Study Shabbat folio 103A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
One who drills a hole of any size is liable. Granted, according to Rav, who said that one who makes a hole is liable due to the prohibited labor of building, here too, he should be liable because he appears as one who is making a hole for the purpose of building. However, according to Shmuel, dr
We learned in the Mishnah that this is the principle: Anyone who performs a prohibited labor and his labor endures on Shabbat is liable. The Talmud asks: What does the phrase: This is the principle, come to include? The Talmud explains: It comes to include a case where one carved out a vessel wit
We also learned in the Mishnah that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: Even one who strikes an anvil with a sledgehammer is liable. The Talmud wonders: What has he done by striking the anvil that would render him liable? It was Rabba and Rav Yosef who both said in explanation: He is liable because he
Mishnah: One who plows is liable for plowing any amount of land on Shabbat. One who weeds and removes grass on Shabbat, and one who removes dry branches and who prunes any amount is liable. With regard to one who gathers wood, if he did so to enhance the tree or the land, he is liable for any amou
Talmud: The Talmud asks: For what use is plowing any amount of land suited? The Talmud answers: It is suited for a single pumpkin seed. The corresponding situation in the Tabernacle was as it is suitable for planting a single stalk of herbs to make dyes.