... worldly search was. The worldly man sought money, power, prestige, and the otherworldly man was seeking God, heaven, eternity, truth. But one thing was common: both were looking outside themselves, both were extroverts. Remember this word, because this is going to help you understand Buddha. Before Buddha, the religious search was not concerned with the within but with the without; it was extrovert, and...

... money, power, prestige, God, paradise, nirvana...." It is desiring, always desiring, projecting yourself into the future, that is creating your wheel of life and death. And you are crushed between these two rocks: life and death. You have to be free from life and death. That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all...

... desires... remember, I repeat, ALL desires. The so-called religious, spiritual desires are included in it, nothing is excluded. All desires have to be dropped because every desire brings frustration, misery, boredom. If you succeed it brings boredom; if you fail it brings despair. If you are after money there are only two possibilities: either you will fail or you will succeed. If you succeed you will...

... be bored with money. All rich people are bored with money. In fact, that's how a rich person is known to be really rich - if he is bored with his money, if he does not know what to do with it. If he is still hankering for more money he is not yet rich enough. If you succeed, you are bored, because the money is there but there is no fulfillment with it. All those illusions that you had carried for...

... so long - those illusions for which you had suffered so much, struggled so much, staked so much.... Your whole life has gone down the drain because of those dreams that when you have money you will be fulfilled. But when you have it you suddenly see the pointlessness of it: the money is there but you are as poor as ever - - in fact more so, because, in contrast to the money, you can see your...

... the key into the well - because now he would never need this shop, he would never open this shop again. One million rubles is more than enough for ten lives! But within a year that one million rubles was gone. He purchased the biggest cars, beautiful houses, the costliest prostitutes, the best food, the best clothes. He lived like the czar, utterly oblivious of the fact that the money was running...

... the key and he opened his shop again. The whole year had been like a long long nightmare. And he said, "Enough is enough! I will never ask for money again." But just out of old habit he started purchasing one ticket every month again. And after one year the same car stopped... he said, "My God! do I have to go through all that again?" If you have money, you will know the misery...

... of it; if you don't have money, you know the misery of not having it. Either way you suffer. Desire brings suffering - success or no success, desire brings suffering. But you go on desiring in the hope that it may not be so with you. Remember, life allows no exceptions: its rules are universally valid. Whatsoever is true for me is true for you, whatsoever is true for Buddha is true for you. Truth...

... - it is already better! Seeing that you have all that you need, what more can happen tomorrow? At the most you will have a little more money - but if this much money cannot help, a little more is not going to help. You have two cars - you may have four; you have two houses - you may have four: the changes are going to be only quantitative, and quantitative changes are not real changes. The poor...

... the same stupidities! Young people can be forgiven - although Buddha is not ready to forgive them - but they can be forgiven; they don't have much experience of life. But even old people, even on their deathbed, at the moment of death, they are still thinking of stupid things and desires. Somebody is thinking of money, somebody is thinking of sex, somebody is thinking of becoming famous - even on...

...; groaned Foster. "Now I have got to buy me another new rooster!" The rooster opened one eye, winked, and pointed at the nearing buzzards, saying, "Shhh!" Be a little more alert than the rooster! Man is man only when he becomes aware of what he is doing. Otherwise a few are roosters and a few are bulls and a few are horses - in the form of men. A few are money-mad, a few are sex...

... the have- nots. The have-nots have to work just to survive, and the haves go on accumulating mountains of money. It is a very ugly situation - inhuman, primitive, insane. The people who work are poor, hungry, starving; they don't have time for literature, for music, for paintings. They can't even conceive that there are worlds of tremendous beauty, of art. They cannot even imagine that there is...

... hours work a day would have been enough for the whole of humanity to live peacefully and comfortably. But this insane desire to be rich, this insane greed which knows no limits... without any understanding that the more money you have the less is the value of your money. It is a simple law of economics: the law of diminishing returns. You have one house; it is valuable, you have to live in it, you...

... need it. You have two houses, you have three houses, you have hundreds of houses... the value goes on diminishing as the number of houses goes on growing. There is a small class in the world which has absolutely valueless money. For example, the richest man in the world is now a Japanese who has twenty-one billion dollars cash in his banks. What is he going to do with it? Can you eat it? And money...

... attracts more money; just from sheer interest that man will go on becoming more and more rich. Beyond a certain limit money loses all value. But greed is absolutely mad. The whole human society has lived under a kind of insanity. That's why it is so difficult, Kavina, to be in a state of let-go - because it has been always condemned as laziness. It was against the workaholic society. Let-go means you...

... start living in a saner way. You are no longer madly after money, you don't go on working continuously; you work just for your material needs. But there are spiritual needs too! Work is a necessity for material needs. Let-go is necessary for spiritual needs. But the majority of humanity has been completely boycotted from any spiritual growth. Let-go is one of the most beautiful spaces. You simply...

...;Working? But for what?" The engineer said, "You will earn money!" The villager asked, "But what will I do with the money?" The engineer said, "You stupid, you don't know what can be done with the money? When you have money you can relax and enjoy!" The poor villager said, "This is strange, because I am already relaxed and enjoying! This is going in such a...

