Do not inquire into that which is beyond you, Search not into that which is concealed from you! mysteries of theosophy.
Figuratively: Do not involve yourself in matters that are wondrous or impossible to understand.
(“For it is written in the Book of Ben Sira: Do not inquire into that which is beyond you, and do not investigate that which is concealed from you; contemplate what you are permitted, you have no business with hidden matters” – Ḥagigah 13a; and likewise: “From where does he live, and how does he live, and from where does he take his sustenance? … Why should you inquire into that which is beyond you?” – Sholem Aleichem / The Pot, p. 129; and likewise: “He found a sufficient explanation and was content; if he did not find one, he fulfilled upon himself the verse written in Ben Sira, brought in the Talmud: Do not inquire into that which is beyond you, and do not investigate that which is concealed from you” – Agnon / A City and Its Fullness, p. 100)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
בַּמֻּפְלָא מִמְּךָ אַל תִּדְרֹשׁ
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: אַל תִּתְעַסֵּק בִּדְבָרִים מֻפְלָאִים אוֹ בִּלְתִּי נִתָּנִים לַהֲבָנָה.
("שֶׁכֵּן כָּתוּב בְּסֵפֶר בֶּן סִירָא: בַּמֻּפְלָא מִמְּךָ אַל תִּדְרוֹשׁ וּבַמְכֻסֶּה מִמְּךָ אַל תַּחְקֹר, בְּמָה שֶׁהֻרְשֵׁיתָ הִתְבּוֹנֵן, אֵין לְךָ עֵסֶק בַּנִּסְתָּרוֹת"- חֲגִיגָה יג ע"א, וְכֵן: "מֵהֵיכָן הוּא חַי, וְכֵיצַד הוּא חַי, וּמֵאַיִן הוּא לוֹקֵחַ לִמְחִיָּתוֹ?...לָמָּה לְךָ לִדְרֹשׁ בַּמֻּפְלָא מִמְּךָ?"- שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ הַקְּדֵרָה, קכט, וְכֵן: "מָצָא פֵּרוּשׁ מַסְפִּיק הָיָה שָׂמֵחַ, לֹא מָצָא, קִיֵּם בְּעַצְמוֹ מִקְרָא שֶׁכָּתוּב בְּבֶן סִירָא שֶׁהֵבִיאוּ בַּגְּמָרָא, בַּמֻּפְלָא מִמְּךָ אַל תִּדְרוֹשׁ וּבַמְכֻסֶּה מִמְּךָ אַל תַּחְקֹר"- עַגְנוֹן/ עִיר וּמְלוֹאָהּ, 100)