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CHAPTERI MISHNAH . [IF] AN EGG IS LAID ON A FESTIVAL-DAY, BETH SHAMMAI1 SAY: IT MAY BE EATEN [ON THE SAME DAY], BUT BETH HILLEL1 MAINTAIN: IT MAY NOT BE EATEN [UNTIL THE DAY IS OVER]. BETH SHAMMAI SAY: [THE QUANTITY OF] LEAVEN2 IS OF THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE3 AND LEAVENED BREAD IS OF THE SIZE OF A DATE,4 BUT BETH HILLEL MAINTAIN: BOTH5 ARE OF THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE. HE WHO SLAUGHTERS GAME ON POULTRY ON A FESTIVAL-DAY, BETH SHAMMAI SAY: HE MAY DIG UP [EARTH] WITH A SHOVEL6 AND COVER [THE BLOOD],7 BUT BETH HILLEL MAINTAIN: ONE MAY NOT SLAUGHTER8 UNLESS HE HAS [LOOSE] EARTH PREPARED FROM THE DAY BEFORE [THE FESTIVAL];9 BUT THEY AGREE THAT IF HE HAS [ALREADY] SLAUGHTERED, HE MAY DIG UP [EARTH] WITH A SHOVEL AND COVER [THE BLOOD], BECAUSE10 THE ASHES OF THE HEARTH ARE MUKAN [CONSIDERED AS HAVING BEEN PREPARED].11 GEMARA. What12 are we discussing? If one should say about a hen kept13 for food, what is the reason of Beth Hillel,14 [seeing that] it is food which has been separated;15 and [if] about a hen kept for laying eggs, what is the reason of Beth Shammai,16 [seeing that] it is mukzeh?17 — But what objection is this? Perhaps Beth Shammai do not accept [the prohibition of] Mukzeh? (We are of the opinion that even he who permits mukzeh forbids nolad;18 what then is the reason of Beth Shammai?) — R. Nahman replied: In table [we are debating] about a hen kept for laying eggs; but he who accepts [the prohibition of] mukzeh accepts [the prohibition of] nolad, and he who rejects [the prohibition of] mukzeh rejects [the prohibition of] nolad:19 Beth Shammai is [of the same opinion] as R. Simeon20 and Beth Hillel is [of the same opinion] as R. Judah.21 But did R. Nahman say thus? Surely we have learnt: Beth Shammai say: One may remove22 [on the Sabbath] from the table [with the hand] bones and nutshells;23 but Beth Hillel maintain: One lifts off the whole table-top and shakes it.24 And R. Nahman25 said: As for us, we only hold that Beth Shammai [follow the view] of R. Simeon! — R. Nahman can reply to you: With reference to the Sabbath where the Tanna teaches anonymously26 according to [the opinion of] R. Simeon as we have learnt: You may cut up gourds27 for cattle and a carcass28 for dogs29 Beth Hillel is made to represent the opinion of R. Simeon; but though not all are relevant to the subject. because, is emended to u == and. during the Festival are considered as if they were prepared before the Festival, as the house-holder had in his mind that there would be ashes which he could use for covering the blood. hen. Cf., however, ouarb Hul. 14b who takes the word ,rpt in the sense of ucru urp . Glos. Since the hen was not ‘set in readiness’ before the Festival the egg should therefore be forbidden to be eaten or handled on the Festival. be used on a Festival. with his hand but gets rid of them by lifting the table-top. Shab. 143a. Hillel, and also to follow the rule that the law prevails according to the opinion expressed in an anonymous Mishnah, here reverses the teaching of the two Schools. feed. to feed on.