(Mishnah): One may save all Kisvei ha'Kodesh from a fire [on Shabbos], whether or not we read in them;

Even if they are written in another language, they require Genizah (burial. One may not abandon them);

Why may we not read in them? It is due to Bitul (drawing people away from the lecture in the) Beis ha'Midrash.

(Gemara) Question: What is "whether or not we read in them''? (Even though the Seifa teaches that one may not read in them due to Bitul Beis ha'Midrash, surely we may save them!)

Answer: It is whether they have mistakes (then we may not read in them) or have no mistakes (then we may read in them);

(Beraisa): If a Sefer [Torah] has two or three mistakes on every Daf (column), one may fix it and read in it: If it has four [mistakes on every Daf], one may not [fix it] and read in it.

Inference: Since [the Seifa] teaches "why may we not read in them? It is due to Bitul Beis Medrash'', this shows that it refers to Torah, Nevi'im and Kisvei ha'Kodesh (Kesuvim).

Question: (The Mishnah says "even though they are written in another language, they require Genizah.'') May one save them from a fire? (If one may save them from a fire, surely one may not disgrace them, and there would be no need to teach that they require Genizah! We infer that one may not save them. Or, perhaps our Mishnah teaches "one may save... even if they are written in another language'', and "they require Genizah'' is the reason. Even though one may not read in them, they have some Kedushah, and require Genizah.)

Answer: The one who says that they are Metamei the hands, we may save them from a fire. The one who says that they are not Metamei the hands, we may not save them from a fire.

Rebuttal (and Answer #2): [A Mishnah teaches that] if [text that should be written in] Leshon ha'Kodesh was written in Targum (Arame'ic), it is not Metamei the hands, yet [a Beraisa teaches that] we may save it from a fire!

Support: Our Mishnah teaches "even though they were written in any language, they must be buried.'' (If this were a new matter, it would not say "even though...'', rather, "if...''! Rather, we must say like the second possibility above; "one may save... even if they are written in another language'', and "they require Genizah'' is the reason.) This teaches that we may save them from a fire! (We explained this Sugya like MEICHAL HA'MAYIM.)

Our Mishnah is like R. Shimon, for R. Shimon says that no Shevus (Isur mid'Rabanan) obstructs [saving] Kisvei ha'Kodesh.

Rejection: (All agree to our Mishnah.) What do they argue about? There [they argue about] disgrace, but here, all agree that we [transgress Shevus if needed to] save them from a fire.

According to whom [did our Mishnah need to teach that we save them]? It is according to R. Shimon ben Gamliel. Even though R. Shimon ben Gamliel says that [Chachamim] permitted writing Seforim only in [Leshon ha'Kodesh or] Yevanis, he agrees that we may save from a fire.

A case occurred in which R. Gamliel was standing by a building (being built) in Har ha'Bayis, and they brought to him Sefer Iyov written in Targum, and he told the builders to bury it under the row of bricks.