society and in life. Such wisdom recognizes that order is important in relationships and can be undermined by careless speech or bad choices. Wisdom, then, includes prudence, but is not limited to prudence. The result of failing to heed wisdom by not keeping the Torah, as indicated in the verses cited above, is death. Death is sometimes the fate of a lawbreaker (capital crimes), but here death is the fate of anyone who fails to heed wisdom. That is because fools who undermine order or fail to embrace