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Topics covered: To be liable for carrying or throwing on Shabbos, one must first make a valid taking and finish with a valid placing of the object. If one draws water from water, or pours water into water, one …
Topics covered: The top of a rock ten handbreadths high and four handbreadths wide is its own private domain and one is liable for carrying onto it on Shabbos. Likewise a pit with a bank ten handbreadths high, even …
Topics covered: Throwing an object from public domain to public domain through a private domain. The stringent prohibition on passing an object from private domain to private domain across the pblic domain, despite the fact that one who thows …
Topics covered: Rabbi Akiva says a person is liable for violating the Torah prohibition of carrying on Shabbat if he throws an object from one balcony (private domain) to another balcony (private domain) over the street (public domain). The …
Topics covered: We may not throw an object from a private domain to a public domain and vice versa on Shabbos. Throwing from private domain to private domain does not result in liability to bring a sin offering, but …
Topics covered: No braiding hair on Shabbos, which we learn from the Holy One, for Whom the acme of the whole creation was Eve, and the final touch was braiding her hair. In this case, braiding is a rabbinic …
Topics covered: Vessel secondary to what’s in it for purposes of carrying on Shabbos. A bed with a living, awake person on it can be carried out, but a bed with a corpse on it, or with nothing on …
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