Halakhah for Yoma 144:21

מתיב רב אדא בר אהבה ואמרי לה כדי יכול יהא בנו של משוח מלחמה משמש תחתיו כדרך שבנו של כהן גדול משמש תחתיו

The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. XIX, 10.');">³¹</span> R'Hanina said: This refers to one who studies the Torah in purity. What does that mean? - He marries a woman and afterwards studies the Torah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that he is undisturbed by impure thoughts.');">³²</span> The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 8.');">³³</span> R'Hiyya B'Abba said: It [the Torah] may be entrusted to testify as to those who study it.' The work of the skillful workman.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXVI, 31.');">³⁴</span> the work of the skillf embroiderer.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. v. 1.');">³⁵</span> R'Eleazar said: Those embroidered over what they had traced. It was taught in the name of R'Nehemiah: The embroiderer's is needle-work, therefore it has only one [visible] figure. The designer's is weaving work, therefore it has two different figures.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On the two sides of the cloth.');">³⁶</span> IN THESE WERE THE URIM AND THUMMIM INQUIRED OF. When R'Dimi came [from Palestine] he said: In the garments wherein the high priest officiates, the [priest] Anointed for Battle officiates, as it is And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXIX, 29.');">³⁷</span> i.e., for him who comes after him in greatness [of office]. R'Adda B'Ahabah, some say Kadi, raised an objection: One might have assumed that the son of the Anointed for Battle succeeds him in service, even as the son of the high priest succeeds him in service,

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