... use of a blind man going to see the king. 1 Kings XIX, 11f. Var. lec. Gentile. I Chron. XXIX, 11. Or perhaps, 'strap' (J.T.). Ezek. XXIII, 20. This lesson is derived by the Rabbis from Ex. XXII, 1 which declares it legitimate to kill a burglar who is prepared to commit murder. Job. IX, 10. Ex. XIV, 31. Josh. X, 13. MS.M.: The wicked kingdom. Isa. LXIII, 3. Num. XXI, 14. Judg. V, 20. Ex. XVII, 16...

.... He said: This man is a persecutor, and the Torah has said: If a man comes to kill you, rise early and kill him first.18  So he struck him with the staff and killed him. He then said: Since a miracle has been wrought for me through this verse, I will expound it. 'Thine, Oh Lord, is the greatness': this refers to the work of creation; and so it says: Who doeth great things past finding out.19...

... a rich man or of a poor man. And not the guilt-offering. So that even though the guilt-offering was brought when the man was rich he may still bring a poor man's sin-offering if he subsequently became poor. As a conditional guilt-offering (v. infra). And the adoption of this procedure would remove the necessity for Samuel to limit the case supra to one who had already brought his guilt-offering...

...; — Samuel may hold the same view as R. Simeon in one respect10  while differing from him in another.11 'Three were matters of aggada'; One verse says, For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,12  but another verse says, Because the Lord would slay them?13  — The former refers to those who are penitents while the latter refers to those who are not penitent. One...

... the age of six do not accept pupils; from that age you can accept them. and stuff them with Torah like an ox. Rab also said to R. Samuel b. Shilath: When you punish a pupil, only hit him with a shoe latchet.7  The attentive one will read [of himself]. and if one is inattentive. put him next to a diligent one.8 An objection was raised [from the following against the answer of Raba]: 'If a...

... Amalek.1  Said David: But we read, the remembrance [zeker]2  of Amalek? He replied: I was taught to read zekar.3  He [Joab] then went to his teacher and asked: How didst thou teach me to read? He replied: Zeker. Thereupon he drew his sword and threatened to kill him. Why do you do this? asked the other. He replied: Because it is written, Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord...

... negligently.4  He said to him: Be satisfied that I am cursed.5  To which Joab rejoined: [It also says]. Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.6  According to one report he killed him; according to another, he did not kill him. Raba further said: A teacher of young children, a vine-dresser, a [ritual] slaughterer, a blood-letter, and a town scribe are all liable to be dismissed...

... according to the rank of the deceased. The Code does not say what would be the penalty of murder, but death is so often awarded where death is caused that we can hardly doubt that the murderer was put to death. If the assault only led to injury and was unintentional, the assailant in a quarrel had to pay the doctor's fees. A brander, induced to remove a slave's identification mark, could swear to his...

... Babylonian Law Babylonian Law: by Subject Court Proceedings: False accusations (1-4), Altering legal decisions (5), Witness Issues (7, 9-12) Crimes: Theft (6-12, 21-25, 259-260), Buying stolen property (6-7), Kidnapping (14), Murder (153) Slavery: (15-20), Temporary slavery to repay debt (117-119), Women: slaves vs. wives (141, 144, 146-147), Children of slave can acquire rights of natural children (171...

... receives five shekels. [217] If he be the slave of some one, his owner shall give the physician two shekels. [218] If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off. [219] If a physician make a large incision in the slave of a freed man, and kill him, he shall replace the slave with...

... surgeon perform a serious operation on an ass or an ox, and cure it, the owner shall pay the surgeon one-sixth of a shekel as a fee. [225] If he perform a serious operation on an ass or ox, and kill it, he shall pay the owner one-fourth of its value. [226] If a barber, without the knowledge of his master, cut the sign of a slave on a slave not to be sold, the hands of this barber shall be cut off. [227...

... some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death. [230] If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death. [231] If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house. [232] If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been...

... and all that he ruined. [241] If any one impresses an ox for forced labor, he shall pay one-third of a mina in money. [242] If any one hire oxen for a year, he shall pay four gur of corn for plow-oxen. [243] As rent of herd cattle he shall pay three gur of corn to the owner. [244] If any one hire an ox or an ass, and a lion kill it in the field, the loss is upon its owner. [245] If any one hire oxen...

