The Jewish Wisdom Database

Do not reproach your neighbor with a fault which is also yours.

We are blind to our own faults.

Everything is in God's hands save fear of God.

No one lifts a finger on earth unless it is so decreed in heaven.

The fool always jumps in front.

The latter troubles make us forget the first.

Whoso asks forgiveness from a friend should not plead more than thrice.

The reward for attending a funeral is limitless.

A gate once widened stays wide.

Happy the generation where the big listen to the little!

Press not your friend to dine with you when you know that he dines not, nor offer him many gifts when you know that he accepts them not!

To get a gift means to return one.

If you give your friend a gift, you should tell him.

Who makes others do good transcends the doers.

A religious act is more acceptable when it is performed at the right time.

Good deeds are done by good people.

If a man meant to do a good deed and was forced to abandon his intention, he is deemed to have done it.

A graceful spot lends grace to those that dwell in it.

Who too much embraces, holds little.

If a great man said it, do not laugh at it!

Who woos greatness, greatness flees from; who shuns it, greatness comes to woo.

Who raises his hand against a friend is wicked even if he does not strike him.

Unreasoning hatred is as bad as three sins: idolatry, incest and bloodshed.

Words that come from the heart enter the heart.

No man knows what is in his friend's heart.