The Jewish Wisdom Database

The Lord was pleased for His righteousness' sake to make the teaching great and glorious.

The whole world is nothing more than a singing and a dancing before the Holy One, blessed be He. Every Jew is a singer before Him, and every letter in the Torah is a musical note.

The Torah cannot assume perfection except in Israel.

Residence in Israel is equivalent to the observance of all the Biblical precepts.

The principal of the eternity of Torah bestows upon us the promise that it is possible to study Torah and to observe it not only at home or in the ghetto but everywhere in the world, be it the modern home, the laboratory, the campus or the industrial plant, in public as well as in private life.

Without manners no Torah, without Torah no manners.

The Torah teaches incidentally good manners.

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just!

A woman must not put on a man's apparel, nor shall a man wear woman's clothing.

Abhor not an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land! [Passover/Pesach]

Cursed be he that causes a blind man to stray!

I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.

Man does not live by bread alone.

Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their parents.

You shall not close your hand against your needy kinsman.

You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant or his maidservant, his ox or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.

In pain shall you bear children.

In the sweat of your brow you shall eat your bread.

You shall not commit adultery.

For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; you shall be clean before the Lord. [Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur]

You shall not curse the deaf.

You shall not put a stumbling-block before the blind.

Do not make the fence more important than what it fences in!

Three things were given as a gift to the world: the Torah, the stars and rain.

Because of gluttony, Esau sold his birthright.