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Yoma 76a

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Topic

The מן (who ate it, why daily, how high it piled) and the five עינויים of יום הכיפורים

Overview

The עמוד opens by finishing a דרשה on 'לחם אבירים אכל איש': the 'איש' is יהושע, linked by an exact match of the word 'איש', and not משה ('והאיש'). Next, רבי שמעון בן יוחי explains with a משל of a king and his son why the מן fell every day: so ישראל would turn to their Father in heaven daily. Two more reasons follow: so it could be eaten hot, and so it would not have to be carried on journeys. רבי אלעזר המודעי then claims the מן piled up sixty אמות high. He proves it from the flood: 'windows of heaven' gave fifteen אמות, and 'doors of heaven' are four times bigger. A ברייתא of איסי בן יהודה adds that kings of East and West could see the מן, and אביי learns from 'כוסי רויה' that דוד's cup holds 221 לוג. The גמרא then returns to the משנה of יום הכיפורים: רב חסדא matches five עינויים to five verses, and drinking counts under eating. ריש לקיש's proof from תירוש is rejected. רב אחא בר יעקב's proof from שכר is then challenged by the case of an intoxicating fig, and that discussion continues on the next עמוד.

Opening lines

זֶה יְהוֹשֻׁעַ

This is Joshua

שֶׁיָּרַד לוֹ מָן

for whom manna fell

כְּנֶגֶד כׇּל יִשְׂרָאֵל.

equal to all of Israel.

כְּתִיב הָכָא ״אִישׁ״,

Here it is written 'man,'

The steps (32)

  1. StatementThe 'man' in the verse is יהושע
  2. ProofProof from the word 'man' used for יהושע
  3. ChallengeWhy not say it means משה?
  4. ResolutionOnly an exact word match counts
  5. QuestionWhy didn't the manna fall once a year?
  6. ResponseParable of the king and his only son
  7. ResponseThe lesson: daily worry led to daily prayer
  8. ResponseAnother reason: to eat it hot
  9. ResponseAnother reason: not to carry it while traveling
  10. StatementThe manna was sixty cubits high
  11. Challengeרבי טרפון objects that this has no basis
  12. ResolutionI am expounding a verse about the flood
  13. ChallengeThe water cannot be fifteen cubits above every kind of ground
  14. ResolutionThe water first rose to the mountain tops, then fifteen more
  15. ProofGoodness is greater than punishment: windows versus doors
  16. ConclusionThe calculation: the manna was sixty cubits high
  17. ProofA ברייתא: the manna piled so high that kings everywhere saw it
  18. Statementאביי: דוד's cup in the עולם הבא holds 221 לוג
  19. ChallengeThe flood and the manna are not comparable
  20. Resolutionרבי אלעזר המודעי learned it from a גזרה שוה of 'opening'
  21. QuestionWhere do the five עינויים of יום הכיפורים come from?
  22. Responseרב חסדא: five mentions of עינוי in the תורה
  23. ChallengeBut the משנה lists six, not five
  24. ResolutionDrinking is included in eating
  25. Proofריש לקיש's proof: the Torah calls drinking wine 'eating'
  26. RejectionMaybe the wine was eaten inside a sauce
  27. Proofרבה בר שמואל defines the wine sauces
  28. ProofA new proof from strong drink bought with מעשר שני money
  29. RejectionThe same sauce objection against the new proof
  30. Resolutionשכר means something that makes you drunk
  31. ChallengeMaybe שכר is an intoxicating food like a fig
  32. ProofA ברייתא shows a fig can make a person drunk