Berachos 58a § 3
Saved Only by Good Deeds
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Question: What is different about a dove, that he specifically
said that that was the object that he forgot?
Answer: Because the community of Israel is likened to a dove,
The wings of a dove, covered in silver,
and its pinions with the shimmer of gold.
Just as a dove is saved from its enemies only by its wings,
so too, Israel is saved only by the merit of the mitzvos.
said that that was the object that he forgot?
Answer: Because the community of Israel is likened to a dove,
The wings of a dove, covered in silver,
and its pinions with the shimmer of gold.
Just as a dove is saved from its enemies only by its wings,
so too, Israel is saved only by the merit of the mitzvos.