Beitzah

One master1 holds that we preventively prohibit a hinge in the centre on account of a hinge at the side;2 and the other master3 is of the opinion we do not preventively prohibit.4 MISHNAH. BETH SHAMMAI SAY: ONE MAY NOT CARRY OUT AN INFANT5 OR A LULAB6 OR A SCROLL OF THE LAW7 INTO PUBLIC GROUND,8 BUT BETH HILLEL PERMIT [IT]. GEMARA. A Tanna taught before R. Isaac b. Abdimi: He who slaughters a freewill burnt-offering on a Festival is flagellated.9 Said he to him: He who taught you this held the opinion of Beth Shammai who maintain: We do not say, ‘Since carrying out is permitted for what is [actually] necessary [for the preparation of food], it is also permitted for that which is not necessary’.10 For if [he held the opinion of] Beth Hillel, surely they maintain: ‘Since carrying out is permitted where it is necessary, it is also permitted where it is not necessary’, so also here, since slaughtering is permitted where it is necessary11 it is also permitted where it is not necessary.12 To this Rabbah demurred: Whence do you know that Beth Shammai and Beth Hillel differ on this [point]; perhaps they differ as to whether [the laws of] ‘erub and carrying out apply to Sabbath, but [the laws of] ‘erub and carrying out do not apply to a Festival?13 One Master is of the opinion, ‘Erub and [the laws of] carrying out apply to both the Sabbath and the Festival,14 and the other Master maintains, ‘Erub and [the laws of] carrying out apply to Sabbath but ‘erub and [the laws of] carrying out do not apply to the Festival, as it is written, Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day,15 only on the Sabbath day but not on the Festival!16 To this R. Joseph demurred [in turn]: If so,17 let them18 dispute with respect to stones!19 Since, however, they do not dispute about stones, infer from it that they differ with respect to carrying out [things] that are not necessary [in the preparation of food].20 R. Johanan is also of the opinion that they differ in whether [we say], ‘Since carrying out is permitted for what is necessary [in the preparation of food] it is also permitted for what is not necessary [in the preparation of food]’; for a tanna recited before R. Johanan:21 He who boils the thigh sinew on a Festival22 in milk and eats it is flagellated on five counts, for [unnecessarily] cooking the sinew on a Festival,23 for eating the sinew, for boiling meat in milk,24 for eating meat with milk,24 and to a different case. need to carry the infant out. Feast of Tabernacles. V. Lev. XXIII, 40. Beth Shammai prohibit the carrying out of the lulab even for the purpose of fulfilling this command. is entirely consumed by fire on the altar; hence he does unnecessary work on the Festival. Obligatory (i.e., public) burnt-offerings are however permitted, as are all public sacrifices, both on the Sabbath and on Festivals, but voluntary offerings can be offered after the Festival. symbolical act by which is established the legal fiction of joining one private estate with another private estate, thus extending the area in which things could be carried. is also permitted in other cases too’, their reason in the Mishnah being that they do not regard carrying out as a labour at all vis a vis Festivals. v. Tosaf. s.v. d”v and R. Hananel. cit. The same applies to the work of kindling a fire. the three passages of Scripture (Ex. XXIII, 19; XXXIV, 26; Deut. XIV, 21) forbidding to seeth a kid in its mother's milk.