[Avodah] Rav Shimon Schwab on how Jewish women should dress

[Saul Guberman]

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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:38:49AM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
> : I just cracked a couple of dictionaries myself.  EZ Melamed's only
> : translation of "mata" is "'ir"; Jastrow offers both "land" and "city",
> : but none of his examples use land in the sense of "yard".
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:51, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> So, she was willing to go to town faputzt to make sure her husband
> wouldn't stray.
>
> Of course, we are told that a tzadiq yesod olam would have a YhR to
> match. So perhaps she was more worried about his wandering interests
> than others'.
>
>
We recently finished this aggaditah in our Shabbos shuir at shul.

 Abba Chilkiya & his wife were very special people.  The pretense for
telling this story is that they could make it rain. The story is presented
to show that their behaviour is not the norm.   After the story Abba
Chilkiya gives an explanation for all of the "strange" behaviours.  As for
his wife coming out to the City all dressed up to meet him; it is that he
requests his wife to come out into the city to greet him on his way home so
that he not be enticed to look at other women.
He did not have an estate.  You can see from the story in general that he
was poor.  He tells the Rabbis that he did not offer them food, when they
came to his house, because he does not have enough to share with them.  Also
he was wearing a borrowed coat in the story which he took off as some point
to protect it from getting ripped by his work.

Saul
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