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The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness (Talmud)
"The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness" () is a sugya (passage) in the Babylonian Talmud's tractate ''Yoma'', which discusses when a person may be exempt from fasting on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The sugya hinges on the interpretation of a Biblical verse. A phrase from this verse"The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness" ( Proverbs 14:10)serves as the name of both the sugya and a principle in Jewish law and ethics that is derived from the sugya. The sugya analyzes a few statements from the Mishnah, a rabbinic work that is the core of the Babylonian Talmud. There are related texts in the Tosefta and Jerusalem Talmud. For centuries, the sugya has been relevant to deliberations over real or perceived health risks, especially when facing religious obligations such as fasting on Yom Kippur. In contemporary Jewish medical ethics, the passage is used to assess patient autonomy in relation to expert medical opinion. In a more expansive move, progressive (non-Orthodox) Jews have invoked thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugya
A sugya is a self-contained passage of the Talmud that typically discusses a mishnah or other rabbinic statement, or offers an aggada, aggadic narrative.; see for overview. While the sugya is a literary unit in the Jerusalem Talmud, the term is most often used for passages in the Talmud, Babylonian Talmud, which is the primary focus of religious and academic readings of sugyot (plural form). Religious and academic scholars of Talmud have identified numerous sugyot, though there is no definitive listing or count. Individual sugyot have been explained for readers, taught as curricular units, and analyzed by historians and other scholars. Definition The term sugya (pl. sugyot) is derived from the Aramaic ''segi'' (סגי), which means to go, and it refers to "a self-contained basic unit of Talmudic discussion". Sugya is also used in the Talmud for a narrower meaning, as the course or trend (lit. a "going") of a discussion. It may also refer to a lesson on rabbinic law (''halakha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
