Resting Your Tools and Not Only Yourself on the Festival

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 355:3

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Another interpretation: "And in all that I have said to you, take heed" (Exodus 23:13) comes to bring in the resting of vessels [the prohibition against letting one's tools and implements do work on the festival, not only one's own labor].

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