拉比犹大 的意思乃是:托拉虽许大祭司整日供职,他却不整日供职,因众贤立了一条例——恐怕他忘了自己正在居丧之痛中,就吃了那禁他吃的圣物。拉夫阿达·巴尔·阿哈瓦 对 拉瓦 说:拉比犹大 果真为「恐怕他吃」立过条例么?我们在密释纳里岂不是学过:拉比犹大 说,众贤连另一个妻也为他预备下,恐怕他的妻死了?他的妻若死了,他照样办圣殿的礼事,而 拉比犹大 并没有为「恐怕他吃」立什么条例。这与 拉比犹大 另一句「居丧之痛中的大祭司不可整日供职」相碍。拉瓦 对他说:这两处怎能相比呢?那里既是 赎罪日 ,众人都不吃,他也就不至于吃。这里却是一年之中别的日子,众人都吃,他也就要吃了。所以才立了条例。
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拉比犹大 的意思乃是:托拉虽许大祭司整日供职,他却不整日供职,因众贤立了一条例——恐怕他忘了自己正在居丧之痛中,就吃了那禁他吃的圣物。
Rabbi Yehuda means to say that the High Priest does not serve for the entire day even though the Torah allows him to do so, due to a rabbinic decree lest he forget that he is an acute mourner and eat consecrated food forbidden to him.
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拉夫阿达·巴尔·阿哈瓦 对 拉瓦 说:拉比犹大 果真为「恐怕他吃」立过条例么?
Rav Adda bar Ahava said to Rava: And did Rabbi Yehuda issue a decree lest he eat?
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我们在密释纳里岂不是学过:拉比犹大 说,众贤连另一个妻也为他预备下,恐怕他的妻死了?
But didn’t we learn in the mishna that Rabbi Yehuda says: The Sages would even designate another wife for him lest his wife die?
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他的妻若死了,他照样办圣殿的礼事,而 拉比犹大 并没有为「恐怕他吃」立什么条例。
And if his wife dies, he nevertheless performs the Temple service, and Rabbi Yehuda did not issue a decree lest he eat.
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这与 拉比犹大 另一句「居丧之痛中的大祭司不可整日供职」相碍。
That contradicts the other statement by Rabbi Yehuda that a High Priest may not serve for the entire day that he is an acute mourner.
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拉瓦 对他说:这两处怎能相比呢?
Rava said to him: How can these cases be compared?
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那里既是 赎罪日 ,众人都不吃,他也就不至于吃。
There, in the mishna, since it is Yom Kippur, when everyone does not eat, he too will not come to eat.
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这里却是一年之中别的日子,众人都吃,他也就要吃了。
However, here, during the rest of the year, when everyone eats, he too will come to eat.
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所以才立了条例。
Therefore, a decree was issued.