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כוי בריה בפני עצמה היא. דאי לא תימא הכי, הא דאמר רב אידי בר אבין: אף ״כל״ לאתויי כוי, כוי ספיקא הוא, איצטריך קרא לרבויי ספיקא? אלא בריה שאני, הכא נמי בריה שאני.
that a koy is its own species, and the uncertainty pertains not only to whether it is a wild or domestic animal, but also to whether it even can fit into one of those two categories. For if you do not say so and maintain that it might be its own species, how can we understand that which Rav Idi bar Avin said, that also the word “all” stated in the verse: “All blood you may not eat, whether of birds or of animals” (Leviticus 7:26), comes to include the koy. Now, if you say that the koy is a case of uncertainty, is a verse necessary to include an uncertainty? Rather, the koy is obviously its own species, and therefore it is different and needs a special verse to include it. Here too, in the case of the forbidden fat, we could say that the koy is its own species, and therefore it is different. Consequently, Reish Lakish’s opinion cannot be proven by this baraita.
תנו רבנן: ״תענו את נפשותיכם״, יכול ישב בחמה או בצנה כדי שיצטער — תלמוד לומר: ״וכל מלאכה לא תעשו״. מה מלאכה שב ואל תעשה, אף ענוי נפש שב ואל תעשה.
§ After clarifying the wording of the Mishnah, the Talmud brings a halakhic midrash to analyze the Mishnah’s laws. A baraita states: The verse states: “And this should be a statute to you forever: In the 7th month on the 10th day of the month you should afflict your souls” (Leviticus 16:29). I might have thought that one should sit in the sun or in the cold to suffer and afflict his soul; therefore the continuation of the verse states: “And you should not do any labor, the home-born, or the stranger that lives among you” (Leviticus 16:29). This teaches that just as prohibited labor is a mitzva that requires one to sit and do nothing, as one is commanded to refrain from action, so too, affliction of one’s soul is also a mitzva requiring one to sit and do nothing. One is not commanded to be proactive in order to afflict his soul. Rather, one must refrain from specified actions such as eating and drinking.