Jewish%20thought for Nedarim 123:11

רבא רמי כתיב ועבדך ירא את ה' מנעוריו וכתיב (משלי כז, ב) יהללך זר ולא פיך הא באתרא דידעי ליה הא באתרא דלא ידעי ליה

for their own sake. Make not of them a crown wherewith to magnify thyself, nor a spade to dig with.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In I Sam. XIII, 20. and Ps. LXXIV, 5, kardom means an axe. Possibly it was a two-sided tool, one side serving as a spade and the other as an axe. ');">¹⁸</span> And this follows <i>a fortiori</i>. If Belshazzar, who merely used the holy vessels which had been profaned, was driven from the world; how much more so one who makes use of the crown of the Torah!

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