Quotes by The 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.”

“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.”

“The sun will set without thy assistance.”

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

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

“Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.”

“It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.”

“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.”

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

“Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.”

“It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.”