..., and kill them by bad treatment or blows, he shall compensate the owner, oxen for oxen. [246] If a man hire an ox, and he break its leg or cut the ligament of its neck, he shall compensate the owner with ox for ox. [247] If any one hire an ox, and put out its eye, he shall pay the owner one-half of its value. [248] If any one hire an ox, and break off a horn, or cut off its tail, or hurt its muzzle...

..., he shall pay one-fourth of its value in money. [249] If any one hire an ox, and God strike it that it die, the man who hired it shall swear by God and be considered guiltless. [250] If while an ox is passing on the street (market) some one push it, and kill it, the owner can set up no claim in the suit (against the hirer). [251] If an ox be a goring ox, and it shown that he is a gorer, and he do...

... not bind his horns, or fasten the ox up, and the ox gore a free-born man and kill him, the owner shall pay one-half a mina in money. [252] If he kill a man's slave, he shall pay one-third of a mina. [253] If any one agree with another to tend his field, give him seed, entrust a yoke of oxen to him, and bind him to cultivate the field, if he steal the corn or plants, and take them for himself, his...

... shall pay three shekels in money. [261] If any one hire a herdsman for cattle or sheep, he shall pay him eight gur of corn per annum. [262] If any one, a cow or a sheep . . . [263] If he kill the cattle or sheep that were given to him, he shall compensate the owner with cattle for cattle and sheep for sheep. [264] If a herdsman, to whom cattle or sheep have been entrusted for watching over, and who...

... convicted and pay the owner ten times the loss. [266] If the animal be killed in the stable by God ( an accident), or if a lion kill it, the herdsman shall declare his innocence before God, and the owner bears the accident in the stable. [267] If the herdsman overlook something, and an accident happen in the stable, then the herdsman is at fault for the accident which he has caused in the stable, and he...

... Cairo Edmond de Rothschild founds Compagnie Financiere, Paris 1956 Menachem Begin, a genocidal terrorist states: You Israelis shall have no pity on them until we have destroyed their so-called Arab culture Telephone taps are found in the residence of the United States military attaché in Tel Aviv 1957 Ariel Sharon commands units which murder Egyptian prisoners of war James de Rothschild dies and...

... nuclear state The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz: The murder of American President John F. Kennedy abruptly stopped the U.S. pressure on Israel as to its nuclear agenda Kennedy's wife, Jackie Kennedy, was Jewish Edmond de Rothschild establishes La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF) The 45 goals of the Communist Manifesto are stated in the United States Congress 1965 Israel illegally obtains...

... Tel Aviv conference: "You Israelis, you should never become lenient if you kill your enemies. You shall have no pity on them until we have destroyed their so-called Arab culture, on the ruins of which we shall build our own civilization." Telephone taps are found in the residence of the United States military attaché in Tel Aviv Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence...

... of the United States military attaché in Tel Aviv. 1957 Ariel Sharon commands units which murder Egyptian prisoners of war During a joint British, Israeli, and French invasion of the Suez Canal, Ariel Sharon commands units which murder Egyptian prisoners of war, as well as civilian Sudanese workers who the Jews had captured. A total of 273 unarmed prisoners are executed and dumped into mass graves...

... state. The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz: The murder of American President John F. Kennedy abruptly stopped the U.S. pressure on Israel as to its nuclear agenda The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz on February 5, 1999, in a review of, Avner Cohen's book, "Israel and the Bomb," states the following on this subject, "The murder of American President John F. Kennedy brought to an abrupt end the massive pressure...

... politeness prevented his rebelling completely. You cannot be polite and revolutionary; you have to be iconoclastic and you have to hit hard against the dead tradition. Politeness will make you respectable, but not revolutionary. And that is what happened - it is a misfortune - Isan became a respectable master. Because he became respectable he lost the grandeur of a revolutionary. Whenever a person becomes...

... and trying to be polite, will not say so. If this question had been asked to Ma Tzu, he would have given such a good beating that the person would have never again asked any question. Ma Tzu declared again and again that "It does not matter what you say, you will still get a hit. Don't think that I am hitting you because you are saying something wrong! I am hitting you because you are saying...