... roundabout way: working hard, earning money and then enjoying and relaxing. But I am doing it already!" Children come with the intrinsic, intuitive quality of let-go. They are utterly relaxed. That's why all children are beautiful. Have you ever thought about it? All children, without exception, have a tremendous grace, aliveness and beauty. And these children are going to grow, and all their beauty...

... will revive your childhood experience, when you were so relaxed. Have you ever watched? Children go on falling every day, but they don't get hurt, they don't get fractures. You try it; whenever the child falls you also fall. One psychoanalyst was trying some experiment. He announced in the newspapers, "I will pay enough money if somebody is ready to come to my house and just follow my child for...

... to jump; he would climb the tree, and the wrestler had to climb; and he would jump from the tree, and the wrestler had to jump. And this continued. The child completely forgot about food, about anything; he was enjoying so much the misery of the wrestler. By the afternoon the wrestler simply refused. He said to the psychoanalyst, "Keep your money. This child of yours will kill me by the end of...

... newly built bridges, because there are so many people to be bribed before you can get the government permission to build the bridge, that finally the constructor, the builder, has to take money out of the bridge - he has spent so much. You have to bribe almost every person who is concerned. Naturally he does not use cement, but only sand. So the first time the train comes on the bridge... with the...

...; "Who has so much money?" Nathan moaned. "Listen," said the doctor, "just give me fifty dollars and be gone." "I can give you twenty dollars," said Nathan. "Take it or leave it." "I don't understand you," said the specialist. "Why did you come to the most expensive doctor in New York?" "Listen, doctor," explained Nathan...

... is to give. Unless you give yourself you don't give at all. You can give money, but you are not the money. Unless you give yourself, that means unless you give love, you don't know what giving is. "... And what is it to receive?" Almost everybody thinks he knows what it is to receive. But Dhiresha is right in questioning and exposing herself that she does not know what it is to receive...

... people, but I cannot tell somebody to leave. I have to create a device. That car has done more than its cost, but you don't know. But you need not be concerned about these things at all. Gurdjieff used to say, whenever somebody would come he would say, "Give all your money to me." Many people simply left him because of this; because they had come to a spiritual Master and he is after their...

... money. But those who remained, they were transformed. Not that Gurdjieff was interested in their money -- he was interested in breaking their miserliness, because if you are miserly you cannot expand. The whole consciousness of a miser shrinks. Miserliness is a constipation of being: you cannot expand, you cannot share. you cannot flow. Miserliness is a neurosis; everything is blocked. And money is...

... the God. To give you a real God your false God has to be broken. The first thing Gurdjieff will ask will be about money. Even to ask him a question was not so easy as it is for you to ask me. He used to ask one hundred dollars for one question, that means one thousand rupees for one question. And maybe he will say "yes" or "no" -- "Now if you have another question, give one...

... thousand rupees again." When he wrote his first book ALL AND EVERYTHING he would not publish it. Disciples were after him: "Publish it; this is a great work." He said, "Wait." He will allow a person to look into the manuscript and he will take one thousand dollars -- just to look into the manuscript. What was he doing? And he was not at all interested in money: with one hand he...

... will take, with another hand he will give. He died a poor man; and he must have accumulated millions of dollars if he was interested in money, but he had nothing -- when he died not even a single dollar was found. Where did the money disappear to? He was taking from somebody, giving it to somebody else.... He was just an in-between passage for money to flow. People will leave him immediately the...

... moment they will see that he is asking for the money. And he was not like me: he will ask for the whole money -- "Whatsoever you have, you give. Surrender." But those who surrendered, they were blessed; they totally were transformed. That became the beginning. That was the breaking point from where everything became different. For a person who was too attached to money, it was a great thing...

... understand what was happening. Then just fifteen days afterwards another woman came, a very rich woman, and Gurdjieff asked for whatsoever she had -- all ornaments and money and everything -- to be put in a bag and given to him; only then he starts the work. The woman was afraid. She said, "I will think and tomorrow I will reply." Then she heard about this musician woman. She went to her and...

... and waited but it was never returned. You cannot understand, on the surface, what is happening. The woman who surrendered was not attached to the money; there was no point in taking it. Gurdjieff returned it with more ornaments added. The other woman gave the money as a bargain. She was obsessed with the money; the money cannot be returned. But even the other woman changed, understanding the whole...

..., very rich -- she is afraid about her own money: she is protecting her own miserliness. And she is thinking she is asking very relevant questions. But if she remains here I am going to break the ice. The only point is if she has the courage to be here for a few days. And her miserliness has to be broken, because without it being broken she will never grow. If she is really afraid, she should escape...

... Trading the counterfeit coins Plan of assassination of Mahomet II - "Great Turk" A colossal swindle bankrupting a bank and pocketing the stolen money Salamoncino hiring a killer to eliminate the swindle victim Salamoncino back at work managing his network of banks p. 35] SALAMONCINO DA PIOVE DI SACCO, PREDATORY FINANCIER Salamoncino da Piove had four sons and a daughter. His family, in addition to...

