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שהגיעו לפרקן, ולא הגיעו לשנים, בנות עניים — טופלות אותן בסיד, בנות עשירים — טופלות אותן בסולת, בנות מלכים — בשמן המור, שנאמר: ״ששה חדשים בשמן המור״.
who reached physical maturity, but had not yet reached the age of majority, and women who sought to remove hair for cosmetic purposes: They would smear daughters of the poor with lime; they would smear daughters of the wealthy with fine flour; they would smear daughters of kings with shemen hamor, as it was stated: “For so were the days of their anointing filled, 6 months with shemen hamor” (Esther 2:12).
מאי ״שמן המור״? רב הונא בר ירמיה אומר: סטכת. רב ירמיה בר אבא אמר: שמן זית שלא הביא שליש.
The Talmud asks: What is shemen hamor? Rav Huna bar Ḥiyya said: Setaket. Rav Yirmeya bar Abba said: It is olive oil extracted from an olive that has not yet reached a third of its growth; the acidic oil is effective as a depilatory.
תניא רבי יהודה אומר: אנפיקנין — שמן זית שלא הביא שליש, ולמה סכין אותו? מפני שמשיר את השיער ומעדן את הבשר.
It was taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda says that anpiknin is olive oil from an olive that has not reached a third of its growth. And why is it spread on the body? It is due to the fact that it removes [mashir] the hair and pampers the skin.
זה הכלל כל שהוא ממין דגן. תניא, אמר רבי יהושע: וכי מאחר ששנינו כל שהוא מין דגן הרי זה עובר בפסח, למה מנו חכמים את אלו? כדי שיהא רגיל בהן ובשמותיהן.
The Mishnah states: This is the principle: One violates these prohibitions on Passover with anything that is prepared from a type of grain. It was taught in a baraita that R' Yehoshua said: Now that we learned that by possessing anything that is a type of grain one violates the prohibition against leaven during Passover, why did the rabbis list these items individually? They could have simply stated the principle. The baraita explains that the rabbis provided a list of prohibited foods so that one would become familiar with these items and with their names, so that it would become widely known that these foods contain a small quantity of grain.