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they kindle it with the majority of the those present at the banquet in mind. When the majority of those present are non-Jews, it is permitted.
The Talmud relates that Shmuel happened to come to the house of Avin Toran. A certain non-Jew came and kindled a lamp. Shmuel turned his face back away from the lamp in order to avoid benefitting from the light. When Shmuel saw that the non-Jew brought a document and was reading it, he said: He kind
Mishnah: All vessels may be moved on Shabbat, and their doors, which are part of these vessels, along with them, even if they were dismantled on Shabbat, as the doors of these vessels are unlike the doors of the house. It is prohibited to make use of the doors of a house on Shabbat, even if they
Likewise a person may move a mallet, which is generally used for labor prohibited on Shabbat, to crack nuts with it. Likewise, one may move an axe, a tool generally used to chop wood, to cut a cake of figs with it. So too, one may move a saw to cut cheese with it. Similarly, one may move a spad