Shabbat 63A

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ביין חרדלי? במסב רחב, או במסב קצר? בחבר טוב, או בחבר רע? אמר רב חסדא: וכולן לזנות.

on black wine? Sitting on a wide divan or on a narrow divan? With a good friend or a bad friend? And Rav Ḥisda said: And all these allude to promiscuity. These are all euphemisms for different types of women. Well-kneaded bread refers to a woman who is not a virgin; white wine refers to a fair-complexioned woman; a wide divan refers to a fat woman; a good friend refers to a good-looking woman.

אמר רחבה אמר רבי יהודה: עצי ירושלים של קינמון היו, ובשעה שהיו מסיקין מהן, ריחן נודף בכל ארץ ישראל. ומשחרבה ירושלים נגנזו, ולא נשתייר אלא כשעורה, ומשתכח בי גזא דצימצמאי מלכתא.

On the topic of Jerusalem, Raḥava said that R' Yehuda said: The logs of Jerusalem used for fuel were from the cinnamon tree, and when they would ignite them, their fragrance would waft through all of Eretz Yisrael. And since Jerusalem was destroyed, these fragrant logs were buried, and only a sliver the size of a grain of barley remains, and it is located in the treasury of [gazzai] Tzimtzemai the queen.

מתני׳ לא יצא האיש לא בסייף ולא בקשת ולא בתריס ולא באלה ולא ברומח. ואם יצא ⁠— חייב חטאת.

Mishnah: Just as it is prohibited for a woman to carry out certain items unique to a woman into the public domain, the rabbis said that a man may neither go out on Shabbat with a sword, nor with a bow, nor with a shield [teris], nor with an alla, nor with a spear. And if he unwittingly went out with one of these weapons to the public domain he is liable to bring a sin-offering.

רבי אליעזר אומר: תכשיטין הן לו.

R' Eliezer says: These weapons are ornaments for him; just as a man is permitted to go out into the public domain with other ornaments, he is permitted to go out with weapons.

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