Commentary for Shabbat 232:4

בין במקום בהמ"ד בין שלא במקום בהמ"ד בזמן בהמ"ד אין קורין שלא בזמן בית המדרש קורין ואזדא שמואל לטעמיה דבנהרדעא פסקי סידרא דכתובים במנחתא דשבתא

Said R. Gamaliel to him, 'An ass came and knocked the lamp over!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This story is discussed in Bacher, Ag. d. Pal. Am. 11, p. 424 n. V. also R.T. Herford, op. cit., pp. 146-154, though his conjecture that the story ends with a covert gibe at Christianity is hardly substantiated. ');">¹⁰</span> AND WHY DO WE NOT READ [THEM], etc. Rab said: They learnt this only for the time of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>, but we may read [them] when it is not the time of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>. But Samuel said: We may not read them [on the Sabbath] even when it is not the time of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>. But that is not so, for Nehardea was Samuel's town, and in Nehardea they closed the prescribed lesson [of the Pentateuch] with [a reading from] the Hagiographa at minhah on the Sabbath?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a Haftarah (q.v. Glos.) after the Reading of the Law: so Jast. V. Rashi; cf. supra 24a. [Aliter: They expounded a part of Scripture from the Hagiographa etc. V. Bacher, Terminologie s.v. trsx ');">¹¹</span> Rather if stated it was thus stated: Rab said, They learnt this only in the place of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>; but we may read [them] elsewhere than in the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>. While Samuel said: Whether in the place of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i> or elsewhere, at the time of the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., when the public lectures are given. ');">¹²</span>

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