WISDOM
TEXT: COMPILED BY LIZ SAMUELS
Has the Emancipation, with its newly
found freedom and opportunity,
resulted in more joy, greater satisfaction
and a still happier existence than
what our forebears experienced? Do
you believe you no longer need to
remember the past?
Do you really think that such sombre
times will never recur?
O, you deluded ones! Look at the
society which is now freely open to you.
Look around on the great marketplace
of life. Has the race of Haman died out
completely with his 10 sons? Could you not
find someone from the Rhine to the Oder, from the Volga
to the Danube, who is capable of being his successor? Be sober
and observe! Indeed, the horizon of the Jew may well become
sombre; sultry clouds hang in the German sky. Even in our own
Jewish circles indications for gloom are apparent. No one is
secure. Written by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in 1857
When you eat and enjoy the taste and the sweetness
of the food, remember that it is G-d who put taste
and sweetness into the food. Then you will truly be
serving Him by your eating. Sefer Ba’al Shem Tov
Rabbi Meir said: “When a person
enters the world, his hands are
clenched, as if to say, ‘The whole
world is mine, I shall conquer it’; but
when he departs from the world, his
hands are spread open, as if to say,
‘I have acquired nothing from this
world.’” Kohelet Rabbah 5:14
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai said: The
Holy One, Blessed He, gave Israel three
precious gifts, and all of them were
given only through suffering. They are:
the Torah, the Land of Israel, and the
World to Come. Berachot 5a
Rabbi Chelbo said: Be careful to give
your wife the honour that is due to
her, because a man’s home is blessed
only on account of his wife, for it says,
“And he treated Abram well because
of her.” (Genesis 12:16) With that in
mind, Rava said to the townspeople of
Mechuza: honour your wives so you
will become rich. Bava Metzia 59a
Three things weaken a man’s strength, namely: anxiety, travelling and sin. Gittin 70a
“In the winter, the lazy man does not plough; at harvest-time, he seeks, and finds nothing.” (Proverbs 20:4) This
refers to a person who did not study Torah in his younger years, and in his old age he finds that it is beyond his
grasp. Devarim Rabbah 8 JL
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