Musar for Shabbat 101:4
אמר ליה אביי טובא קמ"ל דאי ממתני' הוה אמינא ה"מ דבר שאין דרכו להטמין אבל דבר שדרכו להטמין לא קמ"ל
WHILE IT WAS YET DAY, IT MAY NOT BE COVERED AFTER NIGHTFALL.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 34a. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> IF IT WAS COVERED BUT BECAME UNCOVERED, IT MAY BE RECOVERED. A CRUSE MAY BE FILLED WITH [COLD] WATER AND PLACED UNDER A PILLOW OR BOLSTER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To prevent the sun from reaching and warming it. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
The Talmud frequently states אדם חשוב שאני "different yardsticks apply to important people." (Berachot 19, Shabbat 51, 142 et al.) It is no more than appropriate that people who desire לחזות בנועם ה', באור הגנוז, of which it is said הנסתרות לה' אלוקינו, "to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord," i.e. the original light which has been hidden, of which the Torah says that the "hidden things are G–d's alone," should be judged according to a different scale of values.
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