Editing Yoma

'''Masechtas Yoma''' (or Seder Yoma - the Order of the Day) is the fifth tractate in Seder Moed, and is found in the Mishnah, the Talmud, and the Tosefta. Masechet Yoma contains eight chapters and eighty-six and a half pages.

The tractate deals with matters of Yom Kippur, and the branching topics are: laws of the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) and the order of service, the lottery and the scapegoat for Azazel, prohibitions of eating on Yom Kippur. As well as matters concerning the slaughtering of the Tamid offering, and the removal of ashes.

Rav Sherira Gaon would call this tractate by the name Kipurim.

== The Rebbe's Explanations ==
In the tractate it is explained regarding one of the Amoraim who would say to himself "words of mussar" so that he would not become haughty. From this story we learn two things: (a) One needs to negate feelings of self-importance, etc. (b) That indeed it is possible to negate this.

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==== Additional Explanations ====

* '''2a.''' "And he shall atone for himself and for his household" - "his household" refers to his wife. Shaarei HaMoadim p. 310 (p. 297)
* '''8b.''' And was it called the Parhedrin Chamber? Wasn't it called the Balvati Chamber? Hitvaaduyot 5742 Vol. 4 p. 1914 (p. 168)
* '''49b.''' They would be counted and withdraw their hands from it until it was slaughtered. Shaarei HaMoadim Pesach Vol. 1 p. 258 (p. 246)
* '''50a.''' Take this principle in your hand: anything whose time is fixed overrides Shabbat, etc., even for an individual. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 18 p. 105 (p. 114)
* '''51a.''' It comes with a gathering. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 18 p. 104 (p. 113) Shaarei HaMoadim Pesach Vol. 1 p. 241 (p. 229)
* '''52a.''' There are five verses in the Torah that have no definitive interpretation, and one of them is "decorated," as we are in doubt whether it refers to the goblets or to its knobs and flowers. Hitvaaduyot 5742 Vol. 4 p. 1916 (p. 170)
* '''54a.''' See how beloved you are before the Omnipresent, like the love between male and female. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 2 p. 360 (p. 85)
* '''67a.''' Whether one repented or did not repent, Yom Kippur atones. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 8 p. 165 (p. 178)
* '''70a.''' And he would make a celebration for his loved ones. Likkutei Sichot p. 106 (p. 119) Shaarei HaMoadim Yom Kippur p. 304 (p. 291)
* '''74a.''' Half-measure, the dispute between Rabbi Yochanan and Reish Lakish. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 7 p. 110 (p. 122)
* '''82a.''' Rav said: Our father Abraham fulfilled the entire Torah. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 35 p. 107
* '''85b.''' Whether one repented or did not repent, Yom Kippur atones. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 8 p. 165 (p. 178)
* '''86a.''' Rabbi Matya ben Charash asked, etc. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 17 p. 194 (p. 207)
* '''86b.''' Repentance is so great that it overrides a negative commandment in the Torah. Torat Menachem Vol. 26 p. 182 (p. 182)
* '''End of the tractate.''' One who has a seminal emission on Yom Kippur. Likkutei Sichot Vol. 17 p. 182 (p. 195)

== Explanations of The Rebbeim ==

* The Tzemach Tzedek, "Masechet Yoma," '''Tzemach Tzedek on the Shas''', Brooklyn, 5755 (1995), pages 136-70, on HebrewBooks website