The Jewish Babylonian Talmud – Section Moed – Tract Sabbath – The general rule concerning the principal acts of labor on Sabbath.
p. 127 CHAPTER VII. THE GENERAL RULE CONCERNING THE PRINCIPAL ACTS OF LABOR ON SABBATH. MISHNA I.: A general rule was laid down respecting the Sabbath. One who has entirely forgotten the principle of (keeping) the Sabbath and performed many kinds of work on many Sabbath days, is liable to bring but one sin-offering. He, however, who was
