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"The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness" (Hebrew: לֵ֗ב י֭וֹדֵעַ מׇרַּ֣ת נַפְשׁ֑וֹ) 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.
Marah - bitterness - a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain "a certain tree" which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it.
A number of Bible scholars consider the term Worm ' to be a purely symbolic representation of the bitterness that will fill the earth during troubled times, noting that the plant for which Wormwood is named, Artemisia absinthium, or Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is a known biblical metaphor for things that are unpalatably bitter. [13] [14] [15] [16]
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
Sotah (Hebrew: סוֹטָה or Hebrew: שׂוֹטָה [1]) is a tractate of the Talmud in Rabbinic Judaism.The tractate explains the ordeal of the bitter water, a trial by ordeal of a woman suspected of adultery, which is prescribed by the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).
Merathaim is a biblical term found in Jeremiah [1] meaning two things: double bitterness and double rebellion [2].Some scholars [who?] hold the idea that the dual expression is merely the intensity of the Lord [citation needed] while others say that it is an actual place [3] because of the context: Attack the land of Merathaim.
The "later" bitterness of lettuce refers to fact that lettuce plants become bitter after they "bolt" (flower), a process which occurs naturally when days lengthen or temperatures rise. [ 7 ] Wild or prickly lettuce ( Lactuca serriola ) is listed in Tosefta Pisha as suitable for maror under the name חזרת הגל or חזרת גלין.
Vine of Sodom is the translation of Deuteronomy 32:32 found in the King James and some other translations of the Bible into English, most notably in the Tyndale Bible, which renders it: "Their vines are the vines of Sodom."
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