Ariel, your Representative an Israeli Jew on the Har HaBait,
invite all the Lost Sheep from the House of Israel to start their National Teshuva by becoming a member of Beit Ya’aqov International. And start with proud to carry your special: National Ephraim Identity Cart!
Beit Ya’aqov International is NOT an organization as the many that we have under Ephraim. But it is the first Ephraim Agency in history! And her desire is to become the ‘administration’ for all the Lost Sheep from the House of Israel. A nation again! First in the diaspora, until she is power full enough to establish her nation near, outside, the Israeli borders, in Eretz Israel (!), for the protection of herself and the Jewish nation. All I ask:
Please Ephraim do the National Teshuva let the sound of the Great Shofar go on until the Kingdom of Elohim is established?
That we proclaim it again as Hizqiyahu:
Isa 37:15-16 And Ḥizqiyahu prayed to יהוה, saying,
16 “O יהוה of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, the One who dwells between the keruḇim, You are Elohim, You alone, of all the reigns of the earth. You have made the heavens and earth.
This ‘call’ for a National Teshuva is for all the Jews from Israel and Ephraim from Israel together.
The National Teshuva is to rebuilt His Temple: ‘the great Shofar that shall be blown on that day……’:
Isa 27:12-13 And in that day it shall be that יהוה threshes, from the channel of the River (Euphrates) to the wadi of Mitsrayim. And you shall be gathered one by one1, O children of Yisra’ĕl. Footnote: 1Jer. 3:14-15.
13 And in that day it shall be that a great horn is blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Ashshur (Today from Syria all the way unto China and from Syria via Egypt to the South of Nigeria [concentrated] and from Syria spread over the whole world) and the outcasts in the land of Mitsrayim shall come, and shall worship יהוה on the set-apart mountain (Har HaBait), in Yerushalayim.
Rabbi Abraham Ben Ya’aqov on Isaiah 27: 13 ‘” And on that day a great shofar shall be blown… “(v 13). The “great shofar” alludes to the spirit of prophecy that will come into the world in the final redemption to signal to the lost souls that the time of the in-gathering has arrived. The prophet promises that in the final redemption all of the lost members of Israel will be gathered in from all their places of exile in order to worship God on the Temple Mount.’
Yes:
Jer 31:9 “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕl, and Ephrayim – he is My first-born.
It is your job as the First-born Ephraim (the urge/Voice of Messiah in you):
Let we All come strong together united in:
Let we all approach ‘pharaoh’ (Israeli government and Islam on The Har HaBait!) and ask them:
‘Please let us Pray and let us bring His Corbanot in the way HaShem teach us?’ All together in one voice!
Ask and stay on asking (really NOT fighting only asking!) until they give ‘permission’……. Don’t stop asking!
It is a fact!
Jer 23:22 “But if they (all Israel) had stood in My counsel (In 1967!), then they would have let My people hear My Words, and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds………
2Ch 7:14 and My people upon whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face (On the Har HaBait!), and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land.
HaShem is healing your Land! Amalek and His Ismaelite friends are losing in Eretz Israel……! But shall go on with their friends, slaughtering and raping in Europe and the United States.
Please when do you ‘humble yourselves, and pray and seek My face’ and unite in real Teshuvah with the Love of HaShem for each other? And built you righteous nation in, around/outside the Jewish State, Eretz Israel? To defend yourselves and the Jewish nation, from Amalek and his friends.
Hashem’s promise:
Eze 36:37-38 ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Once again I shall let the house of Yisra’ĕl inquire of Me to do for them: I shall increase their men like a flock.
38 “As a set-apart flock (Through a National Teshuva!), as the flock at Yerushalayim at her appointed times, so shall the wasted cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am יהוה.”’”
Please wake up?
Yaʽaqoḇ 1:1 Yaʽaqoḇ, a servant of Elohim and of the Master יהושע Messiah, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Greetings.
Isa 48:20 “Come out of Baḇel (diaspora)! Flee from the Chaldeans (Muslims and their friends)! Declare this with a voice of singing, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth! Say, ‘יהוה has redeemed His servant Yaʽaqoḇ!’
Don’t count on any government! All governments are ‘infiltrated’ with people who ‘work’ on ‘forming’ a new world order (dictatorship) WITHOUT Messiah and His Divine demand Deu 30: 1-20 (Dev/Deu 30: 1-20 the base of the Constitution of Beit Ya’aqov International)!
