...;Wherever woman goes - man goes." Wherever woman goes.... Man goes on following the woman, the woman goes on following the man. The whole of life is just a running after this desire or that. Finally, nothing is attained; only frustrated dreams, a heap of frustrated dreams. Look back - what have you attained? You have been running and running - where have you reached? These are the tall grasses. Money...

... attracts, power attracts - and without asking oneself: Why should I run after these things? we go on running. In fact, because the whole society is running, every child gets the disease by inheritance. Everybody is running - the child learns by imitation. The father is running, the mother is running, the brother is running, the neighbor is running, everybody is running - for power, prestige, money...

..., how to come out on top. But nobody asks the basic question: What is the point? Why should one hanker for the top? What are you going to do when you have reached the top? When you have become a president of a country, what are you going to do? How is it going to fulfill you? It is as if a person was thirsty and we put him on a track which leads to more and more money. He comes, struggles hard...

..., accumulates much money, but the money is not related to the thirst at all. Then suddenly he feels frustrated. Then he says: Money cannot do anything; but now it is too late. See what your inner need is, and then work for it, and work diligently for it, intelligently for it. But first see what your inner need is. And the inner need can be recognized only when you recognize who you are. If you can understand...

... on doing something or other; it will become a habit. Without it you will not feel alive. I know people who have earned enough money; now they can retire. In fact, they have been saying their whole life that once they have attained to such money, they will retire. But they don't retire. I know one man. In the past twenty years I have stayed with him many times. Whenever I visited Calcutta I would...

... be completed." He said, "No, now I have fixed a time, that after ten years I will retire." He was sixty then, now he is dead. He worked hard and he lived like a beggar just hoping that some day he was going to enjoy. But by the time he had money, he had become obsessed with having more, to have more.... One very basic thing has to be understood: these things are not going to fulfill...

...; they become one with the crowd. There they do not feel alone... surrounded, so many people are there. If you meditate, you will be alone, and if you get mad after money, you will never be alone - the whole world is going there. If you search for God you will be alone; but if you search for politics, power, then the whole world will be there, you will never be left alone. People are afraid of being...

... same desires, you find the same footprints of the bull. Even under desires you find God hidden. Even under the so-called worldly things, you have been seeking something of the beyond. If a man is searching for more and more money, what in fact is he searching for? - money? If he is searching for money, then there will come a point where he will be satisfied - but that point never comes. It seems he...

... is searching for something else. Mistakenly, searching for money, he is trying to find something else. He wants to be rich.... Let me tell you it this way: A man who is searching for money wants to be rich but he does not know that to be rich is totally different from having money. To be rich means to have all the experiences that life can give to you. To be rich means to be a rainbow, not black...

... and white - all the colors together. To be rich means to be mature, alert, alive. The man who is searching for money is searching for something else; that's why when money is achieved, nothing is achieved. The man who is searching for power, for what is he searching in fact? He wants to be a god. And in the world, he says, if you have power you can pretend to be a god. Behind his search for power...

... other. Because of this quarrel and attack their secret was out. Both of them had hidden money in the hollow stick of the pichie they were carrying; the fight was over the distribution of the money. Both of them were caught and brought to the police station. Their disciples in the village became worried and were unhappy because it was also a question of their prestige. Somehow they quieted the matter...

... is deceiving himself. The final conclusion is based on what you are inside, it is not based on what you are outside. Life is determined by what you are inside, not with what you are from the outside. Inside you are continuously counting money, outside you are chanting "Ram, Ram." This chanting is futile. Your counting the money is meaningful - the judgment will be based on that, because...

.... The first king felt very repentant for leading the worldly life. He thought, "Look at this king, Prasenchandra, how peaceful and silent he is. How blissful he is. How unfortunate I am. Mahavira has attained liberation and I am still counting money." The thought of renunciation arose in him. When he met Mahavira he said, "I want to ask you a question. On the way I saw Prasenchandra...

... action of yours creates you. There is no other judge except you. That is why Shankara says: THAT IDIOT, IN SPITE OF HAVING EYES, IS BLIND - because he thinks that he is deceiving others. But all deception is deceiving yourself. You are bluffing yourself. You cannot make others lose anything, it is you who will lose. You may be able to get hold of some money from the other's pocket, but with that money...

... you will lose your soul. You will lose a lot and gain nothing. Even if you are able to deceive others, what will you receive? At the most you will snatch some money from the other person. That money is going to remain here - neither you can take it with you nor the other person can take it with him after death. It does not matter whether the money is in this pocket or in that pocket. But by...

