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| "title": "Tanna Debei Eliyahu Rabbah", | |
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| "1. <i> And He drove</i> (ืื<b>ืืจืฉ</b>) <i>the Adom (Man)</i> (Bereshis 3:24) - from here learn that The Holy One Blessed Be He gave to him (Adom) a divorce (ืืืจืืฉืื) like a woman <small>(that is like husband would give a divorce document to his wife whom he wishes to divorce)</small>. <i>And He placed from the east</i> (ื<b>ืงืื</b>) <i>of Gan Eden the Cheruvim </i>(type of Angels) - from here learn that the Cheruvim came before (ืงืืื) of all of the Act of Creation. <i>with a bright blade of a revolving sword</i> - this is Gehinnom (Hell). <i>to guard the way</i> - this is Derech Eretz <small>(literally the 'Way of the Land', different meanings, here Basic Human Decency, Proper Conduct or similar)</small>. <i>of the Tree of Life</i> - we learn that Derech Eretz comes before (i.e. has priority) over the Tree of Life. And there is no 'Tree of Life' except Torah, as is said <i>it is a Tree of Life for all whose grasp on it (Mishlei 3:18).</i>", | |
| "2. Blessed is the Lord, blessed is He, who recognizes at the start what will be in the end. And He proclaims from the beginning the ending from before that He made <small>(i.e. created)</small>. And He knows that which He made and what it would be destined to do. And He foresees for good and He does not foresee for evil. He is rich and is happy with His portion. And in His wisdom and His understanding, He created His world, and He prepared and afterward created in it a Man (Adom), and flung him before Him. And He calculated until the end of all the generations and foresaw that his (man's) descendants would be angering. He said if I were to guard in him the first debts <small>(i.e. seek payback in regards to sins)</small>, the world would not stand. It is on me to overlook the first (sins), so He does. Where can you know this is so? When (The Nation of) Israel was in the Desert, they rotted in their actions <small>(by the sin of Golden Calf)</small>. He stood to overlook all that They had done, as it says \"And Hashem passed (ืืืขืืืจ) in front of him (Moshe) [Shemos 34:6]. Do not read he passed (ืืืขืืืจ) rather he forgave (ืืืขืืืจ). Learn that He forgave all the evil in front of him. And it should be known to you that so was with Mordechai in the time that Esther spoke not properly; since she said \"but I have not been called to come in to the king etc.\" [Esther 4:11]. And he (Mordechai) responded to her \"For if you remain silent etc.\" [Esther 4:14]. And when she repented and spoke to him properly, \"Go, gather all the Jews\" [Esther 4:16]. He looked past her words <small>(i.e. her original words, forgiving them)</small> as it says \"And Mordechai passed\" [Esther 4:17]. <small>(The verb ืขึธืึทืจย has multiple meanings, literally to pass or take away, here the meaning is its use in the following verse)</small> and he said: \"Who is like God, who forgives iniquity, and overlooks transgression (ืึฐืขึนืึตึฃืจ ืขึทืึพืคึผึถึืฉืึทืข)\" [Micha 7:18]. \"Your eyes did see my unshaped flesh (for in Thy book all things are written)\" etc. [Psalms 139:16] that teaching says in the future The Holy One Blessed Be He will sit in the Big House of Study of His. And the Righteous (ืฆืืืงืื) will sit before him, and He will say to them 'My children, this generation such Torah it did and such I did with them righteousness, but I will not mention their sins, and they do not go upon my heart', as it says \"and the former things shall not be remembered\" etc. [Isaiah 65:17]. <small>(Continuing the interpretation of the cited verse)</small> \"These days were formed, but not one from them\" [Psalms 139:16] <small>(the verse ends as written ืืื ืึถืึธื ืึผึธืึถื not one from them, yet is read ืึฐืืึน ืึถืึธื ืึผึธืึถื which means and to him one from them both connotate a unique day)</small>. This refers to the day of Shabbos for Israel. How so? A man does work all six days and rests on the seventh. He has amity with his children and the people of his house. Mans returns to do work in the face of his enemy all six days, and rests on the seventh, forgetting all pain, as it is so with the ways of man - a good day he forgets the bad day. A bad day he forgets the good day. The Holy One Blessed be He says to Israel did I not write to them in my Torah, \"You should not remove this Book of Torah from your mouths\" [Joshua 1:8] even though you do work all six days, Shabbos you should make fully Torah. From here, it is said a man should arise early and learn on Shabbos. And go to the Synagogue and to the House of Study. And he should read Torah verse, then learn in the Prophets, and afterward go to his house and eat and drink to fulfill that which it says \"[But you, the righteous one,] go and eat your bread in joy, and drink your wine with a good heart, (for G-d has already accepted your good deeds) [Ecclesiastes 9:7]. Accordingly, there is no refreshment to the Holy One Blessed be He except only with those who make Torah, therefore that it says \"For all those things has my hand made, (and so all those things came to be, says the Lord:) but to this man will I look, to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.