Comentários de Citação sobre Provérbios 30:33

Tractate Berachos 63b says [pertaining to the verse], “‘For the churning of milk produces cream…’:¹⁷Prov. 30:33. [This teaches], Who produces the cream of Torah? The one who regurgitates the milk that he imbibed from his mother’s breasts” [i.e., those who are “weaned.” “Weaned,” as stated in Isaiah, refers to the Talmudic scholars, for they drink from the Torah’s milk – knowledge – from which they produce “cream” – in other words, laws]. “…and torn from the breast,”¹⁸Isa. 28:9. (refers to a diminution in the indulgences of life; Scripture compares these indulgences to breasts, as seen in Proverbs 5:19, “Let her breasts satisfy you at all times….” It is known from the Talmudic chapter entitled Kinyan ha-Torah¹⁹The collection of baraisos found in the sixth chapter of Avos is often referred to as Perek Kinyan ha-Torah – the Chapter of the Acquisition of the Torah. that a [non-indulgent lifestyle] is one of the conditions enabling [a person] to acquire [the knowledge of Torah].

תמצו That you may milk out. Comp. מיץ the churning (Prov. 30:33), though of a different root.^17aThe root of תמצו is מצץ, that of מיץ is מוץ.

ונמצה דמו AND THE BLOOD THEREOF SHALL BE WRUNG OUT — The word ונמצה is connected in meaning with (Proverbs 30:33) “the pressing out (מיץ) of wrath”; (Isaiah 16:4) “for extortion (המץ) is at an end). — He presses the place where the neck has been cut (בית השחיטה) against the wall and the blood thus drains itself out) and runs down the wall (cf. Sifra, Vayikra Dibbura d'Nedavah, Section 7 7; Zevachim 64b).