Commentary for Shabbat 162:5

Then on weekdays too [let it be forbidden]? Again if it is on account of witchcraft:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As below. ');">¹⁶</span> it may not [be done] even on weekdays too? Again, if it is on account of the tearing out of hair, — but surely that is unintentional? — Said R. Nathan b. Oshaia to them: [Since] a great man has stated this dictum, let us give a reason for it. [Thus:] it is unnecessary [to state] that it is forbidden on weekdays;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since one can just as easily take a chip or a pebble, to which no suspicion of danger or witchcraft attaches. ');">¹⁷</span> but on the Sabbath, since it bears the rank of a utensil, [I might think that] it is permitted:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Being preferable to a chip or a pebble, which are not utensils, and in general it is permitted to handle a utensil sooner than that which is not a utensil. ');">¹⁸</span> therefore he informs us [otherwise].

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