Rif Shabbat 29b

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29b

{Shabbat 65a continues}
Gemara:
What is ZINITH? A growth caused by the soil.
{The pressure or chafing of the ground on the foot causing a wound or a bunion.}

By way of explanation, in Arabic, patza ala ratz. {??}

"YOUNG GIRLS MAY GO OUT WITH THREADS":
Shmuel's father did not permit his daughters to go out with threads {in their ears, to keep the hole from closing up}, nor to sleep together; and he made mikva'ot for them in the days of Nisan, and had mats placed in the days of Tishrei.

'He did not permit them to go out with threads':
But we learnt {in the Mishna}: YOUNG GIRLS MAY GO OUT WITH THREADS!
The daughters of Shmuel's father had colored ones {which they might remove and show}.

'He did not permit them to sleep together':
{Shabbat 65b}
In order that they should not become accustomed to a foreign body.

"ARABIAN WOMEN MAY GO FORTH VEILED, AND MEDIAN WOMEN MAY GO FORTH WITH THEIR CLOAKS THROWN OVER THEIR SHOULDERS. INDEED, ALL PEOPLE [MAY DO LIKEWISE]. BUT THAT THE SAGES SPOKE OF NORMAL USAGE":
By way of explanation, Arabians {fem}, reulot: Arabian women go forth veiled, as is written {Yeshayah 3:19}

יט הַנְּטִפוֹת וְהַשֵּׁירוֹת, וְהָרְעָלוֹת.

19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils;

and their name in Arabic is garatz.

"AND MEDIAN WOMEN MAY GO FORTH WITH THEIR CLOAKS THROWN OVER THEIR SHOULDERS":