... then you realize that it is all futile. And this is right, because how can you see the futility of something which you do not have? The person who has money can see the futility of money. But the person who does not have money, how can he see its futility? To realize the futility of anything one has to have it first. A person who has knowledge can see the futility of knowledge, but a person not...

... set free. People go on living, hoping for that day. You must understand one thing in life: watch carefully the happiness which you have, for it is only out of happiness that you can be free. If you have a beautiful wife then you must enjoy beauty thoroughly; if you have money then you must taste it properly; if you have position, observe it from all sides. You must watch carefully whatever you have...

... steadfast. It is difficult. It is easy to do something. If you eat more then you are troubling your body, if you fast even then you are troubling your body; there is no difference between these two conditions. First you were troubling the body by eating more, now you are troubling it by fasting. You go on collecting money, you can give it up also. You will know the futility of money only after you have...

... costly - and then most pilgrims travel without tickets, they are not bothered about paying money for the tickets. When so many sins are being washed away by the Ganges, then one more sin will not matter. HE MAY UNDERTAKE THE JOURNEY TO THE GANGES OR TO THE OCEAN, HE MAY UNDERTAKE MANY AUSTERITIES AND FASTS, HE MAY GIVE AWAY IN CHARITY, BUT IF HE DOES NOT HAVE SELF-KNOWLEDGE HE WILL NOT BE LIBERATED...

.... When, THE EARTH MAY BE HIS ONLY BED, DEERSKIN MAY BE HIS ONLY ROBE, HE MAY HAVE DROPPED ALL KINDS OF POSSESSIONS INDULGENCES - WHO DOES SUCH A RENUNCIATION NOT MAKE BLISSFUL? Blissfulness is the measuring rod. There is no other proof of your renunciation except bliss. Your bliss will prove whether your renunciation is true or false. You may give up your home, your money, you may become naked, you may...

... money in the great crashes of history and the great wars of history, the very periods when others lost their money, is beyond question." (E.C. Knuth, The Empire of the City) 452 "The ruin of the peasants in these provinces are the Zhids ['kikes']. They are full-fledged leeches sucking up these unfortunate provinces to the point of exhaustion." (Nikolai I, Tsar of Russia from 1825 to 1855, in his...

... wages. This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. To accomplish this, the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now awaiting for the Secretary of the Treasury to make his recommendation to Congress. It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate...

... as money any length of time, as we cannot control that." (Hazard Circular, issued by the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, 1862) 456 "We intend to remake the Gentiles - what the Communists are doing in Russia." (Rabbi Lewish Brown in How Odd of God, New York, 1 924) 457 "The responsibility for the last World War [WW I] rests solely upon the shoulders of the international financiers. It is upon...

... enacted into American laws by the aid of American Congressmen, who were their paid hirelings or their ignorant dupes. That this crime has remained uncovered is due to the power of prejudice which seldom permits the victim to see clearly or reason correctly: 'The money power prolongs its reign by working on prejudices. 'Lincoln said." (Mary E. Hobard, The Secrets of the Rothschilds). 461 "If this...

... mischievous financial policy [the United States Government issuing interest-free and debt-free money] which had its origin in the North American Republic during the war (1861-65) should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become...

... ignorance and narrowness of heart, that when we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there rises also the terrible power of the purse." (The Jewish State, New York, 1917) 469 "I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money... And they who control the credit of the nation direct...

... spirit of the Sages is displeased with him!3  For words accompanied by [the passage of] money one is subject to 'BUT'; for words unaccompanied thereby one is not subject to 'BUT'. Raba said: Both Scripture and a Baraitha4  support Resh Lakish, 'Scripture', — for it is written, [If a soul sin …] and lie unto his neighbor in that which vas delivered him to keep or in the...

... perutah of hekdesh] to a hairdresser, a ship's captain,31  or to any artisan, he is not liable to a trespass offering until he takes Possession.32  Now these are self-contradictory!33  But this must surely prove that one refers to a heathen and the other to an Israelite hairdresser. This proves it. R. Nahman ruled likewise: By Biblical law, [the delivery of] money effects a title, and...

..., and yet the treasurer incurs a liability immediately he gives the money, which shews that meshikah is only a Rabbinical requirement. In a transaction with a heathen the delivery of money is certainly sufficient. For freight charges. Symbolically performing meshikah with an object connected with his payment. Sc. the two views on his liability in connection with a hairdresser, the first Baraitha...

