... to university. But he was even ready to borrow money in order to do it. He was utterly insistent that I go to university. I was willing, but not to go to medical college, and I was not willing to go to engineering college either. I flatly refused to be a doctor or an engineer. I told him, "If you want to know the truth, I want to be a sannyasin, a hobo." He said, "What! A hobo!"...

...; I said, "Yes. I want to go to university to study philosophy so that I can be a philosophical hobo." He refused, saying, "In that case I am not going to borrow money and take all that trouble." My grandmother said, "Don't you worry son; you go and do whatsoever you want to do. I am alive, and I will sell everything I have just to help you to be yourself. I will not ask...

... where you want to go and what you want to study." She never asked, and she sent me money continuously, even when I became a professor. I had to tell her that I was now earning for myself, and I should rather send her money. She said, "Don't worry, I have no use for this money, and you must be using it well." People used to wonder where I got all the money from to purchase my books...

..., because I had thousands of books. Even when I was just a student in high school I had thousands of books in my house. My whole house was full of books, and everybody wondered where I got all the money from. My grandmother had told me, "Never tell anyone that you get money from me, because if your father and mother come to know they will start asking me for money, and it will be difficult for me to...

... refuse." She went on giving money to me. You will be surprised to know that even the month she died she had sent the usual money to me. On the morning of the day she died she had signed the check. You will also be amazed to know, that was the last money she had in the bank. Perhaps somehow she knew that there was not going to be any tomorrow. I am fortunate in many ways, but I was most fortunate...

... for understanding. He is puzzled - because he is very rich, a billionaire - about why Kendra wants to be here, even when she cleans the floors, does manual work. It is beyond his comprehension - because he thinks money can buy everything, and he can give Kendra everything she wants. But it will be a great problem: even if Kendra goes with him out of compassion, he knows deep down that he is the...

... blissfulness, he could not see your silence, he could not see your love, he could not see anything: he was simply asking, "What are these people doing here?" And what is he doing in Hollywood? Earning more money? These people are certainly not earning more money; they are earning more being, earning more love, they are earning more sensitivity, they are earning more spiritual growth, they are...

... earning more life - and finally, they are earning God. They have a thousand and one reasons to be here, and to be in Hollywood you have only one reason: earning more money. But what are you going to do with money? At the age of thirty he is as dead as someone should be at the age of ninety; all his senses are gone. Perhaps he is only available to more money and more money. And if he thinks that by...

... having more money, he can have love, he can purchase love, he can purchase truth, virtue.... Anything that is really valuable is not purchasable, anything that is valuable has no price on it and anything that has a price on it, is only for very mediocre minds. For those who don't know the flight of an eagle because they can only hop on the ground, the question arises, "What is that eagle doing far...

... to be with his father, and not to be with his mother, because the father is very rich, and all his money is going to be in his hands. He will be one of the richest men in America when the father is gone. But I am concerned about the son; the son is going before the father. If he can be here just for a few months, perhaps seeing so many alive people, living in this dancing vibe, in the presence of...

... because I have taken his mother and now I'm taking his girlfriend. But being here he can have both the girlfriend and the mother, and more important is that he can save himself from dying. Money kills people, becomes a weight on their heart. I'm not saying that people should not have money. They should always remember only that there are higher values than money. Use the money to reach to the higher...

... values; make money the stepping stone. It cannot purchase those values, but it can become a stepping stone. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, SEVERAL YEARS AGO MY WIFE SAW YOUR PICTURE AND SAID, "THERE IS AN ENLIGHTENED MAN." I SAID, "THEY ARE ALL FAKE, AND INDIA'S CASTE SYSTEM AND POVERTY ARE EVIDENCE OF THAT." I AM A FOUR-YEAR-OLD SANNYASIN, AND SHE IS NOT. WHAT HAPPENED? Antar Rituraj...

... THE WORLD, THAT NOW I CAN GO AND DO THOSE THINGS, "WHAT A WOMAN HAS TO DO, A WOMAN HAS TO DO." TO GO OUT INTO THE BIG, WIDE WORLD, MAKE LOTS OF MONEY, IMPRESS EVERYBODY AND GO DOWN IN HISTORY. I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF THE LAST THREE YEARS IN THE COMMUNE AND LOVED IT. BUT RECENTLY, NOW THAT I AM THE CLOSEST TO YOU THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN, ALL THESE FANTASIES OF FAME AND FORTUNE EMERGE. WHY CAN I...

