Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Kabbalah for Yoma 70:1

מיתיבי (יחזקאל מד, יט) ולבשו בגדים אחרים ולא יקדשו את העם בבגדיהם

An objection was raised: And they shall put on other garments and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XLIV, 19. [The prohibition of the use of woolen garments in verse 17 shows that the reference is to the Day of Atonement, as on other days some of the priestly garments were made of wool; further, the words 'and they shall put on other garments' are taken as applying to their return in the afternoon into the inner court after they had gone forth into the outer court to put off their garments with which they ministered in the morning, and the words 'they shall not sanctify the people with their garments' are taken as a separate command forbidding the use by the priests of the garments of ministry when not in actual service (Rashi) .]');"><sup>1</sup></span> Would you not say that 'other' implies better garments? - No, 'other' implies inferior ones. R'Huna B'Judah, or, as some say, R'Samuel B'Judah learnt: After the community service is over, a priest for whom his mother made a tunic, may put it on and perform therein private service,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The removal of the spoon and coal-pan, which may be done even when the community is absent, hence is called 'individual or private service.');"><sup>2</sup></span> provided he hands it over to the community.

Reshit Chokhmah

One needs to persist in Teshuva year after year, and never forget how many times he angered his Creator, because all his sins are counted and written. If he does not (remember) then the Lamed-Yud Angel is ready to redeem back the same amount of sins he committed by warming himself up between her thighs—there he will fall and there will be no room until all the evil will be destroyed—since the Creator gives strength to the wicked to suffer their calamities, and for each and every warm arousal they are redeemed anew. The reason is as it says “To lie with her to be with her” (Genesis 39:10), and they say about it: “to lie with her” in this world, “to be with her” in the World To Come until he receives his punishment, as Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai explained his punishment in Pekudei 853, and study it because we will not quote it here. Therefore, his Teshuva is difficult since he needs to do Teshuva for each and every time that he boiled himself by emitting semen in vain.
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