... connection with it;7  and movable property8  may be acquired in conjunction with it by means of money, deed9  and possession',10  [the term] 'land' was in consequence used [in the second part of this Mishnah also].11 And [do you suggest. Abaye again asked R. Joseph,12  that] wherever 'whatsoever'13  was taught no [minimum] size is required?14  Surely we learnt: R. Dosa b...

... movables. Which is always kept in its place on the ground. It can be removed from its place since it is not actually fixed to the ground. Though, as regards Biblical laws, slaves are regarded as 'land' or 'real estate' as, e.g., in the case of oaths and acquisition by means of money, deed and possession, the question here is whether in the course of ordinary conversation people describe a slave as 'real...

... [regarded as] a reservation.20 [If a person]21  said, 'My property [shall be given] to X', slave[s] are included,22  for we learnt: If one gave all his property to his slave in writing, [the latter] goes forth [as] a free man.23  Land is described [as] property; for we learnt: Property which has a security24  may be acquired by means of money, deed and possession.25  A cloak is...

... called property, for we learnt:26  And that which has no security27  can only be acquired by means of pulling.28  Money is called property; for we learnt: And that which has no security may be acquired in conjunction with property which has a security. [bought jointly with it,] by means of money, deed and possession;29  as in the case of30  R. Papa [who] had a [money claim of...

...., land. Kid. 26a. The conclusion of the previous citation, loc. cit. Movables, such as garments. V. Glos., Meshikah. Kid., l.c. Lit., 'that'. Supra 77b, q.v. for notes. The case of R. Papa quoted as an example of 'property which has no security', clearly proves that money is also called 'property'. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference                ...

...  No one jests in the hour of [his] death, and the words of a dying man are regarded [legally] as written and delivered.24 MISHNAH. IF A MAN LENT [MONEY] TO AN OTHER ON [THE SECURITY OF] A BOND OF INDEBTEDNESS,25  HE MAY COLLECT [THE DEBT] FROM MORTGAGED PROPERTY.26  [IF, HOWEVER, THE LOAN WAS MADE] BEFORE27  WITNESSES,28  HE29  MAY RECOVER [HIS DEBT] FROM FREE PROPERTY...

... SUM OF MONEY], HE MAY RECOVER [IT] FROM HIS FREE PROPERTY.3 [IF THE GUARANTEE AND SIGNATURE OF] A GUARANTOR APPEAR4  BELOW THE SIGNATURES TO BONDS OF INDEBTEDNESS, [THE CREDITOR] MAY RECOVER [HIS DEBT] FROM [THE GUARANTOR'S] FREE PROPERTY.5  SUCH A CASE ONCE CAME BEFORE R. ISHMAEL, WHO DECIDED THAT [THE DEBT MAY] BE RECOVERED FROM [THE GUARANTOR'S] FREE PROPERTY. BEN NANNUS [HOWEVER] SAID...

... THROUGH TRUST IN HIM.8  BUT WHAT MANNER OF GUARANTOR, HOWEVER, IS LIABLE [TO REFUND A DEBT]? [IF THE GUARANTOR SAID], "LEND HIM [A SUM OF MONEY] AND I WILL REPAY [IT] TO YOU", HE IS LIABLE, SINCE THE LOAN WAS MADE THROUGH TRUST IN HIM. R. ISHMAEL FURTHER STATED: HE WHO WOULD BE WISE SHOULD ENGAGE IN THE STUDY OF CIVIL LAWS,9  FOR THERE IS NO BRANCH IN THE TORAH MORE COMPREHENSIVE10  THAN...

... is not [sufficiently] known.20 Did Rabbah, however, give such [a ruling]?21  Surely, Rabbah said: If land was collected22  he23  receives [a double portion,24  but] if money was collected, he does not, and R. Nahman said: If money was collected he has [a double portion]!25  And if it be suggested that [the statement] of Rabbah should be transposed to 'Ulla and that of 'Ulla...

... the presence of witnesses receives due publicity, and intending buyers are well aware of its existence. V. B.M. 114b. No man would consent to lend any money if no land security were available. Lit., 'it has no voice'. Lit., 'say so', that the hypothecary obligation involved by debts is not Biblical. By sons, in payment of a debt that was due to their deceased father. The firstborn son. Because...

..., according to 'Ulla, the debtor's landed property is pledged to the creditor Biblically. Who, as reported supra 124b, stated that a firstborn son takes a double portion in a loan. But maintains that, consistent with his view here that the hypothecary obligation is not Biblical, a firstborn son does not receive a double portion in a loan that was due to his deceased father, whether money or land was...

... sentence had been pronounced, it is regarded as returned.33  And he holds the view of R. Simeon who says: that which causes [the gain or loss of] money is regarded as money.34 Rabbah said: Indeed [it speaks of a case] when he35  slaughtered it himself To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files Lit., 'its name is not'. An act of slaughter that does not for any...

