... woman' support him, because she is satisfied to be designated a married woman.13 A woman once instructed a man, 'Go and buy me land from my relatives,' and he went and did so. Said he [the vendor] to him [her agent], 'If I have money, will she return it to me?' 'You and Nawla,'14  he replied, 'are relatives.'15  Rabbah son of R. Huna said: Whenever one says, 'You and Nawla are relatives,' he...

... decision in reference to orphans [minors], To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files When be said, 'I admit that if he removed, etc.' Supra 51a: though given voluntarily, and hence an erroneous abandonment, it is nevertheless returnable. [H], a woman constitutionally incapable of child-birth. Since the money fraudently taken is given under the mistaken impression that it...

..., are stated in Keth. 107b thus: If she borrows money in the husband's absence for her maintenance, and then, on his return, she objects, her creditor cannot obtain repayment from him. Tosaf. here states that similar conditions apply to the constitutionally barren woman, her borrowings having been made before she was certified as such. With respect to a 'secondary relation', Tosaf. maintains that the...

... owes him more money on another bond, the excess cannot be deducted from it. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Mezi'a 67b just as though they were adults.1 Raba, the son of R. Joseph, said in Raba's name: With reference to a mortgage, where it is the usage to make [the creditor] quit [whenever] the loan is repaid],2  one must not enjoy the usufruct without making a [fixed annual...

... the law is that he must perform a binding act. Now, if he [the debtor] states, 'I am about to bring you the money,'17  he [the creditor] may not take the usufruct [in the meanwhile].18  [Where he however states] 'I will go, make earnest effort [to obtain it], and bring the money' — Rabina ruled: He may take the usufruct; Mar Zutra, the son of R. Mari, said: He may not. And the law is...

... is not cancelled by the seventh year, this is not regarded as such. For in these circumstances he is regarded as having bought the land for the period arranged. Spread on the ground to receive the dates falling 'at gleaning'. He must quit immediately on receiving his money, and may take nothing whatsoever. For the 'lifting up' from the mats effects possession. V. B.B. 85a and b. Because the mats...

... spread by the creditor are his utensils, and the dates falling upon them, become his. I.e., that he shall perform a symbolical act(kinyan q.v. Glos.) to bind him to his undertaking. Since usage is otherwise, his mere word may not be binding. Where usage forced the creditor to quit immediately. Since the debtor has the money ready, it is accounted as though he had already repaid him. [H], Lev. XXVII, 16...

... claims are satisfied with money. This follows from R. Nahman's dictum. For R. Nahman said in Samuel's name: In three cases the improvements are assessed and payment made in money, viz., [In the settlement of the debt of] the first born to the ordinary son; of the creditor or of the widow8  who collected her kethubah to orphans; and of the creditors to the vendees.9  Rabina objected before R...

... daily where Samuel ordered distraint even of the improvement touching the carriers! — There is no difficulty: in one case, the value of the land and its improvement is claimed; in the other, the value of the land and its improvement is not claimed. But where the value of the land and its improvement is not claimed, [you say that] he must pay the vendee money [for his improvements] and can...

... dismiss him. Now, that agrees well with the view that [even] if the vendee has money, he cannot pay off the creditor. But on the view that he can,12  let him say to him, 'Had I money, I would have paid you off from the whole estate; now that I have no money, give me a griwa of land in any field, to the value of my improvements'? — The circumstances here are that he [the original debtor] had...

... but some time after death, and both the firstborn and the ordinary son had effected improvements upon the whole estate in the interval: when the firstborn subsequently takes his double share, it contains part of the joint improvements to which he is not entitled. An assessment is therefore made, and he must pay the ordinary sum for it, not by allotting him an additional piece of ground, but in money...

... too is done with money, not land, but v. text on iii. [So according to MS.M.; text incur. edd. is somewhat defective.] Jast.: an improvement touching the carriers, i.e., an increase in the value of the crop, opp. to an increase in the value of the land; v. supra p. 89, n. 4. Just as the original debtor. V. supra p. 90 n. 5. In that case all agree that the vendee cannot retain a portion of the land...

... provided for, would we in such a case also not give her a tenth of the estate? — The other replied: I said, A house amply provided for from the same estate.23 Amemar ruled: A daughter24  has [the legal status of] an heiress. Said R. Ashi to Amemar: Should it be desired to settle her claim25  by means of a money payment such a settlement cannot be effected for the same reason?26 ...

