... destroyed. Right now I can see that your energy is ready. So move into love, move into relationship... and unafraid, because life is only for those who are unafraid. It is not for cowards. It is only for brave people. God believes only in courageous people. So go with my blessings, but continue meditating, mm? [Another sannyasin who is leaving said he had no plans, but was concerned about money and...

... security: But I've been feeling that I really need to do something about my love... that I need to be rooted in that too.] That's the real need. If you are rooted in love, you are rooted. There is no other way to be rooted. You can have money, you can have a house, you can have security, you can have a bank balance; that will not give you rootedness. That is just a substitute, a poor substitute for love...

.... It may increase your anxiety even more because once you have physical securities, money, a social status, you become more and more afraid that these things may be taken from you, or you become more and more worried about having more and more of these things, because discontent knows no limit, and your basic need was of being rooted. Love is the earth where one needs to be rooted. Just as trees are...

... rooted in the earth, man is rooted in love. Man's roots are invisible, so anything visible is not going to help. Money is very visible, a house is very visible, social status is very visible. Man's roots are invisible. Man is a tree with invisible roots. You will have to find some invisible earth - call it love, call it God, prayer - but it is going to be something like that... invisible, intangible...

..., elusive, mysterious. You cannot catch hold of it. On the contrary, you will have to allow it to catch hold of you. You cannot have any grip on it. On money you can have your grip; you can catch it in your hands - but then it cannot become your earth. That which you can possess will never become your earth. Only that which possesses you can become your earth. Love possesses you. That is the attraction...

... who effected the sale. And so have a claim to another maneh. Tractate List / Glossary / / Bible Reference Kethuboth 98b Rabbi1  has taught here2  that all [profits3  belong] to the owner of the money.4  As it was taught,5  'If one unit6  was added to [the purchases made by an agent] all [the profit belongs] to the agent'; so R. Judah, but R. Jose ruled, '[The profit] is...

... to be divided',7  [and, in reply to the objection,] But, surely, it was taught that R. Jose ruled, All [profit belongs] to the owner of the money! Rami b. Hama replied: This is no difficulty for the former refers to an object that has a fixed value8  while the latter refers to one that has no fixed9  value.10 R. Papa stated: The law is that11  [the profit made by the agent on...

...] an object that had a fixed value must be divided,7  but if on an object that had no fixed value all [profit belongs] to the owner of the money. What does he12  teach us?13  — That the reply that was given14  is the proper one.15 The question was raised: What [is the law where a man] said to his agent,16  'Sell for me a lethek'17  and the latter presumed18 ...

.... Dem, VIII. And, since it is not certain in whose favour the additional unit was given away by the seller, its value must be equally divided between the agent and the owner of the money. So that the additional unit cannot be regarded as a gift, but as a part of the purchase, payment for which was made with the money of the owner. Hence it is the latter only who is entitled to the added unit. Thus it...

... harvesting season he was worth a sela' [he] is permitted [to have the benefit]? Is not this [difference] a reward7  for advancing the money?8  Raba replied: What a logical argument! Has it ever been forbidden to reduce one's hire to the lowest level?9  Wherein [then, lies the reason for] the difference between the first, and the last clause?10  — [In] the first clause, since work...

... does not begin11  at once,12  [the difference between the two rates of wage] appears as a reward for advancing the money;13  [in] the last clause, where work begins at once, [the difference] does not appear as a reward for advancing the money. AND IT IF WAS ATTACHED TO THE GROUND AND HE PLUCKED [OF IT] ANY QUANTITY, HE HAS ACQUIRED OWNERSHIP. Does he acquire ownership [of all the flax...

... and that at the earlier days. I.e., usury. Lit., 'reward for waiting for me'. A labourer may. so far as the Biblical prohibition of usury is concerned, agree to take any wage, however low, even if his work is not to begin until the harvesting season, and his wages may be paid in advance. Lowering one's wage is not the same as paying usury for advancing money as a loan or on a purchase. Since one may...

... until the bottle has been returned to its owner, not merely to the child. R. Judah, who absolves the shopkeeper, disagreeing with Samuel. And the child was given money by his father to pay for the bottle in which the oil was to be carried. He absolved the shopkeeper from responsibility for the oil and the isar, because he maintains that the child was sent to bring the things with him. For the same...

... Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files With the firstborn. I.e., when he himself owes money to his father. He takes one half, and the others take the other half. The portion of the birthright is, in this case, of 'doubtful ownership'. If the loan in question were to be regarded as an ordinary debt, the firstborn would have had no claim at all to the double portion of the...

