Recommended Reading
- ‘The Essential Talmud‘ by Adin Steinsaltz
- ‘The Talmud: A Selection‘ by Norman Solomon
- ‘Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages‘ by Abraham Cohen
- ‘Reference Guide to the Talmud‘ by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Inspirational Quotes from the Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)
Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges
—The Talmud
Topics: Heroes
He who has the least understanding has the most questions.
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom
A man without a fitting companion is like the left hand without the right.
—The Talmud
Topics: Associates
Habit strips sin of its enormity.
—The Talmud
Topics: Habit
Birds of a feather flock together; and so with men—like to like.
—The Talmud
Topics: Loyalty, Associates
Use thy best vase today, for tomorrow it may, perchance, be broken.
—The Talmud
Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour’s calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.
—The Talmud
The just of all nations have a portion in the future reward.
—The Talmud
Topics: Immortality
Truth is heavy, therefore few carry it.
—The Talmud
Topics: Truth
Laughter and levity habituate a man to lewdness.
—The Talmud
There are three who are especially beloved by God: he who is forbearing, he who is temperate, and he who is courteous.
—The Talmud
Topics: Good
If one finds a marked article he should advertise it publicly, so that the owner may recover it.
—The Talmud
When the wife of a man’s youth dies, the altar of the Lord is in mourning.
—The Talmud
Rather be thou the tail among lions than the head among foxes.
—The Talmud
Topics: Humility
It is better to lend than to give. To give employment is better than either.
—The Talmud
Topics: Charity
Despise not public opinion.
—The Talmud
Topics: Public opinion
He who has compassion on his fellow man is accounted of the true seed of Abraham.
—The Talmud
Topics: Mercy
To be faithless to a given promise is as sinful as idolatry.
—The Talmud
Topics: Truth
Reverence of God is the basis of morality.
—The Talmud
It is wrong to receive a present from a thief.
—The Talmud
Learn a little here and a little there, and you will increase in knowledge.
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom
The world is only saved by the breath of the school-children.
—The Talmud
Topics: Wisdom
The reward of good works is like dates; sweet and ripening late.
—The Talmud
Man possesses three sorts of friends in this world: his children, his wealth, and his Good Works.
—The Talmud
Topics: Charity
Get your living by skinning carcasses in the street, if you cannot otherwise, and do not say, “I am a priest, I am a great man; this work would not befit my dignity”.
—The Talmud
Topics: Labor
To be unmarried is to live without joy, without blessing, without kindness, without religion, and without peace.
—The Talmud
A thing to which a fool does not consent, know as the right thing.
—The Talmud
Topics: Advice
For the righteous there is no rest, neither in this world nor in the next, for they go, say the Scriptures, “from strength unto strength, from task to task, until they shall see God in Zion”.
—The Talmud
Topics: Immortality
The measure man metes to man the same will be meted to him.
—The Talmud
Not without reason goes the crow to the raven, but because it is of its kind.
—The Talmud
Topics: Associates
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