Intellectuals, Mentsh, Mensch, Jewish Ethics

Let your house be a gathering place for the wise;
Be covered by the dust of their feet,
And drink in their words with thirst.
—Yosse ben Yo’ezer

Translation note (1:4): The Hebrew begins: “Yosse ben Yo’ezer of Tzredah, and Yosse ben Yochanan of Jerusalem received from them...”