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Study Guide Shabbat 145 Today's daf is sponsored by Margie Zweibel l'ilui nishmat Chami Tzvi ben Yosef Binyamin z"l. And by Aviva Baumser in honor of Deborah Aschheim in honor of your mother Edith Aschheim & all the hard work & Torah dedication you have been doing in her & her husband's name. Kol HaKavod!!! The gemara delves into the concept of liquids that are squeezed onto a solid are considered food. Is that a subject of debate among tannaim? Fish brine is considered food and not a liquid and therefore can bbe squeezed on Shabbat. Was this said by Rav or Shmuel? If by Shmuel, it contradicts something he says elsewhere. Can one accept hearsay evidence? Only for testimony for a woman that her husband died in order to prevent her from being an aguna and allowing her to remarry. If one cooked an item before Shabbat, one can soak it in hot water on Shabbat, but if not, one can only pour hot water on it on Shabbat. However, there are some salted fish that are prepared by pouring hot water on them and therefore one cannot do that on Shabbat. The gemara discusses some foods that they ate in Babylonia and others that were eaten in Israel that were considered disgusting by those from the other locale. The gemara relates the tension between the rabbis in Babylonia and Israel in a story of rabbis from Israel who were speaking in a derogatory manner about the Babylonians but were then reprimanded by Rabbi Yochanan.