Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Reference for Avodah Zarah 12:14

והתניא רבי יהודה אומר אשה לא תסוד במועד מפני שניוול הוא לה ומודה ר' יהודה בסיד שיכולה לקפלו במועד שטופלתו במועד אע"פ שמצירה עכשיו שמחה היא לאחר זמן

Is it not taught: R. Judah says: A woman must not smear lime on her face on the intermediate days of the festival because it disfigures her. R, Judah, however, admits that if the lime can still be scraped off during the festival, it may be applied on the festival for though she is troubled by it for the while, it will eventually please her.

Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah

There, we have stated48Mishnah Mo`ed qaṭan1:5 (in the Mishnah editions, 1:7.) Babli Mo`ed qaṭan9b.: “Rebbi Jehudah says, a woman should not apply lime because it disfigures her49On the semi-holidays which are the intermediate days of the Passover and Tabernacles holidays, one should not do what one can do before the holiday. Therefore one cannot get a haircut on the holidays and men cannot trim their beards. Rebbi Jehudah holds that a woman cannot get a beauty treatment in the form of a face mask of lime which will remove all facial hair and will make her cheeks more red by increased blood circulation. Since his name is attached to this prohibition while the others are stated anonymously it follows that the majority of the Sages hold that a woman can get such a treatment at any time.
It would seem that one should write נִיבּוּל as pi`el but since the Babli consistently has ניוול they must have heard the Galileans pronounce the word with a soft ב (which does not exclude that Galilean בּ also was pronounced v; cf. Berakhot2:4 Note 167.)
.” Rebbi Ḥanina and Rebbi Mana. One said, they disagreed about lime which she removed on the holiday, but lime which she removes after the holiday is forbidden50Even for the Sages. While it is forbidden to marry on a holiday since the joy of holidays should not be mixed with the joy of marriage, a girl certainly can get engaged to be married on a holiday. The beauty treatment described was applied mainly to single girls to make them more marriageable. A treatment which terminates only after the holiday is a misuse of holiday time.. But the other says, they disagreed about lime which she removes after the holiday. But lime which she removes during the holiday is permitted. We did not know who said what. From what R. Ḥanina, Rebbi Yose said in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan, Rebbi Jehudah is consistent. Just as Rebbi Jehudah said there, temporary disfiguration is disfiguration, so he says here51In our Mishnah where he holds that the temporary pain the Gentile feels when repaying his debt is sufficient to wave the prohibition of commerce., temporary pain is pain. This implies that they disagreed about lime which she removed on the holiday, but lime which she removes after the holiday is forbidden52This therefore is not only R. Ḥanina’s opinion but stated practice..
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