Commentary for Shabbat 83:6

מי סברת רבי שמעון אסיפא קאי ארישא קאי ובית הלל מתירין בין חמין לתוך צונן ובין צונן לתוך החמין ורבי שמעון בן מנסיא אוסר צונן לתוך חמין לימא רבי שמעון בן מנסיא דאמר כב"ש הכי קאמר לא נחלקו ב"ש וב"ה בדבר זה

R. Joseph thought to rule: A basin is as a bath. Said Abaye to him, R. Hiyya taught: A basin is not as a bath. Now, on the original supposition that it is as a bath, while R. Nahman ruled, The <i>halachah</i> is as R. Simeon, can there be no washing in hot water on the Sabbath?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: even if heated on the eve of the Sabbath, cold water must be added to temper its heat, which according to R. Simeon b. Menassia is forbidden. ');">¹⁴</span> — Do you think that R. Simeon refers to the second clause? He refers to the first clause: 'While Beth Hillel maintain: Both hot into cold and cold into hot are permitted';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference being to a cup, not a bath, as stated. ');">¹⁵</span> but R. Simeon b. Menassia forbids even cold into hot. Shall we say that R. Simeon b. Menassia rules as Beth Shammai?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely not, for it is axiomatic that the halachah is always as Beth Hillel. ');">¹⁶</span>

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