Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Chasidut for Yoma 149:10

(במדבר יא, ה) את הקשואים ואת האבטיחים רבי אמי ורבי אסי חד אמר טעם כל המינין טעמו במן טעם חמשת המינין הללו לא טעמו בו וחד אמר טעם כל המינין טעמו טעמן וממשן והללו טעמן ולא ממשן

The cucumbers and the melons.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 361, n. 4.');"><sup>18</sup></span> R'Ammi and R'Assi [were disputing its meaning], one said: They found in the manna the taste of every kind of food, but not the taste of these five;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Israelites remembered sadly these foods, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, garlic. which they had enjoyed in Egypt and which they now missed. Evidently the manna substituted for all other foods, but these five. The latter were 'absent' because these foods do not agree with women in pregnancy.');"><sup>19</sup></span> the other said: Of all kinds of food they felt both taste and substance, but of these the taste only without the substance.

Tzidkat HaTzadik

Times of descent which occur to a person in which he doesn't have any desire for Torah and service [of God] are a preparation for a great upliftment through the cry which he cries when he sees his fallen state and descent.
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