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and a rug, as an exile needs those items and they are portable. The rabbis interpreted the following verse describing the exile experience: “Therefore shall you serve your enemy whom YHWH shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall pu
Abaye said that we have a tradition: A poor person is only one lacking in intelligence, in agreement with the opinion of Rav Naḥman. In the West, Eretz Yisrael, they say: One who has this attribute, intelligence, in him has everything in him. One who does not have this attribute in him, what is
§ R' Alexandri said that R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said: The sick person recovers from his illness only when the heavenly court forgives him for all his sins, as it is stated: “Who forgives all your iniquity; Who heals all your diseases” (Psalms 103:3). Rav Hamnuna said: When he recovers, he returns to the
The Talmud relates: Rav Yosef himself fell ill and his studies were forgotten. Abaye restored his studies by reviewing what he had learned from Rav Yosef before him. This is the background for that which we say everywhere throughout the Talmud, that Rav Yosef said: I did not learn this halakha, and
The Talmud relates: When R' Yehuda HaNasi would learn 13 aspects of a halakha on a certain issue, he taught R' Ḥiyya 7 of them. Ultimately, R' Yehuda HaNasi fell ill and forgot all 13 aspects. R' Ḥiyya restored those 7 aspects that R' Yehuda HaNasi taught him by reviewing them before R' Yehuda HaNas