13 quotes found
Central text of Rabbinic Judaism
“The sun will set without thy assistance.”
“The burden is equal to the horse's strength.”
“The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.”
“It is not upon thee to finish the work neither art thou free to abstain from it.”
“Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.”
“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...”
“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.”
“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.”