Avodah Zarah 60A

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but the other wine in the jug is permitted. There are those who say that Rav Pappa said: The wine until the stopper, i.e., in the upper portion of the jug, is prohibited, but the other wine in the jug, below the stopper, is permitted.

Rav Yeimar says: Rav Pappa’s ruling is subject to a dispute between tanna’im, as the Mishnah teaches (Tevul Yom 2:7): In the case of a jug that was pierced, whether on its top, on its bottom, or on one of its sides, if one who immersed that day touched it, it is ritually impure. R' Yehuda says:

§ Rav Pappa says: In a case where a non-Jew is pouring the wine from the jug and a Jew is holding the beaker [kuva] into which it is poured, the wine is prohibited. What is the reason? When the wine comes out of the jug, it comes out by force of the non-Jew’s action. In a case where a Jew is pourin

Rav Pappa says: In the case of this non-Jew who carries a sealed wineskin and a Jew is walking behind him and ensuring that the non-Jew does not touch the wine itself, the halakha depends on the circumstances. If the wineskin is full, the wine is permitted, as the wine in the wineskin is not shake

Rav Ashi says: In the case of a wineskin, whether it is full or incompletely filled it is permitted. What is the reason that the wine is permitted even if it is shaken within the wineskin? It is because this is not the typical manner of offering a libation.