Responsa for Shabbat 266:15
פשיטא מדקא מחללי עליה שבתא סכנה הוא מהו דתימא האי דם מיפקד פקיד קמ"ל חבורי מיחבר
R. Ashi demurred: Of an adult it is explicitly stated, and the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, [that soul shall be cut off from his people]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVII, 14; v. p. 665, n. 1. Why then state it here? ');"><sup>28</sup></span> Rather said R. Ashi: In truth it means the surgeon: e.g., if he came at twilight on the Sabbath, and they warned him, 'you have no time,'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To perform the whole (if the circumcision before the day ends. ');"><sup>29</sup></span>
Binyan Tziyon
That which you have written, namely, that you treat as forbidden wine that has been touched by a Jew who publicly desecrates Shabbat as he is an apostate against the entire Torah, proving this assertion from Responsa Mabit as cited in Nekudot Ha-kesef on Yoreh De’ah (124:2), which forbids the drinking of wine touched by Karaites as they desecrate the festivals, which makes them tantamount to Shabbat desecrators—indeed, there is someone who disputes this, and you therefore ask me for my opinion in this matter.
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