To uncover the hair of a woman is regarded as indecency¹ and all that is said in the Song of Songs such as, “Your stomach a bundle of wheat, your thighs pillars of marble, your two breasts etc.… ” all which is customarily covered is regarded as obscene to reveal. On the Sabbath let a man not speak about loved ones that died or are in pain, in order that he not grieve.² ed. Horeb, Vayera, p. 62. It is forbidden to speak of idle matters on the Sabbath, as it is written “pursuing thy business nor speaking thereof” (Isa. 58:13). And so we find in the Jerusalem Talmud,³ the mother of Rabbi Ishmael talked excessively, he said to her, “Mother, restrain yourself, because it is forbidden to talk.” Rabbi Ami said, grudgingly they permitted greetings on the Sabbath, and only because the mouth is accustomed and conditioned to speak.⁴

footnotes: ¹ Berakoth 24a. ² Midrash Tanhuma, ³ J. T. Shabbath 15:3. ⁴ Ibid.