... stating that he is liable immediately he gives the money, whilst the Baraitha teaches that meshikah must first be performed. As a deposit for an order of provisions. Though he did not take possession of the goods, thus proving that meshikah is unnecessary by Biblical law. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Mezi'a 48b But this refutes Resh Lakish!-Resh Lakish can answer you: That is on the...

... acts as is fitting for 'thy people'.5 Raba said: Whence do I know6  it? For [it once happened that] money was given to R. Hiyya b. Joseph [in advance payment] For salt. Subsequently7  salt rose in price. On his appearing before R. Johanan,8  he ordered him, 'Go and deliver [it] to him9  [the purchaser], and if not, you must submit to [the curse]: He who punished.' Now if you say...

... deposit does not effect possession [of the whole]. And wherein do they differ?22  — Real estate, which is actually acquired by [the delivery of] money,23  is entirely acquired;24  movables, which are acquired [by the delivery of money] only in respect of submission to [the curse] 'He who punished,' are not acquired entirely.25 Shall we say that this is disputed by Tannaim? [For it...

... distinction to be drawn? Though the delivery of money alone does not effect a title to movables, it does in respect to land. By the deposit. By the deposit, but only to the extent of the value of that deposit, and even that, only in respect of submitting to the curse. V. Deut. XV. 1-2: At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that...

... there is much more. But if you stop, nobody is going to prevent you. You need a master to go on goading you, to go on destroying every home you make, so finally you decide not to make any home -- it is better to be homeless under the sky and continue the journey. In the life of al-Hillaj Mansoor, a beautiful incident is related. He was a poor man. He collected money from people because he wanted to go...

... to Kaaba, the sacred place of pilgrimage for the Mohammedans. And everybody contributed because he was going to Kaaba, and whoever contributes also gets a share in the virtue that he will get by reaching there. It is according to how much you give. So people gave him money -- those who could give more, gave more. People even gave beyond their capacity; they borrowed and gave him money. The next day...

... he was back. And they said, "So soon?" -- because in those days the journey from his place to Kaaba and back used to take three to six months. "What happened? And where is the money?" He said, "A strange man met me on the way just as I was going out of town. He said, `Listen, where are you going?' I said, `I am going to Kaaba.' He said, `There is no need.' I said, `But...

... every scripture says there is a need.' He said, `I am a living master, and I am saying there is no need. You just go around me seven times and put all the money in front of me. I am Junnaid, the great master. Give the money first.' So I said, `If you are Junnaid, then...'" Junnaid's name was known all over the country. So al-Hillaj said, "If Junnaid says something he cannot be wrong. I gave...

... given the money to Junnaid, went around him seven times, and he told me to go back home." Those people said, "You idiot. First, have you inquired whether he is Junnaid or not? It seems some cheat has deceived you. Let us go and find out. If he was really Junnaid, he will be sitting there." They reached, and Junnaid was sitting there. Junnaid said, "So you all have come. Put your...

... money here, whatever money you have. Take seven rounds -- I am a living Kaaba -- and then go home. And whenever you have money you can come again." So the poor fellows had to put their money there and took seven rounds, sadly. "This is strange, we never thought that Kaaba would come just outside our village." But the news spread. People started coming from other villages. They said...

..., "If Junnaid says so, it must be right. That is a dead stone in Kaaba, and this is a living master." Somebody asked him, "We have come. We heard that you were here, so we have come for the pilgrimage." He said, "Just give the money and do the pilgrimage." But the man said, "I have a question: After taking seven rounds around you, is the journey finished? Is the...

... pilgrimage over?" He said, "No, whenever you have money again, you can come. This pilgrimage is never going to end. And if you don't find me here, you will find somebody else. You can do this pilgrimage around anybody -- you just have to be sensitive to see the real, the living god within. It is not only within me, it is within you also. If you are alert, you can take seven rounds around yourself...

... -- no need to waste the money and no need to go anywhere. Remember, there is no home. Or, the home is everywhere -- both are true." I will not say to you that the home is everywhere -- although it is true. I will say there is no home. If you can continue your pilgrimage with this sincerity -- that there is no home and there is no place you are going to, that just the going is in itself the beauty...

..., the tiger and lion are really worshipped symbolically. The worship of tiger and lion says simply that you worship power - just as there are worshippers of money. In India each year on the festivals particularly on Deepavali, the festival of lights, money is worshipped as god - just notes and coins! And we call these people intelligent! These mediocres who have been worshipping money... because if...

