Commentary for Shabbat 77:8

אמר רב חסדא

But on the view that it is because he may move earth from its place, what can be said?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That does not apply here; why did they forbid it? ');">¹⁹</span> — Do you think that the incident of Tiberias refers to the second clause?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The prohibition of putting an egg in hot sand, etc. ');">²⁰</span> It refers to he first clause: ONE MUST NOT BREAK IT INTO A [HOT] CLOTH; BUT R. JOSE PERMITS IT; and the Rabbis argued thus with R. Jose: but in the incident of the people of Tiberias, it was a sun-heated object,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He thought that the thermal springs were hot through the sun, ');">²¹</span> yet the Rabbis forbade it? That was a product of fire, he retorted, because they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The springs. ');">²²</span> pass over the entrance to Gehenna.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And are heated by the fires of hell! On Gehenna v. p. 153, n. 8. [Maim. Mishnah Commentary Nega'im IX, 1: It is said that the springs (of Tiberias) are hot because they pass a sulphur source.] ');">²³</span> R. Hisda said:

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