...  WHEREAS IF HE HAD FOUND IT FIRST, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REMOVE IT TOGETHER WITH THE SOIL IT OCCUPIES.4 GEMARA. Rab Judah said: IF A MAN FINDS, but not if [he knows] it is to be found there;5  A CORPSE, but not one who had been killed;6  LYING, but not seated;7  IN THE USUAL POSITION, but not with its head lying between its thighs.7  'Ulla b. Hanina taught: A defective...

... [bodies] which were known to be there and one [which was discovered] for the first time, and he wanted to declare them a graveyard site.12  R. Akiba said to him: All your trouble was for nothing. [The Rabbis] did not declare a graveyard site save where three [corpses] were known to be there, or three [were found] for the first time.13 [IF HE FINDS] TWO, HE MAY REMOVE THEM TOGETHER WITH THE SOIL...

... not remove it (Tosaf.). In which case it is assumed that it was buried there for convenience and not that there was an old cemetery there. Jewish bodies were always buried prostrate; hence this cannot be an old Jewish cemetery. In these last three cases, he removes the body for reburial elsewhere. A corpse lacking a member essential to life. (Tosef. Oh. XVI, 2). Hence the site is not declared a...

.... Required to propagate uncleanness in a tent. (V. supra 49b, 50a). Tosef. Oh. II, 2 with variations. R. Johanan b. Nuri. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nazir 65b Raba said: If he searched, [found a corpse]1  and removed it, searched [again and found another] and removed it, [and then] searched [again] and found [a third corpse], he must not remove this one [for reburial] with the other...

... two,2  nor the other two [for reburial] with this one.3 Others say that Raba said: As permission had been given to remove [the others],4  he may remove them [all].5  But why should not [the field] become a graveyard site?6  — Resh Lakish said: [The Rabbis] seized upon any pretext to declare the Land of Israel clean.7 Suppose he searched [beyond it]8  for twenty cubits...

... PRESUMPTION [OF UNCLEANNESS].38 IF A MAN GIVES ANOTHER A BLOW FROM WHICH HE WAS EXPECTED TO DIE AND HE PARTIALLY RECOVERED AND THEN GREW WORSE AND DIED [THE OTHER] IS LIABLE [FOR MURDER]. R. NEHEMIAH EXEMPTS HIM SINCE THERE IS A PRESUMPTION [IN HIS FAVOUR].39 GEMARA. How do we know this?40  — Nathan said: The verse says. And of the gonorrhoeic41  that have the issue,42  [whether it be a...

... evidence is also discussed. This chapter also deals with the mode of procedure on the part of the judges at the voting and at the promulgation of the sentence. CHAPTER VI describes how the condemned man was led to the place of execution, and how a last opportunity was offered to him by the court for the revocation of the sentence. Such details as the announcement of the execution by a herald, confession...

... of sins before the execution and the benumbing of the criminal's senses before execution are vividly portrayed. Hanging as a posthumous addition and the different procedure in the case of women criminals, to lessen shame, are also discussed. The burial of the condemned in special cemeteries and the resignation of their relatives to the verdict are referred to, leading to an extensive discussion on...

... the practice of burial as a whole. The chapter concludes by raising the interesting point to what extent one may act in self-defence. CHAPTER VII deals with the four modes of execution practised in ancient Israel — stoning, burning, decapitation and strangulation — and proceeds to describe the methods of the last three, stoning having already been dealt with in the previous chapter. In...

... applicable and the conditions that must be fulfilled before he incurs the supreme penalty. By a natural transition the right to kill a housebreaker in self-defence is discussed, and this leads to a list of those who may be killed to prevent them from sinning, followed by a discussion on the sins which may not be committed even under threat of death. The Aggada treats of the age at which childbirth was...

... possible in ancient days, the insidious dangers of wine, and the nature of the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden. CHAPTER IX continues with the four modes of execution, and burning is stated to be the penalty of certain forms of incest. Those who are decapitated follow, viz., a murderer and the inhabitants of a condemned city. Noteworthy are the statements that a person who was twice flagellated and a...

... [the money] is upon it. And since the second clause means that it is required for itself, the first clause too means that it is required for itself. R. JUDAH SAID: ONE MAY ALSO REMOVE, etc. Yet why? surely he makes it fit?15  — R. Judah agrees with R. Eliezer, who maintains: The terumah lies as a [separate] entity.16  For we learnt: If a se'ah of terumah falls into less than a hundred...