... you worship money, the goddess of wealth, Laxmi, will pour down money on your house. It has never happened. Money neither grows on trees, nor is it simply dropped on the roof of your house. But still the festival goes on. In my childhood I refused to sit while they were worshipping money. I said it was so insane that even a child could see it. Money is dead, just a method of exchanging things; it...

... has no divinity. But the fear is that if you don't worship, then Laxmi may turn back from your home. She may be coming just to shower money and you are not worshipping; she may turn back. I asked my father, "Have you ever heard that she has showered money? Just a single case will be enough to convince me." He said, "On that point I cannot say anything because it has never happened...

...." But the lust, the desire for money, for more money, has made even money a god, a dead thing, without any meaning. The same is the case with lions and tigers, because they represent strength and power. Everybody is hankering for power: power to dominate others, to become a prime minister, to become a president, to become a king or a queen. A deep desire in everyone is to conquer the whole world...

..., silence, meditation, peace, love. But I did not listen to you." There are thousands of ways of getting into this trip of power, politics, money, knowledge, anything where man starts bragging about himself as special. The psychology behind this worshipping of tigers and lions symbolizes the worship of power. So man on the one hand worshipped them and on the other hand killed them. I was a guest of...

... loses money -- he will have to supply medicines, he will have to take care of the patient, and whatever he was getting from the patient will not be given to him. This is absolutely sane idea. Otherwise the whole world has lived in such a stupid situation that the doctor is taught to make the patient healthy but the doctor lives on the patient being sick. This is a contradiction. The profession is...

... basically contradictory. If nobody is sick, all the doctors will die. They need sick people, they need epidemics so that they can cure people and they can earn money. This is not only the situation about doctor/patient relationship, this is the situation about so many things in our life. One of the great philosopher, Lao Tzu, was asked by the emperor of China to become his chief of the justice department...

.... Lao Tzu tried to persuade him that, "It is better you leave me out." But he insisted, that "You are the wisest man." Finally Lao Tzu accepted and the first case appeared. A man has stolen a large sum of money from the richest man of the capital. Lao Tzu gave both the people six years of jail: the thief and the rich man. The rich man said, "Are you mad? I have been robbed and...

... now I am being punished! I have not done anything." Lao Tzu said, "You have accumulated so much money that it is bound to be sooner or later robbed. You have created the situation, you are the source. This thief is just a by-product and I cannot punish the by-product when the source is present before me." The rich man immediately approached the emperor and he said, "What kind of...

... asked about the financial status, fifty thousand rupees is nothing in America. It is just five thousand dollars. You cannot purchase a small house! So it is difficult for me to tell for the simple reason because my financial status is not in the banks but in the hands of the people who love me. And as we settled for the land we had no money. The land was purchased in six million dollars and we had...

... fifty thousand, five thousand dollars. Six million dollars we settled, trusting that our people will manage. Even the man who was selling he was surprised, he said, "But how you are going to manage?" I said, "You don't be worried about that." And we managed to put in Oregon two hundred million dollars. And we were never short of money because all around the world people were...

..., cultured, affluent people. And having one million sannyasins around the world and at least three million almost sannyasins, there is no problem about money. Money has never been a problem in my life -- I don't have a single rupee. I am for thirty years bankrupt -- I don't have anything. Q: BUT SIR, YOUR MORALE BANK IS VERY HIGH. A: Yes, that is certainly very high. And we will manage, there is no problem...

... life. You try to create something you would like to enjoy but by the time you create it you are not able to enjoy it. You earn money and you think one day you will relax and you will not do anything, but by the time the money is there you are unable to relax, you have become so tense earning the money that now that has become your second habit. It is a known fact that people after retirement die ten...

... great doctors or surgeons their dignity was in being a great surgeon. Now nobody cares who you are because now they are no more doing anything. They simply become a boredom unto themselves, twenty-four hours, doing nothing and their whole life they were continuously doing something. And because of their action they were getting respect, love, money, honor... now all that has disappeared. Soon they...

... him that that's good idea, we will think about it." Q: WE THOUGHT HE WAS IN A GOOD BOOK OF THE PRIME MINISTER. A: With politicians it is very difficult who is in a good book and who is in a bad book. And when you change your name from one book to another it is very difficult. In fact, this whole complex was created by youth congress funds. Nobody's money is put in it. It is blackmail to the...

