Commentary for Eruvin 153:18

וכי אית ליה אוגניים מאי הוי והתנן הטומן לפת וצנון תחת הגפן בזמן

R'Yehiel ruled: If a bowl is inverted<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And placed at the side of a wall that intervened between two courtyards.');">⁴⁵</span> a valid reduction is thereby effected.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the wall rises to less than ten handbreadths above the back of the inverted bowl.');">⁴⁶</span> But why? Is not the bowl an object that may be moved away on the Sabbath and that as such<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and a thing that may be taken on the Sabbath'.');">⁴⁷</span> causes no reduction?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An objection against R. Yehiel.');">⁴⁸</span> - This<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Yehiel's ruling.');">⁴⁹</span> is was required only in a case where the bowl was attached to the ground.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' in which case it may not be moved from its place throughout the Sabbath.');">⁵⁰</span> But what matters it even if it was attached to the ground, seeing that it was taught: An unripe fruit that had been put into straw<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To ripen. Straw that had been set aside for the manufacture of bricks or similar purpose may not be moved from its place on the Sabbath on account mukzeh v. Glos.');">⁵¹</span> or a cake that had been put among coals<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That were aglow when the Sabbath began but were extinguished now. Such coals may not be moved on the Sabbath. Burning coals are subject to greater restrictions (cf. Ker. 20a) .');">⁵²</span> may be taken out on the Sabbath if a part of it remained uncovered?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shab. 123a. As a part of the bowl also remains uncovered by the ground its removal on the Sabbath is equally permitted. How then could R. Yehiel regard a bowl in such a condition as an effective reduction.');">⁵³</span> - Here<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Yehiel's ruling.');">⁴⁹</span> we are dealing with a case, for instance, where the bowl had rims.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That were buried in the ground. A bowl in such a condition may not be removed from its place on the Sabbath, since its removal would inevitably disturb the earth under which its rim is buried, and the person removing it would be guilty of performing an act that resembled the forbidden work of digging.');">⁵⁴</span> But what matters it even if it had rims, seeing that we learned: If a man buried<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For storage purposes.');">⁵⁵</span> turnips or radishes under a vine, leaving<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in the time'.');">⁵⁶</span>

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