Commentary for Shabbat 162:1

Is it permissible to carry them up [the stones] after one to the roof?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since he could have carried them up there on the eve of Sabbath, Tosaf. ');">¹</span> Human dignity is very important, he replied, and it supersedes a negative injunction of the Torah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is permitted. v. infra 94b. ');">²</span> Now, Meremar sat and reported this discussion, [whereupon] Rabina raised an objection to Meremar: R. Eliezer said: One may take a chip [lying] before him to pick his teeth therewith;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though not designated for this purpose beforehand, it is not regarded as mukzeh (q.v. Glos.). ');">³</span> but the Sages maintain: He may take only from an animal's trough?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There it is regarded as standing ready for use, but otherwise it is mukzeh, and human dignity, viz., the necessity to clean one's teeth, does not negative this prohibition. ');">⁴</span>

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