You need to have a government who ACCEPT Messiah with His Divine demand: Deu 30: 1-20 (Dev/Deu 30: 1-20 the base of the Constitution of Beit Ya’aqov International)!
Beit Ya’aqov International is in need of wise and intelligent people who accept Messiah with His Divine Demand and like to build the different infra structures that this Nation, of the Lost Sheep from the House of Israel need. No more in the ways of the world….. click:
Call for an international committee of wise people to form a government for the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel and all their friends.
All governments shall fall when Messiah with His Divine Demand becomes STRONG, more and more, in you. And you yourself become lessor……..
If you are a Lost Jew or from the Lost of Israel and suffer already many years for not being accepted……. Why not joining Beit Ya’aqob International? If you like the do Teshuvah in Messiah Ben Yoseph with His Divine Mandate (Dev/Deu 30: 1-20 the Constitution of Beit Ya’aqov International) you are most welcome to join! Follow the millions who are already joining………! Come fill out the form click: http://beityaaqov.org/here/join-us/ and receive your National Ephraim Identity Cart. For organizations and/or more information contact me (Ariel) click: http://thewatchmenfromisrael.org/contact-us/
Never forget HaShem Loves you very much. Messiah Ben Yoseph stated clearly:
Mat 15:24 And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.”
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After ‘showing’ Messiah to the Jewish people through your independent Nation (A very powerful nation because your number of people is in the billions!) outside the borders of the Jewish Nation, coming to unity with the Jews from Israel under one Leader:
Isa 11:10-16 And in that day there shall be a Root of Yishai, standing as a banner to the people. Unto Him the gentiles1 shall seek, and His rest shall be esteem. Footnote: 1Or nations.
11 And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shinʽar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea.
12 And He shall raise a banner for the nations (Messiah, when HaShem speaks again from between the Cherubim) and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, and assemble the dispersed of Yehuḏah from the four corners of the earth.
13 And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.
14 But they (Yehudah and Ephraim) shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏom and Mo’aḇ, and the children of Ammon shall be subject to them.
15 And יהוה shall put under the ban the tongue of the Sea of Mitsrayim, and He shall wave His hand over the River with the might of His Spirit, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and shall cause men to tread it in sandals.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was for Yisra’ĕl in the day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim.
That is the great redemption, the Yeshuah (Salvation) from HaShem when HaShem (Messiah Ben David) speaks again from between the Cherubim………!
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We believe,
Yehudah has to go her ‘prophetic way’:
in ‘the Judicial Authority (Mechoqeck*) of HaShem: The Rabbinical leadership is the Divinely Authorized Teacher of the Torah of HaShem’ for the Jews!
Because,
Gen 49:10 “The scepter shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver (Mechoqeck*) from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.
H271 חָקַק* châqaq khaw-kak’ A primitive root; properly to hack, that is,engrave(Jdg_5:14, tobe a scribe simply); by implication to enact (laws being cut in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (generally) prescribe: – appoint, decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
Ephraim has to go her (different as Yehudah) ‘prophetic way’:
Devarim 30:10 if you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim (Messiah Ben Yoseph, the Divinely Authorized Teacher of the Torah of HaShem for Ephraim!), to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
Read more about Messiah Ben Yoseph click: “Divine Aspects of Mashiach ben Yosef…….” According to the teachings of the Vilna Gaon
This means HaShem went with Ephraim a different way than with Yehudah. But, as the rabbis are teaching: Ephraim (a different nation, the Lost Northern Kingdom of Israel) comes back with Messiah Ben Yoseph as their divine ordained leader. And Yehudah comes back with ‘their Judicial Authority (Mechoqeck*) of HaShem: ‘The Rabbinical leadership, the Divinely Authorized Teacher of the Torah of HaShem for Yehudah.’
Facts for coming back and restoration through National Teshuvah:
Devarim 30:1-10 “And it shall be, when all these words (Messiah) come upon you, the blessing (Messiah) and the curse which I have set before you, and you shall bring them back to your heart….
