Ehud's Two-Edged Sword and the Torah of Both Worlds

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 42:2

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"And Ehud made himself a sword, and it had two edges" (Judges 3:16) [literally, "two mouths"]. This teaches that he was occupied with the Torah, which is called "a two-edged sword" [literally, "a sword of mouths," as in "and a two-edged sword in their hand" (Psalms 149:6)]. "And it had two mouths," for those who study Torah eat in this world and in the world to come.

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