DEUT1548 What is the intent of: "in want of all"? In want of knowledge. Another view: devoid of Torah study (Mechilta Yithro 19:1)

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DEUT1549 What is the intent of: "in want of all"? Rav said: Without a candle and without a table. R. Chisda said: Without a wife. R. Sheseth said: Without a servant. R. Nachman said: Without knowledge. And in a baraitha it was taught: without salt (Nedarim 41a)

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DEUT1550 What is this? R. Elazar said: Avarice (Yerushalmi Shabbath 14:3)

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DEUT1561 R. Yonathan said: One who is quick to anger is prey to piles [hemorrhoids], as it is written: "And the Lord shall give you there a trembling heart [i.e., "trembling" with anger], and failing of eyes, and despair of soul." What is it that causes failing of eyes and despair of soul? Piles (Nedarim 22a)

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DEUT1562 R. Chanan said: "And your life shall be hanging in the balance before you" -- This refers to one who buys grain from year to year [Having no land of his own, he can never be certain of next year's bread]; "and you will fear night and day" -- This refers to one who buys grain from one Sabbath eve to another; -- "and you will not trust in your life" -- This refers to one who depends upon a baker [for his daily bread] (Menachoth 103b)

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DEUT1563 Moses our teacher intimated to Israel after forty years that they were deficient in gratitude, it being written: "and I led you forty years," and: "And the Lord did not give you a heart to know." Rava said: From here it is derived that a disciple cannot properly fathom his master's intent until the passage of forty years (Avodah Zarah 5b)

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DEUT1567 R. Elazar said: If one teaches his neighbor's son Torah, it is as if he would have "made" words of Torah, as it is written: "And you shall heed the words of this covenant, [perpetuating them by teaching them to others], and you shall make them." Rava said: It is as if he would make himself, it being written: "And you shall make otham": Read it not "otham" ["them"], but "atem" ["you"] (Sanhedrin 99b)

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DEUT1568 R. Yehoshua b. Levi said: If one occupies himself with Torah study, his possessions prosper, as it is written: "And you shall heed the words of this covenant, and you shall do them, so that you succeed in all that you do" (Avodah Zarah 19b)

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DEUT1571 "alah" is an oath, as it is written (Numbers 5:21): "Then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of the alah." And from here [the fact that we do not find Israel swearing, but only answering Amen] it is derived that answering Amen to an oath is the equivalent to taking the oath itself (Yerushalmi Sotah 2:5)

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DEUT1594 What is the intent of "It is not in the heavens"? R. Yirmiah said: Once Torah has been given at Mount Sinai, we pay no attention to the heavenly voice [which supports an individual over a majority halachic opinion] (Bava Metzia 59b)

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