... his appearance as an officially approved money lender at Montagnana in 1475. He was still to be found in that financial center at the beginning of the summer of 1494, when Bernardino da Feltre arrived there to preach. On that occasion, Marcuccio did not hesitate to strut about on the piazza with a defiant air p. 36] where the violent and fiery Friar da Feltre was expected to preach. As a result...

... on the influential protection of the city of Venice, which protection he had inherited, together with the privileges obtained by his father, Salomone da Piove. In April 1480, the Council of Ten declared him a fidelis noster civis [loyal citizen] of Venice, under the terms of a law approved by the Serenissima at the end of 1463 on the protection of Jewish money lenders. We know that his father chose...

... silver coin from Ferrara and selling it in Venice, earning large profits [8]. This fraudulent trade was operated through a front operation, a butcher shop owned by a certain Nicola Fugazzone, "butcher at Venice", at San Cassian, and a Jewish intermediary, Zaccaria di Isacco, who had his provisional residence in Venice, and was responsible to Salamoncino, money lender at Piove di Sacco [9]. The police...

.... In exchange for these services, "because, in so doing, he acts in danger of his life, which cannot be repaid with money", if the mission ended successfully, Salamoncino, following in Mavrogonato’s footsteps, asked Venice for a few privileges, including an annual provision of two thousand florins, the beneficiaries of which are said to have included Salamoncino, Maestro Valco and their...

... implicit and apparently indispensable authorization of the powerful bankers of Piove and Camposampiero. The Swiss Jew was Aronne di Jacob, a Jew from Wil, north of Zurich, a short distance from Schaffhausen, on the Rhine, a village located at the boundary between the Swiss Confederation and Germany. Aronne had decided to move to the strategic Venetian financial center in search of p. 41] money and...

... Volto dei Negri" bank and the bank of San Lorenzo -- since 1472. Exactly who formed of this powerful cartel emerges clearly from the negotiations between the Republic of Venice and the Paduan Jewish bankers in 1486, including Jacob da Piove, Simone da Composampiero, Abramo da Ulm and Isacchetto Finzi [31]. Aronne appears not to have been very successful in the difficult business of lending money at...

... Swiss Jew from Wil, had arrived at Padua as an outsider, bold and without resources, at least in the eyes of Piove and Camposampiero. Salomone da Piove’s p. 42] impatient and fiery sons had their pockets full and were waiting for Aronne to hit bottom. A colossal swindle bankrupting a bank and pocketing the stolen money In 1481, Salamoncino da Piove dreamed up a colossal swindle -- this time to...

... the detriment of other Jews -- to rake in money by the wheelbarrow full. In cahoots with David di Anselmo, known as "David Schwab", he secretly decided to transfer the savings invested by Paduan Jews in the Bank at Soave, to bank at Piove di Sacco, owned by David di Anselmo. These savings amounted to a huge sum, as much as 1,500 ducats in gold, belonging to Paduan Jews, from the lower middle classes...

..., mostly small investors and savers. The victims of the inevitable, deliberate, collapse of the Banco di Soave included rabbis, students, widows and other poor people, among them the unfortunate Aronne da Wil, who had deposited the money collected from the sale of his banks there in 1476. Aronne, acting on behalf of the other victims of the fraud as well, had the Banco di Soave agent -- Jacob di Lazzaro...

... – arrested; this same agent was still in jail at the end of 1485, when he finally succeeded in obtaining his release, after withdrawing part of the money earlier stolen via Salamoncino’s bank and returning it to Aronne [33]. But he was obviously the smallest fish of the lot. "David Schwab" went bankrupt "with his pockets full", in an artful financial crash thought up in league with the...

... negligent bankers of Piove, who had gotten their hands on a notable slice of the money embezzled from the tills of the Banco di Soave. But Schwab was pursued by a religious interdict (cherem), pregnant with consequences, handed down against him by Rabbi Anshel (Asher) Enschkin, who had lost more than a thousand ducats entrusted to him for investment by persons of modest wealth. Enschkin publicly unmasked...

... Schwab, who had declared bankruptcy "notwithstanding the fact that he still had all the money". The religious condemnation handed down by Enschkin, was approved and subscribed by some of the most influential rabbis of Germany [34]. Nor did Aronne da Wil intend to stop attempting to bring an action directly against Salamoncino da Piove and his Paduan accomplices. In the spring of 1481, the two...

... Rinascimento, Florence, 2002, pp. 39, 48. [2] On the activities of Marcuccio at Padova and Piove di Sacco, cfr ibidem, pp. 45-50. [3] Girolamo Campagnola da Padova, in an unpublished oration, written after 1480 in celebration of the martyrdom of Simone da Trento and of Sebastiano Novello at Portobuffolè, recalled Marcuccio’s exasperating arrogance, at that time a money lender at Montagnana: "Quis...

... Salomoninco and their father Salomone da Piove, were denounced for calumny and embezzlement by a law student at the Studio (ASP, Notarile, Luca Talmazzo, 253, cc. 252r-254r). On his long residence in Montagnara, documented since 1475, his activity as an approved money lender and the events linked to the visit of Bernardino da Feltre, see, in particular, V. Meneghin, Bernardino da Feltre e I Monti di Pietà...

