Send page to a Friend Jewish Texts For A Book Drive Whether it is a project for adults or youths, your book drive can be enriched with the study of Jewish text. Here are some suggestions, but feel free to choose your own. "A book is the most delightful companion... An inanimate thing yet it talks... There is in the world no friend more faithful and attentive, no teacher more proficient... It will join you in solitude, accompany you in exile, serve as a candle in the dark, and entertain you in your loneliness..." — Moses ibn Ezra "Whoever saves a single soul is honored as though they have saved an entire world." — Sanhedrin 4:5 "He who teaches a child is as if he had created it." — Sanhedrin 19b41 "The highest form of charity is to put someone where he or she can dispense with other people's aid." — Maimonides "Make your books your companions; let your cases and shelves be your pleasure-ground and orchards. Bask in their paradise, gather their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices. If your soul be satiated and weary, change from garden to garden, from furrow to furrow, from prospect to prospect. Then will your desire be renewed, and your soul be filled with delight." — Judah Ibn-Tibbon, 12th Century "It is not up to you to complete the work, but neither are you free to refrain from doing it." — Pirkei Avot, Ethics of Our Fathers, 2:16