Shabbat 114B

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כי הוינא בבבל הוה אמרינן: הא דתניא יום הכיפורים שחל להיות ערב שבת ⁠— לא היו תוקעין, ובמוצאי שבת ⁠— לא היו מבדילין, דברי הכל היא. כי סליקנא להתם, אשכחיתיה ליהודה בריה דרבי שמעון בן פזי דיתיב וקאמר: רבי עקיבא היא, דאי רבי ישמעאל, כיון דאמר חלבי שבת קריבין ביום הכיפורים, ליתקע, כי היכי דליהוי ידעי דחלבי שבת קריבין ביום הכיפורים. ואמינא ליה אנא: כהנים זריזין הן.

When I was in Babylonia, I said with regard to that which was taught in a baraita: If Yom Kippur occurred on Friday, they would not sound the shofar as they did every Friday to herald the start of Shabbat; and if Yom Kippur occurred at the conclusion of Shabbat, they would not recite havdala to mark the end of the sanctity of Shabbat and the start of the sanctity of Yom Kippur, is a statement accepted by all. When I went to Eretz Yisrael, I found Yehuda, son of R' Shimon ben Pazi, who sat and said: This baraita is in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, as it equates the sanctity of Yom Kippur with that of Shabbat. As, if you say that it is in accordance with the opinion of R' Yishmael, then, since R' Yishmael said that fats from Shabbat are offered on Yom Kippur, let them sound the shofar so that the priests will know that the fats from Shabbat are offered on Yom Kippur and they may begin offering them (Rav Hai Gaon). And I said to him: You cannot prove this from here, because priests are vigilant and can be trusted to know this on their own, and there is no need to sound the shofar.

אמר ליה מר קשישא בריה דרב חסדא לרב אשי: מי אמרינן כהנים זריזין הן? והתנן: שלש להבטיל את העם ממלאכה, שלש להבדיל בין קודש לחול. כדאמר אביי: לשאר עמא דבירושלם, הכא נמי לשאר עמא דבירושלם.

Mar Kashisha, the son of Rav Ḥisda, said to Rav Ashi: Do we say that priests are vigilant in that regard? Didn’t we learn in a Mishnah that 3 blasts were sounded in the Temple on Friday to stop the people from work, and 3 more were sounded to demarcate between sacred and profane? Apparently, even priests required the blasts to alert them to the beginning and end of Shabbat. The Talmud answers: As Abaye said in a different context, that certain matters were undertaken for the rest of the people in Jerusalem, so too here, these blasts were sounded for the rest of the people in Jerusalem and not for the priests.

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