Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 115
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(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’ 115³¹⁹
- “Only if you listen closely (shamo
a tishma) to the voice of HASHEM your God” (Dt. 15:5). On this basis they taught: If a person has heard (shama*) only a little [Torah],** **they enable him to hear (*mashmiin 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.
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’