{"id":89495,"date":"2021-02-27T22:37:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=89495"},"modified":"2021-02-27T22:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T20:37:24","slug":"torah-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/torah-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Torah Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"89495","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":42746,"related_cahpter":"686","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u05de\u05b8\u05d4\u05be\u05d0\u05b8\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05ea\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05ea\u05b6\u05da\u05b8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc\u05be\u05d4\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd \u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05e9\u05c2\u05b4\u05d9\u05d7\u05b8\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9\u05c3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O how I love Your teaching! It is my study all day long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I translated this verse, it would read: O how I love Your Torah! It is my chatter all day long!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sichati<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d is well-known from the famous brief discussion between Beruria and Rabbi Yosei the Galilean. When he ran into her on the road and asked her for directions, she responded with, \u201cFoolish Galilean, didn\u2019t the sages already say, \u2018engage not in too much conversation with women\u2019? You should have said [your question more succinctly]: \u2018which way to Lod?\u2019\u201d (Eruvin 53:b).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beruria quotes from Pirkei Avot (1:5): \u201cYose ben Yochanan (a man) of Jerusalem used to say: Let thy house be wide open, and let the poor be members of thy household. Engage not in too much conversation with women.\u201d The word for \u201cconversation\u201d here is <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sicha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If the sages wanted husbands and wife not to talk with each other, they could have said, \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">al tedabru<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, but they used a very careful phrase, literally saying, \u201cdo not have too much chatter\u201d\u2026 That is, not that you should not have any of it at all, just not too much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Sicha<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is considered a \u201clow\u201d kind of conversation, possibly gossip, maybe disrespectful babble, which, while can be playful and close, but also can be harmful and belittling, and therefore should be avoided. But here, maybe the psalmist uses this word on purpose; maybe he wants to <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">davka<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> emphasize that the Torah should be whatever is buzzing around in my mind all day long. Like someone in love who can\u2019t think about anything else, even the unimportant \u201cchatter\u201d, should all be Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"\u05de","main_caption":"Torah Chatter","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"97. O how I love Your teaching! 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