... this. For should you assume that it refers to the time when the law of Jubilee is in force, and that we destroy the principal, let him [the creditor] cut up the wood and take it!15  — As for that, it is no difficulty: the period of mortgage might expire before the Jubilee, or he [the debtor] might obtain money and redeem it four or five years before the Jubilee.16 Our Rabbis taught: If one...

... the Mishnah states that if it died another must be provided in its place, it means that more money must be added to that realised by the carcase and another bought, so that the value of the carcase ultimately remains with the owner. But he is not bound to hire an animal for the money realised by the carcase for the completion of the task, the whole principal thus being lost to the owner. The...

... taught: And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep in his pledge: [9] hence, if he is wealthy, thou mayest sleep thus. What does this mean? [10] — Said R. Shesheth: This is the meaning: And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep whilst his pledge is in thy possession; but if he is wealthy, thou mayest do so. [11] Our Rabbis taught: If a man lends [money] to his fellow, he may not take a...

... pledge of him, nor is he bound to return it to him, and he transgresses all these injunctions. [12] What does this mean? — R. Shesheth said: This: If a man lends [money] to his fellow, he may not [himself] take a pledge of him; and if he did take a pledge of him [by means of a court officer], he is bound to return it; [13] whilst 'he transgresses all these injunctions' refers to the last clause...

.... [14] Raba said: It is thus meant: If a man lends money to his neighbour, he may not take a pledge of him [himself], and if he took a pledge of him [through the court], he must return it. [15] Now, when is this? If the pledge was not taken at the time of the loan. [16] But if it was taken at the time of the loan, [17] he is not bound to return it to him. [18] Whilst 'and he transgresses all these...

...; [i.e.,] the [second] tithe was redeemed by uncoined metal,3  for the Divine Law states, And thou shalt bind up [we-zarta] the money in thine hand,4  [implying], that which bears a figure [zurah];5  [and] hekdesh which was secularized by means of land,6  for the Divine law states, Then he shall give the money and it shall be assured to him.7 NOR LOF. Our Rabbis taught: We may...

... be handled. That it is exempt; supra 127b bottom. Asimon. V. B.M. 47b for the meaning of the term. Deut. XIV, 25. The image stamped on a coin. This connects zarta with zurah. I.e., land was given in order to redeem it. I.e., it can be redeemed by money, but not by land. Actually there is no such verse, but v. B.M., Sonc. ed., 321, n. 1. Jast.: a shrubby plant, probably cistus. How does he answer...

.... The lady contributed to Mulla Nasrudin on crutches, but could not resist the temptation to preach to him. "It must be terrible to be lame," she said, "but think how much worse it is to be blind." "That's right, Lady," said the Mulla. "WHEN I WAS BLIND, PEOPLE KEPT PASSING COUNTERFEIT MONEY OFF ON ME." 19. The young father was pushing the crying baby down the...

... register, he picked me up gently, brushed me off, and escorted me back into the dance hall. THEN HE THREW ME OUT THE FRONT DOOR." 21. "You don't love me any more," said Mulla Nasrudin's wife through her tears. "When you see me crying, you never ask why." "I am sorry, Darling," said Nasrudin, "BUT THAT SORT OF QUESTION HAS ALREADY COST ME AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY."...

... of woe and a request for assistance. The old gentleman refused him, saying, "I am sorry, my friend, I have no money, but I can give you some good advice." The Mulla said in a disgusted tone, "No thanks, IF YOU AIN'T GOT NO MONEY, I DON'T GUESS YOUR ADVICE IS WORTH ANYTHING, SIR." 36. A man said to his friend Mulla Nasrudin: "Who is the boss in your house?" "Well...

... go over to my wife, and she puts her arms around me, and caresses me, and soothes me until finally I forget all about the pain." Nasrudin brightened up and said: "GEE, THAT'S WONDERFUL! IS SHE HOME NOW?" 63. A well-known dead-beat caught Mulla Nasrudin on the street one day before the Mulla could duck. "I am really in a jam and need money," he said to the Mulla," and I...

