Archive: October 2017

Yoma 86b

Posted on October 13, 2017

Rabbi Meir said, ‘Great is repentance, because for the sake of one who truly repents, the whole world is pardoned.’

Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot 15:3

Posted on October 13, 2017

No person may buy a beast, an animal, or a bird until that person has provided food for it.

Tannat Eliyahu

Posted on October 13, 2017

This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another.

Derech Eretz Zuta 1:29

Posted on October 13, 2017

Regard as trivial the good you did to others, and as enormous the little good others did to you.

Leviticus 19:16

Posted on October 13, 2017

You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people.

Ethics of the Fathers 4:1

Posted on October 13, 2017

Who is honored? One who honors others.

Proverbs 15:23

Posted on October 13, 2017

Everyone enjoys a ready response, and word rightly timed is especially good.

Berachot 17a

Posted on October 13, 2017

Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was always careful to greet everyone first whom he met.

Exodus 28:3

Posted on October 13, 2017

Speak to everyone who is naturally talented, to whom I have granted a spirit of wisdom, and then let them make Aaron’s clothing.

Proverbs 25:11

Posted on October 13, 2017

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.