Study Yoma folio 57A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
Now you are certainly impure, as it is written about the Jewish people: “Her impurity was in her skirts” (Lamentations 1:9), and the Shekhina does not dwell upon the Jews when they are impure. R' Ḥanina said to him: Come and see what is written about the Jewish people: “That dwells with them in the
The Talmud raises a difficulty with regard to the aforementioned halakha. It was stated above that the comparison to the goat teaches that the High Priest sprinkles the bull’s blood once upward; and the 7 downward sprinklings of the goat’s blood are derived from the rite of the blood of the bull. Su
The Talmud answers that the first juxtaposition was not a proper inference by verbal analogy, as this halakha that the High Priest must sprinkle once upward and 7 times downward is derived both from that juxtaposition and something else as well. Since the basic requirement that he must sprinkle upwa
The Talmud continues to question this explanation: It works out well according to the one who said that a juxtaposition that is also inferred from something else is not considered a juxtaposition in this regard; but according to the one who says that this too is called a juxtaposition, what can be s
The Talmud answers: It is the locations that are derived from one another. The halakha of the blood of the bull was not derived from that of the goat, nor the halakha of sprinkling the bull’s blood outside the curtain from that of sprinkling the bull’s blood inside. Instead, the first comparison eq