Daf Yomi - Yoma 83 - Highlights

Daf Yomi - Yoma 83 - Highlights

1. Rabbi Yanai maintains that if one who is ill claims that he must eat on Yom Kippur and the doctor disagrees, we listen to the sick person and give him to eat. The rationale behind this ruling is that the heart knows the bitterness of its soul and we assume that he does not want to sin by eating on Yom Kippur.
2. Rabbi Yanai rules further that if the doctor maintains that the ill person is required to eat and the ill person disagrees, we listen to the doctor and give him to eat. In this situation the ill person’s feelings are disregarded as we posit that he is delirious due to his illness.
3. Mar bar Rav Ashi maintains that if the ill person maintains that he must eat on Yom Kippur and one hundred doctors disagree, we listen to the sick person and give him to eat.
4. The Mishnah rules that if a person suffers from a bulmus attack i.e. a life-threatening disease induced by hunger and one of its symptoms is that the person’s vision weakens, we can even offer him forbidden foods to eat until his eyesight improves.
5. When there is no permitted food available to improve ones health, he is permitted to consume prohibited food. Nonetheless, we must first feed him from forbidden foods whose consumption is of less severity in punishment.
6. It is beneficial to consume sweet foods that will improve ones eyesight as long as the sweet foods are consumed after having eaten other foods.
7. One who is afflicted with bulmus and seeks to improve his eyesight should consume the tail of a sheep, fine flour or barley flour mixed with honey.
8. Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi Yose were once traveling and Rabbi Yehudah was afflicted with bulmus. Out of desperation, Rabbi Yehudah stole a loaf of bread from a shepherd so that he would be healed and Rabbi Yose reprimanded him. Upon entering the city, Rabbi Yose was afflicted with bulmus and the people of the city were compelled to bring him sweets in order to heal him.
9. The Gemara relates a story where Rabbi Meir determined that an innkeeper was a wicked person by examining his name.