신명기 27:9의 탈무드

‘For so we find with David, king of Israel, who learnt from Ahitophel only two things.’ What were they? Raba said: Can you not learn them from the verse itself? [It is written,] We took sweet counsel together:¹⁵³Ps. 55, 15. [Ahitophel] said to him, ‘David, why do you sit and occupy yourself alone with the study of the Torah? The words of the Torah can be preserved only in association with companions.¹⁵⁴i.e. taking counsel together. Just as counsel frustrates thoughts,¹⁵⁵Fellow-students in the course of discussion refute each other’s conclusions if wrongly arrived at. so [is thought frustrated] where there is no counsel’.¹⁵⁶One is often misled by his own false reasoning. And whence did he illustrate it? For it is written, Keep silence [hasketh], and hear, O Israel¹⁵⁷Deut. 27, 9. [which means,] Divide yourselves into groups¹⁵⁸The second syllable of הסכת is read as כת, ‘group’. [for the study of the Torah]. And what was the other thing [David] learnt [from him]? He said to him, ‘When you go to pray, run like a man running after a king’. And whence did he illustrate it? For it is written. After the Lord your God shall ye go.¹⁵⁹ibid. XIII, 5. E.V. walk. And whence do we know that David referred to these [two thoughts] and spoke in praise of them? For it is written, We took sweet counsel together, in the house of God we walked with the throng;¹⁶⁰Ps. 55, 15. The first clause is interpreted as studying Torah together with others, and in the second with the throng is understood as ‘in haste’. and it is written, I have more understanding than all my teachers;¹⁶¹ibid. CXIX, 99, which is given the meaning: I have gained understanding from all my teachers (Ahitophel included). and it is also written, I will run the way of Thy commandments.¹⁶²ibid. 32.