The Jewish Wisdom Database

If a great man says something that seems illogical, don't laugh; try to understand it.

If you grasp too much, you cannot hold it; when you take a little, you can.

A woman recognizes the character of a guest sooner than her husband does.

Hate is like a channel made by water: it widens continually.

The Holy Temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred.

Three things drain a man's health: worry, travel and sin.

The science of medicine is authorized by God Himself.

To help a fellow man may be to tip the scales (of God's reckoning) for the entire world.

The world is like an inn, the world to come like home.

Anger in a home is like rottenness in fruit.

Immorality in a home is like a worm in fruit.

In his home, even a weaver is a ruler.

All men should rise when a sage passes.

No labor, however humble, dishonors a man.

Hospitality to strangers shows reverence for the name of the Lord.

A faithless husband makes a faithless wife.

The ignorant think less clearly as they grow older; scholars think more clearly as they age.

The good die but live on, in the example they provided.

Even one ear of corn is not exactly like another.

Burial in Israel is like burial under the altar of the Temple.

Israel is like a vine: trodden underfoot; but some time later its wine is placed on the table of a king. So Israel, at first oppressed, will eventually come to greatness.

To dwell in the Holy Land tends to prevent sin.

Judgment delayed is judgment voided.

To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong.

Once an error is learned, it is hard to unlearn.