... to a double portion in the wine? Lit., 'to give him the value (money) of the damage of his grapes'. The firstborn receives a double portion. not in the wine, but in value of the grapes that were lost or damaged in the process of the manufacturing of the wine. The heirs, who made the change in disregard of his protest, must hear the loss. Lit.,'where'. Lit., 'said'. Despite the protest of the...

...',22  HIS INSTRUCTIONS ARE VALID.23 GEMARA. [Must] it be said [that] our Mishnah24  is not in accordance with R. Judah? For, if [it be suggested that it is in accordance with] R. Judah. surely he said, [it may be asked]. [that] in money matters one's stipulation is valid'.25  For it was taught: If a man said to a woman, 'Behold thou art consecrated unto me26  on condition that...

... thou shalt have no [claim] upon me [for] food, raiment and conjugal rights' she is consecrated27  but the stipulation is null;28  these are the words of R. Meir. R. Judah said: In respect of the money matters his stipulation is valid!29  [Our Mishnah] may be said [to be in agreement] even [with the view of] R. Judah; [only] there,30  she knew [his conditions] and renounced her...

... inheritance'. that may have been used with it, does not affect the validity of the testator's instructions. Which forbids any stipulation that is contrary to a law of the Torah. Even if it is contrary to a law of the Torah Since our Mishnah deals with money matters and yet it is stated that one's stipulation that is contrary to the Torah, is invalid, it obviously cannot agree with R. Judah's view. The...

... liability according to the view of the Rabbis (v. infra p. 357), and by his act he caused the owner of the corn the loss of all claim to compensation. I.e., to obtain money really not due to him. Which he obtained by false pretenses and by the evidence of the false witnesses whom he hired. I.e. to pay him money not due to him, and it so happened that the neighbour to whom the money was paid could not be...

... made to give back the money he obtained by the false evidence. Why then state it here? Lev. V, 1. Whose evidence would merely entail the imposition of an oath upon the defendant, v. Shebu 40a. Thus disqualifying it from being used for the purpose of purification, Par. IV, 4. Git. 53a, and infra 98a. Supra 47b. Infra 59b. Infra 91a. Supra 28b. R. Joshua. But not to cause you the loss of compensation...

.... Expressed in the Divine Law. I.e. mortal man. Surely the word of the former. The witnesses should therefore be exclusively responsible, as they should not have followed the advice of a man in contradiction to the words of the Law. The law of agency could on this account not apply in matters of transgression; cf. Kid. 42b and supra p. 294. Since one witness could not make the defendant liable for money...

... / / Bible Reference Baba Kamma 65b The Sages, however, say: [Scripture says] In its principal and the fifth part thereof,1  [implying that it is only] where money is paid as principal that a fifth has to be added, but where the money is not paid as principal2  no fifth will be added.3  R. Simeon b. Yohai says: No fifth or trespass offering is paid in a case where there is double payment.4...

..., and as the Torah says 'and its fifths',7  the Torah has thus assigned many fifths to one principal.8 The Master stated: 'The Sages however say: [Scripture says] In its principal and the fifth part thereof [implying that it is only] where money is paid as principal that a fifth has to be added, but where the money is not paid as principal, no fifth will be added.' The trespass offering will...

... rejoin that as it was impossible for Scripture not to insert 'eth' so as to make a distinction between a chattel due to Heaven14  and money due to ordinary men,15  it was therefore necessary to add the 'waw' so as to combine the verses. R. Elai said: If a thief misappropriates a lamb and it grows into a ram,16  or a calf and it grows into an ox,16  as the article has undergone a...

... sheath of a Scroll together with the Scroll, though it also contains money,3  shall we not handle the skin on account of the flesh? How compare! There it [the sheath] became a stand for something that is forbidden (the money] and something that is permitted [the Scroll]; whereas here the whole has become a stand for that which is forbidden? — Rather they say thus to him: If a sheath...

... containing money may be brought from elsewhere to save a Scroll of the Law with it, shall we not handle the skin in virtue of the flesh? And how do we know that itself? Shall we say, since one need not throw them [the coins] out when it contains them,4  he may bring it [the sheath] too? How compare! There, in the meanwhile the fire may alight [upon the Scroll];5  but here, let them be thrown out...

