Commentary for Berakhot 47:11
תרגמה רב נחמן בר יצחק כגון שהיו פניה טוחות בקרקע:
Rab Nahman b. Isaac explained this [as applying only to a case where] for instance, her nakedness is sunk in the ground.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
So that even the posteriors are covered; consequently the Mishnah offers no support to Rab Huna. Buchler, Der galilaische 'Am ha'ares, p. 252 n. 1, points out that the circumstance here debated is not far-fetched and imaginary ; but the extreme poverty into which a section of the people had sunk, so that some of them had actually no clothing, made it a question of practical importance. See also T. A. I. pp. 134 ff.
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