Mishnah
Mishnah

Midrash for Shabbat 21:1

נוֹטֵל אָדָם אֶת בְּנוֹ וְהָאֶבֶן בְּיָדוֹ, וְכַלְכַּלָּה וְהָאֶבֶן בְּתוֹכָהּ. וּמְטַלְטְלִין תְּרוּמָה טְמֵאָה עִם הַטְּהוֹרָה וְעִם הַחֻלִּין. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אַף מַעֲלִין אֶת הַמְדֻמָּע בְּאֶחָד וּמֵאָה:

A man may carry his son [in a courtyard] with a stone in his (the son's) hand [and we do not say that he (the father) is carrying the stone], or a basket with a stone in it. [This, on condition that there be fruits in the basket; for if not, it (the basket) is a basis for something forbidden (the stone), and it is forbidden to carry it. And there must also be in it such fruits which, if thrown to the ground, will spoil, such as berries and grapes and the like. But if they were fruits like nuts and almonds, he shakes out the fruits (along with the stone). And with fruits that spoil, too, like berries and grapes, if he can move them to the edge of the basket and shake out the stone alone, it is forbidden to carry it with the stone. Our Mishnah is speaking of an instance in which the sides or the bottom of the basket have eroded to the extent that it is impossible to use the basket without the stone.] And it is permitted to carry unclean terumah together with clean terumah and chullin (mundane food), [but it is forbidden to carry unclean terumah by itself (on Shabbath)]. R. Yehudah says: Meduma (a mixture) may also be brought up with a hundred and one. [If a sa'ah of terumah fell into a hundred sa'ah of chullin, it is permitted to "bring up" the sa'ah of terumah from them on Shabbath so that all remain chullin and permitted to non-Cohanim. And we do not say that he is thereby "correcting" (on Sabbath); for we regard terumah that fell into chullin as lying alone and not being intermixed, so that when it is "brought up" (i.e., when a sa'ah is given to a Cohein from the one hundred and one, it is considered as if the terumah itself which fell into it is brought up, so that there is no "correcting." The halachah is not in accordance with R. Yehudah.]

Bamidbar Rabbah

26 (Numb. 14:27) “How long […]”: A legal teaching: When a baby has a stone in his hand on the Sabbath, is it permissible to pick him up [on the Sabbath]? Thus have our masters taught (in Shab. 21:1): A person may pick up one's child, even with a stone in his hand, or a basket (of fruit) with a stone inside it. You have learned from the generation of the wilderness that the Holy One, as it were, carried them up in the wilderness, (as in Deut. 1:31) “as one carries his child,” yet there was an object of idolatry in their hand.50Corresponding to the stone in the hand of the child. Thus it is stated (in Neh. 9:18), “as they had made themselves a molten calf.” And so you find that, when they crossed in the sea, Micah's image (of Jud. 17:3–4) crossed with them, as stated (in Zech. 10:11), “And a rival wife51Tsarah. The Midrash understands the word in this sense, although most translations follow the other meaning of tsarah, i.e., “affliction,” “distress,” or the like. So also below, Deut. 4:14. shall cross in the sea.”52Mekhilta deRabbi Ishmael, Pisha 14 on Exod. 12:41; Sanh. 103b; M. Pss. 101:2; Exod. R. 41:1; also Mekhilta deRabbi Ishmael, Wayassa‘ 1 on Exod. 15:22; ySuk. 4:3 (54c); see ARN, A, 34. Still with all this, the Holy One did not forsake them. He said to Moses, “I have done a lot of good things with them; yet they are provoking Me a lot. I parted the sea for them; they provoked Me,” as stated (in Pss. 78:40), “How often did they defy Him.” Here also they brought a bad name upon the land. I am not able to endure. How long shall I endure them? [Ergo] (in Numb. 14:27), “How long shall this evil congregation?”
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