Rabbi Akiva (Akiba ben Joseph)

Quotes by Rabbi Akiva (Akiva ben Joseph), a Judean tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century (3rd tannaitic generation). He was a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, and one of the most central and essential contributors to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. He is referred to in the Talmud as "Rosh la-Chachomim" (Head of all the Sages). He is considered by many to be one of the earliest founders of rabbinical Judaism.

• THE TEN TRIBES WILL NOT RETURN [TO THE PROMISED LAND], FOR IT IS SAID, AND CAST THEM INTO ANOTHER LAND, AS IS THIS DAY: JUST AS THE DAY GOES AND DOES NOT RETURN, SO THEY TOO WENT AND WILL NOT RETURN - Babylonian Talmud (Mishnah) Sanhedrin 110b

• Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

• The paper burns, but the words fly away.

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