_Spruche_, p. 13.

(15) Some texts read "from him" ([mimenu]). "From them" must
refer to disciples of Antigonus whose sayings have been lost.

(16) It was the custom of pupils to sit at the feet of their
teachers.

5. Jose, the son of Jochanan, of Jerusalem said, "Let thy house be
open wide; let the poor be members of thy household, and engage not in
much gossip with woman." This applies to one's own wife; how much
more (17), then, to the wife of one's neighbor? Hence the sages say,
"Whoso engages in much gossip with woman brings evil upon himself,
neglects the study of the _Torah_, and will in the end inherit
_gehinnom_" (18).

(17) On the _kalwa-chomer_, "a conclusion _a minori ad
majus_," see Meilziner, _Introduction to the Talmud_, p. 130
_et seq._, and Strack, _Einleitung in den Talmud_, p. 120.
Cf. Chapter VI, 3. The equivalent biblical expression is [af
ki].

(18) [gey-hinim (gimil-yud hey-nun-yud-mem(sofit))], [gei
ben-hinim], a glen south of Jerusalem where Moloch was
worshipped, whence a place where the wicked were punished in
the hereafter; "hell, being the opposite of 'the Garden of
Eden,'" "paradise." Cf. chapter V, 22 and 23. See
Friedlander, _Jewish Religion_, p. 223.

6. Joshua, the son of Perachyah, and Nittai, the Arbelite, received