Turn Neither Right Nor Left From The Words Of Torah And The Sages

Midrash Mishlei 4:5

(Proverbs 4:27): "Turn neither to the right nor to the left; remove your foot from evil" — Rabbi Yose the Galilean said: Be careful with the words of Torah, that you turn from them neither to the right nor to the left. "Remove your foot from evil" — from the way of the wicked. Another interpretation of "Turn neither to the right nor to the left": Rabbi Keritzpi said: Be careful with the words of the sages, that you turn from them neither right nor left. "Remove your foot from evil" — that you not walk in the way of the heretics.

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