... floor in the compartment with tears. He said, "I have never returned money to anybody; ten rupees I am returning. And you are ready to come with me to count whether they are dead or alive! And you are ready to give an advance for those who are alive because they will die...!" I said, "One thing is certain; don't take ten if you are feeling hurt. Take at least one - for you!" He...

... said, "First, I will live with YOU!" I said, "This is great! And when you become bored, tired, because I don't want to give more money to you?" He said, "I will move. I have many friends all over the country." And it is true. He had many friends. He had qualities to create friends: he was a very good chess player, a very good conversationalist, very good in many games...

... borrowing money. And I said to him, "It is strange that you go on borrowing money. What about returning it?" And he said, "Everybody knows that I never return it and there are other people from whom I borrow. I never borrow from the same person again. I use that money to create the atmosphere to borrow more money from somebody else!" Just before I went to America, he came to see me. He...

... was perfectly happy. He said, "In this world where everybody is deceiving everybody else, not to deceive is to be stupid. Just don't deceive the same person again, because that is not right. When there are other new pastures available, why go on harassing one person? I never harass, that's why people give me money because they know: once they have given me money they are free from harassment...

... explain from where I got the money. I have never paid any fine anywhere in the world. I don't know even the names of the people who paid the fine. Even my jailer was surprised, because they were not expecting it, knowing perfectly well that I don't have a single cent to pay. And imposing four hundred thousand dollars... it is nearabout sixty lakh rupees. From where am I going to pay it? But I am not a...

... America, justice is part of business. Accept two crimes and the other thirty-two crimes disappear - and any two crimes; they were not even insistent about what crimes. And the two crimes were so stupid that nobody can think that a person should be fined even if he has committed them. Four hundred thousand dollars... and to ask a man, knowing perfectly well that he has not touched money for almost thirty...

... pay the tax, then I have to pay tax on the money that I am paying as tax. Naturally... where is it going to end? Whenever I pay tax, I owned that money - on that money I have to pay the tax again. And it will go on infinitely. Either you stop at the first step or there is no way to stop. And they know perfectly well that I don't have any money, I don't have any possessions. Everything the people who...

.... "After all I've done for him? Well, screw the bastard!" "I did," says Maureen. "You go back to work tomorrow." Moishe Finkelstein is walking down the street one night in New York. Suddenly a man jumps out from the side alley and puts a gun to Moishe's head. "Give me your money," he threatens, "or I'll blow out your brains!" "Blow away," says...

... Moishe. "In America you can live without brains, but you can't live without money." Okay, Maneesha? Yes, Beloved Master. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... be redeemed, and their redemption money is utilized in the Temple service. But a married woman is herself consecrated to her husband. I.e., if sacrificed within thirty days, it must be a burnt-offering; if after, a peace-offering. Its sanctity as a burnt-offering has automatically ceased, though it retains the sanctity of a peace-offering. I.e., the value of this ox be consecrated as a burnt...

...-offering for thirty days. viz., that if redeemed within thirty days, a burnt-offering must be bought for the money; if after, a peace-offering. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Nedarim 29b hence the Tanna must teach both [clauses], because I would think that monetary consecration can automatically cease, but not so bodily sanctity; hence both are rightly taught. But if you maintain that the...

...  and this is its meaning: If he did not say, 'let this be a peace — offering from now, it remains a burnt-offering after thirty days.3  This may be compared to the case of one who says to a woman, 'Be thou betrothed unto me after thirty days'; she becomes betrothed [then], even though the money [of betrothal] has been consumed [in the meanwhile].4  But is this not obvious?5 ...

... sanctity is not imposed concurrently with the first, the latter, on the completion of the thirty days, is similar to the money, which though consumed in the meanwhile, is nevertheless effective in betrothing the woman; so also the first sanctity remains though the period has been 'consumed'. Since it is taught that only when the second sanctity runs concurrently with the first does it take effect after...

... Babylonian Talmud: Baba Bathra 33         Previous Folio / Baba Bathra Contents / Tractate List / Navigate Site Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra Folio 33a other money besides.1  When I had had the use of the land for the number of years covered by the mortgage, I said to myself: If I restore the land to the orphans and then tell them that I have still a claim on...

... their father for more money, [I shall have to comply with] the rule of the Rabbis that 'anyone who claims to recover from orphans must support his claim with an oath.' I will therefore keep back the mortgage bond and continue to use the land to the extent of the money still owing to me; for since, if I were to say that I had bought the land, my plea would be accepted,2  I shall certainly be...

... believed when I say that they owe me money. Said Abaye to him: You could not plead that you have bought the land, because common report says that it belongs to the orphans.3  Go therefore and restore it to them, and when they become of age4  claim your debt from them in court. A relative of R. Idi b. Abin died, leaving a date tree. [R. Idi and another man disputed its possession] R. Idi saying...