...." "How about five million, Mulla?" asked his friend. "No, not even for five million," said the Mulla. "Well," said the other, "how about one dollar?" Mulla Nasrudin sat up. "WELL," he said, "THAT'S DIFFERENT. NOW YOU ARE TALKING REAL MONEY." 75. "Where have you been for the last two hours?" demanded the man's wife. "I MET...

.... "This poor widow," said the Mulla, "with four starving children to feed, is sick in bed with no money for the doctor, and besides that she owes 100rentforthreemonthsandisabouttobeevicted.I "I certainly can," said the minister. "If you can give your time to this cause, so can I. By the way, who are you?" "I AM THE LANDLORD," said Nasrudin. 79. As usual...

...;My wife takes care of my money. My mother-in-law tends to my business. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS WORK." 89. A friend gave a bottle of cheap liquor to Mulla Nasrudin as a birthday present. Later he asked the Mulla how it was. "It was just exactly right," said the Mulla. "What do you mean just right?" asked the friend. "WELL," said Nasrudin, "IF IT HAD BEEN ANY...

... wife complained bitterly to the Mulla. "I am absolutely ashamed of the way we live. Mother pays our rent. My aunt buys our clothes. My sister sends us money for food. I don't like to complain, but I am ashamed that we cannot do better than that." "YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED," said Nasrudin. "YOU HAVE GOT TWO UNCLES THAT DON'T SEND US A DIME." 113. A man in the upstairs...

... burglars. But before dying he wrote a note to his wife from the hospital. The last paragraph of it read: "I have been very fortunate because only the day before I had put all of my money and negotiable bonds in my safety deposit box at the bank, SO THAT I AM LOSING PRACTICALLY NOTHING BUT MY LIFE." 200. When Mulla Nasrudin died, his wife decided to have him cremated. The attendant at the...

... marranos go wherever there is money to be made... But whether these circumcised who sell old clothes claim that they are of the tribe of Naphtali or Issachar is not of the slightest importance. They are, simply, the biggest scoundrels who have ever dirtied the face of the earth." (Letter to Jean-Baptiste Nicolas de Lisle de Sales, December 15, 1773. Correspondance. 86:166) 004 "They are, all of them...

... condemnation. He explains the Bolshevist system; he apparently approves of it, as he gives as his own opinion that only the workers ought to have rights, capital is wrong and ought to disappear; means of a living must not depend on work, etc. When you buy a coat, with your money you are buying men's work, and he condemns it! Money should be allowed to buy only goods. (He does not explain the contradictions...

...). A work of art is, say, in Rome; a 'bourgeois' (capitalist) can go there to see it; his money will command the work of many railway men, etc... to enable him to enjoy the sight of that work or art. Why should a poor worker, to whom it belongs as well as to the bourgeois, not see it? The works of art should be brought to the workers everywhere. Money left with compound interest in a bank will double...

... itself in fourteen years, and yet the capitalist will have remained idle. Money is the power of commandeering other men's work! There are in England occult societies which inspire English politics. They know the course of evolution for the next few decades, and are using their knowledge for the material advantage of England. The English will try and keep the people east of the Rhine (Middle Europe and...

... well in uniting the Americans against Germany. We are counting heavily on reports of anti-Semitic outrages in Russia to whip up indignation in the United States and produce a front of solidarity against the Soviet power. Simultaneously, to demonstrate to Americans the reality of anti-Semitism, we will advance through new sources large sums of money to outspokenly anti-Semitic elements in America to...

... don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is." (General George S. Brown) 041 "The people who own and manage national impact media are Jewish and, with other influential Jews, helped create a disastrous U.S. Mideast policy...

...;president of India"... and the man is the same! Once it happened: A very beautiful man, Mahatma Bhagwandeen, came to the town where I used to live. He was making a small place for orphans, an orphanage. He wanted to collect some money, so he went to collect. The whole day the old man went from one shop to another shop, from one house to another house. He was a very simple man. All that he collected...

