Quotes from the Midrash

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Quotes from the Midrash

For the righteous no monuments need be erected, for their teachings are their memorials.
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The foolish try to learn the whole Torah at once, and when they fail, they give it up entirely. The wise studies a little each day.
Midrasch

There are three partners in the creation of a person: God, a father, and a mother.
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Whoever is kind to his fellow human beings proves himself a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And whoever is cruel to his fellow human beings proves that he is not descended from them.
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Rabbi Levi said: If Israel would truly keep the Sabbath for just one day, the Messiah would come, for keeping the Sabbath is equal to keeping all the commandments.
Midrasch

Great is the one who is content with his portion and sustains himself by his own work, for through this great quality he is kept from many sins: from envy and covetousness, from theft and robbery.
Midrasch

Even if you have every virtue - if you lack humility, you are incomplete.
Midrasch

One easily gains an enemy, and only with difficulty a friend.
Midrasch

When a man goes to sin, Satan dances ahead of him.
Midrasch

When Moses' prayer was answered, Pharaoh changed his mind. This is the way of the wicked: in trouble they cry out to God. When they have rest, they return to their evil ways.
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Failing to protest is participation in the sin of the community.
Midrasch

Nothing good has ever come from a quarrel.
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Who preserves the Torah? Whoever makes himself like a wilderness: set apart from the world.
Midrasch

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