Let your house be a meeting place for the wise/ let your house be a meeting house for the Sages

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Let your house be a meeting place for the wise/ let your house be a meeting house for the Sages

Open your home to wisdom and to wise people. Welcome wise people into your house and support them.

("Yose ben Yo'ezer of Zeredah and Yose ben Yohanan of Jerusalem received from them. Yose ben Yo'ezer says: Let your house be a meeting place for the wise, and cover yourself in the dust of their feet, and drink their words thirstily" - Avot 1:4)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

יְהִי בֵּיתְךָ בֵּית וַעַד לַחֲכָמִים

Definition (Hebrew)

פְּתַח אֶת בֵּיתְךָ לְחָוכְמָה וּלְאַנְשֵׁי הַחָוכְמָה. אֹרַח בְּבֵיתְךָ אֲנָשִׁים חֲכָמִים וּתְמֹוךְ בָּהֶם.

("יוֹסֵי בֶּן יוֹעֶזֶר אִישׁ צְרֵדָה וְיוֹסֵי בֶּן יוֹחָנָן אִישׁ יְרוּשָׁלַיִם קִבְּלוּ מֵהֶם יוֹסֵי בֶּן יוֹעֶזֶר אוֹמֵר יְהִי בֵּיתְךָ בֵּית וַעַד לַחֲכָמִים וֶהֱוֵי מִתְאַבֵּק בַּעֲפַר רַגְלֵיהֶם וֶהֱוֵי שׁוֹתֶה בְצָמָא אֶת דִּבְרֵיהֶם"- אָבוֹת א ד)

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