Mishnah (051): Beis Shammai: One cannot remove the shutters of booths on Yom Tov. Beis Hillel: It is permitted even to replace them.
Our Mishnah runs counter to this Tanna: Beraisa (a): Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar: Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel agree that the shutters may be removed, they only argue about returning the shutters. Beis Shammai forbids it, while Beis Hillel permit it. Additionally, Beis Shammai only forbid it when the shutters have hinges, but when there are no hinges, everyone agrees it’s permitted [to return the shutter].
Challenge: There’s another Beraisa (b): The debate is only when the shutters have no hinges, but when there are hinges, everyone agrees it’s forbidden!
Abayye: [There are three cases here. In one case everyone agrees it’s muttar, in one case everyone agrees it’s ossur, and in one case it’s a machlokes]. When there’s a hinge on the side, everyone agrees it’s forbidden [Beraisa b] [because it looks like a regular door]. When it has no hinge at all [it is just replaced in the frame], everyone agrees it’s permitted [Beraisa a]. The machlokes is when the hinge is in the middle [a peg on the top and bottom of the door]. This doesn’t look like a real door, but one opinion is that it may be confused with a regular hinge and is therefore treated as such, and the other opinion makes no such gezeirah.
Mishnah:
Beis Shammai: You can’t carry out a child, a lulav or a sefer Torah to the reshus horabbim on Yom Tov [only ochel nefesh is permitted, nothing more]. Beis Hillel permit it [the permission granted by the Torah for ochel nefesh extends to anything necessary. This will be explained in the Gemara as ‘mitoch shehutrah letzorech hutrah nami shelo letzorech - since it was permitted for food necessity it was permitted for other purposes as well’. This is not a blanket hetter (055, Tosfos) but the Poskim agree that it is applied to carrying and kindling a fire where necessary].
Gemara:
A learner was learning a Beraisa in the presence of Rav Yitzchok bar Avdimi: One who shechts a voluntary korban olah [in the Beis Hamikdash] on Yom Tov is liable for malkos.
Rav Yitzchok bar Avdimi: Whose opinion is that? It sounds like Beis Shammai who hold that we don’t say ‘mitoch shehutrah letzorech hurrah nami shelo letzorech’. But Beis Hillel who say ‘mitoch’ with regard to carrying [in our Mishnah] would say that since we can shecht on Yom Tov for ochel nefesh, we can shecht the Olah as well. [Rav Yitzchok bar Avdimi is asking a question, because the learner shouldn’t be learning a Beraisa according to Beis Shammai’s opinion (053)].
Rabbah: Who says that the debate between Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel centers around ‘mitoch’? [Perhaps no one holds ‘mitoch’] and the debate in our Mishnah is whether there is an issur of hotza’ah on Yom Tov at all.
Perhaps Beis Hillel holds that there is no issur of hotza’ah based on the verse “Do not carry out a burden on the day of Shabbos”!
Rav Yosef: If it is so, why didn’t the Mishnah discuss carrying stones? [The reason for the issur of muktzeh is lest one come to carry things outside. If there would be no issur of carrying, then the Mishnah should have let that be known by discussing a case of muktzeh stones!]
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