_idem_, art. _Gemara_, in the _Hebrew Union College Annual_
(Cincinnati, 1904); E. Deutsch, _What is the Talmud?_;
Darmsteter, _The Talmud_; Strack, _Einleitung in den Talmud_,
pp. 4-5, 6 _et seq._, 99 _et seq._, 113 _et seq._, 132 _et
seq._; Schechter, _On the Study of the Talmud_ in _Studies_,
II, p. 102 _et seq._; Herford, _Pharisaism_, pp. 53-54.

(64) Lit., "at twenty, to pursue." This has been variously
interpreted as follows: (1) for seeking a livelihood
(Bartenora, Hoffmann, Strack, Singer); (2) for the pursuit of
military service (cf. Num. I, 3, and Deut. XXIV, 5; _Machzor
Vitri_, p. 551. Shakespeare's "Then a soldier"); (3) the age
"to pursue him for his deeds," for the celestial _bet din_
(tribunal) does not punish at an age less than twenty
(Bartenora's second explanation; cf. Rashi on Num. XVI, 27);
(4) for the pursuit of ideals (Taylor); (5) to pursue the
commandments (_Siddur Korban Minchah_).

(65) Cf. Ps. XC, 10.

25. Ben Bag Bag said, "Turn it (66), and turn it over again, for
everything is in it, and contemplate it, and wax grey and old over it,
and stir not from it, for thou canst have no better rule than this."

(66) The _Torah_.

26. Ben He He said, "According to the labor is the reward" (67).

(67) The last two verses are ascribed by _Abot de-Rabbi Natan_
to Hillel (chapter XII, ed. Schechter, p. 55). Ben Bag Bag