Commentary for Shabbat 48:9

רב אשי אמר (שבת) (ויקרא כג, ג) שבתון

FOR THE HONOUR OF THE SABBATH; BUT THE SAGES PERMIT IT WITH ALL OILS; WITH SESAME OIL, NUT OIL, RADISH OIL, FISH OIL, GOURD OIL, ITRAN AND NAPHTHA. R. TARFON SAID: ONE MAY LIGHT [IT] WITH OLIVE OIL, ONLY. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. What is the reason? — Because sacred [commodities] may not be burnt on Festivals.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 23b. ');">¹⁶</span> Whence do we know it? — Said Hezekiah, and the School of Hezekiah taught likewise: And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning [ye shall burn with fire]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XII, 10. The reference is to the Passover sacrifice. ');">¹⁷</span> now [the second] until the morning' need not be stated. What then is the teaching of, until the morning'? Scripture comes to appoint the second morning for its burning.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' i.e., the sixteenth of the month, which was not a Festival, v. p. 105, n. 2. This shows that its burning on the Festival is forbidden. ');">¹⁸</span> Abaye said: Scripture saith, 'the burnt-offering of the Sabbath [shall be burnt] on its Sabbath',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVIII, 10. This is the literal translation of the verse; the E.V. is not so true to the original. ');">¹⁹</span> but not the burnt-offering of weekdays on the Sabbath, nor the burnt-offering of weekdays on Festivals.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., the animal sacrificed before the Sabbath or a Festival is not to be burnt the following evening. Hence sacrifices and sacred food in general, if unfit, may a minori not be burnt on Festivals. ');">²⁰</span> Raba said, Scripture saith, [no manner of work shall be done on them, save that which every man must eat,] that only may be done of you:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' With reference to festivals. Ex. XII, 16. ');">²¹</span> 'that', but not its preliminaries;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., one may roast meat, but not construct an oven or make a spit for the roasting. ');">²²</span> 'only', but not circumcision out of its proper time, which might [otherwise] be inferred a minori.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A child is circumcised on the Sabbath if it is the eighth day after birth (Lev. XII, 3), but not otherwise. This is deduced from 'alone', which is a limitation. But for this one could infer a minori (v. infra 132b) that it is permissible. Thus we learn that when an act need not be done on a particular day, it may not be done on the Sabbath or Festivals, and the same applies to the burning of defiled sacred food. ');">²³</span> R. Ashi said: on the first day shall be a solemn rest [Sabbathon]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXIII, 39. ');">²⁴</span>

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