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Daily Jewish Wisdom

Green Gaia

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Spend your money on good books, and you'll find its equivalent in gold of intelligence.

- Immanuel, "Mahberot," c.1300
 

Green Gaia

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The six days of war must receive their ultimate meaning from the seventh day, which is peace and celebration.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel
 

Green Gaia

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It is the first duty of friendship to preserve a friend's illusions.

- Schnitzler, "Anatol: Questioning Fate," 1893
 

Green Gaia

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Without inwardness there can be no external world, and without imagination there can be no reality.

- Werfel, "Realism and Inwardness," 1930
 

Green Gaia

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Three keys have been entrusted to no messenger: of childbirth, resurrection, and rain.

- Zohar, Genesis
 

Green Gaia

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Who did not earn merits in life will not benefit by what's done for him after death.

- Sefer Hasidim, 13C
 

Green Gaia

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It is not in our power to explain either the prosperity of the wicked or the sufferings of the righteous.

- Pirkei Avot 4:15
 

Green Gaia

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As the eye needs light to see, so the soul needs labor to comprehend.

- Philo, "Sacrifices of Abel and Cain"
 

Green Gaia

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Just when you are reduced materially, take care not to be impoverished also spiritually.

- J. Kimhi, "Shekel HaKodesh"
 

Green Gaia

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If you want to praise, praise God; if you want to blame, blame yourself.

- Bahya, quoted by Schechter, "Seminary Addresses"
 

Green Gaia

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Ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's.

- Deuteronomy 1:17
 
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