Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 221:9

החושש במתניו כו': אמר ר' אבא בר זבדא אמר רב הלכה כר' שמעון למימרא דרב כר' שמעון סבירא ליה והאמר רב שימי בר חייא משמיה דרב האי מסוכרייא דנזייתא

HE MUST NOT SIP VINEGAR THROUGH THEM. But it was taught, He must not sip and eject, yet he may sip and swallow? — Said Abaye, When we learnt our Mishnah we too learnt of sipping and ejecting. Raba said, You may even say [that it refers to] sipping and swallowing: the one holds good before the dipping, the other after the dipping.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bread dipped in vinegar was eaten before meals. Before one has done this he may sip vinegar for his tooth, as it merely looks like a substitute for soaked bread. But if he has already eaten, he is obviously sipping it now as a remedy only. ');">²²</span> But let us say, Since it is permitted before the dipping, it is permitted after the dipping too,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a thing cannot be permitted during one portion of the Sabbath and forbidden during the other. ');">²³</span> for we know that Raba accepts this argument.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he accepts " since"'.="" ');"="">²⁴</span> For Raba said: There is nothing which is permitted on the Sabbath and forbidden on the Day of Atonement:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the matter of labour. ');">²⁵</span> since it is permitted on the Sabbath, it is permitted on the Day of Atonement too? He retracted from the present statement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. that which differentiates between before and after dipping. ');">²⁶</span> How do you know that he retracted from, this statement: perhaps he retracted from the other? — You cannot think so, For it was taught: All who are obliged to perform tebillah may do so in the normal way, both on the ninth of Ab and on the Day of Atonement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was in reference to this that Raba stated that what is permitted on the Sabbath is permitted on the Day of Atonement, and he is supported by a Baraitha. ');">²⁷</span> IF ONES LOINS PAIN HIM, etc. R. Abba b. Zabda said in Rab's name: The <i>halachah</i> is as R. Simeon. Shall we say that Rab holds with R. Simeon?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., with his lenient rulings relating to the Sabbath. ');">²⁸</span> Surely R. Simeon son of R. Hiyya said in Rab's name: The stopper of the brewing vat<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which beer is kept during the process of brewing. The stopper was made of soft materials, such as rags, wound round the bung. ');">²⁹</span>

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