תלמוד על בראשית 37:7

Rebbi Eleazar in the name of Siracides: What is beyond you do not have to know, what is deeper than the abyss do not investigate. Ponder what is permitted to you; you have no concern with hidden things⁷³Siracides3:21–22. Babli 13a.. ⁷⁴For the following, including the next paragraph, cf.Gen. rabba1(7). Rav said, may lying lips be אלם⁷⁵Ps. 31:19.: may they become dumb, be rubbed out, silenced. May they become dumb, as you are saying, the Eternal said to him, Who formed a mouth⁷⁶Ex. 4:11, mentioning deafness and dumbness. etc. May they be rubbed out, as you are saying, here we were tying sheaves⁷⁷Gen. 37:7. Reading the word for “sheaf” as “assembly of single stalks”.. May they be silenced, as it is understood. Which talk boasting about a just one⁷⁴For the following, including the next paragraph, cf.Gen. rabba1(7)., who talk about the Universal Just One in matters which He hid from His creatures. With haughtiness and contempt⁷⁵Ps. 31:19., that is he who is haughty to say, I am investigating the Creation. He feels like haughty but only is insulting.