Study Shabbat folio 18B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
with regard to placing incense and sulfur beneath clothes and silver vessels, respectively, what is the reason Beit Shammai permitted this? The Talmud answers: The case under discussion was not one where the incense was placed in a vessel; rather, there, the incense was placed on the ground, and t
The Talmud asks: Based on these conclusions, who is the tanna who taught this Tosefta that A baraita states: A woman may not fill up a pot with pounded wheat and lupines, a type of legume, and place them in the oven to cook on Friday at nightfall. And if she placed them in the oven, not only may th
The Talmud asks: If so, with regard to incense and sulfur, the rabbis should also issue a decree that prohibits placing them beneath clothes and silver vessels, respectively, on Friday at nightfall. The Talmud answers: There, in that case, he will not stoke them, as if he stokes them smoke will r
The Talmud comments: And now that the Master said that in these cases the prohibition of placing the pot on the fire is due to a decree issued by the rabbis lest he stoke the coals; with regard to this pot of raw meat, it is permitted to place it in an oven on Friday at nightfall. What is the reaso
And now that the Master said that anything for which wind is damaging one does not expose, one could say that with regard to meat of a kid and an oven whose opening is sealed with clay, he may well place it there on Friday at nightfall. Since the meat of the kid cooks quickly and the opening of th