Mishnah Tractate YOMA

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Extract: Why has the first Temple fallen? Because there were three things: idolatry, adultery, and bloodshed. Idolatry, as it is written [Jeremiah 28:20]: “For the bed shall be too short for a man to stretch himself out on it; and the covering too narrow to wrap himself in.” And R. Johanan said: The bed is too narrow that there should be two, God and the idols. R. Samuel b. Nahmoni said: When R. Jonathan used to come to this verse, he used to cry, saying: That the Lord, of whom it is said [Ps. 33:7], “He gathers together like heaps the waters of the sea”, should feel too little space because of an idol! Adultery, as it is written [Is. 3:16]: “Forasmuch as the daughters of Zion are fraud, and walk with stretched forth necks and casting about their eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.” R. Yitzchak said to this: What is meant by tinkling? They used to fill the shoes with spices, and when a young man went by, they pressed the spices with the feet, to attract his attention.

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