.... If one begins, soon there will be others who will come out. But it is such a slave mentality that just to save some money, or just to save a job you can sell your soul. Q: BUT THEN THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE ALSO. BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE CERTAINLY VERY SINCERE, VERY WILLING TO WORK, WHAT DO YOU THINK? BECAUSE MY FRIEND, SINGH VEDA(*) HE STARTED THIS MAGAZINE... AND PUT ON WHOLE LIFE AND...

... be happy. Everybody says that you can have the capacity to be happy only if you fulfill certain conditions - that you have enough money, a big house, a big car, and this and that - only then can you be happy. Happiness has nothing to do with these things. Happiness is not an achievement. It is your nature. Animals are happy without any money. They are not Rockefellers. And no Rockefeller is as...

... grows: they cannot love; they give money. Money becomes a substitute for love. And the child also learns that money is more important than love. If you don't have love, nothing to be worried about, but you must have money. In life he will become greedy. He will go after money like a maniac. He will not bother about love. He will say, "First things first. I should first have a big balance in the...

... bank. I must have this much money; only then can I afford love." Now, love needs no money; you can love as you are. And if you think love needs money and you go after money, one day you may have money, and then suddenly you will feel empty because all the years were wasted in accumulating money. And they are not only wasted! All those years were years of no love, so you have practiced no love...

.... Now the money is there, but you don't know how to love. You have forgotten the very language of feeling, the language Or love, the language of ecstasy. Yes, you can purchase a beautiful woman, but that is not love. You can purchase the most beautiful woman of the world, but that is not love. And she will be coming to you not because she loves you; she will be coming to you because of your bank...

... balance. Mulla Nasrudin was in love with a woman - very homely and ordinary, but she had much money and she was the only child of her father, and the father was old and dying. Mulla was deeply in love with the woman, and one day he went to her very excitedly because the father was approaching death very fast - and he said, "I am dying." Mulla said to the woman, "I am dying; I cannot live...

... without you a single moment." She said, "That's okay, but I have bad news for you. My father has made a will, and he has given all his money to a trust and I am not going to get any money. Mulla, do you love me still?" Mulla said, "I love you, and I will always love you - though I will never see you again. But I will always love you and I will always remember you!" All love...

... disappears. This is symbolic; money is a symbol. Power, political power, is a symbol. Respectability is a symbol. These are not realities; these are human projections. These are not objectives; they have no objectivity. They are not there. They are just dreams projected by a miserable mind. If you want to be ecstatic you will have to drop out of the symbolic. To be freed of the symbolic is to be freed of...

... own accord. I am not teaching you to drop anything, to renounce anything. I am saying realize something that is already within you, that is your innermost core. Once realized, many things will disappear. "THE SWAN HAS TAKEN ITS FLIGHT TO THE LAKE BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS, WHY SHOULD IT SEARCH FOR THE POOLS AND DITCHES ANYMORE?" You go on looking for ecstasy in sex, you go on looking in money...

..., dies. There has never been a moment of celebration in that life. Of course, he will leave much money for his children to become doctors in their own turn, to go to university, to the same university where he was destroyed. And his children will do the same to their children, and this is how things go on being transferred from one generation to another. No, I don't call this education. It is crime. It...

... back to that point; from there, start again. And this is your life. Respectability or money are booby prizes, they are not real prizes. Don't be deceived by them. You cannot eat respectability, and you cannot eat money, and you cannot eat prestige. They are just games: meaningless, stupid, mediocre. if you are intelligent enough you will understand that you have to live your life and you are not to...

.... If education is right, then universities should not be against the universe. They should be just training-places, jumping-boards into the universe. If education is right, then it will not be concerned about money, and it will not be concerned about power and prestige. Then it will not be political at all. If education is right it will be concerned about your bliss, your happiness, music, love...

... it teaches Hinduism. It is not religious. Education is religious if it makes you courageous enough to accept yourself, and live your life, and become an offering to God in your own way, in your own unique way. the fourth question: Question 4: PLEASE, OSHO, CAN YOU ALSO TELL US LITTLE ANECDOTES ON SANNYASIN ENERGY GREED AS YOU DO ON JEWISH MONEY GREED? All greed is Jewish. 'Jew' is not the name of a...

... certain race. No, anybody who is greedy is a Jew. And greed has nothing to do with money. Money is only one object of greed; anything can become the object. KUNDALINI can become the object of greed; spiritual energy, psychic powers NIRVANA, enlightenment, can become the object of greed... but then you are a Jew. Remember, 'Jew' is just a symbolic word: it represents greed. And there is no need to have...

