Study Yoma folio 19B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
is there any matter that we are unable to perform and our agents are able to perform? The role of the agent is to perform a task on behalf of the one who commissioned him. The agent cannot perform a task that the one who commissioned him is unable to perform. Since it is prohibited for Israelites t
§ The Mishnah continues: After this oath, he would leave them and cry and they would leave him and cry. The Talmud explains: He turned aside and cried due to the indignity that they suspected him of being a Sadducee; and they turned aside and cried, as R' Yehoshua ben Levi said: One who suspects th
The Talmud asks: And why were the Elders so insistent that the High Priest take an oath? The Talmud explains: So that he would not prepare the incense and light it outside in the Sanctuary, before entering the Holy of Holies, and bring the coal pan with the incense already burning on it into the Hol
A baraita states in the Tosefta: There was an incident involving a certain Sadducee who was appointed as High Priest, who prepared the incense outside and then brought it into the Holy of Holies. Upon his emergence he was overjoyed that he had succeeded. The father of that Sadducee met him and said
The rabbis said: Not even a few days passed until he died and was laid out in the garbage dump, and worms were coming out of his nose in punishment for his actions. And some say that he was struck as soon as he emerged from the Holy of Holies, as R' Ḥiyya taught: A type of sound was heard in the Tem