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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.

Eras

Sources

Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh

Talmud

Unlisted Sources

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Isiah

Proverbs

Quotes by Rabbinic Sages (14 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

Themes: Golden Rule

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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

Themes: Truth Conformity

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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

Themes: Kindness

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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

Themes: Here and Now

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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

Themes: Peace

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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

Themes: Wisdom Wealth

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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

Themes: Marriage Sex

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“First learn, then form opinions.”

from Talmud

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“He who finds a wife finds a good thing.”

from Proverbs

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“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.”

from Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh

Themes: Golden Rule

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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”

from Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh

Themes: Aggression Evil

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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

Themes: Anger

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“Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes.”

from Isiah

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“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

from Hebrew Bible, The Tanakh

Themes: Discipline

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