This really means, you read from the beginning of Bereshit/Genesis until the end of Devarim/Deuteronomy. And by every Word that Abba Yahweh speaks, you ask Him for forgiveness where you went wrong and promise Abba Yahweh the do it good
………among all the gentiles where יהוה your Elohim drives you,
2 and shalt turn back to יהוה your Elohim and obey His voice (Messiah), according to all that I command you today……
You, Ephraim and Yehudah say that already together: Devarim 5:27 ‘You go near and hear all that יהוה our Elohim says, and speak to us all that יהוה our Elohim says to you, and we shall hear and do it.’…… You should say it again Ephraim and Manasseh when Messiah Ben Yoseph ‘knock’s on the ‘door’ of your heart.’
……. with all your heart and with all your being, you and your children,
3 then יהוה your Elohim shall turn back your captivity, and shall have compassion on you, and He shall turn back and gather you from all the peoples where יהוה your Elohim has scattered you.
4 “If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under the heavens, from there יהוה your Elohim does gather you, and from there He does take you.
5 “And יהוה your Elohim shall bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. And He shall do good to you, and increase you more than your fathers.
6 “And יהוה your Elohim shall circumcise your heart (By Messiah Ben Yoseph, the teaching of the HaBerith HaChadasha Scriptures) and the heart of your seed, to love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being, so that you might live,
7 and יהוה your Elohim shall put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
8 “And you shall turn back (Do Teshuvah) and obey the voice of יהוה (Messiah Ben Yoseph) and do all His commands which I command you today. (Not news ones! Or whatever…… But all these Words spoken/declared from between the Cherubim to Moshe Rabbeinu….)
9 “And יהוה your Elohim shall make you have excess in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground for good. For יהוה turns back to rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers,
10 if you obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim, (Messiah) to guard His commands and His laws which are written in this Book of the Torah, if you turn back to יהוה your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being.
That is the Promise from Abba Yahweh the only Way, no other Way is accepted….
This blog is a part from the website: ‘The WatchMen from Israel’.
Jerusalem-Israel, Cheshvan 10, 5777, 11/11/2016
Isa 59:20-21 “And the Redeemer shall come to Tsiyon, and to those turning from transgression in Yaʽaqoḇ,” declares יהוה……
Your Redeemer:
Yeshayahu 43: 11 “I, I am Yahweh, and besides Me there is no savior (Hebrew – מושׁיע Moshia). Messiah Ben David, our coming Leader, shall speak again from between the Cherubim above the Atonement Lid,
Eze 36:37-38 ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “Once again I shall let the house of Yisra’ĕl inquire of Me (speaking again from between the Cherubim above the Atonement Lid) to do for them: I shall increase their men like a flock.
38 “As a set-apart flock (by the Torah of Messiah), as the flock at Yerushalayim at her appointed times, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am יהוה.” ’ ”
……..21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” said יהוה: “My Spirit that is upon you, and My Words (Messiah) that I have put in your mouth, shall not be withdrawn from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” said יהוה, “from this time and forever.”
Eph 6:17 Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim….
We share these studies for the benefit that you shall learn Torah Lost Sheep from the House of Israel worldwide. NOT to put you under Jewish Halachah. If you like to become Jewish you have go to a Jewish Rabbi. Beit Ya’aqov International is a non-Jewish organization an Ephraim Agency and hope to become the Restored Northern Kingdom of Israel and to be soon united with Yehudah (the Jews, the old Southern Kingdom of Israel. Already restored in The Modern State of Israel) but only under the sovereignty of Messiah Ben Dawid.
Yehudah became his Holy sanctuary and Israel his Kingdom – Psalms 114 :2
We will see that the children of Israel return to Most High and Torah of Mashiach, And will hug in the Holy Land, and by obeying and listening the “VOICE of Most Ancient Holy One of Israel”, will bring offerings in a righteous way on the holy mountain and also bring the Ark of the covenant with pure heart in the right place (i.e In Har HaBayit, on the foundation Stone [please read click: About ‘The Foundation Stone’ in Jerusalem……]) and We will Welcome the son of David on Mount Zion, Jerusalem – Gaddi, President, BeitYaaqov International.
[Ha Khadosh Baruch Hu – Baruch HaBa B’Shem Adonai ]
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The Melakha of Hotza’a Rav Yair Kahn
Source: Yeshivat Har Etzion
The Melakha of Hotza’a
Rav Yair Kahn
Sources:
משנה דף ב., תוד”ה יציאות.
