<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The Rabbis make a play on the words "V'zot haTorah asher SAHM (shin, mem) Moshe:<br>This is the Torah which Moses set." Sahm with a shin can mean "to set", but sahm with a samech<br>can mean "poison." Hence, if our Torah is not kept in the right way, then it becomes "poison."<br><br><i>When you lift up your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I do not listen. Your hands are full of blood!</i><br>Isaiah 1:15</body></html>