Quoting%20commentary for Shevuot 94:6
(דברים א, ז) עד הנהר הגדול נהר פרת שמעון בן טרפון אומר קרב לגבי דהינא ואידהן דבי רבי ישמעאל תנא עבד מלך כמלך:
As far as the great river, the river Euphrates.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. I,7.');"><sup>11</sup></span> Simeon B'Tarfon says: Go near a fat man, and be fat.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or, touch a person smeared with oil, and you will also become smeared with oil. The river Euphrates is not really greater, but smaller, than the others, for it is mentioned last (of the four rivers, Gen. II, 14) , but it is called here 'the great river', because it is mentioned in connection with the Holy Land (as its eastern boundary) , and anything connected with the Holy Land is great (Rashi) . [Maharsha: Though in reality the Euphrates is the longest of the four it is described as great only when mentioned in connection with the Holy Land.]');"><sup>12</sup></span>
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