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Home -- Content: Series 7 (Laws) -- Translation: English -- Book: 1 (Tora) -- Part: 1 (Positive) -- Command: 6 -- Text The Sharia of Moses in the TORA 6 - CLEAVING TO GODTo cleave to God means to cleave to his words, and to all those who study and respect his law. Deuteronomy 10:20 -- “You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name.”
Deuteronomy 11:22 -- “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do - - to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him”
Deuteronomy 4:24 -- “For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.”
The Mishnah records the following saying of Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah, one of the early fathers of the tradition: “Let thy house be a meeting-house for the wise; and sit amid the dust of their feet; and drink in their words with thirst.”* * Ab. I, 4
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