Commentary for Pesachim 50:8
אפשר וקא מיכוין לא אפשר וקמיכוין כולי עלמא לא פליגי דאסור לא אפשר ולא מיכוין כולי עלמא לא פליגי דשרי כי פליגי דאפשר ולא מיכוין
Where do they differ? On the view of R'Simeon, who maintained: That which is unintended is permitted. Abaye rules as R'Simeon, But Raba [argues]: R'Simeon rules thus only where it is impossible [to do otherwise], but not where it is possible.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The controversy of R. Judah and R. Simeon is with respect to dragging a bench over an earthen floor on the Sabbath, because it is needed in another part of the room. The dragging may make a rut in the earth, which is forbidden. Now in Abaye's view, R. Simeon permits the unintentional even when the whole act is avoidable, e.g., the bench is light enough to be carried. But in Raba's view R. Simeon permits it only when the bench is too heavy for this, so that the dragging is unavoidable. - An action is regarded as unavoidable when its purpose - here to have the bench elsewhere - is permissible or necessary. Similarly below, lecturing to the masses is regarded as unavoidable.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
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