Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 186:8

<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> ת"ר המוציא אוכלין כשיעור אם בכלי חייב על האוכלין ופטור על הכלי ואם היה כלי צריך לו חייב אף על הכלי שמע מינה אוכל שני זיתי חלב בהעלם אחד חייב שתים אמר רב ששת הכא במאי עסקינן כגון

Hence nothing can be inferred from this. A tanna<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. s.v. (b). ');">¹⁶</span> recited before R. Nahman: If two carry out a weaver's cane, they are not culpable; but R. Simeon declares them culpable. Whither does this tend!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e.. surely R. Simeon rules in the opposite direction, that if two perform an action, even if each is unable to do it separately, they are exempt. Jast. translates: towards the tail! i.e., reverse it. ');">¹⁷</span> — Rather say, They are culpable, while R. Simeon exempts [them]. <b><i>MISHNAH</i></b>. IF ONE CARRIES OUT LESS THAN THE STANDARD QUANTITY OF FOOD IN A UTENSIL, HE IS NOT CULPABLE EVEN IN RESPECT OF THE UTENSIL, BECAUSE THE UTENSIL IS SUBSIDIARY THERETO. [IF ONE CARRIES OUT] A LIVING PERSON IN A BED, HE IS NOT CULPABLE EVEN IN RESPECT OF THE BED, BECAUSE THE BED IS SUBSIDIARY TO HIM;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Carrying a living person is not a culpable offense, v. infra 94a. ');">¹⁸</span> A CORPSE IN A BED, HE IS CULPABLE. AND LIKEWISE [IF ONE CARRIES OUT] THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE OF A CORPSE, THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE OF A <i>NEBELAH</i>, OR THE SIZE OF A LENTIL OF A [DEAD] CREEPING THING [SHEREZ], HE IS CULPABLE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These are the respective minima which defile. Hence carrying them out of the house ranks as a labour of importance, since a source of contamination is thereby removed. ');">¹⁹</span> BUT R. SIMEON DECLARES HIM EXEMPT.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For carrying out a corpse, etc. For its purpose is merely negative, i.e., he does not wish to have the corpse in his house, but does not actually want it in the street; hence it is a labour unessential in itself, and which R. Simeon holds is not a culpable offence, though it is forbidden. ');">²⁰</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Our Rabbis taught: If one carries out foodstuffs of the standard quantity, if in a utensil, he is liable in respect of the foodstuffs and exempt in respect of the utensil! but if he needs the utensil, he is liable in respect of the utensil too.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus he is liable to two sacrifices. ');">²¹</span> Then this proves that if one eats two olive-sized pieces of heleb in one state of unawareness, he is liable to two [sacrifices]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely that is not so, yet the cases are analogous. ');">²²</span> Said R. Shesheth: What are we discussing here? E.g.,

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