Avoda Zora 11a § 1

Who Holds the Torch?

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Onkelos: Does the ruler hold a torch before the common people?
Soldiers: No.
Onkelos: Yet God holds a torch before the Jewish people,
“And the Lord went before them
by day   in a pillar of cloud,
to lead them the way, and by night
in a pillar of fire, to give them light.
They all convert.
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