Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 93:4

בהא פליגי מר סבר שבות קרובה התירו שבות רחוקה לא התירו ומר סבר שבות רחוקה נמי התירו

Then according to R'Simeon B'Gamaliel, who said on the authority of R'Simeon the son of the Segan:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 14a, p. 62, n. 1.');">⁷</span> It overrides the Festival, but it does not override the fast-day,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. the baking of the shewbread. The Fast-day is the Day of Atonement.');">⁸</span> what is to be said?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why may it not be baked on the Festival? Tosaf.: On my view, says Rabbah, there is no difficulty, as I maintain that this is precisely the point of the controversy: the first Tanna holds that the requirements of the Sabbath may not be prepared on a Festival, while R. Simeon b. Gamaliel holds that they may be prepared. But on your view that the first Tanna too holds that the requirements of the Sabbath may be prepared on a Festival, but that here it is forbidden as a distant shebuth, R. Simeon b. Gamaliel should merely state that even a distant Shebuth is permitted.');">⁹</span>

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