Jewish proverbs

Jewish proverbs are short expressions of popular wisdom in Jewish culture. Quotes .נפלה האבן על הקדרה, אוי לקדרה. נפלה הקדרה על האבן, אוי לקדרה The stone fell on the pitcher? Woe to the pitcher. The pitcher fell on the stone? Woe to the pitcher. Esther Rabbah 7:10, quoted in Lewis Browne: The Wisdom of Israel, an Anthology בכל החזיתות שאנו מטילים על אחרים אנחנו מדגימים את הפוטנציאל שלנו, דרך הילדים שלנו אנחנו מגלים את המציאות שלנו. - לורנס קלמן, כדי ללבות עמ 'נשמה In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality. Lawrence Kelemen, To Kindle A Soul, p. 195 When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick. Quoted in Forbes Magazine vol.146 (1990), p.182 as a Yiddish proverb. (It was also used in Fiddler on the Roof.) If you steal from a thief, you also have a taste of it. Just because someone steals, you have no right to rob them. Talmud Bavli, Berakoth, 5b Ethics of the Fathers Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh said: Be exceedingly humble in spirit, for the hope of earthly man is but decay. Avot Pirkei פרקי אבות https://books.google.com/books?id=RwIw9FcMHMoC&pg=PA63 1979 978-0-87306-182-7 63 4 Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; dust yourself in the soil of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words. -Yossei ben Yoezer Ethics Of The Fathers https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682498/jewish/English-Text.htm Text of Chapter One - Texts & Writings Chabad.org 2019-05-28 Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. -Shmaayah "Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him." Woodrow Wilson (1972) The papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol 14. p. 244. Ethics Of The Fathers https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682498/jewish/English-Text.htm Text of Chapter One - Texts & Writings Chabad.org 2019-05-28 • I am who I am. Who is wise? He who learns from all men -Ben Zoma Ethics Of The Fathers Avot Pirkey פרקי אבות https://books.google.com/books?id=RwIw9FcMHMoC&pg=PA61 1979 978-0-87306-182-7 61 4 על דאטפת אטפוך וסוף מטיפייך - יטופון (Mishnah Avot 2,7) 'Al d'ateft atfu'kh, v'sof m'tifaikh ytufun Translation: Because you have drowned others, you were drowned — and in the end, those who drowned you will be drowned. Meaning: Sins shall be punished, but people are not allowed to take the law into their own hands. שפירא 1998 ספר המאור שבתורה ש.צ. בן ב. הכהן שפירא "Ancient Jewish Proverbs", Abraham Cohen, 1980 Youth is a crown of roses, old age a crown of willows. Youth is a light burden, old age a heavy one. Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 152a In old men there is no taste, in young no insight. The old lack enthusiasm, the young lack shrewdness. Talmud Bavli, Shabbat, 89b I do not want a shoe larger than my foot. I do not want a husband of higher rank than my own. Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin, 49a "Dictionary of 1000 Jewish Proverbs", David C. Gross, 1997 Don't boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day will bring. Whoever seeks cake loses his bread. Whoever argues for the sake of argument is a boor. Any home not built for hot days or rains is not a home. References See also Judaism Proverbs Book of Proverbs Yiddish proverbs Category:Proverbs Category:Judaism