The Jewish Wisdom Database

The man who boasts: 'I have naught but the Torah' has not even that.

The Torah sheds its grace upon those who study it.

Why was the Torah likened unto water? As water leaves a high place and flows to a low one, the Torah, too, rests only among those whose mind is humble.

Why was the torah likened unto water? As water leaves a high place and flows to a low one, the Torah, too, rests only among those whose mind is humble.

Who occupies himself with the Torah for its own sake finds his learning become his elixir of life.

Who fails to teach his son a trade might just as well have taught him to rob.

Who cuts down good trees sees no profit.

If a man sees trouble brewing, let him examine his own acts!

New troubles make us forget the old.

There is no mistaking the truth.

What comes out of the unclean is unclean, what comes out of the pure is pure.

Usury is as shedding blood.

Who takes exorbitant interest suffers impairment of his property.

How blindfold are those who lend at interest!

Vinegar is good for you in dry heat.

Voices, sights and savours refresh Man's mind.

A vow annulled in part is annulled in whole.

It is the way of a man to wage war, not the way of a woman.

Let no man spill the water of his cistern while others need it!

There is a long way that is short and a short one that is long.

When you teach your son, use a carefully edited text.

Better that I be a fool all my days than wicked even for an hour before the Lord.

A man that calls his friend wicked is as his persecutor.

The righteous promise little and perform much; the wicked promise much and perform not even a little.

A gathering of the wicked is an evil for them and an evil for the world.