YESOD: YESHIVAT HAVERIM – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p67

“It may also be put back.” R. Shesheth said: The Tana who holds that the pot may also be put
back (upon the stove) allows this (to be done) even on the Sabbath. R. Oshia is also of the same
opinion, for thus he said: “We were once standing before R. Hyya the Great; we served him with
a bowl of warm (soup), which was brought from the lower floor (of the house), and we mixed a
cup of wine for him, and (afterward) we returned it (the bowl) to its place, and he said nothing.”
And R. Hyya in the name of R. Johanan said: Even if (the warm pot taken off from the stove)
was put upon the ground, it may (still be put back on the stove). Said Hyskiyah in the name of
Abayi: “According to them who hold that if he puts it on the floor it may not be returned, it is
said only when it was not his intention to return it. But if it was, he may. And from this it is to
be inferred that if it was still in his hand, although his intention was not to place it again, he may
do so on reconsideration.”
MISHNA II.: (Victuals) shall not be put either inside or on top of an oven that was heated with
straw or with stubble; a firing-pot that was heated with straw or with stubble is (considered by
the law) as a stone, but if it was heated with pressed poppy seed or with wood it is considered as
an oven.
GEMARA: A Boraitha teaches: If an oven was heated with straw or with stubble, (a pot with
victuals) shall not be put close to it (so that it touch the oven), the less so upon it, and still less so
into it; so much the less shall (a pot) be put (alongside of an oven) that was heated with poppyseed
pulp or with wood. If a firing-pot was heated with straw or with stubble, (a pot) may be put
close to it, but not upon it; with poppy-seed pulp or with wood it must not be put close to it. Said
R. Aha b. Rabha to R. Ashi: “How shall the firing-pot be considered? If it is like a stove, even if
heated with poppy-seed pulp or with wood (a pot shall be allowed to be put close to it); and if it
is like an oven it should not, even if it is heated with stubble or straw?” Answered he: It contains
more heat than a stove and less heat than an oven.
What is a firing-pot and what is a stove? Said R. Jose b. Hanina: “A firing-pot has an opening on
the top upon which only one pot can be set; a stove has openings upon which two pots can be set
at a time.”
MISHNA III.: An egg shall not be put close to a boiler to get it settled, nor must it be wrapped in a hot cloth. R. Jose permits it; also it must not be put into hot sand or in the (hot) dust of the road that it be roasted (by the heat of the sun). It once happened that the inhabitants of Tiberias had laid a pipe of cold water through the arm of their hot springs. But the sages explained to them that on the Sabbath this water is considered like any other warmed on the Sabbath, and must not be used either for washing or drinking; and should this be done on a feast day, it is like water heated by fire, which may be used for drinking only, but not for washing.