... narrative of misery and woe, the elderly gentleman replied benignantly: "My good friend, I have no money, but I can give you some good advice." The tramp spat contemptuously, and uttered an oath of disgust. "Well, if you ain't got no money," he said, turning away, "I reckon your advice ain't worth hearing." Just a moment before, the man was immensely valuable, but now because...

... he has no more money, no money at all, not even his advice is worth hearing; not even that much politeness can the beggar show. You behave only according to a certain pattern and gestalt of your mind. You behave through your desires. If somebody fulfills your desire or you think can fulfill your desire, he is great. In India they have a proverb: When in need, one can even call a donkey "father...

... finally said, " So how come a child has to be born in a barn?" "Well, grandfather, you know the story. Mary and Joseph came to the inn so poor that they had no money and they could only afford the barn. " The old man nodded and turned to his grandson and said, "Tell me, is not that just like our people? Money for a hotel room they don't have, but money for a family picture they...

... somewhere in the finite. You can see. You can seek money and power, but each time you succeed, you will find that you have failed. Each time you succeed, the success will bring nothing but the awareness of the failure. Money is there but you are as dissatisfied as ever, or even more so. Power is there and you are as impotent as ever. Nothing makes man more aware of powerlessness than power. Nothing makes...

... I am, only then can life have any meaning - otherwise it can't have any meaning. I can go on working and accumulating things, money, prestige. But how is that going to satisfy me? - because I don't even know who I am. I must first have absolute feeling of my being, only then can I be on the right track.' Everybody wants to have bliss, but how can you have bliss if you are not even aware of who you...

... gives a kind of consolation, it helps to soothe you. It is just like a tranquilliser. And for people who are in search of anything, in a very, very juvenile way.... America in particular is in great search for something to hang on to, because all that is available - money, power - has become meaningless. All has become meaningless. They have everything; for the first time a society has become affluent...

... any direction and they don't have any reference to the past. Their parents have never searched for spirituality, their parents were in search of money. Their parents were in search of money and they succeeded. And in that very success, everything failed. Their parents had only one thing that was enough to keep them drunk, and that was power. How to have a big house? How to have a big car? How to...

... have more money? - more power. They were drunk with power. And they had only one thing as their religion and that was work. Work is the American ethos. Work hard so that you can achieve many things in the world. And they succeeded; unfortunately, they succeeded. And now their children are at a loss. Now what? Money is there, house is there, car is there, everything is there - now it doesn't make any...

... put into years of construction. The first day the train passes by... and with the bridge, the train and the passengers all go down into the river - but take it positively. Dams continually go on flooding thousands of miles because they break. India goes on borrowing money from all over the world, from the world bank and from other sources, to make new dams. And with all the engineers and all that...

... to repay. That is absolutely clear, because how are you going to pay it back? Slowly slowly, you are becoming slaves again - economic slaves. Political slavery is gone; now economic slavery is coming from the back door. If you cannot pay money, then you will have to substitute it by something. If you owe to America, or if you owe to the Soviet Union, then you will have to give them bases for their...

... people, make friends - and go on exploiting them economically the way you were doing before. Now you will do even better because you are friends, you are helping in every possible way... but for what reason are you helping? Russia goes on pouring money into India. In Russia itself there is poverty; they are not too worried about that poverty, they are more concerned to create factories in India, steel...

... plants in India. Go on giving as much money and expertise as India asks, because soon they will be so much in debt that while politically they can remain free, it will make no difference - your armies, your military bases will be inside their country; they will have to give in to you. Their political freedom will be just paper freedom: underneath they will be slaves again. In India nobody is punished...

... hospital, and everything. And on paper these things do happen. You can see the road has been made, on the map. The contract has been signed, the contractor has taken the money, the engineers have been working, the laborers have been paid, the machines have been purchased. Five years of work and the road is ready. The road is even inaugurated by a great leader - and there is no road! You see the picture...