... postal service agreement with a porter from Padua, who was to look after his epistolary relationships with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, both of them resident at Wil (Vil), in Switzerland (ASP, Notarile, Giacomo Bono, 216, c. 51r). As early in 1464 (14 June) Aronne was a resident of Padua, in the district of San Cancian, lending money at interest, benefiting from the banking services at Piove...

... di Sacco (ASP, Notarile, Francesco Giusto senior, 1591, c. 384r). [27] Cfr. D. Carpi, The Jews of Padua During the Renaissance (1369-1509), a doctoral thesis written in Jerusalem in 1967, p. 193. For the money lending activity carried on by Aronne at Padua, probably without official approval, in the past years, see ASP, Notarile, Nicolo Brutto, 3117, c. 414r (10 June 1465); Notarile, Giannantonio...

.... Hence the same people who exploit the poor donate to these missions. Mother Teresa's mission is called Missionaries of Charity. From where does all this money come? She feeds seven thousand poor people every day - from where does this money come? Who donates this money? In 1974 the Pope presented her with a Cadillac and immediately she sold the car. The car was purchased at a great price because it...

... was from Mother Teresa, and the money went to the poor. Everybody appreciated it but the question is: from where had the Cadillac car come in the first place? The Pope had not materialized it, he had not done any miracle! It must have come from somebody who had enough money to give a Cadillac - and the Pope has more money than anybody else in the world. From where does that money come? And then a...

... been given to her, and she feels offended by it. She says in her letter, "Reference: the Nobel Prize." This man Nobel was one of the greatest criminals possible in the world. the First World War was fought with his weapons; he was the greatest manufacturer of weapons. He accumulated so much money out of the First World War. Millions of people died; he was the manufacturer of death. He...

... earned so much money that now the Nobel Prize is being distributed only from the interest on Nobel's money. One Nobel Prize now brings twenty lakh rupees with it, and each year dozens of Nobel Prizes are being given. How much money did this man leave? And from where did that money come? You cannot find any money which is more full of blood than the money that one gets from a Nobel Prize. And now this...

... Nobel Prize money has gone to the Missionaries of Charity. It comes from war, it comes from blood, it comes from murder and death! And now it serves a few hundred orphans, feeds seven thousand people - kills millions and feeds seven thousand people, raises a few orphans and makes millions of orphans! This is a strange world! What kind of arithmetic is this? First make millions of orphans and then...

... soul, he does not believe in the beyond, but I say to you he is far more religious than Mother Teresa because he refused that prize, he refused that money, he refused that respectability, for the simple reason that it comes from a wrong source - one thing. Secondly, he said, "I cannot accept any respectability from this insane society. To accept any respectability from this insane society means...

... time he had finished, the other brother would have destroyed another village's windows, doors, then this other brother would arrive. They were doing a lot of work and earning enough money! This is what these people are doing. Be against the pill, be against contraceptives, be against sterilization, be against all birth control techniques, and then naturally there will be abortions, then there will be...

... have done nothing but harm. The whole history is full of blood. Now, the people who have been taking marijuana and things like that, they don't create history, they don't create Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Nadir Shah, Alexander the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler. They don't create those kinds of monsters. Their drug is very innocent in comparison to politics. Somebody may be after money...

...... money becomes almost a drug to him. I used to know a man... I have never seen any man so addicted to money. If he would see a hundred rupee note in your hand, he could not resist touching it. And the way he would touch it, it was as if he was touching his beloved. He would look at it from all sides and he would touch it. And it was not his note, he had to return it. He never gave money back to anybody...

... he borrowed from; he simply could not do it. I will not call it a crime; it was simply impossible for him to part with money. He had enough money. He had seven houses which he had rented and he himself was living in a free house, a dharmashala, a caravanserai where you can stay for three days free. But the city was big and it had many caravanserais, so three days he would stay in this caravanserai...

... and then he would move to another caravanserai. And all his money was deposited in different banks. He was so afraid that some bank may go bankrupt - it is better to keep the money in different places. I used to ask him, "What will you do with it? You don't have any wife." He never married for the simple reason that women are too much interested in spending money. That would be a trouble...

..., and he was afraid that that would create chaos in his peaceful life - it is better to avoid women. He had no children. "For whom are you collecting the money?" He said, "I love money." "But," I said, "money is meaningful only when you use it; you don't use it! Whether you have one million rupees or two million or fifty million... it makes no difference whether you...

... have anything in the bank account or nothing - it is the same. You never take anything out." He said, "You don't understand. It gives such solace to the heart. Just to count money is such a nourishment." Every day in the evening he used to come to see me. Nobody liked him because everybody thought that he was mean, simply mean. But I used to enquire about... I wanted to understand what...

... he died I was present. The doctors knew that I was the only man whom he used to visit every day, so they informed me that he was dying. I enquired in what number ward he was. They said, "You know him, he is in the free ward! He cannot even die in a ward where he has to pay money. He cannot withdraw money from the bank whatever happens. And he is holding all his bank accounts in his hand."...

