The Gemara continues its examination about carrying out hides on Shabbat. The rabbis attempt to compare amounts with those that are permitted regarding carrying other items, including promissory notes, receipts, wool, herbs that are soaked in water and ready to use as dyes, herbs not soaked yet for dyes, seeds of garden plants before they have been sowed, fertilizer for one leek, waste water used to knead clay, and more.
We learn that there are three hides, and each is a different size used for different purposes. One not tanned at all must be smaller than something used to wrap a small shekel weight. A hide that has been salted must be smaller than that what is used to make an amulet. One that has been salted and treated with flour can be the size of a get, a bill of divorce.
Turning their attention to limitations on carrying parchment into the public domain on Shabbat. We learned that one is liable for carrying that equivalent to that which is used to write the shortest part in the phylacteries, the Shema. But hadn't we learned that we are liable for carrying out parchment and dokhsostos, part of the hide that is less malleable, likely with the hair of the animal on it, is the size of a mezuzah scroll. The rabbis argue about where one must write on the parchment and on the dokhsostos.
The rabbis return to the Mishna to discuss liability for carrying out ink.
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