(24) On the life of R. Joshua (40-130 C.E.), see Bacher, _ibid._, 129-194, Myers, _ibid._, 161-170, Danziger, _ibid._, 122-151. (25) He forgets nothing he has learned. On R. Eliezer, see Danziger, _ibid._, 91-121. (26) When yet a child in the cradle, his mother took him into the synagogue that he might thus early hear the words of the _Torah_. (27) A _chasid_ ([chasid]), "saint," is one who does more than the strict letter of the law requires. See Schechter, _Studies_, II, pp. 148-181, _idem_, _Aspects_, p. 209, Rawicz, _Commentar des Maimonides_, pp. 95-96, and Gorfinkle, _The Eight Chapters_, pp. 60-62. (28) "A welling spring" (Taylor). (29) He lived in the first half of the second century, C.E. (30) _I.e._, an eye that looks upon people with benevolence and kind feelings, free from envy and ill-will. (31) A good friend is one who induces his associate to study _Torah_, and who reproves him when he sees him doing wrong. The passage means not so much to gain a good friend as to _be_ a good friend. (32) One who balances the present against the future. (33) The heart was considered the seat of all moral and spiritual functions. See Schechter, _Aspects_, p. 255 _et seq._ (34) Denotes niggardliness, envy, or jealousy. (35) _I.e._, one who lacks foresight and incurs responsibilities he is unable to meet borrows from God, as all wealth belongs to Him, and men are merely His stewards. The word [makom], literally "place," "space," was used to designate Jerusalem, or the Temple, as being _the_ place where God's spirit dwells; or it may also refer to the divine court of the _Sanhedrin_. It then came to be used as an appellative for God. As Schechter remarks, "The term is mainly indicative of God's ubiquity in the world and can best be translated by 'Omnipresent.'" See Hoffmann, _Sanhedrin_ VI, note 56, Taylor, _Sayings_, p. 53, note 42, and Schechter, _Aspects_, pp. 26-27, where the literature on this subject is given. See also Friedlander, _The Jewish Religion_, p. 287, and the Jewish Encyclopedia_, art. _Names of God_. (36) Psalm XXXVII, 21.