תלמוד על שבת 240:11

It was stated: If a light was lying on a table he takes away the table and the light falls down²⁰³Babli 120b.. Rebbi Joḥanan said, this one is close to be liable for a purification sacrifice; forwards for setting a fire, backwards for extinguishing²⁰⁴He is violating a biblical Sabbath commandment. If he tilts the table forward the oil will swamp the wick and the light will burn more brightly; if he tilts backward there will be less oil for the wick and it will burn less bright. The argument presupposes a text like the one quoted in the Babli: “If a light was lying on a table he shakes the table and the light falls down; if it was extinguished it was extinguished.” If the light is extinguished on the dirt floor (no danger of setting the house on fire) this is not his action but what happens during the tilting is his intended action.. Samuel bar Abba before Rebbi Yasa: when it was extinguished. He told him, may your mind be at rest²⁰⁵This is an abbreviated version of a talmudic saying, “may your mind be at rest for you put mine at rest.” He accepted the explanation (which would be impossible for the Babli’s version.) Naḥmanides (Novellae ad 120a) quoted by RAN (Commentary to Alfasi #454) prefers the Yerushalmi version to the Babli’s.. Where do we hold? If following Rebbi Meïr, even the table should be forbidden²⁰⁶Since the light was burning there at nightfall, the table is its necessary base and forbidden with the light.. If following Rebbi Simeon, even the light should be permitted²⁰⁷Since he permits the light to be moved after it burned out, so much more the table.. But here following Rebbi Jehudah, since Rebbi Jehudah says, a pottery light is disgusting, a table is not disgusting.