דף צו. “מכדי זריקה … הכנסה תולדה”, עירובין דף יז: “דתני רבי חייא … יצא כתיב”, פי’ רש”י שם, תוס’ שם ד”ה לאו “ועוד דמשמע בכל דוכתא … כדפרישית בשבת”.
תוס’ שבת דף ב. ד”ה פשט, חי’ הרשב”א “ואיכא למידק אמתניתין… כל העושה בו מלאכה יומת”, אור זרוע הל’ שבת סי’ פב [עד “להאריך”].
ביצה דף יב. “בית שמאי אומרים … ביום טוב לא”, תוס’ רא”ש שבת דף ב. סוד”ה יציאות “ותדע …”, פני יהושע שבת דף נא: על תוס’ ד”ה במה בהמה יוצאה “ועוד דהא הוצאה … אלא מדרבנן”.
Questions:
1. Why does tractate Shabbat open with the melakha of hotza’a (carrying from one domain to another), which appears only at the end of the list of 39 forbidden labors in the Mishna on p. 73a?
2. Why does the Mishna have to spell out all four possible cases of hotza’a that arise in the case of a poor man (standing outside a house) and the owner of the house (standing inside)?
3. According to several Rishonim, hotza’a is a deficient melakha. What is the deficiency? Is there a significant difference between the position of the Tosafot and that of the Rashba?
4. How can we explain the opinion of the Penei Yehoshua that, in contrast to all the other melakhot, one who moves an object from one domain to another by way of his animal does not transgress what is stated in the verse: “That your ox and your ass may rest” (Shemot 23:12)?
I. Carryings Out on Shabbat
Tractate Shabbat opens as follows:
The acts of carrying out on Shabbat are two which are four inside, and two which are four outside. How so? The poor man stands outside and the owner of the house inside: If the poor man stretches his hand inside and places [an article] into the hand of the owner of the house, or if he takes [an article] from it and carries it out, the poor man is liable, and the owner of the house is exempt. If the owner of the house stretches his hand outside and places [an article] in the poor man’s hand, or takes [an article] from it and carries it in, the owner of the house is liable, and the poor man is exempt. (2a)
The Mishna explains that there is liability both for carrying an object out from a private domain to a public domain, and for carrying an object in from a public domain to a private domain. The Mishna also explains that these liabilities apply both to the person standing in the public domain (the poor man) and to the person standing in the private domain (the owner of the house).
But the Mishna is difficult for several reasons: First of all, it is surprising that the melakha (forbidden labor) of hotza’a (carrying) was chosen to open the tractate. After all, hotza’a is the last melakha mentioned in the list of the 39 melakhot that are forbidden on Shabbat (73a). Why then was this melakha chosen to open the tractate? This question was raised by Tosafot (2a, s.v. yetzi’ot).
The details of the four cases in which there is liability for hotza’a also raises a question. It stands to reason that the essence of the labor of hotza’a is removing an object from one domain to another. If so, what difference should it make whether the object is carried out from a private to a public domain or carried in from a public to a private domain (as the Gemara argues on p. 96b)?
Even more surprising is the distinction between the poor man and the owner of the house. If hotza’a is a melakha, why should we care about the identity of the person performing the labor or where he is standing? The Tosafot (ibid., s.v. pashat) formulate this difficulty as follows: “The Ri asks: Why does the Mishna teach two cases, that of the poor man and that of the owner of the house?”
There are several solutions to these questions. In this shiur we will focus on one solution raised by several Rishonim, first and foremost by the Tosafot, in order to answer all of the questions raised above. According to them, the melakha of hotza’a is different from all the other melakhot in that it is a “deficient melakha” (melakha geru’a). This is how the Tosafot (s.v. yetzi’ot ha-Shabbat) explain why the tractate opens with the melakha of hotza’a: “It was more necessary to teach about hotza’a, since it is a deficient melakha.”
This is also the way they explain the need to spell out the liabilities of the poor man and the owner of the house (s.v. pashat): “Because [hotza’a] is a deficient melakha, it was necessary to mention both of them, one for the poor man, and one for the rich man.” And in the beginning of tractate Shevu’ot (2a, s.v. ha-Shabbat) the Tosafot use this idea to explain the need for both the case of carrying out and the case of carrying in.
