The Jewish Wisdom Database

Who answers Amen with all his might, to him the gates of Paradise are open.

Can there be a banquet without preparations?

One man's candle is light for many.

Alas for that which goes and does not come back! And what is it? Rabbi Chasda said: It is childhood.

The world exists only because of the innocent breath of schoolchildren.

If one member of the company dies, let the whole company take care!

A man should never stand in a place of danger and expect a miracle to happen to him.

A corpse does not feel the knife.

Does a man know what day his end will come?

Who breeds an unruly dog in his house keeps kindness away.

Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers.

The elephant is frightened of the gnat.

If you give your friend a gift, you should tell him.

The wheel always comes full circle.

Hospitality matters more than being early in synagogue.

Jerusalem was destroyed just because school-children were kept from their classrooms.

If you see a generation drowning in a sea of troubles, go forth and consider what the judges of Israel do!

Knowledge acquired in childhood is not soon forgotten.

Repentance and good deeds are a man's best lawyer.

Legends charm the heart.

Who lends money to the needy free of interest is better than the giver of alms.

Stand not in a place of danger. saying, 'a miracle may happen to me!'

Money drives its owner frantic.

For him that talks obscenely hell will be deepened.

Untutored old men---the older they get, the greater their folly; scholarly old men, the older they get, the steadier their mind.