Rif Shabbat 35b

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35b

{Shabbat 91b}
IF ONE CARRIES OUT FOOD AND PLACES IT ON THE THRESHOLD, WHETHER HE [HIMSELF] SUBSEQUENTLY CARRIES IT OUT [INTO THE STREET] OR ANOTHER DOES SO, HE IS NOT CULPABLE, BECAUSE THE [WHOLE] ACT WAS NOT PERFORMED AT ONCE.

[IF ONE CARRIES OUT] A BASKET WHICH IS FULL OF PRODUCE AND PLACES IT ON THE OUTER THRESHOLD, THOUGH MOST OF THE PRODUCE IS WITHOUT {=in the street}, HE IS NOT CULPABLE UNLESS HE CARRIES OUT THE WHOLE BASKET.

{Shabbat 92a}
IF ONE CARRIES OUT [AN ARTICLE], WHETHER WITH HIS RIGHT OR WITH HIS LEFT [HAND], IN HIS LAP OR ON HIS SHOULDER, HE IS CULPABLE, BECAUSE THUS WAS THE CARRYING OF THE CHILDREN OF KOHATH.
IN A BACKHANDED MANNER, [E.G.,] WITH HIS FOOT, IN HIS MOUTH, WITH HIS ELBOW, IN HIS EAR, IN HIS HAIR, IN HIS BELT WITH ITS OPENING DOWNWARDS, BETWEEN HIS BELT AND HIS SHIRT, IN THE HEM OF HIS SHIRT, IN HIS SHOES OR SANDALS, HE IS NOT CULPABLE, BECAUSE HE HAS NOT CARRIED [IT] OUT AS PEOPLE [GENERALLY] CARRY OUT.

Gemara:
Rabbi Eleazar said: If one carries out a burden above ten handbreadths [from the street level], he is culpable, for thus was the carrying of the children of Kohath.

Rav cited Rabbi Chiyya: If one carries out a burden on his head on the Sabbath, he is exempt.

{Shabbat 92b}
And if you say that the people of Huzal do thus {and therefore it is a normal mode of carrying}, their practice is null by comparison with that of all men.

MISHNA:
IF ONE INTENDS TO CARRY OUT [AN OBJECT] IN FRONT OF HIM, BUT IT WORKS ROUND BEHIND HIM, HE IS NOT CULPABLE;
BEHIND HIM, BUT IT WORKS ROUND BEFORE HIM, HE IS CULPABLE.

[YET] IN TRUTH {= on Mt. Sinai} IT WAS SAID: A WOMAN, WHO WRAPS HERSELF ROUND WITH AN APRON WHETHER [THE ARTICLE IS CARRIED] BEFORE OR BEHIND HER, IS CULPABLE, BECAUSE IT IS NATURAL {fit} FOR IT TO REVERSE ITSELF.

R. JUDAH SAID: ALSO THOSE WHO RECEIVE NOTES.
{Tosafot: Officials who go out with documents for taking a census, inventories of the State treasury, etc. They carried these in pouches hanging from their belts, which sometimes turned round back to front. R. Judah rules that these too are culpable in such a case.}

IF ONE CARRIES OUT A LOAF INTO THE STREET, HE IS CULPABLE; IF TWO CARRY IT OUT, THEY ARE NOT CULPABLE. IF ONE COULD NOT CARRY IT OUT AND TWO CARRY IT OUT, THEY ARE CULPABLE; BUT R. SIMEON EXEMPTS [THEM].

{Shabbat 93b}
IF ONE CARRIES OUT LESS THAN THE STANDARD QUANTITY OF FOOD IN A UTENSIL, HE IS NOT CULPABLE EVEN IN RESPECT OF THE UTENSIL, BECAUSE THE UTENSIL IS SUBSIDIARY THERETO.

[IF ONE CARRIES OUT] A LIVING PERSON IN A BED, HE IS NOT CULPABLE EVEN IN RESPECT OF THE BED, BECAUSE THE BED IS SUBSIDIARY TO HIM;
A CORPSE IN A BED, HE IS CULPABLE. AND LIKEWISE [IF ONE CARRIES OUT] THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE OF A CORPSE, THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE OF A NEBELAH, OR THE SIZE OF A LENTIL OF A [DEAD] CREEPING THING [SHEREZ], HE IS CULPABLE. BUT R. SIMEON DECLARES HIM EXEMPT. {For carrying out a corpse, etc.}

{Shabbat 94b}
Gemara:
A dead body was lying in Darukra, which Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak allowed to be carried out into a karmelit.

Rav Acha the son of Rava said to Rav Nachman {our gemara's girsa: Said Rav Nachman the brother of Mar son of Rabbana to Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak}: Like whom? Rabbi Shimon? But perhaps Rabbi Shimon merely exempts [such] from liability to a sin-offering, yet there is a Rabbinical interdict.

He {Rav Nachman} said to him: By G-d! you yourself may bring it in! And even according to Rabbi Yehuda! Did I then say [that it may be carried out] into the street? I [merely] said, into a karmelit: the dignity of human beings is a great thing, for it supersedes [even] a negative injunction of the Torah.