Commentary for Shabbat 267:2

לא שחק מערב שבת: תנו רבנן דברים שאין עושין למילה בשבת עושין לה ביו"ט שוחקין לה כמון וטורפין לה יין ושמן

then wine and oil too are fit for an invalid on the Sabbath? For it was taught: One may not beat up wine and oil for an invalid on the Sabbath. R. Simeon b. Eleazar said in R. Meir's name: One may indeed beat up wine and oil. R. Simeon b. Eleazar related, R. Meir was once suffering internally,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'in his bowels'. ');">³</span> and we wished to beat up wine and oil for him, but he would not permit us. Said we to him, Your words shall be made void in your own lifetime! Though I rule thus, he replied, yet my colleagues rule otherwise, [and] have never<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'throughout my days'. ');">⁴</span>

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