Related%20passage for Beitzah 4:3

אֵין מְבַקְּעִין עֵצִים, לֹא מִן הַקּוֹרוֹת, וְלֹא מִן הַקּוֹרָה שֶׁנִּשְׁבְּרָה בְיוֹם טוֹב. וְאֵין מְבַקְּעִין לֹא בְקַרְדֹּם וְלֹא בִמְגֵרָה וְלֹא בְמַגָּל, אֶלָּא בְקוֹפִיץ. בַּיִת שֶׁהוּא מָלֵא פֵרוֹת, סָתוּם וְנִפְחַת, נוֹטֵל מִמְּקוֹם הַפְּחָת. רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, אַף פּוֹחֵת לְכַתְּחִלָּה וְנוֹטֵל:

Wood (for kindling) is not cut (on yom tov) from beams [for building, arranged on the ground to keep them from bending], nor from a beam that broke on yom tov. [For even though it is fit for kindling now, it was not before yom tov.] And one may not cut: neither with an axe [Our Mishnah is defective. It was taught thus: …"but one may cut wood from a beam that was broken before yom tov. And when they cut, they cut neither with an axe"] nor with a saw, [which is a workman's tool], nor with a sickle [This, too, is a workman's tool, and (in using it) he gives the impression that he wishes to perform labor], but [they cut] with a hack, [a butcher's hack, which is not a workman's tool. Some of them have two heads, one wide, called "female"; the other, narrow, called "male." And one may cut only with the male head.] A house full of fruits — If it were closed up, and it opened, one may take out (fruits) through the opening. [And we do not say that they are muktzeh by reason of prohibition, it being prohibited to open it on yom tov, so that his mind is not on them. For the "house" of our Mishnah is not one built with tar and lime, but an arrangement of bricks, one set atop the other, without tar. So that, there being no Torah prohibition against opening it, the fruits are not muktzeh — just as we say in respect to tevel (untithed produce), that it is not muktzeh; for if he transgressed and amended (i.e., tithed) it (on yom tov), it is amended.] R. Meir says: He may even open it to begin with and take. [For since there is no tar, but only bricks piled one atop the other, this is not soter ("tearing down"), and it is permitted to open it ab initio. The halachah is not in accordance with R. Meir.]

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