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... not a question of material inventions, like a fallacious idea, serves to obscure truth so that none may know it except us, the Chosen of God, its guardians. 5. When, we come into our kingdom our orators will expound great problems which have turned humanity upside down in order to bring it at the end under our beneficent rule. 6. Who will ever suspect then that ALL THESE PEOPLES WERE STAGE-MANAGED...
... punishment". Under the Levitical Law, however, which Dr. Weizmann invoked as the basis of his demand for Palestine, it is the chief "statute and commandment", to be rewarded by power and treasure, not punished. In the last twelvemonth before the Second War the secret arbiters of power 329 exerted their maximum effort to gain control of men and events. Mr. Roosevelt was "committed"...
... have already forgotten: that during this period he was a highly unpopular man, not because of any specific acts or quality, but because he was consistently given that "bad press" which is the strongest weapon in the hands of those who control political advancement. This organized hostility was made particularly plain during the abdication crisis of 1937, when his pleas for time received...
... international creed, but it implies the abnegation of real property, especially property in land, and Jews, being international, have never acquired a taste for real property; they prefer money. Money is an instrument of power, though eventually, of course, Communists claim that they will do away with money — when their power is sufficiently established to enable them to command goods, and exercise...
... overcome that sickly Love, that insipid Love, that romantic Love, which has hitherto poisoned all the Strength and all the Nobility of this world. For Hatred is never overcome by Hatred: it is only overcome by Love, and it wants a new and a gigantic Love to subdue that old and devilish Hatred of today. That is our task for the future — a task that will, I am sure, not be shirked by Israel, by that...
... designated as the son of his father. But the Napoleonic era, especially following upon the assembly of the Great Sanhedrin under Napoleon's command, caused a distinct change in Jewish customs in Europe. In 1808 Napoleon sent out a decree commanding all Jews to adopt family names. In Austria a list of surnames was assigned to the Jews, and if a Jew was unable to choose, the state chose for him. The names...
.... One of the things we may not do is to declare that this is a Christian country. benjamin becomes lopez, seef, wolf (this is translation). There is one absolutely safe rule in dealing with anything emanating from the American Jewish Commitee. Don't rely on the label, open the matter up. You will find that the Kehillah is not what it pretends to be; that the Jewish labor union is not what it pretends...
... ten days, try it in reality. You can move both ways. Sometimes you are feeling very happy; shift the gear and become unhappy. And see, you can do it. Once you know that you can do it, you are free of the mind, gone beyond. Now the mind cannot control you. Now you know that the mind is a mechanism, and the gear is in your hand. You will feel a tremendous release of power within you. Then nobody can...
... very easy to get angry and fight, but it is very difficult to throw that poison from the system, because it creates poison. That poison lingers on. Each fight has a hangover, and the hangover will again create some situation in which you start fighting again. So fight generates fight; one conflict creates another conflict. They are very very reproductive. They don't believe in any birth control...
... an obvious rule?' It could be retorted that it serves the purpose] of rejecting the view of R. Eleazar b. Azariah who maintained that 'the man wrote the [additional jointure] for her with the sole object of marrying her'.19 The inference too [from the Mishnah cited leads to the same conclusion].20 For it has been stated, '[She] is entitled to collect all [that is due to her]'. Now if...
... you agree that [this is a case where] the man had written [a kethubah] for her one can well understand why she 'is entitled to collect all [that is due to her]'.21 If you submit, however, that the man did not write a kethubah for her, what [it may be objected is the justification for the expression.] 'is entitled to collect all', seeing that she is only entitled to one hundred or two hundred22...
... according to its reason, while R. Simeon does!10 — Generally, indeed, R. Judah does not interpret Biblical law on the basis of its reason; here, however, it is different, for here he merely expounds the reason stated in the text. Thus: Why the command, he shall not multiply wives to himself? It is that his heart be not turned aside.11 And R. Simeon? — He could answer you: Let us see...
... with each single idle horse he transgresses anew the prohibitory command. [Reverting to chariot horses:] Thus, it is only because Scripture wrote 'lo' [to him]: but otherwise, might we have thought that even those necessary for his chariots and horsemen are forbidden?20 — It is necessary here to permit a large number.21 AND SILVER AND GOLD HE SHALL NOT MULTIPLY UNTO HIMSELF etc. Our...
... before the Holy One, blessed be He: 'Thou knowest full well that had I wished to suppress my lust, I could have done so, but, thought I, let them [the people] not say, "The servant triumphed against his Master."'15 Raba expounded: What is meant by the verse, For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me?16 Bath Sheba, the daughter of Eliam, was predestined for David from the six...
.... VII, 3. [Heb. yezer, [H], v. Lazarus, Ethics, II, 106ff.] One must not attempt to subdue his desires altogether, which is unnatural, but to regulate them. In chiding a child and a woman, one must not be too severe, lest they be so disheartened as to be driven away far from repentance altogether. II Kings XIII, 14. 'Was fallen sick' denotes one illness; 'of his sickness' another, and 'whereof he died...
...; he may neither submit to halizah nor may he perform the levirate marriage. If a woman9 at the age of twenty did not produce two [pubic] hairs, they10 must bring evidence that she is twenty years of age, and she [is then confirmed as a] woman who is incapable of procreation; she may neither perform halizah nor contract levirate marriage!11 — Surely in connection with this...
...] signifies both 'to exude' and 'to whisper'. A levir whose brother died without issue and whose duty it is to marry the widow of the deceased or to submit to her halizah. The legal signs of maturity. The relatives of the widow, who are desirous of procuring her exemption from the levirate marriage and the halizah. One incapable of procreation. V. Glos. He is no longer regarded as a minor for whose maturity...
... him;33 but [if this was the case] did not Beth Shammai rule [it may be asked] that a married minor may not exercise the right of refusal!34 They bound him with two bonds.35 BETH SHAMMAI RULED: … BEFORE BETH DIN etc. Elsewhere we learned: Halizah and declarations of mi'un [must be witnessed by] three men.36 Who is the Tanna?37 — Rabbah replied: This [ruling...
.... edd., 'Eleazar'. If she was given away in marriage. Her marriage being invalid, she remains in her father's control, and, like any other daughter of an Israelite who never married a priest, is forbidden to eat terumah. As the daughter of a priest who never married an Israelite. Cf. supra n. 6. Lit., 'retention (in the house of her husband)'. Lit., 'as if she was'. Lit., 'as if she was not'. Tractate...
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