... stated: I was once standing before Amemar and a woman who claimed a tenth of [her deceased father's] estate appeared before him, and I observed [that it was his] opinion that if [her brothers] desired to settle with her by means of a money payment he would have agreed to the settlement.30  For he heard the brothers say to her, 'If we had the money we would settle with you31  by a cash payment...

... she has the right to claim a share in the actual property her father left and in every portion of it. In respect of her right to a tenth of her father's estate. Her claim may, therefore, be met by a money payment or by the allotment of any plot of land of the value of a tenth of the estate that is due to her. Lit., 'he would have removed (sc. dismissed) her', So MS.M. adding [H] after [H]. Land is...

... outfit.16 MISHNAH. IF A MAN DEPOSITED17  A SUM OF MONEY FOR HIS [UNMARRIED] DAUGHTER WITH A TRUSTEE,18  AND [AFTER SHE WAS BETROTHED]19  SHE SAYS, 'I TRUST MY HUSBAND',20  THE TRUSTEE MUST ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITION OF HIS TRUST;21  SO R. MEIR. R. JOSE, HOWEVER, SAID: WERE [THE TRUST] ACTUALLY22  A FIELD23  AND SHE WISHED TO SELL IT, WOULD IT NOT BE DEEMED24...

...  SOLD FORTHWITH!25  THIS APPLIES TO ONE WHO IS OF AGE.26  IN THE CASE OF A MINOR, HOWEVER, THERE IS NO VALIDITY AT ALL IN THE ACT OF A MINOR. GEMARA. Our Rabbis taught: If a man deposited for his son-in-law with a trustee a sum of money wherewith to buy a field for his daughter, and she says, 'Let it be given to my husband', she is entitled [to have her wish fulfilled, if it was...

..., instructing him to use the money after his death for the benefit of his daughter, e.g., to buy for her a field. So Tosaf (s.v. [H]) contrary to Rashi's 'married', v. Gemara infra. 'And desire the money to be given to him', Lit., 'what was put in his hand as a third party'. The daughter's wish is to be disregarded and the trustee buys a field with it. Lit., 'was not but'. Not merely a sum of money with which...

... to buy one. Lit., 'behold it'. Lit., 'from now', sc. from the moment she expressed her desire to sell it, and the same should apply where the trust consisted of a sum of money. The sum of money must consequently be at her disposal and she may gave it to her husband if she desires to do so. The point of this limitation is discussed in the Gemara infra. The assumption being that the father wished the...

... Committee offers confidential documents to top Israeli military officials The case heads for the grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard Perle "Promiscuous homosexual males" vaccinated with intentionally laced bio-weapon known as the AIDS virus Former President of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann: "Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and...

... Palestinian terror groups to carry out attacks on Israeli targets N. M. Rothschild & Sons, advise the British government on the privatisation of British economy Great majority of money is not even printed these days Only 5 per cent was accounted for The 96.9 per cent represented new bank deposits created and no Government authority is necessary for this This enormous amount of extra purchasing power was...

... created and we are expected to accept that it is normal practice "Who was benefiting from this money-creating power" - maybe too far reaching for Question Time 1986 Sephardic Jew, Mordechai Vanunu, discovers that the Israeli plant has been secretly producing nuclear weapons Israel had stockpiled up to 200 nuclear warheads Mossad agents kidnap him in Rome Jews, Ivan Boesky, Dennis Levine, Martin Siegel...

... of the large number of Jewish IRS agents, as he had concerns they were protecting wealthy Jews in America from paying the tax they should. Isn't it interesting that following the possibility of big Jewish money being investigated, a scandal starts resulting in the only time in history a United States President has resigned from office. The Rockefeller family manipulating the Federal Reserve for the...

.... However, in 1984, the true figure is revealed as 64 percent, a figure which could yet increase as the complete studies remain classified. Former President of the World Jewish Congress, Nahum Goldmann: "Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting" In his book, "The Jewish Paradox," published this year, former President of the World Jewish Congress from 1948 to 1977, Nahum...

... Goldmann, stated the following on the subject of the Jews collectively: "I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting." 1979 Marlon Brando about Jewish control over Hollywood In the January issue of Playboy Magazine, Marlon Brando states the following in an interview, in relation to Jewish control over Hollywood: "You've seen every single race besmirched, but...

... regional electricity boards; and all the British regional water boards. They will go on to make several billion pounds from this, "advice." A British MP involved in privatisations is future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, a former Rothschild banker. Great majority of money is not even printed these days It is important to illustrate that the great majority of money is not even printed these...