...  — Rather [reply thus]: He [R. Judah] rules as R. Simeon, as we learnt: If a se'ah of terumah falls into a hundred,22  and one has no time to remove [it] until another falls in, it is [all] forbidden;23  but R. Simeon permits it.24  Yet how [does this follow]? Perhaps there they differ in this: viz., the first Tanna holds: Though they fell in consecutively it is as though...

... standing: therefore he must remove them — Sc. the clean and the unclean — together, whatever their position. So that he has to explain the Mishnah as referring to when the unclean terumah is on top. Sc. the Mishnah infra b. For use. This should be preventively forbidden out of consideration for that which is made fit by means of labour. Since one part is to be removed, it is as though the...

.... It is now assumed that his reason is because he regards the first se'ah as lying distinct and apart, and therefore the second se'ah alone is counted, and that too is neutralized. Hence on the contrary, instead of regarding the terumah as a thing apart, he maintains that it becomes entirely one with the hullin. I.e., he may decide to remove a se'ah from one side of the pile and then, without...

... he placed [it there],15  it [the cushion] became a stand for a forbidden article. Rabbah b. Bar Hanah said: They learnt this only when it is required for itself; but if its place is required, one may remove it [the cushion] while they [the coins] are yet upon it. And thus did Hiyya b. Rab of Difti16  recite: They learnt this only when it is required for itself; but if its place is...

... footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files One hundred and one is stated inclusively. Thus R. Judah insists on actual removal. He agrees with R. Simeon b. Eleazar but adds that since mere intention suffices to make the mixture fit, one can also remove the se'ah on the Sabbath. When he wishes to draw the contents. And the falling stone might cause damage. E.g., secretion, spittle, etc. But not...

... with water, which is forbidden as washing. Which is not such as is washed with water. As here: one must not handle the stone, a forbidden article, but the whole cask, which is a permitted object, even though the stone lies upon it. Leaving the non-edible beans in the bowl. I.e., he can remove the non-edible beans, if he wishes. Then Beth Hillel permit the latter to be picked out, because it is less...

... could not tell a lie. They were professional criminals, murderers, they had been charged with murder before, they had been in jail many times - but they could not tell a lie. Just seeing my truth, a synchronicity ... something in them also was touched. They said, "Half they have given us and half they have promised after we kill you." "So," I said, "you will lose half. You...

... conspiracy going on: 'Today something has to be done to this man because he has been hammering all our beliefs, all our heritage, all our institutions. Nobody seems to have any answer for him, nobody seems to have any argument.' So they are thinking, just the way idiots will think, 'Why not kill this man, why not destroy this man?' So today's meeting can become fatal to you." I said, "Don't be...

... hundred thousand people ... just seeing them on the stage is enough! Those three people had not expected that I was going to speak about them first. And how did I know about them? I said, "These three persons are here to kill me, so you all have to be aware - at least they should be patient. There is no problem in killing, they can kill me, but first let me finish what I want to say to you. If they...

... kill me in the middle you will be at a loss; you will have missed what I was going to say to you. "So I want to ask you one thing: Do you want me to say all that I have to say? If you want me me to, then please raise your hands. If you don't want me to, then what is the point of saying half the things; half the truth is far worse than a lie. Then I would rather remain silent and tell these three...

... people to kill me." One hundred thousand hands shot up, with shouts of "We want to hear you, and we will see who can attack you" - and many people, hundreds of people, came behind me, to prevent those three people. You will be surprised; I spoke the way I always speak, I said things as strongly as possible. And the miracle was that I was speaking against those people's beliefs! But...

... three persons go, they were holding them. The whole meeting became my meeting. I spoke for almost two and a half hours because there was nobody else to speak, and nobody to tell me to stop or anything. The chairman was missing - they had all escaped because they were all part of the conspiracy. And those three men fell at my feet and said, "Somehow save us. If you leave, these people will kill us...

... kill me and get the other half." They said, "We don't want to kill you. We had no idea who you are. Listening to you we wanted to kill all those people who were trying to kill you." I said to the people, "Leave these simple, innocent people, don't harass them, I would like them to move away before I leave the place because I don't know ... this is such a big crowd and you look so...

... great warriors. In a small village there was a great warrior, and in India, to have your mustache pointing upwards is thought to be the sign of a great warrior. He was such an arrogant and stubborn fellow that he had told everybody in the town, "You can have your mustache, but they should be always pointing downwards. If I see anybody having his mustache pointing upwards, I will kill him!"...

..., then I will suggest one thing - because one never knows, I may be dead, you may be dead... because it is not going to be just that you chop off my head; I also have my sword, although I have never used it. But if that moment has come I will give it a try. There is no harm; anyway I am going to die. "Before we enter into a fight to kill each other, my suggestion is that I should go inside my...