In this way, the Tosafot explain additional points as well. For example: Why does the Gemara (96b) need a verse to prove that hotza’a is a melakha, rather than be satisfied with the fact that it is one of the labors needed for the construction of the Mishkan (see Tosafot, Shevu’ot, s.v. yetzi’ot ha-Shabbat). This is also the way they explain the Gemara’s search for a source to prohibit the tolada (a secondary prohibition derived from the primary melakha) of hotza’a, e.g., throwing from one domain to another, or carrying in, despite the fact that with respect to the other melakhot of Shabbat, it is enough that the tolada resembles the av, and no additional source is needed.
Despite the widespread use of the designation of hotza’a as a deficient melakha, the Tosafot do not fully explain in what way the melakha is deficient, and content themselves with the argument: “What is the difference between carrying an object from a private domain to a public domain and carrying it from one private domain to another?” In order to better understand this argument of the Tosafot in particular, and the uniqueness of the melakha of hotza’a in general, we must define the deficiency of the melakha of hotza’a in a more precise fashion.
II. The Novelty of the Melakha of Hotza’a
Before discussing the Tosafot’s argument, we should note the explanation offered by the Rashba (2a, s.v. ve-ika lemeidak):
Because it is a deficient melakha, for if one moved a heavy load from one corner [of his house] to another, he is exempt, but if he carried a small portion of it from one domain to another, he is liable, which is not the case regarding all the other melakhot, which are prohibited in themselves in whatever domain they are performed.
At first glance there is no significant difference between the Rashba’s explanation and that of the Tosafot, but upon closer examination it seems that they might disagree about the essence of the melakha of hotza’a. According to the Rashba, would the prohibition of hotza’a include moving an object from one corner of the house to another, hotza’a would not be deemed a deficient melakha. But the Tosafot never imagined imposing liability upon moving an object from one corner to another in the same domain. What bothered the Tosafot was that there is no liability for carrying an object from one private domain to another private domain. According to the Tosafot, would the prohibition of hotza’a include moving an object from one private domain to another, hotza’a would not be considered a deficient melakha. Attention should be paid to the fact that the Rashba considered the size, or to be more precise, the weight of the load, whereas the Tosafot completely ignored this factor.
It seems, therefore, that according to the Tosafot a change of domain is critical to the definition of the melakha of hotza’a, and it would be inconceivable to impose liability for moving an object from one corner of the house to another, however heavy it might be. In contrast, the Rashba sees the very moving of an object as the essence of the melakha, and the heavier the object the more significant is that moving. In other words: According to the Rashba hotza’a means moving an objective from place to place, and were it not for the Torah’s novel limitation, it would have been possible to impose liability whenever an object changes its place, even when it remains in the same domain. In contrast, the Tosafot understand that hotza’a means removing an object from one domain and resting it in another domain, the “change in address” being an essential aspect of the melakha. Were it not for the Torah’s novel limitation, the law would have been the same for removing an object from the private domain of one person and resting it in the private domain of another person (see Minchat Asher, no. 1).
We will later discuss at greater length the law of transporting an object four cubits in the public domain. Here we will briefly relate to this law, in order to better clarify the two understandings that we put forward regarding the melakha of hotza’a. According to the Rashba, that hotza’a is moving an object from one place to another, we can understand that the exemption granted in the case of moving an object from one corner to the other is based on the fact that the entire area marked by the domain’s barriers is considered before the law as a single place. On the other hand, in the public domain it suffices to move an object a certain distance in order to become liable. But according to the Tosafot‘s understanding, we apparently must argue that moving something four cubits in the public domain is forbidden because of a Halakha passed down to Moshe at Sinai, even though it does not involve a change of domain. Alternatively, even in a public domain, the four cubits surrounding a person may be considered his personal space, and removing an object from there is like a change in domain. But as stated, we will discuss this matter at some later point.
III. At First it Was an Object and Now it is an Object
Thus far we have related to hotza’a as a deficient melakha, for the reasons proposed by the Tosafot and the Rashba. They both claim that there is something illogical in the parameters of the melakha of hotza’a, and therefore an explicit source is needed to prohibit any variation of the melakha, because since it involves a novelty, it only applies in that novel situation. An entirely different understanding emerges from the words of the Or Zaru’a (II, Hilkhot Shabbat 82).