... days. For proof of this, please see the following speech by the late Lord Beswick which appeared in HANSARD, 27th November 1985, vol. 468, columns 935-939, under the title, "Money Supply and the Private Banking System," which states: "Lord Beswick rose to call attention to the statement made by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 23rd July 1985 that the 96.9 per cent increase in money supply...

... over a five-year period has been created by the private banking system and without Government authority." The noble Lord said, 'My Lords, on 10th June this year I asked Her Majesty's Government by what amount the money supply had increased in the five-year period to mid-April 1985. Interestingly, they gave me the answer in percentages and not in pounds. Having given him prior notice, perhaps the...

... Minister would be good enough later to give me the answer in money terms. Only 5 per cent was accounted for The Government reply on 10th June was that the increase had been by 101.9 per cent, and that of that very large amount only 5 per cent was accounted for by the state minting of more coins and the printing of more notes. That 96.9 per cent increase represented not only an enormous sum of money but...

... have a government statement that private institutions have created this enormous amount of extra purchasing power and we are expected to accept that it is normal practice and that the government authority does not come into it. "Who was benefiting from this money-creating power" - maybe too far reaching for Question Time When I asked whether we ought not to consider more deeply who was benefiting...

... from this money-creating power, the Minister said that the implications, though interesting, were maybe too far reaching for Question Time, and so I raise the matter again in debate and hope to get more enlightenment. The issues are important, they are certainly under-discussed, perhaps not adequately understood, and I hope that I am not being unduly unfair if I say that those who understand the...

...); and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), now generally referred to as the World Central Bank, through their BIS arm, require the world's bankers to raise their capital and reserves to 8% of their liabilities by 1992. This increased capital requirement puts an upper limit on fractional reserve lending. To raise the money, the world's bankers have to sell stocks which depress their individual stock...

... to note that say, for example, a Rabbi torches his synagogue to collect insurance money because it is in need of repair, as oppose to someone else perpetrating the crime who was found to have an interest in anti-establishment media, the latter would receive a stiffer sentence for the same act. Historian, James Bacque, reveals the shocking Allied treatment of German prisoners of war: "produced the...

... money if you needed it in the middle of the night, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police, and so on. The idea is to have a pool of people available when needed who can provide services but will keep quiet about them out of loyalty to the cause. One thing you know for sure is that even if a Jewish person knows it is the Mossad, he might not agree to work with you...

... afraid, because suddenly the presence of the seeker makes them feel that they are wasting their lives. Suddenly the joy on the faces of those who pray and meditate, suddenly the dance, the change, the transformation in people's lives, in their beings - the laughter, the love - and people who are running after money and power become suspicious about their own endeavours. What are they doing? Is it right...

... have done to them. That's how it goes on, generation after generation: the same diseases are being handed on. THEIR parents must have told them, "Be useful - otherwise you will be a nobody, a hobo. Do something for which society pays you. The more it pays, the more your work has been useful." The utility of a certain thing is decided by money, how much money you can get out of it. Now, how...

... much money can you get out of meditation? You cannot get any money out of meditation; you may even lose that which you have. While you are meditating, somebody may rob you. And you cannot do both things - meditating and keeping an eye on your money bag - that is impossible. Love is not a utility. You can be as loving as possible, but you will not become famous because of your love. See: people become...

... cannot be reduced to any utility. Sannyas is poetry - poetry in life, poetry as living. Your parents must be worried, I can understand. They feel for you - although their feeling is not ENLIGHTENED, still they feel for you. They must be worried: "What is going to happen to my child? If one goes on meditating and dancing and singing, then from where is the money going to come? And who is going to...

... was ill, and the doctors were saying, "You need rest." But how can you rest? The whole life becomes money-oriented - money means utility. An intelligent person knows that money is not the goal. And remember, I am not against money, but money is not the goal. There are two kinds of people: those who are for money, and those who are against money. Both are unintelligent. An intelligent...

... person is neither for nor against. He knows that money has some utility, it fulfills certain needs - you need clothes, you need a shelter, you need food, so it is perfectly all right. But you need not make money your god. Barkha, you say: MY PARENTS KEEP ON SAYING THEY WANT ME TO LEAD A "USEFUL" LIFE AND DO SOMETHING "USEFUL FOR SOCIETY". This is a very strange logic. This is being...

