Responsa for Moed Katan 26:16

ואלו מכבסין במועד הבא ממדינת הים ומבית השביה והיוצא מבית האסורין

R'Kahana thereupon put an objection to him [from the following]: 'A shop which opens into a colonnade may be opened and closed in the ordinary way; if it opens into the public domain, [the shopkeeper] may open one door and close one; and on the day preceding the last day of the Feast [of Tabernacles]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The bracket is omitted in the Tosefta (M.K. II, 13) and other texts and rightly so, as the addition confines the permission only to the last part of Tabernacles, whereas there is no reason to exclude that of Passover.');">²⁹</span> he may bring out fruit and decorate the markets all round the town in honour of the last day of the Feast'. [That is to say], 'In honour of the last day of the Feast, [he may open]; but if not in honour of last day of the Feast, he may not [open]! That is not difficult [to explain]: This latter prohibition refers to sale of fruits, whereas in the former case it is the sale of seasoning [pot-herbs that is allowed]. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>AND THESE [MAY] CROP<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'shave'.');">³⁰</span> [THEIR HAIR] DURING THE FESTIVAL [WEEK]: ONE ARRIVING [HOME] FROM ABROAD,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'From a maritime province'.');">³¹</span> OR FROM A PLACE OF CAPTIVITY OR ONE COMING OUT OF PRISON, OR ONE UNDER A BAN<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'repelled' for some flagrant breach of discipline, a religious or moral offence. The matter is discussed fully infra 16aff. The 'repelled' person was expected to go about in sorry apparel, with disordered hair during the time of disgrace. as if in mourning.');">³²</span> TO WHOM THE SAGES HAVE [JUST] GRANTED ABSOLUTION. AND LIKEWISE ONE WHO APPLIED TO A SAGE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A hakam, an ordained Rabbi, to absolve him of a vow to go unkempt for a period, which is found to have been made rashly and is now extremely inconvenient or impossible of fulfillment. Cf. e.g., Ned. IX, 6; 66a.');">³³</span> AND WAS ABSOLVED [BY HIM], AND A NAZIRITE<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Num. VI, 1-21. If he became defiled by contact with a corpse he had first to be ritually purified and shaved (ibid 6-9) ; or, on the completion of his Nazirite period (13, 18) .');">³⁴</span> OR A LEPER ON EMERGING FROM HIS [STATE OF RITUAL] IMPURITY TO [BEGIN] HIS PURIFICATION.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He had likewise to be shaved and to wash his garments. Lev. XIV, 8-9.');">³⁵</span> AND THESE [MAY] WASH [THEIR GARMENTS] DURING THE FESTIVAL [WEEK]: ONE ARRIVING [HOME] FROM ABROAD,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'From a maritime province'.');">³¹</span> OR FROM THE PLACE OF [HIS] CAPTIVITY, OR COMING OUT OF PRISON

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