Ask the Babylonian Talmud in Rodkinson's English translation. It is a shorter edition, not the whole Talmud. Classic books of Jewish teaching are here too. Answers quote the books in their own words. Each quote links to the full passage.
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CHAPTER I HUMAN EXISTENCE ยง 1. Youth and Age 1. Youth is a crown of roses; old age a crown of willows (Shab. 152a; D. 323). In the former case the "crown" is an adornment lightly worn; in the latter an unwelcome burden. The stages in the career of a man are summarised by R. Judah, the son of Tema, as follows: "At five years the age is reached for the study of the Scriptures, at ten for the study of Mishnah [cf. ...
In the east, the west, and the south, heaven and earth touch each other, but the north God left unfinished, that any man who announced himself as a god might be set the task of supplying the deficiency, and stand convicted as a pretender. ...
'Against the claims of the Egyptians, we have a huge counterclaim. The second book of Moses mentions the p. 21 time of the Jewish compulsory servitude in Egypt as 430 years. We are fully prepared to restore the value of what we carried away from Egypt, if the Egyptians will pay us the wages of 600,000 men, whom they compelled to work for them for the period mentioned.' Alexander demanded a reply on the part of the ...