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Week 5 - SHABBAT - 1 Jan. 2000

SHABBAT: CHAPTER 9: MISHNA 5

Whence that anointing is as drinking on Yom Kippur? Although there is no proof for the matter, there is an allusion to the matter, as it is written, "And it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones" (Ps. 109:18).

Kehati

Whence that anointing is as drinking on Yom Kippur - that it is forbidden to anoint the body on Yom Kippur as it is forbidden to drink on Yom Kippur? Although there is no decisive proof for the matter, but there is an allusion to the matter, as it is written, “And it is come into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones” - anointing with oil is here compared to the drinking of water. Nonetheless, anointing was compared to drinking only in that both are prohibited, as we have just explained, but they do not both incur the penalty of karet . One is liable to karet only for eating and drinking, but not for transgressing the other precepts of afflictions of the day (see Yorna, 8:1).

SHABBAT: CHAPTER 9: MISHNA 6

One who carries wood - enough to boil a light egg; spices enough to season a light egg; and they are counted together. Nut shells, pomegranate peels, istis and puah enough to dye with them a small garment in a headdress. Urine, natron and lixivium, Cirnolian earth and ashlag enough to wash with them a small garment in a headdress. Rabbi Yehudah says. Enough to pass over a stain.

Kehati

This mishnah resumes the discussion regarding the measures for carrying.

One who carries wood - on Shabbat, which, unless we know otherwise, we assume to be used for heating, its measure is enough to boil a light egg i.e., the amount of a dried fig's-bulk of a chicken egg, mixed with oil and placed in a stew-pot (see 8:5, above); one who carries spices plants or spices with which food is seasoned (see Tosefot Yom Tov), is liable if their measure is enough to season a light egg - a fried chicken egg; and they - all types of spices, are counted together - to the measure for carrying, i.e., if one carried various spices, and together they are sufficient to season a light egg, he is liable. Nut shells -the green shells on the nuts when they are still moist, pomegranate peels, istis - a herb [isatis tinctoria] from which blue dye [woad] is produced, and puah - the root of an herb [rubia tinctorum] from which red dye [madder] is produced, the measure of each of these is enough to dye with them a small garment - a piece of woven cloth sewn in the top of a headdress - the net women put on their hair. According to another version, "as a headdress" i.e., as the amount necessary to dye a small garment the size of a headress.

Urine, natron and lixivium, Cimolian earth - a type of chalk, and ashlag - all these are substances used for cleaning and washing; their measure is enough to wash with them a small garment in a headdress - as was explained above. Rabbi Yehudah says: “Enough to pass over a stain - which is present in a woman's garment, and it is not known whether it is menstrual blood or a coloration, for it has been taught, “They pass seven ingredients over the stain: tasteless saliva, grits water, urine, natron, lixivium, Cimolian earth, and ashlag. If the stain does not disappear, it is certainly a dye. Rabbi Yehudah holds that the measure of each of these substances, establishing liability for carrying on Shabbat, is the amount that they pass over the stain. The halakhah does not follow Rabbi Yehudah.

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