接上文:帐棚何以与溪水并列(民数记 24:6)?溪水叫人从不洁得洁净,妥拉的帐棚也叫人从罪的一边转到功的一边。
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帐棚何以与溪水并列呢?经上写着:「如接连的山谷,如河旁的园子,如耶和华所栽的沉香树,如水边的香柏木」(民数记 24:6)。
tents juxtaposed to streams, as it is written: “As streams stretched forth, as gardens by the riverside; as aloes [ahalim] planted by the Lord, as cedars by the water” (Numbers 24:6)?
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革玛拉 把那一处点读作「帐棚」,不读作「沉香」。
The Gemara vocalizes the word ohalim, tents, rather than ahalim.
原文那一词写作 אֲהָלִים(「沉香」),转点作 אֹהָלִים 便是「帐棚」——同一串辅音,元音不同。中文的「沉香」与「帐棚」毫不相干,这一转全靠此注说明。
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两者并列,正是要告诉你:溪水怎样叫人浸在其中便从不洁升到洁净,妥拉 的帐棚也怎样叫人从罪的一边升到功的一边。
They are juxtaposed in order to tell you: Just as streams elevate a person from ritual impurity to purity after he immerses himself in their water, so too tents of Torah elevate a person from the scale of guilt to the scale of merit.