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The Talmud answers: This is referring to a case where the shard does not have the sufficient measure for ritual impurity, and is therefore considered insignificant. As we learned in a Mishnah (Shabbat 82a): One who carries a shard of earthenware on Shabbat is liable only if it is equivalent in size
The baraita teaches: An earthenware vessel reduces the dimensions of a window. The Talmud challenges: But it is fit for one to use; therefore, it is likely to be removed from the window. The Talmud answers: This is referring to a case where the earthenware is dirty. The Talmud challenges: Even so,
The baraita teaches: A Torah scroll reduces the dimensions of a window. The Talmud challenges: But it is fit for reading; therefore, it might be removed. The Talmud answers: This is referring to a Torah scroll that is worn out and unfit for reading. The Talmud challenges: But one is required to pla
§ With regard to the halakha of the baraita referring to salt, the Talmud cites that which Rav says: One can construct a barrier to delineate a private domain on Shabbat or to block the spreading of ritual impurity with anything except for salt and fat, as salt crumbles and fat melts in the heat. A
The Talmud adds: And now that Rabba said: If a person makes two piles of salt at the opening to an alleyway and places a cross beam on top of them, so that the salt supports the cross beam and the cross beam supports the salt by weighing it down and compressing it, he can use this beam to render i