Reference for Shabbat 95:13
מתקיף לה רב כהנא
here he is particular about it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence he is likely to wring it. ');"><sup>12</sup></span> [NOR WITH] STRAW. R. Adda b. Mattenah asked Abaye: Is it permissible to handle flocking in which one stored [food]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Normally they may not be handled; the question is whether this use converts it into a 'utensil' which may be handled on the Sabbath. ');"><sup>13</sup></span> Said he to him: Because he lacks a bundle of straw, does he arise and renounce a bundle of soft flocking?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Where possible straw is used, because it is cheaper. When one must use rags, he does not on that account renounce them, i.e., declare that they have no value in his eyes save for that purpose, but they remain independent, as it were, just as before they were so used: hence they may not be handled. ');"><sup>14</sup></span> — Shall we say that the following supports him: We may store [food] in wool clip, hatchelled wool, strips of purple [wool],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] is translated purple in E.V. (Ex. XXV, 4). But this was an extremely costly dye, and its proposed use here for storing food shows that such is not meant. It is rather a scarlet red dye, more brilliant than purple but not so enduring; v. T.A. I, 146f. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> and flocking, but they may not be handled? — As for that, it is no proof: this may be its meaning: if one did not store [food] in them, they may not be handled. If so, why state it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In their present state they cannot be used, hence they certainly do not rank as 'utensils'. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> — You might say, They are fit for reclining:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that they are utensils. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> hence we are told [otherwise]. R. Hisda permitted stuffing to be replaced in a pillow on the Sabbath. R. Hanan b. Hisda objected to R. Hisda: The neck [of a shirt] may be undone on the Sabbath,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When it is returned by the launderer, who generally tied the neck up. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> but may not be opened;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first time after it is sewn. This opening makes it fit for wear and thus finishes its work. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> nor may flocking be put into a pillow or a bolster on a Festival, and on the Sabbath it goes without saying? — There is no difficulty: one refers to new ones, the other to old ones.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A pillow etc., must not be stuffed for the first time, as that is part of its manufacture; but if the stuffing falls out, it may be replaced. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> It was taught likewise: Flocking may not be put into a pillow or a bolster on the Festival, and on the Sabbath it need not be stated; if it falls out, it may be replaced [even] on the Sabbath, while on Festivals it goes without saying. Rab Judah said in Rab's name: One who opens the neck [of a shirt] on the Sabbath incurs a sin-offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. n. 1. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> R. Kahana objected: