MISHNAH: If an amphora broke, one saves from it food for three meals and tells others: come and save for yourselves [Cf. Mishnah 16:3. The object is an amphora filled with wine or olive oil.] ; only one may not absorb it in a sponge [In itself this is not forbidden, but it is rabinically prohibited since we are afraid that he will squeeze the sponge on the Sabbath to recoup his wine.] . One does not squeeze fruits to extract their juice [This is forbidden under the category of threshing.] and if it seeped out by itself it is forbidden. Rebbi Jehudah says, if they are solid food, what comes from them is permitted [If the fruit is to be eaten, the juice which seeps from it is permitted since there is no reason rabbinically to forbid since nobody will want to squeeze it. But for fruits used to make juice the seepage is rabbinically forbidden.] , but if they are for drinks, what comes from them is forbidden. What flows from itself from honeycombs which he crushed on Friday is forbidden, but Rebbi Eliezer permits it [He does not suspect people to crush honeycombs on the Sabbath.] .
MISHNAH: Everything which was in hot water [Cooked or soaked in hot water.] on Friday one soaks [Soaking is for an extended period, rinsing is short term.] in hot water on the Sabbath but anything which was not in hot water on Friday one rinses [Soaking is for an extended period, rinsing is short term.] in hot water on the Sabbath except for old salted fish and anchovies in salt and Spanish mackerel [Greek κολίας, -ου, τό.] , for which rinsing is the end of preparation [Therefore this is biblically forbidden as “hitting with a hammer”.] .
MISHNAH: A person may break open an amphora [If the amphora is tightly closed with clay that sticks to its walls, one may open it by damaging the vessel even though the intent is for a positive action.] to eat dried figs from it; only he may not intend to make it into a vessel. One does not drill a hole in the plug of an amphora, the words of Rebbi Jehudah [He insists that the only way is to remove the entire cover, not to drill a hole into it.] , but Rebbi Yose permits. One may not drill a hole in its [The cover’s side.] side, and if it has a hole one may not close it with wax because he smears [This is forbidden under the header “rubbing clean”, cf. Chapter 7, Note 5.] . Rebbi Jehudah said, a case came before Rabbon Joḥanan ben Zakkai in Arab and he said, I fear that he incurred liability for a purification sacrifice [Cf. Chapter 16, Notes 133–137.] .
MISHNAH: One may put food in a cistern for preservation [In all cases mentioned in this sentence, the materials to be cooled or warmed are in a separate container.] , and potable water into bad one to cool, and cold water into hot to warm it. One whose garments became soaked on the road walks in them without worry [The water absorbed by his garments are part of the garment, not a load.] . If he comes to an outer courtyard he puts them out to dry in the sun [Even though drying by artificial means is forbidden.] but not in public [That it should not look as if he washed on the Sabbath.] .
MISHNAH: One who bathes in the waters of a cave or in the waters of Tiberias dries himself even with ten towels [Latin linteum, -i, n., “linen” (scil. cloth”.] but may not bring them in his hand [Even at a place where carrying is permitted, since one suspects that he will squeeze the water out of his towel.] . But ten people dry with one towel their faces, and their hands, and their feet, and bring it in their hands [If carrying is permitted at the place, a group may bring a single towel since they are many and can check on one another.] .
MISHNAH: One anoints and massages the belly but one does not exercise or scratch [The latter are exertions inappropriate for the Sabbath.] . One does not go to a mud-bath [Greek πήλωμα, -ατος, τό, “mud”.] , nor does one make an emetic [S. Liebermann (Tosefta ki-Fshutah Šabbat p. 279) notes “almost certainly this is ἐπὶ καταφυσᾶν” “to throw up”.] on the Sabbath, nor does one stretch a baby, nor set a fracture. If somebody’s hand or foot became dislocated he cannot force it back with cold water but he may wash in his usual way and if this healed him, he was healed.