... have closed both the doors. That is one of the devices. I would like you to be exactly in the middle - neither serious nor silly, neither for money nor against money, neither obsessed with eating nor obsessed with fasting. I would like you to be just in the middle. Buddha has called his way "the middle path" - MAJJHIM NIKAYA. And that is one of the most important things to be understood...

... of the man I have been talking to you about: my geography teacher, Chotelal Munde. He had cursed me because I made him famous as "Munde"; so much so that once he had to sign himself as Chotelal Munde. That day he was just fire.... I had asked the whole class for a collection. Twenty rupees were collected, and we made a money order in Chotelal Munde's name. And we arranged with the postman...

..., "You come into his class when he is taking our class" - we gave him the time. So he appeared exactly on time, with a twenty-rupee money order, sender anonymous. Chotelal Munde was a poor man with a big family. He could not lose twenty rupees. In those days twenty rupees was a lot of money. In India, in those days, a man could live on two rupees for the whole month, things were so cheap...

... my father became angry. He said, "Okay, you go to the arts department but I am not going to give you any money." I said, "That's settled. Money is yours; I am not yours. If you don't want to give me money, that I can understand. And I can understand that if I go to the science department, you are ready to give me money because then I am following your desire. You are ready to give...

... money to me only if I remain under your control. "So that's perfectly clear: you are using money to force me in a certain direction which I refuse. But," I said, "you will suffer repentance just because you mentioned money. Do you think you can force me by threatening that you are not going to give me any money?" I left the house. For two years he was continually coming, saying...

..., "Forget that and forgive me. I am really sorry that I mentioned the money. I can see your trouble, and I am the cause of it" - because at night I used to work as an editor in a newspaper just to earn money so that in the day I could join the university. But I said, "Money from you, how can I accept?" One day, when tears came to his eyes, I said, "Okay, if you insist, just put...

... the money on the table. I will not take it from your hand. From the table I can take it because with the table I have no problem, no trouble, no conflict." So that's the way it continued the remaining four years. He would put it on the table and I would take it from the table, but not from him - "because," I said to him, "that strategy is ugly." But the family exploits every...

... child because it has the power of money, prestige, the power of numbers. And a child is just a child; how can he revolt? And the family poisons the child: you are a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian. It poisons the child: you are a republican, you are a democrat, you are a socialist, you are a communist. It goes on poisoning him. And this whole poisoning piles up and becomes your personality. The commune...

... money, and my father would not give up control of the land to the other brother to whom it belonged; so there was a legal case. I told my father, "I will be coming to support the eccentric goldsmith." He said, "What! You will be a witness against me?" I said, "Of course. I know that you have paid, but that was your fault. You should have found out to whom the land belonged...

... before you paid. And that poor eccentric goldsmith, what fault is it of his? - the land belongs to him. And anyway he is far poorer than you; so even if you lose the money, it is better than if he loses the ground, because he is really poor." My father said, "But you don't understand a simple thing... being against your own father?" I said, "It is not a question of being against my...

...;Wherever woman goes - man goes." Wherever woman goes.... Man goes on following the woman, the woman goes on following the man. The whole of life is just a running after this desire or that. Finally, nothing is attained; only frustrated dreams, a heap of frustrated dreams. Look back - what have you attained? You have been running and running - where have you reached? These are the tall grasses. Money...

... attracts, power attracts - and without asking oneself: Why should I run after these things? we go on running. In fact, because the whole society is running, every child gets the disease by inheritance. Everybody is running - the child learns by imitation. The father is running, the mother is running, the brother is running, the neighbor is running, everybody is running - for power, prestige, money...

..., how to come out on top. But nobody asks the basic question: What is the point? Why should one hanker for the top? What are you going to do when you have reached the top? When you have become a president of a country, what are you going to do? How is it going to fulfill you? It is as if a person was thirsty and we put him on a track which leads to more and more money. He comes, struggles hard...

..., accumulates much money, but the money is not related to the thirst at all. Then suddenly he feels frustrated. Then he says: Money cannot do anything; but now it is too late. See what your inner need is, and then work for it, and work diligently for it, intelligently for it. But first see what your inner need is. And the inner need can be recognized only when you recognize who you are. If you can understand...

... on doing something or other; it will become a habit. Without it you will not feel alive. I know people who have earned enough money; now they can retire. In fact, they have been saying their whole life that once they have attained to such money, they will retire. But they don't retire. I know one man. In the past twenty years I have stayed with him many times. Whenever I visited Calcutta I would...

