Rabbi Akiva famous quotes

03-24-2025

The paper burns, but the words fly away.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Love #Life #Relationship
In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Ships #Spiders #Sin
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Men #Levity
A fence to wisdom is silence.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Silence #Fence
Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Men #Beloved #God Image
Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of the All-present.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Children #Israel #Beloved
Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Wisdom #Men #Hands
Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Blessing #Taste
If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Heart #Rocks #Light
Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Choices #Granted #Freedom Of Choice
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.
-- Rabbi Akiva

#Divine #Remains #Unmarried

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