Commentary for Pesachim 130:13

אמר לו רבי אליעזר ועליה אני דן ומה אם שחיטה שהיא משום מלאכה דוחה את השבת הזאה שהיא משום שבות אינו דין שדוחה את השבת

BUT ITS ROASTING AND THE WASHING OF ITS BOWELS DO NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH. ITS CARRYING<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'riding' - i.e., carrying it upon one's shoulder.');">¹³</span> AND BRINGING IT FROM WITHOUT THE TEHUM<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Glos. vftkn');">¹⁴</span> AND THE CUTTING OFF OF ITS WART DO NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH. R'ELIEZER SAID: THEY DO OVERRIDE [THE SABBATH]. SAID R'ELIEZER, DOES IT NOT FOLLOW A FORTIORI: IF SHECHITAH, WHICH IS [USUALLY FORBIDDEN] AS A LABOUR, OVERRIDES THE SABBATH, SHALL NOT THESE, WHICH ARE [ONLY FORBIDDEN] AS A SHEBUTH, OVERRIDE THE SABBATH?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Labour' () denotes work regarded as Biblically forbidden, whereas a shebuth is only a Rabbinical interdict.');">¹⁵</span> R'JOSHUA ANSWERED HIM, LET FESTIVAL[S] REBUT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'prove'.');">¹⁶</span> IT, WHEREIN THEY PERMITTED LABOUR AND FORBADE A SHEBUTH.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'they permitted (that which is forbidden on the Sabbath) on account of labour' etc. Slaughtering and cooking, for example, are permitted on Festivals, whereas bringing food from without the tehum which is only a Rabbinical prohibition, is forbidden.');">¹⁷</span> SAID R'ELIEZER TO HIM, WHAT IS THIS, JOSHUA, WHAT PROOF IS A VOLUNTARY ACT IN RESPECT OF A PRECEPT! R'AKIBA ANSWERED AND SAID, LET HAZA'AH<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Haza'ah connotes the sprinkling of the waters of purification (v. Lev. XIV, 7, 16; Num. XIX, 19) upon an unclean person; zerikah, the sprinkling of the blood of the sacrifice upon the altar.');">¹⁸</span> PROVE IT, WHICH IS [PERFORMED] BECAUSE IT IS A PRECEPT AND IS [NORMALLY FORBIDDEN ONLY] AS A SHEBUTH, YET IT DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the seventh day of the unclean person (v. Num. ibid.) falls on the Sabbath, which happens to be the eve of');">¹⁹</span> SO YOU TOO, DO NOT WONDER AT THESE, THAT THOUGH THEY ARE [REQUIRED] ON ACCOUNT OF THE PRECEPT AND ARE [ONLY FORBIDDEN] AS A SHEBUTH, YET THEY DO NOT OVERRIDE THE SABBATH. SAID R'ELIEZER TO HIM, BUT IN RESPECT OF THAT [ITSELF] I ARGUE: IF SHECHITAH, WHICH IS A LABOUR, OVERRIDES THE SABBATH, IS IT NOT LOGICAL THAT HAZA'AH, WHICH IS [ONLY] A SHEBUTH, OVERRIDES THE SABBATH!

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