Study Shabbat folio 49A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
And the rabbis issued a decree that it should be considered a connection with regard to ritual impurity even when not in use, due to ritual impurity when in use. If one component becomes ritually impure, the other component becomes ritually impure as well. And, as a further stringency, they issued
The Mishnah listed several materials in which food may not be insulated on Friday when those materials are moist. A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Is the Mishnah referring specifically to materials that are moist due to their own natural state, or is it referring perhaps even to materials tha
Come and hear a resolution to this dilemma from the materials listed in the Mishnah: And one may neither insulate a pot in straw, nor in the residue of grapes that have been pressed for their juice, nor in soft materials, nor in grass, when these materials are moist. Granted, if you say that the Mis
The Talmud continues with a similar question: And that which R' Oshaya taught in a baraita: One may insulate a pot of hot food on Friday in a dry garment and in dry produce, but not in a moist garment or in moist produce. Where do you find a ruling pertaining to a cloth that is moist due to its own
Mishnah: One may insulate a pot of hot food on Friday in clothing, in produce, in doves’ wings, in a carpenter’s wood-shavings, and in the chaff of fine flax. R' Yehuda prohibits doing so when it is fine, and permits doing so when it is coarse.