A puzzling disconnect between "scholars" and "builders" has long troubled interpretations of Rabbi Hanina's famous statement that "scholars increase peace in the world" (Berakhot 64a). The traditional reading relies on the rabbinic *al tiqre* technique to transform Isaiah 54:13's *banayikh* ("your children") into *bonayikh* ("your builders")—yet this substitution creates more questions than it resolves. Morphological and comparative textual analysis reveals a more coherent interpretation: *bonayikh* derives not from *banah* (to build) but from *bin* (to understand/teach), meaning "your teachers" rather than "your builders." This reading finds crucial support in Midrash Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1:3, where the same *al tiqre* technique transforms *benot* (daughters) to *bonot* (teachers) and explicitly uses *mebhinim* to mean "teach." Additional evidence from biblical Hebrew participle formations reinforces this interpretation. The resulting analysis unveils a chiastic structure in Rabbi Hanina's statement that elegantly equates scholars with teachers who bring peace, resolving the text's longstanding ambiguity and restoring clear meaning to this significant liturgical passage.