Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Shabbat 166:9

אי נמי ספינת הירדן למ"ד אניה בלב ים היא הא נמי אניה בלב ים היא למ"ד מיטלטלת מלא וריקן הא נמי מיטלטלת מלא וריקן דא"ר חנינא בן עקביא מפני מה אמרו ספינת הירדן טמאה מפני שטוענים אותה ביבשה ומורידין אותה למים א"ר יהודה אמר רב לעולם אל ימנע אדם את עצמו מבית המדרש ואפי' שעה אחת שהרי כמה שנים נשנית משנה זו בבית המדרש ולא נתגלה טעמה עד שבא רבי חנינא בן עקביא ופירשה

just as a sack can be carried both full and empty, so must everything [which is to be susceptible to defilement] be possible to be carried both full and empty, thus excluding a ship, seeing that it cannot be carried full and empty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By 'carried' is meant actually as one carries a sack. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> Wherein do they differ? — They differ in respect to an earthen ship: he who quotes, 'a ship in the midst of the sea', [holds that] this too is in the midst of the sea. But as for him who maintains that it must be like a sack: only those [vessels] that are mentioned in conjunction with a sack<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Lev. XI, 32. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> if they can be carried full and empty, are [susceptible to uncleanness], if not, they are not [susceptible]; but an earthen ship, even if it cannot be carried full and empty, [is still susceptible to defilement]. Alternatively, [they differ in respect to] a boat of the Jordan:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Owing to the rapid course of the Jordan the boats that plied on it were of canoe-like structure, which could be taken up and carried over the unnavigable stretches. ');"><sup>24</sup></span>

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