... sacrifice was killed the whole animal was mukzeh. Which by itself may not be handled. V. Mishnah. If one should first have to empty the sheath of its money. Whilst carrying the sheath to the Scroll it can be emptied of its money without loss of time. Hence the flaying is unintentional, as far as the skin is concerned.-On this explanation they differ only in respect of skinning the animal, as was first...

.... So if women are the way to hell, then hell must be full of only men. It will be just a male-chauvinist club. Woman is not the way to hell, but once your mind is conditioned in that way, you are going to project the woman into something else; you need an object for your love. Money can become your object of love. Why is there so much greed? Why are people clinging to money like crazy? It is their...

... love object. Somehow they have managed to move their whole life energy towards money. Now you want them even to drop money; again they will be in trouble. Politics becomes their love object. Rising higher and higher in the political bureaucracy becomes their love object. The politician looks towards the presidentship, the prime ministership, with the same lust as a lover looks to his or her beloved...

... was no energy available to go after money, to go after politics, to go after God. No, they danced, they sang; they had a small but beautiful architecture - huts, but made beautifully. They lived a very clean life; there was no crime because there was no energy for crime. And now you have to understand how the things are related. When there is no crime what is the need of a judge, what is the need of...

... rich, very scientific, but at what cost? They died, they are no longer alive. My problem is, I want you to be alive and yet as rich in every dimension as possible. I am not ready to choose between these two, either/or. I would not like you to be aboriginals. I would not like you to become very civilized, cultured, running after money and power and prestige. I would not like you to become politicians...

... wise man, "What should I do? How should I decide who should inherit?" The old wise man gave him a certain method. The old man went home, he gave one thousand silver pieces to each son and told them, "Go to the market, purchase seeds of flowers." They went, they purchased seeds. Carts and carts came, full of seeds, because one thousand silver pieces in ancient days was big money...

... inherit my whole property, so be careful." He went on the pilgrimage. The first son thought, "This is a strange test. If he comes after three years ... these seeds will simply die, and he will ask for the living seeds. So the best way is to sell them in the market, keep the money, and when he comes back purchase new seeds again - fresh, young." Very economical, mathematical - he did that...

... its very roots, and it starts disappearing. The basic thing is learning not to judge, because the moment you judge, your observation is clouded. Then you can never see clearly; you have already concluded. You have not been scientific, you have been already carrying a belief. In my childhood I asked my father - that was my way - "You have to give me money because now I am going to smoke."...

...; He said, "This is strange. No boy of your age can have the courage to ask his own father for money, and that too for smoking." I said, "It is up to you; otherwise I will steal, and it will be your money. You will be forcing me to commit two crimes - smoking and stealing. And then I will have to commit a third crime, lying, because whenever you ask, I will say, 'No, I don't smoke...

....' "I am making things simple. Just give me the money. I want to smoke just to see why people are smoking and what they find in it, because I see people all around smoking against the warning of teachers, parents, doctors, priests - everybody. There must be something if they don't listen to anybody and still go on. "And they are paying for it, for their sickness, for their death to come earlier...

..., to have tuberculosis, or cancer of the lungs. I cannot make any judgment before I experiment. Now it is up to you. You want me to do three wrong things or just one?" He looked at me and said, "You are just impossible! Now I cannot even prevent you from smoking. You are asking money from me... but you are right, you would have to do three wrong things, so take the money." And I said...

..., "I am going to smoke in the house, not hiding somewhere behind the house. I am going to smoke in my own house." He said, "Don't do that! Because my father is still alive; your uncles are there, your aunts are there" - it was a joint family of fifty people. "They will all condemn me - they won't say anything to you - they will say that you gave him money for smoking and he is...

... dollars, ten million dollars. No, no amount of money. The United States government is not ready to give him bail. And we will prolong the case as much as we can - five years, seven years, ten years. So in those ten years he will be harassed, in those ten years his work will suffer, in those ten years his commune will suffer, in those ten years millions of his people around the world will suffer. Of...

.... And, you have missed three targets already." "SIR," said Nasrudin, "I AM SHOOTING FOR THAT TEN SPOT OF YOURS, AND I AM CALLING MY SHOT AS PROMISED." 9. A rich widow had lost all her money in a business deal and was flat broke. She told her lover, Mulla Nasrudin, about it and asked, "Dear, in spite of the fact that I am not rich any more will you still love me?"...

... LOSING MY HAIR," said Nasrudin. 50. "You sure look depressed," a fellow said to Mulla Nasrudin. "What's the trouble?" "Well," said the Mulla, "you remember my aunt who just died. I was the one who had her confined to the mental hospital for the last five years of her life. When she died, she left me all her money. NOW I HAVE GOT TO PROVE THAT SHE WAS OF SOUND...