... this Hossar, dedicated to shady dealings between Venice and the cities of the mainland and linked twofold to Mavrogonato, appears in the depositions of another important personality in the Trent trials. Israel, son of Mayer (Meir) of Brandenburg in Saxony, was a young man twenty three years old, itinerant artist by profession, earned his money as a miniaturist, and, in the case in question, a binder...

... this periphrasis [circumlocution], to Mavrogonato [4]. What is more, Salamoncino confirmed that the go-between in those sales was, as usual, Hossar, or Asher, whose business it was to sell blood from Venice to the other centers of the Republic in which there were active Jewish communities. The famous money lender Salomone di Lazzaro "from Germany", active at Crema and Cremona, was also an assiduous...

... client of this itinerant wanderer [5]. Wolfgang knew Hossar personally, and visited Hossar in prison near the Ponte di Paglia in Venice, where he was detained for attempting to sell "alchemical silver", i.e., counterfeit money. The reasons for this strange visit are not p. 47] clear, nor did Wolfgang bother to explain. Perhaps it would not be too far from the truth to think that he intended to supply...

... anything but over. The implacable Antonio Gradenigo appealed against the sentence of absolution before the Avogaria di Commun. According to him, the Jews of Candia had bribed some of the magistrates, purchasing their favorable votes with money. Once again, Capsali reported that the allegation had been examined by the Avogaria di Commun in March 1453. The subsequent investigation led to the arrest of one...

... sentenced for selling his vote to the Jews. The minutes of the Greater Counsel confirm that an inquiry against Lambardo had in fact been brought and had concluded with the condemnation of the noble counselor for improperly attempting to extort money from Abba [23]. As early as February 1452, the ineffable Candian physician [Abba del Medigo], already under indictment for vilification of the Christian...

... been the naïve victim of a clever swindle. Bonomo di Mosè, a Jewish money lender active at Mestre, owner of the p. 53] bank of San Nicolà at Padua [24], was, out of piety or self-interest, accustomed to visiting Abba frequently in the New Prisons where the latter was incarcerated. During one of these visits, Bonomo, who bragged of high-placed friendships in wealthy Venice, is said to have confessed...

... whole scheme. But the whole scheme finally came unraveled and the swindle was discovered. The money lender from Mestre, responsible for the swindle, was sentenced by the Avogadori to the payment of a fine of one hundred gold ducats and one year in prison, after which he would be banned from Venice and its territory for five years [25]. Abba del Medigo, for his part, was tried for trying to bribe a...

..., Diamante and Yehudah, called Giuliano in Italian and known as Yudlin among the Ashkenazim of the Veneto community. The latter had married Sofia, called Shifra in Hebrew, the aunt of the chronicler Elia Capsali. The family lived at Padua, but after the death of Abba, which occurred rather early in 1485, he moved mostly to Soave, where Elia and Yudlin del Medigo had obtained a money lending permit, which...

... [37]. The Jewish community at Trent had formed relatively recently, and its numbers were always limited. When Maestro Tobias da Magdeburg, physician, surgeon and expert in ophthalmology, decided to establish himself at Trent in 1462, he found that there was no organized Jewish community in the city. In the early years of the century, in 1403, bishop Ulrich III had granted a Jewish money lender named...

... Isacco and his family the right to carry on the money trade at Bolzano and Trent. This may have been the same Isacco whose presence in the city is attested to later, in 1440 [38]. It is nevertheless certain that other Jews came to join him in the first quarter of the century, staying at Trent for longer or shorter periods, such as the same Mosè di Samuele from Trent who, in the summer of 1423, made his...

... the city, he found only one Jewish family, that of the money lender Samuele (Zanwil) di Seligman, originating from Nuremberg in Bavaria, who had settled in Trent one year before. The privileges accorded to Samuele in the money-lending permit signed upon his entry into the city were renewed by Giovanni Hinderbach in 1469, the year in which Friedrich III officially invested him with the temporal...

... office of the episcopate of Trent, at Venice, in 1469 [41]. In the meantime, a third family had come to reinforce the Jewish community of Trent. Angelo da Verona, from Gavardo in the Bresciano region, who had passed his youth at Conegliano in Friuli [42], also moved to Trent, dealing alongside Samuele of Nuremberg in the local money market [43]. Although he had lived in Italy from birth, Angelo, too...

.... Saggi di storia degli ebri a Padova e nel Veneto nell'eta del Rinascimento, Firenze, 2002, pp. 29, 43). [5] On Salamone di Lazzaro "de Alemannia" and his money lending activity, cfr. C. Bonetti, Gli ebrei a Cremona, Cremona , Cremona, 1917, p. 9; G.A. Mantovani, La communità ebraica di Crema nel secolo XV e le origini del Monte di Pietà , in "Nuova Rivista Storica", LIX (1975), p. 378; Sh. Simonsohn...

