Commentary for Moed Katan 31:23

שוב פעם אחד גזר רבי שלא ישנו לתלמידים בשוק מאי דרש (שיר השירים ז, ב) חמוקי ירכיך כמו חלאים מה ירך בסתר

not hide in shame seven days? [Let her be shut up without the camp seven days and after that he shall be brought in again].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XII, 14. t,gna');">⁴²</span> R'Hisda remarked, 'Our "separation" [in Babylon] corresponds to their "reproof" [in Palestine]'. But is their 'reproof' of only seven days' duration, not more? Is it not a fact that R'Simeon, Rabbi's son, and Bar Kappara were once sitting rehearsing the lesson together when a difficulty arose about a certain passage<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' ; something 'heard' or 'repeated', usually a halachic interpretation repeated in the name of a well-known master.');">⁴³</span> and R'Simeon said to Bar Kappara, 'This [matter] needs Rabbi [to explain it]', and Bar Kappara replied: 'And what forsooth can Rabbi [have to] say on this? ' He went and repeated it to his father, [at which] the latter was vexed, and [when] Bar Kappara next presented himself before Rabbi, he said: 'Bar Kappara, I have never known you!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., I don't (want to) know you, stay away, or I have never been able to understand your attitude towards me. B. Kappara clashed with Rabbi on several occasions. The cause, it seems, was not personal, but rather due to the different schools to which they each belonged. B. K. belonged to the 'Southern Sages' (Lydda and Caesarea) and was himself the compiler of an often quoted collection of Mishnah (Baraitha) .');">⁴⁴</span> He realized that he [Rabbi] had taken the matter to heart and submitted himself to the [disability of a] 'reproof' for thirty days. Again, on one occasion, Rabbi issued an order that they should not teach disciples in the open public market place. ⁴⁵ - How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Torah, which is allegorically represented by Shulammith, 'Perfection' or 'Pence', the beloved of Solomon (the divine) King of Perfection or Peace. Cf. Prov. III, 13-18; VIII, 1 ff.');">⁴⁶</span> The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain [the work of the hands of a skilled workman].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cant. VII, 2. (Cf. its counterpart V, 15) .');">⁴⁷</span> As the thigh is covered

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