Mishlei #14 Ch4 V9-17

And then he tells us in Pasuk Tes, in verse nine, "Titen l'roshcha livias chen," it will give to your head an attachment of grace, of chen, "ateres tiferes," a crown of glory, "temagnecha," it will transmit to you.

So what does that mean? If you look back to chapter one, verse nine, that's where Shlomo HaMelech says, "Ki livias chen hem l'roshecha," they are an attachment of grace to your head, "ve'anakim legarguresecha," and like a, a necklace around your throat.

And we talked then about the different kinds of jewelry, that which is on the head and that which goes around the neck.

So this is the same word, livias chen, uh, an attachment o-of grace.

And the way that you get that is when you commit yourself to, to wisdom, to Torah, to the mitzvahs, the way that, um, David HaMelech and Bat Sheva are explaining to Shlomo, then it will naturally bring this attachment of grace to your head, which is described above earlier that the Torah gives you.

And, "Ateres tiferes temagnecha," it also gives you this crown of glory.

So the commentaries explain, there's a Mishnah in Pirkei Avos, in the second chapter, citing Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, Rabbi Yehuda the Prince, and it says, "Rabbi Omer," Rabbi says, "Eizehu derech yashara sheyavor lo ha-adam?" What's the, what's the right way that a person should choose for themself in life? The answer is, "Kol shehi tiferes la'oseha," whatever is a glory to the one who does it, "ve-tiferes lo min ha-adam," and a glory to that person from man.

How does that answer the question? So what it means is, think about your obligation towards God and being a good person towards Hashem, and finding the balance in that place at the same time, "tiferes lo min ha-adam," seeing or being someone who is glorified by people or is seen by people as a good person.

And focusing on one will not automatically give you the other, which is a mistake that sometimes people make, that if they fix their connection with Hashem, that that somehow makes whatever they're doing okay.

On the other hand, there are people who think that just to be nice to people, that's all that's required in this world.

But there's also a requirement for you to be nice to yourself and fulfill your own obligations and work on yourself in this way.

And Rabbi says that the way a person should choose their path in life, it has to be personal for what creates a balance in the relationship between you and Hashem, and also a balanced relationship between you and people.

And if you're fulfilling both of those, if there's a balance in both of those areas, then that's your derech yashara, that's your, that's your straight path.

That's the Mishnah in Pirkei Avos.

So that, that's what he's saying here, that if you study wisdom and study it in such a way where it changes you and affects you and you're learning and growing, so it will give your, your head, meaning the knowledge that you have, it will give you an attachment of chen, of grace.

But ateret tiferes, a cr-a crown of glory, means that you will be balanced.

In Kabbalistic terms, the term tiferes is associated with beauty and balance, and, uh, here it means like glory, like, as in a crown, but it's the same idea, that it's, uh, it, it will bring y-you a crown of glory.

Pasuk Yod, verse ten.