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He brought a valuable cup worth 400 zuz and broke it before them and they became sad.
The Talmud also relates: Rav Ashi made a wedding feast for his son and he saw the rabbis, who were excessively joyous. He brought a cup of extremely valuable white glass and broke it before them, and they became sad.
Similarly, the Talmud relates: The rabbis said to Rav Hamnuna Zuti at the wedding feast of Mar, son of Ravina: Let the Master sing for us. Since he believed that the merriment had become excessive, he said to them, singing: Woe unto us, for we shall die, woe unto us, for we shall die. They said to
In a similar vein, R' Yoḥanan said in the name of R' Shimon ben Yoḥai: One is forbidden to fill his mouth with mirth in this world, as long as we are in exile (ge’onim), as it is stated: “When YHWH returns the captivity of Zion we will be as dreamers” (Psalms 126:1). Only “then will our mouths fil
We learned in the Mishnah that it is appropriate to stand and begin to pray from an atmosphere of gravity. Regarding this, A baraita states: One may neither stand and begin to pray, directly from involvement in judgment nor directly from deliberation over the ruling in a matter of halakha, as his p