on a winter day, this means that he immersed himself in a freezing pool, to purify himself before studying Torah. Alternatively, it means that he studied an entire treatise on the Book of Leviticus on a single freezing day.This remarkable transformation of Benaiah from a killer into a scholar raised two questions for me.
from Adam Kirsch: Tablet: Talmud's Warriors and Scholars
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