Commentary for Shabbat 94:12

לעולם אימא לך לענין הטמנה דשומשמין נמי אסור לענין

SALT, LIME, OR SAND, WHETHER MOIST OR DRY; NOR IN STRAW, GRAPE-SKINS, SOFT FLOCKING<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., rags, wool, etc. ');">¹⁰</span> OR HERBAGE, WHEN THEY ARE MOIST; BUT WE MAY STORE [FOOD] IN THEM WHEN THEY ARE DRY. <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. The scholars propounded: Did we learn, peat of olives, whereas peat of poppy seed is well; or perhaps we learnt peat of poppy seed, and how much more so of olives? — Come and hear: For R. Zera said on the authority of one of the disciples of the School of R. Jannai: A basket in which one put away [food]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the Sabbath, to preserve its heat. ');">¹¹</span> may not be placed on peat of olives. This proves that we learnt peat of olives!-[No.] After all I may tell you that in respect of storing [peat] of poppy seed too is forbidden; [but] as for

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