Related%20passage for Bava Kamma 141:23

בשלמא למ"ד דאוריית' אמטו

It might [moreover] be thought that the prohibition extends even where prepared inadvertently, it is therefore stated: <i>Everyone that profaneth it shall surely be put to death</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXXI, 14. ');">³⁴</span> [as much as to say], I speak only of the case when it is done deliberately, but not when done inadvertently. R. Aha and R. Rabina differ in this matter. One said that whatever is [unlawfully] prepared on the Sabbath is forbidden on Scriptural authority whereas the other [Rabbi] said that whatever is [unlawfully] prepared on the Sabbath is forbidden on Rabbinic authority. He who said that it was on Scriptural authority bases his view on the exposition just stated, whereas he who said that it was on Rabbinic authority holds that when Scripture says, <i>'It is holy'</i>, it means that<i> it</i> itself<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the Sabbath itself. ');">³⁸</span> is holy, but that which is [unlawfully] prepared on it is not holy. Now I grant you that according to the view that the prohibition is based on Scriptural authority, the Rabbis because

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