Chapter V: The Voice of Wisdom

GOD, WHOM SHALL I COMPARE TO THEE! Halevi
GREAT IS TRUTH: Esdras; Talmud
THE RIGHT LIFE: Micah; Isaiah; Spinoza
THE GOODNESS OF GOD’S WORK: Maimonides
THE TWO NATURES IN MAN: Moses of Coucy
FREEDOM OF THE WILL: Maimonides
THE WICKED SAITH IN HIS HEART: Wisdom of Solomon
REPENTANCE OF THE WICKED: Wisdom of Solomon
WISE COUNSEL: Maimonides; Benedict of Oxford; Ethics of the
Fathers
THE DUTY OF HOLINESS: Leviticus; Kohler; Talmud
THE CITY OF GOD: Philo; Maimonides; Zohar
HUMILITY: Bachya; Daily Prayer Book; Ibn Ezra
SAYINGS FROM THE TALMUD
THE DEDICATED LIFE Philo
GOD AND MAN: Ethics of the Fathers
GOLDEN RULES: Leviticus; Talmud; Achaï
DEEDS THE BEST COMMENDATION: Talmud; Ethics of the Fathers
A MEDIAEVAL JEWISH MORALIST: Eleazar of Worms
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN: S. A. Adler
MEETING ADVERSITY: Hertz
THE CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH: Montefiore; Ecclesiasticus
LIGHT IN DARKNESS: Talmud
WHENCE AND WHITHER: Ethics of the Fathers; H. Adler
TIME AND ETERNITY: Yedaya Penini; Ecclesiastes;
Derech Eretz Zutta
TALMUDIC PARABLES AND LEGENDS
ALMIGHTY, WHAT IS MAN? Gabirol
RESIGNATION: Green
IMMORTALITY: Talmud; Ethics of the Fathers
ETERNAL HOPE: Psalms
TRUE WISDOM: Job; Ethics of the Fathers

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INDEX OF AUTHORS AND SOURCES

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

_BEHOLD, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send
a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst
for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord._

AMOS 8. 11.

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