Shabbat

GEMARA. Consider: He [the Tanna] states them all [separately]: what is ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF CIRCUMCISION to include? — It is to include that which our Rabbis taught: He who circumcises,  as long as he is engaged in the circumcision, he returns both for the shreds [of the corona] which invalidate the circumcision and for those which do not invalidate the circumcision.  Once he has withdrawn,  he returns on account of the shreds which invalidate the circumcision, but not for the shreds which do not invalidate the circumcision. Who teaches: Once he has withdrawn, he must not return? Said Rabbah b. Bar Hanah in R. Johanan's name: It is R. Ishmael the son of R. Johanan b. Berokah. For it was taught: If the fourteenth [of Nisan] falls on the Sabbath, the passover sacrifice is flayed as far as the breast: this is the view of R. Ishmael the son of R. Johanan b. Berokah. But the Sages maintain: We flay the whole of it.  But how so? R. Johanan may rule [thus] only there, because we do not require [the application of the verse,] This is my God, and I will adorn him,  but here that we require, 'This is my God, and I will adorn him',  that indeed is so!  (For it was taught: This is my God, and I will adorn him: [i.e.,] adorn thyself before Him in [the fulfilment of] precepts. [Thus:] make a beautiful sukkah in His honour,  a beautiful lulab, a beautiful shofar, beautiful fringes, and a beautiful Scroll of the Law, and write it with fine ink, a fine reed [-pen], and a skilled penman, and wrap it about with beautiful silks. Abba Saul interpreted, and I will be like him:  be thou like Him: just as He is gracious and compassionate, so be thou gracious and compassionate.) — Rather said R. Ashi, Which [Tanna] is this? It is R. Jose. For we learnt: Whether it is clearly visible or it is not clearly visible,  the Sabbath is desecrated on its account.  R. Jose ruled: If it is clearly visible, they must not desecrate the Sabbath for it.  But how so? Perhaps R. Jose rules [thus] only there, because the Sabbath was not given to be superseded;  but here that the Sabbath was given to be superseded,  it indeed is so?  — Rather said the scholars of Nehardea: It is the Rabbis who disagree with R. Jose. For we learnt: Four priests entered:  two held two courses [of loaves] in their hands, and two held two censers;  and four preceded them, two in order to remove the two courses,  and two to remove the two censers. Those who brought in [the new loaves and frankincense] stood in the north facing the south,  while those who carried [them] out stood in the south facing the north:  these withdrew [the old] and these laid down [the new], the handbreadth of one at the side of the handbreadth of the other,  because it is said, [And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread] before me alway.  R. Jose said: Even if these remove and the other replace [it later], that too constitutes 'alway'. Our Rabbis taught: The membrum must be trimmed,  and if one does not trim it, he is punished with kareth. Who? R. Kahana said: The surgeon.  R. Papa demurred 'The surgeon'! he can say to them, 'I have performed half of the precept: do you perform half of the precept.'  Rather said R. Papa: An adult.  R. Ashi demurred: Of an adult it is explicitly stated, and the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, [that soul shall be cut off from his people]?  Rather said R. Ashi: In truth it means the surgeon: e.g., if he came at twilight on the Sabbath, and they warned him, 'you have no time,'  but he insisted, 'I have time: So he performed it but had not time [to complete it]. Thus the net result is  that he [merely] made a wound,  hence he is punished with kareth. WE SUCK OUT, etc. R. Papa said: If a surgeon does not suck [the WOUND], it is dangerous and he is dismissed. It is obvious? Since we desecrate the Sabbath for it, it is dangerous?  — You might say that this blood is stored up, therefore he informs us that it is the result of a wound, and it is like a bandage and cummin: just as when one does not apply a bandage and cummin there is danger, so here too if one does not do it there is danger. WE PLACE A COMPRESS UPON IT. Abaye said: Mother told me,  A salve [compress] for all pains [is made of] seven parts of fat and one of wax. Raba said: Wax and resin  Raba taught this publicly at Mahoza, [whereupon] the family of Benjamin the doctor tore up their [bandage] cloths.  Said he to them. Yet I have left you one [cure unrevealed]. For Samuel said: He who washes his face and does not dry it well, scabs will break out on him.