Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Sanhedrin 208:3

רדף אחריהם ומצא כדבריהם בא ונשקן על ראשן והביאן לביתן ועשה להן סעודה גדולה והיה מרקד לפניהם ואמר ברוך שבחר בזרעו של אברהם ונתן להם מחכמתו ובכל מקום שהן הולכים נעשין שרים לאדוניהם ופטרן [והלכו] לבתיהם לשלום

She weepeth, yea, She weepeth, in the night.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Literal rendering of Lam. I, 2. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> Why this double weeping? — Rabbah said in R. Johanan's name: Once for the first Temple, and once for the second. 'In the night' — on account of what happened at night. For it is written, And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried, and the people wept that night.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XIV, 1 — this was after the discouraging report of the Spies. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> Rabbah observed in R. Johanan's name: It was the night of the ninth of Ab, and the Almighty said to Israel, 'Ye have wept without cause: therefore will I appoint a weeping to you for future generations. Another interpretation of 'in the night': whoever weeps at night, his voice is heard.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Israel's weeping did not arouse any pity. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>

Sefer HaChinukh

The commandment to set up a place in which to defecate: That we were commanded that when our soldiers go out to war that we set up and designate a set place (see Tosefta Megillah 3:15) for the soldier, in which every man can go out to take care of his needs; so that their 'needs' not be [found] in very place and between the lodgings, like the [other] peoples do (Sanhedrin 104b). And about this it is stated (Deuteronomy 23:13), "And there shall be a yad for you outside the camp, etc." And the language of Sifrei is "A yad is always a place, as it states (I Samuel 15:12), 'and behold, he established a yad.'"
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