... something - and I want you to reach to the place where nothing can be said." So whether you are saying something right or wrong does not matter; it is just superficial. The hit is certain. And in what way will it come? It is spontaneous. Nobody knows whether he will throw you, or hit you on your chest with his leg, and he used to have a big staff.... And he was really perhaps the rarest man in the...

...: to show him "whether you are really humble or not." But humbleness does not mean to compromise with lies, to compromise with absurd hypotheses. Humbleness does not mean to have a friendliness towards lies. Humbleness is not a sheep, it has to be a lion. But because he was trying to create a different school from Ma Tzu, he was caught in a difficulty: he could not shout, he could not hit...

... buddha - and no buddha helps turn the wheel of life and death, no buddha turns into dust. And you are being absolutely absurd: just because I am not Ma Tzu and I am trying to create a new school - you know perfectly well I will not shout and I will not hit you - that does not mean that you can go on asking absurd questions. I can at least say to you, without shouting, silently and peacefully and...

... will have to accept more absurdities. You will become more and more of a mess. And what are all these buddhas doing there? - TURNING THE GREAT WHEEL OF THE LAW, in the bottle! Even I would have hit him as hard as possible and I am a non-violent person. He is saying, "They are turning the wheel of the law. CAN YOU SEE THEM DOING IT?" KYOZAN THEN SAID, "THIS IS THE TURNING OF ALL THE...

... be yours, don't allow the other to move in freedom. Cut the other's freedom, let him become your periphery, your shadow. Love gives life to the other; possessiveness, attachment, kills the other, takes the life of the other. That is why lovers, so-called lovers, always kill each other - they are poisonous. Look at a husband and a wife: once they were lovers - they thought they were lovers and then...

... portrait!" How can a dead wife return the kiss? How can a dead husband return the kiss? This is the misery: if you want to possess, you kill. And the moment you have succeeded the whole glory is lost, because now the other cannot respond. The other can respond only in freedom, but you cannot allow freedom because you are not in love. Love is never possessive. It cannot be, by its very nature. And...

... fight and always cases in the courts, because a time division is there: in the morning the swetambers will worship; in the evening the digambers, the other community, will worship. And they change because swetambers put false, open eyes on the Mahavira's statue, and digambers worship Mahavira with closed eyes, so they cannot worship the same statue. First they have to close the eyes, or remove the...

... exploiting you. Priests are against a Mahavira, a Buddha, a Krishna, but they know that when they are dead their names can be exploited. But you have to remember well that with your love, your prayer, your worship - if it becomes possessive - you are killing. And if you kill Krishna how can he transform you? How can he bring you to Krishna consciousness? Impossible! Now we should enter this story. It is...

... Buddha with gold, do you? The Buddha won't allow you, he will simply escape. He will say, "Wait! What are you doing? You will kill me." Gold kills. Life can never be covered with gold - only death. Only death will allow you to do something. Life won't allow you such nonsense. But she called her wooden Buddha, "Golden Buddha." THE NUN BURNED INCENSE BEFORE HER GOLDEN BUDDHA EACH DAY...

... worried that your lover's perfume is reaching to somebody else. You will be happy that through you the whole world is being benefited, through you the whole world is receiving the blessing. If you are afraid and you try to contain it, then it is possessiveness and it will kill. Don't try to contain it, don't try to possess it. Allow it to grow, help it to grow, help it to reach to everyone. Only then...

... you will receive it, because you can receive only when the whole world receives it. But this is the problem: whenever you love a person, you want him to be contained, confined. It is as if you are confining a tree in a pot; not only the roots but the whole tree - then you will kill it. The tree has to move into the sky, it has to spread into the sky. Its flowers will give perfume to many, its...

... world they have to do the basic division which is of love. Love is only for our people. And it has to be insisted so deeply in your unconscious that in wars, in riots, when you kill other people who don't belong to your clan or to your country or your tribe, you don't feel anything. It is simply the way things are. A German killing an Italian will not think, "I don't have any personal enmity with...

... him, and just as my wife will be waiting for me and my old mother may be praying for me and my children will be hoping that soon I will be back home, the person I am killing is in the same situation. He also has a wife, he also has old parents, he also has children, and they are waiting for him to come back. I don't have any reason to kill him; neither has he any reason to kill me, except that some...

