Ben Bag Bag dice: Dale la vuelta [a la Torá] una y otra vez, porque [encontrarás] todo en él. Y a través de él lo verás. Y envejece y cuídate, y no te alejes de él, porque no hay mejor middah que él. [No digas: he aprendido la sabiduría de Israel; Ahora iré y aprenderé la sabiduría de los griegos. Porque está permitido hacer esto último solo donde no está permitido meditar en palabras de la Torá, como en el baño o en el baño. Cuando le preguntaron a R. Yehoshua si estaba permitido enseñarle a su hijo la sabiduría griega, él respondió que estaba permitido hacerlo cuando no era ni de día ni de noche, está escrito (Josué 1: 8): "Y meditarás en día y noche "]
Tanna DeBei Eliyahu Zuta
Said Rabbi Yochanan: Once I was walking on a path and I came across a man who was collecting firewood. I spoke to him but he did not respond to me. Afterwards he approached me and said "Rabbi, I am dead and not alive", I said to him: "If you are dead - why do you need the firewood?". He responded: "Rabbi, listen carefully to what I am saying to you, when I was alive, my friend and I were doing a sin in my palace and when we came here we were sentenced to punishment by fire, when I gather wood they burn my friend, and when my friend gathers wood they burn me". I asked him: "Till when do you have to endure this punishment?" He told me: "When I came here I left my wife pregnant and I know she is pregnant with a son, therefore, please take caution with him and from the time he is born until he is five years old take him to he house of his rabbi to learn biblical verse (mikrah) because when he can say Barchu Et Hashem HaMevorach then I will be saved from the punishment of Gehenna".