Related%20passage for Shabbat 20:4

גּוֹרְפִין מִלִּפְנֵי הַפְּטָם, וּמְסַלְּקִין לִצְדָדִין מִפְּנֵי הָרְעִי, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי דוֹסָא. וַחֲכָמִים אוֹסְרִין. נוֹטְלִין מִלִּפְנֵי בְהֵמָה זוֹ וְנוֹתְנִין לִפְנֵי בְהֵמָה זוֹ בְּשַׁבָּת:

It is permitted to scrape out [the manger on Shabbath] before an ox being fattened, [so that the sediment in the manger not become intermixed with the hay and barley that is placed before it and cause it to recoil from the feed], and it [the hay in front of the animal] may be moved aside [when there is an abundance of it, so that it not be trodden and sullied with excrement.] These are the words of R. Dossa; and the sages forbid it. [This refers to both, scraping out the manger and moving the hay aside. And R. Dossa and the sages differ only with a vessel-manger, but with a ground manger, they all agree that one may not scrape it out, for he might come to make holes. And the sages decree against a vessel-manger by reason of (his possibly coming to do so with) a ground manger. The halachah is in accordance with the sages.] (Food) may be taken from before one beast and placed before a different beast on Shabbath. [And we do not regard this as vain moving (on Shabbath). It is certainly not vain, for an animal does not reject food taken from another. This applies only if he takes it from before an ass and places it before an ox, and the like, but not vice versa. For the food of the ox is fouled with the spittle of its mouth, and the ass does not eat of it.]

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