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Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders and they will instruct you.
- Deuteronomy 32:7
- Deuteronomy 32:7
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Daily Jewish Wisdom
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The test of good manners: to bear patiently with bad ones.
- Ibn Gabirol
- Ibn Gabirol
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Trees were created for man's companionship.
- Genesis Rabah
- Genesis Rabah
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If you sanctify yourself a little, you are sanctified much.
- Talmud: Yoma, 39a
- Talmud: Yoma, 39a
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When you cannot love or hate any more, then where is the charm of life?
- Schnitzler, "Professor Bernhardi"
- Schnitzler, "Professor Bernhardi"
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Regard as trifling the great good you did to others, and as enormous the little good others did to you.
- Talmud: Derek Eretz
- Talmud: Derek Eretz
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The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
- Leopold Zunz, German scholar
- Leopold Zunz, German scholar
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One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea, for ideas exist forever.
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1847
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1847
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To rely on our faith would be idol-worship. We have only the right to rely on God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Man Is Not Alone"
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Man Is Not Alone"
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Common sense is strengthened by joy.
- Nahman of Bratzlav
- Nahman of Bratzlav
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If I knew God, I would be God.
- Medieval Jewish proverb
- Medieval Jewish proverb
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Whether a man really loves God can be determined by the love he bears toward his fellow men.
- Levi Yitzhok, quoted in Buber, "Tales of the Hasidim"
- Levi Yitzhok, quoted in Buber, "Tales of the Hasidim"
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"An eye for an eye" (Exodus 21:24). But not an eye and a life for an eye.
- Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot, 38a
- Babylonian Talmud, Ketubot, 38a
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Prompted by love is greater than prompted by fear.
- Simeon b. Eleazar, Talmud: Sota, 31a
- Simeon b. Eleazar, Talmud: Sota, 31a
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Worldly desires are like sunbeams in a dark room. They seem solid until you try to grasp one.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
- Ibn Gabirol
- Ibn Gabirol
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If a commandment comes your way, don't delay.
- Mekhilta, Bo
- Mekhilta, Bo
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There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it.
- The Zohar
- The Zohar
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The pure Tzaddikim (righteous people), do not complain against wickedness but add righteousness. They do not complain against disbelief but add faith. They do not complain against ignorance but add wisdom.
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
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This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another.
- Tanna d'Bai Eliyahu, medieval rabbinic work
- Tanna d'Bai Eliyahu, medieval rabbinic work