ט החושש במתניו כו': אמר ר' אבא בר זבדא אמר רב הלכה כר' שמעון למימרא דרב כר' שמעון סבירא ליה והאמר רב שימי בר חייא משמיה דרב האי מסוכרייא דנזייתא
9 HE MUST NOT SIP VINEGAR THROUGH THEM. But it was taught, He must not sip and eject, yet he may sip and swallow? — Said Abaye, When we learnt our Mishnah we too learnt of sipping and ejecting. Raba said, You may even say [that it refers to] sipping and swallowing: the one holds good before the dipping, the other after the dipping.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bread dipped in vinegar was eaten before meals. Before one has done this he may sip vinegar for his tooth, as it merely looks like a substitute for soaked bread. But if he has already eaten, he is obviously sipping it now as a remedy only. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> But let us say, Since it is permitted before the dipping, it is permitted after the dipping too,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For a thing cannot be permitted during one portion of the Sabbath and forbidden during the other. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> for we know that Raba accepts this argument.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'he accepts " since"'.="" ');"=""><sup>24</sup></span> For Raba said: There is nothing which is permitted on the Sabbath and forbidden on the Day of Atonement:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the matter of labour. ');"><sup>25</sup></span> since it is permitted on the Sabbath, it is permitted on the Day of Atonement too? He retracted from the present statement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. that which differentiates between before and after dipping. ');"><sup>26</sup></span> How do you know that he retracted from, this statement: perhaps he retracted from the other? — You cannot think so, For it was taught: All who are obliged to perform tebillah may do so in the normal way, both on the ninth of Ab and on the Day of Atonement.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was in reference to this that Raba stated that what is permitted on the Sabbath is permitted on the Day of Atonement, and he is supported by a Baraitha. ');"><sup>27</sup></span> IF ONES LOINS PAIN HIM, etc. R. Abba b. Zabda said in Rab's name: The <i>halachah</i> is as R. Simeon. Shall we say that Rab holds with R. Simeon?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., with his lenient rulings relating to the Sabbath. ');"><sup>28</sup></span> Surely R. Simeon son of R. Hiyya said in Rab's name: The stopper of the brewing vat<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which beer is kept during the process of brewing. The stopper was made of soft materials, such as rags, wound round the bung. ');"><sup>29</sup></span>