... Babylonian Talmud: Yebamoth 7         Previous Folio / Yebamoth Directory / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Yebamoth Folio 7a If the Temple service which is of high importance and supersedes the Sabbath1  is itself superseded by [a death sentence for] murder, as it is said, Thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die,2  how much...

... more reasonable is it that the Sabbath which is superseded by the Temple service should be superseded by [a death sentence for] murder'. How, then, could it be said, 'Or it might rather [etc.]'?3  — He means this: The burial of a meth mizwah4  might prove [the contrary], since it supersedes the Temple service5  and does not nevertheless supersede the Sabbath.6  Then7 ...

... kinds of labour other than the execution of a judicial death sentence, but that a judicial death sentence does supersede the Sabbath, for a positive precept14  supersedes the prohibition. Then15  he argued: It might be suggested that a positive precept supersedes a prohibition in the case of a mere prohibition only; has it, however, been heard to supersede a prohibition which involves kareth...

... Scripture specifically restores it; for it was taught: Anything which was included in a general proposition and was subsequently excluded in order to be made the subject of a fresh statement, cannot be restored to the restrictions of the general proposition unless Scripture has explicitly restored it.35  How36  [may this principle be illustrated]? And he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where...

... they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering in the place of the Sanctuary; for as the sin-offering is the priest's so is the guilt-offering.37  Now since there was no need to state, 'As the sin-offering so is the guilt-offering.'38  why did Scripture explicitly state. As the sin-offering so the guilt-offering? Because seeing that the guilt-offering of the leper was singled out39 ...

... forbidden on the Sabbath. So also, it could be argued, the execution of a death sentence, though it supersedes the Temple service, need not necessarily supersede the Sabbath. Saying again, 'Or it might rather etc.', supra 6b. Num. VI, 7; v. Meg. 3b. Ex. XXXV, 3. For the continuation, v. supra 6b. Cf. supra p. 27, n. 8. How, in view of this assumption, could any other conclusion be arrived at? The Sabbath...

.... supra note 3. Now that it is concluded that the need of the Scriptural text prohibiting the execution of a death sentence on Sabbath is because otherwise the permissibility thereof might have been argued a minori, and not on the ground of the principle that a positive command supersedes a prohibition, there is no proof available for the assumption that a positive precept supersedes a prohibition which...

... for everybody. Don't think that when you go to a Zen Master he will hit you on your head and you will become enlightened. He will not hit you at all. He will be very polite with you. He will say, "Sir, so great of you to have come to me! I rejoice in your presence." Don't think that he will hit you. It has to be earned. It takes YEARS to get that blow of the Master. That blow can be given...

... only at the last moment. When between you and reality there is only a very very thin layer left, so just one blow and the layer is broken and the bird is out of the egg.... But the bird has to be given a chance to mature in the egg first. Don't go breaking eggs before they are ripe, otherwise you will kill the bird. You will not be of any help. Zen has its own methodology, very crazy, but of immense...

... articulate, then too.... The statements of the Buddha seem hard and impossible to us who are full of ideas and understanding nothing. "That art thou" - a statement like a sea. You cannot walk on it, you cannot build on it. It runs like water through your fingers. "If you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him" - a statement like a mountain. You cannot see through it, you don't know what...

... lies behind it. You have no idea what it means, what it is all about. Just a few days before, I received a letter from America. Some-body must have read in one of my books somewhere: "If you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him." Now he was very angry. Must be a very poor Buddhist. He was so angry and annoyed that he wrote to me in great rage: "Who are you to tell us to kill the Buddha...

...? How can you say such a sacrilegious thing? To kill the Buddha? Buddha has to be worshipped, not killed. Buddha is the greatest man who has walked on the earth. What do you mean by saying 'Kill the Buddha if you meet him on the way'?" He was really angry. I can understand his anger. He does not understand Buddha, he does not understand these great statements. And it is not my statement either...

.... Zen people have been saying it down the ages; it is more than two thousand years old at least. But he may not be aware of it. He must be thinking that I am somebody who is against Buddha. But Buddha is dead! If I am against him, how can I say kill him? These statements ARE like mountains, great mountains. They are like Everest, very difficult to climb too - every possibility of never reaching to the...

... understanding of them. He could not understand, this American could not understand, because he must have been brought up in a Christian way, and then he may have become interested in Buddha. That is the prob-lem. No Christian can say that: "If you meet Jesus on the way, kill him." That is not their language. They will think this is sacrilegious - that's what he writes in the letter: "This is...