... be completed." He said, "No, now I have fixed a time, that after ten years I will retire." He was sixty then, now he is dead. He worked hard and he lived like a beggar just hoping that some day he was going to enjoy. But by the time he had money, he had become obsessed with having more, to have more.... One very basic thing has to be understood: these things are not going to fulfill...

...; they become one with the crowd. There they do not feel alone... surrounded, so many people are there. If you meditate, you will be alone, and if you get mad after money, you will never be alone - the whole world is going there. If you search for God you will be alone; but if you search for politics, power, then the whole world will be there, you will never be left alone. People are afraid of being...

... same desires, you find the same footprints of the bull. Even under desires you find God hidden. Even under the so-called worldly things, you have been seeking something of the beyond. If a man is searching for more and more money, what in fact is he searching for? - money? If he is searching for money, then there will come a point where he will be satisfied - but that point never comes. It seems he...

... is searching for something else. Mistakenly, searching for money, he is trying to find something else. He wants to be rich.... Let me tell you it this way: A man who is searching for money wants to be rich but he does not know that to be rich is totally different from having money. To be rich means to have all the experiences that life can give to you. To be rich means to be a rainbow, not black...

... and white - all the colors together. To be rich means to be mature, alert, alive. The man who is searching for money is searching for something else; that's why when money is achieved, nothing is achieved. The man who is searching for power, for what is he searching in fact? He wants to be a god. And in the world, he says, if you have power you can pretend to be a god. Behind his search for power...

... other. Because of this quarrel and attack their secret was out. Both of them had hidden money in the hollow stick of the pichie they were carrying; the fight was over the distribution of the money. Both of them were caught and brought to the police station. Their disciples in the village became worried and were unhappy because it was also a question of their prestige. Somehow they quieted the matter...

... is deceiving himself. The final conclusion is based on what you are inside, it is not based on what you are outside. Life is determined by what you are inside, not with what you are from the outside. Inside you are continuously counting money, outside you are chanting "Ram, Ram." This chanting is futile. Your counting the money is meaningful - the judgment will be based on that, because...

.... The first king felt very repentant for leading the worldly life. He thought, "Look at this king, Prasenchandra, how peaceful and silent he is. How blissful he is. How unfortunate I am. Mahavira has attained liberation and I am still counting money." The thought of renunciation arose in him. When he met Mahavira he said, "I want to ask you a question. On the way I saw Prasenchandra...

... action of yours creates you. There is no other judge except you. That is why Shankara says: THAT IDIOT, IN SPITE OF HAVING EYES, IS BLIND - because he thinks that he is deceiving others. But all deception is deceiving yourself. You are bluffing yourself. You cannot make others lose anything, it is you who will lose. You may be able to get hold of some money from the other's pocket, but with that money...

... you will lose your soul. You will lose a lot and gain nothing. Even if you are able to deceive others, what will you receive? At the most you will snatch some money from the other person. That money is going to remain here - neither you can take it with you nor the other person can take it with him after death. It does not matter whether the money is in this pocket or in that pocket. But by...

... then you realize that it is all futile. And this is right, because how can you see the futility of something which you do not have? The person who has money can see the futility of money. But the person who does not have money, how can he see its futility? To realize the futility of anything one has to have it first. A person who has knowledge can see the futility of knowledge, but a person not...

... set free. People go on living, hoping for that day. You must understand one thing in life: watch carefully the happiness which you have, for it is only out of happiness that you can be free. If you have a beautiful wife then you must enjoy beauty thoroughly; if you have money then you must taste it properly; if you have position, observe it from all sides. You must watch carefully whatever you have...

... steadfast. It is difficult. It is easy to do something. If you eat more then you are troubling your body, if you fast even then you are troubling your body; there is no difference between these two conditions. First you were troubling the body by eating more, now you are troubling it by fasting. You go on collecting money, you can give it up also. You will know the futility of money only after you have...

... costly - and then most pilgrims travel without tickets, they are not bothered about paying money for the tickets. When so many sins are being washed away by the Ganges, then one more sin will not matter. HE MAY UNDERTAKE THE JOURNEY TO THE GANGES OR TO THE OCEAN, HE MAY UNDERTAKE MANY AUSTERITIES AND FASTS, HE MAY GIVE AWAY IN CHARITY, BUT IF HE DOES NOT HAVE SELF-KNOWLEDGE HE WILL NOT BE LIBERATED...

