Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 100:18

אמר. ליה רב מרדכי לרבא מתיב רב קטינא תיובתא הטומן לפת וצנונות תחת הגפן אם היה מקצת עליו מגולים אינו חושש

we may not replace [the pot].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because we thereby move the shearings. ');">¹⁷</span> We learnt: BUT THE SAGES SAY: ONE MAY TAKE AND REPLACE [IT]. What are the circumstances? If the cavity is not disordered, the Rabbis [surely] say well?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' There can be no reason for prohibiting its return. ');">¹⁸</span> Hence it must mean even if the cavity becomes disordered!-No. In truth, it means that the cavity was not disordered, but here they differ as to whether we fear. One Master holds: We fear lest the cavity become disordered;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If one is permitted to remove the pot without tilting the basket on one side, we fear that he might replace it even if the walls of the cavity happened to collapse. ');">¹⁹</span> while the other Master holds: We do not fear. R. Hana said: With respect to selikustha,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A fragrant plant used after meals in place of burnt spices (Jast.). it was removed from its pot earth, its fragrance inhaled, and then put back. ');">²⁰</span> if one put it in, drew it out, and put it in again,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before the Sabbath, thus loosening the earth around it. ');">²¹</span> it is permitted;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To remove it from the pot and replace it on the Sabbath. ');">²²</span> if not, it is forbidden. Samuel said: As regards the knife between the rows of bricks,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where it was inserted for safety (Rashi). ');">²³</span> — if one inserted it, withdrew it, and reinserted it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. n. 3. ');">²⁴</span> it is permitted; if not, it is forbidden. Mar Zutra-others state R. Ashi-said: Yet it is well [to insert a knife] between the branches of a reed hedge.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The branches spreading from a common stem (Jast.). We do not fear that in removing it he may scrape off the peel of the reeds, which is forbidden. ');">²⁵</span> R. Mordecai said to Raba, R. Kattina raised an objection: if one stores turnips or radishes under a vine, provided some of their leaves are uncovered, he need have no fear

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