On that day R. Akiba expounded, then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto The Lord and spake, saying, there was no need for the word `saying`, so why was it added? It teaches that the Israelites responded to every sentence after Moses, in the manner of reading Hallel, `I will sing unto The Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, on that account is the word `saying` mentioned. R. Nehemiah says: in the manner of reading the Shema and not Hallel. |
סוטה 5.4 |
On that day R. Joshua b. Hyrcanus expounded: Job only served the Holy One, blessed be He, from love: as it is said, though he slay me, yet will I wait for him. And should it be still doubtful whether the meaning is `I will wait for him` or `I will not waitd, there is another text to declare, till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. This teaches that what he did was from love. R. Joshua [b. Hananiah] said: who will remove the dust from thine eyes, R. Johanan b. Zakkai, since thou hast been expounding all thy life that Job only served the all-present from fear, as it is said, that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God. And eschewed evil! Did not Joshua, the pupil of thy pupil, teach that what he did was from love? |
סוטה 5.5 |
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