Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 301:9

מאי רשות אמר רב יהודה אמר רב יצחק בריה דרב יהודה אם יש בה אדם חשוב שיש לו עשרה עבדים שמחממין לו י' קומקומין בבת אחת באמבטי קטנה מותר לרחוץ בה מיד:

[a man of authority],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jast.: a Roman official. ');">¹⁷</span> he [an Israelite] may bathe therein immediately. What is '[a man of] authority?' Said Rab Judah in the name of R. Isaac son of Rab Judah: If there is there an important personage who possesses ten slaves who heat ten kettles [of water] for him simultaneously, then if it is a small bath he [the Israelite] may bathe therein immediately.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As the water may have been thus prepared after the Sabbath. ');">¹⁸</span>

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