... fulfillment: "Now I can go and do things." And what are the things? "What a woman has to do, a woman has to do." And very strange things a woman has to do. "To go out into the big, wide world, make lots of money, impress everybody, and go down in history." The end is not very interesting - go down in history? Or go down the drain? Going down in history means going to your...

... graveyard. History is only a chronicle of those who are dead. Strange idea you have ... "What a woman has to do, a woman has to do." I have never thought about it. Whatever a woman has to do she can do here. Why go into the wide world? "Make lots of money." What will you do with the money? Create a charitable trust? You cannot eat the money, and you cannot live by money alone - and not...

... just money to survive but lots of money. Have you ever thought about what you mean by "lots of money"? Is there a limit to it? Because "lots of money" can mean anything. And how are you going to earn lots of money? Just by doing "what a woman has to do"? Don't be stupid. There are many stupid women outside and they are doing their job, earning lots of money, and getting...

... and she was ready to offer her body. Certainly she remained the empress of Egypt, with lots of money, and did everything that a woman has to do. But these kind of ugly creatures are not to be imitated. Only her physical body was beautiful, but her spirit must have been mean, utterly mean. In love, you can give everything - your body, your mind, your soul - and it is a great experience. But for money...

... woman, because meditation has nothing to do with your body; neither does it have anything to do with your mind. In meditation you are simply and purely consciousness. And consciousness is neither male nor female. The moment you understand your consciousness, all desires for money, fame, power, impressing people and going down the drain into history, simply disappear. You have not cleaned the weeds...

... beautiful silences of the heart. You have been joyous, in spite of this underlying conspiracy. And this underlying conspiracy of your mind is now convincing you that you are ripe: "Now there is no need to be worried about the world, you can go into the world." For what? A person who is ripe in meditation cannot even think of having lots of money, going down in history, and "what a woman has...

... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 50         Previous Folio / Baba Bathra Contents / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 50a a second, the one assigned to her as special surety for her kethubah,1  and a third which she had brought him [as marriage] dowry, and for the money value of which he made himself responsible [to her].2 ...

... not apply to the second because the slave is not "under" him.'16  He [R. Meir], holds that possession of the increment is on a par with possession of the principal.17  'R. Judah says that the rule of 'one or two days' applies to the second [the purchaser], because the slave is "his money", but not to the first, because he is not "his money".' His opinion is that the possession of the...

...' (Zon barzel), which the wife makes over to the husband from her dowry, on condition that the husband is responsible to her for its full money value, whether he makes a profit or a loss on the transaction. [The term tzon barzel has a parallel in Roman law, pecus ferreum, and is not limited to a specific property arrangement between husband and wife but applies to every form of conveyance of property...

... servant with a rod and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished. Nevertheless, if he continue a day or two he shall not be punished, for he is his money. If the original owner smites him during this time and he survives a day or two, he is not guilty of murder, but if the purchaser smites him, even if he survives a day or two, he is guilty of murder. B.K. 50a. The 'increment' here is the...

... "his money".' R. Jose is uncertain whether possession of the increment is on a par with possession of the principal or not, and where there is a doubt whether capital punishment should be inflicted the more lenient view is always taken.1  'R. Eliezer says that the rule of a day or two days applies to neither; it does not apply to the purchaser because the slave is not 'under' him, nor to the...

... original owner, because he is not 'his Money'.'2  What, said Raba, is R. Eliezer's reason? Scripture says, He shall not be punished, for he is his money, which implies that he must be entirely his own.3 NOR HAS A HUSBAND HAZAKAH IN THE PROPERTY OF HIS WIFE. But has not Rab said: It is necessary for a married woman to protest?4  Now, against whom [does he mean]? Shall I say against [occupation...

.... There are many people -- "many" is not good, almost all -- who are addicted to preparation. They earn money with the idea that some day they are going to enjoy; and they never enjoy. By and by they forget about enjoyment and they become so addicted to earning money that money becomes the goal. Money is a means. And in the beginning they also had the idea that when the money is there they...

... will enjoy -- they will do whatsoever they always wanted to do and could not do because the money was not there; when the money is there they are going to live really. But by the time money is there: now they are disciplined to earn and they have forgotten how to spend; then money becomes the goal. Then they go on earning, earning, and they die. Patanjali can become an addiction -- then you prepare...

