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... 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...
... overriding concern with matters of money and property mirror that of the Jews, and Professor Shahak offers a number of hair-splitting examples of Jewish beliefs on the subject and the way in which distinctions are made between the property of Jews and Gentiles, and between Jewish dealings with another Jew and with a Gentile. Two of these examples will suffice here: "If a Jew finds property whose probable...
... were latterday symptoms of the feeling expressed on the ancient day when "the people wept" at the reading of The Law. The Talmud forbade the Jew almost every activity other than the amassing of money ("they only conceded just enough to the people about them to make their economic activities possible"; Dr. Kastein) and the study of the Talmud ("whenever the Law could not be...
... presented these fictions to their peoples as truth, for they had found that powerful Jews, in all countries, were able to assist parties favoured by them with money, press support and votes; the return they required was support for the cause of the "persecuted" Jews in Russia and for the "return" to Palestine. In effect this meant that politicians who sought these favours had to...
... few quotations will suffice to show its character: 19 "When a Jew has a gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same gentile, lend him money and in his turn deceive him, so that the gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a gentile (according to our law) belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has the full right to seize it." 20 "When a Jew makes a deal with a gentile, and...
... twelve months (v. B.B. 139b). Out of the estate of the deceased. B.B. 140b. Begging. He feels more humiliation when his widow goes begging than when his daughter does so. Cf. supra p. 242, n. 13. It is a father's wish, as a rule, that his daughter shall be enabled to save up some money for her marriage dowry. Why these BELONG TO HER BROTHERS. As in the case of COMPENSATION and FINE spoken of in the...
... - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files V. Glos. Since the bequest was not a quantity of wine but a specified sum of money. Lit., 'spoilt', or 'caused to diminish, (Af. of [H]). During their father's lifetime. He was on the point of dying and disposing of his property (cf. p. 322, n. i). To consult him as to how they could reduce their liability. So that the liability of the...
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