Teach Us, Our Master/ Please teach us

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Teach Us, Our Master/ Please teach us

A respectful address to a rabbi or other wise person, asking them to teach or to offer a wise remark on the subject.

("Teach us, our master: One who sees a handsome person, how does he recite a blessing?"—Thus our rabbis taught: "One who sees beautiful creatures, and so on; and there is none more beautiful than Rachel, and it was because of her beauty that Jacob sought to marry her"—Midrash Yelammedenu (Mann), Yalkut Talmud Torah, Genesis, entry 136; and likewise: "Teach us, our master: If a man had two sons, one born on the eve of Shabbat and one on Shabbat, and he forgot and circumcised the one born on the eve of Shabbat on Shabbat, or the one born on Shabbat on the eve of Shabbat, what is he liable for?"—Midrash Tanchuma (Warsaw), Parashat Vayera, section 6)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יְלַמְּדֵנוּ רַבֵּנוּ

Definition (Hebrew)

פְּנִיַּית כָּבוֹד לָרַב אוֹ לְאָדָם חָכָם שֶׁיִּלְמַד אוֹ שֶׁיַּגִּיד דְּבַר חָכְמָה בַּנּוֹשֵׂא.

("יְלַמְּדֵנוּ רַבֵּנוּ: הָרוֹאֶה אָדָם נָאֶה כֵּיצַד הוּא מְבָרֵךְ?- כָּךְ שָׁנוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ: הָרוֹאֶה בְּרִיּוֹת טוֹבוֹת וְכוּ', וְאֵין לְךָ נָאֶה מֵרָחֵל, וּבִשְׁבִיל יְפֵה בִּקֵּשׁ יַעֲקֹב לִשָּׂא אוֹתָהּ"- מִדְרָשׁ יְלַמְּדֵנוּ (מָאן) יַלְקוּט תַּלְמוּד תּוֹרָה- בְּרֵאשִׁית אוֹת קַלּוּ, וְכֵן:"יְלַמְּדֵנוּ רַבֵּנוּ, מִי שֶׁנּוֹלְדוּ לוֹ שְׁנֵי בָנִים אֶחָד בְּעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת וְאֶחָד בְּשַׁבָּת, וְשָׁכַח וּמָל אֶת שֶׁל עֶרֶב שַׁבָּת בַּשַּׁבָּת, אוֹ אֶת שֶׁל שַׁבָּת בְּעֶרֶב שַׁבָּת מָה הוּא שֶׁיְּהֵא חַיָּב?"- מִדְרַשׁ תַּנְחוּמָא (וַרְשָׁא) פָּרָשַׁת וַיַּרְא סִימָן ו)

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