R. Meir diz: Todo o trabalho [necessário para o festival], que começou antes do dia 14, pode ser concluído no dia 14 (mesmo em um lugar onde era costume não trabalhar). Mas o trabalho não necessário para o festival pode ser realizado em um local em que era costume trabalhar. E em um lugar onde era costume não funcionar, mesmo que ele tenha começado esse trabalho antes do décimo quarto, ele pode não concluí-lo.] Mas ele não pode iniciá-lo no início do décimo quarto, mesmo que possa concluí-lo. E os sábios dizem: Três artesãos podem seguir seu ofício na véspera de Pessach até o meio dia: alfaiates [Eles têm permissão para trabalhar no décimo quarto lugar em todos os lugares, pois encontramos uma clemência em relação à alfaiataria em chol hamoed (os dias intermediários de festival) que não encontramos em relação a outros negócios—aquele que não é especialista nisso pode costurar como faz regularmente, e por essa razão, no décimo quarto, que é de menor santidade que o colmo, até mesmo um profissional (alfaiate) pode trabalhar.], barbeiros e lavadeiras. [Quem vem do exterior e é libertado da prisão pode cortar o cabelo e lavar as roupas com colmo. E como encontramos uma clemência com o colmo, no décimo quarto, que é de menor santidade, é permitido a todos.] R. Yossi b. Yehudah diz: Até os sapateiros. [Para o festival, os peregrinos consertam seus sapatos no festival. E os sábios sustentam que não derivamos o início do trabalho dos sapateiros— a confecção de sapatos novos —desde o final, a reparação de sapatos para os peregrinos do festival. A halachá está de acordo com os sábios.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
כל מלאכה – [all work] which is for the needs of he Festival/Holiday and he began it prior to the fourteenth [of Nisan] may complete it on the fourteenth. And even in a place where they had the practice of not doing work. But work that is not for needs of he Festival, in a place where it was the practice to do work, they may do it, but I n a place where it was the practice not to do it, even if he began it prior to the fourteenth, he may not complete it.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
Introduction
According to some commentators, this mishnah teaches that even in places where they did do work on the fourteenth of Nisan, the eve of Pesah, not all types of work were permitted. According to this understanding, the mishnah restricts that which we previously thought was permitted. Others understand this mishnah to refer to places in which work is generally not done. Our mishnah would then teach that in such places while most work is not done, some work may indeed be done. This mishnah then would be allowing that which we thought was prohibited.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
חייטים – are permitted on the fourteenth [of Nisan] in every place, for we found regarding them a leniency even greater than other artisans on the Intermediate Days of the Festival for the commoner who is not an artisan in this sews/mends in the normal manner. Therefore, on the fourteenth [of Nisan] which is more lenient than the Intermediate Days of the Festival, even an artisan is also permitted.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
Rabbi Meir says: any work which he began before the fourteenth, he may finish it on the fourteenth; but he may not begin [new work] on the fourteenth, even if he can finish it [on the same day]. According to Rabbi Meir one may complete already-begun work on the fourteenth of Nisan, the eve of Pesah, but one may not start new work. Starting new work is prohibited even if he will be able to finish it before the day is over, or more specifically before midday, at which point all work is prohibited.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
והספרים והכובסים – and similarly one who comes from abroad and one who leaves from prison takes haircuts and does laundry on the Intermediate Days of the Festival, and since we find for them an indirect legal permission on the Intermediate Days of the Festival, on the fourteenth [of Nisan] which is lenient, we permit for the entire world.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
The sages say: three craftsmen may work on the eve of Pesah until midday, and these are they: tailors, hairdressers, and laundrymen. Rabbi Yose bar Judah says: shoemakers too. The sages say that only three types of craftsmen can do work. All other types of craftsmen may not work, even if they can complete their work before midday. All three of these types of work are considered to be essential for the full appreciation of the holiday. Furthermore, these types of work are sometimes allowed even during the intermediate days of the holidays, if they could not have been done before the holiday (we will learn more about this when we learn Moed Katan). Therefore it is allowed on the day before Pesah as well. Rabbi Yose bar Judah adds that shoemakers are allowed to work on the fourteenth because the sages allowed pilgrims to Jerusalem to have their shoes fixed, if they had worn out on their travels to Jerusalem. In any case, even these types of craftsmen can only work until midday.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
אף הרצענים – for similarly those who come up [to Jerusalem] for the Festival repair their shoes on the Intermediate Days of the Festival. And the Sages hold that we don’t learn beginning the work of shoemakers who make new shoes first from the end of work the repair of shoes of those who go up [to Jerusalem] for the Festival. And the Halakha is according to the Sages (see Pesahim 55b).
