e."

6. "If one carry a rope in his hand?"(738) "If he go in the (straight)
way, it is allowed." "If he go out of his way?" "It is disallowed." One
went to Jabneth(739) during three feasts, about this matter, and in the
third feast it was allowed to him as a decision for the time.

7. "If one rolled the rope round his hand?" "It is allowed; but if he
rolled it after (drawing the water), it is disallowed." Said R. Jose,
"this act they allowed as a decision for the time."

8. "If one put aside the barrel lest it be broken, or turned it on its
mouth for the purpose of drying it, intending to fill it with water?" "It
is allowed." "But if he did so to carry in it ashes?" "It is disallowed."
If one turned out potsherds from the trough, that it might contain more
water, it is allowed; but if they would be no hindrance to him in the time
of sprinkling, it is disallowed.

9. "One who had water on his shoulder, and he taught a decision in the law
or he showed the way to others or he killed a serpent or a scorpion or he
took food to put it aside?" "It is disallowed." "The food was for eating?"
"It is allowed." "The serpent or scorpion hindered him?" "It is allowed."
Said Rabbi Judah, "this is the rule: An act for work, whether a man stood
or did not stand, is disallowed; and an act which is not for work, if he
stood, is disallowed; but if he did not stand, it is allowed."

10. "He who handed over his water of purification to an unclean (person)?"
"It is disallowed." "But if he handed it to a legally clean person?" "It
is allowed." R. Eleazar said, "even to a (person legally) unclean it is
allowed, if its owner did no work."

11. "Two persons drew water for purification, and each helped the other,
or each took a thorn from the other?" "For one purification it is allowed,
for two purifications, it is disallowed." R. Jose said, "even for two
purifications it is allowed, if it were made a condition between them."

12. "He who has broken (something) during drawing water for purification
with the view of preparing it afterward?" "The water is allowed." "But if
he prepared it?" "The water is disallowed."(740) "He ate with the view of
drying the remainder of his food?" "The water is allowed." "But if he
dried it?" "The water is disallowed." "He ate and left some, and he threw
away what was left in his hand under a fig-tree, or into the place of
drying, that it might not be lost?" "The water is disallowed."

Chapter VIII

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