... fifteen hundred dollars would mean spending almost all of my life's savings." The doctor said, "All right. I normally get fifteen hundred dollars for this operation, but under the circumstances I will take seven hundred and fifty dollars." Finkelstein looked very sad. He replied, "Doctor, seven hundred and fifty dollars is still a lot of money to an old man like me. After all, I...

... don't work anymore, and it would take me a long time to save that much money again." The doctor, completely frustrated, answered, "Okay. How about two hundred dollars?" The old Jew said, "Two hundred dollars I know does not sound like much to you, but to me it is still a million dollars." The doctor, completely annoyed, looked at the old man and said, "You win! I won't...

... charge you a thing for this operation. It is on the house. There is only one thing I would like to know: before you came to me you knew I was one of the most expensive surgeons in the the United States. So why did you come?" Finkelstein replied, "When it comes to my health, money is no object." The mind that is full of greed, the mind that is constantly obsessed with money, is already in...

... hell. It is already out of paradise - because paradise is there when you are simply not clinging to anything whatsoever. An unclinging state of mind is paradise. Ordinarily we go on clinging. You leave the world; then you start clinging to something other-worldly. You drop out of the rat-race for money, then you start another race for spirituality, psychic powers, NIRVANA. But you remain the same...

... means desirelessness. But people go on changing from one side to another side, from one extreme to the other. That's why Buddha insists so much on being in the middle. You can drop all your money, you can dispense with your bank balance, you can renounce the world, but then you will start hoarding some subtle money, some subtle currency of virtue, PUNYA. YOU will start collecting: "How many fasts...

..., and said, "My dear children, now that Mother and I have celebrated fifty years of living together, I feel it is time to tell you something. You know, when Mother and I met I was poor, she was poor, I did not have a job, we didn't even know where our next meal was coming from. Would you believe it? We didn't even have enough money to buy a marriage licence." The eldest son stood up, enraged...

..., and asked, "Are you trying to tell us that we are bastards?" The father smiled and answered, "Yes, and cheap ones too!" In the ordinary world all of our relationships are money relationships. All relationships are money relationships: some power trip, some money trip, domination, ego. But if all your relationships are just money trips, trips of greed, then you don't know how to...

... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 9         Previous Folio / Baba Bathra Contents / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 9a and stipulate [with the townspeople] that it may be used for both,' he also kept only one purse and made this stipulation. R. Ashi said: I do not even need to stipulate, since whoever comes [to give me money for...

... make such stipulations. Our Rabbis taught: The collectors for charity are not required to give an account of the moneys entrusted to them for charity, nor the treasurers of the Sanctuary of the moneys given for holy purposes. There is no actual proof of this [in the Scriptures], but there is a hint of it in the words, They reckoned not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money, to give to...

... them that did the work, for they dealt faithfully.1 R. Eleazar said: Even if a man has in his house a steward on whom he can rely, he should tie up and count out [any money that he hands to him], as it says, They put in bags and told the money.2  R. Huna said: Applicants for food are examined3  but not applicants for clothes. This rule can be based, if you like on Scripture, or if you...

... three meals.9 A Tanna taught: If he is a beggar who goes from door to door, we pay no attention to him.10  A certain man who used to beg from door to door came to R. Papa [for money], but he refused him. Said R. Samma the son of R. Yeba to R. Papa: If you do not pay attention to him, no one else will pay attention to him; is he then to die of hunger? But, [replied R. Papa,] has it not been taught...

... following was told me by the suckling To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files II Kings XII, 16. According to Tosaf., this is not a proof, because the men of that generatlon were exceptionally righteous. Ibid. Although they had perfect confidence in the workers, the priests before giving them the money first put it in bags and counted it. To see that they are not...

... impostors. Isa. LVIII, 7. E.V. 'deal'. [H] = [H] = 'make plain', 'examine'. In our texts the word is written [H]. V. Tosaf. Shab. 55b, s.v. [H]. Ibid. The word [H] being interpreted as it is read. Such a loaf would contain half a kab of wheat. Three meals being obligatory on the Sabbath. To give him money from the charity fund, v. Tosef. Pe'ah, IV. I.e., something less than a complete meal. Neh. x, 33. If...

... he find righteousness?22  — The purpose of the verse, however, is to teach us that if a man is anxious to give charity, the Holy One, blessed be He, furnishes him money with which to give it. R. Nahman b. Isaac says: The Holy One, blessed be He, sends him men who are fitting recipients of charity, so that he may be rewarded for assisting them. Who then are unfit?23  — Such as...