Commentary for Shabbat 213:5
מתני׳ <big><strong>שמנה</strong></big> שרצים האמורים בתורה הצדן והחובל בהן חייב ושאר שקצים ורמשים החובל בהן פטור הצדן לצורך חייב שלא לצורך פטור חיה ועוף שברשותו הצדן פטור והחובל בהן חייב:
he is liable. And how do you know that he is exempt and it is permitted? — Because we learnt: A dish may be inverted over a lamp, that the beams should not catch [fire], or over an infant's excrements, or over a scorpion, that it should not bite.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though it is thereby caught. ');"><sup>8</sup></span> <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. AS FOR THE EIGHT REPTILES [SHERAZIM] WHICH ARE MENTIONED IN THE TORAH,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As unclean, i.e., non-edible; Lev. XI, 29f. ');"><sup>9</sup></span>
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