Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Halakhah for Yoma 148:16

(משלי כג, לא) כי יתן בכוס עינו יתהלך במישרים ר' אמי ור' אסי חד אמר כל הנותן

But let us infer from: 'If thou shalt afflict my daughters'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXXI, 50.');"><sup>16</sup></span> - One should infer concerning the affliction of a community from another affliction of a community, but not for the affliction of a community from the affliction of an individual. But let us infer it from the 'affliction' in Egypt, as it is said: And [the Lord] saw our affliction,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXVI, 7.');"><sup>17</sup></span> and in connection with which we said: This is the enforced abstinence from marital intercourse? - Rather [answer thus]: One infers for a heavenly affliction from another heavenly affliction, but one should not infer concerning a heavenly affliction from an affliction through human beings.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was God who afflicted Israel in the wilderness, Who bids them afflict themselves - thus may be said to afflict them Himself- on the Day of Atonement, whereas in Egypt it was Pharaoh who afflicted them.');"><sup>18</sup></span> Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna. that He might afflict thee.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. VIII, 16.');"><sup>19</sup></span> R'Ammi and R'Assi [are disputing], one said, You cannot compare one who has bread in his basket with one who has none,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Supra 18b.');"><sup>20</sup></span> the other said: You cannot compare one who sees what he eats with one who does not see what he is eating.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The taste of the manna according to tradition varied according to one's liking (v. infra) , so that he who ate it did not see actually the thing which he was tasting].');"><sup>21</sup></span> R'Joseph said: This is an allusion to [the reason] why blind people eat on without becoming satisfied. Abaye said: Therefore let him who has a meal eat only in daylight. R'Zera said: What Scriptural verse intimates that? Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. VI, 9.');"><sup>22</sup></span> Resh Lakish said: Better is the pleasure of looking at a woman than the act itself as it is said: 'Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire'. When it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XXIII, 31.');"><sup>23</sup></span> R'Ammi and R'Assi [dispute concerning it], one said: Whosoever fixes

Sefer HaChinukh

The commandment of the fast on the tenth day of Tishrei: To fast on the tenth day of Tishrei, and this is called The Day of Atonements (Yom HaKippurim), as it is stated (Leviticus 23:27), "But on the tenth of the month, etc. you shall afflict your souls." The explanation appears is Sifra, Achrei Mot, Chapter 7:3): "[This refers to] affliction that causes a diminishing of the soul. What is this? This is eating and drinking." And so [too,] did they, may their memory be blessed, explain in the Gemara (Yoma 74b). And the tradition also came about it, that it is forbidden for washing, anointing, wearing shoes, and sexual relations. And the language of Sifra, Parshat Achrei Mot, Chapter 8:3 is "From where [do we know] that Yom Kippur is forbidden for washing, anointing, [wearing shoes] and sexual relations? [Hence] we learn to say (Leviticus 23:32), 'A Shabbat of shabbaton'" - meaning that the doubling of Shabbat (rest) indicates resting from these things [as well as] resting from nourishment of the body.
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