Study Yoma folio 14A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
R' Yehuda means to say that the High Priest does not serve for the entire day even though the Torah allows him to do so, due to a rabbinic decree lest he forget that he is an acute mourner and eat consecrated food forbidden to him. Rav Adda bar Ahava said to Rava: And did R' Yehuda issue a decree le
The Talmud raises a question from a different perspective: And in a case like this, would the halakhic status of acute mourning take effect on him, considering that she is divorced? According to R' Yehuda, the High Priest must give his wife a provisional divorce in which case she is no longer his
Mishnah: During all 7 days of the High Priest’s sequestering before Yom Kippur, he sprinkles the blood of the daily burnt-offering, and he burns the incense, and he removes the ashes of the lamps of the candelabrum, and he sacrifices the head and the hind leg of the daily offering. The High Priest
Talmud: The Talmud asks: Who is the tanna who taught this Mishnah? Rav Ḥisda said: This Mishnah is not in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, as if it were in accordance with the opinion of R' Akiva, it is difficult. Didn’t R' Akiva say: With regard to a ritually pure person upon whom a spr
As it was taught in a baraita that it is written: “And the pure person will sprinkle it upon the impure person” (Numbers 19:19); this emphasis that he sprinkles the water upon the impure person comes to teach that if he sprinkled on the ritually impure person, that person becomes pure; but if he spr