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Commentary for Berakhot 104:30

אין מברכין כו': בשלמא נר משום דלא שבת אלא בשמים מ"ט לא

We may not say the benediction over the light or spices of gentiles. It is quite right [that we do not use] the light [of a gentile] because it has not "rested" ; but why not the spices ?

Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot

I.e. by its light forbidden work has been done on the Sabbath.
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