When a Small Town Builds a House of Study Heaven Answers

"You who ride on white donkeys" (Judges 5:10): "white" means nothing other than clean of robbery. "You who sit in judgment" means they establish the matter upon the law. "And you who walk on the way, give voice" refers to the Sanhedrin, upon whom the world leans, and who never have idle talk, as it is said, "Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes" (Judges 5:3). "From the sound of those who divide" (Judges 5:11) refers to those who declare of the impure "impure" and of the pure "pure": the laws of Shabbat, of the festival offerings, of the laws of misappropriation, and the laws concerning what divides a person. "Between the watering places" means those who study and draw out words of Torah. "There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous acts of His leadership in Israel" (Judges 5:11). There was a small town in Israel: they arose and built themselves a synagogue and a house of study and hired themselves a cantor and teachers of children, and many houses of study were found in Israel. And whoever renews words of Torah from his own mouth is regarded as one to whom they are proclaimed from heaven, and they say to him: thus said the Holy One, blessed be He, build Me a house, for its reward is great, as it is said, "They chose new gods" (Judges 5:8).