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... festivals were not determined by the calender and consequently bore no religious character.] It cannot therefore be cited as a case for establishing a general rule. As he might be regarded as going to the celebration. A Philistine city on Mediterranean coast, S.E, of Jerusalem, inhabited by pagans. Its bazaar, though quite close to it, is considered 'outside it'. Being quite close to the city, should it...
... thou not that it is Heaven10 that has ordained this [Roman] nation to reign? For though she laid waste His House, burnt His Temple, slew His pious ones and caused His best ones to perish, still is she firmly established! Yet, I have heard about thee that thou sittest and occupiest thyself with the Torah, dost publicly gather assemblies, and keepest a scroll [of the Law] in thy bosom!'11 ...
... forgotten it. [R. Jose b. Saul] quoted against him: Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified5 — does not 'have we prepared' mean that we immersed them [in a ritual bath to purify them], and 'sanctified' that we have made them holy again!6 He said to him: May the blessing of Heaven be upon you for having...
..., we are doing something impossible. If we go mad doing that, it is just natural. We are part of the whole, there is no way to exist separately. And that's what man has been doing down the ages - trying in every way to exist separately from the cosmos. This megalomania of man - that he has to be superior to the whole, that he has to be separate from the whole, that he has to be in control of the...
... will come again to the border line. It happens for so many reasons that are beyond your control. On the part of the initiated, initiation is a total letting go: a complete trust, a complete surrender. It can never be partial. If you surrender partially, you are not surrendering, you are deceiving yourself. There can be no partial surrender, because in partial surrender you are withholding something...
... as this is not necessarily done to imitate the ways of the Amorites. But R. Eleazar said: I heard that he who rends [his garments] too much for a dead person transgresses the command,9 'Thou shalt not destroy',10 and it seems that this should be the more so in the case of injuring his own body. But garments might perhaps be different, as the loss is irretrievable, for R. Johanan...
... long that when you start having a little affair with meditation or something, the body starts feeling jealous. It is a woman. It says, 'I won't allow you this easily. Come here! You have always been listening to me. Now what are you doing? Trying to escape from my domination, from my possessiveness? I will show you.' So it creates troubles - and those are stupid troubles, but they can become very...
... women and the desire is to dominate? It is very human. Because I was silent and I was in isolation, and I was not talking to anyone, not meeting with anyone, this power group became superior to others, starting the egoist trip. The simple thing for you is to accept that you have been wrong and that you deeply feel sorry for it, and nobody is going to be angry about it. I don't teach people to be...
... nothing to be worried about, mm? Music helps to bring you in tune with yourself. If you are really involved in the outer music, it brings you in contact with the inner music. So just remember one thing - forget yourself while singing, and just be totally possessed... as if you are not there, but just a vehicle for something unknown, something from the beyond. Lose control. It will help... you will...
... of sannyas - that if you go too much into things then maybe sannyas will happen. So you remain a little in control and go only so far. This is my observation: people who are not sannyasins go only so far because the one fear is always there - that if they go too much into things sannyas will happen. So it is good to become a sannyasin. Finish that fear from the very beginning so you don't have to...
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