...., 'he puts'. The Mishnah. From paying the fine. Since the offence carries with it the penalty of lashes, there is no money payment even where lashes are not inflicted. R. Johanan and Resh Lakish. Or 'opinions', stated elsewhere. I.e., the payment of money. To make the money payment. From making the money payment. And so there is no death penalty, and therefore he pays. From making the money payment...

... - and by the evening the psychologist came to enquire what happened. The boss was crying and he said 'You destroyed my whole business!' 'But' he said 'what happened?' He said 'What happened! My typist escaped with the receptionist, the cashier has taken all the money, and the office boy wanted to murder me. All finished! They said "Do it today. Why are you waiting? Tomorrow never comes."...

... imagine possessing herself. She has been possessed like a thing; she has been completely dispossessed from her centre, hence she has become so interested in things. She continuously thinks about things: 'Have more money, have a bigger house, have a bigger car, ornaments, jewels, diamonds, this and that... go on having.' The woman seems to be almost crazy. Why? She has been completely dispossessed by man...

... through meditation. Money and meditation are the two directions. If you want to possess things money; if you want to possess yourself - meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning. I am not saying that you will renounce money, I am not saying that you will not earn money, but it loses all meaning. Then it is fun, then it is a utility; then you earn and you spend, then you are not a...

... miser; then it is a good medium of exchange - very helpful, but nothing more. It is not your soul, it is not your god. Ordinarily money seems to be the only god in the world. People look on money as they look on God: they pray. In India... you will be surprised; they say that India is a religious country, but in fact you cannot find a more materialistic country anywhere. This is one of the most...

... materialistic countries - they worship money. They have a festival, DIWALI, then they worship money - exactly, they worship. They pile up money and worship it like God with MANTRAS, chanting, and a priest offering flowers to the money. When you possess yourself you use money, you don't allow money to use you. So this is just indicative of your becoming a little alert. Everybody is deeply interested in things...

... which means "one who lives a private life." One who has his own idiom of life, that is the idiot. The world is going one way and you are going another: then you are an idiot. The whole existence moving in one way and you have your own private goal! A man who is after money is an idiot, because the sun is not after money, the moon is not after money, trees are not after money, animals are not...

... after money - rivers, mountains, they are not so idiotic. The whole existence lives without money and a man is mad after money. He suffers from idiocy, the greatest disease there is: he has a private goal. If someday he comes to face God and God asks him, "What were you seeking?" and he says, "Money," God will not be able to understand what he means by "money." He may not...

... ever have heard the word "money." It will be very difficult to explain to him. Some great economist maybe - Adam Smith or Ricardo or Galbraith or somebody - may be able to explain, but I'm suspicious. God will not be able to understand what money is. The whole existence lives without money. Man has created an idiocy. Or you say, "I was after political power." God will not be able...

... silent as the tree. You start feeling. Your heart throbs with a new vitality and a new vibe... and there is bliss. And you are so fulfilled and so contented. The tree has not given you anything. The tree is very poor in that way. What can a tree give to a human being? It cannot give you money, it cannot give you power. It cannot give anything that you would like to have, but suddenly, just sitting by...

... about them, you will miss them. You are saying: "Are these the here-and-now moments... or is there more!" That again is the mind. The whole trick of the mind is the technique of more." The mind always says, "There must be more."If you have money, the mind says, "Have more money." If you have power, the mind says, "Have more power." If you are getting...

... other was a problem. He was always creating trouble. Finally the father decided - he was getting old - to divide the property and separate the two sons. The elder one remained with him and the younger one the moment he got the money, left the father, left the village, went to the big city, spent all the money in gambling, in drinking, with the prostitutes. Within a few years all was lost; he became a...

... the gardens working the whole day; he had not known what was happening at home. Somebody told him, "Look, this is unfair! You have been always obedient, always followed your father's footsteps, you have in every way helped the old man, but never has a celebration happened for you, no feast was given for you. And now that your brother is coming back - he has lost all the money in gambling...

... pretension is a cover-up. This is one of the strategies of the unconscious mind: if you feel inferior inside you try on the outside to be very superior. You have to hide your inferiority with pretentions, with superiority. If you feel poor inside you start accumulating money to show to the world and to show to yourself that you are not poor. "Look how much I have got!" Proving to the world that...

... all, that's why it is pretending to be spiritual. It is just the opposite of it. If you look into the Indian scriptures, if you go back to the Vedas, you will be surprised: the Vedas are very materialistic. It is very rare to come across a statement in the Vedas which can be called spiritual. The RISHIS, the seers of the Vedas - the so-called seers - are asking for money, power, from God; asking for...

