Shabbat

though I do not know whether it preceded or followed it,  and when they went before R. Johanan, he said to them: Let Gentiles occupy themselves with him [the dead]. Raba too said: As for a corpse,  on the first day of Festivals Gentiles should occupy themselves with him; on the second day of Festivals Israelites may occupy themselves with him, and even on the second day of New Year, which is not so in the case of an egg?  [Here too] because they were not learned in the law. R. Abin b. R. Huna said in R. Hama b. Guria's name: A man may wrap himself in a canopy sheet and [tie it] with its cords to go out into the street on the Sabbath without fear.  How does this differ from R. Huna's [dictum]. for R. Huna said in Rab's name: If one goes out on the Sabbath wearing a garment not provided with [proper] fringes as required by law, he is liable to a sin-offering?  — Fringes are important in relation to the cloak, hence they are not merged [therein]; these are not of [separate] importance, and [so] are accounted as nought. Rabbah  son of R. Huna said: A man may employ an artifice in connection with a strainer on a festival, suspending it for pomegranates yet straining lees therein.  Said R. Ashi: Provided he does place pomegranates in it.  How does it differ from what was taught: One may brew beer on the [intermediate days of a] Festival  when it is required for the Festival, but if not required for the Festival it is forbidden: [this applies to] both barley beer and date beer. Though one has old [beer]. he may practise an evasion  and drink of the new? — There the matter is not evident;  here the matter is evident. The scholars said to R. Ashi: See, sir, a Rabbinical disciple. whose name is R. Huna b. Hiwan — others State, R. Huna b. Hilwon — who took peel of garlic,  placed it in the bung hole of a barrel, and asserted, 'My intention is to put it away [here].'  He also went and dozed in a ferry and thus crossed to the other side and looked after his fruit, asserting, 'My intention was to sleep.' Said he to them, You speak of an artifice: it is an artifice [in connection with] a Rabbinical [interdict].  and a disciple of the Rabbis will not come to do this at the very outset.  MISHNAH. WATER MAY BE POURED OVER LEES IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THEM, AND WINE MAY BE STRAINED THROUGH CLOTHS AND THROUGH A BASKET MADE OF PALM TWIGS; AND AN EGG MAY BE PASSED THROUGH A MUSTARD STRAINER;  AND ENOMLIN  MAY BE PREPARED ON THE SABBATH. R. JUDAH SAID: ON THE SABBATH [IT MAY ONLY BE MADE] IN A GOBLET; ON FESTIVALS, IN A LAGIN;  AND ON THE INTERMEDIATE DAYS OF FESTIVALS IN A BARREL. R. ZADOK SAID: IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE [NUMBER OF] GUESTS. GEMARA. Ze'iri said: One may pour clear wine and clear water into a strainer on the Sabbath without fear,  but not turbid [liquids]. An objection is raised: R. Simeon b. Gamaliel said: One may stir up a barrel of wine, [i.e..] the wine and the lees, and pour it into a strainer on the Sabbath without fear!  — Ze'iri explained it: They learnt this of the season of the wine pressing. WINE MAY BE STRAINED THROUGH CLOTHS. R. Shimi b. Hiyya said: Provided that one does not make a hollow. AND THROUGH A BASKET MADE OF PALM TWIGS. R. Hiyya b. Ashi said in Rab's name: Provided he does not lift it [the basket] a handbreadth from the bottom of the vessel. Rab said: [Spreading] a rag over half a cask [to cover it] is permitted; over the whole cask, is forbidden. R. Papa said: A man must not stuff chips into the mouth of a cask jug.  because it looks like a strainer. R. Papa's household poured wine slowly from one vessel to another.  R. Aha of Difti  objected: But there is the residue?— The residue had no value in R. Papa's household. AN EGG MAY BE PASSED THROUGH A MUSTARD STRAINER. R. Jacob Karhah recited: