Musar for Yevamot 12:5
מה ת"ל אי לרבי יוסי ללאו אי לר' נתן לחלק
is because] it might have been assumed that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra p. 22, n. 8. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> should be derived from the prohibition of kindling a fire [on the Sabbath]. For a Tanna of the School of R. Ishmael taught: Wherefore was it stated, Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your <i>habitations</i>?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXV, 3. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Commandment 115 prohibits the kindling of fire on the Sabbath, based on לא תבערו אש בכל מושבותיכם ביום השבת, which our sages (Yevamot 6) understand to mean that the penalty of death by burning must not be carried out on the Sabbath. The same ruling applies to all other kinds of death penalties. The מכילתא justifies the derivation of this ruling from our verse in the following words: "Making a fire on the Sabbath was included in the general prohibiton of work on the Sabbath and was singled out to teach that just as burning is one of the categories of death penalties which the Torah has legislated but which does not override the Sabbath, so also the other types of death penalties do not override the Sabbath."
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