Rif Shabbat 25b

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25b

{Shabbat 54b continues}
"OR WITH A BELL., EVEN IF IT IS PLUGGED UP":
Because it looks like going to the fair.

"OR WITH A LADDER [-SHAPED YOKE] AROUND ITS NECK":
Rav Huna said: That is a jaw bar. {Jastrow: a bandage or bar under the jaw}
For what purpose is it made? For where it has a bruise, lest it chafe it afresh.

"OR WITH A STRAP ON THEIR LEGS":
It is put on him [the ass] as a guard {gizra`}.

Gizra, we have seen in it two explanations. There is one who said that their footsteps are narrow and short, and their ankles and feet touch one another, and they are damaged. And they make them a cloth, or straps, and tie them on their ankles to that they are not damaged.

And some explain that when the hoof of the foot of the animal, they tie it with a strap, such that it heals and returns to as it was.

"FOWLS MAY NOT GO OUT WITH RIBBONS":
Which are put on them, for a sign, that they should not be exchanged.

"OR WITH A STRAP ON THEIR LEGS":
Which is fastened on them to restrain them from breaking utensils.

"RAMS MAY NOT GO OUT WITH A WAGGONETTE":
[Its purpose is] that their tails may not knock [against rocks, etc.].

"EWES MAY NOT GO OUT PROTECTED [CHANUNOTH]":
What is the meaning of CHANUNOTH?
Rav Huna said: there is a certain wood in the sea towns called chanun, whereof a chip is brought and placed in her nostril to make her sneeze, so that the worms in her head should fall out.
If so, the same [is required] for males?
Since the males butt each other, they fall out in any case.

Shimon the Nazir said: A chip of the juniper tree [is placed in its nostril].

"NOR MAY A CALF GO OUT WITH A GIMON":
What is the meaning of gimon?
Rav Huna said: A little yoke {to accustom it to bend its head under the yoke when it grows up}.
Rav Ashi {??} said: Where is it implied that 'GIMON' connotes bending?
For it is written (Yeshaya 58:5):

ה הֲכָזֶה, יִהְיֶה צוֹם אֶבְחָרֵהוּ--יוֹם עַנּוֹת אָדָם, נַפְשׁוֹ; הֲלָכֹף כְּאַגְמֹן רֹאשׁוֹ, וְשַׂק וָאֵפֶר יַצִּיעַ--הֲלָזֶה תִּקְרָא-צוֹם, וְיוֹם רָצוֹן לַיהוָה.

5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

"NOR A COW WITH THE SKIN OF A HEDGEHOG":
It is placed upon it to prevent hedgehogs {Jastrow: Believed to suck and injure the udders of cattle} from sucking it.

"NOR WITH THE STRAP BETWEEN ITS HORNS":
It was stated {by Amoraim}:
Rav Chiyya bar Ashi cited Rav: Whether for decoration or protection, it is forbidden.
And Rav Chiyya bar Avin said: For decoration, it is forbidden, and for protection, it is permitted.
{the girsa in our gemara has the above as a dispute between Rav and Shmuel.}

And the halacha is like Rav, as we have written above, that any additional guarding is considered a burden.

"R. ELEAZAR B. 'AZARIAH'S COW":
They learnt {tana}: This was not his, but a female neighbour of his; yet since he did not protest thereat, it was designated his.

It was said {by Amoraim}:
Rav, Rabbi Chanina, Rav Chanina and Rabbi Yochanan taught [the following] (In the whole of the Order Mo'ed whenever this pair occur some substitute Rabbi Yonatan for Rabbi Yochanan): Whoever can forbid his household [to commit a sin] but does not, is seized for [the sins of] his household; [if he can forbid] his fellow citizens, he is seized for [the sins of] his fellow citizens; if the whole world, he is seized for [the sins of] the whole world.

Rav Papa said: Therefore, the members of the Resh Galutha's [household] are seized for the whole world.

END PEREK FIVE

BEGIN PEREK SIX

{Shabbat 57a}
MISHNA:
WHEREWITH MAY A WOMAN GO OUT, AND WHEREWITH MAY SHE NOT GO OUT {on Shabbat}?
A WOMAN MAY NOT GO OUT WITH RIBBONS OF WOOL, LINEN RIBBONS, OR FILLETS ROUND HER HEAD {all three for tying her hair}; NOR MAY SHE PERFORM RITUAL IMMERSION WHILST WEARING THEM, UNLESS SHE LOOSENS THEM.

(And since during weekdays she may not immerse with them, unless she loosens them, she should not go out with them lest the need for immersion of mitzva occur for her, and she will come to undo them, and she will come to carry them four cubits in the public domain.)

[SHE MAY NOT GO OUT] WITH FRONTLETS {ornaments worn on the forehead}, GARLANDS [SARBITIN] {to the wig on which they are generally sewn}, IF THEY ARE NOT SEWN,
OR WITH A HAIR-NET [KABUL] INTO THE STREET {public domain}, OR WITH A GOLDEN CITY {an ornament which contained a picture of Jerusalem}, OR WITH A NECKLACE [KATLA]. OR WITH EAR-RINGS, OR WITH A FINGER — RING WHICH HAS NO SIGNET, OR WITH A NEEDLE WHICH IS UNPIERCED. YET IF SHE GOES OUT WITH THESE, SHE IS NOT LIABLE TO A SIN-OFFERING.