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Shir HaShirim Rabbah 5.13

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English · The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022)

“His cheeks are like a bed of spices, growths of spices; his lips are lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh” (Song of Songs 5:13). “His cheeks are like a bed of spices” – Rabbi Yannai said: In the days of my youth, we were two groups, and we would go out to engage in Torah study in the street. The reasoning said by this [group] would not be said by that [group]. “Growths of spices” – just like in growths of spices there are all kinds of spices, so too, a Torah scholar must be full of Bible, Mishna, Talmud, halakhot, and aggadot. Priests and Levites are from Jacob. “His lips are lilies” – this is a Torah scholar who is well versed in his studies. “His lips are lilies, dripping with flowing [over] myrrh” – this is a Torah scholar who is not well versed in his studies, whose lips are dripping with myrrh. Nevertheless, he reviews [over] and then clarifies his studies.

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English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022), CC BY. Hebrew: Torat Emet text, public domain. From Sefaria (sefaria.org). · Source ↗

English translation: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah, 2022, via Sefaria (sefaria.org). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Changes: footnotes and HTML formatting removed.

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