Choose your companions wisely

Hi,

"One should increase his meals with Torah scholars, and decrease his meals with ignorant people, for later on the ignorant person will speak evilly of him [regarding anything that happened at the meal]."

(Tana Dvei Eliyahu Rabbah 12)

Have a great day,
Mordechai

The merit of the matriarchs

Hi,

"HaShem did not cause the chain of events taking the Jews out of Egypt other than because of the merit of Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel and Leah."

(Midrash, Tanna d'vei Eliyahu 27)

Have a great day,
Mordechai