Responsa for Taanit 61:7
בנות ישראל יוצאות וחולות בכרמים תנא מי שאין לו אשה נפנה לשם:
What is meant by 'taken away'? - R'Joseph learnt: Him his mother will bury.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He will die prematurely.');"><sup>8</sup></span> ON THESE DAYS THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM etc. Our Rabbis have taught: The daughter of the king borrows [the garments] from the daughter of the High Priest, the daughter of the High Priest from the daughter of the deputy High Priest,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Segan, v. Sanh., Sonc. ed., p. 97, n. 1.');"><sup>9</sup></span>
Shut min haShamayim
They responded: There is a great principle in the kashrut of animals: "One who adds, will have added life, and one who does not add, let him be gathered away." (Taanit 31a.4) It seems from this that one who is stringent is blessed.2The opposite principle is mentioned in Chullin 54a.10, see Mishneh Torah, Shechitah 10.12
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