Commentary for Berakhot 79:9
א"ר חמא ברבי חנינא הרגיל בקצח אינו בא לידי כאב לב מיתיבי רשב"ג אומר קצח אחד מששים סמני המות הוא והישן למזרח גרנו דמו בראשו לא קשיא הא בריחו הא בטעמו אימיה דרבי ירמיה אפיא ליה ריפתא ומדבקא ליה ומקלפא ליה:
Rab Hamma b. R. Hannina said: He who makes it a habit to use black cumin will not suffer with pain of the heart. It is quoted in objection : Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel says : Black cumin is one of the sixty deadly poisons, and he who sleeps to the east of his store [of cumin], his blood is on his own head ! There is no contradiction ; the latter referring to its odour, the other to its taste. The mother of R. Jeremiah used to bake bread for him and sprinkle [black cumin] upon it, and then scrape it off.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The west wind will carry the odour to him with fatal results.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
She allowed the flavour of the cumin to penetrate into the bread, but would not permit it to remain because the smell was injurious.
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