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Where do we learn that the Shechinah rests even upon one who studies the law?  In Exodus xx. 24, where it is written, “In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.”

Berachoth, fol. 6, col. 1.

One pang of remorse at a man’s heart is of more avail than many stripes applied to him. (See Prov. xvii. 10.)

Ibid., fol. 7, col. 1.

“Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord!” (Deut. vi. 4.) Whosoever prolongs the utterance of the word one, shall have his days and years prolonged to him.  So also Zohar, syn. tit. ii.

Ibid., fol. 13, col. 2.

Once, as the Rabbis tell us, the Roman Government issued a decree forbidding Israel to study the law.  Whereupon Pappus, the son of Yehudah, one day found Rabbi Akiva teaching it openly to multitudes, whom he had gathered round him to hear it.  “Akiva,” said he, “art thou not afraid of the Government?” “List,” was the reply, “and I will tell thee how it is by a parable.  It is with me as with the fishes whom a fox, walking once by a river’s side, saw darting distractedly to and fro in the stream; and, addressing, inquired, ’From what, pray, are ye fleeing?’ ‘From the nets,’ they replied, ’which the children of men have set to ensnare us.’  ‘Why, then,’ rejoined the fox, ’not try the dry land with me, where you and I can live together, as our fathers managed to do before us?’ ‘Surely,’ exclaimed they, ’thou art not he of whom we have heard so much as the most cunning of animals, for herein thou art not wise, but foolish.  For if we have cause to fear where it is natural for us to live, how much more reason have we to do so where we needs must die!’ Just so,” continued Akiva, “is it with us who study the law, in which (Deut. xxx. 20) it is written, ’He is thy life and the length of thy days;’ for if we suffer while we study the law, how much more shall we if we neglect it?” Not many days after, it is related, this Rabbi Akiva was apprehended and thrown into prison.  As it happened, they led him out for execution just at the time when “Hear, O Israel!” fell to be repeated, and as they tore his flesh with currycombs, and as he was with long-drawn breath sounding forth the word one, his soul departed from him.  Then came forth a voice from heaven which said, “Blessed art thou, Rabbi Akiva, for thy soul and the word one left thy body together.”

Berachoth, fol. 61, col. 2.

The badger, as it existed in the days of Moses, was an animal of unique type, and the learned are not agreed whether it was a wild one or a domestic.  It had only one horn on its forehead; and was assigned for the time to Moses, who made a covering of its skin for the tabernacle; after which it became extinct, having served the purpose of its existence.  Rabbi Yehudah says, “The ox, also, which the first man, Adam, sacrificed, had but one horn on its forehead.”