\" [Isaiah 66:2]. From here it is said what a man says (i.e. when learning Torah) he should grasp in his hand in order that he does not have to handle the embarrassment and shame at the time when they say to him 'Stand and arrange (ืืขืจืื) the Verses you said and arrange (ืืขืจืื) the Mishnayos you have learned. And so it is explicit in the Tradition by King David, \"Hashem, in the morning you hear my voice, in the morning I arrange before you (ืึถืขึฑืจึธืึฐึพืึฐืึธ) and I hope\" [Psalms 5:4].", | |
| "Alternatively, \"These days were formed, but not one from them\" [Psalms 139:16] is refering to Yom Kippur for (the nation of) Israel. {continuing} " | |
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| "One thing after another, the days were created, and not one of them is the seventh day forever, according to this world six thousand years, two thousand years, two thousand Torah, two thousand years, the son of David will die, and in our seasons many will go out, what went out, and will come in to work within two thousand years of the death of the son of David (more than 100 years) as it is said God did what he planned (Lamentations 2:17) and just as we make a shemitah once every seven years, so the Almighty will make a shemitah for the world one day which is a thousand years as it is said that a thousand years are in your eyes as yesterday (Psalms 90:4). And says And there was one day (Zechariah 14:7), this is the seventh day of the world, and at evening there was light (Zechariah 14:7), this is the world to come, which is said to be every month in its month, and every Sabbath in its Sabbath (Isaiah 66:23 ) And a psalm is said for the Sabbath day to the world that is all Sabbath. Another thing is a psalm a song for the Sabbath day that shuts off from the world. Another thing is a psalm a song for the Sabbath day is the seventh day to the world. And for the evening of the Sabbath it is the world to come in which there is no death for the eternal and the eternal, and in it there is neither sin nor iniquity nor plagues And no rebellions, but each and every one rejoices with his wisdom and understanding. How do you know that he did go out and learn from the Holy One, blessed be He, who rejoices in David in this world and the glory of heaven in the next world that was said and these are David's last words and ending \"The utterance of is David the son of Ishai, and he utterance of the person who stands\" on the mountains of learning, who accepted upon themselves the yoke of Torah and the yoke of mitzvot. What is your payment in front of Me? That you will be called 'the anointed of the God of Yaakov, and the sweet singer of Israel'. Happy is the person who sets themselves as an ox to the yoke, and as a donkey to the burden, and sits and meditates every day in Torah, always, immediately the Spirit of God rests on them, and the their Torah gets inside them, as it is written \"Ho, everyone who thirsts, come for water\" (Isaiah 55:1), and any mention of water really means Torah. How so? Explanation: a person reads Torah, prophets, writings, Mishnah, Halakhot, Agadot, and Midrash; and spends much time sitting, and little time in business, immediately the spirit of God is within that person, and His message are in that person's tongue, as it is written \"The spirit of Ad-nai has spoken through me, His message is on my tongue\" (II Sam 23:2). Happy is the person that plays with the words of the Torah and sits and chews on them like an animal that chews the cud on the field. ... " | |
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| "Izevel, the daughter of Etba\"al king of the Tzidonim and the wife of Achav, at the first time that she was brought before Achav taught him the ways of idol worshippers and because of her he was brought to become an idolater. " | |
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| "The people of Israel are similar to a ship. If there is a hole in the lower hold, one does not say, โOnly the lower hold has a hole in it.โ Rather they must immediately recognize that the ship is liable to sink and that they must repair the hole down below." | |
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| "This is what God said to Israel: My children what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another, and honor one another, and that you have awe for one another" | |
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