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that rinsing one’s entire body by pouring water on it rather than bathing in the standard fashion may well be done even ab initio. The Talmud asks: According to whose opinion is our Mishnah? The Talmud answers: It is in accordance with the opinion of R' Shimon, as it was taught in a baraita: One may
The Mishnah addressed the permissibility of drying oneself with a towel after bathing on Shabbat, and added the phrase: And dried himself off even with 10 towels. The Talmud comments on the formulation of the Mishnah: The first clause teaches us a novel concept, and the latter clause teaches us a n
A baraita states: One may dry himself with a towel on Shabbat and leave it in the window of the bathhouse; and one may not give it to the bath attendants, because they are suspect in this matter of wringing out towels. R' Shimon says: One may dry himself with a single towel and carry it in his hand
Abaye said to Rav Yosef: What is the halakha with regard to carrying a towel home after using it to dry himself? Rav Yosef said to him: There is R' Shimon, there is R' Yehuda HaNasi, there is Shmuel, and there is R' Yoḥanan, all of whom permit it.
The Talmud elaborates: R' Shimon rules leniently, as we have already stated that he permits bathing and drying oneself with a towel and then bringing it home. R' Yehuda HaNasi agrees, as it was taught in a baraita that R' Yehuda HaNasi said: When we would study Torah with R' Shimon in Tekoa, we woul