Chapter 98 – Festivals

98.1) Work forbidden on the Sabbath is forbidden on festival days.

98.2) Do not make cheese or butter on a festival day.

98.3) Spices that would lose their flavor if crushed in advance may be crushed on a festival if done correctly. (See source for details, or consult a rabbi.)

98.4) Do not split wood, break it by hand, or gather it on a festival.

98.5) Do not place wood on top of stones to start a fire.

98.6) Do not fan a fire with a bellows on a festival.

98.7) You may separate all the peas you need for the day, but do not do so with a dredge or a sieve or place them in water.

98.8) If you want to sift flour that has already been sifted, you must ask a non-Jew to do it or sift it in an unusual way.

98.9) You may knead dough on a festival.

98.10) Knead noodles or egg-barley used in soups on the day before the festival.

98.11) Hallel may be taken from dough kneaded on a festival, but it may not be burned.

98.12) Do not mix clay on a festival.

98.13) You may catch poultry to be killed for the requirements of the festival.

98.14) Do not catch domesticated doves.

98.15) Cut or burn the cord from the feet of poultry.

98.16) Anything that can be caught with your hands may be caught with a vessel.

98.17) Do not use anything you suspect may have been smeared on a festival.

98.18) Do not provide food and drink at close range to living creatures.

98.19) Do not handle poultry unfit for use.

98.20) Do not slaughter an animal except when absolutely necessary.

98.21) Do not skin a slaughtered animal until you examine its lungs to see if it is fit.

98.22) You may salt meat that would otherwise spoil.

98.23) Do not shape dough into a figure.

98.24) Do not plaster on the Sabbath or a festival.

98.25) Do not quench a fire on the Sabbath or a festival.

98.26) You may cover a fire with a vessel or ashes.

98.27) Scald or incandesce vessels to be used on festival days.

98.28) Do not wash dishes on the first day of festival to use the next day.

98.29) Do not make a fire to heat your house unless it is so cold that food congeals.

98.30) You may heat water to wash your hands, but not your whole body.

98.31) Do not draw fire on a festival.

98.32) Do not scatter spices on coals to perfume your house.

98.33) Do not perform actual work unless you are critically ill. Reference laws of the Sabbath to determine what “work” is.

98.34) You may carry needed things from one domain to another.

98.35) Do not cook and carry out food for beasts on a festival.

98.36) Do not bake or cook for the need of a non-Jew.

98.37) Do not carry anything from one domain to another for a non-Jew.