.... When, THE EARTH MAY BE HIS ONLY BED, DEERSKIN MAY BE HIS ONLY ROBE, HE MAY HAVE DROPPED ALL KINDS OF POSSESSIONS INDULGENCES - WHO DOES SUCH A RENUNCIATION NOT MAKE BLISSFUL? Blissfulness is the measuring rod. There is no other proof of your renunciation except bliss. Your bliss will prove whether your renunciation is true or false. You may give up your home, your money, you may become naked, you may...

... money in the great crashes of history and the great wars of history, the very periods when others lost their money, is beyond question." (E.C. Knuth, The Empire of the City) 452 "The ruin of the peasants in these provinces are the Zhids ['kikes']. They are full-fledged leeches sucking up these unfortunate provinces to the point of exhaustion." (Nikolai I, Tsar of Russia from 1825 to 1855, in his...

... wages. This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. To accomplish this, the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now awaiting for the Secretary of the Treasury to make his recommendation to Congress. It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate...

... as money any length of time, as we cannot control that." (Hazard Circular, issued by the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, 1862) 456 "We intend to remake the Gentiles - what the Communists are doing in Russia." (Rabbi Lewish Brown in How Odd of God, New York, 1 924) 457 "The responsibility for the last World War [WW I] rests solely upon the shoulders of the international financiers. It is upon...

... enacted into American laws by the aid of American Congressmen, who were their paid hirelings or their ignorant dupes. That this crime has remained uncovered is due to the power of prejudice which seldom permits the victim to see clearly or reason correctly: 'The money power prolongs its reign by working on prejudices. 'Lincoln said." (Mary E. Hobard, The Secrets of the Rothschilds). 461 "If this...

... mischievous financial policy [the United States Government issuing interest-free and debt-free money] which had its origin in the North American Republic during the war (1861-65) should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become...

... ignorance and narrowness of heart, that when we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of the revolutionary party; when we rise, there rises also the terrible power of the purse." (The Jewish State, New York, 1917) 469 "I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money... And they who control the credit of the nation direct...

... spirit of the Sages is displeased with him!3  For words accompanied by [the passage of] money one is subject to 'BUT'; for words unaccompanied thereby one is not subject to 'BUT'. Raba said: Both Scripture and a Baraitha4  support Resh Lakish, 'Scripture', — for it is written, [If a soul sin …] and lie unto his neighbor in that which vas delivered him to keep or in the...

... perutah of hekdesh] to a hairdresser, a ship's captain,31  or to any artisan, he is not liable to a trespass offering until he takes Possession.32  Now these are self-contradictory!33  But this must surely prove that one refers to a heathen and the other to an Israelite hairdresser. This proves it. R. Nahman ruled likewise: By Biblical law, [the delivery of] money effects a title, and...

..., and yet the treasurer incurs a liability immediately he gives the money, which shews that meshikah is only a Rabbinical requirement. In a transaction with a heathen the delivery of money is certainly sufficient. For freight charges. Symbolically performing meshikah with an object connected with his payment. Sc. the two views on his liability in connection with a hairdresser, the first Baraitha...

... stating that he is liable immediately he gives the money, whilst the Baraitha teaches that meshikah must first be performed. As a deposit for an order of provisions. Though he did not take possession of the goods, thus proving that meshikah is unnecessary by Biblical law. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Baba Mezi'a 48b But this refutes Resh Lakish!-Resh Lakish can answer you: That is on the...

... acts as is fitting for 'thy people'.5 Raba said: Whence do I know6  it? For [it once happened that] money was given to R. Hiyya b. Joseph [in advance payment] For salt. Subsequently7  salt rose in price. On his appearing before R. Johanan,8  he ordered him, 'Go and deliver [it] to him9  [the purchaser], and if not, you must submit to [the curse]: He who punished.' Now if you say...

... deposit does not effect possession [of the whole]. And wherein do they differ?22  — Real estate, which is actually acquired by [the delivery of] money,23  is entirely acquired;24  movables, which are acquired [by the delivery of money] only in respect of submission to [the curse] 'He who punished,' are not acquired entirely.25 Shall we say that this is disputed by Tannaim? [For it...

... distinction to be drawn? Though the delivery of money alone does not effect a title to movables, it does in respect to land. By the deposit. By the deposit, but only to the extent of the value of that deposit, and even that, only in respect of submitting to the curse. V. Deut. XV. 1-2: At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that...