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'''tractate Shabbat''' in the Babylonian Talmud contains 24 chapters and 156 pages. | |||
The Mesechta deals with the laws of Shabbat including: carrying in and out, lighting Shabbat candles, leaving food on the fire and insulating it, liability for unintentional work on Shabbat, and the laws of the 39 melachos. | The Mesechta deals with the laws of Shabbat including: carrying in and out, lighting Shabbat candles, leaving food on the fire and insulating it, liability for unintentional work on Shabbat, and the laws of the 39 melachos. | ||
This | This tractate is one of the Gemara tractates studied in Chabad yeshivas. | ||
== Explanations in the Tractate == | == Explanations in the Tractate == | ||
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Pouring hot water into cold water is a halachic question regarding whether it is permitted to pour hot water into cold water in a way that causes the cold water to become boiling through the mixing. This is discussed in the books of the Tzemach Tzedek regarding pouring hot water onto cold tea remnants. | Pouring hot water into cold water is a halachic question regarding whether it is permitted to pour hot water into cold water in a way that causes the cold water to become boiling through the mixing. This is discussed in the books of the Tzemach Tzedek regarding pouring hot water onto cold tea remnants. | ||
The source of the doubt is in the words of the Mishnah: | The source of the doubt is in the words of the Mishnah:<blockquote>"If one removed a kettle (from the fire), one may not put cold water into it to heat it, but one may put (cold water) into it or into a cup to make it lukewarm." — Shabbat Chapter 3, 5</blockquote>The Gemara (42a) further states: "Our Rabbis taught: One may put hot water into cold water but not cold water into hot water - these are the words of Beis Shammai. But Beis Hillel say: Whether hot into cold or cold into hot is permitted. When is this said? In a cup, but in a bathtub - hot into cold but not cold into hot. And Rabbi Shimon ben Menasia forbids." | ||
"If one removed a kettle (from the fire), one may not put cold water into it to heat it, but one may put (cold water) into it or into a cup to make it lukewarm." — Shabbat Chapter 3, 5 | |||
The Gemara (42a) further states: "Our Rabbis taught: One may put hot water into cold water but not cold water into hot water - these are the words of Beis Shammai. But Beis Hillel say: Whether hot into cold or cold into hot is permitted. When is this said? In a cup, but in a bathtub - hot into cold but not cold into hot. And Rabbi Shimon ben Menasia forbids." | |||
== Measuring on Shabbat == | == Measuring on Shabbat == | ||
The Gemara in '''Masechet Shabbat''' relates: | The Gemara in '''Masechet Shabbat''' relates:<blockquote>"Ulla came to the house of the Reish Galuta, and saw Rabbah bar Rav Huna sitting in a tub of water measuring it. He said to him, 'The Rabbis permitted measuring for a mitzvah, but did they permit measuring not for a mitzvah?' He replied, 'I am merely occupied casually.'"</blockquote>Regarding this Gemara, the Rebbe said that one can ask a "klatz kashya" (obvious question). Although this is not the typical learning style in yeshivas, since "all your deeds should be for the sake of Heaven," how could Rabbah bar Rav Huna conduct himself in such a way - sitting on Shabbat in a tub full of water and explain it as "merely being occupied"? | ||
"Ulla came to the house of the Reish Galuta, and saw Rabbah bar Rav Huna sitting in a tub of water measuring it. He said to him, 'The Rabbis permitted measuring for a mitzvah, but did they permit measuring not for a mitzvah?' He replied, 'I am merely occupied casually.'" | |||
Regarding this Gemara, the Rebbe said that one can ask a "klatz kashya" (obvious question). Although this is not the typical learning style in yeshivas, since "all your deeds should be for the sake of Heaven," how could Rabbah bar Rav Huna conduct himself in such a way - sitting on Shabbat in a tub full of water and explain it as "merely being occupied"? | |||
And if you say he did it for the sake of Heaven, he could have answered this to Ulla, who himself said that measuring for a mitzvah was permitted by Chazal. | And if you say he did it for the sake of Heaven, he could have answered this to Ulla, who himself said that measuring for a mitzvah was permitted by Chazal. | ||
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In Chapter 8 Halacha 1, it explains that a certain matronita asked Rabbi Yehuda why his face was particularly radiant, and he answered her: "A person's wisdom illuminates his face." The Rebbe asks why they needed to tell this through the testimony of the matronita - surely his students noticed this. The Rebbe explains that the Gemara emphasizes that a person's wisdom needs to illuminate his face in such a way that even a non-Jew would notice it. | In Chapter 8 Halacha 1, it explains that a certain matronita asked Rabbi Yehuda why his face was particularly radiant, and he answered her: "A person's wisdom illuminates his face." The Rebbe asks why they needed to tell this through the testimony of the matronita - surely his students noticed this. The Rebbe explains that the Gemara emphasizes that a person's wisdom needs to illuminate his face in such a way that even a non-Jew would notice it. | ||
== The Rebbe's Explanations == | ==== The Rebbe's Explanations ==== | ||
* '''14a.''' Naked without that mitzvah. Likkutei Sichos Vol. 23 p. 141 (p. 156) | * '''14a.''' Naked without that mitzvah. Likkutei Sichos Vol. 23 p. 141 (p. 156) | ||
* '''21b.''' And when they were victorious - Dispute between Rambam and Meiri regarding the time of victory. Likkutei Sichos Vol. 30 Bereishis p. 204 (p. 217) | * '''21b.''' And when they were victorious - Dispute between Rambam and Meiri regarding the time of victory. Likkutei Sichos Vol. 30 Bereishis p. 204 (p. 217) | ||
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== Chabad Rebbeim's Novellae == | == Chabad Rebbeim's Novellae == | ||
* The Tzemach Tzedek, " | * The Tzemach Tzedek, "tractate Shabbos", Tzemach Tzedek on Shas, Brooklyn, 1995, pages 32-62, on HebrewBooks | ||
* Collection of novellae and explanations in revealed Torah and Chassidus on | * Collection of novellae and explanations in revealed Torah and Chassidus on tractate Shabbos by the Rebbe, edited by Hatamim (now Rabbi) Avraham HaKohen Hendel - 1998 | ||
== Additional Reading == | == Additional Reading == | ||
* HaOtzar HaChadash, review of Rabbi Levin's book, Kfar Chabad Weekly 1920 page 57 | * HaOtzar HaChadash, review of Rabbi Levin's book, Kfar Chabad Weekly 1920 page 57 | ||
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