Reference for Eruvin 207:22

דאי לא תימא הכי הא דאמר רב יהודה נשים משחקות בתפוחים אסור התם מאי אולודי קלא איכא אלא דילמא אתי לאשוויי גומות

is a preventive measure against the Possibility of his Picking up a pebble.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To throw it at a bird, and he would thus transfer an object from a private domain into a public domain, which is forbidden.');">⁵⁹</span> What, however, is the reason for the statement which Rab Judah citing Rab made that women who play with nuts commit a transgression? Is it not that this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Playing with nuts.');">⁶⁰</span> produces sound and that the production of any sound<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even one that is unmusical.');">⁵⁸</span>

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