The Man Who Kept His Vow and Found His Family Again

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Oath He Would Not Take and the Treasure He Was GivenA rich man lay dying, and he called his son to the bedside. He made him swear one oath, "Never take an oath yourself. Not in court, not in dispute, not for any

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Wife Who Cooked the Opposite of What He AskedRav, one of the founding figures of the Babylonian Talmud, third century CE, had a difficult wife. Whenever he asked her to cook a particular dish, she would pr

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)The Three Daughters and the Tongue That KilledA man had three daughters, and each carried a flaw. The first was a thief who could not keep her hand from what was not hers. The second was lazy and refused th

Hebraic Literature (1901)The Weasel and the Well That Witnessed a Broken VowA young man traveling through the country met a young woman, and they fell in love. When he had to leave her town, they swore to wait for each other until they

Hebraic Literature (1901)A String of Talmudic Sayings on Love, Wine, and WivesThe anthologists of the old Hebraic literature gathered Talmudic aphorisms the way a peddler gathers buttons, many small, each perfect. A handful: The rivalry o

Hebraic Literature (1901)Rabbinic Sayings on Wives, Wrath, and the Breath of SchoolchildrenThe Talmud preserves floating aphorisms, lines remembered without the stories they once belonged to, collected into strings that read like the Jewish equivalent

The Man Who Kept His Vow and Found His Family Again

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