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the sun, i.e., as long as the sun is shining on Friday. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: The ancestral house of my father, the dynasty of Nesi’im from Beit Hillel, was accustomed to give its white clothes to a non-Jew launderer no fewer than 3 days before Shabbat. And, however, these, Beit Shamma
Talmud: Before clarifying the matters themselves, the Talmud seeks to determine: Who is the tanna who holds that merely adding water to ink without any additional action constitutes its soaking, and one is liable for doing so on Shabbat, as he performed an act of kneading, one of the primary categ
Abaye said to Rav Yosef: And perhaps R' Yosei only stated that actual kneading is required to be liable for performing the prohibited labor of kneading in the case of flour, which can be kneaded; however, ink, which cannot be kneaded, say that its soaking is considered a full-fledged prohibited labo
The Talmud asks: And perhaps, what is the meaning of ashes [efer] mentioned here? Perhaps it is soil [afar], which can be kneaded. In that case he is not liable until he actually kneads the mixture. However, with regard to ashes, which cannot be kneaded, R' Yosei, son of R' Yehuda, also holds that
A baraita states in a Tosefta: One may open a canal that passes adjacent to a garden on Friday at nightfall, so that water will flow into a garden and the garden continuously fills with water all day long on Shabbat. Similarly, one may place incense, perfumed herbs placed on coals to produce a fra