... approved assayers in the Zecca. In the Fifteen Century, four officials, two for gold and two for silver, were assigned to their registration and weighing, and an additional three assayers, who were entitled to operate in Zecca, in the "statione comune" at Rialto (the location selected by Hossar for his fraud), or in their own shop. In this regard, see F.C. Lane and R.C. Mueller, Money and Banking in...

..., Gli ebrei in Padua, 1300-1800, Padua, pp. 242-243). In the Paduan documents, it is also stated that Bonomo di Mosè da Ancona, money lender at Mestre (cfr. D. Carpi, The Jews of Padua During the Renaissance, 1369-1509, doctoral thesis, Jerusalem, 1967, p. 49 [in Hebrew]. His father, who appears in the documents as Moise Rab di Jacob and originated from Nuremberg, lived at Padu in 1460, in the...

...-1480, in "Italia", XVI (2004), p. 43. [38] The little information on the origins of the Jewish community in Trent, from the episcopal privilege of 1403 to the money lending agreements and legal disputes of the mid-Fifteen Century, are contained in G. Menestrina, Gli ebrei a Trento, in "Tridentum", VI (1903), pp. 304-316, 348-374, 384-411. This information has been utilized, without addition, by the...

..., Hinderbach seized from the money lender, whom he called "hebreum qui venit huc (sc. a Trento), de Brixia sive eius territorio", an illuminated manuscript of the Vitae sanctorum (cfr. "Pro Bibliotheca erigenda". Mostra di manoscritti ed incunabili del vescovo di Trento Iohannes Hinderbach, 1465-1486, Trent, 1989, p. 69. [44] Cfr. Luzzi, Stranieri in città, pp. 180-185. [45] "Sarra ivit in canipam ipsius et...

... it, and she caused it to be cut off, by asking another person, a man, to do it. Or you may say it means that she only began and Moses came and completed it. MISHNAH. WE MAY ALLOW THEM TO HEAL US WHEN THE HEALING RELATES TO MONEY, BUT NOT PERSONAL HEALING; [24] NOR SHOULD WE HAVE OUR HAIR CUT BY THEM IN ANY PLACE. [25] THIS IS THE OPINION OF R. MEIR; BUT THE SAGES SAID, IN A PUBLIC PLACE IT IS...

... PERMITTED, BUT NOT WHEN THE TWO PERSONS ARE ALONE. GEMARA. What is HEALING RELATING TO MONEY and what is PERSONAL HEALING? Shall we say that HEALING RELATING TO MONEY means for payment and PERSONAL HEALING free? Then the Mishnah should have said: We may allow them to heal us for payment but not free! HEALING RELATING TO MONEY must therefore mean where no danger is involved [26] and PERSONAL HEALING where...

... there is danger. But has not Rab Judah said: Even a scar over the puncture caused by bleeding should not be healed by them? — HEALING RELATING TO MONEY therefore relates to one's cattle, and PERSONAL HEALING to one's own body, about which Rab Judah said that even a scar over the puncture caused by bleeding should not be healed by them. Said R. Hisda in the name of Mar 'Ukba: But if [a heathen...

... rake it in while knocking back double bourbons. Eventually he wins so much money that he and the crowd move off to a penthouse suite to continue the party. The next day he wakes up with a splitting hangover, lying next to a gorgeous negress who has a serene smile on her face. "Holy cow!" he exclaims to himself. "That was some party!" He gently tucks a couple of hundred dollar...

... much interested in money rather than friendship? If it is a question of choice you will choose money more than friendship; why? Because money seems to be more unchanging. You can depend on it, it is more reliable. If you have a good bank balance it is far more reliable. Who knows about the friend? Today he is a friend, tomorrow he may become the enemy. Machiavelli, in his great book, THE PRINCE...

... can depend on money. People love money more than anything else; more than love, money seems to be significant. You can purchase love; if not love, at least sex you call purchase. But money, if you don't have you simply don't have: you are a beggar. With money everything comes. Money seems to have a certain permanence, a certain stability. People are more interested in things than in people. People...

.... The ring finger is just used for the wedding ring. The little finger is used to clean your ear. Have you understood?" "Yes, Pa," replied the son, "but I would like to know the use of the medium - what you call the power finger." Abraham leans over his son and whispers, "The power finger, son, you use it at night under the blankets... when you count the money!" Why...

... people are so much interested in money? For the simple reason they are in a great need to find something permanent in this life where everything goes on changing every moment; they want something to rely upon. Unless they find their own center they will go on finding these stupid things. These are poor substitutes. The real thing is the unfoldment of consciousness, because that leads you to the...

... taken out through the fruits. It is good poetry, but you cannot live on poetry alone. He is saying, it is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. He is talking about the beginnings of humanity when there was a barter system, when people were exchanging things, when there was no money as a means of exchange. You have a cow and more milk than you need, but...

