答上叶末问:等同伴祷完的人所得的赏,是以赛亚书 48:18–19 的那一串祝福——平安如河、公义如海浪、后裔如沙。所据是 诫命 与 结伴 两词音近:「你若听从我的诫命」被读作「你若与人结伴」。
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论到这赏,拉比哈尼纳 之子 拉比约西 说:在会堂里等同伴祷完的人,配得下面这些祝福,正如经上所说:「但愿你听从我的 诫命,你的平安就如河水,你的公义就如海浪。
In terms of this reward, Rabbi Yosei, son of Rabbi Ḥanina said: One who waits in the synagogue for the other to finish his prayer merits the following blessings, as it is stated: “If only you had listened to My mitzvot then your peace would be as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.
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你的后裔也必像海沙,你腹中所生的必像海边的沙粒;他的名必不从我面前剪除,也不灭绝」(以赛亚书 48:18–19)。
Your seed would be as the sand, and the offspring of your body like the grains thereof; his name would be neither cut off nor destroyed from before Me” (Isaiah 48:18–19).
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这一节之所以能这样解,是因 诫命 一词与 结伴 音近,而 结伴 的意思是结伴。
The explanation of this passage is based on the etymological similarity between the word mitzva and the word tzevet, which means group.
整段的赏全系于一处音近:「听从我的 诫命」被读作 结伴——两个词在希伯来文里一读便觉相通。中文的「诫命」与「结伴」毫无牵连,这一步只能靠注说明。
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他若与同伴相守、不在人祷告之后就撇下他,那么这一节后面所列的祝福都必成就在他身上(拉比奴·约纳的门徒)。
If he keeps the other person company and does not abandon him after his prayer, all of the blessings that appear later in the verse will be fulfilled in him (Talmidei Rabbeinu Yona).