... length. It is non-existent. Great miracles! But take it positively, and don't complain against anybody, otherwise everybody will be caught: the leader who inaugurated the road will be caught and asked, "What road have you inaugurated? Where is it?" The minister who gave the contract must have been bribed. The contractor must have taken the major portion of the money that was going to make the...

... are clapping because they believe in positive philosophy. They know the road goes only one furlong, but still they are clapping because a great leader has come, and they have all been given money to clap Praise the leader, wave flags to welcome him. And these pictures will be the proof. All these people have to be punished. And Mother Teresa says to those poor people, "Don't complain."...

.... So I say that when millions of Jews are evaporated, Hitler must be doing great, positive work: perhaps with a smaller population there will be less poverty. And these Jews were the richest people in Germany, so let their money and their riches be distributed. And anyway they are going to die sooner or later, so why not sooner? What could they have done by living? So why make so much fuss? They may...

..., an agony." The ignorant person understands this language of searching, he feels alright with it. He has been searching for everything - for money, for position, for prestige - so he says, "Fine, at least the search will continue; now I will search for religion instead of money." The ignorant person understands this language. Throughout this life, in fact many many lives, he has done...

... only one thing, searching; he has known only one profession: today search for this, tomorrow search for that. So he says, "Alright: before I searched for money, prestige and position; and you say there is no happiness in them - and I also experience that there is no happiness in them - so now I will search for your God. It fits." After he has begun the search, he will then be told later on...

..., "God cannot be reached; unless you give up all searching you cannot find him." Now he is in difficulty. He gave up his search for money, position and prestige because they were futile, and in the hope that he would now be searching for something meaningful he entered the search for God. And when he has come quite far in this search and cannot go back - now he cannot go back to the search for...

... money, that has all become meaningless, in fact that is why he turned in the direction of this new, meaningful search - his master tells him to give up all searching. First he gave up money, position and prestige, but he saved half of the coin - the search itself. He had renounced money, but saved the search. Money was on the outside, the search was inside. It was easy to give up that which was on the...

... carry the wound, you can still carry the hurt, and you can still feel unhappy about it: Why? Why did it happen to you? Why did the man insult you? And you have been doing so much good for him, and you have been always a help, always a friend - and he insulted you! You are playing with something that is no more. The yesterday is gone. Or you can be unhappy for tomorrow. Tomorrow your money will be...

... finished - then where are you going to stay? Where are you going to eat? Tomorrow your money will be finished! - then unhappiness enters in. Either it comes from yesterday, or it comes from tomorrow, but it is never herenow. Right this moment, in the now, unhappiness is impossible. If you have learnt this much, you can become a Buddha. Then nobody is hindering your path. Then you can forget all the...

... are completely at a loss what to do. Poor people are always certain about what to do: they have to earn money, they have to make a good house, they have to buy a car; they have to send their children to the university. They always have a programme waiting for them. They are occupied. They have a future. They have hope: some day or other.... They REMAIN in misery, but the hope is there. The rich man...

... healthy body, makes no difference. With more energy you will have more energy at your disposal to become unhappy - but you will become unhappy. What will you do with it? If you have more money, what are you going to do with it? - you will do that which you can do. And if a little money makes you so miserable, more money will make you more miserable. It is simple arithmetic. Buddha dropped all yoga. He...

... bodies in the search for truth, God, ecstasy, or whatsoever you call it. Millions of people have concluded that the body is the enemy. There is a certain logic in it. People think it is because of the body that you are in misery. People think it is because of the body that you have sexuality; it is because of the body that you have greed; it is because of the body that you need money; it is because of...

... person is always after something, trying to achieve - money, power, prestige. The sensitive person is simply alive herenow, enjoying the beauty that is available. When tomorrow comes then tomorrow will take care of itself. That's what Jesus means when he says, "Think not of the morrow." That's what Jesus says when he shows to his disciples the lilies in the field and says, "Look, how...