Rescuing Sacred Writings

This mishnah addresses the halakhic question of whether one may rescue sacred writings from a fire on the Sabbath—lest one violate the Sabbath by extinguishing the flame, a prohibited activity on the Sabbath—and where said scrolls may be kept for the duration of the Sabbath, as one may not move them from a private domain into a public domain on the Sabbath. The rabbis rule that scrolls that contain scripture, including tefillin, may be saved on the Sabbath even though these same scrolls, in some cases, are considered muktseh, prohibited to handle on the Sabbath.