And one who carries out – Below in chapter Ha-Zorek a question is raised as to where hotza’a is written, and the Gemara does not want to learn it from the Tabernacle, even though it was found in the Tabernacle, because it is an insignificant melakha, for what melakha was performed when he removed the object from its domain. At first it was an object, and now it is still that same object. So explained Rabbeinu Tam.
According to the Or Zarua, hotza’a does not meet the regular criteria for a melakha on Shabbat, as he explains: “At first it was an object, and now it is still that same object.” His position is based on the assumption that the melakhot forbidden on Shabbat are measured in accordance with the creation and improvement that they involve. The obligation to rest on Shabbat, in remembrance of the Creation, dictates refraining from activities of human creativity, e.g., creating food, or creating thread, or creating clothing. But in the case of the melakha of hotza’a, there is no improvement or creating with respect to the carried object. There is only a change in location, but the object remains as it was.
In light of this distinction, it stands to reason that hotza’a is an exceptional melakha. Usually a melakha is measured by the result – the object which was fixed or created. The way we came to that result – the melakha act – is less important (as long as the melakha is performed in the usual manner and not “as if with the back of the hand” [ki-le’achar yad]). But if the melakha of hotza’a has no result, for at first it was an object and now it is still that same object, it is possible that the essence of the melakha of hotza’a is the act itself. Thus we can understand the difference between hotza’a and the rest of the melakhot: Regarding the rest of the melakhot, there is no need for another verse to prohibit their toledot, for once we have learned from the Tabernacle that a certain creative act is prohibited on Shabbat, we prohibit similar creations, even if they are achieved through different actions. But in the case of hotza’a, even though we have learned that one is forbidden to perform an act of hotza’a from a private domain to a public domain, we cannot expand the prohibition to include a different action, i.e., carrying from a public domain to a private domain, without an explicit source.
We learned in a Mishna in Beitza (12a): “Bet Shammai say: One may not carry out an infant or a lulav or a Torah scroll into a public domain, but Bet Hillel permit it.”
The Gemara there cites the position of Rabba who proposes that Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel disagree on the question whether the laws of hotza’a and eiruv apply to Yom Tov.
The Gemara cites a verse from Yirmeyahu to support the view that the laws of hotza’a do not apply to a Festival, but see there in Tosafot (s.v. dilma) who write: “There are texts that read the verse in Yirmeya: ‘Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Shabbat day’, only on the Shabbat day but not on the Festival, explicitly excluding it because hotza’a is [a] deficient [melakha].” That is to say, the reason that hotza’a is not prohibited on a Festival is that hotza’a is a deficient melakha. The Tosafot Rosh on our passage say this explicitly: “Know that it is a deficient melakha… And furthermore, it is stated in the first chapter of [tractate] Beitza: [The laws of] eiruv and hotza’a apply to Shabbat, but [the laws of] eiruv and hotza’a do not apply to the Festival. And the reason is that it is not considered a melakha, and regarding the Festival it is written: ‘You shall not do melakha.'” We see then that according to the Rosh, since hotza’a is a deficient melakha, it is not considered a melakha, and not included under: “You shall not do melakha.” His position is well understood according to the explanation of the Or Zaru’a, which distinguishes between hotza’a and all the other melakhot with regard to the very essence of the prohibition. Only a creative action is considered a melakha and falls under the prohibition: “You shall not do melakha,” stated with respect to the Festival. This comes to exclude hotza’a, which despite its being forbidden on Shabbat, is not considered a melakha, since at first it was an object, and now it is still that same object.
The difference between the melakha of hotza’a and melakhot that involve improvement appears also in the passage dealing with asking a non-Jew to perform a melakha on Shabbat. The Gemara in Eiruvin (67a) deals with a case of circumcision on Shabbat, where the warm water needed to wash the child after the circumcision – spilled:
There was once a child whose warm water was spilled. Rabba said: Let some warm water be brought for him from my house. Abaye said to him: We have not prepared an eiruv… Let a non-Jew be instructed to bring it for him. Abaye said: I wished to point out an objection against the Master, but Rav Yosef prevented me… After that he said to him: What objection was it that you wished to raise against the Master? He said to him: It was taught [in a Baraita]: Sprinkling on Shabbat is only rabbinically forbidden. Now, instructing a non-Jew to do work on Shabbat is also rabbinically forbidden. Why then should it not be said: As sprinkling on Shabbat which is a rabbinical prohibition does not supersede Shabbat, so should not an instruction to a non-Jew to do work on Shabbat which is also rabbinically forbidden supersede the Sabbath? He said to him: Do you not distinguish between a rabbinical prohibition that involves an action and one that involves no action, for the master, surely, did not tell the non-Jew: Go and warm it.