...; That was his life. When I reached there he was very happy. Putting all his bank accounts on his heart and holding them with both hands, he died. I have seen many people dying, but he died so beautifully. He had millions of rupees and property worth millions and he was dying like a beggar in a free ward. But he was absolutely happy. There are people who can get addicted to money, people who can get...

... a man sold [a plot of land]24  but [on concluding the sale] he was no longer in need of money, may his sale25  be withdrawn26  or not?27  Come and hear: There was a certain man who sold a plot of land to R. Papa because he was in need of money to buy some oxen, and, as eventually he did not need it, R. Papa actually returned the land to him! — [This is no proof since] R...

... land]39  and [on concluding the sale] was no longer in need of money the sale may be withdrawn. MISHNAH. A WIDOW, WHETHER [HER HUSBAND DIED] AFTER [HER] BETROTHAL40  OR AFTER [HER] MARRIAGE41  MAY SELL [OF HER DECEASED HUSBAND'S ESTATE] WITHOUT [THE SANCTION OF] BETH DIN. R. SIMEON RULED: [IF HER HUSBAND DIED] AFTER MARRIAGE41  SHE MAY SELL42  [OF HIS ESTATE] WITHOUT [THE...

... of the estate corresponding to the value of the kethubah must remain unsold. Lit., 'retractor'. Legally. however, she may well distrain on the property of such buyers. If the ruling was in the nature of advice. For the sole reason that he needed money for some specific purpose. Since he no longer needed the money. On the ground of being a sale made in error. Owing to the fact that at the time of...

... the sale the seller was still in need of money. [H] lit., 'within the line of the law', i.e., he surrendered his legal right for the sake of benefiting a fellow man; v. B.K. Sonc. ed. p. 584, n. 2. V. supra p. 222, n. 8. To use the proceeds for the purchase of wheat. And prices fell so that the sellers of the mansions were no longer in need of the money. That carried the grain. At the time the sales...

... were effected. Sheltering until the subsidence of the high water. Had these sellers been aware of the fact that the ship was so near they would never have thought of selling their mansions. Such sales may, therefore, be regarded as sales in error, which may be withdrawn. The question under discussion, however, refers to a seller who was actually in need of money when his sale was effected (v. p. 616...

... of dearth at Nehardea, the detention of the provision ships in the bays is obviously of no common occurrence. Consequently it must be concluded that R. Nahman's reason for the cancellation of the sales was not because 'the ship was in the bays' but because the sellers, though in need of money when the sales were arranged, had no need of the money subsequently, such cases being of frequent...

... Babylonian Talmud: Nazir 28         Previous Folio / Nazir Directory / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Nazir Folio 28a always provided that it is a lump sum and not earmarked money.1  Hence Scripture repeats the expression his offering2  [a third time, to show] that he can discharge his obligation with his own offering, but not with that of...

... his father [even in this instance]. It might be thought, further, [that we can only lay down] that he is unable to discharge an obligation with money set aside by his father, albeit for an offence of equal gravity, but that he could discharge his obligation with an offering he himself has set apart, [even transferring it] from a less serious to a more serious offence, or vice versa. Hence Scripture...

... animal [to make atonement] for [the offence of eating] forbidden fat,4  and [by mistake] sacrifices it for [the offence of eating] blood, or vice versa, he has not been guilty of malappropriation and [consequently] has not procured atonement;5  but [we might think] that he could discharge his obligation with money which he set aside for himself whatever be the degree of gravity of the offence...

..., since [we know that] if he set aside money for himself [to make atonement] for [the offence of eating] forbidden fat, and used it [by mistake] for [the offence of eating] blood, or vice versa, he is guilty of malappropriation and [consequently] does procure atonement,6  and so Scripture says, for his sin7  to show that the offering must be for the particular sin [even in such circumstances...

...].8  Now this passage refers simply to an animal.9  Surely this includes even a blemished one?10  — Not at all. One without blemish is meant. But if a blemished animal is regarded as not earmarked, why go on to speak of money set aside by his father when it could speak of an animal which has a blemish [instead]?11  — That is precisely [what is meant], for the only use...

... [of such an animal for sacrificial purposes] is for the price it will bring, and this price is 'money'. MISHNAH. IF ONE OF THE KINDS OF BLOOD12  HAS BEEN SPRINKLED ON HER BEHALF, [THE HUSBAND] CAN NO LONGER ANNUL [THE VOW].13  R. AKIBA SAYS, IF EVEN ONE OF THE ANIMALS HAS BEEN SLAUGHTERED ON HER BEHALF, HE CAN NO LONGER ANNUL [THE VOW]. THE ABOVE IS TRUE ONLY IF SHE IS POLLING14 ...

... from sacred to profane use, it cannot possibly become his again, and so once he sets aside an animal for the offence of eating forbidden fat, he cannot gain possession of it in order to use it to atone for his offence of eating blood. For malappropriating sacred money renders it his and it can now be used for any purpose he likes; v. note 2. Lev. IV, 18. The phrase used is the same as that from which...

