Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Bava Kamma 184:13

כתוב בתורה דכתיב (בראשית כח, ט) וילך עשו אל ישמעאל שנוי בנביאים דכתיב (שופטים יא, ג) ויתלקטו אל יפתח אנשים רקים ויהיו עמו ומשולש בכתובים דכתיב (בן סירא יג, יד) כל עוף למינו ישכון ובני אדם לדומה לו תנן במתני' כל המחובר לטמא טמא כל המחובר לטהור טהור ותנינא בברייתא רבי אליעזר אומר לא לחנם הלך זרזיר אצל עורב אלא מפני שהוא מינו

and it is also written, <i>'And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him.</i> etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXIV, 9. Though the spirit of wisdom belongs to God it is nevertheless ascribed to Moses. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> Raba [again] said to Rabbah b. Mari: Whence can be derived the popular saying, 'A dog when hungry is ready to swallow even his [own] excrements'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Others: 'stones'.] ');"><sup>23</sup></span>

Orchot Tzadikim

The righteous people reject the wicked, and our Sages, of blessed memory said, "Not for nothing did the starling follow the raven, but because it is of the same kind" (Baba Kamma 92b). And it is said, "Every fowl dwells near its kind and man near his equal" (Ben Sira 13:5). And they said, "It is forbidden to look at the form of a wicked man" (Megillah 28a), as it is said, "Were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee" (II Kings 3:14). And everyone who looks at the form of a wicked man, his eyes grow dim in his old age, like Isaac, our father, whose eyes grew dim because he looked upon Esau, even though he did not know of Esau's evil deeds.
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