... sacrilegious! You must be an atheist, an irreligious person. You must be a Satan to say such a thing as 'Kill the Buddha."' His upbringing must be Christian; that is ANOTHER kind of language. He does not know the Zen way of saying things. It is not said against Buddha - it contains Buddha's whole message! Buddha will absolutely agree with it. That's what he did when he was leaving the world. His last...

..., but kill this Mother. If you really want to have freedom, you have to destroy all connections and all attachments. And this is your attachment. You are not attached to your wife, so that is not a problem. You are not attached to money, so that is not the problem. You are not attached to the world, so that is not the problem. Your whole attachment is with this Mother, this idea of a Mother goddess...

..., "The last barrier has fallen. I am infinitely grateful to you, Master Totapuri - infinitely grateful to you. The last barrier has fallen." This is the meaning when Zen people say, or I say to you, "If you meet the Buddha on the way, kill him." In fact I should say to you, "If you meet me on the way, kill ME" - because you may not meet Buddha, you may meet me. 'On the way...

... professor conducted an experiment to prove a point about work. He hired a man to hit a log with the reverse side of an axe. The man was told that he would be paid twice the amount he normally made. The fellow lasted half a day. He gave it up, explaining, "I have to see the chips fly." Now, a man who cuts wood, if he is told to cut the wood with the reverse side of the axe, soon will lose his...

... are nice to others are hard on themselves - they have to be. There are ordinarily only two types of people: the murderers and the suicides. Murderers are people who are dangerous to others, very dangerous - they can kill. And the people who are not dangerous to others tend to be dangerous to themselves - they can commit suicide. There is no necessity to be divided in two categories, you can go...

... neighbor - you will hate yourself. Then the law of compensation will work. And if you hate yourself, how can you love your neighbor? You can only pretend; only on the surface can you show. Deep down, you would like to murder him. Deep down, you are full of hate. This is the situation that has happened to humanity. My approach is totally different: Be conscious! And the first ripple will be self-love, you...

...: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, THEN AN OLD MAN, A KEEPER OF AN INN, SAID, SPEAK TO US OF EATING AND DRINKING. AND HE SAID: WOULD THAT YOU COULD LIVE ON THE FRAGRANCE OF THE EARTH, AND LIKE AN AIR PLANT BE SUSTAINED BY THE LIGHT. BUT SINCE YOU MUST KILL TO EAT, AND ROB THE NEWLY BORN OF ITS MOTHER'S MILK TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST, LET IT THEN BE AN ACT OF WORSHIP, AND LET YOUR...

... BOARD STAND AN ALTAR ON WHICH THE PURE AND THE INNOCENT OF FOREST AND PLAIN ARE SACRIFICED FOR THAT WHICH IS PURER AND STILL MORE INNOCENT IN MAN. WHEN YOU KILL A BEAST SAY TO HIM IN YOUR HEART: BY THE SAME POWER THAT SLAYS YOU, I TOO AM SLAIN; AND I TOO SHALL BE CONSUMED. FOR THE LAW THAT DELIVERED YOU INTO MY HAND SHALL DELIVER ME INTO A MIGHTIER HAND. YOUR BLOOD AND MY BLOOD IS NAUGHT BUT THE SAP...

... YOU MUST KILL TO EAT, AND ROB THE NEWLY BORN OF ITS MOTHER'S MILK TO QUENCH YOUR THIRST, LET IT THEN BE AN ACT OF WORSHIP.... This is compromise. And this is one of the reasons why the world was not annoyed with Kahlil Gibran. He reaches to high peaks - that too, through a fictitious figure, Almustafa - but he will go on many times falling back and will not have the courage to go against the...

... thing: if you are eating living beings, killing living beings for your food, it is not very far away - you can easily kill human beings too. What is the difference? Life is one, whether it exists in the singing birds or in the beautiful deer or in the glories of a lion - they are also our brothers and sisters. What is the difference between a cannibal and a meat eater? One of my friends was caught in...

... Africa where there still exist small groups of cannibals who eat human flesh, who kill man just for eating. And because they had nothing else to offer him to eat.... They had enough human meat, so they were not interested in killing him right away; they were preserving him in the same way all meat-eating people preserve their cattle for the right moment when they will be killed. He was hungry and he...

... soon. But I want you to consider the fact that the moment you kill, it does not matter whom you are killing, it is always life that is destroyed. Whether it was in the form of man or in the form of an animal makes no difference. And this stupidity continues without considering the fact that with the new technology we can produce enough, and there is no need to kill any bird, any animal, any human...