... am just making money", as though they were nothing more than the money making machines? Why do you see all this evil all around? Just look and see. Without judgement, one way or the other. Without condemnation or approval. Just see. Because, that is what will make you free at the end, free of all the zombie programming, done to your mind, morning to night, every single day of your life, since the...

... single hand of so called supreme ruler. In other words, the sickest and most futile model of hell broken loose, and we are beginning to see its final stages. 5. Who could possibly write these protocols? Two people, Rothschild and Asher Ginsberg known by his Hebrew name Ahad Haam. No one else could possibly speak with such authority, confidence and understanding of money and power of Gold and its...

... money. The only one, who could possibly speak with full confidence and all the necessary knowledge of the slavery of money, giving the ultimate power over the world to the biggest and baddest bankers, is Rothschild. There simply exists no one who could possibly speak with such confidence and authority about nothing less than enslaving the entire world via money and gold. Who else could that possibly...

... a government is guided by freedom the people will become weak. We can take advantage of that weakness to overpower them and install a new government. Gold 7. There was a time when religion was the guiding force of mankind. But now, money is more important than religion. Money, especially Gold, is the new guiding force because it gives power and freedom to the common people. But that freedom is bad...

... engaged in civil war it will either destroy itself or be weakened to the point where it can be overtaken by another foreign power. In either case our job will be done as they'll no longer be a threat to us. If that nation ends up in bankruptcy we'll offer to loan them some of our money. They'll have no option but to take it. 9. If anyone claims that the above is immoral, let me ask them this: Suppose a...

... helped us to our victory: it gave us the possibility of getting our hands on the master stroke - the destruction of privileges and power of their royalty. That royal class was the only defense the Goyim had against us. On the ruins of the eternal and heir-based aristocracy of the Goyim we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The entry qualifications to...

... this aristocracy are based on wealth (which is dependent upon us) and on knowledge, which also comes from us, especially from our learned elders who have provided much inspiration. 27. Our victory has been made easier by fact that whenever we sought favors from men in power we always appealed to their most basic of desires. Like cash-money and all kinds of material goodies. Even one human weakness is...

.... Everything will then fall to pieces under the attacks of angry mobs. Poverty is Our Weapon 5. Due to the ever-present threat of poverty, all people have been forced into working endlessly. They have been chained by slavery and serfdom. Well, perhaps they could save enough money to escape from their daily grind. But they would never have enough to afford what they really want. We included some rights for...

... the sake of the people's advantage, and who were inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grubbing scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers. 7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviors of the worker from this oppression. Then we propose...

... placed great value on the importance of money-capital for such a long time. Monopoly Capital 7. Capital, if it is to function without limitations, must be free to establish a monopoly of industry and trade. This is already being put into place by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political strength to those engaged in industry, and that will help us to oppress the...

... speculation, transfer all the money of the world into our hands, and thereby throw all the Goyim into the ranks of the working class. Then the Goyim will bow down before us; if for no other reason but to get the right to exist. 7. To complete the ruin of the industry of the Goyim we shall bring, to the assistance of speculation, the luxury which we have encouraged among the Goyim: that greedy demand for...

... money. 3. For the time being, until we get to the point where there is no longer any risk in entrusting responsible positions in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons who have a criminal past and have shown little regard for the welfare of the people. Persons who, if they disobey our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear. In this way we will make them...

... submissiveness. 5. The people have howled about the necessity of settling the issue of Socialism by way of an international agreement. Their division into political parties has given us control over them, because in order to carry on a contested struggle one must have money, and the money is all in our hands. 6. We might have reason to prevent a union forming between the "clear-sighted" force of the Goy kings...

... extreme poverty. As a result of this, the Goyim will see no other solution than to take refuge in our complete sovereignty, in our money and in all else that we offer. 20. But if we give the nations of the world a breathing space, the moment we long for is hardly ever likely to arrive. Protocol 11 - The Totalitarian State 1. The State Council has been a clear-cut symbol of the authority of the ruler: it...

...; for what would be the sense of getting rid of attacks from newspapers if we remain targets via pamphlets and books? The output of the media is nowadays a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it. We will turn it into a very lucrative source of income to our State by laying a special stamp tax on it and requiring deposits of caution-money before permitting any new media...

... companies from being established. They will then be required to guarantee our government against any kind of attack from their media. For any attempt to attack us (if that's still possible) we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that political groups which have...

... money to spare might still attack us for the sake of publicity regardless of these fines. But these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall lay a finger on the aura of our government infallibility without being punished. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without good reason or at an inappropriate time. I beg you...

..., ends up involved in anarchy, and protests for the sake of protesting... Free Press Destroyed 7. We turn now to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, and on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money. Books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall classify them as pamphlets for two reasons: firstly to reduce the number of magazines, because these are the...

... service in place of what they lose, and secondly, I need to point out that all the money in the world will be concentrated in our hands. So it is not our government which needs to fear the expense. We Shall Be Cruel 18. Our totalitarianism will have all the components of its structure logically arranged and therefore our superiority will be respected and unquestionably fulfilled in each one of its...

... it, I will remind you that I have already spoken about it earlier by way of a hint when I said that the sum total of our actions is settled by financial issues, particularly, the question of large amounts of money. 2. When we come into our kingdom our autocratic government will avoid over-taxing the people. It will do this for reasons of self-preservation because it sensibly remembers that it plays...

