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... something lower than themselves, something smaller than themselves. You can control the smaller, you can dominate the smaller, and you can feel very good with the inferior because you look superior - then the ego is fulfilled. And once you start creating ego out of your love, then you are bound for hell. Love something higher, something bigger, something in which you will be lost and which you cannot...
... control; you can only be possessed by it but you cannot possess it. Then the ego disappears, and when love is without the ego, it is prayer. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...
... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 6 Previous Folio / Baba Bathra Contents / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 6a or is the rule that where there is such a presumption we do not advance this plea? — Come and hear: EACH IS PRESUMED TO HAVE GIVEN HIS SHARE UNTIL THE OTHER BRINGS PROOF THAT HE HAS NOT GIVEN. How are we to...
... public thoroughfare, the owner of the one should make a parapet for half his roof, and the other a parapet for half his roof, in such a way that the parapets do not face one another,9 though each should extend [his parapet a little beyond the middle].10 Why [does Abaye] state [this rule in connection with] a public thoroughfare, [seeing that] it could apply equally to private ground? It was...
... that the parapets do not face one another, though each should extend [his parapet a little beyond the middle].' Surely this rule is obvious? — We require it for the case where one of the owners builds a parapet first [without consulting the other]. You might think that in that case the other is' entitled to say to him: Complete the parapet and I will reimburse you.12 We, are therefore...
..., it might have been thought, because they command greater mercy,2 but with an individual, whose merits are not so numerous, it is not so; hence both are necessary. This accords with the following saying of R. Samuel b. Nahmani, who said in the name of R. Jonathan: What is the meaning of the verse The saying of David the son of Jesse, and the saying of the man raised on high.3 [It means...
... therefore that the effect of Israel's acceptance of the Torah would be that no nation or tongue could prevail against them, as it is said, that it might be well with them and their children after them'?24 He [Resh Lakish] may be of the same opinion as the following Tanna, for it is taught: R. Jose said, The Israelites accepted the Torah only so that the Angel of Death should have no dominion over...
... is said, Give me children, or else I die.32 Our Rabbis taught: In the verse, If ye walk in my statutes,33 the word if is used in the sense of an appeal, similar to the verse, O that my people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in my ways . . . I should soon subdue their enemies;34 or in the verse, O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments: Then had thy peace been...
... the guy, opens his huge jaws, and - snap - swallows the poor musician in one bite. The other animals are furious. "Look here, you idiot," roars the lion. "We were enjoying that!" The crocodile looks at him blankly, puts a hand to his ear and says, "What?!" At the Russian Intercontinental Nuclear Missile Control Center, a drunken soldier is dusting the missile control...
... panel. Suddenly an enraged Russian general comes puffing and panting into the room. "What are you doing, you son-of-a-bitch?" he shouts. "I am dusting the control panel," hiccups the soldier drunkenly. "Okay," snaps the general, "then where the hell has England gone?" Henri, the gallant Frenchman, has a new girlfriend called Sylvie, and he is crazy about her...
... footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files And that obviously applies to both cases equally: how then could it be argued that if the second clause alone were taught, I might think that he agrees with the Rabbis in the first? I.e., having first taught the instance of money, he proceeds to state, Not only do the Rabbis rule thus where it involves no loss, but even in a dispute about utensils...
... deduce that a relative is authorised to enter upon a captive's estate; whilst from the Rabbis we may infer that a relative is not permitted to enter upon a captive's estate.11 How so? Perhaps R. Simeon b. Gamaliel ruled thus only in this case, since the stock itself is consumed, but there he too may hold that we do not authorise possession.12 Whilst [on the other hand] the Rabbis rule thus...
... general rule, whilst R. Abba son of R. Jacob disputed it. If a man is taken captive, leaving his estate untended, it is disputed below whether a relative, sc. his next of kin, may take temporary possession of it, so as to save it from loss. Now, since R. Simeon b. Gamaliel holds that produce may be sold by the bailee to save it from loss, by the same reasoning the next of kin is permitted to enter a...