... house and kill my wife and my children, because more or less I will be killed, and after me my children will be orphans, my wife will be a widow, and who will take care of them? And I suggest the same thing to you: that you go home, kill your wife, kill your children, so if you are killed there is no problem; there will be nobody left behind you in misery and pain." The warrior said, "The...

... idea is right." He went back and immediately cut off the heads of his wife and his six children and came back. Just on the way he met the man. He was coming without the sword and he had put his mustache downward. The warrior said, "What happened?" He said, "I thought, I am a lazy man, it is more simple to put the mustache down than to kill the wife and the children. And I have...

... silence, your peacefulness, your relaxedness, your love, deepen, your ego disappears. Ego is a false entity. One need not be worried about ego. Meditation is the medicine to kill the ego. So I accept all kinds of people: egoist, jealous, angry, violent, depressed, because I have seen that a simple meditation transforms all these baser metals into gold. This is the alchemy of sannyas. So that should not...

.... He tells a friend that he's going to kill her. "Don't do that", says the friend. "If you kill her you will go to jail and be hanged. It is better you should screw her to death." So the Jew makes love to his wife day and night for a year. His friend comes round to visit him and is shocked to find him a haggard and shaking old man, but his wife looks wonderful, shining with health...

.... "How is it you are so ill and she is so well?" asked the friend. "Sh, don't say anything, she does not know she is dying." Just a confusion. You cannot kill a woman by making love, you will kill yourself. The energies are so different. By making love man loses energy and the woman gains energy; she is the receiver. So the more you love, the more you are bringing your death closer...

... in women. Gautam Buddha was betrayed by Devadatta and Devadatta tried to kill Gautam Buddha many times - many attempts were made on his life - but you will not find a single woman parallel to Devadatta or Judas. Jesus was also surrounded by women, but they simply served. I remember a small incident: Jesus is staying in the house of one of his female disciples, Mary. There were two sisters, Mary and...

...  — In case it be said4  that Scripture is only concerned for a transfer [through] the son,5  but that a husband was not heir [to his wife]. proof was brought from,6  So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove front tribe to tribe.7  And in case it be said,8  its9  purpose is [to teach that] one would transgress thereby [both] a negative10 ...

...; and a positive11  [precept],12  proof was brought from,13  So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe.14  And in case it is said15  that the purpose of this is [to teach that] one would transgress two negative [precepts] and [one] positive, proof was brought from,13  And Eleazar the son of Aaron died etc.16  And in case it be said15  that...

... the husband. V. p. 463, n. 17. Of Num. XXXVI. 7. so shall no inheritance remove etc. Shall be wife etc (Num. XXXVI, 8). But a husband cannot be heir to his wife. V. n. 1. Num. XXXVI, 9. V. p. 463, n. 7. Josh. XXIV, 33. Heir to his mother in the lifetime of his father, Eleazar, who, though her husband, was not entitled to be her heir. I Chron. II, 22. I.e., fair may have been heir to his mother; not...

... written]. So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe.6  Scripture speaks [here] of transfer through the son. Thou sayest [that it speaks] of a transfer through the son, perhaps [it speaks] only7  of a transfer through the husband? — Since it was said, so shall no inheritance remove front one tribe to another tribe,8  behold transfer through the...

... husband has been spoken of, to what, then, shall one apply, so shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe?9  [It must be assumed, therefore, that] Scripture speaks [here] of transfer through the son. - To Next Folio - Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files That the man she marries must belong both to her mother's, as well as to her father's...

... the target is. It is almost impossible that sometimes it may hit the target; ninety-nine percent is the possibility that you will remain empty and you will die empty. Your life will be a tragedy. That's why people carry such a tragic sense on their faces, in their eyes. Watch people, watch yourself, and you will see - people are living a very tragic existence. Their whole past has gone in vain and...

..., were all just a long, long dream. How to prove it? ... He took a rock from the road and hit Berkeley's feet with the rock. Blood started oozing and Berkeley was in great pain and very angry too. He said, "What kind of behavior is this? What wrong have I done to you? Why have you hit me with the rock? I don't see the point." Johnson laughed and he said, "This is to refute your so-called...

... idealism. Now if the rock is unreal, why are you crying? Why are there tears in your eyes? How can I hit with an unreal rock?" Berkeley started laughing. He said, "But my pain is unreal too, and my tears are unreal too. Only I am real. Who knows that the tears are flowing, that the blood is oozing, that the feet are hurting like hell? Only I who knows, the witness, is real. Everything else...

