📖 SATURDAY PRAYER: NETZACH-YESHIVAT HAVERIM יְשִׁיבָה חברים – BABYLONIAN TALMUD p149

READING: BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND DAWN OF SATURDAY

“For paint,” etc. Is it not a fact that people never dye one eye only? Said R. Huna. Modest
women veil one eye and only paint the other. To this explanation some one objected, viz.: For
paint as a remedy the prescribed quantity is as much as will dye one eye, said R. Simeon b.
Elazar, but as a means for beautifying the prescribed quantity is as much as will dye two eyes.
Hillel, the son of R. Samuel b. Nahmeni, explained it by saying that R. Simeon b. Elazar
referred to country damsels who dye both eyes.
“For bird lime as much as is sufficient to put on a lime twig.” There is a Boraitha: As much as is
sufficient to put on a twig for the purpose of catching birds.
“For pitch and sulphur,” etc. A Boraitha states: Sufficient to fill up a hole in a quicksilver tube.
“For loam,” etc. A Boraitha states: Sufficient to fill up the cracks in a small stove.
“For clay,” etc. The rabbis taught: It is prohibited to carry out hair for the purpose of mixing it
with clay used to cover a goldsmith’s bellows-pipe with.
“For lime,” etc. A Boraitha states: To cover the smallest finger of a damsel. Said R. Jehudah in
the name of Rabh: Daughters of Israel, when they become of age, and they have not yet
developed the signs of puberty, the poor smear their bodies with lime, the rich ones with fine
meal, and princesses with myrrh oil. What is myrrh oil? stakth. And R. Jeremiah b. Aba said:
Olive oil from olives which were only one third ripe. There is a Boraitha: R. Jehudah said: It is called (in Menachoth) anphiknun (oμfanion); and why do they anoint with this? Because it removes the hair and makes the complexion clear. R. Bibi had such a daughter and he anointed her with the same, each member of her body separately; and finally one of the prominent men paid him four hundred zuz and
married her. He had a Gentile neighbor who also had such a daughter, and he anointed her
whole body at one time, and she died; said he: “R. Bibi has murdered my daughter.” Said R.
Na’hman: “R. Bibi, who used to drink beer, his daughter needed the anointing, but our daughters
do not need it, for we do not drink beer.”