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Daily Jewish Wisdom

Green Gaia

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Repentance means that the sinner forsake his sins, cast them out of his mind, and resolve in his heart to sin no more.

- Maimonides, "Yad: Teshuba," 1180
 

Green Gaia

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Whenever night falls, whenever day breaks, search well into your dealings, so will your whole life be one Day of Atonement.

- Moses of Evreux, 1240
 

Green Gaia

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I always give much away, and so gather happiness instead of pleasure.

- Rahel Levin Varnhagen, letter to Ludwig Robert, 1827
 

Green Gaia

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To be able to live in strict conformity with nature is what the men of old defined as the end of happiness.

- Philo, Noah's Planting
 

Green Gaia

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As water flows to the lowest level, so Torah finds its way to the lowly of spirit.

- Hanina b. Iddi. Talmud: Taanit 7a
 

Green Gaia

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Every thought of God is prayer. Holy, true and honest purposes are prayer. Earnest thought, search without vanity is prayer.

- Rahel Levin Varnhagen, letter to Count Custine, 1817
 

Green Gaia

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He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice, to love goodness, and to walk modestly with your God.

- Micah 6:8
 

Green Gaia

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Praying only for oneself is like...refusing to assist fellow citizens in the repair of their walls...In a congregation, one makes up for the defects of the other.

- Judah Halevi, "Cuzari," 1135
 

Green Gaia

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A man should not act as a judge either for someone he loves or for someone he hates. For no man can see the guilt of someone he loves or the good qualities in someone he hates.

- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Ketubbot
 
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