[Avodah] The Tochacha of Vayelech

[Joshua Meisner]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com <
kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

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> My guess is that - especially if the Shira refers to the whole Torah - then
> perhaps it is telling us that learning Torah will bring us back to Hashem.


That's exactly what Pesichta Eicha Rabbah 2 says, although it learns it from
a different passuk:

"R' Huna and R' Yirmiyah say in the name of R' Chiya bar Abba:  It is
written (Yirmiyah 16:11), '...and they have abandoned Me and they have not
kept My Torah.'  Would that they would have abandoned Me but kept my Torah,
as through their engagement in it, the light in it would have turned them
back to good."

* *Immediately following is a statement of R' Huna re: mitoch she-lo lishma
ba lishma, which differs from the parallel statement of Rav Yehuda amar Rav
that's quoted all over Shas (Pesachim 50b, et.al.) by the latter's inclusion
of mitzvos.


Joshua Meisner
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