Take Counsel From the Torah Ever New Each Day

"In the third month after they went out" (Exodus 19:1). This is what Scripture says, "Have I not written for you noble things in counsels and knowledge?" (Proverbs 22:20). If you seek to take counsel from the Torah, take it. David said: when I sought to take counsel from the Torah, I would gaze and take counsel, as it says, "In Your precepts I will meditate, and I will gaze upon Your ways" (Psalms 119:15). And it says, "In Your precepts I will contemplate" (Psalms 119:104). Ben Chuta said: if you seek to build and do not know how to lay it out, gaze into the Torah and learn, for it is written, "You shall make it with lower, second, and third stories" (Genesis 6:16). Thus, "in counsels and knowledge" (Proverbs 22:20). Another interpretation: "Have I not written for you noble things" [reading "sheloshim," thirty, as "shalishim," choice or threefold] (Proverbs 22:20). Rabbi said: let the Torah not be upon you like an old standing edict, but like a fresh edict that is only two or three days old. "Have I not written for you choice things" (Proverbs 22:20), as if it were written "the day before yesterday." Ben Azzai says: not like an edict that is two or three days old, but like an edict of this very day. Know this from what is written, "in the third month" (Exodus 19:1). It is not written "on that day they came," but rather "on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai" (Exodus 19:1). And so it says, "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances" (Deuteronomy 26:16).