..., then you go on earning money, methods, but you are never ready to dance and enjoy. That's why I go on talking about Lao Tzu, so that whenever you feel that now you are ready, suddenly Lao Tzu hits deep in the heart and you take the jump. When I talk on Lao Tzu I say I "talk Lao Tzu,' because from where he is talking, I am standing there. Whatsoever he says I would like to have said myself. I...

... happened: A very rich man became frustrated with his riches -- as it happens. In fact this should be the criterion of whether a man is rich or not. If a man is really rich he is bound to be frustrated with his riches. If he is not yet frustrated he is still a poor man; he may have money, but he is not rich -- because a rich man is bound to know that whatsoever he has has not satisfied him a bit. The deep...

... more? A few million more? But he cannot use those few million because right now he does not know what to do with his money. He has already more than is needed. In fact, the more money you have, the less is the value of the money. Value depends on poverty. One rupee in a poor man's pocket has more value than the same rupee in a rich man's pocket because the poor man can use it; the rich man cannot use...

... it. The more money you have, the less is the value. A point comes of saturation when the money is of no value -- whether you have it or not makes no difference; your life will continue the same. To be rich means to destroy the value of the money; then the money is valueless. You have the house that you wanted, you have cars that you wanted, you have everything that you wanted -- now the money is...

... ready to purchase the eyes. And just a few hours before, you were saying you have nothing -- and you are not ready to sell the eyes? And you were going to commit suicide. And I have persuaded the king to purchase your ears also, your teeth also, your hands, your legs. You demand the cost and we will cut everything and give the money to you. You will be the richest man in the world." The man said...

... category of people, the warriors, the kshatriyas. They have all the power, all the money, but they accept the priest as higher than themselves. They go and touch the feet of the priest because this way the masses who are following the priests and the religion are for the king. What humility, what humbleness! -- and it is sheer politics. The third class is that of the businessman. The brahmin is poor...

... the society is given to the businessman, who is the richest -- richer than the warriors, richer than the brahmins. Because of his richness, he is accepted as just below the kings. In India, kings have been borrowing money from businessmen. There were no banks in the past; the business people had all the money. They were providing kingdoms with all the money they needed, on loan, on rent, on interest...

.... The king needs money for the army, for new invasions; the king needs money for all his glory and show, marble palaces, golden thrones. From where is he going to get it? The poor brahmin cannot give it to him; the poor brahmin is used as the support for the masses. Businessmen cannot be used for that purpose, because the masses are poor, and are always against the rich. Even ten thousand years before...

... Karl Marx, the poor was always the communist. He may not know the word, but he can see that he is being exploited. He works hard from morning till evening. He works the whole year, and then too he is hungry. He produces everything, but everything is taken away by the businessman who has provided him with seeds. The businessman gave him money for his daughter's marriage. So all the poor people are in...

.... He does every kind of work that is needed by all these three classes. The businessman is the mediator. He exploits, he accumulates money. He is happy, although he is third in the position. He can purchase the king, he can purchase the brahmin; who bothers that he is third grade? He knows perfectly well that money is the highest power. The king is indebted to him and the priest has to depend on him...

... wants. It is just courtesy that he touches the feet; otherwise, he can cut off his head. The brahmin also knows it. The king is not worried that he is second class even though he is king. He knows that it does not matter what class you put him in; he is the master. He can kill the priest. He can take all the money from the business people. It is just courtesy that he takes it on interest. And he never...

... pays it; no king has ever paid back. There is no need. You cannot ask -- he has all power in his sword. For centuries he has been taking money and never paying it back, so whatever interest you want, he is willing to give. He is going to give neither the original money nor the interest. Nobody has ever done that; it is just not done. But the businessman can enjoy the idea that the king is indebted to...

... him. Without him he cannot rule the empire. It is his money and his power, and naturally he takes advantage of it. Licenses will be given to him, he will have first chance in every opportunity, because the king depends on him for money. It is a beautiful and very psychological arrangement that all feel great, all feel on the top. The sudra, who is the fourth, also feels deep down that without him...

