## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 115

###### Sifrei Devarim 115:1
[Sifrei Devarim 115:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/115:1)

(דברים טו ה) **רַק אִם שָׁמוֹעַ תִּשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ**, מִכָּן אָמְרוּ: שָׁמַע אָדָם קִמְעָה – מַשְׁמִיעִים אוֹתוֹ הַרְבֵּה, שָׁמַע אָדָם דִּבְרֵי תוֹרָה – מַשְׁמִיעִים אוֹתוֹ דִּבְרֵי סוֹפְרִים.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 115**³¹⁹
1. “Only if you listen closely (*shamo`a tishm`a*) to the voice
of HASHEM your God” (Dt. 15:5).
On this basis they taught:
**If a person has heard (*sham`a*) only a little [Torah],**
**they enable him to hear (*mashmi`in lo*) much.**
**If a person has heard words of [written] Torah**
**they enable him to hear [the oral] teachings of scribes.**

footnotes:
³¹⁹ H:161; JN1:288.


###### Sifrei Devarim 115:2
[Sifrei Devarim 115:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Sifrei%20Devarim/r/115:2)

**לִשְׁמֹר לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת כָּל הַמִּצְוָה הַזֹּאת** – שֶׁתְּהֵא מִצְוָה קַלָּה חֲבִיבָה עָלֶיךָ כְּמִצְוָה חֲמוּרָה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**“To preserve and to enact *all* of this commandment” (Dt. 15:5)—**
**may the simplest commandment**
**be as dear to you**
**as the most arduous commandment**.³²⁰ 79.1 and note thereto.

footnotes:
³²⁰ Cf. M. Avot 2:1. See also Pisqa’