Jewish%20thought for Yoma 57:8

הכי קאמר וביום הכפורים כי אמר ברק ברקאי הורידו כ"ג לבית הטבילה

but what can be said according to him who held that it was not meant to be written? - He could bring it in accord with what R'Benjamin B'Japheth said, for R'Eleazar said in the name of R'Benjamin B'Japheth: Why is the prayer of the righteous compared to a hind? To tell you that just as with the hind, as long as it grows, its antlers form additional branches every year, so with the righteous, the longer they abide in prayer, the more will their prayer be heard.

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