Shabbat 96B

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גמ׳ מכדי זריקה תולדה דהוצאה היא, הוצאה גופה היכא כתיבא? אמר רבי יוחנן, דאמר קרא: ״ויצו משה ויעבירו קול במחנה״, משה היכן הוה יתיב? במחנה לויה, ומחנה לויה רשות הרבים הואי, וקאמר להו לישראל: לא תפיקו ותיתו מרשות היחיד דידכו לרשות הרבים.

Talmud: With regard to the main issue, the Talmud asks: After all, throwing is a subcategory of carrying out. Where is the primary category of prohibited labor of carrying out itself written in the Torah? Isn’t it necessary to clarify the primary category before discussing the subcategory? R' Yoḥanan said: As the verse said: “And Moses commanded, and they passed a proclamation throughout the camp saying: Neither man nor woman should perform any more work to contribute to the Sanctuary; and the people stopped bringing” (Exodus 36:6). According to R' Yoḥanan, Moses commanded the people to cease bringing contributions in order to prevent them from bringing their contributions on Shabbat. He then explains: Where was Moses sitting? He was in the camp of the Levites, and the Levites’ camp was the public domain. And he said to Israel: Do not carry out and bring objects from the private domain, your camp, to the public domain, the camp of the Levites.

וממאי דבשבת קאי? דילמא בחול קאי, ומשום דשלימא לה מלאכה, כדכתיב: ״והמלאכה היתה דים וגו׳״?! גמר ״העברה״ ״העברה״ מיום הכפורים:

The Talmud asks: And how do you know that he was standing and commanding the people on Shabbat? Perhaps he was standing during the week, and Moses commanded the cessation of contributions because the labor of the Tabernacle was completed, since all the necessary material was already donated, as it is written: “And the work was sufficient for them for all of the work to perform it, and there was extra” (Exodus 36:7). Rather, derive this by means of a verbal analogy between passing mentioned in this context and passing mentioned with regard to Yom Kippur.

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