Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 148:4
תניא אידך תענו את נפשותיכם יכול ישב בחמה ובצנה ויצטער ת"ל וכל מלאכה לא תעשו מה מלאכה דבר שחייבין עליו במקום אחר אף ענוי נפש שחייבין עליו במקום אחר ואי זה זה זה פגול ונותר
just as the [prohibition of] labour [means]: sit and do nothing, so does [the enjoinment of] affliction [signify]: sit and do nothing.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The affliction enjoined is negative; deny to yourself certain things, abstain from them. It does not demand self-affliction by specific activity, such as sitting in the sun on a hot day.');"><sup>3</sup></span> But say perhaps: If one sit in the sun and is warm, one may not say unto him: rise and sit in the shade; or, when he sits in the shade and is cool, one may not tell him: rise and sit in the sun?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In this case affliction would take the negative form of abstaining from comfort, in accord with the proposition suggested.');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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