Chasidut for Eruvin 107:21

אמר רב מתנה מאי דכתיב (במדבר כא, יח) וממדבר מתנה אם משים אדם עצמו כמדבר זה שהכל דשין בו תלמודו מתקיים בידו ואם לאו אין תלמודו מתקיים בידו

R'Eleazar further stated: What is the purport of the Scriptural text: His cheeks are as a bed of slices?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cant. V, 13.');">⁴⁷</span> If a man allows himself to be treated as a bed upon which everybody treads,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Humility.');">⁴⁸</span> and as spices with which everybody perfumes himself,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Benefiting others.');">⁴⁹</span> his learning will be preserved, but otherwise it will not.

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