The Jewish Wisdom Database

When a fire is started and spreads to thorns, consuming, in the end, standing or growing grain, who started it must make requital.

I am responsible for any damage caused by my charge.

A man is always responsible, whether his act is intentional or inadvertent, whether he is awake or asleep.

No man is rewarded because God owes it to him, but God grants reward out of His grace.

If we were all righteous, we should need no law or torts.

All roads are considered dangerous.

No Sabbath laws apply wherever there is doubt that life is in danger.

Yeast, salt and recalcitrance are good only in small doses.

If someone comes to kill you, get in first and kill him!

To look for absolute justice among politicians, that is charming simplicity!

Just as the law against defrauding applies to buying and selling, so does it apply to the spoken word.

There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you.

Everything done by stealth is suspect.

If you have taken what is not yours, even that which is yours shall be taken from you.

As you do, so will you be done by.

Tolerance can be based, and it will be based, on reciprocity.

Moses commanded us a Law, heritage of the congregation of Jacob.

This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night.

The Law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul; the testimony of the Lord is to be trusted, it gives wisdom to the simple; the precepts of the Lord are right.

The Law is illumination.

Blessed be he that keeps the Law!

And there was famine in the land---why so? Because Israel and their judges did not judge truly.

When you besiege a city for a long time. . . you shall not destroy its trees.

You shall not take vengeance!

A vow annulled in part is annulled in whole.