Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Responsa for Yoma 57:9

תני אבוה דרבי אבין לא זו בלבד אמרו אלא אף מליקת העוף וקמיצת מנחה בלילה תשרף בשלמא עולת העוף מאי דהוה הוה אלא קומץ

THEY SLAUGHTERED THE CONTINUAL OFFERING: When?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Did this error happen, on the basis of which the high priest was taken down to the place of immersion. The questioner takes the second incident reported in the Mishnah as a sequel to the first.');"><sup>12</sup></span> Would you say on one of the remaining days of the year? Had it then to be offered up? Hence [you will say that it happened] on the Day of Atonement, but is there any moon-light visible then?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At dawn.');"><sup>13</sup></span> - This is what it means: On the Day of Atonement, when the observer said: It is daylight, they would take the high priest down to the place of immersion.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The answer indicates that these two incidents are not to be connected. The error happened on an ordinary day. The second passage refers to the Day of Atonement and states that when the observer had said 'It is daylight', then, on a Day of Atonement, the high priest would be taken down, etc.');"><sup>14</sup></span> The father of R'Abin learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Men. 100a.');"><sup>15</sup></span> Not only concerning this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not only a sacrifice that was offered up during the night (instead of in its proper time, after day-break) .');"><sup>16</sup></span> was it said,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it is to be burnt.');"><sup>17</sup></span> but also concerning the pinching of a bird's head and the taking of a fistful of the meal-offering, [was it said] that if it was done during the night had to be burnt. That is quite right with regard to the bird designated for a burnt-offering, since the fact can no more be undone, but touching the fistful of the meal offering,

Shut min haShamayim

They responded: "These days are recalled and observed" (Esther 9:28) - just as they are observed by an individual, so too are they recalled by an individual. They also said: the reading of the Megillah is like Hallel (Megillah 14a) - just as the recitation of Hallel at its time is done by an individual, so too with the Megillah. As it is written (Psalms 22:3) "My God, I cry by day—You answer not; by night, and have no respite"3This Psalm is attributed to Esther, see Yoma 29a:4 - all this in first person singular. So too, "This is my God, I shall glorify Him" (Exodus 15:2) - first person singular. Some time later they responded again: "Isaac spoke and said, why have you come to me, and you hate me, etc." "And they said to him, behold we have seen that God is with you etc.," "And we shall send you in peace, for you are now blessed by God." "Let there be a bond between us, and let us make a covenant with you." (Genesis 26:27-29) "Like an apple among the trees of the forest is my lover among men, I craved to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my tongue." (Song of Songs 2:3) All this they reported to me in truth, in my dream, exactly as I have written.*The last set of verses seems to be an account of a conversation in the heavenly Yeshiva, where the Rif (Isaac) defends his position from that of the others.
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