Category: Scripture

Pirke Avot, verse seven: consort

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In Which Your Humble Blogger consorts with Gentle Readers, who are, you’ll note, gentle, and not wicked at all, or they would be Wicked Readers, which, one admits, would be wicked cool.

Pirke Avot, verse six: friend

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In Which Your Humble Blogger fails to relate all the stories and sayings about friendship, and all that, because, frankly, it’s a bit obvious, isn’t it? Although I should probably mention Honi the circle-drawer (who is awesomeness itself), who was presumed to have been killed because he refused to side with either the Pharisees or the Sadducees, but actually slept for seventy years, and when he awoke and found that all his friends were gone, said “Give me friends or give me death!”