1)

What is "Tzuf Devash"?

1.

Rashi: A loaf of honey.

2)

What are "Imrei No'am"?

1.

Rashi: They are Divrei Torah.

3)

How are Imrei No'am like Tzuf Devash?

1.

R. Yonah: They are sweet to a Chacham's Nefesh, like a loaf of honey is sweet to a person's palate.

2.

Malbim: Tzuf Devash applies to "v'Al Sefasav Yosif Lekach" (23); when Da'as comes on his lips, it makes the laws of Chachmah sweet, and not like something without taste. The sayings are pleasant - a spiritual pleasantness that comes from spiritual understandings.

4)

Why is "Masok" singular?

1.

R. Yonah #1: Each word is sweet.

2.

R. Yonah #2: Masok is a noun, like "ki'Dvash l'Masok" (Yechezkel 3:3) - it is like honey for sweetness. The grammatical form is like Kavod.

5)

Why does it say "Masok la'Nefesh"?

1.

Malbim: It is not physical sweetness to the palate, rather, sweetness to the Nefesh.

6)

Why does it add "u'Marpei la'Atzem"?

1.

Malbim: They are not only for the Nefesh dissociated from the body - rather, the Sechel tied to the body understands them. Ru'ach Elokim fills all its rooms with dear wealth and pleasantness, and returns also Evilim via its Musar - Musar Haskel.

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