Rabbi Noach Orlowek once explained the difference between chochmah, binah, and da’at with the following analogy: When you tell a child not to touch the stove because it’s hot and it burns, you’ve given him chochmah. When the child sees a pot on the stove and figures out that it might be hot too, he’s using his binah.

The Ultimate Ask-the-Rabbi Service. Question: When the Sages ruled not to take medicine on Shabbat, because you may come to grind it, although this is done in some circles, most of the time people do not grind their own medicine.