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Source and decoding
אין בין יום טוב לשבת אלא אוכל נפש בלבד.
The only difference between a festival and Shabbat is work for food preparation.
- 1Mark both sides of a comparison
- 2Distinguish difference from equality
- 3Separate impurity, counting and offering
The sequence compares festivals and Shabbat, Shabbat and Yom Kippur, benefit and food vows, pledges and designated gifts, and cases of zav and leprosy. Identify the exception and the Gemara’s inference.
Kushya
Are preparations enabling food production also permitted on a festival?
Terutz
Rabbi Yehuda permits enabling preparations impossible before the festival; the Sages limit the permission to food preparation itself.