Quotation for Shabbat 186:2

ואמאי הא קא מסייע בהדי הדדי לאו משום דאמרינן מסייע אין בו ממש אמר רבינא אף אנן נמי תנינא קיבל בימין ושמאל מסייעתו עבודתו כשרה ואמאי הא קא מסייע בהדי הדדי לאו משום דאמרינן מסייע אין בו ממש ש"מ:

R. Ashi said, We too learnt this: R. Eliezer said: If one foot is on the utensil and the other on the pavement, one foot on the stone and the other on the pavement, we consider: wherever if the utensil or the stone be removed, he can stand on the other foot, his service is valid; if not, his service is invalid.3 Yet why so, seeing that they [the feet] help each other? Hence it must surely be because we say, helping is no concrete [act]. Rabina said, We too learnt this: If he [the priest] catches [the blood] with his right hand, while his left helps him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Catching the blood of a sacrifice for its subsequent sprinkling on the altar is part of the sacrificial service, and like all other parts thereof must be performed with the right hand. ');">4

Mishnah Zavim

If he sat on a bed and there were four cloaks under the four legs of the bed, all become unclean, since the bed cannot stand on three legs; But Rabbi Shimon declares them clean. If he rode on a beast and there were four cloaks under the legs of the beast, they are clean, since the beast can stand upon three legs. If there was one cloak under its two forelegs or its two hindlegs, or under a foreleg and a hindleg, it becomes unclean. Rabbi Yose says: a horse conveys uncleanness through its hindlegs and a donkey through its forelegs, since a horse leans upon its hindlegs and a donkey upon its forelegs. If he sat on a beam of an olive-press, the vessels in the olive-press receptacle are unclean. [If he sat] on a clothing press, the garments beneath it are clean. Rabbi Nehemiah declares them unclean.

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