עֲשֹוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה Adina Broder

Make a fence around the Torah What exactly does that mean? עשו סיג לתורה Make a fence around the Torah What exactly does that mean?

Have you ever been to an art museum with precious works of art?

They don’t leave the artwork available for anyone to touch …

Instead they protect it WITH ROPES WITH SIGNS Sometimes even WITH GLASS

In a similar way, we must protect the mitzvot of the Torah But instead of using Ropes or Signs or Glass We add on extra restrictions

The classic example is with MUKTZA on Shabbat

One of the 39 malachot is כותב - writing

We want to protect that mitzvah and not even to come close to being עובר on it, to violating it

So Chazal made it אסור to even move a pen or pencil

Another way that we can “Make a fence around the Torah” is … To not put ourselves in situations that might cause us to do something wrong

עֲשֹוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה Make a fence around the Torah