People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.