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Continuing with the subject of health, it was taught in a baraita: Ben Azzai says: On all beds, lie, except for the ground. On all seats, sit, except for a beam, lest you fall off. Shmuel said: Sleeping at dawn is as effective as forging [istema] is to iron. A bowel movement at dawn is as beneficia
Similarly, the Talmud relates: Bar Kappara would sell sayings for dinars; he would express his ideas in brief maxims. For example: If you are hungry, eat; do not delay eating, as the hunger may pass and your food will be of no benefit. So too, if you are thirsty, drink; while the pot is still boil
Abaye said to the rabbis: When you enter the paths of the city of Meḥoza in order to go out and defecate in a field, look neither to one side nor to the other, as perhaps women are sitting there and it is improper to look at them.
The Talmud relates: Rav Safra once entered a latrine, when R' Abba came along. To determine if he could enter, R' Abba coughed next to the door. Rav Safra said to him: Enter, master. When he came out, R' Abba said to him: Until now, you never entered Seir, the land of the Edomites, who are not s
The Talmud explains the opinion of Rav Safra, who told R' Abba that he could enter while in the latrine: Rav Safra held that it was dangerous for R' Abba. If he waited and was uncertain whether or not he could enter, he would endanger himself. As it was taught in a baraita: R' Shimon ben Gamliel say