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Sifrei Devarim 161

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 17:19) "And it shall be with him": From here they ruled: When the king goes out to war, it is with him. When he presides in judgment, it is by him. When he sits down, it is beside him.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and he shall read in it all the days of his life": "the days of his life": the days; "all the days of his life": the nights.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"so that he learn to fear the L-rd his G-d": We are hereby taught that study leads to fear; fear to heeding, heeding, to doing. Because we find that a commoner is like a king vis-à-vis words of Torah, we might think he is like him in other things, (too); it is, therefore, written "to heed all the words of this Torah and these statutes": He is like him in respect to words of Torah, but not in respect to other things,

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English · Shraga Silverstein

whence it was ruled: A king breaches (the fence of others) to make way for himself (to go to his vineyard or his field), and he may not be held back (from doing so). He may broaden roads for himself, and he is not held back from doing so. The path of the king has no limits. And all of the people take of the spoil and place it before him, and he takes the prime portion. (He chooses first and takes half of all the spoil.)

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