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ושטיח. ״בחסר כל״, אמר רבי אמי אמר רב: בלא נר ובלא שלחן. רב חסדא אמר: בלא אשה. רב ששת אמר: בלא שמש. רב נחמן אמר: בלא דעה. תנא: בלא מלח ובלא רבב.
and a rug, as an exile needs those items and they are portable. The rabbis interpreted the following verse describing the exile experience: “Therefore should you serve your enemy whom YHWH should send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he should put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you” (Deuteronomy 28:48). R' Ami said that Rav said: “In want of all things” means without a lamp and without a table to eat upon. Rav Ḥisda said: Without a wife. Rav Sheshet said: Without an attendant to aid him. Rav Naḥman said: Without intelligence. One of the rabbis teaches in a baraita: Without salt and without fat [revav] in which to dip his bread.
אמר אביי: נקטינן — אין עני אלא בדעה. במערבא אמרי: דדא ביה — כולא ביה, דלא דא ביה — מה ביה. דא קני — מה חסר, דא לא קני — מה קני.
Abaye said that we have a tradition: A poor person is only one lacking in intelligence, in agreement with the opinion of Rav Naḥman. In the West, Eretz Yisrael, they say: One who has this attribute, intelligence, in him has everything in him. One who does not have this attribute in him, what is in him? If he acquired this, what else is lacking? If he has not acquired this, what has he acquired?
אמר רבי אלכסנדרי אמר רבי חייא בר אבא: אין החולה עומד מחליו עד שמוחלין לו על כל עונותיו, שנאמר: ״הסלח לכל עונכי הרפא לכל תחלואיכי״. רב המנונא אמר: חוזר לימי עלומיו, שנאמר: ״רטפש בשרו מנער ישוב לימי עלומיו״. ״כל משכבו הפכת בחליו״, אמר רב יוסף: לומר דמשכח תלמודו.
§ R' Alexandri said that R' Ḥiyya bar Abba said: The sick person recovers from his illness only when the heavenly court forgives him for all his sins, as it is stated: “Who forgives all your iniquity; Who heals all your diseases” (Psalms 103:3). Rav Hamnuna said: When he recovers, he returns to the days of his youth, as it is stated in a verse with regard to one recovering from illness: “His flesh is tenderer than a child’s; he returns to the days of his youth” (Job 33:25). Interpreting the verse: “YHWH will support him upon the bed of suffering; You overturned all his lying down in his illness” (Psalms 41:4), Rav Yosef said: That is to say that the sick person forgets his studies, as everything that is organized is overturned.