Related%20passage for Eruvin 54:12

וכיון דכתב רחמנא צאן דאפילו על גב גיזתה בבקר למה לי השתא צאן על גב גיזתה מיזדבנא בקר על גב עורו מיבעיא היינו דקאמר רבי יוחנן מאן דמתרגם לי בבקר אליבא דבן בג בג מובילנא מאניה לבי מסותא

Sit might have been assumed that by<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'what'.');">²⁸</span> 'strong drink' [was meant the purchase of] the pressed fig cakes of Keilah<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A town in the lowland district of Judea.');">²⁹</span> which are a fruit but not wine with its jar. And if the All Merciful had written 'wine' [to indicate that it may be purchased] together with its jar it might have been assumed [that the purchase of its jar only is permitted] since in this way only it can be preserved but not a sheep together with its wool; hence did the All Merciful write 'sheep'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Deut. XIV, 26.');">²⁶</span>

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