"Who occupies himself with the needs of the community is as though he occupies himself with Torah." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Berakhot
"I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live. " ~~ Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30:19
"You want me to teach you the whole Torah? This is its basic principle: What is hateful to yourself do not do to your fellow man. If you want no one to harm you, do not harm him; if you want no one to take what is yours, do not take from him what is his." ~~ Avot Derabbi Nathan, 27a
"Why was the Torah likened unto water? As water leaves a high place and flows to a low one, the Torah, too, rests only among those whose mind is humble." ~~ Talmud, Ta’anit
"Who lives happily does his Creator’s will." ~~ Baal Shem Tov
"If food, which is ephemeral, requires a blessing before and after you eat it, how much more so the Torah, which is everlasting! " ~~ Talmud, Berakkhot
"What is the meaning of “you shall die and not live” (Second Kings 20:2)? You shall die in this world and not live in the next. " ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"God is everywhere and everything." ~~ Abraham Dov Lebensohn
"Moses commanded us a Law, heritage of the congregation of Jacob." ~~ Deuteronomy (Devarim) 33:4
"The Torah is our life and the length of our days. While loving and studying the Torah, we may be in great danger from our enemies; but if we gave up our studying, we should disappear and be no more." ~~ Rabbi Akiba
"Not the expounding of the Law is the important matter but the doing of it." ~~ Avot 1:17
"The Creator, blessed be He, is He that knows, and what is known and knowledge itself, all in one." ~~ Rambam
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