"Three share a man: God, father and mother. When one honors mother and father, God says He dwells among them; and in honoring them one honors Him." "Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young; doubly blessed when the young listen to the old." "Do not threaten children with punishment you do not intend to inflict." "Only when a parent induces a child to commit sin, is disobedience justifiable." "Do not limit your children to your knowledge, for they were born in another age." Rabbi Eliezar pointed out to his disciples the example of Damah. His mother often abused him, yet all he would say on such occasions was: 'Enough, dear mother, enough.' Once the priests came to him to purchase a jewel. Finding his father resting against the casket in which it lay, he asked them to come later. They offered him a larger price. He replied, 'I would not disturb my father's rest for all the wealth of the world.' They waited. When his father woke he brought the jewel; they tendered him the larger sum offered the second time. He declined it, saying: 'I will not barter the satisfaction of having done by duty, for gold; give me what you first offered and I will be content.' Albini allowed none of his five children to open the door for their grandfather or attend his wants. That privilege must be his. Once his father asked for water. On returning he found the old man asleep. So there he remained, glass in hand, until his father awakened. "Reverence mother and father by neither sitting in their seats nor standing in their places, by not interrupting their speech nor criticising their arguments and by giving heed to their wishes." "Support the aged without reference to religion, and the learned without reference to age." Woman. The exalted place given to woman in Jewish teaching is in pleasing and remarkable contrast with her inferior position in the orient and throughout antiquity generally. In some respects she is made subordinate in the Jewish law, and is given a comparatively passive place in religious life; but on the whole the sages of the Talmudic era nobly resisted the example of their environment, in the reverence they paid to womanhood. "God gave more understanding to woman than to man." "All blessing in the household comes through the wife; therefore should her husband honor her." "Man should consult his wife, treating her as a companion not a plaything; making her what God intended, a help-meet for him." "Be careful not to cause woman to cry, for God counts her tears." "He who loves his wife as himself and honors her more than himself, will train his children rightly." Rab Jose: "I never call my wife _wife_, but _home_." "He who dependeth on his wife's earnings will be deprived of blessing."