... against the rich. And the poor man cannot even imagine revolution, because he has not been allowed any kind of education. He has been prohibited from any contact with the society of the three higher classes. He lives outside the town: he cannot live inside the town. The poor people's wells are not deep, they cannot put much money into making wells. The businessmen have big, deep wells and the king has...

... money will be distributed equally. And the man who could have been interested in communism, the fourth class, is so unintelligent, is so much in the grip of the priest, that you cannot convince a poor man in India that he is poor because he has been exploited. I have tried; it is impossible. He will go on saying, "No. It is my fate, my karma, and please don't say anything which disturbs me...

... only making shoes. They have never done anything else. They are not allowed to do anything else; the system is so strict that no movement is possible. A shoemaker's son, whatsoever he wants, cannot move into another profession. He will not be accepted anywhere. These politicians and priests are ambitious for power. There is another ambition - - the ambition for money, because that is also a power. So...

... the past in India -- and everywhere else, too -- was the power of the sword. And third is the power of money. These are the only three powers; and these three kinds of people, rather than fighting with each other, have divided their areas, which is simply intelligent. They have divided their areas and they don't interfere in each other's area. The great mass which is exploited by all the three in...

... that can be easily done: you just have to create more and more communes where there is no lust for power, where we are not against money, we are not against clothes, we are not against anything; where we want our sannyasins to live luxuriously, comfortably -- nobody is to exploit their labor and nobody is to dominate them -- and where the plumber is as much respected as the professor, there is no...

... actually mean? When things are nationalized, everything goes into the hands of the politicians: all the factories, all the fields, all the money, everything -- people included, because people are no more people, they are commodities. So in Russia something very special has happened. For the first time all three have become one. That's why Russia -- the whole country -- has become a great prison, a great...

... and trading by barter Hitler simply issued what money was needed on the authority of the German Government, which was backed by the productivity of the German labour force, and not the empty promises of Jewish international bankers The citizens of Germany were able to make Germany the most powerful and prosperous state in Europe in only a seven year period The Jews could not let this continue as...

... they knew that it would spell the death of their debt driven money system and so World War 2 starts This is not a war between Germany and the Allies, it is a war between Germany and the Jewish money power Anthony Crossley, Conservative MP for Oldham, on Arabs being totally not represented compared to Jews 1940 Hansjurgen Koehler about Adolf Hitler's grandmother: "A little servant girl came to Vienna...

... manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented" 1942 Prescott Bush had been funding Hitler from America. Interestingly the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) never criticizes any of the Bush family for this The Jewish Chronicle: "We have been at war with Hitler since the first day that he gained power" Chaim Weizmann, President of the...

... considered himself the father of terrorism in the Middle East, he proudly replied: "No, in the entire whole world" Benjamin Netanyahu dedicates a plaque at the site of this terrorist atrocity, which cites the bombers as freedom fighters to be admired by Israel The Bank of England is nationalised on paper, in reality it is still owned by the biggest and baddest of them all The British money supply is still...

... barter, thus bartering the surplus of goods Germany had, with the surplus of goods Germany needed that another country had, without debts being incurred on either side. Hitler simply issued what money was needed on the authority of the German Government, which was backed by the productivity of the German labour force, and not the empty promises of Jewish international bankers He, like Abraham Lincoln...

... before him, simply issued what money was needed on the authority of the German Government, which was backed by the productivity of the German labour force, and not the empty promises of Jewish international bankers, who in a country without debt, could not function. As a result of this policy, Germany was able to regenerate the social and spiritual life of all its citizens. Put simply, when you are...

... released from the grip of the Jewish usurer and measures taken to ensure that it should, 'remain permanently in the possession of one family, handed down from father to son.'" The Jews could not let this continue as they knew that it would spell the death of their debt driven money system and so World War 2 starts The Jews could not let this continue as they knew that it would spell the death of their...

... debt driven money system and so World War 2 starts this year, in earnest. This is not a war between Germany and the Allies, it is a war between Germany and the Jewish money power This war is about one thing, which money system would survive. This is not a war between Germany and the Allies, it is a war between Germany and the Jewish money power who are in control of the Allied leadership and use them...

... supreme contempt for other races, a complete disregard for other peoples' rights, cleverness in imitation and improvisation, contempt for all labour not associated with high profits, great energy in the cause of money-making, a hatred of all nationalism but their own, a high degree of loyalty to their own family and their own community, an implicit faith in the power to corrupt gentiles, a brilliant...

