Midrash for Yevamot 26:20

א"ל אמינא לך אנא איסורא דאמר רב שמן בר אבא אמר ר' יוחנן (אסתר ט, לא) לקיים את ימי הפורים בזמניהם זמנים הרבה תיקנו להם חכמים ואת אמרת לי מנהגא

you shall not form separate sects!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Why, then, was the Scroll allowed to be read on different days by different classes of people? ');">⁵⁷</span> (Is not Lo tithgodedu required for its own context, the All Merciful having said, 'You shall not inflict upon yourselves any bruise for the dead'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 13 for the rendering of E.V. ');">⁵⁸</span> — If so, Scripture should have said, Lo tithgodedu,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would have implied the prohibition of cutting or bruising the body. (V. p. 70, n. 13.) ');">⁵⁹</span>

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