... with me," said the dentist. "I have heard that you mountain people are strong and tough. All I can say is that you are a brave man." "IT ISN'T ME THAT'S HAVING MY TOOTH PULLED," said Nasrudin. "IT'S MY WIFE." 55. The professional money raiser called upon Mulla Nasrudin. "I am seeking contributions for a worthy charity," he said. "Our goal is...

... NIGHT YOU LIKED BAKED BEANS, TUESDAY NIGHT YOU LIKED BAKED BEANS, WEDNESDAY NIGHT YOU LIKED BAKED BEANS AND NOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ON THURSDAY NIGHT, YOU SAY YOU HATE BAKED BEANS." 58. The prosecutor began his cross-examination of the witness, Mulla Nasrudin. "Do you know this man?" "How should I know him?" "Did he borrow money from you?" "Why should he borrow...

... money from me?" Annoyed, the judge asked the Mulla "Why do you persist in answering every question with another question?" "WHY NOT?" said Mulla Nasrudin 59. Mulla Nasrudin had taken one too many when he walked upto the police sargeant's desk. "Officer you'd better lock me up," he said. "I just hit my wife on the head with a beer bottle." "Did you kill...

... a prison waiting room, turned on him and said: "I am fed up with you. Look at your record: attempted robbery, attempted robbery, attempted burglary, attempted murder. WHAT A FAILURE YOU HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE; YOU CAN'T SUCCEED IN ANYTHING YOU TRY." 109. Mulla Nasrudin and some of his friends pooled their money and bought a tavern. They immediately closed it and began to paint and fix it...

... THE WAR." 137. A barber was surprised to get a tip from Mulla Nasrudin, a customer, before he even climbed into the chair. "You are the first customer, Mulla," he said, "ever to give me a tip before I cut the hair." "THAT'S NOT A TIP," said Nasrudin. "THAT'S HUSH MONEY. 138. "Thankful! What do I have to be thankful for? I can't pay my bills," said...

... BACK AND SEE WHERE HE CAME FROM." 142. Mulla Nasrudin and a friend were chatting at a bar. "Do you have the same trouble with your wife that I have with mine?" asked the Mulla. "What trouble?" "Why, money trouble. She keeps nagging me for money, money, money, and then more money," said the Mulla. "What does she want with all the money you give her? What does...

... sitting up every night until two and three o'clock in the morning and I can't break her of it." Sympathetic friend: "Why does she sit up that late?" Nasrudin: "WAITING FOR ME TO COME HOME." 145. "Mulla, did your father leave much money when he died?" "NO," said Mulla Nasrudin, "NOT A CENT. IT WAS THIS WAY. HE LOST HIS HEALTH GETTING WEALTHY, THEN HE LOST...

... 5?Notme, "saidtheMulla. "Well give me whatever you have, and get out," said the doctor. "Doctor, I have nothing," said the Mulla. By this time the doctor was in a rage and said, "If you have no money you have some nerve to call on a specialist of my standing and my fees." Mulla Nasrudin, too, now got mad and shouted back at the doctor: "LET ME TELL YOU...

... the psychiatrist "But it will take a long time and quite a lot of money." "OH, MONEY IS NO PROBLEM," said Nasrudin. "SHE HAS WON SO MANY HORSE RACES." 156. The caravan was marching through the desert. It was hot and dry with not a drop of water anywhere. Mulla Nasrudin fell to the ground and moaned. "What's the matter with him?" asked the leader of the caravan...

... appeared and ordered them to halt. "Your money or your life," boomed the leader of the bandits. 'Just a moment please," said Mulla Nasrudin. "I owe my friend here 500, andIwouldliketopayhimfirst. "YOSEL," said Nasrudin, "HERE IS YOUR DEBT. REMEMBER, WE ARE SQUARE NOW." 170. In asking Mulla Nasrudin for a loan of 10, awomansaidtohim,"IfIdon...

... 100, then?"saidNasrudin. "Why I hardly know you, and you are asking me to lend you 100!" "I can't understand it," said Nasrudin. "IN THE OLD COUNTRY PEOPLE WOULD NOT LEND ME MONEY BECAUSE THEY KNEW ME, AND HERE I CAN'T GET A LOAN BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW ME." 171. "I have found the road to success no easy matter," said Mulla Nasrudin. "I started at...