(32) He who seeks a name loses fame.

(33) Be self-reliant, but not selfish.

15. Shammai said, "Set a fixed time for thy (study of) _Torah;_ say
little and do much (34); and receive all men with a cheerful
countenance."

(34) Or "promise little." Be like Abraham, who promised only
bread, but brought a "calf tender and good" (Genesis XVIII, 5
and 7).

16. Rabban (35) Gamaliel said, "Provide thyself with a teacher; be
quit of doubt (36); and accustom not thyself to give tithes (37) by a
conjectural estimate."

(35) "Our teacher," "our master," a title given only to the
presidents of the _Sanhendrin_, Gamaliel being the first to be
thus known. Gamaliel was a grandson of Hillel and a teacher
of Paul. See Strack, _Einleitung_, p. 85.

(36) Establish over you the authority of a teacher, to hold
you from the clutch of doubt (Kohut).

(37) There were three kinds of tithes (the tenth part of
anything): (a) "the first tithe" (_maaser rishon), given to
the Lebites; "the second tithe" (_maaser sheni_), taken to
Jerusalem and consumed there by the owner and his family; and
(c) the tithe paid to the poor (_maaser ani_). See Leviticus
XXVII, 30 _et seq._, Numbers XVIII, 21-24, and Deuteronomy