Related for Shabbat 19:9
אמר רב אדא בר אהבה מתפלל אדם תפלתו בבית המרחץ מיתיבי הנכנס לבית המרחץ מקום שב"א עומדין לבושין יש שם מקרא ותפלה ואין צריך לומר שאילת שלום ומניח תפילין ואין צריך לומר שאינו חולץ
is the mealtime for gladiators;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose diet required special attention (Jast.); or perhaps, circus attendants. ');"><sup>23</sup></span> the second, for robbers;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi in Pes. 12b: both are rapacious, hence they eat so early; but robbers, being awake all night, sleep during the first hour of the day. ');"><sup>24</sup></span> the third, for heirs;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not having to earn a living, they can eat earlier than others. ');"><sup>25</sup></span>
Tosefta Berakhot
[A person] who enters a bathhouse: In a place where people are standing dressed, it is [permitted] there [to] read [the Shema], and [say the] prayer [of Shemoneh Esreh], and one does not even need to mention [that] greetings [are allowed there]. One can put on his Tefillin (Phylacteries) [there] and one does not even need to mention that he does not [need to] take his Tefillin off [there]. [In] a place where [some] people are standing dressed and [some people are standing] naked, it is [permitted] there [to say] greetings, but it is not [permitted] there [to] read the Shema and [say the] prayer [of Shemoneh Esreh], and one [does] not [have to] take off his Tefillin [there], but one may not put [his Tefillin] on [there] from the start. [In] a place where [all] people are standing naked, it is not [permitted to] greet there, and one does not even need to mention [that] reading [of the Shema], and prayer [of Shmoneh Esreh], and taking off his Tefillin [are all forbidden there], and one does not even need to mention that he may not put them on (i.e. Tefillin) [there as well].
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