Joshua the son of Perachia and Nitai the Arbelite received from them. Joshua the son of Perachia would say: Provide yourself with a teacher, acquire for yourself a friend, and judge every man on the scale of merit. This has to be one of my favorite sayings from Pirkei Avot. These three things are three …
Well, I didn’t realize how many problems I had with my blog until recently. I noticed that there were a few things not working, as well as some of my images not showing up on the archived pages, which made the site look very broken and ugly. I apologize for not catching this sooner. I …
Antignos of Socho received the tradition from Shimon the Righteous. He would say: Do not be as slaves, who serve their master for the sake of reward. Rather, be as slaves who serve their master not for the sake of reward. And the fear of Heaven should be upon you. Although we know that everything …
Yawn… Yet another Gnostic “gospel” has surfaced and gained immediate praise from the media. I don’t want to spend much time on it, but for the “inquiring mind” I must address this, if ever so briefly. In brief, the “Gospel of Judas” is a pseudopygraphal, Gnostic account of the life of Jesus in which the …
The text to Chapter 2 of Pirkei Avot has been posted here, along with correcting the numbering of the mishnayot of Chapter 1.
