EXTRA CREDIT · Not a Torah Temimah citation
EXTRA 1 — Stones, plaster, writing
וְכָתַבְתָּ֣ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ן אֶֽת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֛י הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את בַּאֵ֥ר הֵיטֵֽב׃
Sifrei / Sotah
Core Text
בַּאֵר הֵיטֵב — בְּשִׁבְעִים לָשׁוֹן. וְשַׂדְתָּ אוֹתָם בַּשִּׂיד — שֶׁיִּהְיוּ נִקְרָאִים.
English: “Very clearly” — in seventy languages. “And you shall plaster them with plaster” — so that they may be read.
In Sifrei / Sotah: The Torah written on the stones was to be intelligible to the nations (seventy languages). The plaster made the writing legible.
Type of Learning
Custom (scope of “ba’er heitev” and the plaster).
What Is Learned
The writing on the stones was multi-lingual and made legible by plaster.