Inspirational Quotes from the Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

Inspirational Quotes from the Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

The love which shirks from reproving is no love.
—The Talmud
Topics: Love

Hospitality is as important as divine worship.
—The Talmud

He who turns away from the works of love and charity, turns away from God.
—The Talmud
Topics: Charity

It is not the amount of trade that makes the man poor or rich, but honest working and dealing.
—The Talmud
Topics: Honesty

To what is a man likened, who consoles with his neighbor twelve months after his bereavement by death? He is like a surgeon, asking a man who had once broken his leg to let him break it again and heal it, that he may show him what excellent mendicaments he has.
—The Talmud
Topics: Sympathy

Anger profiteth nobody.
—The Talmud
Topics: Anger

The greater the man, the stronger his passion.
—The Talmud
Topics: Passion

It is a bounden duty to visit the sick.
—The Talmud

Cleanse your heart before praying.
—The Talmud
Topics: Prayer

Adversity is the true school of the mind.
—The Talmud
Topics: Adversity

Three names are given to a man: one by his parents, another by the world, and the third by his works—the one which is written in the immortal book of his fate. Which of these three names is the best? Solomon teaches us, when he says: “A good name is better than the sweetest oil”.
—The Talmud
Topics: Character

Let a man never allow an obscene word to pass out of his mouth.
—The Talmud

He who derives his livelihood from the labor of his hands is as great as he who fears God.
—The Talmud
Topics: Labor

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.
—The Talmud
Topics: Time

Love your wife like yourself; honor her more than yourself.
—The Talmud

Do not isolate thyself from the community and its interests.
—The Talmud
Topics: Patriotism

Happy is he who fears God when in the prime of life.
—The Talmud
Topics: Youth

Love inspired by unworthy motives dies when those motives disappear.
—The Talmud
Topics: Love

Teach the children of the poor without compensation, and do not favor the children of the rich.
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom

Medicine is a science whose practise is authorized by God Himself.
—The Talmud

Keep shut the doors of thy mouth Even from the wife of thy bosom.
—The Talmud
Topics: Secrets

If thou hast acquired knowledge, what canst thou lack? If thou lackest knowledge, what canst thou acquire?
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom

He who performs a single good action gains for himself an Advocate, and he who commits a single sin procures for himself an Accuser.
—The Talmud
Topics: Charity

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
—The Talmud
Topics: Quotations

The usurer will have no share in an everlasting life.
—The Talmud

A man commits sin in secret; but the Holy One proclaims it openly.
—The Talmud
Topics: Sin

It is as difficult to effect suitable matrimonial matches as it was to divide the Red Sea.
—The Talmud

Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger; do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him; do not question him in the hour of his vow; and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.
—The Talmud

So great is the virtue of repentance that it prolongs a man’s years.
—The Talmud
Topics: Repentance

The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom

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