NUM356 What is the intent of [the repetition] "oath"? To teach that epithets of oaths are considered [binding, just as] oaths. Yerushalmi Nedarim 1:12)

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NUM360 Scripture hereby teaches us that he takes his place for [punishment of her] sin. Now does this not follow a fortiori, viz.: If in respect to God's Measure of punishment, which [relative to that of reward] is small, one who causes his neighbor to go astray takes his place [for punishment], then, in respect to His measure of good, which is [relatively] large, how much more so [is one rewarded for being instrumental in his neighbor's mitzvah]! (Sifrei)

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NUM372 Resh Lakish said: All who get angry -- if he is wise, his wisdom departs from him, as it is written (14): "And Moses was wroth," and: "And Elazar the priest said:… This is the statute of the Torah, which the Lord commanded Moses," from which it is to be inferred that the halachah escaped him (Pesachim 66b)

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NUM374 It was taught in the school of R. Yishmael: Why did the Jews of that generation require atonement? Because they had feasted their eyes on nakedness (Shabbath 64b)

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NUM381 One who enters the Temple treasury to make a donation should wear neither: a folded garment, a shoe, a sandal, tefillin, or an amulet -- lest he grow up poor and people say: because of the sin of [stealing from] the treasury [and concealing the theft in the afore-mentioned articles], he has become impoverished; or, lest he grow rich and people say: from the proceeds of the treasury he has become wealthy. For one must be blameless in the sight of man as he must be in the sight of the Lord, as it is written: "and you shall be clean of the Lord and of Israel" (Shekalim 3:2)

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