Derashot ḥatam sofer (Sermons of Ḥatam Sofer)
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.
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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.
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