... being. But because Kahlil Gibran was born in a nonvegetarian society, that conditioning is still lingering somewhere in his unconscious. He allows it very lightly: But since you must kill to eat and rob the newly born of its mother's milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship. That is trying to cover it up - Let it be an act of worship. Can Kahlil Gibran say the same to the cannibals...

... to kill. It is a sheer hangover from the past hunting days, when there was no cultivation. You will be surprised to know that Jainas, who are the only community in the whole world which is vegetarian... not even the Buddhists are vegetarians, although Buddha preached vegetarianism. Then what happened? How did the whole of Asia, which is Buddhist, become meat eaters? This will show you the cunning...

... miles or light years away you are, or how close? WHEN YOU KILL A BEAST, SAY TO HIM IN YOUR HEART: BY THE SAME POWER THAT SLAYS YOU I AM SLAIN; AND I TOO SHALL BE CONSUMED. FOR THE LAW THAT DELIVERED YOU INTO MY HAND SHALL DELIVER ME INTO A MIGHTIER HAND. YOUR BLOOD AND MY BLOOD IS NAUGHT BUT THE SAP THAT FEEDS THE TREE OF HEAVEN. These are words... if he had avoided them, his book would be totally...

... free from all dirt. When you kill a beast - but why should you kill a beast? It is strange: when you kill a beast it is a game, hunting, and when the beast kills you nobody says it is a game, it is hunting. Then it is a calamity. Double standards are always of the cunning mind - although he is trying to put them in such a way that they can deceive anybody, particularly those who are nonvegetarians...

...? In three hundred years they will have again gone at least six hundred years ahead of you. Now small nations should simply forget all about atomic weapons, nuclear missiles. And for what are you keeping a big army, and feeding and preparing those people to kill or to be killed? And remember: your basic need is food for the country, clothes for people. I have known people who have eaten grass, roots...

... there and it would not be easy to arrest me again. Those five thousand sannyasins were not going to take it easily. Those five thousand sannyasins are now all over the world, with a wound in their hearts. Rajiv Gandhi should behave himself: Remove this police commissioner from here, and don't interfere in our right of freedom, freedom of expression, our right to seek the truth, our right to meditate...

... and your act is justice. Both the acts are same. Just he is a poor single individual and you have power of the society, of the state, of the military, of the government. But you are doing the same thing. It is revenge, it is not justice. And if the man committed suicide or murder, he has still a future. His murder was in the past, and murderers have been known to become saints. Now, to kill that man...

... created man, then man is just a puppet. If there is a God who decides what is to happen, then there is no freedom. Then the sinner is not responsible for his sin, neither the saint is responsible for his holiness. Both are puppets, and puppets are not different. I completely remove God from the picture of my way of life. There is no God. Then the whole sky is open. But it has risks. But to be afraid of...

... THEY PLANNED TO KILL YOU, HOW THEY PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE YOU? A:* First, they were afraid that I may start speaking again. It is understandable because my teaching is never to believe. Doubt is the basis of my philosophy. Go on doubting until you come to a reality which is indubitable. And then the question of belief does not arise. You know. So I say either you know or you do not. There is no third...

... her gang. They were sad because their whole power was gone. Their power was that they were representing me, and whatever they wanted they were telling to people that, "This is what Bhagwan wants." And there was no way for the sannyasins to check it, whether I want it or not. So first they tried to kill... even when I was in silence, three persons who were intimate to me and for whom I was...

... while I am asleep either to inject me or to do something, one does not know. Yesterday the man who takes care of the cows informed that he was told to put a certain quantity of poison in my blood every day... in my milk every day, so in a long period it will kill me and nobody will suspect. And since they have left, so many people have come up with so many amazing facts, and they were all afraid of...

... them because if they can kill me.... And they had already killed one man and just threw his body out of the Rancho Rajneesh. The body was found by the police but they could not find who has done it. They were immensely afraid, in deep fear. So they followed whatever was told to them. She had arranged a Share-Home program last year for street people. She said that it is not for voting purposes, but it...

... that my physician was thinking has been given to him because that is not detectable. And it does not kill you immediately, it simply weakens you. Just you have to go on giving over a period of time: it will kill you but you will die almost like a natural death. And we have found -- just Hasya has moved, now she is the president of the foundation -- in her room they have found that under the room...

..., underneath, they have rooms and a tunnel which goes far away to get out. In any case if police is going to arrest her, takes the whole house, surrounded, she can still escape. And those rooms, perhaps for some people who are rebellious to put them there, to drug them there or kill them there-we don't know what was the purpose of having those rooms underneath. We are making it available -- everything -- to...

