חספניתא. מאי תקנתיה — לימשי טובא במיא דסילקא.
sores on his flesh. What is his remedy? Let him wash extensively in beet water, in which beets have been boiled.
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חספניתא. מאי תקנתיה — לימשי טובא במיא דסילקא.
sores on his flesh. What is his remedy? Let him wash extensively in beet water, in which beets have been boiled.
לא שחק מערב שבת. תנו רבנן: דברים שאין עושין למילה בשבת — עושין לה ביום טוב. שוחקין לה כמון, וטורפין לה יין ושמן.
We learned in the Mishnah: If one did not grind the cumin from Friday, he chews it with his teeth and places it on the place of circumcision as a salve. A baraita states: There are actions that may not be performed in preparation for a circumcision on Shabbat but may be performed in preparation for it on a Festival. For example: One grinds cumin for it, and one mixes wine and oil for it.
אמר ליה אביי לרב יוסף: מאי שנא כמון ביום טוב — דחזי לקדרה, יין ושמן חזי נמי בשבת לחולה, דתניא: אין טורפין יין ושמן לחולה בשבת. אמר רבי שמעון בן אלעזר משום רבי מאיר: אף טורפין יין ושמן.
Abaye said to Rav Yosef: What is different about cumin that makes it permissible to grind it on a Festival? The fact that it is suitable for use to spice a pot, in cooking. Based on that explanation, mixed wine and oil are also suitable for use on Shabbat for a sick person, as it was taught in a baraita: One may not mix wine and oil for a sick person on Shabbat. R' Shimon ben Elazar said in the name of R' Meir: One may even mix wine and oil on Shabbat.
אמר רבי שמעון בן אלעזר: פעם אחת חש רבי מאיר במעיו, ובקשנו לטרוף לו יין ושמן ולא הניחנו. אמרנו לו: דבריך יבטלו בחייך?! אמר לנו: אף על פי שאני אומר כך וחבירי אומרים כך — מימי לא מלאני לבי לעבור על דברי חבירי. הוא ניהו דמחמיר אנפשיה, אבל לכולי עלמא — שרי!
R' Shimon ben Elazar said: It happened on one occasion that R' Meir had intestinal pain on Shabbat, and we sought to mix wine and oil for him as treatment and he did not let us do so. We said to him: Will your statement be negated in your lifetime? You permit mixing these ingredients for a sick person. He said to us: Even though I say this and my colleagues say that, and I do not retract my statement, still, in all my days I have never been so presumptuous as to violate the statements of my colleagues and act in accordance with my opinion. Apparently, it was he who was stringent with regard to himself, but for everyone it is permitted.
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