י אמר רבא האי מאן דעבר אדרבנן שרי למיקרי ליה עבריינא כמאן
10 When the matter came before the Sages, they said: Even if the warm water is not covered with boards.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is permitted. ');"><sup>15</sup></span> But when transgressors grew in number, they began forbidding it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A steam bath on Sabbath. ');"><sup>16</sup></span> One may stroll through the baths of large cities and need have no fear.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He may stroll through, not to sweat, and need not fear that he will be suspected of an unlawful purpose. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> What is [this reference to] transgressors? For R. Simeon b. Pazzi said in the name of R. Joshua b. Levi on the authority of Bar Kappara: At first people used to wash in pit water heated on the eve of the Sabbath; then bath attendants began to heat the water on the Sabbath, maintaining that it was done on the eve of the Sabbath. So [the use of] hot water was forbidden, but sweating was permitted. Yet still they used to bathe in hot water and maintain, We were perspiring. So sweating was forbidden, yet the thermal springs of Tiberias were permitted. Yet they bathed in water heated by fire and maintained, We bathed in the thermal springs of Tiberias. So they forbade the hot springs of Tiberias but permitted cold water. But when they saw that this [series of restriction] could not stand,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They could not be enforced, being regarded as too onerous for the masses. ');"><sup>18</sup></span> they permitted the hot springs of Tiberias, whilst sweating remained in status quo.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Forbidden. — It is not clear whether these subterfuges were resorted to because the Rabbis might punish non-observance, or because public opinion condemned the open desecration of the Sabbath, even in respect of Rabbinical enactments. ');"><sup>19</sup></span> Raba said: He who violates [even) a Rabbinical enactment, may be stigmatized a transgressor.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without fear of proceedings for libel. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> According to whom?