Commentary for Shabbat 147:1

אע"ג דאיכא דדמיא לה חשיב לה וליחשב נמי כותש אמר אביי שכן עני אוכל פתו בלא כתישה רבא אמר הא מני רבי היא דאמר אבות מלאכות ארבעים חסר אחת ואי חשיב כותש הויא ליה ארבעים וליפוק חדא מהנך ולעייל כותש אלא מחוורתא כדאביי:

even if there are [labours] similar thereto, is counted [separately].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' What constitutes primary labours is learnt from the Tabernacle (v. 49b). All these labours were needed for the Tabernacle in the wilderness; hence they are counted separately. ');">¹</span> Then let him also enumerate pounding [wheat]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In a mortar, to remove the husk. Drugs were pounded in connection with the Tabernacle for dyes. ');">²</span> — Said Abaye: Because a poor man eats his bread without pounding.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it is omitted, for the Tanna evidently follows the general order of making bread, and bread for the poor is prepared with the husk of the wheat. But it is certainly a primary labour forbidden on the Sabbath. ');">³</span>

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