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roof that it should drip from the roof into the vessel which he holds in his hands. What precautionary measure can be, etc.: Since it is permitted (to carry wine in private ground), why should he not be allowed to intercept or to put (a vessel alongside the roof)? Against his bringing, a vessel through public ground; in looking so much after vessels he may forget and bring. He should not intercept and invite afterward: for while intercepting he does not need guests. No artifice should be used: who do not wait to taste, in order that they should leave. Fallen into a pit: on a holy day. The mother and its offspring may not be killed on the same day (since this is prohibited by Mosaic Law). May not kill it: for he might use the pretext that the other is fatter. R. Eliezer says so only: that no artifice is to be used. One has savedfine, bread: sufficient for three meals. One is not allowed to save afterward coarse bread: coarse bread made of the seconds; for it is not a fitting pretext that this is better for him. But not on Sabbath for the Day of Atonement: as, for instance, when the Day of Atonement falls on a Sunday. As one is not allowed to eat before the day is over, he is compelled to prepare in the evening. And still less on a Sabbath for a holy day: because one can prepare it on the same day. Baker's shovel: an instrument with which the bread is moved and separated from the walls of the oven to which it cleaves, one should not take out with the baker's shovel because that is the every-day way of doing. A man should . . . early: to busy himself on the eve to prepare that what is needed for the Sabbath. They should prepare that which they bring, at once: to prepare at the moment of bringing, and that the bringing should be early is deduced from the verse " and they gathered it every morning " (early). Break: to pronounce the benediction of ha-Mozi. Keeping two: he took them in his hands. It is said: "They gathered "; which shows that two have to be kept, but it is not said that two must be broken: To break a big piece that sufficed for the whole meal: A big piece that was enough for that meal. He did it in honor of the Sabbath, showing thereby that the Sabbath meal was so dear to him that he is going to make effort to eat much. When happening: sometimes when the Erub was made in their house, and sometimes when it was made in the house of somebody else. Would begin: that is, to pronounce on it the benedic':on of " ha-Mozi " which is the beginning of eating. Begin: start. Thrice repeated " to-day ": [The repetition here] comes (to show) the number of meals.

Tosafot (on the right): We have previously learned that a man upon whose roof a barrel became broken: R. Porat queried: Why did he (Abaye) not ask his question from the Mishna which is at the beginning (of the chapter entitled) " Hobit," where we have learned: A barrel that became broken one may save from it enough for three meals, and may say to others, come and save for yourselves, only one should not use a sponge? He answered: There one can say that the barrel was in a marked-off plot in a public thoroughfare (where articles are not allowed to be moved) and there was reason to fear that one would carry the vessel to a distance of four cubits, while here in this Baraitha is expressly said " on

the roof " (private ground). The Ri answered: There it is stated that the wine was spilled on the ground and there was reason to fear the using of a sponge. R. Samuel said in the name of R. Tam that (this prohibition) is only in the case when the barrel is broken, but when the barrel is only cracked and it drips, one may bring vessels to intercept or to put alongside, for then the man would not be so greatly confused as to bring vessels through the public thoroughfare, as (he might be) if it were entirely broken.

The Ri said that there is meant here " not only this, but even that," not only to intercept, when it is evident that one is saving, but even to put alongside when it is noticeable that one is saving, is also prohibited.

If one has saved fine bread one is not allowed to save afterward coarse bread: The Ri said that when one has baked on the Passover unleavened bread from fine flour sufficient for the holy days, one may not bake afterward unleavened bread from seconds; but he may bake first from seconds and afterward from fine flour.

But not on a Saturday for the Day of Atonement: The commentaries explain for the evening following the Day of Atonement (for there is no need of food for the Day of Atonement which is a fast-day). But

I if thou shaft ask: Is it not a matter of course, what difference is there between the evening following the Day of Atonement and that following the Sabbath? One may answer that it is a religious duty to eat on the evening following the Day of Atonement, as explained above (folio 114b), and also because one fasted in the day he would believe that it is allowed. It is also possible that it is meant for the Day of Atonement itself, to give food to the children.

Did not R. Ishmael teach: " You shall do no servile work " (Lev . xxiii. 8. As one may see, the Tosafists had here another reading): If thou shouldst ask, why is quoted here the verse of " no servile work " which refers to holy days, since on Sabbath to which refers the verse " thou shaft not do any work," in general, without saying "servile work," one may also blow the horn and take out bread from the oven according to the Mosaic Law, as we see it here where it is quoted in reference to Sabbath? R. Samuel explained that in fact the correct reading here is " Thou shaft not do any work." The Rashba explained that it is true that the exceptions of blowing the horn and taking bread from the oven are derived from the verse "Any servile work," and we (apply what is) deduced from what is said about the holy days to the Sabbath, because there is no other difference between holy days and Sabbath than the preparation of food (which is allowed on holy days) .as is said: " Save that which every man must eat " (Ex. xii. 16).

Because these belong to science and not labor: And since they are .allowed by the Mosaic Law, though it is prohibited by the sages, as is said in the treatise Rosh haShanah: " One does not prevent children from blowing the horn, but one prevents women from doing so," here one has to allow (the taking out of bread) for the sake of three meals (that are needed).