Shabbat

even if there are [labours] similar thereto, is counted [separately].  Then let him also enumerate pounding [wheat]?  — Said Abaye: Because a poor man eats his bread without pounding.  Raba said: This agrees with Rabbi, who said: The primary labours are forty less one; but if pounding were enumerated, there would be forty.  Then let one of these be omitted and pounding be inserted? Hence it is clear [that it must be explained] as Abaye [does]. Our Rabbis taught: If various kinds of food lie before one, he may select and eat, select and put aside; but he must not select, and if he does, he incurs a sin-offering. What does this mean? — Said 'Ulla, This is its meaning: He may select to eat on the same day, and he may select and put aside for the same day; but he must not select for [use on] the morrow, and if he does, he incurs a sin-offering. R. Hisda demurred: Is it then permitted to bake for [use on] the same day, or is it permitted to cook for the same day?  Rather said R. Hisda: He may select and eat less than the standard quantity, and he may select and put aside less than the standard quantity;  but he must not select as much as the standard quantity, and if he does, he incurs a sin-offering. R. Joseph demurred: Is it then permitted to bake less than the standard quantity?  Rather said R. Joseph: He may select by hand and eat, or select by hand and put aside; but he may not select with a reed-basket or a dish; and if he does, he is not culpable, nevertheless it is forbidden.  He may not select with a sieve or a basket-sieve, and if he does he incurs a sin-offering.  R. Hamnuna demurred: Are then a reed-basket and a dish mentioned? — Rather said R. Hamnuna: He may select and eat, [taking the] eatable from the non-eatable, and he may select and put aside, [taking] the eatable from the non-eatable. But he must not select the non-eatable out of the eatable, and if he does, he incurs a sin-offering.  Abaye demurred: Is it then taught, 'the eatable from the non-eatable'? Rather said Abaye: He may select and eat immediately, and he may select and put aside for immediate use;  but he may not select for [later consumption on] the same day, and if he does, it is regarded as though he were selecting for [making] a store, and he incurs a sin-offering.  The Rabbis reported this to Raba. Said he to them, Nahmani  has said well. If two kinds of food lie before a person, and he selects and eats or selects and puts aside,  — R. Ashi learnt: He is not culpable: R. Jeremiah of Difti  learnt: He is culpable, 'R. Ashi learnt: He is not culpable'! but it was taught:  'He is culpable'? — There is no difficulty: the one treats of a reed-basket and a plate;  the other refers to a sieve and a basket-sieve. When R. Dimi came,  he related: It was R. Bibi's Sabbath,  and R. Ammi and R. Assi chanced to be there. He cast a basket of fruit before them,  and I do not know whether it was because he held that it is forbidden to pick out the eatable from the noneatable, or whether he wished to be generous. Hezekiah said: One who picks lupines [after boiling] out of their husks  is culpable. Shall we say that Hezekiah holds that it is forbidden to select the eatable from the non-eatable? [No.] Lupines are different,