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Our daf uses points from our last Mishna to flush out the differences in halachot on Festivals and on Shabbat. Those points include clearing a room of stored produce for visitors, lowering drying fruits from the roof through a skylight, covering produce, wine and oil with cloths, placing a vessel beneath a leak. They also look at beekeepers who cover beehives over the rainy months. The bees are considered to be animals that are not 'meant' to be trapped.
Our next Mishna provides us with a list of activities that are prohibited by the Sages on Shabbat in the name of shevat, rest. It also tells us which activities are 'optional'. Forbidden activities include climbing trees, riding animals, swimming, clapping, and dancing. Optional activities include judging, betrothing, performing chalitza, or performing a levirite marriage. Although they are mitzvot, we are told not to consecrate, vow, consecrate objects to the priests, or separate teruma/tithes. All of these acts are forbidden on Festivals and Shabbat; we are told that the only leniencies on Festivals regard food preparation.
We look closer at the issue of instruments, dancing and clapping, even wedding celebrations on Shabbat and Yom Tov.