Study Yoma folio 38B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
and from your own they shall give you. Everyone has a portion designated for him by God, and the individual is privileged to receive what is coming to him, as was the case with the House of Avtinas. The principle is: No person may touch that which is prepared for another by God; everyone receives w
§ The Mishnah related that Hugras ben Levi knew a lesson in the art of music and he did not want to teach it to others. It was taught in a baraita: When Hugras ben Levi projects his voice in a sweet melody, he places his thumb into his mouth and places his finger between the strings of a lyre and s
A baraita states: Ben Kamtzar did not want to teach others a special technique of writing. What was that technique? They said about him that he would take 4 quills between his fingers, and if there was a word consisting of 4 letters that he wanted to write, he could write it simultaneously. They sa
§ Apropos the verse cited, the Talmud asks: What is the meaning of: But the name of the wicked shall rot? How does a name rot? R' Elazar said: It means that decay will spread on their names, meaning that we do not call others by their names, and the name will sink into oblivion. Ravina raised an
And with regard to her and others like her Jeremiah lamented: “Shall the women eat their fruit, their children in their care [tipuḥim]?” (Lamentations 2:20). The Talmud interprets the term tipuḥim homiletically as referring to this baby, who was measured in handbreadths [tefaḥim]. Even he was eaten