Akiva ben Joseph
Akiva ben Joseph
Akiva ben Yosef, widely known as Rabbi Akiva, was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as Rosh la-Chachamim...
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fence tradition vows wisdom
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
others though wounded wounds
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.