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Ben Sira, that ancient sage, was all over these social complexities. He offers us some seriously practical, if a little sharp, advice in his wisdom text. "Not with all men should o...
Kingdoms rise and fall, fortunes change in the blink of an eye... It's enough to make you wonder what, if anything, lasts. Ben Sira, that wise sage whose words dance between poetry...
"For the pool of passion is sin, and its spring will pour out filth." Ouch. It's not subtle, is it? Ben Sira uses the metaphor of a pool fed by a polluted spring to illustrate how ...
We all do it. But what if that cover is completely misleading? What if the real treasure lies hidden, masked by appearances? Ben Sira, that wise sage whose words dance between scri...
It’s a question that’s haunted humanity for ages, and it’s one the Book of Ben Sira, a work of wisdom literature not included in the Hebrew Bible but valued in Jewish tradition, gr...
And they're not exactly reassuring. Ben Sira, a book of wisdom literature from around the 2nd century BCE, dives deep into the complexities of human relationships. And Chapter 12? ...
It has some pretty strong words for those of us prone to envy. "In the eye of a fool," Ben Sira tells us, "his portion is small; but he that taketh his neighbour's portion wasteth ...
And surprisingly, it’s not all about deprivation. Ben Sira gets right to the point: "Do good to a friend before you die; and as your hand attains, give unto him." It’s a simple, po...
He offers a bracing counterpoint to that idea. Ben Sira, in this passage (Ben Sira 16), challenges us to consider what truly matters. He suggests that simply having more – more chi...
