daf bit: Niddah 73 (end)
Aug. 2nd, 2012 09:40 amToday is the last day of the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of studying a page
of talmud a day. In honor of that, I will share the very last line of the
talmud.
The Tanna debe Eliyahu (a composite work, according to Wikipedia) teaches: whoever learns halacha every day may rest assured of his place in the world to come, for where it says "halikot", "the world is his", we can read instead "halachot". (73a) (This kind of word-play is not uncommon in rabbinic writings, by the way.)
And in case you're wondering about the very first line in the talmud, that's the first mishna of tractate B'rachot, which asks from what time one may recite the sh'ma in the evening and then brings several opinions.