The Jewish Wisdom Database

Let your home be wide open and the needy be members of your household.

One should not rear a vicious dog in one's home.

The home should be perceived as a microcosm of the universe: The harmony that permeates the home and the family extends beyond, fostering harmony between families, communities and ultimately, the nations of the world. In the absence of harmony between one's own family, we can hardly expect to find harmony between strangers.

The husband is master of the home. . . if the wife is out-of-doors.

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.

There are men who travel far to look for something that they can find in their own homes.

When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple's destruction! [Tisha B'Av]

Who is deemed a termagant? The woman that speaks inside her own home yet the neighbors hear her words.

In the house of a wise man none is ever slow to perform the duties of hospitality.

To eat and drink on a festival in the company of your family without providing for the poor and distressed, is not 'the joy of the commandment' but the joy of your stomach. It is a disgrace.

Who discredits himself discredits his family.

Who lodges a scholar in his home is as one offering first-fruits [Shavuot] in the Temple.

It is nobler to visit a house of mourning than a house of feasting.

Our sages recommended that a father should spend less than his means on food, up to his means on dress, and beyond his means for his wife and children.

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.

Like a bird that strays from her nest is a man who strays from his home.

The trip is never too hard, if you know you're going home.

A man's joy is greatest when his family is with him.

A place becomes known far and wide if it is the home of a great man.

In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.

Work for peace within your family, then in your street, then within the community.

A place becomes known far and wide because it is the home of a great man.