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§ The Gemara returns to a verse cited above.
The Sages taught
with regard to the verse:
“Who would give that they had such a heart as this
always, to fear Me, and keep all My commandments, that it might be good for them, and with their children forever” (Deuteronomy 5:26). At a later stage,
Moses said to the Jewish people: Ingrates, children of ingrates! When the Holy One, Blessed be He, said to the Jewish people: “Who would give that they had such a heart as this always,” they should have said: You should give
us a heart to fear You…
Avodah Zarah 5a:21-22
He would also say: Love ([be beloved] from) the heavens, and study all the commandments.
If you’ve done your friend just a little bit of harm, think of it as a lot. And if you’ve done your friend a lot of good, think of it as a little. If your friend has done you just a little bit of good, think of it as a lot. [And if he has done you a lot of harm, think of it as a little.]
The “sponge” and the “sealed bottle” – these are types of Torah scholars. The “funnel” and the “tube” – these are types of scoundrels.
Be like a bottle that has no opening that air can get into…
Avot DeRabbi Natan 41:11
וינשכו את העם AND THEY BIT THE PEOPLE — God said, as it were: Let the serpent which was punished for slanderous statements come and exact punishment from those who utter slander. — Let the serpent to which all kinds of food have one taste (that of earth; cf. Genesis 3:14 and Yoma 75a) come and exact punishment from these ingrates to whom one thing (the manna) had the taste of many different dainties (see Rashi 11:8) (Midrash Tanchuma, Chukat 19).
Rashi on Numbers 21:6:2
§ The mishna teaches:
And two straps
go up and down the doubled strap of calf hide. The Sage
taught: And
they are straps
of donkey
hide.
As a certain Galilean interpreted before Rav Ḥisda:
It is written:
“The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s trough; but Israel does not know,
My people does not consider” (Isaiah 1:3).
The Holy One, Blessed be He, says: Let the one who recognizes its master’s trough,
an ox and donkey,
come and exact retribution,
through lashes with a strap of ox and donkey hide…
Makkot 23a:6
Another matter, “when a person [
nefesh
] will sin…” – that is what the verse said: “All the toil of man is for his mouth” (Ecclesiastes 6:7). Rabbi Shmuel bar Ami said: As much as a person amasses mitzvot and good deeds, it is insufficient to counterbalance the hot air that emerges from his mouth.
“But his soul is also not filled” (Ecclesiastes 6:7). Rabbi Berekhya and Rabbi Kartzifa in the name of Rabbi Yoḥanan say: Like ropes though a round hole. Rabbi Ḥanina said: Like a nail that comes through the round hole. Shmuel said: Like a damp, inverted thorn that emerges from the trachea…
Vayikra Rabbah 4:2
“Joseph died along with all his brothers and that entire generation” (Exodus 1:6).
Teaching that as long as one of those who descended to Egypt was alive, the Egyptians did not enslave Israel.
“The children of Israel were fruitful, propagated, increased, and grew exceedingly, and the land filled with them” (Exodus 1:7).
“The children of Israel were fruitful, propagated…” Even though Joseph and his brothers died, their God did not die, but rather: “The children of Israel were fruitful, propagated…”
Alternatively…
Shemot Rabbah 1:8
And this was the reason Ahasuerus could not sleep:
A thought occurred to him
and
he said
to himself:
What is this before us that Esther has invited Haman? Perhaps they are conspiring against that man,
i.e., against me,
to kill him. He
then
said again
to himself:
If this is so, is there no man who loves me and would inform me
of this conspiracy?
He
then
said again
to himself:
Perhaps there is some man who has done a favor for me and I have not
properly
rewarded him…
Megillah 15b:21
Rava said to Rabba bar Mari: From where is this matter
derived
whereby people say:
If there is
a well that you drank from, do not throw a stone into it?
Rabba bar Mari
said to him
that the source is
as it is written: “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a stranger in his land”
(Deuteronomy 23:8). Since you dwelled in their lands, you may not cause them harm.
Bava Kamma 92b:15
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