The Jewish Wisdom Database

Always keep some cash in hand!

Deceit in words is worse than deceit in money.

Do not reproach your neighbor with a fault which is also yours.

Your own life must be considered before your friend's.

Who has the cash in his hand has the upper hand.

Who pleads after the verdict pleads nothing. [It's too late to plead once a sentence is pronounced.]

The poor of your own town should be preferred to those of another.

Once a man repents, stop reminding him of what he did!

The righteous say little and do much.

Who shames his friend in public is as one that sheds blood.

Usury is as shedding blood.

Who takes exorbitant interest suffers impairment of his property.

How blindfold are those who lend at interest!

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

If your wife is tiny, bend down and whisper for her counsel!

A husband should be at pains to treat his wife with respect (...not to hurt his wife's feelings).

As between relatives and poor strangers, relatives come first.

A woman watches a guest more grudgingly than a man.

Be careful not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.