Pirkei Avot §avot_04_14: Rabbi Nehorai said: go as a [voluntary] exile to a place of Torah and say not...
Source: Pirkei Avot — Ethics of the Fathers (Mishnah, c. AD 200) (avot_04_14) · external_aligned
Rabbi Nehorai said: go as a [voluntary] exile to a place of Torah and say not that it will come after you, for [it is] your fellow [student]s who will make it permanent in your hand and “and lean not upon your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5).
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Kaufmann Codex (Budapest, 11-13th cent) — earliest complete Mishnah
- manuscript_tradition: Parma Codex de Rossi 138 (Italy, 13th cent)
- critical_edition: Charles Taylor, Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (1877/1897)
- translation: Goldin, The Living Talmud (1957)
- republication: Sefaria — Pirkei Avot
Connections
- cites → card_n_2b207a92ea3a