Avoda Zora 3b § 4
A Fish Out of Water
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You have made man
like the fish of the sea, like
creeping things without a ruler.
Why is man compared to the fish of the sea?
To teach you the following lesson:
Just as the fish of the sea as soon as
they are lifted onto dry ground they perish,
so it is with man as soon as they seperate
themselves from the words of the Torah
and from the mitvos they perish.
like the fish of the sea, like
creeping things without a ruler.
Why is man compared to the fish of the sea?
To teach you the following lesson:
Just as the fish of the sea as soon as
they are lifted onto dry ground they perish,
so it is with man as soon as they seperate
themselves from the words of the Torah
and from the mitvos they perish.