... discovered self. That's why he was not angry with the people who were killing him, because now he knew nobody could kill. People can kill only the self that they have given to you. They are powerful about it: they can withdraw their support and you will start collapsing. People can only kill politicians, not the mystics. People can kill the politician because the politician exists only on people's votes...

..., their opinions. They can withdraw their opinion and you are nobody. The throne of the politician is carried by the mediocre crowd; any moment it can change its mind, any moment somebody else can satisfy it more, can be more compromising with the mediocre people. It can change immediately. You cannot destroy a religious man; that is impossible. You can kill him, but even in your killing him he remains...

... deathless. That's the whole meaning of the resurrection. People crucified Jesus, but they could not - that is the meaning of the parable. I am not saying that it is an historical fact, that he walked again on the earth. People killed him, but people can kill only the self that they have given, they cannot kill the self that has been discovered. It is beyond their reach, it is beyond their vision. How can...

... they kill it? They cannot even see it. The people who were crucifying Jesus were absolutely unaware of the person whom they were confronting. Who was this man that they were killing? They were killing God! They were killing one of the most significant expressions of God on the earth, but they were blissfully unaware. That's why Jesus said, "Father, forgive these people, because they don't know...

... what they are doing. They don't know me, and what they are killing is their own idea of me. They cannot kill me." That's why people like Jesus, Socrates, Buddha, are not at all worried about what you think about them. They know themselves; your thinking makes no difference. Your thinking will make a difference to you, but it makes no difference to them. They go on living on their own; they live...

... never come again! You are the only person who has frightened me." Never depend on others' opinions. Who are they? How can they give a character certificate? This whole parable is beautiful. It is a hit on human stupidity. Remember, if you are asking for a self to be invented with the help of others, you will remain mediocre. You will never be the flowering of intelligence. Intelligence comes only...

... when you discover yourself. Intelligence is the shadow of that discovery; the great exhilaration that happens when you have stumbled upon yourself face to face, when you have encountered yourself, when you know who you are. Suddenly you are rooted in existence, suddenly you are beyond time. Even death cannot kill you and fire cannot burn you. You are eternal. In that eternity all fear disappears. And...

... [H] love covereth all sins (c) Slay, as in Hul. 37b [H] slay; ib. 15a [H] fit for slaughter. [H] daughter. The message could therefore be taken to mean: 'Reprove' or 'Forgive' or 'Slay the daughter.' Aram. [H] Karethi, which also means 'cut-off.' In Aram [H], hasa, which also means 'compassion'. This clandestine correspondence, deciphered, reads as follows: 'My daughter has gone astray.' &mdash...

...; 'Reprove her (or overlook it, or slay her)'. — 'Shall she be cut off?' — 'No, have compassion.' Lit., 'Everyday'. An ironical allusion to the Jews always having to purchase their freedom with gold from their Roman masters. Dr. L. Ginzberg's comments on the conversations between Ant. and Rabbi reported here are as follows (J.E.I, 656): 'Jewish folklore loved to personify the relations of...

..., EACH SHOULD OBSERVE THE CUSTOMARY FORMALITIES. WHERE ARE YOU FROM, AND WHY ARE YOU SO RUDE?" "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, OLD OSHO?" ANSWERED RINZAI. AS KINGYU WAS ABOUT TO OPEN HIS MOUTH TO REPLY, RINZAI STRUCK HIM. KINGYU PRETENDED TO FALL DOWN. RINZAI HIT HIM AGAIN. KINGYU SAID, "TODAY THINGS WERE NOT TO MY ADVANTAGE." AT A LATER TIME, ISAN ASKED KYOZAN, "IN THE CASE...

.... RINZAI HIT HIM AGAIN - because no pretensions are allowed in Zen. Either you fall down, not by any effort but as a happening... You don't pretend; it is not a drama. KINGYU PRETENDED TO FALL DOWN. RINZAI HIT HIM AGAIN. Now this hit is for his pretension - not only this pretending to fall, but his whole life is a pretension. He is not a master, yet he has been pretending to be the master. KINGYU SAID...

... that matters is spontaneity. And in spontaneity you will be the better, because he seems to be confident: there is no question of this servant surviving; it will be almost like a cat playing with a rat. "So don't be worried. Be total, and hit him hard, because this is your only chance of living, survival. So don't be half-hearted, don't be conditional, thinking that perhaps he may forgive you...

... cannot be unconditional - and you have no other alternative than to be unconditional. Just be total. You don't know where to hit, how to hit, so hit anywhere. Just go crazy!" The servant said, "If you say so, I will do it. In fact there is no chance of my survival, so why not do it totally!" Seeing that the time had come, he learned how to hold the sword, and he came back and challenged...