..., but when that failed he knew he would have to try a different tactic. That was, of course, what happened at Pearl Harbor. Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England: "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented" Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England during the years 1928...

...-1941, makes the following statement with regard to banking, "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create...

... enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit." 1942 Prescott Bush had been funding...

..., Federal Reserve Notes, the IMF has been given the authority to issue a world fiat money called, "Special Drawing Rights," or SDR's. Member nations would end up being pressured into making their currencies fully exchangeable for SDR's. The IMF is controlled by its board of governors, which are either the heads of different central banks, or the heads of the various national treasury departments who are...

... England is nationalised which means that the state acquired all the shares in the Bank of England, which now belong to the Treasury and are held in trust by the Treasury Solicitor. However, as the government has no money to pay for the shares, they give the current secret shareholders of the Bank of England, government stocks instead of money for their shares. This means that although the state now...

... receives the operating profits of the bank, this gain is largely offset by the fact that the government now has to pay interest on the new stocks it has issued to pay for the shares. The British money supply is still almost entirely in private hands, with 97% of it being in the form of interest bearing loans of one sort or another So, although the Bank of England is now state-owned, the fact is that the...

... British money supply is still almost entirely in private hands, with 97% of it being in the form of interest bearing loans of one sort or another, created by private commercial banks. As a result of this, the bank is largely controlled and run by those from the world of commercial banking and conventional economics. The members of the Court of Directors, who set policy and oversee its functions, are...

... tremendously - this inferiority. And Jews have a certain intelligence, and because of that intelligence they become rich fast. Put them in any situation and sooner or later they will be on top. How can you avoid not hating them? They simply go directly to the top; they don't wait. And particularly about money, they are the cleverest people in the world. For a certain reason: because after Jesus' crucifixion...

..., they lost all power - all political power; Christianity became politically powerful. There was no way for the Jews to be politically powerful, so their whole mind turned to the second power - money. They became focused on money. These are the only two worldly powers: either politics or money. Because they were not in the majority, they could not be politically powerful, so naturally their whole...

... intelligence was channellised towards money. That was the only way for them to become powerful. And with money many things come. With money comes more education, with money comes more literature, more music, more drama, more art. With money Comes more intelligence. So down the ages they have been hoarding money, and money on its own creates more possibilities to be intelligent, to be clever. And when you are...

... more intelligent, you earn more money, and so on and so forth it goes' And people who have money are hated because ninety- nine per cent of people don't have any money; they are very jealous. The poor people hate the rich, and if they can get an opportunity they will kill the rich. And whenever they get the opportunity, they kill - they will find any excuse. Jews are hated because they have immense...

... power over money, and money gives them power over other things - even power over politicians. Money is such a strange power... And it goes on creating more power, so they are hated. And they have turned the whole world into a market: they reduce everything to a commodity, they reduce everything to a certain market value. That too creates a little hatred, because if everything is reduced to money, if...

... everything is reduced to the market and everything becomes a commodity, it creates an ugly world. Then there is no higher value. Then there is nothing more important than money. Then everything is reduced to money. That, too, creates hatred. So poor people hate them, and rich people also hate them. Because money is a very low value - powerful, immensely powerful! - but a lower value. And Jews don't think...

... that anything more valuable exists. And they have learned through experience that if they have money, then only can they survive. So wherever they are they are hated. But they are hated because they are clever. Of course, their cleverness turned in a wrong direction, it became money-oriented. And the whole Judaic tradition fell slowly slowly - became very worldly. It lost the spiritual dimension. So...

... the very word 'Jew' has a wrong association. Jews can only be free from this hatred of the world if they start looking for higher values than money. I have heard... The local synagogue was holding a raffle. The winner of the third prize stood delightedly as the curtain raised to show a gleaming Cadillac. The winner of the second prize held his breath as the curtain raised - to reveal a sponge cake...

... the Christians'. Jesus was born a Jew, died a Jew. He was the greatest Jew ever. He was not a Christian. If Jews can accept Jesus back home, that will change the whole climate in the world. And if Jews can put their energies - as they have put them into money - if they can put their energies into meditation, they will become the greatest meditators on the earth. They can herald a new era! Question 7...

