Shabbos 9:5-6

Shabbos 9:5

Returning to the topic of volumes of various substances that would render one liable if carried on Shabbos: enough wood to boil a chicken egg, enough spices to season an egg – these spices combine to form the requisite volume; enough nut shells, pomegranate rinds, and dye herbs to color the small cloth portion of a headdress; enough urine, natron (a sodium carbonate), lixivium (alkaline salts extracted from wood ash) or chalk to wash the small cloth portion of a headdress – Rabbi Yehuda says enough of these cleansers to test a stain.

Shabbos 9:6

One is liable for carrying any volume of pepper or itran (the residue of pitch); of various spices or various metals; of stones of the altar or earth of the altar; of worm-eaten books or worm-eaten mantles because people put them aside for proper disposal. Rabbi Yehuda says that if one carries any volume of things used to serve idols, he is liable as per Deuteronomy 13:18, “Nothing of the condemned property shall stick to your hand.”