We may not light with oil that must be burnt, on Yom Tov. R’ Yishmael says: We may not light with tar, because of honor due the Sab-bath. But the Sages permit [lighting] with all oils: [namely,] with sesame oil, with nut oil, with radish oil, with fish oil, with colocynth oil, with tar, or with naphtha. R’ Tarfon says: We may light only with olive oil.

We may not light with any product of a tree, except flax. And no tree-product can contract tumah-contamination from sheltering [a contaminated object], except flax. A wick made from a cloth that one twisted but did not singe — R’ Eliezer says: It is susceptible to tumah-contamination, and we may not light with it. R’ Akiva says: It is not susceptible to tumah-contamination, and we may light with it.

One may not pierce an eggshell, fill it with oil, and put it over the mouth of a lamp so that it [the oil] will drip, even if it [the container] is of earthenware. But R’ Yehudah permits [this]. However, if the potter attached it originally, it is permitted, be-cause it is a single vessel. One may not fill a bowl with oil, put it beside a lamp, and put the end of the wick into it [the bowl] so that it will draw [oil]. But R’ Yehudah permits [this].

One who extinguishes a lamp because he fears idolaters, because of bandits, be-cause of melancholia, or so that a sick person may fall asleep, he is exempt. [But if he does so] to spare the lamp, to spare the oil, or to spare the wick, he is liable. R’ Yose exempts in all of these [cases], except that of the wick, because he makes it [into] charcoal.