Is “The world stands on three things” in the Pirkei Avot?

Is “The world stands on three things” in the Pirkei Avot?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Pirkei Avot. Source and location below.

THE WORLD STANDS. Rav understands this expression as “the world was only created for the purpose of.” Midrash Shmuel in his commentary to the last mishna in this chapter notes that he has found editions in which the text of our mishna has “for three things the world was created.” ON THE TORAH. Rav : had Israel not accepted the Torah, the heavens and the earth would not have been created, as per th
Tosafot Yom Tov on Pirkei Avot — Mishnah · Acharonim on Mishnah / Tosafot Yom Tov / Seder Nezikin, Mishnah 2 · Per Sefaria text version: Tosafot Yom Tov on Avot, trans. Dov Dukhovny, 2018 (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

One who gazes at women, 575 See Talmud Bavli, Sanhedrin 92a; Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Teshuvah 4:4 even if he literally is equal in stature to Moshe, he will not be cleansed of the judgments of purgatory ( Gehinnom ). In the end he will come to sin with forbidden relations. He rouses the lusts of his evil inclination within himself, and will ultimately come to wasteful seminal emissions, the gravity
Sha'arei Kedusha — Kabbalah · Arizal and Chaim Vital, Part 2 · Per Sefaria text version: Sefaria Community Translation / Gates of Holiness, translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, 2013 / http://www.TrueKabbalah.com (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

Seven kinds of punishment come to the world for seven categories of sin: [When] some of [the people] give tithes, and others do not give tithes, a famine from drought comes; and some go hungry, and others have plenty. [When] they all decide not to give tithes, a famine from tumult and drought comes. [And when they decide, in addition,] not to set apart the dough ( challah ) [offering], a famine of
Derekh Chayyim — Mishnah · Acharonim on Mishnah, Mishnah 8 · Per Sefaria text version: Sefaria Community Translation / Sefaria Edition 2021 by R. Francis Nataf / Nataf translation / Derekh Chayyim em português [pt] / null (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

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