Commentary for Shabbat 212:2
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> תנן התם אין צדין דגים מן הביברין בי"ט ואין נותנין לפניהם מזונות אבל צדין חיה ועוף ונותנין לפניהם מזונות ורמינהו ביברין של חיות ושל עופות ושל דגים אין צדין מהם ביום טוב ואין נותנין לפניהם מזונות קשיא חיה אחיה קשיא עופות אעופות
HE IS LIABLE. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. We learnt elsewhere: Fish may not be caught out of aquaria on a Festival, nor may food be placed before them; but beasts and birds may be caught out of vivaria, and food may be placed before them. But the following contradicts it: As for vivaria of beasts, birds and fish, one may not catch [the animals, etc.] out of them on a Festival, and we may not place food before them: [thus the rulings on] beasts are contradictory, and [the rulings on] birds are contradictory. As for [the rulings on] beasts, it is well: there is no difficulty, one agreeing with R. Judah,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In our Mishnah, Since he holds that only when an animal is in a house is it regarded as trapped, it follows that it is not trapped in a vivarium, and therefore if one catches a beast out of a vivarium he is guilty, in accordance with the general principle of the Mishnah. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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