Akiba ben Joseph Quotes (50-135)


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Akiva ben Yosef (Mishnaic Hebrew: עֲקִיבָא בֶּן יוֹסֵף, ʿĂqīḇāʾ ben Yōsēp̄; c. 50 – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the

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“A fence to wisdom is silence.”
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“Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.”
“Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.”
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“Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of the All-present.”
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“(To his 24,000 pairs of students) My (Torah knowledge) and yours are hers (his wife)”
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Akiba ben Joseph on Silence

“A fence to wisdom is silence.”
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Akiba ben Joseph on Wisdom

“A fence to wisdom is silence.”
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Akiba ben Joseph on Comedy

“Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.”
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Akiba ben Joseph on Image

“Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.”
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Talmud Bavli, Berakhot on Akiba ben Joseph

“Rabbi Yehuda said: This was the custom of Rabbi Akiva, when he would pray with the congregation he would shorten (his prayer) and go up, due to encumbrance on the congregation. But when he prayed by himself a person would leave (Rabbi Akiva alone) in one corner and find him in another corner. And why so much? Because of his bows and prostrations.”

Talmud Bavli, Kiddushin on Akiba ben Joseph

“Rabbi Tarfon said: Akiva, anyone who separates from you, it is as though he has separated from life”

Talmud Bavli, Pesachim on Akiba ben Joseph

“They said about Rabbi Akiva that in all his days he never said (to his students that the)” time had come to arise in the study hall”. except for the eves of Passover and the eve of Yom Kippur”

About Akiba ben Joseph

Akiva ben Yosef (Mishnaic Hebrew: עֲקִיבָא בֶּן יוֹסֵף, ʿĂqīḇāʾ ben Yōsēp̄; c. 50 – 28 September 135 CE), also known as Rabbi Akiva (רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא), was a leading Jewish scholar and sage, a tanna of the latter part of the first century and the beginning of the second century. Rabbi Akiva was a leading contributor to the