#82: Two Kinds of Stupid
Rashi on Parashat Ha'azinu, Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:6
Gimme Some Torah #82
Do you thus requite God,
O dull and witless people?
Is not this the Father who created you—
Fashioned you and made you endure!—Devarim/Deuteronomy 32:6
Moses calls Am Yisrael נָבָל (naval, dull) and לֹא חָכָם (lo ḥakham, witless). Rashi says that these words refer to two different kinds of stupidity. One …
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