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Turn it, and turn it, for everything is contained within it
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013 01:15 pmEthics of the Fathers (or Foundational Chapters, depending on how you translate it) 5:22:
(Or actually not, because (a) הפך בה means turn it over, not turn it around, and (b) even if he was referring to the Torah in the widest sense, the above is Ben Sira, which narrowly missed the cut for the Biblical canon, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of a good joke.)
Ben Bag Bag said: Turn it, and turn it, for everything is contained within it.What could he have meant?
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(Or actually not, because (a) הפך בה means turn it over, not turn it around, and (b) even if he was referring to the Torah in the widest sense, the above is Ben Sira, which narrowly missed the cut for the Biblical canon, but I'm not going to let that get in the way of a good joke.)
