We may clear away even four or five baskets of straw or of produce to make room for guests or to avoid curtailment of study, but not a storehouse. We may clear away terumah that is tahor; demai; first tithe whose terumah has been separated from it; second tithe and consecrated property that have been re-deemed; and dry lupine, because it is food for the poor. But [we may] not [clear away] untithed produce; nor first tithe whose terumah has not been separated [from it]; nor second tithe nor consecrated property that have not been redeemed; nor colocasia; nor mustard. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel permits colocasia, since it is food for ravens.

Bundles of straw, bundles of twigs, and bundles of green branches, if we prepared them for animal feed, we may handle them; and if not, we may not handle them. We may invert a basket in front of chicks so that they may [use it to] climb up and down. A hen that has run away, we may push her until she enters. We may make calves and foals walk in a public domain. A woman may make her child walk. Said R’ Yehudah: When? At the time he raises one foot and puts down the other; but if he drags [his feet], it is prohibited.

We may not assist an animal in delivering its young on Yom Tov, but we may sup-port [it]. We may assist a woman in childbirth on the Sabbath; we may call a midwife from place to place for her; we may desecrate the Sabbath on her behalf; and we may tie the umbilical cord. R’ Yose says: we may even cut [it]. And all requirements of circumcision may be performed on the Sabbath.

R’ Eliezer says: If one did not bring an instrument [for circumcision] before the Sabbath, he should bring it on the Sabbath exposed; and in [times of] danger, he should cover it in the presence of witnesses. Furthermore, said R’ Eliezer: We may fell trees in order to make charcoal and to form an iron instrument. [But] R’ Akiva stated a rule: Any work that can be done before the Sabbath does not override the Sabbath; but [any work] that cannot be done before the Sab-bath does override the Sabbath.

We may perform all the necessities of circumcision on the Sabbath: we may circumcise, uncover [the corona], draw [the blood], and place a bandage and cumin upon it. If he did not crush [the cumin] before the Sabbath, he may chew [it] with his teeth and apply [it]. If he did not vigorously mix wine and oil before the Sabbath, each one should be added [to the bowl] by itself. We may not fashion a shirtlike bandage for it, but one may wrap a piece of cloth around it. If he did not prepare [it] before the Sabbath, he may wrap [it] around his finger and bring [it], even from another courtyard.

We may bathe the infant both prior to the circumcision and following the circumcision; and we may sprinkle [water] upon him by hand, but not with a utensil. R’ Elazar ben Azariah says: We may bathe the infant on the third day [following the circumcision] when it occurs on the Sabbath, as it is said: And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain (Genesis 34:25). A questionable one or an androgyne, we may not violate the Sabbath on his behalf. R’ Yehudah, however, permits [it] in [the case of] an androgyne.

One who had two infants, one to circumcise after the Sabbath and one to circumcise on the Sabbath, and he forgot and circumcised the one who was [to be circumcised] after the Sabbath on the Sabbath, he is liable; [if he had] one to circumcise before the Sabbath and one to circumcise on the Sabbath, and he forgot and circumcised the one who was [to be circumcised] before the Sabbath on the Sabbath, R’ Eliezer declares [him] liable for a sin offering. But R’ Yehoshua exempts [him].

An infant may be circumcised [either] on the eight, ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth [day], not earlier not later. How is this? In the normal course, [he is circumcised] on the eight; if he was born at twilight, he is circumcised on the ninth; [if he was born] at twilight on the eve of the Sabbath, he is circumcised on the tenth; [if] a festival [falls] after the Sabbath, he is circumcised on the eleventh; [in the case of] the two festival days of Rosh Hashanah, he is circumcised on the twelfth. A sick infant, we may not circumcise him until he recovers.

These are the shreds that invalidate the circumcision: flesh that covers the larger part of the corona. And he may not eat of terumah. If he was fleshy, he must rectify it for appearances’ sake. If he circumcised but did not expose the circumcision, it is as if he did not circumcise.

R’ Eliezer says: We may suspend a strainer on Yom Tov, and we may pour into a suspended one on the Sabbath. But the Sages say: We may not suspend a strainer on Yom Tov, nor may we pour into a suspended one on the Sabbath, but we may pour into a suspended one on Yom Tov.

We may pour water over wine-dregs so that they become clear; and we may filter wine through cloths or through a basket made of palm twigs; and we may put an egg into a mustard strainer. We may make a honeyed wine on the Sabbath. R’ Yehudah says: On the Sabbath [it may be made] in a cup; on Yom Tov [it may be made] in a bottle; and on [Chol] HaMoed, in a cask. [But] R’ Tzaddok says: Everything depends on [the number of] the guests.

We may not soak asafetida in warm water, but one may put [it] into vinegar. We may not soak vetches nor rub them, but one may put [them] into a sieve or into a basket. We may not sift straw with a sieve, nor put it on a high place so that the chaff will drop; but one may take it up in a sieve and pour [it] into the feeding-trough.