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However, one may place the spices into a bowl or into a tureen [tamḥui], which is a large bowl into which people pour the contents a stew pot or a pot. Bowls and tureens are both secondary vessels and food placed into them does not get cooked. R' Yehuda says: One may place spices into anything on S
Talmud: A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Is R' Yehuda referring to the first clause of the Mishnah and being lenient? According to that possibility, the Mishnah prohibits placing spices into any boiling pot and R' Yehuda holds that this only applies if there is fish brine or vinegar inside
Come and hear a resolution to this dilemma from that which was taught explicitly in a baraita that R' Yehuda says: Into all stew pots one may place spices on Shabbat; into all pots, even those that are boiling, one may place spices, except for one that contains vinegar or brine. The baraita clearl
Rav Yosef thought to say that salt is like a spice whose legal status is: In a primary vessel that was on the fire, salt gets cooked and therefore it is prohibited to place salt into it on Shabbat. And in a secondary vessel, into which the contents of a primary vessel were poured, salt does not get
And some say a very different version of this: Rav Yosef thought to say that salt is like a spice, i.e., in a primary vessel it gets cooked, whereas in a secondary vessel it does not get cooked. Abaye said to him: Didn’t R' Ḥiyya already teach that salt is not like a spice, meaning that in a pri