Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Avodah Zarah 9:20

תנו רבנן (ויקרא כו, ג) אם בחקתי תלכו אין אם אלא לשון תחנונים וכן הוא אומר (תהלים פא, יד) לו עמי שומע לי [וגו'] כמעט אויביהם אכניע ואומר (ישעיהו מח, יח) לו הקשבת למצותי ויהי כנהר שלומך וגו' ויהי כחול זרעך וצאצאי מעיך וגו'

Our Rabbis taught: “If you walk in my statutes” (Leviticus 26:3) the word if is nothing but an appeal. So too it says, “Would that my people would listen to Me…that Israel would walk in my ways . . . I should soon subdue their enemies” (Psalms 81:14); And it says, “Had you listened to my commandments: Then your peace would be like a river… your seed like the sand, their issue [as many as its grains]” (Isaiah 48:18).

Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah

All of these verses here are part of a general program to show that God pleaded with Israel to accept the commandments.
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