Quotation for Shabbat 215:9
לסוף עייליה שמואל לביתיה אוכליה נהמא דשערי וכסא דהרסנא ואשקייה שיכרא ולא אחוי ליה בית הכסא כי היכי דלישתלשל לייט רב ואמר מאן דמצערן לא לוקמוה ליה בני וכן הוה:
Subsequently Samuel took him into his house, gave him barley bread and a fish pie to eat, and strong liquor to drink,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All this he gave him to act as a laxative. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> but did not show him the privy, that he might be eased.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This, too, was part of the treatment. Samuel was a doctor. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> Rab cursed, saying, He who causes me pain, may no sons arise from him — And thus it was.
Mishnah Kelim
The following vessels protect their contents when they have a tightly fitting cover: those made of cattle dung, of stone, of clay, of earthenware, of sodium carbonate, of the bones of a fish or of its skin, or of the bones of any animal of the sea or of its skin, and wooden vessels that are always clean. They protect whether the covers close their mouths or their sides, whether they stand on their bottoms or lean on their sides. If they were turned over with their mouths downwards they afford protection to all that is beneath them to the nethermost deep. Rabbi Eliezer declares this unclean. These protect everything, except that an earthen vessel protects only foods, liquids and earthen vessels.
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