Study Nedarim folio 37A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: This teaches us that even in a place where one takes payment for teaching, for teaching Bible it is permitted to take payment, but for teaching midrash it is not permitted to take payment.
The Talmud asks: In what way is midrash different from Bible, that one may not take payment for teaching it? Based on that which is written, which Moses said to the people: “And YHWH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and laws” (Deuteronomy 4:14), and also that which is written: “Behol
Rav said: As Bible is typically taught to children, one who teaches Bible takes payment for watching the children. And R' Yoḥanan said: He takes payment for teaching punctuation of the text with cantillation notes.
We learned in the Mishnah that one for whom benefit from another is forbidden by a vow, that other person may not teach him Bible. Granted, according to the one who says that the payment is for teaching punctuation of the text with cantillation notes, this is the reason that he shall not teach him B
The Talmud asks: If it is the case of a minor, say the latter clause of the Mishnah: However, he may teach his sons Bible. Is a minor one who is capable of bearing sons? The Talmud answers: The Mishnah is incomplete, and this is what it is teaching: He may not teach him Bible, in the case of a mino