Shabbat

that the wall be not damaged [by the rain], it does not fall within [the terms of] 'and if it be put [etc.]'  But how compare! There he does not want that fluid at all, whereas here he needs this pouch to receive the discharge.  This can only be compared to the second clause: If a tub  is placed so that the dripping [of water] should fall therein, the water which rebounds or overflows is not within [the meaning of] 'and if [water] be put'; but the water inside it is within [the meaning of] and if [water] be put! — Rather, said both Abaye and Raba, There is no difficulty: the one is according to R. Judah; the other agrees with R. Simeon. The School of R. Ishmael taught: A man may go out with his tefillin  on the eve of Sabbath near nightfall.  What's the reason? Because Rabbah son of R. Huna said: One must feel his tefillin every now and then, [inferring] a minori from [the High Priest's] headplate. If in the case of the headplate, which contained the Divine Name  only once, yet the Torah said, and it shall always be on his forehead,  [i.e.,] his mind must not be diverted from it; then with the tefillin, which contain the Divine Name many times, how much more so! therefore he is fully cognizant thereof. It was taught: Hanania said: One must examine  his garments on Sabbath eve before nightfall. R. Joseph observed: That is a vital  law for the Sabbath. Rab Judah said in Samuel's name: [It is forbidden] even to distinguish between one's own garments and his wife's [by lamp light]. Said Raba: That was stated only of townspeople;  but those of country folk  are easily distinguished. And [even] in the case of townspeople this was stated only of old women;  but those of young women are readily distinguishable. Our Rabbis taught: One must not search [his garments] in the street out of decency. In like way R. Judah-others state, R. Nehemiah-said: One must not cause himself to vomit in the street, out of decency. Our Rabbis taught: If one searches his garments [on the Sabbath] he may press [the vermin] and throw it away, providing that he does not kill it. Abba Saul said: He must take and throw it away, providing that he does not press it. R. Huna said, The halachah is, he may press and throw it away, and that is seemly, even on weekdays. Rabbah killed them, and R. Shesheth killed them.  Raba threw them into a basin of water. R. Nahman said to his daughters, 'Kill them and let me hear the sound of the hated ones.' It was taught, R. Simeon b. Eleazar said: Vermin must not be killed on the Sabbath: this is the view of Beth Shammai; while Beth Hillel permit it. And R. Simeon b. Eleazar said likewise on the authority of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel: One must not negotiate for the betrothal of children [girls],  nor for a boy, to teach him the book  and to teach him a trade,  nor may mourners be comforted, nor may the sick be visited on the Sabbath:  that is the ruling of Beth Shammai; but Beth Hillel permit it. Our Rabbis taught: If one enters [a house] to visit a sick person [on the Sabbath], he should say, 'It is the Sabbath, when one must not cry out, and recovery will soon come.' R. Meir said, [One should say] 'It [the Sabbath] may have compassion.'