teaching that if one ate two pieces of tallow each the size of an olive
at different times through forgetfulness (and was not reminded of his sin between both times of
eating), he is bound to bring two sin offerings? Said R. Ashi: In the case of the man who is
culpable of (carrying) both the victuals and the vessel, it must be assumed that he carried them
through forgetfulness and was subsequently reminded of having carried only one of them (but
forgot about the other); later he was reminded of having carried the other also, and according to
the opinion of the teacher of this Boraitha, he is culpable and bound to bring two sin-offerings,
one for each time he was reminded. The same difference of opinion exists here as we have seen
existed between R. Johanan and R. Simeon b. Lakish (in the chapter concerning the general rule
of Sabbath).