... when there were very few people on the earth. Now the very idea of exchange is absurd. Just think: for any of your needs you may have to go around the whole country to find the right person. Money is one of the greatest inventions of man, to avoid this whole trouble. Whether you need the milk or not, whether you have the horse or not does not matter; anybody who needs milk can pay in money and...

... anybody who wants to sell a horse, you can purchase it. Money is a shortcut. And just having a single rupee in your pocket... have you ever thought how many things you have in your pocket? If you want a man to massage you, he is in your pocket. If you want to smoke cigarettes, they are in your pocket. If you want to go to see a film, it is in your pocket. Of course you cannot have all the things for one...

... rupee - but you can choose anything that you want. Kahlil Gibran would have been supported by a man like Mahatma Gandhi, because he was talking of a world so primitive that except for barter... money would have been impossible. And you will be surprised to know that it is not the West that invented money and currency, it was China. And for three thousand years they have been using currency notes. When...

... Marco Polo discovered currency notes he could not believe, because although in European countries in the West, money had come into existence, it was in gold coins. If you were carrying ten thousand gold coins, either their weight would kill you or you would be robbed, because anybody can see that you are carrying ten thousand gold coins. And what is the need of carrying such burden from one place to...

... from China to Europe. The printing press was invented in China at the same time, because without a printing press how can you have notes? He brought notes to show to the pope, because at that time the pope was the decisive factor for the whole Western world. And the whole court of the pope laughed at Marco Polo. They said, "You call it money? Do you want to deceive us?" And the pope took...

... population became thicker and thicker. Money came into existence, but solid gold. Then gold disappeared, silver disappeared; notes came into existence. In fact they are also out of date. In our commune in America we had just currency cards, because a note is a dirty thing. It goes on passing through so many people - somebody may have AIDS, somebody may have tuberculosis, somebody may be suffering from...

.... There is no justice in the world, there is no love in the world - there is only greed and hunger. The hunger is because of greed, because a few people are so hypnotized by money that they go on collecting without bothering that the more money you collect, the more people will be dying in Ethiopia, in India, in the whole poor East. All your money is soaked in blood. Your bank balances show how many...

... yourself - but look around, look at people. A man is constantly occupied with money. What is he really doing? Focusing his mind on money so he can avoid himself. He goes on thinking about money, morning, evening and night. Even on his bed he thinks about money and the bank balance. What is he doing with the money? That's why when he gets the money he is at a loss - what to do now? So the moment he gets...

... the money he was thinking about, he starts thinking about more money - because money is not the thing he was asking for. Otherwise, when he gets it he should feel fulfilled, but not even a Rockefeller or a Ford is fulfilled. When you get money you immediately demand more, because the basic motivation is not the money, the basic motivation is how to remain occupied. Whenever occupation is not there...

... anything, soon you will become enlightened. An unoccupied state of mind is meditation. An occupied state of mind is the world, the sansar. It doesn't matter what type of occupation - whether you are interested in money or politics, or social service or revolution, it makes no difference: your sanity is the same. Even if you leave Lenin alone he will go mad: he needs the society and the revolution; if...

... become great. Sometimes through money he wants to become great - yes, money also gives you a feeling of expansion; it is a drug. When you have much money, you feel your boundaries are not so close to you - they are far away. You can have as many cars as you want; you are not limited. If suddenly you want to have a Rolls Royce, you can have it - you feel free. When the money is not there, a Rolls Royce...

... passes by, the desire arises... but the limitation. Your pocket is empty. You don't have any bank balance. You feel hurt - the wall; you cannot go beyond it. The car is there; you see the car; you can have it right now - but there is a wall between you and the car: the wall of poverty. Money gives you a feeling of expansion, a feeling of freedom. But that too is a false freedom. You can have many more...

...: Politics and money are as much drugs as LSD and marijuana - and far more dangerous. If one has to choose between LSD and money, LSD is far better. If one has to choose between politics and LSD, then LSD is far better and far more religious. Why do I say so? because through LSD you will only be destroying yourself, but through money you destroy others too. Through LSD you will be simply destroying your...

...." Money, politics, are far more dangerous drugs. Now, this is very ironical: politicians are always against drugs, people who have money are always against drugs - and they are not aware that they themselves are drug-addicts. And they are on a far more dangerous trip, because their trip implies others' lives too. A man is free to do whatsoever he wants to do. LSD can at the most be a suicidal...

... thing, but it is never murder. It is suicide! And one IS free to commit suicide, at least one HAS to be free to commit suicide because it is your life; if you don't want to live, it is okay. But money is murder; so is power-politics murder - it kills others. I am not saying to choose drugs. I am saying ALL drugs are bad: money, politics, LSD, marijuana. You choose these things because you have a false...