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he has yet to examine them.1 Others explain it: Because he has yet to harden them.2 We have learnt elsewhere:3 If one trod upon it [poultry] or knocked it against a wall, or if cattle trampled over it and it still moves convulsively and continues alive for a full day of twenty-four hours, and he then slaughters it, it is ritually fit. Said R. Eleazar b. Jannai in the name of R. Eleazar b. Antigonos: It still has to be examined.4 R. Jeremiah asked of R. Zera: May one slaughter it on a Festival? Should we assume an unsoundness On a Festival5 or not? He replied to him: We have learnt it: NOR MAY ONE MAKE TILES RED-HOT IN ORDER TO ROAST ON THEM; and we raised the point: What does he do? And Rabbah b. Bar Hana in the name of R. Johanan said: We are dealing here with new bricks [and they must not be heated] because he has yet to examine them.6 He said to him: We teach: Because he has yet to harden them.7 It was taught: If one brings the fire [on a Sabbath] and another brings the wood and another puts the pot on the fire and another brings the water and another puts in the seasoning and another stirs, they are all liable.8 But surely it was taught: The last one is liable and the rest are exempt! — There is no contradiction. The one speaks of a case where the fire was brought first; and the other, where the fire was brought last.9 As for all the others, it is well, for they perform an action;10 but he who puts the pot on the fire, what does he do?11 — Said R. Simeon b. Lakish: We treat here of a new pot and they applied here the prohibition of making tiles red-hot. Our Rabbis taught: A new oven and a new pot range are like all other utensils which may be carried about in a court; but one may not smear them with oil or polish them with a rug or cool them with cold water in order to harden them; but if [it is done] for the purpose of baking,12 it is permitted. Our Rabbis taught: One may scald the head and the feet [of a fowl or animal] or singe them with fire; but one may not cover then, with potter's clay or with earth or with lime,13 nor may one cut off [their hair] with scissors; and one may not cut round vegetables with their [garden] shears,14 but one may trim the artichoke and the cardoon;15 one may heat and bake in a large oven16 and one may warm up water in an antiki17 vessel; but one may not bake in a new large oven lest it crack 18 . Our Rabbis taught: One may not blow up [the fire] with bellows [on a Festival] but one may blow it up with a tube [reed]; one may not condition a spit nor may one sharpen it. Our Rabbis taught: One may not split a reed in order to roast a salt fish thereon, but one may crack a nut in a rag and we do not apprehend lest it be torn. 19 MISHNAH. R. ELIEZER FURTHER20 SAID: A MAN MAY STAND NEAR HIS DRYING FIGS21 Festival. performed a culpable act. constitutes kindling. Similarly, he who adds fuel. Pouring in the water and the condiments and stirring all constitute cooking. only on that day cut them from the ground. time, extending even beyond the needs of the Festival day on which it is heated, it is nevertheless permitted, v. R. Nissim. The derivation of the word is obscure. Krauss TA, I , p. 73 connects it with Grk, GR. ** v. op. cit. p. 411.] up again.