Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 126:19

אמר רבא אריג כל שהוא טמא מאו בגד תכשיט כל שהוא טמא מציץ אריג ותכשיט כל שהוא טמא (במדבר לא, נא) מכל כלי מעשה

— Here too it performs an action, for Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said in R. Johanan's name: There was a certain family in Jerusalem that had large steps, whereby their virginity was destroyed. So they made them leg-suspenders and placed a chain between them, that their steps should not be large, and then their virginity was not destroyed. R. Jeremiah awoke at that and exclaimed to them, Well spoken!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., (with vf understood) 'thy strength be well'. ');">¹⁸</span>

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