... is saying "Hello!" and you don't listen. From everywhere He is calling you. From everywhere He is inviting you: "Come to me!" But you are somehow keeping your eyes closed, or you have got blinkers on - you don't look anywhere. You just look in a very narrow way, in a very focussed way. If you are looking for money, you only look for money; then you don't look anywhere else. If...

... you are looking for power, you look only for power and you don't look anywhere else. And remember: in money; God is not because money is man-made and God cannot be man-made. When I say God is everywhere, remember those things have not to be included which man has made. God cannot be man-made. God is not in money. Money is a very cunning invention of man. And God is not in power; that too is again a...

... madness of man. Just the very idea to dominate somebody is insane. Just the VERY idea that "I should be in power and others should be powerless" is the idea of a madman - a destructive idea. God is not in politics and God is not in money and God is not in ambition - but God is everywhere where man has not destroyed Him, where man has not created something of his own. This is one of the most...

... personal gift to you, with your initials on it. You enjoy it, you live it! And even if you have to pay much for it, it is worth paying. Even if sometimes you have to pay for your life with your life, that too is perfectly good. Tantra is very rebellious. It believes in a totally different kind of society, which will not be possessive, which will not be money-oriented, which will not be power-oriented. It...

... meaningful so I am going to answer it anyway. And I have the feeling that sooner or later Philip Martin will be a sannyasin. Even the question shows some leaning. First thing: all the religions of the world have emphasized charity - DHAN - too much. And the reason is that man has always felt guilty with money. Charity has been preached so much to help man feel a little less guilty. You will be surprised...

...: in old English there is a word'gilt' - g-i-l-t - which means money. In German there is a word'Geld' - g-e-l-d - which means money. And the gold is very close by!'Gilt','guilt','Geld','gold' somehow deep down a great guilt is involved in money. Whenever you have money you feel guilty... and it is natural because so many people don't have money. How can you avoid guilt? Whenever you have money you...

... know somebody has become poorer because of you. Whenever you have money, you know somewhere somebody will be starving - and your bank balance goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Some child will not get the medicine needed to survive. Some woman will not get the medicine; some poor man will die because he will not have food. How can you avoid these things? They will be there. The more money you have...

..., the more these things will be there erupting in your consciousness; you will feel guilty. Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, "I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust...." You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of...

... people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt. So the first thing I would like to say is: Charity is not a virtue; it is just a help to keep your sanity intact, otherwise you will go insane. Charity is...

... not a virtue - it is not a PUNYA. It is not that you have done something good when you do charity. It is only that you repent for all the bad that you have done in accumulating the money. To me, charity is not a great quality - it is repentance, you are repenting. One hundred rupees you have earned, ten rupees you give in charity - it is a repentance. You feel a little good; you don't feel THAT bad...

... helping others, no, but by sharing you will be growing. The more you share, the more you grow. And the more you share, the more you have - whatsoever it is. It is not only a question of money. If you have knowledge, share it. If you have meditation, share it! If you have love, share it. WHATSOEVER you have, share it, spread it all over; let it spread like the fragrance of a flower going to the winds. It...

... rushing without any reason. You must be ambitious. Try to see WHY this mind is rushing, where it is rushing - you must be ambitious. If it thinks about money, then try to understand. Mind is not the question. You start dreaming about money, that you have won a lottery or this and that, and then you even start planning how to spend it, what to purchase and what not. Or, the mind thinks you have become a...

... come to see only those moments have been saved which were moments of witnessing, and all else has gone down the drain. The money that you earned, the prestige that you earned, the respectability that you earned, is all gone down the drain. Only those few moments that you had some flashes of witnessing, only those moments are saved. Only those moments will go with you when you leave this life - only...

... muladhar. And because of constipation many other things grow into the human mind. A man becomes a hoarder - a hoarder of knowledge, hoarder of money, hoarder of virtue - becomes a hoarder and becomes miserly. He cannot leave anything! Whatsoever he grabs, he holds it. And with this anal emphasis, a great damage happens to muladhar because the man or the woman has to go to the genital. If they get fixated...

... vessels' which wear out?13  — No, 'like gold vessels' which do not wear out. If so, [the expression] should have been 'like vessels [made] thereof'! And, furthermore, it was taught: [A bar of] gold is like vessels; gold denarii are like ready money.14  R. Simeon b. Gamaliel said: Where the usage is not to change them15  they are valued and are [to be entered in the kethubah] at the...

