#eruvin — Public Fediverse posts
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R. Hiyya ben Abba in the name of R. Johanan expounded: With reference to the #Scriptural text: "Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof" (#Proverbs 27.18), why were the words of the #Torah compared to the 'fig tree'?
As with the fig tree, the more one searcheth it, the more figs one findeth in it; so it is with the words of the #Torah; the more one studieth them, the more relish he findeth in them.
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R. Ammi said: What is the exposition of the #Scriptural text: "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips" (#Proverbs 22.18)?
When are the words of the #Torah 'pleasant'?
'When thou keepest them within thee'.