Friday, August 19, 2005

Rif Shabbat 40b {Shabbat 109a continues ... Shabbat 111a}



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40b

{Shabbat 109a continues}
Rav Hillel said to Rav Ashi: When I attended Rav Kahana's academy they said, Not vinegar. Rav Kahana {our gemara: Rava, and so the Rif cites in a short while} said: But the people of Machoza, since they are delicate, even wine heals them and it is forbidden.

Ravina visited the house of Rav Ashi. He saw that an ass had trodden on his foot, and he was sitting and reducing the swelling in vinegar. He said to him: Do you not accept Rav Hillel's statement - Not vinegar?

Some say that he saw him reducing the swelling in wine. He said to him: Do you not agree with what Rava said, The people of Machoza, since they are delicate, even wine heals them, and you too are delicate?
He said to him: [A swelling on] the hand or on the foot is different.
For Rav Adda bar Matna cited Rav: [A blow on] the hand or on the foot is like an internal wound, and Shabbat may be desecrated on its account.

The Sages learnt {in a brayta}: One may bathe in the water of Gerar {Rif actually has Geder}, in the water of Cammetan {which literally means "hot springs"}, in the water of Essa, and in the water of Tiberias, but not in the Great Sea [the Mediterranean], or in the water of steeping, or in the Lake of Sodom.

{Shabbat 109b}
"The Great Sea" - we establish as the bad waters in it, but in the good waters, he may bathe.
"nor in the waters of steeping" - we establish as where he tarries in it, but if he does not tarry in it, he may bathe.

MISHNA:
WE MAY NOT EAT GREEK HYSSOP ON THE SABBATH, BECAUSE IT IS NOT THE FOOD OF HEALTHY PEOPLE; BUT WE MAY EAT YO'EZER {a certain plant} AND DRINK ABUB RO'EH {Jastrow: 'shepherd's flute' — name of a plant (Eupatorium) used for medicinal purposes}.

A MAN MAY EAT ANY KIND OF FOOD AS A REMEDY, AND DRINK ANY LIQUID, EXCEPT WATER OF PALM TREES AND A POTION OF ROOTS, BECAUSE THEY ARE [A REMEDY] FOR JAUNDICE;
BUT ONE MAY DRINK WATER OF PALM TREES FOR HIS THIRST AND RUB HIMSELF WITH OIL OF ROOTS WITHOUT MEDICAL PURPOSE.

{Shabbat 110a}
Gemara:
"ANY FOOD" - to include what?
To include techol {spleen?} for the teeth and karshinim {a type of bean} for the intestines.

"ANY DRINK" - to include what?
To include caper-water in vinegar.

Ravina said to Rav Ashi: May one drink urine on Shabbat?
He said to him: We learnt this! {tanina!} Any drink. And urine, people do not drink.

{Shabbat 110b}
They learnt {in a brayta}: How do we know that castrating a man is forbidden? For it states {Vayikra 22:

כד וּמָעוּךְ וְכָתוּת וְנָתוּק וְכָרוּת, לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ לַה; וּבְאַרְצְכֶם, לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ. 24 That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land.
In you {bachem} you shall not do.

And even castration after castration, he is culpable.

Rabbi Chiyya bar Abba cited Rabbi Yochanan:
{Shabbat 111a}
All agree that if one prepares it [a meal-offering] as leaven after another has prepared it as leaven, he is culpable; because it is said {Vayikra 6:10}:
י לֹא תֵאָפֶה חָמֵץ, חֶלְקָם נָתַתִּי אֹתָהּ מֵאִשָּׁי; קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים הִוא, כַּחַטָּאת וְכָאָשָׁם. 10 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the guilt-offering.
{and in Vayikra 2:11}:
יא כָּל-הַמִּנְחָה, אֲשֶׁר תַּקְרִיבוּ לַה--לֹא תֵעָשֶׂה, חָמֵץ: כִּי כָל-שְׂאֹר וְכָל-דְּבַשׁ, לֹא-תַקְטִירוּ מִמֶּנּוּ אִשֶּׁה לַיהוָה. 11 No meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
How do we know that castration after castration, he is culpable?

{Vayikra 22:24}:
כד וּמָעוּךְ וְכָתוּת וְנָתוּק וְכָרוּת, לֹא תַקְרִיבוּ לַה; וּבְאַרְצְכֶם, לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ. 24 That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land.
If for cut he is culpable, then certainly for torn! Rather, to include torn after cut that he is culpable.

MISHNA:
IF ONE'S TEETH PAIN HIM, HE MUST NOT SIP VINEGAR THROUGH THEM, BUT MAY DIP [HIS BREAD IN VINEGAR] IN THE USUAL MANNER, AND IF HE IS CURED, HE IS CURED.

IF ONE'S LOINS PAIN HIM, HE MUST NOT RUB THEM WITH WINE OR VINEGAR, BUT HE MAY ANOINT THEM WITH OIL, YET NOT ROSE OIL.

ROYAL CHILDREN MAY ANOINT THEIR WOUNDS WITH ROSE OIL, SINCE IT IS THEIR PRACTICE TO ANOINT THEMSELVES THUS ON WEEKDAYS.
R. SIMEON SAID: ALL ISRAEL ARE ROYAL CHILDREN.

Gemara:
"IF ONE HAS TOOTHACHE, HE MUST NOT SIP VINEGAR ON THEM":
But they learnt {in a brayta}: He must not sip and eject, yet he may sip and swallow?
When we learnt our Mishnah we too learnt of sipping and ejecting.

Tosefta: We do not chew mitztaki {a type of resin} on Shabbat

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