We see from this passage that Rabba would permit instructing the non-Jew to bring the water without an eiruv, but he would not permit instructing him to heat up the water. The Rishonim explained this distinction in several different ways. For our purposes, it is important to note the explanation proposed by Rabbeinu Yona cited in Chiddushei ha-Ritva:
In the name of the pious Master, I found that he explains that whenever we do so something by way of a non-Jew that introduces some improvement in the object itself, that is called something that involves an action, whether it is forbidden by Torah law or only by the Rabbis, like heating water, or cooking, or baking, or the like. Regarding this the Sages were stringent about instructing a non-Jew to do it. But something that introduces no improvement [in the object itself], but merely involves moving it from place to place, in such a case they permitted instructing a non-Jew [to do it], even in the case of a Torah melakha. This is what they said: For the master, surely, did not tell the non-Jew: Go and warm it, but rather: Go and bring it from my house.
According to Rabbeinu Yona, the difference is between hotza’a, which is a melakha that does not involve improvement, and cooking, which is a melakha that involves improvement. Only melakhot that involve improvement fall into the category of melakhot that are subject to the prohibition of instructing a non-Jew to do them. This is to the exclusion of the melakha of hotza’a, which does involve improvement, since at first it was an object, and now it is still that same object.
The Penei Yehoshua says something similar at the beginning of chapter Bameh beheima (Shabbat 51b). The Mishna there spells out with what things an animal may go out on Shabbat, and with what things not. The rule is that a person is obligated to ensure that his animal rests on Shabbat, as it is written: “That your ox and your ass may rest” (Shemot 23:12), and therefore just as a person is forbidden to move things from one domain to another, so he is forbidden to place such things on animal that is going out from one domain to another. The Tosafot there (s.v. bameh beheima) imply that the prohibition in the Mishna is only of rabbinic origin. The Penei Yehoshua comments about this as follows:
And furthermore, carrying out to a public domain, even with respect to a person, is a deficient melakha, and would not have been included in the prohibition: “You shall not do any melakha,” had there not been a special derivation… This implies that this does not apply at all to an animal by Torah law, but only by rabbinic prohibition.
According to the Penei Yehoshua, by Torah law the rule governing the rest of animals applies only to full-fledged melakhot, and therefore it does not apply to hotza’a, which is a deficient melakha. The Penei Yehoshua’s remarks fit in well with what we have said. The law governing the rest of animals prohibits a person to engage in a creative act by way of his animal, and therefore it does not apply to hotza’a, which is a melakha that does not involve any improvement, since at first it was an object, and now it is still that same object.
In conclusion, we will bring one more law, mentioned by various Acharonim, which is another expression of the fundamental difference between hotza’a and other melakhot. We learned later in the tractate (102a): “Rabba said: If one throws [an article] and it falls into the mouth of a dog or a furnace, he is liable.” That is to say, there is liability for hotza’a even if the object was not made to rest on the ground, but rather in the mouth of a dog or in a furnace. An objection may be raised: Surely we learned elsewhere (105b): “All who effect damage are exempt,” and it would seem that someone who throws an article into a furnace in order to burn it should be treated as one who effects damage. But according to what we have explained, it may be argued that the exemption of effecting damage applies only to the other melakhot, where the liability is for the creative act, and damage is just the opposite. But in the case of hotza’a, which does not involve any improvement, one is liable even when he effects damage to the object in question.
(Translated by David Strauss)
Sources for next week’s shiur:
Shiur 2 – Akira (lifting) and hanacha (resting) (2b-3a)
Rav Ezra Bick
Sources:
1. גמ’ ב’: “אמר ליה רב מתנה” עד ג’. שניים שעשאוה פטורין”
2. רש”י, תוס’ ד”ה פטורי, רשב”א ד”ה פטורי.
3. פסחים פ”ה: “אמר רבי אמי … עקירה והנחה”, רש”י שם ד”ה דעבד, תוס’ ד”ה הוצאה.
4. רש”י שבת ג’: ד”ה ד”ה מבע”י.
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