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תנו רבנן: המוציא שיער כדי לגבל בו את הטיט. [טיט] לעשות פי כור של צורפי זהב.
A baraita states: One who carries out hair is liable in a measure equivalent to that which is used to knead clay with it, as hair would be mixed with clay to reinforce it. The measure that determines liability for carrying out clay is if it is sufficient to make an opening for the bellows to be placed in a gold refiners’ crucible.
סיד כדי לסוד. תנא: כדי לסוד אצבע קטנה שבבנות. אמר רב יהודה אמר רב: בנות ישראל שהגיעו לפירקן ולא הגיעו [לשנים], בנות עניים — טופלות אותן בסיד. בנות עשירים — טופלות אותן בסולת, בנות מלכים — טופלות אותן בשמן המור, שנאמר: ״ששה חדשים בשמן המור״. מאי שמן המור? רב הונא בר חייא אמר: סטכת. רב ירמיה בר אבא אמר: שמן זית שלא הביא שליש. תניא, רבי יהודה אומר: אנפיקנון — שמן זית שלא הביא שליש. ולמה סכין אותו — שמשיר את השיער ומעדן הבשר.
We learned in the Mishnah: The measure that determines liability for carrying out lime is equivalent to that which is used to spread as a depilatory on the smallest of girls. A tanna taught in a Tosefta: In a measure equivalent to that which is used to spread on the finger of the smallest of girls, who would use lime to soften and pamper the skin. Rav Yehuda said that Rav said that initially, lime was used for a different purpose. It was used for daughters of Israel who reached physical maturity, but had not yet reached the age of maturity, 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). 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. It was taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda says that anfiknon is olive oil from an olive that has not reached a third of its growth. And why is it spread on the body? Because it removes the hair and pampers the skin.
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