SATURDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p123

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

MISHNA VI.: Women may go out with a coin fastened to a swelling on their feet; little girls
may go out with laces on and even with screws in their ears. Arabians may go out in their long
veils and Medians in their mantillas; so may even all women go out, but the sages spoke of
existing customs. She may fold her mantilla around a stone, nut, or a coin (used as buttons),
provided she does it not especially on the Sabbath.
GEMARA: “Little girls may go out with laces.” The father of Samuel did not permit his
daughters to go out with laces nor to sleep together; he made bathing-places for them during the
month of Nissan, and curtains during the month of Tishri. “He did not permit them to go out
with laces?” Were we not taught that girls may go out with laces? The daughters of Samuel’s
father wore colored (fancy) laces and (lest they, take them off to show to others) he did not
permit them to go out with them.
“Fold her mantilla around a stone,” etc. But did not the first part (of the Mishna) say that she
may fold it, etc.? Said Abayi, the last part of the Mishna has reference to a coin (which is not
permitted). Abayi questioned: May a woman fold her mantilla on Sabbath shrewdly around a nut
for the purpose of bringing it to her little son? And this question is according to both; to him
who permits subtilty in case of fire, and also according to him who forbids it. According to him
who permits it, it may be that only in case of fire he permits, as if it were not allowed, he would
extinguish it; but this is not the case here. And according to him who prohibits it, it may be that
he does so because the clothing seller usually so bears the clothes; but here, as it is not the
custom to bear it so, it may be that it is permitted? The question remains.