Wise Fridays: Respecting the Aged

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“Show respect to an old man who has forgotten his learning through no fault of his own, for we have learned that the fragments of the old tablets [of the Ten Commandments which Moses shattered] were kept alongside the new tablets in the Ark of the Covenant.”
–Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 8b
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