Commentary for Yoma 138:6

(נחמיה ט, ד) ויצעקו אל ה' אלהים בקול גדול מאי אמור אמר רב ואיתימא ר' יוחנן בייא בייא היינו האי דאחרביה למקדשא וקליה להיכליה וקטלינהו לכולהו צדיקי ואגלינהו לישראל מארעהון ועדיין מרקד בינן כלום יהבתיה לן אלא לקבולי ביה אגרא לא איהו בעינן ולא אגריה בעינן

And R'Giddal [commenting thereupon] said: He magnified Him by [pronouncing] the Ineffable Name? -That was a decision in an emergency.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not to be taken as precedent. Lit. 'a decision for the moment'.');">⁹</span> And [they] cried with a great [loud] voice unto the Lord, their God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. IX, 4. [Here too the text is in disorder as the verse has no connection with the preceding verse to which it is adduced in explanation of the emergency referred to, the incident in the first verse having taken place on the first of the seventh month, whilst that of the second verse on the twenty-fourth. Var. lec. accordingly omit the first quotations from ibid. VIII, 4 and substitute in its place the second verse ibid. IX, 4; v. Bah.]');">¹⁰</span> What did they cry? - Woe, woe, it is he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The evil desire, tempter of idolatry.');">¹¹</span>

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