Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Amsal 14:12

Another explanation is that the warning against drinking hints at silence, because every drunkard increases his words, as it is written Who has babbling? … Those who linger over wine (Proverbs 23:29-30), and it is written New wine opens us the young women (Zechariah 9:17). Therefore, by virtue of Aaron was silent (Leviticus 10:3), this commandment was specifically addressed to him, because through it he would not engage in excessive idle or harmful speech, for lashon hara [evil speech] kills three people (Devarim Rabbah 5:10). Therefore it says lest you die, besides the fact that drunkenness naturally leads to death. As it is written There is a way that appears to be right to a man, but in the end it leads to death (Proverbs 14:12). The final letters of yesh derech yashar [there is a way that appears right] spell “shekhar” [intoxicating drink], because through intoxication everything appears straight in one’s eyes, as our Sages said (Yoma 75a): “Anyone who fixes his eyes on his cup, all forbidden relationships seem permissible to him,” as it says it goes down smoothly (Proverbs 23:31). And this is what is meant by in the end it leads to death, because the end of yesh derech yashar contains the letters of “shekhar” [intoxicating drink], and it is “ways of death,” because it causes death both as a punishment and as a natural consequence.

Another explanation of why he was called “man of the earth” [adamah]: He followed in the path of Adam who sinned with the grapevine — according to the opinion that the Tree of Knowledge was a grapevine. Another explanation is that wine causes one’s spirit to return to the earth before its time. As it is written: There is a path that seems straight to a man, but its end leads to death (Proverbs 14:12). The final letters of There is a straight path [yesh derekh yashar] spell “intoxicating drink” [shekhar], because every drunkard walks as if on a straight path, and all forbidden sexual relations appear level and straight to him — as they explained in Yoma 75b. And not only sexual transgressions, but every sin and transgression appears straight in his eyes, and he doesn’t realize that it costs him his life, as wine destroys from soul to flesh. Therefore it says “its end” — meaning the final letters of there is a straight path spell out “ways of death,” because intoxicating drink is a path to death. And there is a hint regarding Noah: when you write the letters of “wine” [yayin] — yud and yud and nun — the final letters add up to the numerical value of “Noah” [Noach]. This hints that he was the first to engage in this planting.