הַרְבֵּה לָמַדְתִּי מֵרַבּוֹתַי וּמֵחֲבֵרַי יוֹתֵר מֵרַבּוֹתַי וּמִתַּלְמִידַי יוֹתֵר מִכֻּלָּם

ביטוי (אנגלית)

I have learned much from my teachers and more than from my teachers, and from my colleagues more than from my teachers, and from my pupils more than from all

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The wise man learns much from his disciples, who refine his thinking by the cleverness of their questions, and likewise he learns from his friends and teachers. A true wise man knows how to learn from everyone, even from his own disciples.

("Why are the words of the Torah likened to a tree, of which it is said (Proverbs 3) A tree of life is to those who maintain it, saying to you: What small tree kindles the great - even the disciples of the wise, the small ones sharpen the great. And this is what Rabbi Hanina said: The greater is my measure than my many, and my companions are more than my many, and my disciples are more Michalan - Ta'anit 7:1, and so on: "It is written that the lamp of the commandment is a light, and the Torah is a light, and the path of life is a light of righteousness (Proverbs 6:23). Why is the commandment likened to a lamp? - What is this lamp that lights up from its many lamps, and so many Torah scholars, as many righteous disciples stand, and he is not without fault, but he adds wisdom, as they say. Our rabbis said: "The more I measure, the more I learn, and the more my friends, the more I learn, and the more my students, the more I learn" - Midrash Agada (Buber) Names of Chapter 27, and so on: "The disciples add to the wisdom of the rabbi and expand his heart. The wise said: The more wisdom I measure, the more my friends, the more I learn, and the more my students, the more they learn... Thus does a wise disciple "He sharpens the many, until he brings forth from them in his questions a fruitful wisdom" - Harambam/ Sefer Hamada, Hilchot Talmud Torah, Chapter Five, 13, 120, and so on: "There is a great deal of wisdom in the Torah, that the Torah is not acquired except in company. And who is the wisest of all men? And you will always find that the great are in need of the little ones, and so on. They said (Ta'anit 7:1) "And from the disciples of the rest of them" - Rabbi Obadiah Yosef/Anaf Etz Avos, Recht, and Ken: "Their soul was immersed in the Torah, and their Torah was purchased by understanding the heart and by the closeness of friends. A man learned more from his teachers, and he learned more from his friends, and they were many and one friend to another" - Mordecai ben Yehezkel/ Sefer Hamaash'iyot (Quarter, The Righteous One, 91)