In accordance with whose opinion do we pray every day for the sick and for the suffering? In accordance with whose opinion? In accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, who holds that one is judged every day, not only on Rosh HaShana, and therefore it is appropriate to pray for people every day. From the fact that he said: The sick and the suffering, one can learn from his statement that the term: The sick, is referring to actual sick people, while the term: The suffering, is referring to the rabbis, who typically are physically frail.
§ It is stated in the Mishnah that one who vowed that loose cooked food is forbidden to him is permitted to taste a thick cooked food. The Talmud comments: The Mishnah is not in accordance with the custom of the Babylonians, as R' Zeira said: Babylonians are foolish, as they eat bread with bread. They eat thick porridge with their bread, which is essentially eating one kind of bread with another. According to their custom, one who vows that cooked foods are forbidden to him is prohibited from eating even a thick cooked food.
אמר רב חסדא: דמשאיל להון להלין נקדני דהוצל: הדין דייסא, היכין מעלי למיכלה? דחיטי — בלחמא דחיטי, ודשערי — בלחמא דשערי, או דלמא: דחיטי — בדשערי, ודשערי — בדחיטי?
In that context, Rav Ḥisda said that those fastidious residents of Huzal, Babylonia were asked: How is it best to eat this porridge? Should wheat porridge be eaten with wheat bread and barley porridge with barley bread, or perhaps wheat porridge should be eaten with barley bread and barley porridge with wheat bread?
רבא אכליה בחסיסי. רבה בר רב הונא אשכחיה לרב הונא דקאכיל דייסא באצבעתיה. אמר ליה: אמאי קאכיל מר בידיה? אמר ליה: הכי אמר רב: דייסא באצבעתא בסים, וכל דכן בתרתין, וכל דכן בתלת.
The Talmud relates: Rava would eat his bread with ḥasisei, a porridge made of toasted barley grains. Rabba, son of Rav Huna, found Rav Huna eating porridge with his fingers. He said to him: Why is the Master eating with his hands? Rav Huna said to him: This is what Rav said: Porridge eaten with a finger is tasty, and all the more so if it is eaten with 2 fingers, and all the more so with 3. It is more enjoyable to eat porridge with your hands.