The Talmud
The Talmud
The Talmudis a central text of Rabbinic Judaism. It is also traditionally referred to as Shas, a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, the "six orders", a reference to the six orders of the Mishnah. The term "Talmud" normally refers to the collection of writings named specifically the Babylonian Talmud, although there is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem Talmud, or Palestinian Talmud. When referring to post-biblical periods, namely those of the creation of the Talmud, the Talmudic academies...
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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
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Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession
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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
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Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence
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More people die from over-eating than from undernourishment
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th
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Life is so short we must move very slowly.
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Do not decide that someone is good until you see how he or she acts at home
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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There is no pity for a man who moans about living in one town and does not move to another.
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To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
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There are three whose lives are lacking: the over-compassionate, the hot-tempered, and the too-squeamish