Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Shabbat 268:7

וכשהן מזלפין אין מזלפין לא בכוס ולא בקערה ולא בכלי אלא ביד אתאן לתנא קמא

Because an adult's flesh does not heal quickly, whereas an infant's does.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The verse quoted, q.v., treats of the former. ');"><sup>6</sup></span>

Jerusalem Talmud Shabbat

109This paragraph and the next really are not about Mishnah 9:3 but Mishnah 19:3, which is quoted in the first sentence. The text there was omitted by the scribe and added by the corrector, whose text (19) seems to be a copy of the text here, only slightly careless at the end. In addition to G, there also is a slightly enlarged version in Gen. rabba 80(8), on Gen. 43:25. We have stated: “One washes the baby.” It was stated in the House of (Rav) [Rebbi]110The text in (parentheses) is from the ms., the one in [brackets] from G and 19 seems to be the correct one; cf. Tosephta 15:4.: “One washes the circumcision.”111But not the entire body of a newly circumcised baby. Rebbi Abbahu in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Practice follows him who says, “one washes the baby”112Babli 134b.. Rebbi Yose said, you are forced to say, one washes the baby. 113All this is R. Yose’s argument that in Mishnah 19:3 one must state “the baby” since for “the circumcision” the statement would be superfluous. Samuel stated, one never witholds either oil or warm water from a wound on the Sabbath. Rebbi Yose said, my teacher Rebbi Zeˋira always was saying to me, state in your Mishnah, not only this but one sprinkles warm water on a wound on the Sabbath. If you are saying, “one washes the circumcision”, what is the difference between an adult and a baby?
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