... million dollars in the bank, but will probably not have it for long, as it is reported that an Indian phony is trying to get his hands on it." It is not surprising that all the so-called Indian gurus have reached America. Wherever money is you will find the Indian also. Muktananda, Satchitananda, Yogi Bhajan, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are all in America for the simple reason that the money is there...

.... And they go on talking against the money - that's the most beautiful thing about it! They are not authentic. I am not against money at all. What I am against is hypocrisy. They TALK against money and they go on accumulating money. Remember, to me there is no problem. I am not against materialism either. In fact, my whole effort is to create a synthesis between materialism and spiritualism. There is...

... shows pure materialism, nothing else! All the AVATARAS of the Hindus are sons of kings - as if the whole country is dead! Not a single AVATARA, not a single incarnation of God in a poor family or even in a middle class family! No TEERTHANKARA, no enlightened Jaina Master, from an ordinary family; they all come from royal families. You can see the point. The point is that the respect is for money. Even...

... in renunciation, the respect is for money. If you have money, then you are respected. Your renunciation will also be respected. If you don't have money you can be as great a meditator as Mahavira, nobody is going to respect you. They will ask, "How much have you renounced?" And if you cannot show them a big bank balance that you have renounced you are not of any worth. Yogeshwar, drop...

..., YOU ACT, YOU EVEN DRESS AS AN EMPEROR. YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP YOU, YOU HAVE MONEY, POWER. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THIS CONTRADICTION? A: I am an extraordinarily ordinary man. Q: A SMALL BOOK WAS SUFFICIENT TO SPREAD THE TEACHING OF JESUS OR OF MOHAMMED, AND MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER THEM GOOD AFTER HUNDREDS OF YEARS. BUT THERE ARE MANY TAPES OF YOUR SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS BY THE THOUSANDS. EVERY SINGLE...

... middle, in Switzerland, on her own name. So in our books we cannot show that she has taken anything. The money was coming from German communes as a donation. And from there much money has come for the Commune. So slowly, slowly, during these four years she went on gathering money in a bank account in Switzerland. Her secretary, who left two years before because of cancer -- for treatment she went to...

... California. She had come to inform that when she left, it was forty-three million. Now in these two years, how much more she may have gathered? It is difficult to imagine, but it is certainly... it must be near about one hundred thousand million. That money she has given the bank number, the bank's name. But in Switzerland that is not according to bank's policies. We phoned; they will not accept that...

... to the commune. The people who have given those cars were not going to give the money to the commune. These were personal friends around the world who have sent those cars, and they are still sending. It is their love. And the commune is benefited by it, the commune is not a loser. Nine million dollars in cars it has got, and anything else that comes -- because only two things are used, either a...

... mountains. That is my personal use: one and a half hour. One car can do that. But my people are... Q: BHAGWAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH IS THE MOVEMENT WORTH AT THE MOMENT? WHAT IS THE PATRIMONY* OF THE MOVEMENT? HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE -- I MEAN NOT YOU, THE MOVEMENT -- HOW MUCH MONEY HAS IT? A: No, we don't have any money, because I don't believe in having money. I believe in spending. Q: HOW...

... MUCH MONEY...? A: I always spend before I get. Just the idea that some money is coming, and I tell my people: Spend. Because who knows about tomorrow? Spend today. We don't have any money, but we are perfectly sufficient. Nothing is missing, everything is perfectly okay. And money goes on coming. I have lived thirty-five years without any money. It has always been coming. Somebody somewhere feels to...

... were so much against wealth, against comfort, against luxury, they forgot completely that they were not being objective; these are subjective reactions. You had hoped for much and found nothing. That does not mean that comfort is useless. It simply means you have asked too much - something which is not in the power of comfort to supply to you. You had asked too much - something which money cannot...

... give to you. You were thinking that when you have all the money you will relax, you will enjoy. But the way it works is that while you were earning money, you were also earning tensions, side by side. As you were progressing towards your goal of desire, you were becoming more and more tense, more and more violent. At any cost, the goal has to be achieved. Even if the means are not good, it doesn't...

... the pope and to the kings of Europe, saying, "We are lagging far behind; the Chinese think the Western people barbarous," do you know what the pope did? He took a note and burned it, and said, "Do you say this is money?" And then he brought out a silver coin and dropped it on the floor, making a sound, and said, "This is money. So who is barbarous?" Marco Polo said...

... cannot even think of it. The poor man will think that it has to be a gold coin, because he does not understand the whole meaning of money. The meaning of money is the exchange value. What does it matter whether it is gold or paper? If it serves for the exchange of things, it is money. And the notes that have survived from four thousand years ago are exactly the same as the notes that you have: the best...

