Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 76:8

אמר ליה רב אחא בריה דרבא לרב אשי האי כופח היכי דמי אי ככירה דמי אפילו בגפת ובעצים נמי אי כתנור דמי אפילו בקש ובגבבא נמי לא אמר ליה נפיש הבליה מדכירה וזוטר הבליה מדתנור

<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. IF AN OVEN WAS HEATED: R. Joseph thought to explain INSIDE AND ON TOP literally, but as for leaning [a pot against it], that is well. Abaye objected to him: IF A KUPPAH WAS HEATED WITH STUBBLE OR RAKINGS, IT IS LIKE A DOUBLE STOVE; WITH PEAT OR TIMBER, IT IS LIKE AN OVEN, and is forbidden. Hence if it were like a [double] stove, it would be permitted. To what is the reference: Shall we say, on its top? Then under what circumstance? Shall we say that it is not swept or covered with ashes? Is the top of a stove permitted when it is not swept or covered with ashes? Hence it must surely mean to lean against it; yet it is taught, IT IS LIKE AN OVEN, and forbidden? — Said R. Adda b. Ahabah: Here the reference is to a kuppah that is swept or covered with ashes, and an oven that is swept or covered with ashes: IT IS LIKE AN OVEN, in that though it is swept or covered with ashes, the top is forbidden; for if it were like a [double] stove, if swept or covered with ashes, it would be well.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., permitted. ');">¹¹</span> It was taught in accordance with Abaye: If an oven is heated with stubble or rakings, one may not lean [a pot, etc.,] against it, and [placing on] the top goes without saying,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it is forbidden. ');">¹²</span>

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