This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Rona Barrett born Rhona Bernstein, Mrs. William Trowbridge
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Character | Individual | Soul |
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, also known as Rabbeinu Behaye
It is integrity that invests man with immortality, and bestows upon him the privilege of direct communion with God.
Character | God | Immortality | Integrity | Man | Privilege |
Simeon ben Azai, sometimes Ben Azai
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.