Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 241:7
אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל יום שהותרו שבטים לבא זה בזה מאי דרוש (במדבר לו, ו) זה הדבר דבר זה לא יהא נוהג אלא בדור זה
R. Simeon b. Gamaliel said: Israel had no [other] festive days like the fifteenth of Ab and the Day of Atonement on which the daughters of Jerusalem went out in white garments, borrowed [for the occasion], so as not to shame those who possessed none [of their own]. One well understands why the Day of Atonement [should be such a festive occasion for it is] a day of pardon and forgiveness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Lev. XVI, 29ff. ');"><sup>17</sup></span> [and it is also] a day on which the second Tabies<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. Deut. X, 1ff. [According to a tradition preserved in the Seder 'Olam 6, Moses spent three periods of forty days and forty nights on the mount, beginning with the seventh Sivan, and ending on the tenth of Tishri when he came down on earth with the second Tables.] ');"><sup>18</sup></span>
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