ז

גדולה תורה

Torah is great

as is gives life to its practitioners

in this world and in the World to Come,

as its says:

"For they are life to those who find them

and to all his flesh a cure,"

and its says

"It will be a cure for your navel

and marrow for your bones,"

and it says,

"It is a tree of life to those that hold it

and those that support it are fortunate,"

and it says,

"For they are an accessory of grace for your head,

and a necklace for your throat,"

and it says,

"It will give for your head an accessory of grace,

it will bestow a crown of splendor upon you,"

and it says,

"For through me your days will be increased

and it will add to you years of life,"

and it says,

"Length of days in its right,

and in its left, wealth and honor,"

and it says,

for length of days

and years of life and peace

it adds for you,"

and it says,

"Its ways are ways of pleasantness

and all of its paths are peace."

ח

רבי שמעון בן מנסיא אומר

Rabbi Shimon ben Minasya says

in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai:

Beauty, strength, wealth,

honor, wisdom, age,

old age and children

are fitting for the righteous and fitting for the world,

as its says,

"The crown of splendor is old age,

on the way of righteousness it is found,"

and it says,

"The splendor of youth is their stength,

and the glory of the elders is their old age,"

and it says,

"The crown of the wise is their wealth,"

and it says,

the crown of the elders is grandchildren

and the splendor of youth is their fathers,"

and it says,

"And the moon shall be ashamed and the sun abashed,

for God, the Master of Legions, on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem will have reign

and before his elders will be honor."

Rabbi Shimon ben Minasya says:

These seven measures that our Sages enumerated for the righteous

all were fulfilled by Rebbi and his children.