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Today’s Daf Yomi Question:
A person can wear a bell sewn on his garment but not around his neck – although it is attached to a band and cannot easily detach (Tosfos); what is the difference between the two?
First of all, we know that Chazal usually round off their Takanos and Gezeiros. When they prohibit wearing bells around the neck, it is not connected to the reason. It is a blanket Issur.
In our case there is more to this. Tosafos said earlier that actually there is always a problem of something coming off, and only when it is sewed into the clothing we don’t make him take it off, since it will most probably stay on anyhow. Tosafos said that for the slave badge, being not that common, we do make him take it off. So, to wear a band specifically for its bells is obviously not like wearing clothing that has bells as part of its design, and it is therefore worse than the slave badge that is sewed into the clothing.
Why don’t we have the same worry about a scarf around the neck that we have about clothing of folding it?
A necklace/neckband would be difficult to fold and wear in a manner that would seem to look natural and un-suspicious to the master (who would thus detect the missing emblem) whereas a garmnet may be made to look unassuming even when folded a bit…
So why is it muttar to wear if emblem falls off? He might carry it
Shmuel is discussing an insignificant emblem made of ordinary clay that he will not bother carrying with him when broken off. He certainly will not dare to manually remove it since it was made by his master.
The doubled dress is not the usual wear whereas the scarf is always worn doubled up.