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Why does Tosafos (תוספות) say dam extraction is mutar in some cases but asur in others? The analysis examines contradictions between different Tosafos regarding melacha she'ein tzrich legufa, ein meskaven, and mekalkel. The resolution depends on whether we follow Rabbi Yehuda or Rabbi Shimon's positions.
This shiur analyzes the complex Tosafos (תוספות) on Kesubos 5b regarding dam mufkad pakid (blood extraction during intimacy). The discussion centers on apparent contradictions between different Tosafos that seem to present conflicting views on when such blood extraction is permitted or forbidden on Shabbos (שבת). The primary tension arises from Tosafos's treatment of melacha she'ein tzrich legufa (labor not needed for its own sake). One Tosafos suggests that according to Rabbeinu Tam, the blood extraction should be permitted as a drabanan (rabbinic prohibition) because it's melacha she'ein tzrich legufa combined with tzorech mitzvah (מצוה) (for the sake of a mitzvah). However, another Tosafos indicates that such combinations of factors (ein meskaven, mekalkel, and potentially melacha she'ein tzrich legufa) create multiple derabanan restrictions.
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Kesubos 5b
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