Question: In the Sayings of the Fathers we read: "Who is wise? He who learns from all men, as it is said, 'From all my teachers I have gotten understanding."' Then why does it not say: "He who learns from every teacher"? Answer: The master who pronounced this dictum is intent on making it clear that we can learn not only from those whose occupation is to teach but from every man. Even from a person who is ignorant, or from one who is wicked, you can gain understanding as to how to conduct your life. "You can learn from everything," the rabbi of Sadagora once said to his hasidim. "Everything can teach us something, and not only everything God has created. What man has made has also something to teach us." "What can we learn from a train?" one hasid asked dubiously. "That because of one second one can miss everything." "And from the telegraph?" "That every word is counted and charged." "And the telephone?" "That what we say here is heard there."





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