Capitolo 89
132 mottos that are printed in the thick prayer-book. "You don't respect the
Law for reward, neither it avoids sinned by fear of punishment but service God
from love. Doesn't sleep end-very, but rises with the birds. Is not
end-hasty to answer to offensive comments; you don't raise thy damage against
another, even if him thies of the curse produce or mother in presence of thy."
Some of these wishes as that of the child of the last mentioned are
written in rhymed prose; some are controversial. Joseph Ibn Caspian he/she writes
in 1322: "As I know God, and that he is one year old, unless I know that that
does knowing mean, and what constitutes unity? Because if these things had to be
done go away to philosophers not-Hebrews? Because if Aristotle had to hold back you sole
possession of the treasures that he has stolen from Solomon?" The belief that
Aristotle had visited Jerusalem with Alexander the Gran, and there
possession gotten of the wisdom of Solomon, was one of the most curious
myths of the Middle Ages. The wish of Eleazar the Levite of Mainz (1357)
it is a simple document, without literary worth but containing a clear
the exposure of the duty. "You judge better benevolently every man and Your uses
efforts to find a kind explanation of behavior, however mistrustful....
Gives in charity an exact tithe of Your ownership. You never turn a poor man
away to empty hands. You speak anybody more than it is necessary, and so it avoids
calumny. Is not as bovine livestock mute that don't send forth any word of the gratitude, but
Thank goodness for to the duration his/her generosities to which they happens, and in Your
prayers made the warm memory of these personal favors Your hearts, and
Incite him to the special fervor during the expression of the thanks town
for town comfort. When words of thanks happens in the liturgy,
break and silently it reflects on the goodness of God to you that day."
In impressive contrast to the simplicity of the precedent the elaborate one is
"Letter of advice" of Solomon Ala me (starting of the fifteenth one