.... Gamaliel, but a clause therein is missing, and the proper reading is as follows: [A bar of] gold is like vessels,29  gold denarii are like ready money. This is the case only where it is the usage to change them,30  but where it is the usage not to change them31  they are to be valued and entered in the kethubah at the rate of their actual value; so R. Simeon b. Gamaliel for R. Simeon b...

...  R. Ashi said: [We deal here28  with] gold leaf.33  R. Jannai stated: The spices of Antioch34  are35  like ready money.36  R. Samuel b. Nahmani stated in the name of R. Johanan:37  A woman38  is entitled to seize Arabian camels in settlement of her kethubah.39 R. Papi stated: A woman38  may seize clothes40  manufactured at Be Mikse41  for her...

... kethubah.42 R. Papi further stated: A woman38  may seize sacks made at Rodya43  and the ropes of Kamhunya44  for her kethubah. Raba stated: At first I said: A woman38  is entitled to seize money bags45  of Mahuza46  for her kethubah.42  What was [my] reason? Because [women] relied upon them.42  When I observed, however, that they47  took them and went out with...

... them into the market48  and as soon as a plot of land came their way they purchased it with this money I formed the opinion that they rely49  only upon land.50 MISHNAH. IF A MAN GAVE HIS DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE WITHOUT SPECIFYING ANY CONDITIONS, HE MUST GIVE HER NOT LESS THAN FIFTY ZUZ. IF THE [BRIDEGROOM] AGREED TO TAKE HER IN NAKED HE51  MAY NOT SAY, 'WHEN I HAVE TAKEN HER INTO MY HOUSE...

... [H]. On marriage. No addition of fifty per cent (as in the case of ready money) and no subtraction of a fifth (as in the case of goods) are made [H], the term is explained anon. Lit., 'what, not?' And consequently deteriorate in value. How then could R. johanan maintain that a bar of gold is to be entered in the kethubah for its full value without reducing the fifth prescribed for goods? Since they...

... ready money? Lit., 'but not'. R. Simeon b. Gamaliel. And a reduction of a fifth is therefore to be made. Cf. supra p. 406, n. 13. Would then R. Johanan accept the opinion of R. Simeon b. Gamaliel against that of the anonymous first Tanna? R. Simeon b. Gamaliel does not refer to the first clause. The first Tanna. Of fifty percent, as in the case of regular currency. In the case of bar gold, however, it...

.... Rashi; 'sheets' (Jast.). [A frontier town between Babylon and Arabia (Obermeyer, p. 334)]. Cf. supra n. 6 mutatis mutandis. Not identified. [In the neighbourhood of Supra, op. cit. p. 296]. I.e., the sums of money which they contain (Rashi). A famous commercial town (v. supra p. 319, n. 9). Windows or divorced women who seized them for their kethubah. So MS.M. Cur. edd., omit the last three words. As...

...: [They purchased] ordinary meat for a pound11  [of money].12  R. Ashi replied: The place was13  a small village14  and everyday a beast had to be spoiled for his sake.15 A certain man once applied to16  R. Nehemiah [for maintenance]. 'What do your meals consist of', [the Rabbi] asked him. 'Of fat meat and old wine', the other replied — 'Will you consent [the Rabbi asked...

... impoverished51  but after death52  this does not matter. R. Abba used to bind money in his scarf,53  sling it on his back, and place himself at the disposal of the poor.54  He cast his eye, however, sideways [as a precaution] against rogues.55 R. Hanina had a poor man to whom he regularly sent four zuz on the Eve of every Sabbath. One day he sent that sum through his wile who came back and...

... benefit from them. He, however, was not approachable at all times and the alms he gave to the poor were not in kind but in money which had first to be spent before the poor could derive any benefit from it. His benefits, therefore, were indirect. Why did they make such an effort to escape from the attention of the poor man? Var Hana (v. B.M. 59a). To be burned (Gen. XXXVIII, 24). Ibid., 25. She chose to...

...., 'he arose'. Distributing half his wealth. V. supra 50a. Lit., 'go down from his wealth'. I.e., when one is on the point of dying as was the case with Mar 'Ukba. [H] 'scarf' or 'turban', a cloth placed over, or wound round the head, hanging down loosely upon, the arms and shoulders. Who undid the binding and shared the money among themselves. He would nevertheless spare the poor the feelings of shame...