The Jewish Wisdom Database

The righteous man is like a palm-tree---as the shade of a palm is cast far, so the reward of the righteous will be distant, in the world to come.

The man who cannot survive bad times will not see good times.

The righteous need no monuments: their words are their remembrance, their acts remain their shrines.

Good deeds bring a man immortality.

Fish die out of water; men die without law and order.

More die from overeating than from undereating.

Man dies of idleness---and boredom.

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

Live as if you expect to live forever, but plan as if you expect to enter the hereafter tomorrow.

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

It is no challenge to die like a Jew; the true challenge is to live like a Jew.

Heaven is wonderful, but getting there is most of the fun.

Happy is the man who leaves a good name.

A sage takes precedence over a king, for if a sage dies, we have no one like him, but if a king dies all Israel is eligible to succeed him.

Though a plague last seven years, no one dies before his time.

What matters in Man's life is the eternal life in the world to come.

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

There is but one step between me and death.

O that I had died instead of thee! O Absalom my son, my son! [King David]

What is the meaning of 'you shall die and not live' (Second Kings 20:2)? You shall die in this world and not live in the next.

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

This said the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O My people, and I will bring you home into the Land of Israel...and I will put My spirit within you and you shall live.

Repent the day before you die [which means every day, for who knows the day of his death].

One dies in perfect prosperity, wholly at ease and secure. . .Another in bitterness of soul, with never a taste of good.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.