פירוש על ברכות 9:2

M.: b. Lahma.

On the Jeser Tob and Jeser Ra', the tendency towards good and evil, see J. E. XII. p. 601. To the literature there cited may now be added, Schechter, Aspects of Rabbinic Theology, Chaps. XV, XVI, and Abelson, Immanence of God, Chap. XXIII.

Of the Torah it is said, "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart" (Deut. vi. 6).

The Shema' was to be read "when thou liest down" (Deut. vi. 7).

Stillness being a symbol of death. Cf. "The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence " (Ps. cxv. 17).