Drink Water From Your Own Cistern And Learn From The Near First

Midrash Mishlei 5:4

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(Proverbs 5:15): "Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing waters from the midst of your own well" — how so? If a person wishes to learn Torah, let him not say, "I will learn from the far and afterward I will learn from the near," but rather let him learn from the near and afterward from the far.

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