The Rabbis learned: When Adam saw the
days getting shorter and shorter, he said, ‘woe is me, perhaps it is because I
sinned that the world is becoming dark, and will return to chaos and disorder,
and this is the death sentence that was decreed upon me from heaven’. He went
and sat and fasted and prayed for eight days. When he saw the winter solstice
arrive, and the days began getting longer and longer, he said, ‘it is just the
way of the world’. He went and made an eight-day holiday. - Avoda Zara 8a
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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