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... that44 he is believed.45 THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE etc. What is the expression THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE intended to include? — To include Sabbath boundaries46 and wine of libation.47 To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files In not burying their miscarriages (v. our Mishnah.). Sc. his ancestral grave-yard (Sifri). Deut. XIX, 14. Sc. a normal child. A...
... overshadowed by a particular branch or branches and that the others did not overshadow it. Cf. prev. n. mut. mut. Who desires to remain clean while making his way through a beth peras. Since no flesh of the corpse need be expected, while the bones which the plough crushed (v. infra) to fractions convey uncleanness (if they are no smaller than a barley-grain) only by means of touch or carriage. A grave area...
... which he himself does not believe. Hence the ruling of our Mishnah. That the Samaritan walked throughout the suspected area. A rule that is self evident. As a grave was known to have been in the field and the Samaritan nevertheless walked through all its area, it must be obvious that he knew that the corpse had been removed. From the field; and that he assumed the grave to be located within that strip...
... Difti replied: Samuel agrees that46 she is unclean - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Lit., 'flesh'. Since it may be attributed to menstruation. The following illustrates the previous general rule. The reason follows infra in the Gemara. Lit., 'and on the sides from here and from here'. The place of the stain. Sc. even if it is on a part which when...
... the interior of her womb whence it gathered up some menstrual blood. Infra 59b, supra 14a, the blood being attributed to a wound in the bladder. In which R. Meir's rule applies. An objection against Samuel. As to the reason why she remains clean. Lit., source'. A position which does not block the passage. The blood mark. Because it cannot be the result of the test which would produce an elongated...
... procedure is employed. Some say that Raba really agrees with Abaye; yet why does he rule [that the incompetence is] prospective? — Because of the purchaser's loss.5 Wherein do they [the two views on Raba's ruling] differ? — A difference arises where two have testified against one,6 or where he was disqualified on the grounds of robbery.7 And R. Jeremiah of Difti related that R...
... to designate one who transgresses a Biblical command in general. [H] carrion, an animal that died a natural death or which was not slaughtered according to ritual law. I.e., his greed for money, because it is cheaper. Because he is classed with the wicked, who commit their misdeeds for gain. I.e., to defy, and show his contempt for, the law. Cf. Ex. XXIII, 1. [H], 'violence', 'plunder'. Cf. Ex...
... ritual law by eating Nebelah. In accordance with the preceding argument (cf. n. 3). Abaye, however, rules as does R. Meir. Cf. 'Er. 46b. This is a general rule. It is a general principle that if an individual view is stated anonymously, as though it were a general opinion, the halachah rests with it. Exilarch. [Read with Ms.M., R. Aha b. Jacob, v. D.S. a.l.] Perhaps, 'blind him,' 'put out his eyes...
.... Jose is at variance with R. Meir, the halachah rests with R. Jose; and R. Jose ruled: One [a witness] who was proved a Zomem in a civil suit is competent [to testify] in capital charges. Said R. Papi: That [the rule] is only where the Tanna has not stated R. Meir's view anonymously. Here, however, he has. Whence do we infer this?3 Shall we say, from what we learnt? 'Whoever is competent to try...
... through [some defect of] family descent.7 Similarly, here too [the first clause of the Mishnah] it must refer to this type of disqualification!8 — But this is where the Tanna stated it anonymously, for we learnt:9 These are ineligible [to be witnesses or judges]: a gambler with dice, usurers, pigeon trainers, traders in Sabbatical produce, and slaves. This is the general rule...
... RANKS AS A KINSMAN. FURTHER, A FRIEND OR AN ENEMY [IS INELIGIBLE]. BY 'FRIEND' ONE'S GROOMSMAN23 IS MEANT; BY 'ENEMY', ANY MAN WHO, BY REASON OF ENMITY, HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ONE FOR THREE DAYS, IS UNDERSTOOD.TO THIS THE RABBIS REPLIED: ISRAELITES, AS A RULE, ARE NOT TO BE SUSPECTED ON SUCH GROUNDS.24 GEMARA. Whence is this law derived? — From what our Rabbis taught: The fathers shall not be...
... replied: 'He shall be unclean for seven days'18 makes a break in the context, so that this is a case of a generalization and a specification that are distant from one another and whenever a generalization and a specification are distant from one another the rule of generalization and specification does not apply. Raba replied: The rule27 in fact does apply, but the expression of 'and every...
...; Another explanation: She includes the day on which her discharge ceases39 in the number of the seven days.40 Rami b. Hama demurred: Why indeed should she not count it,41 and why should not we also count it,41 seeing that we have an established rule that part of a day is regarded as the whole of it? — Raba retorted: If so,42 how could it be possible for an emission of...
