Shabbos 147b

שבת קמ״ז ע״ב

Shabbat 147b

Learn Shabbos 147b step by step: Aramaic beside English, every question, answer and proof colour-coded.

Open Shabbos 147b in Gemara Clarity

Topic

Bathing, drying, and healing activities on שבת: towels, wearing garments, oiling, the baths of דיומסת, scraping, vomiting and swaddling

Overview

This amud keeps working through the משנה about bathing and healing on שבת. First the גמרא shows that rinsing the whole body is allowed even לכתחילה, following רבי שמעון. It then explains the towel rules: one person may not carry even slightly damp towels, but a group may carry even a soaked one, because they remind each other not to wring it. אביי asks for the הלכה, and רב יוסף lists four lenient authorities: רבי שמעון, רבי, שמואל and רבי יוחנן. The גמרא also answers a challenge to רבי יוחנן from his own rule about a סתם משנה. Next come rules on moving clothes by wearing them, and on oiling the stomach differently from a weekday. The גמרא then discusses the healing baths of דיומסת, including the story of רבי אלעזר בן ערך, who lost his learning there, and the lesson of רבי נהוראי to go to a place of תורה. Finally it explains the משנה's rules on scraping, muddy rivers, inducing vomiting and swaddling a baby. It begins a statement of שמואל about resetting a broken bone, which continues on the next amud.

Opening lines

The steps (47)

1. ConclusionRinsing the whole body is allowed even from the start
2. QuestionWhose opinion is this?
3. ResponseIt is the view of רבי שמעון
4. ProofThe ברייתא with three views on rinsing
5. StatementBoth halves of the towel rule teach something new
6. StatementThe first clause: even barely damp towels are forbidden for one person
7. StatementThe second clause: even a very wet towel is allowed for many people
8. StatementA ברייתא: leave the towel in the window, not with the attendants
9. Statementרבי שמעון: he may carry one towel home
10. Questionאביי asks what the הלכה is
11. Responseרב יוסף lists four lenient authorities
12. ProofSource for רבי שמעון's leniency
13. ProofSource for רבי's leniency: the towels at תקוע
14. ProofSource for שמואל's leniency
15. ProofSource for רבי יוחנן's leniency
16. ChallengeDoes רבי יוחנן contradict his own rule?
17. Resolutionרבי יוחנן's version credits the משנה to בן חכינאי
18. StatementBath attendants may bring women's bathing garments by wearing them
19. StatementA large scarf must be tied below
20. Statement'Below' means below the shoulders
21. Statementרבא's instruction to the people of מחוזא
22. StatementSmearing oil and rubbing the stomach, unlike a weekday
23. QuestionHow is it done differently?
24. Responseרבי חמא בר חנינא: smear first, then rub
25. Responseרבי יוחנן: smear and rub at once
26. StatementNot even standing on the floor of the healing baths
27. StatementThe healing season of the baths is twenty-one days
28. QuestionIs שבועות at the start or the end of the period?
29. ProofA possible proof from medicinal drinks
30. RejectionDrinks need cool weather, baths need heat
31. StatementWine and baths caused the loss of the ten tribes
32. Statementרבי אלעזר בן ערך forgets his learning
33. ProofThe story explains the teaching of רבי נהוראי
34. StatementWho רבי נהוראי really was
35. QuestionWhy was he called נהוראי?
36. ResponseHe lit up the eyes of the Sages
37. StatementA ברייתא forbids scraping the body with a scraper on שבת
38. Statementרבן שמעון בן גמליאל allows scraping feet covered in mud or filth
39. Statementרב שמואל בר יהודה's mother made him a silver scraper
40. QuestionWhy may one not go down into a muddy river?
41. ResponseBecause of the mud
42. Statementרבי יוחנן: only vomiting with a drug is forbidden, not by hand
43. Statementרבי נחמיה: needless vomiting is forbidden even on a weekday
44. Statementרבי יוחנן: swaddling a baby on שבת is fine
45. ChallengeBut the משנה says not to straighten a baby!
46. ResolutionThe משנה means straightening the spine, which looks like building
47. StatementThe משנה's clause on resetting a broken bone, and the start of שמואל's comment