..., let it be decided once and for all. Either I will survive or you will survive, but both cannot." The master felt a little tremble in his heart, but still he thought, "How can he manage? It is years' training.... I have been fighting for years in wars, and this poor servant..." But he had to take out his sword. The servant went really crazy. Not knowing where to hit, he was hitting...

... here and there and just... The samurai was at a loss, because he could fight with any warrior who knew how to fight - but this man knows nothing and he is doing all kinds of things. The servant pushed him to the wall, and the master had to ask him, "Please forgive me. You will kill me. You don't know how to fight - what are you doing?" The servant said, "It is not a question of doing...

... feet on the cliff. The young man could not believe his eyes. The old man said, "Now you also come. There is enough space here for one more!" The young man tried just two steps and sat down, trembling, seeing the situation. The old man laughed and he said, "What kind of archer are you? How many birds can you kill with a single arrow?" The young man said, "Of course one bird...

..., and seven birds fell down. The young man said, "My God!" The old man said, "When you can look with totality, your very eyes become arrows. But you are a novice; you could not come to the edge of the cliff. If you are trembling inside, then your archery cannot be perfect. You may manage to hit the targets, but that is not the point. The point is that you have an untrembling total...

... deserted. The place smells awful. Kowalski goes over to the bartender, sits down at the bar and orders another drink. "Where did everybody go?" asks Kowalski, drunkenly. "My God!" replies the bartender. "Where were you when the shit hit the fan?" Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes and feel your body to be completely frozen...

... hit him or kill him. But that is too risky, too dangerous - he cannot afford it. Full of anger he comes home and starts fighting with his wife. And she cannot believe it; she has not done anything. The whole day she has been working - preparing his food, his clothes, his house, taking care of the children - and then he comes and starts shouting and insulting her. But she cannot say anything to him...

... LOVE: THUS WILL MY WILL HAVE IT. 'AND YOU TOO, ENLIGHTENED MAN, ARE ONLY A PATH AND A FOOTSTEP OF MY WILL: TRULY, MY WILL TO POWER WALKS WITH THE FEET OF YOUR WILL TO TRUTH! 'HE WHO SHOT THE DOCTRINE OF "WILL TO EXISTENCE" AT TRUTH CERTAINLY DID NOT HIT THE TRUTH: THIS WILL - DOES NOT EXIST! 'FOR WHAT DOES NOT EXIST CANNOT WILL; BUT THAT WHICH IS IN EXISTENCE, HOW COULD IT STILL WANT TO...

.... And he rewarded them immensely. One day he was talking with his nine greatest friends. They were called "the nine jewels of Akbar's court." They were the nine most intelligent, creative people. And Akbar was a little whimsical;he used to do things... and of course you cannot ask the emperor, "Why?" He was not answerable to anybody. Suddenly he hit the face of the man standing by...

.... And he did a good job; that man could not believe: "What is happening, and what kind of thing is this? I have done nothing." But now there was no need to bother about it, Birbal had opened the door. That man didn't think much, he slapped the next man. It is said that that slapping went on all over the capital - whoever was lower was hit. And in the night, the queen suddenly hit Akbar. He...

... said, "What are you doing?" She said, "I don't know what is happening, but it is going on all over in the capital. Somebody has hit me, and of course, she was one of your wives" - Akbar had five hundred wives - "and she was a senior one, so I could not hit her back." The queen was the youngest wife - of course she had more power over Akbar than any other wife; she was...

... the most beautiful. She said, "I cannot hit anybody else but you." Akbar said, "This is strange. This is my own slap that has come back to me, having taken a round all over the city!" Hierarchies serve a purpose. And there are not only hierarchies in the government, in the church, in political parties; there are hierarchies in the house, in the family. If you look closely, you...

... never misses the chance. When Nirvano came to India for the first time, she was very puzzled: people walking on the street unnecessarily, for no reason at all, will take a rock and hit some stray dog. Her first question to me was, "Why do people hit stray dogs? They are not doing anything to anybody." I said, "You don't understand. Those people are being hit, and there is nobody else...

... NOT HIT THE TRUTH: THIS WILL - DOES NOT EXIST!' "Will to existence" does not exist... unless will to existence serves the will to power; otherwise it has no meaning. You would not like just to vegetate and go on living. You would not like to be a mere survivor. 'FOR WHAT DOES NOT EXIST CANNOT WILL; BUT THAT WHICH IS IN EXISTENCE, HOW COULD IT STILL WANT TO COME INTO EXISTENCE?' You are...