WHAT'S A BURDEN?

What a "burden" is according to Scribal Law (re: Sabbath observance):

* Food equal in weight to a dried fig

* Enough wine for mixing in a goblet

* Milk enough for one swallow

* Honey enough to put upon a wound

* Oil enough to anoint a small member

* Water enough to moisten an eye-salve

* Paper enough to write a customs house notice upon

* Ink enough to write two letters of the alphabet

* Reed enough to make a pen ...