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You, my friend -- a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens -- are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul.(1)
IN THESE WORDS, SOCRATES DESCRIBES THE manner in which he would approach his fellow citizens in order to exhort them to the right of way of life.
In a similar vein, Plato, in The Republic, refers to "three classes of men -- lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain,"(2) and extols life devoted…
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The teaching of Ben Zoma.
...these three cardinal pursuits, of Ben Zoma, a tanna (Talmudic sage) of the...Fathers").(5) The sayings of Ben Zoma, formulated in the terse and pithy...rabbinical maxims. While the dicta of Ben Zoma are terse and seemingly simple, they... |
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Signs of Salvation
...own land.'" But along come other sages and tell Ben-Zoma: You are wrong to suggest that the memory of the...secondary. Be that as it may - in the light of Ben-Zoma's teaching and Jeremiah's prophecy, do you appreciate the... |
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DISCOVERING TORAH
...today, when Shimon] Ben Zoma demonstrated a proof from...goes on to explain how Ben Zoma was able to derive from...explains: "When Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah was asked to become...negative aspects? Kabbalistic teaching claims that the two are... |
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Working toward redemption
...Haggada, "Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah says: 'Behold...from Egypt at night, until Ben Zoma expressed the verse 'in...three problems with this teaching. First, if the verse is...introduces Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah's principle of... |
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Pirkei Avot on Winograd
...report. The very first teaching found in Avot is: "Be...Indeed when Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai asked his students...So Rabbeinu Yona explains Ben Zoma's definition of a wise...that reason Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perahya stressed: "Acquire... |
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IP Issues Are Business Issues - An Interview With Jeremy Phillips.(Interview)
...career. I would have been a teacher, though. I love teaching and spent the first 11 years of my gainfully employed...IP work and why? Jeremy: In the Ethics of the Fathers Ben Zoma is quoted as saying "Who is the wise man? He who learns... |
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