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... function of absolute freedom. And the absolute freedom is not freedom of the self; but freedom from the self. Ordinarily we go on searching for a freedom that is for the self: 'I want to be free' - this is the worldly search. Hence people desire money because that will make them more free. Prestige, power - they will make you more free, you will be less limited, you will have a little longer rope. The...
... unsatisfied as they are, both are incapable of accepting themselves as they are; they want to deny it. Somebody wants to deny it by having more money or more power, more fame; somebody else tries to deny it by having more spiritual experiences, psychic experiences. But the basic thing is the same: both are trapped in becoming. And once you are trapped in becoming you forget who you are. Then the becoming...
... state. And if love goes still deeper it can create the fourth state of consciousness - of full awareness, of Buddhahood. Prem means love, baulo means mad - one who is mad because of love. And that is the highest kind of sanity possible. There are people who are mad for money; that is the worst kind of insanity. There are people who are mad for power; and there are a thousand and one kinds of madness...
... foolish. That's why youth is foolish, because it is unaware of. the most important thing in life - that is death. It is almost unconscious of the only certainty in life - that is death. It is so certain of other things which are all uncertain: love, happiness, success, money, power. It is so certain about these things, which are all uncertain. Only of death is it not aware - which is absolutely certain...
...;I can't afford all that!" "Okay," says Ekdam Kwality. "Then for twenty-five rupees I can retouch the X-ray!" After ten years of marriage, Boris and Betty Bunkovitz get divorced. Betty wins custody of their young son, Bert, and three hundred dollars a month in child support from Boris. On the first of every month, Betty sends Bert to Boris to pick up the money. And every...
... 'fellowman.' But for 'oppression' also three are written, viz., and thou shalt not oppress him,21 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger,22 and [If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee,] thou shalt not be to him as a usurer23 which includes a proselyte! — But [say] both [are forbidden] by three [injunctions]. It has been taught: R. Eliezer the Great said: Why did...
... eats, regard being had to the stipulation he made. The fruit of a tree in the fourth year of its planting was to be eaten in Jerusalem, like the second tithe; v. Lev. XIX, 24. Whilst working, since it must be taken to Jerusalem. These fruits, just as those of the second tithe, could be redeemed, the redemption money to be expended in Jerusalem, whilst the fruit could then be eaten anywhere as...
... ALL THY HEART ETC.6 'WITH ALL THY HEART, MEANS WITH THY TWO IMPULSES, THE EVIL IMPULSE AS WELL AS THE GOOD IMPULSE; 'WITH ALL THY SOUL' MEANS, EVEN THOUGH HE TAKES THY SOUL [LIFE]; 'WITH ALL THY MIGHT' MEANS, WITH ALL THY MONEY. ANOTHER EXPLANATION OF 'WITH ALL THY MIGHT [ME'ODEKA]' IS, WHATEVER TREATMENT7 HE METES OUT TO THEE. ONE SHOULD AVOID SHOWING DISRESPECT TO THE EASTERN GATE8...
... etc.34 She took for him an ark of bulrushes33 — why just bulrushes? R. Eleazar said: Hence [it is learnt] that to the righteous their money is dearer than their body;35 and why so? — That they should not stretch out their hand to robbery.36 R. Samuel b. Nahmani says: [She selected them] because they are a soft material which can withstand both soft and hard materials.37...
... without the additional kinyan of money, deed, or cohabitation is of no validity. V. Kid. 5a. On the lines of Rami b. Hama's statement. Whether the bridal chamber constitutes kinyan with ineligible women. (Cf. supra p. 385, nn. 11 and 13). Otherwise both expressions would have meant exactly the same classes. But this meaning is impossible in view of the fact that after actual marriage it is unanimously...
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