Tao Te Ching
Rabbinic Sages
20 – 200 CE
Rabbinic Sages (20 – 200 CE)
Academies in Galilee, Tiberias and Caesarea; teachers of the Mishnah, transmitters of the Jewish traditions passed down for centuries orally, and written down during the first 200 years of this millennium; these sages taught and recorded commentaries and reflections on the Hebrew Bible. Their writings became the foundation of Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, and customs eventually evolving into over 6,200 pages.
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Eastern Han 漢朝 (25 – 220 CE)Sources
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Deuteronomy 22:28-29
Isiah
Proverbs
Quotes by Rabbinic Sages (13 quotes)
“What is hateful to you, don’t do to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.”
from Talmud
Chapters:
63. Easy as Hard
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“Everything in the world may be imitated except truth, because truth that is imitated is no longer the truth.”
from Talmud
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“One person buys a sheepskin to keep warm in winter, and another buys wood to light a fire. What is the difference between the two? The first wants to keep warm, but the second wants to warm others, too.”
from Talmud
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“‘What did your rabbi consider the most essential thing?’ Whatever he happened to be engaged in at that particular moment he considered the most essential thing.”
from Talmud
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“Seek peace in your own place, within the self… Once a person establishes peace within the self, that person is capable of establishing it throughout the world.”
from Talmud
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“If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.”
from Talmud
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“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they a found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman 50 shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife.”
from Deuteronomy 22:28-29
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“First learn, then form opinions.”
from Talmud
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“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.”
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“Do not leave alive a single soul, completely destroy them—the Hittities, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you”
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“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that conquers a city.”
from Proverbs
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“Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes.”
from Isiah
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