... colleagues into the therapies and treated them. This is my attitude about all criminals, not only her. I am against punishment because punishment has not transformed anybody in the whole history. Still we go on doing the same thing all over the world. We are barbarious. A man kills somebody and you kill the man, give him a death sentence or a lifelong imprisonment, which is even worse. His act was crime...

... YOUR WISH. THEY MAY EVEN KILL FOR YOU. DOES THIS FRIGHTEN YOU? A:* No. This does not frighten me. This just makes me aware of a human paradox. I am telling my people, "I am not your leader." I am telling my people, "I am not your Master, not a messiah, not a prophet, not a savior. I am just a human being like you -- with a very little difference, that my eyes are open and your eyes are...

... was not wrong. Even if she wanted to kill me, then too I feel her intention was not wrong. Perhaps she felt that my speaking is a danger to the commune. So the first thing I have to say to her if she had come that, "You behaved in a very cowardly way. You did not prove your mettle." Q:* DID SHE TAKE HER MALA WITH HER? A:* She has taken. Q:* AS FAR AS I KNOW, YOU ARE NOT SURE YET IF SHE HAS...

...:* We will see. We will see, because what they don't like, they should stop using it also. It is not one-sided. It is a small commune. And the language they use, they should be aware of it, that we are not Christians that we will turn the other cheek. We believe in tit for tat. We will hit their both cheek. Q:* DO YOU SEE YOUR RENAMING OF ANTELOPE AS A KIND OF A PEACE GESTURE OR...? A:* No, not as a...

...Jewish Ritual Murder, Schramm, Appendix 1...

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...Jewish Ritual Murder, Schramm...

... very cultured man. It hit him very strongly. He never expected that anybody should misbehave in front of the great emperor. And this man does not even say, Your Holiness, or, Your Highness. He does not even address the emperor. All that he says is: EMPTINESS, NO HOLINESS. Certainly he must have been angry inside; it is natural - he had been waiting for three years. Bodhidharma took three years to...

... SHOUTS?" THE MONK STAYED SILENT. BOKUSHU HIT THE MONK AND SAID, "YOU EMPTY-HEADED FOOL!" SETCHO PUT IT LIKE THIS: TWO SHOUTS, THREE SHOUTS; THE KNOWING ONE KNOWS WELL; IF GOING HELL-BENT, BOTH ARE BLIND. WHO IS BLIND? FETCH HIM! EXPOSE HIM TO THE WORLD! OSHO, I ALSO AM AN EMPTY-HEADED FOOL - I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SUTRA AT ALL! COULD YOU GIVE THE FIFTH SHOUT? Maneesha, it is a beautiful...

... the third and the fourth." THE MONK STAYED SILENT. BOKUSHU HIT THE MONK AND SAID, "YOU EMPTY-HEADED FOOL!" Zen is strange - nowhere else in the world has anything like this happened. The monk, the stranger, remaining silent gave the answer. He could have shouted a third time, he could have shouted a fourth time, a fifth time... what is the problem? But rather than shouting a third and...

... fourth, he simply remained silent. He is saying, "Don't waste time. As far as the game, the traditional game is concerned, it is enough; now silence is my third and fourth shout." And only in Zen would it be possible that BOKUSHU HIT THE MONK AND SAID, "YOU EMPTY-HEADED FOOL!" It is acceptance. He has been accepted as a disciple because of his silence. To hit him is to accept him...

..., and to call him "You empty-headed fool" is a very affectionate expression. It is almost saying, "Sweetheart, my darling." It is not rejection. In those two shouts he followed the tradition, but he would not go on repeating the tradition; he gave his own shout, and that was silence. BOKUSHU HIT THE MONK AND SAID, "YOU EMPTY-HEADED FOOL!" In Zen an empty-headed fool is...

... an empty-headed fool. I don't hit people, but Niskriya... hit Maneesha. Do it! (NISKRIYA, THE VIDEO CAMERAMAN, IS SITTING EXACTLY BEHIND MANEESHA. HE GETS UP AND KISSES MANEESHA SOFTLY ON HER HEAD.) It is enough of serious thinking - the trees don't like it! And I always listen to the trees. Look... they have become silent.... A young porter in Washington is brought to court for raping one of the...

