Proverbs and sayings in Hebrew

The collection contains the most best-selling proverbs and sayings. Looking through the book, it is easily seen that a significant portion of their ancient origin. On the one hand, all these proverbs were used long before the emergence of modern nations and the development of their cultures, which led to the creation of their own or borrowed proverbs and sayings. For example, the fate of people who saw the heroism of drunkenness, it was felt more 2,5 thousand years ago. A clear scale of moral principles and prohibitions given in the Ten Commandments, was accepted by all civilized mankind, which is why it is so called, that was able to learn and trying to comply with these principles. On the other hand, the fact that a significant proportion of this ancient layer shows at first glance, that the Jews seemed to have lost their creativity, especially since many of the modern proverbs simply translated from other languages.

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