Commentary for Zevachim 185:9
מ"ס דנין ומ"ס אין דנין
Rather said Abaye: All agree that it is not as though it lay thereon, but here they differ in this: R'Akiba holds that we enact a preventive measure, lest it lay thereon;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' We declare this vessel unclean, lest one think that even if it actually lay on the oven it is still clean. Sh.M. emends: lest one lay it (thereon) . - Thus the vessel (and, of course, its contents) are only Rabbinically unclean, but clean by Scriptural law.');"><sup>13</sup></span> while the Rabbis hold that we do not enact a preventive measure.
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