Commentary for Shabbat 130:10

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> הקיטע יוצא בקב שלו דברי ר' מאיר

but here this is not a usual way of carrying it, and therefore I might say that it is well.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the first is the normal way of carrying, when one puts on more than he requires the excess is a mere burden, carried out in the normal manner; hence it is forbidden. But in the case under discussion, even if a person intentionally carries a nut out thus, without any subterfuge, he does not transgress by Biblical law and is not liable to a sin-offering, which is incurred only for doing a thing in its normal fashion. Hence a subterfuge may be permitted even by Rabbinical law (R. Jacob Emden, Novellae). ');">¹⁰</span> The question stands over. <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. A STUMP-LEGGED PERSON MAY GO FORTH WITH HIS WOODEN STUMP:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A log of wood hollowed out to receive the stump. ');">¹¹</span> THIS IS R. MEIR'S VIEW;

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