... requirements must be paid by those who will not feel the burden and who have enough money that they can afford to have it taken from them. 8. Such a measure will end the hatred of the poor man for the rich. The poor will now see the rich as a necessary financial support for the State and the organizer of peace and well-being, since the poor man will see that it is the rich man who is providing the necessary...

... means to attain these ends. 9. In order that taxpayers from the educated classes don't get too distressed over the new payments they will be provided with full details of where the money is going; with the exception of the money that is required for the needs of our king and the institutions which support the administration of those needs. 10. The king will not have any properties of his own because...

... their livelihood and to obtain the rights to property. The privilege of royal blood must not be used to drain the treasury. 12. Receipt of money from purchases or inheritance will be subject to the payment of a progressive stamp tax. Any transfer of money or other property (which will be strictly registered by names) that is done without evidence of payment of this tax will render the former owner...

... definite sale-price amount, which exceeds the ordinary necessary expenses of buying and selling, and this will be subject to payment of a stamp duty based on a fixed percentage of the property value. 13. Think about how taxes like these will cover the revenue of the Goyim States, many times over. We Cause Depressions 14. The State Treasury will be required to keep a certain amount of money in reserve...

..., and anything that is collected in excess of that amount must be returned into circulation. This will be done by spending that excess on public works projects. This type of spending will bind the working class firmly to the interests of the State and to those who reign. Some money will also be set aside as rewards for inventiveness and productivity. 15. On no account should any more than the required...

... reserve be kept in State Treasuries. Money exists to be circulated, and any kind of stagnation of money works against the best interests of the State machinery. Money is the lubricant of this machinery and a stagnation of the lubricant may stop the regular working of the mechanism. 16. Using currency to purchase interest-bearing paper (bonds), instead of spending it, has produced this kind of stagnation...

... and consideration. His power will not then be split up into fractional parts among the time-consuming political celebrities who surround the throne for its pomp and splendor, and who are only interested in themselves and not in the common interests of the State. 20. Economic crises have been produced by us for the Goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation. Huge sums of...

... capital have stagnated by withdrawing money from States, which were constantly obliged to apply to those same stagnant capitals toward the payment of loans. These loans burdened the finances of the State with the payment of interest and made them the bonded slaves of these capitals... The concentration of money invested in industry in the hands of capitalists, who have taken that money out of the hands...

... of small investors, has drained away all the juices of the peoples and also the States alongside them... 21. The current supply and issuance of money in general does not correspond with the requirements per head, and therefore cannot satisfy all the needs of the workers. The available supply of money ought to correspond with the growth of population and therefore children also must absolutely be...

... counted as consumers of currency from the day of their birth. The subject of money supply is a material question for the whole world. 22. You are aware that the Gold Standard has been the ruin of the states which adopted it, because it has not been able to satisfy the demands for money, especially as we have removed gold from circulation as far as possible. Gentile States Bankrupt 23. For us, the...

... currency-standard which must be introduced is the cost of working-man power, whether it is represented in paper or in wood. We shall issue money in accordance with the normal requirements of each subject, adding to the quantity with every birth and subtracting with every death. 24. The accounts will be managed by each department (such as the French administrative division), and each circle of staff...

... within the departments. 25. In order that there may be no delays in the paying out of money for State needs, the amount and terms of such payments will be fixed by decree of the ruler. This will do away with the protection by a ministry of one institution to the detriment of others. 26. The budgets of income and expenditure will be developed side by side so that they may not be obscured by the...

...; in sixty - treble: and all the while the capital (principle) portion of the debt remains unpaid. 31. From this calculation it is obvious that, with any form of taxation per head, the State is baling out the last pennies of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealthy foreigners. The State has borrowed money from these foreigners instead of collecting those pennies for its own needs...

... from the taxpayers without the additional interest. 32. So long as loans were internal the Goyim only shuffled their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich. But when we changed the system in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash-boxes and the Goyim became our subjects. 33. If counties have accumulated enormous debts that are...

... impossible to repay, it is not just because Goy kings have been careless in the way that they handle corruption of their ministers, or that they lack an understanding in financial matters, but it is also due to our actions which have required much trouble and great expense on our part. 34. Stagnation of money will not be allowed by us and therefore there will be no State interest-bearing bonds, except a...

... one-percent series. So there will be no payment of interest to leeches that suck all the strength out of the State. The right to issue interest-bearing bonds will be given exclusively to industrial companies who have no difficulty in paying interest out of their profits. Whereas the State does not make profits on borrowed money like these companies, for the State borrows to spend and not to use in...

... operations. 35. Industrial bonds will also be bought by the government. This will transform those industries into lenders of money at profit. This measure will stop the stagnation of money, parasitic profits and idleness. These things were useful for us when we were among the independent Goyim, but are not desirable under our own rule. 36. It should now be quite obvious that the brainpower of the Goyim is...

