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er of sleep; but "charity," says Solomon, "saves even from death." How canst thou escape sin? Think of three things: whence thou comest, whither thou goest, and before whom thou must appear. The scoffer, the liar, the hypocrite, and the slanderer can have no share in the future world of bliss. To slander is to commit murder. Cold water morning and evening is better than all the cosmetics. The question is asked, "Why is man born with hands clinched, but has his hands wide open in death?" And the answer is: "On entering the world, man desires to grasp everything; but when leaving it he takes nothing away." Two dry logs and one wet; the dry ones kindle the wet. He who seeks for a faultless brother will have to remain brotherless. A town which has no school should be abolished. Jerusalem was destroyed because the instruction of the young was neglected. He who instructs a child is as if he had created it. The teachers are the guardians of the State. Learn first and philosophize afterward. To what may he be compared who teaches a child? To one who writes on clean paper; and to what may he be compared who teaches an old man? To one who writes on blotted paper. Be eager to acquire knowledge; it does not come to thee by inheritance. Four dispositions are found among those who sit for instruction, before the wise, and they may be respectively compared to a sponge, a funnel, a strainer, and a sieve; the sponge imbibes all, the funnel receives at one end and discharges at the other, the strainer suffers the wine to pass through, but retains the lees, and the sieve recovers the bran, but retains the fine flour. To pray loudly is not a necessity of devotion; when we pray we must direct our hearts toward heaven. Charity is greater than all. Who gives charity in secret is greater than Moses. He finds authority for this saying in the words of Moses, "For I was afraid of the anger," and the words of Solomon which he presents as an answer, "A gift given in secret pacifieth anger." A miser is as wicked as an idolater. Charity is more than sacrifices. "He who gives (charity) becomes rich," or as it is written, "A beneficent soul will be abundantly gratified." One day a philosopher inquired of Rabbi Akiba, "If your God loves the poor, why does He not support them?" "God allows the poor to be with us ever," responded Akiba, "that the opportunities for doing good may never fail." "But," retur
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