Nachdaily: 5 Minute Perek Of Tanach Covering The Entire Navi. Sefer Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel, Melachim, Yeshaya, Yirmiya, Ye

Hi everyone, welcome to NachDaily covering the entire Tanach one perek at a time. Today we’re going to be discussing Mishlei, perek 7. In this perek, Shlomo Hamelech again urges us to keep the mitzvos and follow wisdom by keeping the Torah, engraving its words on the “luach libecha - tablets of our hearts.” As passuk 4 says, “Emor l’chochma achosi at, u’moda l’bina tikra - Say to wisdom, ‘You’re my sister,’ and call understanding a friend.” The Metsudos explains that you should be as familiar with wisdom as you are with your sister, while the Ralbag adds that you should love wisdom. Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch has an amazing insight on this: wisdom is considered like our sister because she is the daughter of our Father, Hashem. God gives us wisdom to help us as Moshe’s sister Miriam protected him by suggesting his mother, Yocheved, to take care of him. So too, Hashem sends us insights and wisdom to protect us throughout life. What strikes me about this is that most people don't truly understand that