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R' Yehoshua b. Levi is in a romantic mood. He's reading Song of Songs, the bit which says "v'siftotav shoshanim not'fot mor over"*
RYbL: Every word that issues from the mouth of God fills the whole universe with wonderful spices.
Isn't that visionary? and lovely? But the Stamma d'Gemara is not in a romantic mood.
SdG (with commendable logic) : If the first word filled the universe with wonderful spices, there can't have been room for the spices from the second word.
Oh, just spoil the image, SdG, won't you? Do you always have to take everything so literally? RYbL has a comeback, fortunately:
RYbL: God blows all the spices away between words - "v'siftotav shoshanim not'fot mor over" - don't say shoshanim, say she'shonim - his lips renew the perfume.
* his lips are lilies dripping perfume (Song 5:13)
RYbL: Every word that issues from the mouth of God fills the whole universe with wonderful spices.
Isn't that visionary? and lovely? But the Stamma d'Gemara is not in a romantic mood.
SdG (with commendable logic) : If the first word filled the universe with wonderful spices, there can't have been room for the spices from the second word.
Oh, just spoil the image, SdG, won't you? Do you always have to take everything so literally? RYbL has a comeback, fortunately:
RYbL: God blows all the spices away between words - "v'siftotav shoshanim not'fot mor over" - don't say shoshanim, say she'shonim - his lips renew the perfume.
* his lips are lilies dripping perfume (Song 5:13)
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