... undeveloped, based on the fact that they have been borrowing from us and paying interest without ever thinking that the same amount of money plus the interest must be taken from their own State pockets in order to settle up with us. What could have been simpler than to take the money they wanted from their own people? 37. But it is a proof of the genius of our chosen mind that we have cleverly planned to...

... type of loans to us? ... Obviously not! So I shall only deal with the details of internal loans: 3. The process begins by the State announcing that it needs to borrow money from the public. Interest-bearing paper (bills of exchange) will be printed and offered for sale. In order that these are within reach of everyone's investment capacity, the price of these bills will be kept low, and a discount...

... will be offered for early subscribers. The next day, by artificial means, the price of them goes up; the alleged reason being that everyone is rushing to buy them. In a few days the treasury safes are so-to-speak overflowing and there's more money than they can deal with. The subscription, it is alleged, covers the issue of the loan total many times over. And in this lies the whole stage effect...

... portion of the debt. And another problem they will claim is that they can't do this conversion without the consent of the lenders; many of whom are not willing to convert their paper. If everybody expressed his unwillingness and demanded his money back, the government would be hooked on their own promises and would be found insolvent and unable to pay the proposed sums. But fortunately for the Goy...

... loans and patch up all the leaks in the State treasuries of the Goyim. 10. When we ascend to the throne of the world all these financial and similar types of transfers will be swept away so as not to leave a trace because they are not in accord with our interests. All money markets will also be destroyed, since we shall not allow the prestige of our power to be shaken by fluctuations of prices set...

... upon our values. We shall announce, by law, the price of securities which represents their full worth without any possibility of lowering or raising it. (Raising gives the pretext for lowering, which indeed was where we made a start in lowering the values of the Goyim.) 11. We shall replace the money markets by grandiose government credit institutions, the purpose of which will be to fix the price of...

... taught in our Mishnah, the halachah is in agreement with his ruling2  except [in the cases of] 'guarantor',3  'zidon'4  and the 'latter proof'.5 R. Huna said: [Should one say], 'Lend him [a sum of money] and I [shall be] guarantor'. 'Lend him and I [shall] repay [you]', 'Lend him and I [shall be] liable [for the loan]', [or] 'Lend him and I [shall] give [it back to you]' — all...

... these are expressions of guarantee.6  [If, however, one said], 'Give him [a sum of money] and I [shall be] kabbelan'.7  'Give him and I shall repay [you]', 'Give him and I [shall be] liable [for the loan]', [or] 'Give him and I [shall] give [it back to you]' — all these are expressions of kabbelanuth.8  The question was raised: What [is the law if one said], 'Lend him9  and I...

... [shall be] kabbelan'7  [or], 'Give him and I [shall be] guarantor'?10  — R. Isaac replied: The expression of guarantee [has the force of a] guarantee; the expression of kabbelanuth11  I [has the force of] acceptance.12  R. Hisda said: All of these are expressions of kabbelanuth, except [that] of 'Lend him [a sum of money] and I [shall be] guarantor'.13  Raba said: All of...

... these are expressions of 'guarantee', except that of 'Give him and I [shall] give [it back to you]'.14 Mar b. Amemar said to R. Ashi: Father said thus: [If one said,] 'Give him [a sum of money] and I [shall] give [it back to you]', the creditor has no claim whatsoever against the borrower. The law,15  however, is not [so]; [for] a debtor cannot escape from the creditor unless [the guarantor] had...

... taken [the money] with [his own] hand [from the creditor] and delivered [it to the borrower]. A certain judge once allowed a creditor to take possession16  of the property of the debtor before [that] debtor had been sued. [The matter having been brought to his notice,] R. Hanin the son of R. Yeba removed him.17  Said Raba: Who [would have been so] wise [as] to do such a thing if not R. Hanin...

... the son of R. Yeba! He holds the opinion that a man's possessions are his surety, and we have learnt, IF [A MAN] LENDS [MONEY] TO ANOTHER ON A GUARANTOR'S SECURITY, HE MUST NOT EXACT PAYMENT FROM THE GUARANTOR, and this18  has been established [to mean that] the guarantor may not be called upon first.19 A certain guarantor of orphans20  once paid the creditor before the orphans were sued...

... that the other shall be the borrower. He has consequently to pay only in the case where the debtor has no property of his own. V. supra note 2. [H] 'acceptance'. By using the expression give and not lend he thereby gave the order and thus he makes himself in form the principal debtor. Consequently, whether the debtor possesses property or not, payment may be exacted from the kabbelan. A sum of money...

..., he cannot recoup himself from the orphans while they are still minors. Cf. p. 767. n. 15 end. Lit., 'and the thing was pressing him'. And thus come into the possession of some money. Lit., 'divorce'. The divorce could be arranged in the presence of witnesses out of court where no one would compel the husband to vow that he would derive no further benefit from his wife. R. Huna. Who is forbidden to...

... known that her kethubah would not be paid, she would still have consented to the marriage. In the case of a loan, however, it is clear that had it not been for the guarantee, given by the guarantor, the creditor would not have risked his money. In the latter case, therefore, the guarantor is liable. Lit., 'in my hand'. Hence, his statement is accepted, and the maneh he mentioned is to be paid to the...