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.... Their lives are projections of dreams and illusions. Their minds are constantly weaving and spinning hallucinations. They live for power, money, prestige - which are all illusions, just soap-bubbles. They may be there for a moment, they may shine in the sun for a moment, they may even look beautiful like diamonds, but then they are gone. They can't give you eternity and they can't give you a real...
.... It may make the person joyful but it has no social use. In fact a joyful person is too dangerous to the society, because he does not bother about the society, he does not listen to the ambitious goals that the society goes on proposing - to earn more money, be successful, become a chief minister or a prime minister. A really sexually healthy person does not bother a bit about all this nonsense...
.... The western attitude is end-oriented - hence so much anxiety and so much hurry because one has to reach fast: time is short and time is money. The western mind thinks in terms of how to reach faster. The eastern mind thinks in a totally different way. It is not a question of reaching somewhere - the existence is not going anywhere: it is simply herenow... it is simply a joyful dance. The joy is in...
... not have to provide him with another ass; where this was done without any negligence [on his part], he is provided with another ass. If he said: Give me the money for the ass and I will [buy it myself and]11 in any case guard the asses,12 we do not listen to him.13 Is this not obvious? — No; this is a case where he possesses another ass, and where therefore I might have said...
... to the schoolhouse, lest the Rabbis discomfort him. Every evening he would exhort them,4 'Come, my brethren and familiars!' whilst every morning he exclaimed, 'Depart, because ye disturb my studies!' One day his wife, hearing him, cried out, 'You yourself bring them upon you; you have [already] squandered the money of my father's house!'5 So she left him6 and returned to her...
...] gratuitously; whereas a paid bailee must even [engage them] for payment. And to what extent?7 — Up to their value.8 But where do we find that a paid trustee is responsible for accidents?9 — Subsequently he collects the money from the owner. Said R. Papa to Abaye: If so, how does he benefit him? — It makes a difference on account of the attachment of the animals10 or...
... LEASES A FIELD FROM HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND IT [THE CROP] IS EATEN BY GRASSHOPPERS, OR BLASTED [BY TEMPEST], IF IT WAS A WIDESPREAD EPIDEMIC,18 HE CAN DEDUCT FROM THE RENTAL; IF IT WAS NOT A WIDESPREAD EPIDEMIC, HE MAY NOT DEDUCT FROM THE RENTAL. R. JUDAH SAID: IF HE LEASED IT ON A MONEY RENTAL,19 THEN IN BOTH CASES HE MAY MAKE NO DEDUCTIONS FROM THE RENTAL.20 GEMARA. How far must it extend to...
... He did not fulfill for them. They said to him: If only we could get out with our lives! A parable: [They were] like a man who was kept in prison and people told him: To-morrow, they will release you from the prison and give you plenty of money. And he answered them: I pray of you, let me go free today and I shall ask nothing more! And they let them have what they asked.3 R. Ammi says...
... case of the knife. And he would have to pay for the torn garments. With money. To the owner of the purse for the loss of the purse and its contents. He was guilty of stealing as soon as he lifted up the purse, and he was guilty of desecrating the Sabbath only after he carried it into the public road. And as the two guilty acts did not coincide, he is not free from payment. When he got it out from the...
... fact that a means of earning money was not opened to him. So Rashi. It is natural for a woman to cover herself, particularly when it is in her own interest. Heb. libabtini (E.V. Thou hast ravished my heart). Cant. IV, 9. Heb. leb, which 'Ulla takes to be the root of lebubin. Thus he translates: RAMS MAY GO OUT with their hides over their hearts. Wolves usually seize beasts at the heart (Rashi). Which...
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