Derashot ḥatam sofer (Sermons of Ḥatam Sofer)
Moses Sofer
1809
A sealed Torah was given to us; it is doubtless a Torah of Truth but it is disguised. Every day the Holy One, blessed be He, renews those who study it for its own sake and they find a new taste in it, like a suckling at the breast [ . . . ] yet those who breach it are not blessed in this manner, for they say there is only one Torah, and scripture merely has its plain meaning.
Credits
Moses Sofer, Sefer Ḥatam Sofer : ʻal ha-Torah, ed. Yosef Naftali Shṭern, vol. 1. Be-reshit (Jerusalem: Mekhon Ḥatam Sofer, 2007), 142a.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.