Ein Mann kann seine Gäste und seine Portionen mündlich zählen, aber nicht aus einem Memo. [Wenn er am Sabbatabend schrieb: "Solche und solche Gäste usw." damit er sie nicht vergisst, darf er nicht aus diesem Memo am Schabbat lesen—ein Dekret, damit er nicht löscht. Oder weil er kommen könnte, um "weltliche Notizen" zu lesen, und am Schabbat ist es erlaubt, nur das geschriebene Gesetz und das mündliche Gesetz (nachdem es niedergeschrieben wurde) und ihre Kommentare zu lesen. Aber andere Dinge oder Bücher der Weisheit, die nicht aus Worten der Prophezeiung oder ihren Exegesen bestehen, sind verboten.] Und man kann mit seinen Kindern und Familienmitgliedern [wer bestimmt welche Lose bekommen] Lose auf den Tisch werfen sind "Stammgäste" an seinem Tisch und die nicht übermäßig spezifisch sind; aber nicht mit anderen, für Mitglieder einer Gruppe, die anspruchsvoll miteinander sind, die nicht vergeben und miteinander nachgeben, durch Messen, Wiegen, Nummerieren, Verleihen und Bezahlen übertreten, nachdem die Rabbiner gegen diese entschieden haben, damit er nicht schreibt. ], solange er wegen Glücksspiels keinen großen Teil gegen einen kleinen Teil beabsichtigt. [Unsere Mischna fehlt. Das ist gemeint: "Man kann mit seinen Kindern und seinen Haushaltsmitgliedern am Tisch viel werfen, sogar einen großen Teil gegen einen kleinen Teil—aber nur mit seinen Kindern und Haushaltsmitgliedern und nicht mit anderen. Und nur, wenn er keine große Portion gegen eine kleine Portion beabsichtigt. "Nur dann ist es auf einem Festival verboten und an einem Wochentag erlaubt. Aber wenn er eine große Portion gegen eine kleine Portion beabsichtigt, ist es sogar auf einer verboten Wochentag, wegen Glücksspiels. Denn dies ist wie Diebstahl, und Asmachta ("Vertrauen") bewirkt keinen Erwerb. Diese Instanz ist eine von Asmachta, denn er "verlässt" sich darauf, dass das Los auf den großen Teil fällt, weshalb er stimmt der Möglichkeit zu, dass es auch auf den kleinen Teil fällt. Aber wenn er von Anfang an wüsste, dass dies geschehen würde, würde er nicht zustimmen.] Und es ist erlaubt, Lose (Chalashim) auf ein Fest zu werfen [auf Opfergaben, die geschlachtet wurden auf dem Fest, zur Verteilung unter den Cohanim. ("Chalashim" :) Lose, wie in (Jesaja 14:12): "Cholesh ('Er wirft Lose') auf die Nationen."], aber nicht auf die Teile [von die Opfergaben des Vortages.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
פרפרותיו – kinds of dainties/sweets.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
Introduction
This mishnah has to do with reckoning certain types of accounts on Shabbat.
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אבל לא מן הכתב – if he wrote it from the Eve of the Sabbath (i.e., Friday): “so-and-so are guests” so that he would not forget, he should not read from the same document on the Sabbath, as a preventive measure lest he erase it; alternatively, lest he read private (not Hebrew) documents for it is prohibited to read anything on Shabbat other than the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, but other things or works of scholars that are not from the words of the prophets or their commentaries are forbidden (see Tractate Shabbat 149a).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
A man may count his guests and his appetizers/desserts by word, but not from writing. A host may want to count his guests or his food before or while the meal is being served. He may do so but he may not count them from a written list. The Tosefta explains that this is forbidden because it is acting on Shabbat the way one acts during the week. In the Talmud they explain that if he reads from a written list and sees that someone is not there or hears that they are not coming, he may erase their name from the list, a prohibited activity on Shabbat. Alternatively, he may grow accustomed to reading bills, lists and other types of business documents that a person should not read on Shabbat.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
A man may cast lots with his sons and the members of his household on the table, provided that he does not make a large portion against a small one, because of gambling. This section deals with casting lots for who will get to choose his portion of meat first and who will get the largest portion. We should note that this was an important issue in eating customs at the time and we hear a lot from contemporary sources about people complaining that they didn’t get a good portion. The head of the household or any other person may cast lots on Shabbat for who gets what portion, but he should not make the portions a disparate size to begin with, hoping that he will get the bigger portion, because this is a type of gambling. Gambling is always problematic according to Jewish law, but it certainly shouldn’t be done on Shabbat.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
עם בניו ועם בני ביתו – for they are dependent upon his table for there is no legal objection, but with others one cannot [do so], for members of the group that are strict with each other for they do not pardon and do not renounce each other, violate this because of the measurement and the weight and the number because they loan and collect and the Rabbis decreed on this lest they write it down.
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And [priests] may cast lots for sacrifices on festivals, but not for the portions. The priests could cast lots over who would get which sacrifice of the sacrifices offered on a festival. However, they may not cast lots on the festival over the sacrifices offered the day before, since they could have cast the lots then. As we have learned many times, anything that could be done before the holiday may not be done on the holiday itself.
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ובלבד שלא יתכוין וכו' – Our Mishnah is deficient, and should be read as follows: a person may conduct a lottery with his children and with the members of his household [dependent] upon his table and even a large portion corresponding to a small portion and specifically with his children and the members of his household, but not with others, provided that he does not intend to make a large portion correspond with a small portion, which is forbidden even on weekdays because dice-playing is theft and collateral security with the condition of forfeiture beyond the amount to be secured does not purchase/gives no title and this is a collateral security with the condition of forfeiture beyond the amount to be secured that is dependent upon the lottery if the lottery will fall to him on the large portion, he will be worthy of it, and therefore, he has left himself in doubt even for a lottery for a small portion through doubt , for had he known from the outset that this would be the case, he would not have accepted it.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
חלשים – lotteries such as (Isaiah 14:12): “A vanquisher of nations.”
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
על הקדשים ביום טוב – that were slaughtered on Yom Tov/the Festival Day to distribute/divide them among the Kohanim.
