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On Studying the Scriptures.

Pour over it again and again, for everything is contained in it; look into it, grow old and gray over it, and do not depart from it, for there is no better pursuit for you than this.

[Mishnah, Pirke Avot 5:27]

Posted by Mike DeVries on June 12, 2009 in Mishnah, Quotes, Scripture | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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