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The Life
of the Pious
by Abraham bar Hiyya
Those people of the the law who do not uphold
the faith are not helped much by their
learning.
Those separated unto God eat food they have, not
to satisfy a desire for its good taste but to
silence the pain of hunger, and they wrap
themselves with any garment to protect the body
against the cold without being concerned as to
whether it is of wool or flax.
Any potentiality the actualization of which
wisdom affirms must have already changed to
actuality.
Excerpted from Studies in
Pre-Tibbonian Terminology, Jewish Quarterly
Review, New Series
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