Jewish%20thought for Shabbat 263:7
אלא מעתה תפילין דכתיב בהן אות לידחי שבת
An objection is raised: How do we know that the saving of life supersedes the Sabbath? R. Eleazar b. 'Azariah said: If circumcision, which is [performed on but] one of the limbs of man, supersedes the Sabbath, the saving of life, a minori, must supersede the Sabbath. Now if you think that it is a traditional law, can one argue a minori from a traditional law? Surely it was taught, R. Eleazar said to him: Akiba! [That] a bone [of a corpse] the size of a barley grain defiles<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A nazirite by its touch, and he must commence again (cf. Num, VI, 9-12). ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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