...?" Olivia Oppenheimer is a very rich widow, who has a parrot called Percy, who can talk and sing in four languages. Percy is a huge hit at parties and Olivia adores him. But Percy has one weakness: he loves to fly over the fence and fuck the neighbor's chickens. Olivia tries everything to cure Percy of his habit, but with little success. Finally, she gets a pair of scissors and clips all the...

... hit the person who is weaker than you. I was waiting for you." Then he remembered that Birbal had said, "In the morning you will know." Of course Birbal could not hit Akbar, the emperor - he was too powerful. Birbal was just a beautiful man, a wise man, but not powerful. He could hit only the one next down in rank. And once it was understood, who is to hit and who is to get the hit...

..., the game started. It ended with the queen hitting Akbar. Akbar was a very honest man to write in his autobiography, "That moment I understood the great intelligence of Birbal. He had hit me, but in a very roundabout way." Authority has two sides. One side is: be dominated by those who have power; they are authoritative over you. And the other side is: take revenge with those who are below...

... you, who cannot react, who have to take your hit and still smile. The husband comes home and hits the wife because the boss was very angry, and it was nasty, but still he had to smile, falsely. He wanted to hit him, but that would be dangerous - the job would be lost. The Italian consul who was here... when he was asked, "Why are you afraid of meeting Shree Rajneesh with somebody present...

... aggressive. The politicians, the criminals, the generals - they become aggressive. They want to prove actually that they have authority. They can kill millions of people, but even by killing millions of people you don't become superior. You remain the same, just you become the ugliest creature on the earth. So first you have to understand all these nuances of authority. Yes, there is an authority which is...

... stream is not against the rocks, not the opposite of the rocks. Just the absence of the rocks, and an opening happens and the stream starts flowing. Love is in you like a stream, anger is in you like a rock. Remove it. But you go on forcing it inside, more inside. Then you are forcing the stream as well to go more inside. Throw this rock. There is no need to hit someone with it. You want to hit someone...

... create any falsity around you. The false will never lead you to the real; the false will lead you to more that is false. Don't do the false, and allow the real total expression. When I say this you may become scared, because violence is there and you may want to kill someone. So do I mean to go and kill? No! Meditate on it. Close your room and allow your violence. You can express it on a pillow, on a...

... picture, on anything. There is no need to go and kill someone, because that is not going to help. That will create more problems and a chain. On the pillow, write the name of your enemy or your friend - and remember, we are more angry at our friends than at our enemies. Just put a picture of your wife or husband on a pillow, and bring your violence out. Beat the pillow, kill the pillow, and do...

... the first time what anger, what violence is hidden within you. You are a volcano, and this can erupt from you at any moment. In any situation, the volcano may erupt. It is erupting every day. Someone kills someone, and just a day before he was as normal as you. No one ever suspected that he was going to be a murderer. No one suspects about you, and you have so many thoughts in your mind to murder...

.... You have thought, you have planned it many times. The idea to murder someone else or yourself has come to you. It has happened to you if you are not absolutely idiotic. Psychologists say that an intelligent man is bound to think of suicide at least ten times in his life - at least ten times! - and ten thousand times you think to murder someone. You never do it, that is another thing. But you can do...

... lives how can they feel that there can be meaning in others' lives? A Mahavira is even aware not to kill an insect, not even to kill a mosquito, because he has realized himself. Now he knows what is possible even for a mosquito. A mosquito is not just a mosquito; this is a possibility. An infinite possibility is there: this mosquito can become divine. He cannot destroy it, it is impossible. He can...

... against them. Rather, help them to be released. Don't suppress them; allow them to evaporate from you. Then that which you think is opposite is absent. When they have evaporated, you will suddenly realize that silence is there, that love is there, compassion is there. They are not to be cultivated. They are just like a stream hidden in rocks. You remove the rocks and the stream starts flowing. The...

... because you don't know how to throw it without hitting anyone. That is what I am teaching: to throw it without hitting anyone. There is no need to hit anyone. And if you can throw this rock without hitting anyone, everyone will profit out of it. You may not be throwing it on others' heads, but it was always there and others feel it. When you are angry, howsoever you suppress it your anger is felt. You...

...: Question 3: OSHO, IF I SHOULD MEET BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, SHOULD I KILL HIM? Barry Letts, CERTAINLY! You know, that s why I never walk down the road! But you don't understand; you have asked the question, but you don't understand the meaning of it at all. This is a message only for the disciples, and you are not yet a disciple, you are not yet a sannyasin. This is a Zen way of...

