1. עֲשֹוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה
Adina Broder

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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

7. The classic example is with MUKTZA on Shabbat

8. One of the 39 malachot is כותב - writing

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

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

11. 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

13. עֲשֹוּ סְיָג לַתּוֹרָה
Make a fence
around the Torah