6. Rabbi Shimon said, Come and behold. It is written, "Better is a poor and wise child." AND HE ASKS, Who is a poor child? AND HE REPLIES, It has been explained, and we learned he is the Good Inclination. But "better is a child," as it is written, "I have been young, and now am old" (Tehilim 37:25). This is the lad who is a poor child and owns nothing. Why is he called a lad? Because he is constantly renewed, like the moon. He is also "a wise child," because wisdom dwells within him.