... notes they had issued. So anybody, anytime, could take gold or silver - whatever he wanted. Then people became satisfied: "There is no problem; these are promissory notes." The pope behaved like an idiot by burning the note. That was his argument. He thought that this is absolute proof that this is not money. Real money is a silver coin or a gold coin. Marco Polo tried to say, "First I...

... was also amazed - paper money? But when I understood their idea I was amazed. Those people are really far advanced. There is no need for anybody to carry a load of gold - which is dangerous - when you can carry a small note in your pocket and nobody will know." Everybody in the court of the pope laughed at Marco Polo. They thought, "He is a fool. He thinks they are culturally ahead of us...

... over the world and sucked as much as is possible, so all the money gathered in the Western capitals. And this was the time when a new factor appeared - which always comes with riches - and that was science. When you have riches your physical needs are fulfilled; then your mind starts enquiring about objects, the objective world. And three hundred years ago, when science was born, it multiplied the...

.... He glided out of a certain obscurity unlighted by public service of fame, into the high rulership of the nation at war. The constituted government had little to do with him save vote the money and do his bidding. He said that men could have appealed over his head to the President of the United States, but, knowing the situation, men never did. Who is this figure, colossal in his way, and most...

... important and numerous. In any case, as a young man, he is found to be master of large sums of money, and there is no indication that he inherited it. He is very wealthy. What change the war made in his wealth, if it made any change at all, is a matter on which nothing may be said now. Certainly many of his friends and closest associates reaped great quantities of money from their activities during the...

... probably what you want to know. I had been very much disturbed by the unprepared condition of this country, so much so that I was one of the first men to support General Wood in the Plattsburg encampment, and I think he will admit I gave him the first money and told him whatever he did I would guarantee to stand behind that movement, which happily only took a few thousand dollars so far as I was...

... spectacle to the mass of the American people. But still Mr. Baruch was convinced we were going to have war, and he spent money on his guess. The government which was then "keeping us out of war" was also consulting with Mr. Baruch who was already ahead of the government in creating the atmosphere of war in this country. If the reader, by a mental effort, can reconstruct the year of 1915, and...

... brains that elevated him? Or was it the suggestion of Jewish finance already well forward in its work of mobilization? There is no desire to minimize the Baruch brain. Brains and money are the Jews' two greatest weapons. No Jew is picked for a key place who has not brains. Baruch has brains. He is a ceaseless wonder among men who know him. He can do six things at once and control the most colossal...

... operations without fuss or fever. He has both brains and money. But there is something for Jewry to learn: brains and money are not enough. There is another element that even brains cannot cope with, and which renders money cheap. The chess-playing expert may mystify and compel admiration; but the chess-player does not rule the world. So, Baruch did things. But Trotsky also has done things. The point is...

... fictitious values. The Jewish philosophy of money is not to "make money," but to "get money." The distinction between these two is fundamental. That explains Jews being "financiers" instead of "captains of industry." It is the difference between "getting" and "making." The creative, constructive type of mind has an affection for the thing it is...

... doing. The non-Jewish worker formerly chose the work he liked best. He did not change his employment easily, because there was a bond between him and the kind of work he had chosen. Nothing else was so attractive to him. He would rather draw a little less money and do what he liked to do, than a little more and do what irked him. The "maker" is always thus influenced by his liking. Not so...

... the "getter." It doesn't matter what he does, so long as the income is satisfactory. He has no illusions, sentiments or affections on the side of work. It is the "geld" that counts. He has no attachment for the things he makes, for he doesn't make any; he deals in the things which other men make and regards them solely on the side of their money-drawing value. "The joy of...

... creative labor" is nothing to him, not even an intelligible saying. Now, previous to the advent of Jewish socialistic and subversive ideas, the predominant thought in the labor world was to "make" things and thus "make" money. There was a pride among mechanics. Men who made things were a sturdy, honest race because they dealt with ideas of skill and quality, and their very...

... characters were formed by the satisfaction of having performed useful functions in society. They were the Makers. And society was solid as long as they were solid. Men made shoes as exhibitions of their skill. Farmers raised crops for the inherent love of crops, not with reference to far-off money-markets. Everywhere The Job was the main thing and the rest was incidental. The only way to break down this...

... strong safeguard of society — a laboring class of sturdy character — was to sow other ideas among it; and the most dangerous of all the ideas sown was that which substituted "get" for "make." With the required manipulation of the money and food markets, enough pressure could be brought to bear on the ultimate consumers to give point to the idea of "get," and it...

... — but get it" — all of which are notes of this treasonable philosophy), the very cement of society loses its adhesiveness and begins to crumble. The great myth and fiction of Money has been forced into the place of real things, and the second step of the drama can thus be opened up. Jewish influence on the thought of the working men of the United States, as well as on the thought of...