... about her it is written, that one who touches her bed must wash his garments. That of the couch of the menstruant which imparts uncleanness to a person as well as to the clothes he wears. Who touches it. That came in direct contact with it. Lev. XV, 10. Since the washing of garments was not mentioned in that part of the verse. Of the same general rule. Lit., 'yes'. Of generalization followed by a...
... specification. Of the general rule. The rule of generalization and specification does not, therefore, apply here. Who cohabits with a menstruant. Since the man and the woman were compared. Sc. that both the person and his clothes are unclean. Viz., that neither his person nor his clothes contract uncleanness. Var. lec. Scripture said. I.e., in his case too the stricter course must be adopted. Sc. married and...
... in no way interrupted. So that no part of the day remained, Lit., 'and let him arise and say to him to'. In view of the accepted rule that part of a day counts as the whole of it. Who had intercourse during her zibah. While she was counting her clean days after her zibah had terminated. Of the one day on which the ejection occurred. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Niddah 33b or is she...
... visit a month.12 WHERE A MAN WHO WAS MARRIED etc. Let him contract levirate marriage with both! — R. Hiyya b. Abba replied in the name of R. Johanan: Scripture stated, That doth not build up his brother's house,13 he builds one house14 but does not build two houses. Then let him submit to halizah from both of them! — Mar Zutra b. Tobia replied: Scripture stated, The house of...
... him who had his shoe drawn off,15 he submits to the drawing off of the shoe in respect of one house but must not submit to the drawing off of the shoe in respect of two houses. Then let him submit to halizah16 from one and contract levirate marriage with the other! — Scripture stated, That doth not build,17 as he has not built18 he must never again build. Then let him...
... contract levirate marriage with one and submit to halizah from the other! — Scripture states, If he like not,19 if, however, he liked, he may contract levirate marriage; whosoever may go up20 to contract levirate marriage, may also go up to perform halizah and whosoever may not go up17 to contract levirate marriage21 may not go up to perform halizah. Furthermore, in order...
... that it be not said that the same house22 is partially 'built' and partially 'drawn off'. But let them say! — If he had first contracted levirate marriage and then submitted to halizah this would have been so indeed;23 it is possible, however, that he may submit to halizah and subsequently contract levirate marriage and thus place himself under the prohibition of that doth not build...
... evenings, is the time when scholars in moderate health should pay their marital visits (Keth 62b). More than four wives would reduce each one's visits to less than one per month. Deut. XXV, 9: emphasis on 'house' (sing.). I.e., marries one widow. E.V., loosed, ibid. 10, emphasis on 'house'. For this insertion v. BaH a.l. Ibid. 9, emphasis on 'not build'. I.e., did not contract levirate marriage. Ibid. 7...
... TRACES, NEVER STOPPING. HOW CAN I CONTROL THESE THOUGHTS?" BANKEI REPLIED, "WIPING OUT ARISING THOUGHTS IS LIKE WASHING BLOOD WITH BLOOD; THOUGH THE FIRST BLOOD MAY BE REMOVED, THE WASHING BLOOD STILL STAINS; NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WASH, THE STAIN IS NOT REMOVED. "THIS NO-MIND IS ORIGINALLY UNBORN AND UNDYING AND WITHOUT ILLUSION. NOT REALIZING THIS, THINKING THAT THOUGHTS ARE EXISTENT...
... after him. It is just a Christian obsession to make Jesus Christ the line that divides the past from the present-day society. And it is also due to the fact that the East has never written history. It has never been interested in historical facts for the simple reason that if everything is illusory, changing, what does it matter who comes to rule? What does it matter what happens in the outside world...
.... His contribution to history is nothing. But Gautam Buddha's contribution to human consciousness is immense, immeasurable. Bertrand Russell was a very impartial man. But still, childhood prejudices dominate you even in your eighties, nineties. He had long before denied his Christianity. He had written a book, WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN, and before the Christian religion expelled him, he had expelled...
... life even more terrible in comparison." If a blind man for one second sees the light and becomes blind again, now his blindness will be intolerable. Now he knows there is light, and he is unable to see it because he has gone blind again. A meditator has to remember not to struggle with the thoughts. If you want to win, don't fight. That is a simple rule of thumb. If you want to win, simply don't...
... KEEP COMING UP FROM THE TRACES, NEVER STOPPING. HOW CAN I CONTROL THESE THOUGHTS?" It seems that Bankei has authentic disciples interested in meditation, because all their questions are the eternal questions of meditators. The questioner is saying, "WHEN I WIPE OUT ARISING THOUGHTS, THEY KEEP COMING UP FROM THE TRACES, NEVER STOPPING. HOW CAN I CONTROL THESE THOUGHTS?" The very idea of...
