Study Shabbat folio 153B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
does not vacate its sanctified status and assume non-sacred status because his status with regard to halakhic intelligence is uncertain. According to R' Eliezer, a deaf-mute apparently has a degree of halakhic intelligence, and therefore has a greater obligation in mitzvot than a minor.
When you raise this dilemma, the issue is in accordance with the opinion of the Rabbis, as we learned in a Mishnah: There are 5 categories of people who may not separate teruma ab initio, and if they separated teruma, their teruma is not considered teruma. They are: A deaf-mute, an imbecile, and a
What should one do? Should he give it to the deaf-mute because the minor will eventually reach the stage of halakhic intelligence, when he will be obligated to observe the mitzvot, and it is preferable that he not become accustomed to desecrating Shabbat? Or perhaps he should give it to the minor,
The Talmud asks: If there is neither a non-Jew nor a donkey nor a deaf-mute nor an imbecile nor a minor there, what should one do? R' Yitzḥak said: There was another manner of dealing with this situation, and the rabbis did not want to reveal it. The Talmud asks: To what was R' Yitzḥak referring wh
The ruling that one should give his pouch to a non-Jew rather than carry in increments each less than 4 cubits was among the 18 decrees issued in accordance with the position of Beit Shammai, enumerated in the first chapter of tractate Shabbat. rabbis of later generations disagreed with regard to th