Yoma 35A

גמ׳ מאי ״פרוה״? אמר רב יוסף: פרוה אמגושא.

Talmud: What is the meaning of the name Parva? Rav Yosef said: Parva is the name of a Persian sorcerer, whose name is associated with the chamber due to a particular incident.

פרסו סדין של בוץ. מאי שנא של בוץ? אמר רב כהנא: כדי שיכיר שעבודת היום בבגדי בוץ.

§ It was stated in the Mishnah: They spread there a sheet of fine linen. The Talmud asks: What is different that the sheet that they spread was made of fine linen? Rav Kahana said: It was so that the High Priest will be aware and remember that the service of the day is performed in fine linen.

בשחר היה לובש פלוסין של שמונה עשר וכו׳. ותנא מניינא אתא לאשמועינן? הא קא משמע לן דבציר מהני לא נעביד. הא אי בציר מהני וטפי אהני ⁠— לית לן בה.

§ The Mishnah continues: In the morning, he would wear garments worth 18 maneh, and in the afternoon he would wear garments worth 12 maneh. In total, the clothes were worth 30 maneh. The Talmud expresses surprise at the total in the Mishnah: Does the tanna come to tell us the tally that 30 equal 30? The Talmud answers: This comes to teach us that one may not fashion garments worth less than the total of these morning and afternoon garments. The Talmud elaborates: If one decreases the value of these morning garments, and raises the value of those afternoon garments, we have no problem with it. One can distribute the total of 30 maneh between the two sets of garments in any manner that he chooses.

דכולי עלמא מיהת דשחר עדיפי, מנא לן? אמר רב הונא בריה דרב עילאי: אמר קרא: ״בד״ ״בד״ ״בד״ ״בד״, מובחר בבד.

The Talmud comments: However, everyone, both R' Meir and the Rabbis, agrees that the clothes of the morning are superior and must be more valuable than those of the afternoon. From where do we derive this? Rav Huna, son of Rav Ilai, said that with regard to the linen garments donned by the High Priest in the morning, the verse states: “He should be dressed in a sacred linen tunic, and with linen trousers next to his flesh, and he should be girded with a linen belt, and he should wear a linen mitre” (Leviticus 16:4). From the fact that the verse repeats the term linen 4 times it is derived that the choicest linen should be used for this purpose.