Rashi Quotes

• The world exists for the sake of kindness.

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  Kindness, World, Sake

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• Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

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  Men, Naked, Done

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• The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

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  Wise, Home, Men

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• Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

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  Serious Man, Simplicity, Happens

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• Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

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  Love Is, Obeying

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• Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

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  Children, Character, Righteous

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• Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

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  Charity, May, United

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• Teachers learn from their students' discussions

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  Teacher, Teaching, Students

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• Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

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  Simplicity, Happens

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• God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

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  Too Much, Adam, Conversation

  Commenting on Gen. 3:9; why should an omniscient God ask "Where are you?",

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• We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

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  Blessed, Jealous, Humility

  Commenting on Gen. 1:26; why does it say "Let us make man"?,

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• The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

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  Sea, Spain, Acres

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• Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

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  Grief, World, Around The World

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• A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

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  Thieves, Persons, Has Beens

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