.... Otherwise, there is no reason for all these organized religions to exist. Each individual should have a direct contact with the universe, its beauty, its tremendous glory - which creates without any effort a gratitude, a prayer, perhaps a song, a dance. If we can remove all these organized religions from the world, organized nations from the world, and allow each individual his dignity and respect, there...

... would not kill her. That was not according to their culture, to kill a woman. So there were four times more women than men and naturally it was creating a very difficult situation. If three women remained unmarried, there was going to be great prostitution, corruption of all kinds. To avoid the situation, Mohammed suggested that every man marries four women. It was perfectly right in Saudi Arabia...

... against all the religions of the world. And I don't think that even a shadow of fear arises in my heart. On the contrary, the more I hit these idiots the more I rejoice, because according to me they are criminals. According to me they are the greatest calamities that have happened to humanity. There is nothing to fear from these people. There is nothing to be afraid of in the ghosts who are lying in...

... elephant will kill the rabbit if he puts his foot down. If he does not put his foot down to move -- and the fire is approaching closer! But the elephant finally decides to sacrifice his own life, and not to kill the rabbit. Just because of this decision, the consciousness takes a jump from the elephant form into human form. People are coming from different sources for different reasons. The theory of...

... enlightened -- and who were jealous of people who were being declared as enlightened. These were the people who had entered the great commune of Gautam Buddha with some egoistic ambition -- they left. But Devadatta could not sit silently; he had not left just to retire to the Himalayas. He started conspiring against Gautam Buddha. He made many efforts to kill him. And that's what I wanted to tell you about...

... not believe that his old, old friend ... he had forgotten! And Devadatta could not believe it. He thought it was a miracle. He became so afraid that after that he stopped making any effort to kill Gautam Buddha. But he had no idea what had really happened. It was not a miracle; it was simply the memory of the elephant. A person who is coming from the body of an elephant into the body of a man will...

... beautiful: before leaving the palace, he just wanted to see at least once the face of the child, his child, the symbol of his love with his wife. So he went into the chamber of his wife. She was asleep, and the child was covered under a blanket. He wanted to remove the blanket and to see the face of the child, because perhaps he will never come back again. He was going on an unknown pilgrimage. Nothing...

... is Ketu. When the moon eclipse happens, it happens because Rahu and Ketu catch hold of the moon. They try to kill it, but each time the moon escapes from their grip. Gautam Buddha had given the name Rahul to his son because he thought, "Now this son of mine is going to be my greatest hindrance, he is going to be my greatest enemy. He will prevent me from going to the Himalayas. Love for him...

... same space as Gautam Buddha was speaking. So you can accept my word as the authority without any trouble." He said, "My God, even if I do it, no other scholar is going to accept it! After twenty-five centuries, a certain scripture has been accepted -- and you want me to add something into it. They will kill me." I said, "It is better to be killed; it is worth it if you can make...

... so. Shoes have been thrown at me; stones have been thrown at me. I am speaking and in the crowd a band is playing so nobody can hear what I am saying. Poison has been given me twice, to kill. And the last thing before I left was an attempt on my life. So I know... and I have had enough of it, so I want to be here; if anybody is thirsty, he can come. If he wants to think me a monster, so far so good...

... not do any harm to anybody; but if somebody does harm to us, then we are not Christians -- we are not going to follow Jesus Christ that when somebody hits on you cheek, give him the other cheek. To me that is insulting the other person who as hit you. It is making him subhuman. You are becoming holier than thou. No. We are just human being and we respect you. If you hit me on one cheek, I will hit...

... eighth time, so he said, OK, Make it seventy- seven. But the man stood up again and he said it makes no difference. What about the seventy-eighth time? I have heard one story of a Christian saint who was hit on one of his cheeks. Obviously, being a follower of Jesus, he gave his other cheek, but the man was also some man of guts -- he hit on the other cheek even more forcibly. And at that moment the...

... saint jumped on the man, clutched his neck and told that now I am going to kill you. But the man said wait, you a saint and your master has said that give the other cheek. He said: OK, I followed the master, I gave you the other cheek, but now I have no other cheek. Now I am free. And I will teach you a lesson. If they go on harassing us, we enjoy it, so there is nothing serious in it; but we will...