... KIND OF FOOD ANOTHER IS TAKEN AS SUBSIDIARY, A BENEDICTION IS SAID OVER THE PRINCIPAL KIND AND THIS SERVES FOR THE SUBSIDIARY. GEMARA. But is it ever possible for salted food to be the principal item and bread subsidiary to it? — R. Aha the son of R. 'Awira replied, citing R. Ashi: This rule applies to [one who eats] the fruit of Genessareth.1 Rabbah b. Bar Hannah said: When we went after...
... highly prized. Tosaf. explains that the rule applies to salted food taken after the fruit of Genessareth to correct the excessive sweetness. They made his skin so smooth that it could not obtain a footing. Lit., 'searchers', 'officials'. Of the Hasmonean House. Probably some district in Judea was known by this name. So many workers were required for the task. Supposed to be the Biblical Ophni, modern...
... and a [boiled] egg is better than the same quantity of any other kind of boiled food except meat. R. AKIBA SAYS: EVEN IF ONE ATE BOILED VEGETABLES etc. Is there any kind of boiled vegetable of which one can make a meal? — R. Ashi replied: The rule applies to the stalk of cabbage. Our Rabbis taught: Milt is good for the teeth but bad for the bowels; horse-beans are bad for the teeth but...
... that it is stated: '[A] witness1 shall not rise up against a man', do I not know that one is intended? Why is there a teaching to declare 'one witness'?2 This establishes the rule that wherever it is stated 'witness', it signifies two unless the text specifies 'one'; and [in the case under discussion] the All-Merciful declares that when there are not two witnesses against her but only one...
... her husband]? — [The verse: One witness etc.] is necessary, because otherwise it might have occurred to me to suppose that 'there be no witness against her' means, he is not believed against her. He is not believed against her! What, then, [does the text] want unless there are two witnesses?7 Let the Scriptural text be silent on the point [and not mention it at all], since the rule could...
... unseemly matter (dabar) in her (Deut. XXIV, 1), and in connection with civil actions At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter (dabar) be established (ibid. XIX, 15). By the rule of Gezerah Shawah, analogy of expression, the principle of the latter with regard to the number of witnesses required is also applied to the former. Therefore it is maintained that...
... principle) indicates that those who killed the king did not do so of their own will, but in obedience to superior command. Whoever wrote this inscription was a man well versed in the secrets of the ancient Jewish cabbalism, as contained in the Cabbala and the Talmud. In accomplishing the deed in obedience to superior order, this man performed a rite of Black Magic. It is for this reason that he...
... commemorated his act by a cabbalistic inscription in cipher, which belonged to the rite. The inscription therefore proves: That the Tsar was killed. That the murder of the Tsar was committed by men under the command of occult forces; and by an organiza tion which, in its struggle against existing power resorted to the ancient cabbalism in which it was well versed. · Previous · Contents · Next · http...
...? — But he admits that he snatched the article, and since he admits that, he is, as far as this case goes, a robber.2 Said R. Abba to him: He is [in the position of a man who is] legally under obligation to take an oath and is yet unable to take it; and the rule is that whoever is under obligation to take an oath which he cannot take must pay.3 Abaye, however, said to the Rabbis: Are...
... interval. Because we are afraid he will not find witnesses and we shall not know to whom to restore the boat, and therefore it is best to leave it alone. It is not clear from the text whether this is a hypothetical case, or whether the Beth din really did attach the boat, perhaps on the request of both parties. Lit., 'to prevail' — whether by argument or by force. Because once property has come...
... occult world, I do believe that there are demons, that they are real, and that they have a spiritual hierarchy that the cult hierarchy attempts to emulate on a physical plane. There are principalities, and lower demons, and they control the portals into other spiritual dimensions that humans have NO BUSINESS entering. This stuff is destructive in the extreme to people. The shape shifting was usually in...
... dream I had 2 years ago. I was standing in a large room, circular shaped, with tiers of rows. A large emblem of the world with a wreath above it was on the wall, and robed figures surrounded me. I was before the Supreme World Council (who will rule when the NWO comes in), and they were pointing at me and saying I was a traitor and would have to die. The sense of darkness and oppression in the room was...
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