Sentence examples for wise son from inspiring English sources

Questions of translating the Hebrew into English are explored by Joel M. Hoffman, a linguist and translator who is also Rabbi Hoffman's son — the "wise son" Rabbi Hoffman said.

In a 1560 Haggadah, a portrait of the wise son, traditionally represented by a mature figure with a beard, is an unabashed copy of Michelangelo's portrayal of the prophet Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.

The Seder also includes the parable of the four sons who ask questions about the meaning of the Exodus: a wise son, a wicked son, a simple one and an ignorant one, who does not even know how to ask, and the responses of their father, who explains the essential meanings to them.

In another Haggadah, printed a few years later, the Jeremiah figure is labeled a wise elder replying to the wise son, and then, on another page, is presented as the Rabbi El'azar ben Azariah, a sage quoted in the Haggadah and known for his long white beard.

The four children asking questions at one point in the Seder, traditionally the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son and the son who does not know how to ask, are pictured in strikingly different ways for Jews in 16th-century Prague, in Victorian America and on Israeli kibbutzes in the 1950s.

The Passover Haggadah speaks of The Four Children: the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son, and the daughter who didn't know enough not to covet Cadbury.

— Emily Weinstein Slate: One summer convention you didn't see on TV: the Deli Summit, which brought together new-age sandwich gurus — from Mile End in Brooklyn to Wise Sons in San Francisco — to ponder the future of pastrami and pickles.

It's not just the statue that gets Mike's goat, but also the warm words inscribed: "Erected by the citizens of Bristol and memorial to one the most virtuous and wise sons of their city".

My own gefilte awakening has corresponded with a broader reappraisal of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine in recent years, with restaurants like Mile End, the Canadian deli mini-chain in New York, and Wise Sons, a delicatessen in San Francisco, repackaging schmaltz and chopped liver for a younger generation.

Another way we know Wise Sons isn't messing around: egg cream.

This isn't the first award Wise Sons has earned; Food & Wine also declared it to be one of the best sandwich shops in the country.