... control is of fight. The very idea of control makes you involved. You don't have to stop them, you don't have to wipe them out. They will come back! You don't have to control them, because the very effort of controlling them will keep you engaged in the process of controlling... and a strange fact to be remembered is that the master is as much a slave to his own slave as the slave is a slave to the...
... master. If you manage to control your thoughts, you are stuck with control. You cannot leave that place, you cannot go away for a holiday. You are controlling your thoughts and your thoughts are controlling you. You cannot move into meditation by controlling. You can move into meditation only by being indifferent, just a watcher. Whether it comes or not makes no difference; just let the thoughts flow...
... become humble. Sex is the only energy that gives you hints that there is something which you cannot control. Money you can control, politics you can control, the market you can control, knowledge you can control, science you can control, morality you can control. Somewhere, sex brings in a totally different world: you cannot control it. And the ego is the great controller. It is happy if it can control...
...; it is unhappy if it cannot control. So there starts a conflict between ego and sex. Remember, it is a losing battle. The ego cannot win it because ego is just superficial. Sex is very deep-rooted. Sex is your life; ego is just your mind, your head. Sex has roots all over you; ego has roots only in your ideas -- very superficial, just in the head. So who is trying to transcend sex? -- the head is...
... -- because the person is afraid that the other is poking his nose and may find the real cause. But the real cause will explode; you cannot hide it, it is not possible. So you can try to control sex, but an undercurrent of sexuality will run and it will show itself in many ways. Out of all your rationalizations, it will again and again raise its head. I will not suggest that you make any effort to transcend...
... fact: a young man can repress sexuality very easily because he has energy to repress it. He can just put it down and sit upon it. When the energies are going, declining, then sex will assert itself and you will not be able to control it. I have heard an anecdote: Stein, aged sixty-five, visited the office of his son, Dr. Stein, and asked for something that would increase his sexual potential. The M.D...
... needs space, it needs absolute space. The other has not to interfere with it. It is very delicate. When you are dependent, the other will certainly dominate you, and you will try to dominate the other. That's the fight that goes on between so-called lovers; they are intimate enemies - continuously fighting. Husbands and wives - what are they doing? Loving is very rare; fighting is the rule, loving is...
... it: they become more individual. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. How can you dominate the person you love? Just think over it. Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity. How can you think of dominating a person you love? You would love to see the person totally free, independent; you will give...
... manipulate, you dominate. But the other is reduced, the other is almost destroyed. And exactly the same is being done by the other. He is trying to manipulate you, to dominate you, to possess you, to use you. To use another human being is very unloving. So it only appears like love; it is a false coin. But this is what happens to almost ninety-nine per cent of people because the first lesson of love that...
... an exception. And in every way they try to dominate - even through love they try to dominate. If the husband asks the wife, the wife denies - she is reluctant. She is very miserly: she gives, but very reluctantly; she wants you to wave your tail around her. And so is the case with the husband. When the wife is in need and asks him, the husband says that he is tired. In the office there was too much...
... it. Hate is not a right relationship with anything. Hate simply shows that you are afraid. Hate simply shows that there is great fear in you. Hate simply shows that deep down you are still attracted. If you hate sex, then your energy will start moving somewhere else. Energy has to move. Man, if he suppresses sex, becomes more ambitious. If you really want to be ambitious you have to suppress sex...
.... Then only can ambition have energy, otherwise you will not have any energy. A politician has to suppress sex, then only can he rush towards New Delhi. Sex energy is needed. Whenever you are suppressing sex, you are angry at the whole world you can become a great revolutionary. All revolutionaries are bound to be sexually repressed. When, in a better world, sex will be simple, natural, accepted...
... think about internal things also. For example, the body has many instincts. You think about your instincts also. Not only do you think, you fight against your instincts, so there is a constant internal fight. There is sex: the mind fights it, or tries to mold it in its own way. It suppresses it, perverts it, tries to control it. The mind is fighting inside also. That fight creates a division between...
... much frustration in life. You can never succeed - you are trying the impossible. The fragment cannot be the sovereign. The whole is bigger and the whole is more powerful. It is just as if a branch of a tree tries to control the whole tree, even the roots. How can a branch control the whole tree, and how can it force the roots to follow it? That is impossible. Whatsoever it thinks, it is mad; the...
... branch has gone mad. It may go on thinking and dreaming, conceiving of some future where the tree will be following it, but it is not possible; it will have to follow the tree. It is alive only because of the tree and the roots. And the roots were there before it was. The roots are the source of it also. Your mind is just a fragment of your body; it cannot control it. The very effort to control the...
