Who is wise talmud

My family? My country? My people? Many of us would give our lives for our families, and yet we spend little time with them compared to the time we spend at business and other activities. There are people who in a time of danger would be willing to give their lives for the Jewish people or the Land of Israel, and yet today their time and resources are barely allocated to either one. We call him wise, because he is actively seeking to learn. He is curious, wants to grow, and values understanding.

Wisdom does not belong to the person who has memorized the most Torah. Wisdom belongs to someone who, through humility, is open to learning from every person he meets. Everyone has unique talents, skills, and life experiences that you can benefit from. When God sends someone your way, find out how you can learn from him or her and you, too, will be on the road to wisdom.

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Will Your Grandchildren Be Jews? This particular text is reported in the name of Shimon ben Zoma, a second century rabbi from the Land of Israel. These are his questions, and his answers. And they are wonderfully disarming. They redefine concepts of strength, wealth, honour, in ethical terms, making them about our personal moral behaviour. This text is so widely quoted, so well known, in fact, that something may have seemed out of place to you when I recited it a moment ago. Something was, indeed out of place.

Rabbinic literature poses this direct question three times, and each time gives a different answer, each of which has some insight for us today. Less well known is a variant version of the list found in the Babylonian Talmud. In Tractate Tamid we find a, probably deliberate, misquoting of the Pirkei Avot original. Which literally means, the one who sees what is born.

This is not what Ben Zoma says the answer is, and the Talmudic commentators, as you would imagine, go all out on this fact, trying to work out why. But before they do so, they also need to work out what on earth it means: the one who sees what is born. And know that all is according to the reckoning.

And let not your impulse assure thee that the grave is a place of refuge for you; for against your will were you formed, against your will were you born, against your will you live, against your will you will die, and against your will you will give an account and reckoning before the King of the kings of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He. Texts Topics Community Donate. Log in Sign up. Site Language. Prefer to see German translations when available? He who dishonors the Torah shall himself be dishonored by mankind.

Rabbi Yishmael his son said: He who shuns the office of judge rids himself of enmity, theft, and false swearing. He who presumptuously rules in Torah matters is foolish, wicked, and arrogant. He used to say: Judge not alone, for none may judge alone except One. Rabbi Yonatan said: He who fulfills the Torah in poverty shall in the end fulfill it in wealth. He who disregards the Torah in wealth shall in the end disregard it in poverty.

Rabbi Meir said: Engage little in business but occupy yourself with Torah. Be humble in spirit before all men. If you neglect Torah many causes for neglecting it will present themselves to you; but if you labor in Torah then God has abundant reward to give you. Rabbi Eliezer ben Jacob used to say: He who performs one commandment acquires for himself one advocate, while he who commits one transgression has gotten for himself one accuser.

Penitence and good deeds are as a shield against punishment. Rabbi Yochanan the sandal-maker said: Every assembly that is for a hallowed purpose shall in the end be established. But any assembly that is not for a hallowed purpose shall not ultimately be established. Rabbi Elazar ben Shammua used to say: Let the honor of your student be as precious to you as your own; and the honor of your colleague as the respect due your teacher; and the respect towards your teacher as your reverence for God.

Rabbi Judah used to say: Be careful in teaching, for error in teaching amounts to deliberate sin.