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text: Rashi on Proverbs
  רש"י על משלי
  Sefaria Community Translation
  
  
  Rashi on Proverbs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  To know wisdom and discipline- He stated these proverbs to make known to the people [wisdom and discipline], that they toil in the Torah, which is wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  From your wealth (<i>mehonkha</i>): From all that He graced you with, even from a pleasant voice (do not read it as <i>mehonkha</i> [from your wealth] but [rather] as <i>megaronkha</i> [from your voice]). 
  And from the beginning: These are the tithes to the priests and to the Levites.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  because a candle is a mitzvah and torah is light...As the light illuminates forever so the torah stands in its merit forever for a person and the merit of a mitzvah is according to its hour like the light of a candle.  Another explanation: because a candle is a mitvah etc... the commandment of a father is like a candle and all who fulfills his fathers commands it is as if he takes a candle in his hand to light up a dark place, and if he loses anything there he finds it in the light of this candle, and so for anyone who fulfills the teachings of his mother, her light it is for him, and so proverbs says, do not abandon the torah of your mother.....