Pirkay Avot -- Ethics Of The Fathers
A Compilation Of Rabbinical Maxims & Wisdom
There are four types among those who sit before the sages: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer and the sieve. The sponge absorbs all. The funnel takes in at one end and lets it out the other. The strainer rejects the wine and retains the sediment. The sieve rejects the coarse flour and retains the fine flour.
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