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... it is a great problem, a rule has been established - the rule of the average. Beware of the rule of averages. Averages work like this: five hundred people are sitting here. We measure everyone's height and count everyone. All the heights are added up then divided by five hundred. Suppose the height comes to four feet three and a half inches - the average height. Now there might not be anyone here...
... intercourse cannot be shut off. If someone shuts you off then other people will be available that you can sit with, that you can speak with. The village is so small that control can easily be maintained. Hence in a country like India the elimination of untouchability is impossible as long as villages exist. And the strange thing is that Mahatma Gandhi and all the people that have followed him think that the...
... of the city. Your neighbors will not know that you have fallen in love with a woman. They think that every day you are going for satsang, that you have become a great devotee, early in the morning you leave for the temple. In the village this was not possible. In the village freedom was impossible, the village was bondage. The crowd was in control. The birth of the individual has happened in cities...
...? And if it should hit it has no value. BALANCE HAS BECOME THE ESSENCE OF ALL AUSTERITY AND PENANCE... Only through satsang is there an emergence of centering, of sanyam, which is the essence of all chanting and austerities. Consider this word sanyam - it means centering not restraint or control. The word sanyam has become very distorted in people's hands. Ordinarily you call a renunciate a sanyami...
... it becomes intolerable it is the right moment, if you can persist, for something to happen... you can escape and miss it. So it may differ with each person. Some may come to this point after four or five days, but as a general rule the seventh day is the point where you will feel that the whole process is intolerable; so heavy that you would like to escape. So make people aware that this is natural...
... of children (v. supra 50a) who made an unostentatious but comfortable living. [H] 'mansion', 'palace', i.e., his own home (cf. 'the Englishman's home is his castle'). [H], MS.M. [H] 'a detachment of soldiers', To exact from him service or money. As his wants were moderate, he had no need to be under obligation to anyone for his food or drink and had no need to go fat to seek his livelihood. A man...
... fact refer to the first clause,40 but in respect of the vows to which people usually take exception43 his objection is valid;44 respect of vows to which people do not as a rule take exception his objection has no validity. It was stated: If a man betrothed a woman on condition [that she was under no vow] and married her without attaching any conditions, it is necessary, Rab ruled...
... rule, one does not want to live with a wife who is in the habit of making vows is sufficient reason for regarding the betrothal of such a woman as null and void. I.e., the kethubah. As the woman's claim to it is of a doubtful nature, her husband who is the possessor of the money cannot be made to pay it. That a divorce is necessary if she wishes to remarry. It is forbidden to live with another man's...
... dirt a woman submits for examination the first drop she sees. R. Nahman's wife. Lit., 'his colleague'. Hul. 44b. R. Isaac. Out of respect for Rabbah b. Bar Hana (v. infra). Rabbah. Who does not submit the original blood. Which she produces. And if the blood she submits is clean she may be declared clean. Which a friend of hers showed her. May her judgment, it is asked, on the exact similarity of the...
...; the Lord God formed every beast … and every fowl (Gen. II, 19). Then the Lord God formed man (ibid. 7). Which may be classed as a kind of fish. This is now assumed to be analogous to an expression of 'forming'. Gen. I, 21. The answer being presumably in the affirmative, how could our Mishnah rule that IF AN ABORTION WAS IN THE SHAPE OF FISHES … SHE IS CLEAN? And &hellip...
... he rule that the abortion of a sac constitutes a valid birth,40 because] in a case of doubt in monetary matters a lenient course41 is followed.42 On the question of the firstling of cattle, however, which involves a ritual prohibition of shearing43 and of work44 [he ruled the abortion of a sac to be an invalid birth,45 because] in case of doubt in a ritual...
... law relaxed for a woman in the latter case?42 In that of the uncleanness of zibah only, while she is still subject to the uncleanness of the menstruant. They said to him, We would submit to you an objection in a different form: If in the case where the law was restricted in regard to blood discharged in the absence of pain before the child was born,39 it was nevertheless relaxed in...
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