Pipeline Torah Gem #925 2026-05-13: Love of Torah Study
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Vaughn Seward
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Love of Torah Study
More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation: Oh how I love your teaching! It is my study all day long (Ps. 119.97). These two themes—the love for Torah (teaching) and dedication to the study of it—have characterized Jewish reading and interpretation of the Bible ever since. The love is the impetus for the study; the study is the expression of the love. Indeed the intensity with which Jews have examined this text through the centuries testifies both to their love of it—a love combined with awe and deep reverence—and to their intellectual curiosity about it. That tradition of impassioned intellectual engagement continues to the present day. Adapted from The Jewish Study Bible, Oxford University Press, 2004, page ix. Torah Gem Archives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/torahtidbits
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Beser tsen mol mestn un eyn mol opshnaydn, eyder farkert. Better to measure ten times and cut once, than do the reverse. Der volf hot nit moyre farn hunt ober es gefelt im nit zayn biln. The wolf doesn't fear the dog but he doesn't like his bark. Es iz kuk mikh on un rir mikh nit on! It's look but don't touch. (lit. It is 'look at me, but don't touch me!') Krikh nit tsu hoykh vestu nit darfn faln tsu niderik. Don't climb too high and you won't sink too low. [Adapted from Words Like Arrows, Shirley Kumove]
More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation: Oh how I love your teaching! It is my study all day long (Ps. 119.97). These two themes—the love for Torah (teaching) and dedication to the study of it—have characterized Jewish reading and interpretation of the Bible ever since. The love is the impetus for the study; the study is the expression of the love. Indeed the intensity with which Jews have examined this text through the centuries testifies both to their love of it—a love combined with awe and deep reverence—and to their intellectual curiosity about it. That tradition of impassioned intellectual engagement continues to the present day. Adapted from The Jewish Study Bible, Oxford University Press, 2004, page ix. Torah Gem Archives: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/torahtidbits
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Yiddish Corner
Beser tsen mol mestn un eyn mol opshnaydn, eyder farkert. Better to measure ten times and cut once, than do the reverse. Der volf hot nit moyre farn hunt ober es gefelt im nit zayn biln. The wolf doesn't fear the dog but he doesn't like his bark. Es iz kuk mikh on un rir mikh nit on! It's look but don't touch. (lit. It is 'look at me, but don't touch me!') Krikh nit tsu hoykh vestu nit darfn faln tsu niderik. Don't climb too high and you won't sink too low. [Adapted from Words Like Arrows, Shirley Kumove]
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