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and drizzle [urpila] is even beneficial to a seed [partzida] under a clod of earth, as it can reach anywhere without causing any harm. The Talmud asks: What is the meaning of the word drizzle? The Talmud explains: It is a contraction of the phrase: Arise, furrows [uru pilei]. And the Talmud cites a
§ And, incidentally, the Talmud relates that which Rava said: This Torah scholar who grows angry, it can be presumed that it is his Torah study that angers him. Therefore, he must be given the benefit of the doubt, as it is stated: “Is not my word like fire, says YHWH” (Jeremiah 23:29). And simil
R' Abba said to Rav Ashi: You learned the proof for this idea from that verse there; we learned it from here, as it is written: “A land whose stones [avaneha] are iron” (Deuteronomy 8:9). Do not read this phrase as “whose stones [avaneha],” rather, read it as whose builders [boneha], since Torah s
As a preamble to the statement of R' Berekhya, below, the Talmud cites that which R' Shmuel bar Naḥmani said that R' Yonatan said: 3 people entreated God in an unreasonable manner, i.e., in situations where their requests might have received an unfavorable answer. To two of them God responded reason
The Talmud clarifies each of these cases in turn: With regard to Eliezer, servant of Abraham, he made a request when he prayed beside the well, as it is written: “That the maiden to whom I shall say: Please let down your pitcher that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will also give your