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Ḥisda: What is the halakha with regard to taking those stones up with him to the roof if his latrine is there? Is it permitted or is it prohibited due to the exertion involved? He said to him: It is permitted; great is human dignity as it overrides a prohibition in the Torah. The Talmud relates: M
Rav Huna said: It is prohibited to defecate in a plowed field on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: What is the reason for that prohibition? If you say it is due to the fact that in doing so he treads on the furrows and destroys them, it should be prohibited even on weekdays. Rather, it is due to the conce
With regard to the matter itself, Reish Lakish said: It is permitted to wipe with a stone upon which grasses have grown. And one who detaches grasses from it unwittingly on Shabbat is liable to bring a sin-offering. Rav Pappi said: Learn from that which Reish Lakish said that it is permitted to carr
R' Yoḥanan said: It is prohibited to wipe with an earthenware shard on Shabbat. The Talmud asks: What is the reason for that prohibition? If you say that it is due to the danger that he might injure himself with the sharp edges of the shard, it should be prohibited also on weekdays. Rather, it is
Rava taught that R' Yoḥanan ruled that it is prohibited due to the removal of hairs, and he raised a difficulty between that which R' Yoḥanan said here and that which R' Yoḥanan said elsewhere. Did R' Yoḥanan say it is forbidden to wipe with an earthenware shard on Shabbat? Apparently, he holds tha