Study Nazir folio 59A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Some say a different version of this statement: R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said that R' Yoḥanan said: A man who removes the hair of the armpit or the pubic hair is flogged, due to the prohibition: “A man shall not put on a woman’s garment” (Deuteronomy 22:5). The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: T
The Talmud asks: And what does the first tanna, who holds that the prohibition is by rabbinic law, learn from this verse: “A man shall not put on a woman’s garment”? The Talmud answers: He requires it for that which is taught in the baraita, where it states: “A woman shall not wear that which perta
Rather, it means that a man may not wear a woman’s garment and thereby go and sit among the women; and a woman may not wear a man’s garment and sit among the men. R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov says: From where is it derived that a woman may not go out with weapons to war? The verse states: “A woman shall
§ Rav Naḥman said: For a nazirite, it is permitted to shave armpit hair. The Talmud comments: And the halakha is not in accordance with his opinion. The Talmud reports that the rabbis said to R' Shimon bar Abba: We have observed that R' Yoḥanan does not have armpit hairs, despite his own ruling tha
The Talmud relates: There was a certain person who committed a transgression and was found liable to receive lashes before R' Ami. When they removed his clothes to flog him, his armpit was exposed, and R' Ami saw that he had not shaved his armpit hair. R' Ami said to his attendants: Leave him; thi