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Three Fingers of Torah Separation by danielporpino is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses a passage from the Talmud about Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya questioning his student Ben Zoma about where he had been. Ben Zoma responds that he was contemplating the act of Creation and noting that between the upper and lower waters there is only a distance of three fingers. The document then explores the symbolism of this three finger distance, suggesting it represents the separation between Torah studied for its own sake (which reaches above the heavens) and Torah studied for othe
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