תלמוד על ידים 4:5

One does not save from a fire²⁶This seems to be a truncated quote from a baraita which disagrees with the preceding argument and states that Hagiographa cannot be saved from a fire if this would involve transgressing rabbinic prohibitions.. For him who says, they render hands impure²⁷Mishnah Yadaim 3:8 reports on disagreement whether touching a scroll of Ecclesiastes makes one’s hands impure. There seems to be tacit agreement that Esther does not make the hands impure. This impurity is purely rabbinical; it was instituted so people should not store their heave, which is sanctified, with also holy Scripture, since this would attract rats which would attack the leather on which the scrolls were written. A scroll which does not render the hands impure is not holy; no rabbinic restrictions would have to be waved to save them from a fire., one saves them from a fire; but for him who says, they do not render hands impure, one does not save them from a fire. They objected: Is there not a Hebrew book which was written in Aramaic²⁸Mishnah Yadaim 4:5.; it will not render hands impure but one saves it from a fire, since we have stated: “even though they are written in any language they have to be hidden.” The Mishnah follows Rebbi Simeon, since Rebbi Simeon said, nothing forbidden only rabbinically stands in the way of Holy Scriptures²⁹Mishnah Eruvin 10:3. Only biblical prohibitions have to be observed when caring for Scripture on the Sabbath.. Do they disagree³⁰The mishnaic statements in Yadaim and Eruvin.? There it is because of their degradation³¹Lest rats be attracted to the scrolls, Note 27., but here everybody agrees that one saves them from a fire. For whom is it needed? For Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel. Even though Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel said³²Mishnah Megillah 1:11. There do exist approved Aramaic versions of the Pentateuch and Jonathan ben Uziel’s Aramaic paraphrase of Prophets but no recognized Aramaic versions of Hagiographa. The existing Aramaic versions of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Esther, and Chronicles all seem to be post-Talmudic., “also Hagiographa they permitted only that they could be written in Greek,” would he agree here that one saves them from a fire? “It happened that Rabban [Simeon ben]³³Added from E. From the context this seems to be the correct attribution, referring to Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel I, the head of the revolutionary government in the first war against the Romans. In the Babylonian parallels, Babli 115a, Tosephta 13:2 (ed. Liebermann) the name always is “Rabban Gamliel” I, the grandfather of Rabban Gamliel of Jabneh. Gamliel was supervising builders on the the Temple Mount when he an Aramaic version of Job was brought to him. He told the builder to hide it under a row of stones.”