Тегилим 127:1 Связанные отрывки

HALAKHAH: Rebbi Simeon ben Yoḥai stated: When you see towns in the Land of Israel uprooted from their place, know that they did not contribute to the wages of Bible and Mishnah teachers¹³⁷Since at least since the time of the High Priest Joshua ben Gamla providing for elementary schooling is a communal responsibility. Petihta Thr. rabbati (2).. What is the reason? Why is the land ruined, torn down like an uninhabited wilderness? The Eternal said, because they abandoned My Torah¹³⁸Jer. 9:11-12..

Rebbi Judah the Prince¹³⁹R. Judah II, the grandson of Rebbi. sent Rebbi Ḥiyya¹⁴⁰R. Hiyya bar Abba., Rebbi Assi¹⁴¹His Babylonian name. In the Yerushalmi he usually appears as R. Yasa., and Rebbi Immi to tour the towns of the Land of Israel in order to give them Bible and Mishnah teachers. They came to one place where they found neither Bible nor Mishnah teacher. They said to them, bring us the watchmen of the town. They brought them the stewards¹⁴²Identified by S. Liebermann as Latin saltuarius, administrator of an agricultural domain. of the town. They told them, these are not the watchmen of the town, they are the destroyers of the town¹⁴³Since they did not include the wages of elementary school teachers in the communal budget.. They asked them, and who would be the watchmen of the town? They told them, the Bible and Mishnah teachers. That is what is written, if the Eternal would not build the house¹⁴⁴Ps. 127:1., etc.

Rebbi Ḥuna, Rebbi Jeremiah in the name of Rebbi Samuel bar Rav Isaac: We find that the Holy One, praise to Him, did forego¹⁴⁵He did forego meting out punishment. for Israel about idol worship, incest and adultery, and bloodshed¹⁴⁶The three cardinal sins.. But for their rejection of the Torah he did not forego. What is the reason? It is not written here “The Eternal said, because they committed idol worship, incest and adultery, and bloodshed,” but the Eternal said, because they abandoned My Torah. Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, that they abandoned Me I could forego, maybe they would keep My Torah¹⁴⁷A sermon on Jer. 32:23., since if they abandoned Me but kept My Torah, the leavening in it would bring them close to Me. Rav Ḥuna said, study Torah even not for its own merit, since through {studying} not for its own merit you come to {study} for its own¹⁴⁸Babli Pesahim 50b, Sotah 22b,47a, Nazir 23b, Sanhedrin 105a, Horaiot 10b,. Arakhin 16b..