Study Shabbat folio 114A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
From where is it derived that changing clothes is a display of honor? As it is stated: “And he will remove his garments and will don other garments, and he will bring the ashes outside of the camp to a pure location” (Leviticus 6:4). The school of R' Yishmael taught: The Torah taught you etiquette.
R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said that R' Yoḥanan said: It is disgraceful for a Torah scholar to go out to the marketplace in patched shoes. The Talmud asks: Didn’t R' Aḥa bar Ḥanina go out in patched shoes? R' Aḥa, son of Rav Naḥman, said: They only prohibited patched shoes if there is a patch upon a patch.
And R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said that R' Yoḥanan said: A Torah scholar on whose clothes a fat stain is found is liable to receive the death penalty, as it is stated: “All those who hate me love death” (Proverbs 8:36), and the rabbis said: Do not read: Those who hate me [mesanai]. Rather, read: Those who
And similarly, R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said that R' Yoḥanan said: That which is written: “As My servant Isaiah went naked and barefoot for 3 years” (Isaiah 20:3), is not to be understood literally. Rather, naked means that he wore tattered clothing, and barefoot means that he walked with patched shoes.
We learned in a Mishnah there: A fat stain on a donkey’s saddle interposes, i.e., if the saddle becomes impure, its immersion in a mikveh is invalid unless the stain is removed. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: A stain interposes only when it is as large as an Italian issar but not smaller. And if