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Advice and Further Reflections
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When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. For He has no pleasure in fools; what you vow, fulfill. It is better not to vow at all than to vow and not fulfill. [ . . . ] If…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Wisdom, Food and drink, Death, Education, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature
The Words of the Sages: The Thirty Maxims
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Incline your ear and listen to the words of the sages;Pay attention to my wisdom.It is good that you store them inside you,And that all of them be constantly on your lips,That you may…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Wisdom, Education, Piety, Morality, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature
Papyrus page of Egyptian hieratic writing in four columns.
Igrot Meshulam (Epistles of Meshulam)
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Sivan, 5529 Livorno [1769] In the name of G-d, the G-d of mercy! In such measure as light exceeds darkness, such is the superiority of the people of this country over the people of Spain…

Contributor:

Isaac Euchel

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1790

Subjects:

Ethics, Gender, Women, Education, Ethnography

Categories:

Literature, Fiction, Ethics, Science & Philosophy