The Jewish Wisdom Database

Greed is a stumbling-block.

Let not your hand be open wide to take, and clenched at a time of giving back!

The upshot of haste is remorse.

People hate whatever they do not understand.

Just as love blindfolds you and you see no faults, so hate blindfolds you and you see no virtues.

Better healthy and poor than rich and poorly.

A man's heart changes his countenance for good or evil.

Words that do not come from the heart will not enter the ear.

One people, one Land and one language.

Any man that has a heart will long for homeland more than for his sustenance.

Three things are best beloved by a man: homeland, children, and life.

Idleness wreaks much mischief.

Ignorance is swiftly contagious.

There is no greater poverty than ignorance.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there can be no national independence.

Jealousy and anger will shorten your life.

Jealousy is the worst of evils, because it hurts first one's friend.

No city in the world, not even Athens and Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

If a land has a soul, then Jerusalem is the soul of the Land of Israel.

Jerusalem is the very heart of the Jewish State.

1948, a year of uniqueness and blessing, which will shine always upon the life of every one of us, and its light will blaze in Jewish history for ever and ever.

The highest test for the Jewish State will be in its spirit, in its loyalty to the great purposes of the Prophets as they envisioned for the end of days.

Gladness of the heart is the life of man, and his joyfulness lengthens his days.

Justice has but one form; injustice has many.

Land is the source of life and creation, of culture and true independence.