## Rashi on Shabbat Daf 23b

###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:1:1)

ומפני בטול עניים - שלא היו יודעים מתי יקצור אותם:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**And due to causing the poor to be idle:** Since they would not know when he will harvest them.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:1:2)

מפני החשד - שהעוברין רואין בגמר קצירו שהוא מכלה את הכל לא ידעו שנתנה כבר:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Due to suspicion:** As the passersby will see at the end of his harvest that he is taking everything. They will not know that he already gave it.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:3
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:1:3)

ומשום לא תכלה - דמשמע שעת כילוי:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Due to, "You shall not finish":** As it implies the time of finishing.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:4
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:1:4)

אטו כולהו - הני דאמרן לא טעמא דלא תכלה קא מפרשי מאי שנא שעת כילוי:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Aren’t all of them:** Those that we said, are they not explaining the reason of, "You shall not finish" - how is the time of finishing different?


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:5
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:1:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:1:5)

אמר רבא מפני הרמאין - העוברין על לא תכלה ואומרים כבר הנחנוה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Rava said, "Due to cheaters":** Those that transgress, "You shall not finish," and say, "We have already left it."


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:2:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:2:1)

שתי פיות - שהנרות שלהם של חרס הן ומכוסין ועושים לו נקב בצדי כסויו להכניס לו הפתילה והוא הפה ולמעלה בכיסויו יש נקב קטן וגם חלל יש למעלה מן הכסוי וממלאו שמן והוא נכנס דרך הנקב מעט מעט אם יש בו שני נקבים משני צדדין עולה לשני בני אדם למהדרין העושין נר לכל אחד ואחד:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Two spouts:** As their lamps were of clay. And they were covered, so they made a hole on the sides of the cover to insert a wick into it, and that is the spout. And above, in the cover, there is [another] small hole; and there is also an empty space above the cover and he fills it with oil, and it enters through the [small] hole, little by little. If it has two holes from two sides, it counts for two people as beautified (*mehadrin*) - those that do a lamp for each person.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:2:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:2:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:2:2)

עשאה כמדורה - שהאש מתחברת לאמצעיתה ואינו דומה לנר:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Made it like a bonfire:** As the fire connects in its center and it is not similar to a lamp [any more].


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:3:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:3:1)

נר ביתו ונר חנוכה - נר ביתו בשבת והוא עני ואין לו כדי לקנות שמן לשתי נרות:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**A lamp for his home or a Hanukkah lamp:** A lamp for his home on Shabbat. And he is poor and does not have enough to buy oil for both lamps.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:3:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:3:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:3:2)

שלום ביתו - והכי אמרינן לקמן (שבת דף כה:) ותזנח משלום נפשי זו הדלקת נר בשבת שבני ביתו מצטערין לישב בחשך:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Peace in his home:** And this is what we say later (Shabbat 25b): "And my soul is removed far off from peace" (Lamentations 3:17) - that is the [absence of the] kindling the Shabbat lights. As the people of his household will be pained to sit in the dark.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:1)

בנים תלמידי חכמים - דכתיב (משלי ו׳:כ״ג) כי נר מצוה ותורה אור על ידי נר מצוה דשבת וחנוכה בא אור דתורה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Children who are Torah scholars:** As it is written (Proverbs 6:23), "For the commandment is a lamp; and Torah is light" - through the lamp of the commandment of Shabbat and Channukah, comes the light of Torah.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:2)

דרבי אבין נגרא - חרש עצים:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Of Rabbi Avin Nagra:** [*Nagra* means] a cutter of wood.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:3
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:3)

בשרגא - דשבת:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**With light** of Shabbat.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:4
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:4)

חליף ותני - עובר ושונה כלומר עובר תמיד:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Exchange and teach:** Pass by and teach, meaning to say he would always pass by.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:5
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:5)

דבי נשא - אביו ואיכא דאמרי חמיו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**In the family's house:** [Of] his father; and some say, his father-in-law.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:6
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:4:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:4:6)

נפק מינייהו - דחתנו כבנו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Emerged from them:** For his son-in-law is like his son.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:1)

מאחרה ומדלקת - נר של שבת סמוך לחשכה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Would kindle late** the Shabbat lights, close to dark.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:2)

לא ימיש - קרא יתירא הוא להך דרשה דהא כתיב וה' הולך לפניהם יומם:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Departed not:** This is an extra passage, that is why it was expounded. For it was [already] written (Exodus 13:21), "And the Lord went in front of them during the day [in the pillar of cloud … and during the night in the pillar of fire]."


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:3
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:3)

עמוד הענן - של יום משלים אורו לעמוד האש שהיה עמוד האש בא קודם שישקע עמוד הענן אלמא אורח ארעא בהכי:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**The pillar of cloud** of the day would complete the light of the pillar of fire. For the pillar of fire would come before the pillar of cloud would set. Hence this is the way of the world.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:4
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:4)

לאקדומי - בעוד היום גדול:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Do it earlier:** When the [remainder of the] day is still long.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:5
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:5)

תנינא - שונה אני:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**It was learned:** I taught.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:6
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:5:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:5:6)

שלא יקדים - דלא מינכרא שהיא של שבת:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**To not make early:** Since it would not be noticeable that it is for Shabbat.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:6:1)

דרחים - אוהב:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Who is *racheim*:** Loves.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:6:2)

הוו ליה בנין רבנן - ואהבתו עליהם כאב על בן:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Will have children who are Sages:** And his love for them will be like that of a father for his children.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:3
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:6:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:6:3)

ואי לאו בר הכי - שאינו רגיל לעסוק בתורה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**And if he is not capable:** As he is not accustomed to being involved with Torah.


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:1
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:7:1)

ולשריפה עומד - שאסור באכילה:


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:7:2)

שמצוה עליו לבערו - דילמא אתי ביה לידי תקלה דאכילה:


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:3
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:7:3)

שמא יטה - כדי שיתבער מהר:


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:4
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:7:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:7:4)

ביום טוב - דליכא למיחש להטייה לישתרי:


###### Rashi on Shabbat 23b:8:2
[Rashi on Shabbat 23b:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Shabbat/r/23b:8:2)

בערב שבת - והוא צריך להדליקה מבעוד יום נמצא שורף קדשים ביו"ט ולקמן בפרקין (שבת דף כד:) ילפינן מקראי דאין שורפין: