Quotes by Talmud

“There is no such thing as passive receiving of Tradition. He who receives, the disciple, is always must always be the scene of a creation. To receive is to create, to innovate! 'The petrification...”

“When an Israelite and a Gentile have a lawsuit before thee, if thou canst, acquit the former according to the laws of Israel, and tell the latter such is our law; if thou canst get him off in accor...”

“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”

“Ambition destroys its possessor.”

“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”

“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.”

“A wife is the joy of a man's heart.”

“When love is strong a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.”

“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”

“Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.”

“If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am not for others who am I for? And if not now when?”

“Where love is no room is too small.”

“He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.”

“The sun will set without thy assistance.”

“Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.”

“Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.”

“The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.”

“The deeper the sorrow the less tongue hath it.”

“Iron sharpens iron scholar the scholar.”

“He who talks too much commits a sin.”