Eikev 8:11 · EXTRA 1

Parashas Eikev · Passuk 8:11 · EXTRA (not a Torah Temimah unit)

The Complete Passuk

הִשָּׁ֣מֶר לְךָ֔ פֶּן־תִּשְׁכַּ֖ח אֶת־יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לְבִלְתִּ֨י שְׁמֹ֤ר מִצְוֺתָיו֙ וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו וְחֻקֹּתָ֔יו אֲשֶׁ֛ר אָנֹכִ֥י מְצַוְּךָ֖ הַיּֽוֹם׃

Take care lest you forget the ETERNAL your God and fail to keep the commandments, rules, and laws that I enjoin upon you today.

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Source Citation

Classical source (not from the Torah Temimah enumeration on this passuk): Sotah 5a:2.

Sefaria — Sotah 5a:2

Core Idea of Chazal

Core Idea
אַזְהָרָה לְגַסֵּי הָרוּחַ מִנַּיִן? אָמַר רָבָא אָמַר זְעֵירִי: ״שִׁמְעוּ וְהַאֲזִינוּ אַל תִּגְבָּהוּ״. רַב נַחְמָן בַּר יִצְחָק אָמַר, מֵהָכָא: ״וְרָם לְבָבֶךָ וְשָׁכַחְתָּ״ וּכְתִיב: ״הִשָּׁמֶר לְךָ פֶּן תִּשְׁכַּח אֶת ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ״.

English: § The Gemara previously discussed the impropriety of the trait of arrogance. Now the Gemara discusses the source of its prohibition. From where is the warning derived, i.e., what is the source prohibiting the behavior of the arrogant? Rava says that Ze’eiri says: The source is from the verse: “Hear, you, and give ear, be not proud, for the Lord has spoken” (Jeremiah 13:15). Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said the warning is from here: “Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 8:14), and it is also written in that same passage: “Beware lest you forget the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 8:11).

On the daf / in context: EXTRA on a SKIP passuk; classical material on this verse’s theme, not a TT-numbered unit.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Bavli sugya) — not a formal named middah of the 13

The Gemara uses this passuk in a sugya (proof, illustration, or dispute). Named as one of R' Yishmael’s 13 or R' Eliezer’s 32 only when that move is explicit.

What Is Learned

Classical derasha recovered for a SKIP verse so the walk includes Chazal beyond the TT list.