... saying something of immense value. It is a Zen saying: If you meet the Buddha on the Way, kill him! But Buddha is dead, has been dead for twenty-five centuries. Where can you meet him, on what way? And how can you... can you kill one who has been dead for twenty-five centuries? It has a totally different meaning: it is a message to the disciple who LOVES Buddha, who loves Buddha so much that there is a...

... in the pants! - because you have to go, you have to go into the unknown. The Master himself says - I say to you - "If you meet me on the Way, kill me." But what way is implied? You will not meet me on M.G. Road! What way? If you go inwards, on the inner Way, on the inward journey, at the last check-post I am waiting for you. And it will be difficult to say goodbye, it has always been...

... difficult to say goodbye. Hence the statement to just KILL the Master, so there is no need even to say goodbye; kill the Master so there is no need to look back; kill the Master so you can now be left TOTALLY alone, with not even the shadow of the Master with you. And this is done in great gratefulness, in great gratitude. But Barry Letts, this is not for you. First become a sannyasin, a disciple, start...

... point, and then certainly if you meet me on the inner Way, kill me. But it happens that people understand only according to THEIR idea. You have not understood this Zen koan. And remember again, it is not that the disciple kills the Master in anger. He kills him in gratitude. In fact he kills him because the Master orders him to kill him; he simply followed the commandment - crying, weeping, with...

... wooden Buddhas cannot create it." If you have gratitude you can show it anywhere.... Now this is the man of Zen. Barry Letts, if you understand Ikkyu then you will understand this statement. On the one hand he burned, on the other hand he worshipped. The Masters who were telling their disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the Way, kill him!" were worshipping the Buddha every day, morning...

..., afternoon, evening. They were prostrating themselves before the Buddha. And many times it had been asked by the disciples, "Sir, you say 'If you meet the Buddha on the Way, kill him!' Then why do you worship?" And he would say, "Because he is the only Master in the world... Buddha is the only Master in the world who helps you to get rid of him too; hence the gratitude." You have not...

... this time.... "' The novel was finished, and all the four basic elements were there: "HOLY Moses!" said the PRINCESS. "PREGNANT again? I WONDER who done it this time.... " To understand these great statements you will need a little more grown-up mind. Yes certainly, Barry Letts, if you meet me on the Way, kill me. But first please, be on the Way - where I am waiting for you...

..., to be killed by you! But you don't know another thing which is not really ever said. This statement is only half of it; the other half, the first half, is missing. Before you can ever kill me, I will kill you. That's how you will enter the Way! The fourth question: Question 4: OSHO, MY WISE SHIATSU TEACHER AT HOME TOLD US, "YOU CANNOT FIGHT AGAINST THE DEVIL, YOU CAN ONLY PLAY WITH HIM."...

... told you that there are three hundred people working. It was wrong - about information I am not very reliable, even about my own ashram, because I never go out I am afraid... somebody may kill me, because fools are everywhere! It is perfectly okay with Buddha if you kill him, because he is already dead! Laxmi told me that there are not three hundred, but seven hundred people working, and one hundred...

.... Nahman b. Isaac said: [Raba] should have answered him by quoting the verse, No eye hath seen what God, and nobody but Thee, will work for him that waiteth for Him.8 IF HE HIRED HIM TO ASSIST HIM IN ANOTHER KIND OF WORK. [Is his wage permitted] even if he did not ask him [to remove the cask of yen nesek] towards evening?9  Against such a conclusion I quote: If [a heathen] hires an [Israelite...

...] workman10  and towards evening says to him, 'Remove a cask of yen nesek from this place to that,' his wage is permitted.11  The reason [why it is permitted] is because he asked him to do so towards evening; consequently [if he was asked to do so] throughout the day it would not [be permitted]! — Abaye said: Our Mishnah likewise refers to when he asked him to do so towards evening. Raba...

... said: [Even if we assume that our Mishnah does not refer to the time towards evening] there is no contradiction, because [the second teaching deals with the circumstance] where he says to him, 'Remove for me a hundred casks for a hundred perutahs',12  and [the Mishnah] where he says to him, 'Remove for me some casks for a perutah each.'13  And thus it has been taught: If [a heathen] hires...

... an [Israelite] workman, saying to him, 'Remove for me a hundred casks for a hundred perutahs' and a cask of yen nesek was found among them, his wage is prohibited; [but if he said, 'Remove for me] some casks for a perutah each,' and a cask of yen nesek was found among them, his wage is permitted.14 IF HE HIRED [AN ISRAELITE'S] ASS TO CARRY YEN NESEK, ITS HIRE IS PROHIBITED. What need is there for...