Hospitality
"Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests." ~~ Max Beerbohm
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Add a Comment"Welcome everyone---with joy." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 1:15
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Add a Comment"Let a stranger live with you, and he'll estrange your way of life." ~~ Apocrypha: Ben Sira
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Add a Comment"Let your home be wide open and the needy be members of your household. " ~~ Avot 1:5
Filed under: Avot, Home and Family, Hospitality, Tzedakah/Charity
Add a Comment"Let your home be a meet-place for the Sages! " ~~ Avot 1:4
Filed under: Avot, Education, Home and Family, Hospitality
Add a Comment"You will always be honored as a guest if you, too, can play the host. The man invited to dinner is the man who can dine at home if he likes." ~~ Chaim Weizmann
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Add a Comment"The host enters the house first and the guest follows, but the guest is the first to leave." ~~ Derekh Eretz R.
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Add a Comment"Visiting is like rain: prayed for when absent, but tiresome when overdone." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
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Add a Comment"The poor does for the host more than the host for the poor." ~~ Joshua b. Hanania
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Add a Comment"Nowhere does the Torah say, "Invite your guest to pray"; but it does tell us to offer him food, drink and a bed." ~~ Kagan
Filed under: Food and Drink, Hospitality, Kagan
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