There is none so wise as the experienced man

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There is none so wise as the experienced man

There is none so wise as the experienced man

The best wisdom belongs to a person who has gained knowledge through practical, real-life experience. The wisdom of one who has experience is preferable.

("To save the oppressed, but only after one who has already sat first in judgment, and there is none so wise as the experienced man" - Chatam Sofer, Tractate Gittin 55b; also: "This wanderer, it's not that he is wise, rather he is experienced. So he testifies about himself" - Sholem Aleichem, Crossing the Red Sea, p. 251; also: "When they heard this, they sighed deeply and said, there is none so wise as the experienced man" - Agnon, These and Those, The Story of the Emissary from the Holy Land, 321)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֵין חָכָם כְּבַעַל נִסָּיוֹן

Definition (Hebrew)

הַחָכְמָה הַטּוֹבָה בְּיוֹתֵר נוֹבַעַת מִנִּסָּיוֹן הַחַיִּים. עָדִיף לְקַבֵּל עֵצָה מְאַדָּם שֶׁיֵּשׁ נִסָּיוֹן בַּנּוֹשֵׂא .

("לְהַצִּיל עשוק, ואך לבתר דיתיב ברישא עַל מִדִּין, וְאֵין חָכָם כבעל נִסָּיוֹן"- חָתַם סוֹפֵר מַסֶּכֶת גִּטִּין נה ע"ב, וְכֵן:"הנודד הַזֶּה, לֹא שחכם הוּא, אֶלָּא בַּעַל נִסָּיוֹן. כָּךְ הוּא מֵעִיד עַל עַצְמוֹ"-שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ קריעת יָם סוֹף, רכז, וְכֵן:"כֵּיוָן ששמעו כָּךְ נתאנחו אֲנָחָה גְּדוֹלָה וְאָמְרוּ, אֵין חָכָם כבעל הַנִּסָּיוֹן"-עַגְנוֹן/ אֵלּוּ וְאֵלּוּ,מַעֲשֶׂה המשולח מֵאֶרֶץ הַקְּדֻשָּׁה ת"ו, 321)

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