Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Shabbat 123:19

במאי קמיפלגי רבי מאיר סבר משאוי הוא ורבנן סברי תכשיט הוא ודילמא שלפא ומחויא ואתיא לאיתוייה ורבי אליעזר סבר מאן דרכה למירמיה אשה שריחה רע אשה שריחה רע לא שלפא ומחויא ולא אתיא לאתוייה ארבע אמות ברשות הרבים

[this applies to] both a man and a woman. Now if you say that women are a separate people, surely it is<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The precept of donning tefillin. ');"><sup>16</sup></span>

Shut min haShamayim

Regarding those men who wear rings on their hands, and walk out wearing them in the public domain on Shabbat. They rely on the Mishnah (Shabbat 6:10) "One may go out with a locust’s egg, a fox’s tooth, and a nail from the cross of a convict for purposes of healing." They say that gold, too, is carried for the purpose of healing. I asked [in my dream] if their reasoning makes any sense. If it doesn't, they are liable for a transgression, as in the ruling of the Mishnah1Mishnah Shabbat 6:1. Rashi and Tosafot disagree on the Talmud's reinterpretation of the mishnaic text (Shabbat 62a:9). The reading proposed here fits Rashi on Shabbat 62a:9, as well as Rif Shabbat 28b, whereby wearing a ring with no signet is considered carrying for a man, and he is liable to bring a sin-offering.
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