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... dressed as Adolf Hitler visited a psychiatrist. "You can see I have no problems," he said. "I have the greatest army in the world, all the money I will ever need and every conceivable luxury you can imagine." "Then what seems to be your problem?" asked the doctor. "It's my wife," said the man. "She thinks she's Mrs. Weaver." Don't laugh at the poor man...
... are interested in something bad, something sensational. So they are in search of sensation. And you can find enough sensational things here, more than you can find anywhere else. You need not invent them - we provide them! Father Murphy was a priest in a very poor parish. He asked for suggestions how he could raise money for his church, and was told that horse-owners always had money. He went to a...
... to Delhi, from Delhi to London. He had the biggest cases on his hands - of maharajas, kings, queens - but he was a drunkard. He earned enough money; and when he retired, he donated the whole of the money so that a university could be founded. So he was the founder vice-chancellor of the university that he created. I used to go for a morning walk, and he was the only one whom I used to meet on my...
... don't have maps of the earth on which they live. I was visiting Agra. Agra has the most beautiful piece of architecture, the Taj Mahal. In Agra and the surrounding area there is a Hindu sect, Radhaswami. When their founder died, they decided to make something better than the Taj Mahal, because it was going to be in the same city, Agra. They have poured in enough money and for almost a hundred years...
... Company in New York. Ties of race and interest bound these men together. The web of their communications quivered at the slightest touch. They maintained between them an incredibly accurate network of economic, political and financial intelligence at the highest level. They could withdraw support here, provide additional funds there, move immense sums of money with lightning rapidity and secrecy from...
... one corner to another of their financial empires, and influence the political decisions of a score of countries". This was the "Jewish international" "Ties of race and interest ... web ... network ... intelligence at the highest level... move immense sums of money ... influence political decisions ...": there can be no reasonable doubt that this was the "Jewish...
... inserted in her kethubah as a special security for the sum of that kethubah, apart from the general security on all his estate, or (b) her husband assigned to her after their wedding as special security for her kethubah, or (c) she had brought to her husband as marriage dowry and for the money value of which he had made himself responsible to her (v. B.B. 49b ff). Cit. 55b, B.B. loc. cit. The ruling that...
... purchase money and the women lose portions of their kethubah. The husband and the donees are only claiming a gift. That all the estate is confirmed in the possession of the buyer. Cf. supra p. 606, n. 7 and 9. The donor. Cf. supra p. 606, n. 7. Cf. supra p. 607, n. 4. Lit., 'what did he (mean) to say?' Cf. supra 607. n. 7. In explanation of our Mishnah. Lit., 'and so'. The total value of whose purchases...
... so and so, for I took them from him [by way of tax] and have had no need for them. R. SIMEON SAID, AT FIRST … GATHERERS OF THE PRODUCE OF THE SABBATICAL YEAR. What does he mean? — Rab Judah said: This; at first they [the Rabbis] ruled that gatherers of the Sabbatical produce3 are eligible, but traders in it are not. But when they saw that large numbers offered money to the poor,4 who...
... case of Terumah, a hundred fold is necessary. Cf. Ter. IV, 7. I.e., no one may make use of it. Tosef. Ter. VI. Which is lower than that of ordinary produce, owing to the small demand for it, as only priests may consume it. Which in any case belonged to the priest. Sabbatical produce may be sold on condition that both the produce itself, and the money paid for it, be consumed before the 'time of...
... hands,13 as it is written, And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound [two talents of silver in two bags…] And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. And he said unto him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive...
... access to him at all. This was said after Gehazi left Elisha; v. 27. In the uncensored editions there follows here, 'and not like R. Joshua b. Perahjah, who repulsed Jesus (the Nazarene) with both hands. Gehazi, as it etc.' II Kings V, 23-26. [Name of the Chapter in Mishnah Shabbath XIV, 1. Cf. Lev. XI, 29.] That is the meaning of 'Is it a time to receive money, and… garments, and oliveyards etc...
... bererah so that the one partner would thus be entering his own and the other partner would similarly be entering his own, whereas the Rabbis maintained that there is no bererah. R. Eleazar said: If a man sells a pit to another, as soon as he hands over the cover of the pit to him, the conveyance is complete. What are the circumstances? If money was paid, why was the conveyance not completed by the money...
... god is possible when you are turned on totally, aflame... your whole being in a dance. So the first quality for a sannyasin is to attain to a state of 'turn-on' and the second quality is to get off your ego trips. Otherwise somebody can be turned on, but for wrong reasons. A politician can be very turned on for his ego trip. A money maniac can be very turned on and can always be rushing joyously...
... around for more and more money. An adolf hitler is turned on - a power maniac. So, unless the ego is dropped and the ego trips are dropped, just turning on does not help. So the second principle is: get off your trips, and then to be is very simple. One thing is to be joyous, another thing, not to be involved in ego trips... and the sannyasin is born. 'Asti' means to be, and all meditations lead to...
..., in friends' houses. Each painting is worth a million dollars, and Van Gogh lived hungry because he could not sell them. His brother used to give him enough money for seven days. Four days he was eating, and three days he was fasting - to purchase materials for paintings. This fast I call religion - not the fasts of Jaina monks, those are stupid fasts. This man was pouring his blood on the canvas...
... AWARENESS? WHY IS IT LOST, AND HOW CAN IT BE REGAINED? ARE THERE ANY STEPS FOR THE SAME? Awareness is never lost. It simply becomes entangled with the other, with objects. So the first thing to be remembered: it is never lost, it is your nature, but you can focus it on anything you want. When you get tired of focusing it on money, on power, on prestige, and that great moment comes in your life when you...
... for one month, and you have not paid me and I cured your child of smallpox!" Nasruddin said, "Listen. I have been patient enough; otherwise, the reality is that you owe much money to me." The doctor said, "What? I owe money to you?" Nasruddin said, "Yes. Who do you think spread the disease to the whole school? My child! And from all that you have earned during this...
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