Beitzah

[that] the fish-hash is the principal element;1 hence he informs us that the flour is the principal element. R. Abba said: An ‘erub tabshilin2 must be the size of all olive.3 The Scholars asked: [Does that mean] one olive for all [the participants together] or an olive for each one separately? — Come and hear: For R. Abba said in the name of Rab: An ‘erub tabshilin requires to be the size of an olive whether for one or for one hundred. We have learnt: [IF] HE ATE IT OR IT WAS LOST, HE MAY NOT IN THE FIRST PLACE COOK [IN RELIANCE] ON IT, BUT IF HE LEFT OVER ANY [SMALL] PORTION OF IT, HE MAY RELY ON IT [TO COOK] FOR THE SABBATH. What does ‘ANY’ [SMALL] PORTION mean? Does it not mean although it is not as much as an olive?4 — No, when it is as much as an olive. Come and hear: This dish5 [can be] grilled or pickled or stewed6 or boiled; and the Spanish colias7 [can be used] when he had poured hot water over it8 on the eve of the Festival; [for] its commencement and its end9 there is no standard [in quantity]. Does it not [surely] mean there is no standard [fixed] at all? No, there is no upper [i.e., maximum] standard,10 but there is a downwards [i.e., minimum] standard.11 R. Huna said in the name of Rab: The ‘erub tabshilin requires cognizance.12 It is certain that the cognizance of him who deposits [the dish] is required but do we require the cognizance of him for whom it is deposited, or do we not require [it]? — Come and hear: For the father of Samuel used to set the ‘erub for the whole of Nehardea; R. Ammi and R. Assi used to set the ‘erub for the whole of Tiberias.13 R. Jacob b. Idi proclaimed: He who has not set an ‘erub tabshilin, let him come and rely upon mine. And how far?14 — R. Nahumi b. Zecharaiah said in the name of Abaye: As far as the Sabbath limit.15 There was a certain blind man who used to recite Baraithas in the presence of Mar Samuel. When he noticed that he was gloomy he asked him: Why are you gloomy? Because I have not set an ‘erub tabshilin,16 replied he. Then rely upon mine, he rejoined. The following year he [again] noticed that he was gloomy. Said he to him: Why are you gloomy? He answered him: Because I have not set all ‘erub tabshilin. [Then] said he to him: You are a transgressor: to everybody else it is permitted,17 but to you it is forbidden.18 Our Rabbis taught: If a Festival falls on the eve of Sabbath one may neither set [on the Festival] a boundary ‘erub19 nor an ‘erub of courts.20 Rabbi Says: One may set a court ‘erub but not a boundary ‘erub, for you can forbid him21 what is forbidden to him [on a Festival]22 but you cannot forbid him what is allowed to him [on a Festival].23 It was stated: Rab says: The halachah is as the first Tanna, and Samuel says: The halachah is as Rabbi. The Scholars asked: Is the halachah as Rabbi [meant] leniently or stringently?- Of course he [Samuel] meant it leniently!24 — [The question was raised] because R. Eleazar sent word to the Diaspora [to wit]; Not as you teach in Babylon that Rabbi permits and the Sages forbid, but [rather] Rabbi forbids and the Sages permit. How is it now?25 — Come and hear: For R. Tahlifa b. Abdimi decided a case according to Samuel, and Rab remarked [thereon:] The first decision of this young scholar is harmful.26 [Now] if you say that he [Samuel] meant [his teaching] to be lenient it is well, hence this is harmful. But if you say [he meant] stringently, what harmful [teaching] is there! — Since many come to error27 through sheer negligence. sense, making them ali as one. This ranks as the repairing of an object and constitutes work. set on the Festival.