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Swimming in the sea of Talmud : lessons for everyday living /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I
- Prologue
- What Is the Talmud?
- Before the Bookshelf
- Beneath the Surface
- How to Use this Book: A Sample Entry
- Part II
- The Six Orders And The Encampments by The Water
- Seder Zeraim
- A handful cannot satisfy the lion.
- The prisoner cannot free himself from prison.
- The tablets and the broken tablets were placed in the Ark.
- Mitzvot require proper intention.
- A person should never give Satan an opening.
- The Torah was not given to the ministering angels.
- His inside is not like his outside. The gates of tears are not closed.
- Go and see what the people are doing.
- A mitzvah performed by means of a transgression.
- The frequent and the infrequent�the frequent take precedence.
- A person must bless God for the bad just as one must bless God for the good.
- What does a good guest say? How much trouble has my host gone to just for me!
- Rest Stop
- Seder Moed I
- One who gives a gift to a friend must inform him.
- We raise up in matters of holiness, not bring down.
- A verse never loses its contextual meaning. Wherever the sages prohibited something because of appearance's sake, it is also prohibited in private.
- Can you cut off its head without it dying?
- We do not bring proof from fools!
- Like a groom among mourners ... Like a mourner among grooms.
- Both are the words of the living God.
- Even if for the wrong reason, eventually it will be for the right reason.
- We do not rely on a miracle.
- How precious is a mitzvah in its proper time.
- The cow wants to nurse more than the calf wants to suckle.
- Begin with disgrace, and end with praise. The diligent do the mitzvot as early as possible.
- The Torah worries about Israel's money.
- Rest Stop
- Seder Moed II
- One who is doing one mitzvah is freed from doing another mitzvah.
- An emergency situation does not constitute proof.
- Better that they be uninformed transgressors than deliberate transgressors.
- We add from the ordinary onto the sacred.
- Jephthah in his generation is like Samuel in his generation.
- Blessing is found only in that which is hidden from the eye.
- We do not overburden the community. He immerses ... with a reptile in his hand.
- A person should always be as bending as a reed, not as rigid as the cedar.
- If a person says to you: I have labored but did not find, do not believe it!
- A word costs a sela, silence goes for two.
- Wherever you find the strength of the Holy One, praised be He, you find His humility.
- One does not mix one happy occasion with another.
- Part of a day is like a whole day.
- Life, children, and food are matters that depend not on merit, but on luck.