... for man and woman. A deep orgasm means you have been in something which was greater than you. You have been in something where you were not, the ego was not. The ego is struggling to control everything, and mind helps you. In the effort you become identified with the mind, and this identification is the misery, it is a false shadow. Mind is a very utilitarian instrument. You have to use it, but do...
..., then thoughts, then systems, religions, philosophies. Then one goes farther and farther away from the center of feeling. This sutra says, come back, come down - down to the state of feeling. Feeling is not your mind: that is why you are afraid of feeling. You are not afraid of reasoning. You are always afraid of feeling because feeling can lead you into chaos. You will not be able to control. With...
... reason, the control is with you; with the head, you are the head. Below the head you lose the head, you cannot control, you cannot manipulate. Feelings are just below the mind - a link between you and the mind. Then Shiva says, THEN, LEAVING THEM ASIDE, BE FREE. Then leave the feelings. And remember, only when you come to the deepest layer of feelings can you leave them. You cannot leave them just now...
... it again? What was happening inside? Why would he not keep his promise? Once you know silence for such a long time, you cannot fall back to sounds again; it becomes impossible. There is a rule, and he didn't follow the rule so he could not come back. There is a rule that one should not remain silent for more than three years. Once you cross the limit, you cannot come back to the world of sounds...
..., [OF SUCH LOW ORDERS OF GRAVITY] AS THOSE OF THE PIT OF WHICH IT IS NOT THE HABIT TO MOVE ABOUT AND DO DAMAGE.6 THE FEATURE COMMON TO THEM ALL IS THAT THEY ARE IN THE HABIT OF DOING DAMAGE; AND THAT THEY HAVE TO BE UNDER YOUR CONTROL SO THAT WHENEVER ANY ONE [OF THEM] DOES DAMAGE THE OFFENDER IS LIABLE TO INDEMNIFY WITH THE BEST OF HIS ESTATE.7 GEMARA. Seeing that PRINCIPAL CATEGORIES are...
... denotes 'goring'. Why the differentiation between injury to man, regarding which it is written If it will gore,18 and injury to animal regarding which it is written if it will collide?19 — Man who possesses foresight is, as a rule, injured [only] by means of [wilful] 'goring',20 but an animal, lacking foresight, is injured by mere 'collision'. A [new] point is incidentally made...
...? — No; the damage of foot occurs frequently while the damage of these does not occur frequently. But what then are the derivatives which, R. Papa says, are not on a par with their Principals? He can hardly be said to refer to these, since what differentiation is possible? For just as Horn does its damage with intent and, being your property, is under your control, so also these [derivatives] do...
... damage with intent and, being your property, are under your control! The derivatives of Horn are therefore equal to Horn, and R. Papa's statement refers to Tooth and Foot. 'Tooth' and 'Foot'- where in Scripture are they set down? — It is taught: And he shall send forth22 denotes Foot, as it is [elsewhere] expressed, That send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.23 And it shall...
...; REMAINS CLEAN, SINCE IT IS USUAL FOR UNCLEAN PERSONS TO KEEP AWAY FROM IT.49 BUT THE SAGES RULE THAT IT50 IS DEEMED UNCLEAN.51 IF HIS HANDS WERE CLEAN AND HE HAD GIVEN UP THE THOUGHT OF EATING TERUMAH, EVEN52 THOUGH HE SAYS, 'I KNEW THAT MY HANDS HAVE CONTRACTED NO UNCLEANNESS', HIS HANDS ARE DEEMED UNCLEAN, SINCE THE HANDS ARE ALWAYS BUSY.53 MISHNAH 9. IF A WOMAN WHO ENTERED HER...
... HOUSE TO BRING OUT SOME BREAD FOR A POOR MAN AND, WHEN SHE CAME OUT, FOUND HIM STANDING AT THE SIDE OF LOAVES OF TERUMAH, AND SIMILARLY IF A WOMAN WHO WENT OUT FOUND HER NEIGHBOUR RAKING OUT COALS UNDER A COOKING POT OF TERUMAH, R. AKIBA RULES THAT THEY54 ARE UNCLEAN, BUT THE SAGES RULE THAT THEY ARE CLEAN. SAID R. ELIEZER B. PILA:55 IS BUT WHY DOES R. AKIBA RULE THAT THEY ARE UNCLEAN AND...
... THE SAGES RULE THAT THEY ARE CLEAN? ONLY FOR THIS REASON: THAT WOMEN ARE GLUTTONOUS AND EACH MAY BE SUSPECTED OF UNCOVERING HER NEIGHBOUR'S COOKING POT TO GET TO KNOW WHAT SHE IS COOKING.56 - Next folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Who was a haber (v. Glos). In a public domain, and thereby caused obstruction on the road. Thus losing sight of his wares which, in...
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