Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 38:15

מיקירי ירושלים לא היו ישנין כל הלילה כדי שישמע כ"ג קול הברה ולא תהא שינה חוטפתו תניא אבא שאול אמר אף בגבולין היו עושין כן זכר למקדש אלא שהיו חוטאין

Except the Lord build a house, they labour in vain that build it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. CXXVII, 1. By implication: Except your service will be motivated by reverence for God, it will be in vain. ohkaurh hrheh ohkaurhca ,gsv-hheb ,usvhv hgsn');">²⁵</span> Some of the worthiest of Jerusalem<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [ 'the nobility of Jerusalem' designated also v. Klein I (1926) p. 74ff.]');">²⁶</span> did not go to sleep all the night in order that the high priest might hear the reverberating noise,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the people awake around him, singing and amusing him.');">²⁷</span>

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