Commentary for Shabbat 125:26
(א"ר) אבא א"ר שמעון בן לקיש גדול המלוה יותר מן העושה צדקה ומטיל בכיס יותר מכולן
is there in her right hand length of days only, but not riches and honour? But to those who go to the right hand thereof there is length of days, and riches and honour <i>a fortiori</i>; but for those that go to the left hand thereof there is riches and honour, but not length of days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi:'... to the right hand' means that they study the Torah profoundly and intensively, just as the right hand is the stronger for work; alternatively, it refers to those who study the Torah for its own sake. '... to the left hand' implies the opposite of these. ');"><sup>22</sup></span>
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