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Bava Kamma 92b

בבא קמא צ״ב ע״ב

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Topic

רבא asks רבה בר מרי for the scriptural sources of many popular sayings, from eating early in the morning to 'like seeks like' and more.

Overview

This amud is a long series of questions from רבא to רבה בר מרי. Each time, רבא names a popular saying and asks which פסוק it comes from. It opens with the end of an earlier answer: the מצורע must announce 'Unclean, unclean,' which shows that poverty follows the poor. Next comes the advice to get up early and eat. רבה בר מרי brings a פסוק from ישעיה, and רבא brings one from the תורה: prayer, then bread with salt and water, which removes bile and its 83 illnesses. Many more sayings follow, each matched to a פסוק: accepting the label others give you (הגר), saying your own flaw first (אליעזר), being humble while looking ahead (אביגיל), and the pain of being left out of a meal (נתן, and אברהם marrying קטורה). Others are credit going to the one who pours (משה and יהושע), hunger making bitter things sweet, and like seeking like, which is shown from the תורה, נביאים, כתובים, a משנה and a ברייתא. The amud closes with sayings about giving up on someone who ignores you, not harming a well you drank from, sharing a burden (ברק and דבורה), and being honored when young but treated like a child when old. The answer to that last saying finishes on the next amud.

Opening lines

״וְטָמֵא טָמֵא יִקְרָא״.

"And he shall cry: Unclean, unclean."

אֲמַר לֵיהּ רָבָא לְרַבָּה בַּר מָרִי,

Rava said to Rabba bar Mari:

מְנַָא הָא מִילְּתָא דַאֲמוּר רַבָּנַן:

From where is this matter that the Sages said:

הַשְׁכֵּם וֶאֱכוֹל

Get up early and eat,

The steps (30)

  1. ResponseThe leper must announce 'Unclean, unclean'
  2. QuestionWhere do we learn to eat early in the morning?
  3. ResponseAnswer from ישעיה: they will not hunger and the heat will not strike them
  4. Proofרבא's own source from the תורה: bread and water after prayer
  5. ProofA ברייתא: the 'sickness' is bile, which holds 83 illnesses
  6. QuestionWhere Is the Source for 'If Your Friend Calls You a Donkey, Put On the Saddle'?
  7. Responseהגר Answers to the Title 'Maid of שרי'
  8. QuestionWhere Is the Source for 'Say Your Own Embarrassing Fact First'?
  9. Responseאליעזר Opens With 'I Am the Servant of אברהם'
  10. QuestionWhere Is the Source for 'The Goose Bends Low but Its Eyes Look Far'?
  11. Responseאביגיל Humbly Asks דוד to Remember Her Later
  12. QuestionWhere Is the Source for 'Hearing Others Eat Without You Hurts'?
  13. Responseנתן Complains That He Was Not Invited to the Feast
  14. Responseרבא offers a תורה source for the sixty pains saying
  15. QuestionSource for credit going to the one who pours the wine
  16. Responseמשה laying hands on יהושע gets the credit
  17. QuestionSource for a hungry dog eating dung
  18. ResponseA hungry soul finds even bitter things sweet
  19. QuestionSource for a bad palm tree joining barren trees
  20. ResponseThis idea appears everywhere in the תורה tradition
  21. ResponseThree פסוקים showing that like goes to like
  22. ResponseA משנה and a ברייתא with the same idea
  23. QuestionSource for giving up on someone who ignores you
  24. ResponseThe source in יחזקאל
  25. QuestionSource for not harming a well you drank from
  26. ResponseThe source: do not despise the מצרי
  27. QuestionSource for 'I'll lift only if you lift too'
  28. ResponseThe source: ברק and דבורה
  29. Questionרבא asks the source for: young we were men, old we are children
  30. ResponseAt first God Himself led Israel in the desert