... prohibited for use of any kind and therefore the wage which came to him from it is likewise prohibited, behold 'orlah1  and the mixed plantings of a vineyard2  are prohibited for use of any kind and yet we have learnt: If he sold them and with the proceeds married a wife she is legally married!3  On the other hand, [should I answer that the reason is] because his money [which comes to him on...

... account of yen nesek] is affected as though it were an idolatrous object,4  behold the Sabbatical year affects the money [obtained from the sale of its produce] and yet we have learnt: If one said to a workman [in the Sabbatical year], 'Here is a denar and for it gather vegetables for me to-day,' his wage is prohibited;5  [but if he said,] 'Gather vegetables for me to-day,' his wage is...

... prepared as a libation to an idol, on the principle, 'Whatever you bring into being from a devoted thing is to be treated like it' (loc. cit.). [To use it after the time of 'removal', v. supra, p. 278 n. 5,] In the latter case he did not stipulate by his words that the money was given as payment for gathering the forbidden produce. But the point is, the workman may use the money he earned by performing...

... Austro-German Intrigue, by Joseph Goricar and Lyman Beecher Stowe, p. 96, Double day, Page & Company, New York 1920). 055 "Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the...

... past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated." (New York Times, June 5, 1916. Articles entitled, Jacob Schiff Quits Jewish Movements." 056 "Under the pressure of international finance the atmosphere in Europe became very congested. Instead of using the huge money resources for cultural purposes, the...

... office of Essen & Son in Luleo, receivers, and a person authorized to recieve the money demaned by Comrade Trotzky. - J. Furstenberg. (The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy, issued by The Committee on Public Information, Washington, D.C., p. 27, October, 1918. The documents as above quoted were never repudiated by the Disconto-Gesellschaft or the Rheinish-Westphalian Syndicate). 070 "It will be recalled...

... that Furstenberg, who also assumed the name of Ganetzky, together with his Jewish friend Rdek, alias Sobelsohn, became later prominent members of the Soviet Government. In March, 1917, Furstenberg took an active part in the 'defeatist' propaganda in Russia, and it was through his medium that part of the money contributed by the German-Jewish bankers to the leaders of the destruction of civilization...

... conclusion are given by the circumstances that the Russian revolutionaries are in possession of great quantities of arms which are imported from abroad, and of very considerable financial means, because there can be no doubt that the leaders of the revolution have already spent on our anti-government movement, the organization of all sorts of strikes included, large amounts of money. Since, however, it...

... must be acknowledged that such support given to the revolutionary movement by sending arms and money from abroak can hardly be ascribed to foreign governments (with very special exceptions, as, for instance, that of Sweden supporting the revolutionary movement in Finland, and of Austria which helped the Poles) one is bound to come to the conclusion that there are foreign capitalists' organizations...

... duly appreciated if we take into consideratikon that already in June, 1905, a special Antlo-Jewish committee of capitalists was openly established in England for the purpose of collecitn money for arming fighting groups of Russian Jews, and that the well-known anti-Russian publicist, Lucien Wolf, was the leading member of this committee. On the other hand, in view of the fact that the sad...

... necessary formally to distinguish between the two purposes, collect money for helping the pogrom sufferers and for arming the Jewish youth.'" (The World At The Cross Roads, Boris Brasol, pp. 73-76). 072 On the fifteenth day of March, 1917, Emperor Nicholas II abdicated from the Russian throne for himself and for his son. Six days later the following Army Order No. 371 was issued by General Alexeev, Chief...

... its consequences; an ever expanding industrial and urban population, free commercial exploitation by all and sundry middlemen, usurers, Jews; and the translations of all values into money-values, by which alone can be realized that ideal of personal equality, dad-levelness and compulsory mediocrity in which she glories under the name of Liberalism and Democracy. Can England with her tradition of...

... chaotic conditions in our lives that we then welcome massive regulation, police restraints and New World Order socialist oppression just to get order again; forget morality or social ethics, productivity or national focus. Consider the raw source of energy and money for the pro-abortion and homosexual lifestyle movements, the illegal immigration madness, loss of personal heritage identity, multi...

...-cultural disarray and the move to make our precious English subordinate to the first choice of everyone's original homeland language. These are funded, not by the grassroots but by single source money ... given in every case to reduce our influential Christian nation to helplessness; Babylonians filled with hate for the Christian people who bade them welcome, spending enormous effort and endless dollars...

... it around the world, wherever money is to be made or counties subverted. Note their demand for U.N. (American) troops to clear away the enemy which surrounds their homeland and as stalking horses for their political influence thought the world. From the Pentagon, State, Presidency or the United Nations, their influence and numbers overwhelm any possible opposition and America increasingly does what...

... funds of propaganda and money are expended to take from us our last hope of freedom; the Second Amendment and our guns. And 90% of Americans haven't a hint, a clue. So brainwashed are they that when push comes to shove, most of them will unknowingly side with this enemy. So we who perceive must do the work of thousands." (Ameirch Focus, Commentaries on America). 089 "Ambassador Henry Morgenthau...

... - thinking is thinking. The object does not make any difference. The only transformation happens when you drop thinking, when suddenly you are in a state of no- thought, no-mind. There are people who think about money, and people who think about power, and people who think about success; and there are people who think about God, prayer, meditation - but there is no difference at all. The object of thinking...

... does not change the process of thinking - let it sink deep into you - otherwise people simply go on changing their objects. If somebody is thinking of money we say he is a worldly man, and if somebody is thinking about God we say, "Look, what a religious man!" Both are worldly. The man who is thinking about God is also as afraid of no-thought, of aloneness, as the man who is thinking of...

... money; no difference at all. Your gods and your ghosts, all are created out of fear. The people you find in the temples and churches and mosques praying, bowing down to the statues they themselves have made, are not in prayer, they are simply trembling with fear. It is out of fear that they have created the temples, it is out of fear that they have created a God. God is their ultimate companion. They...

... that happens only to people who are ready to be alone. Aloneness brings you to your own divinity. Beware of the gods that you have created out of fear ! A story: Three men went up to a haunted house because they had heard there was a fortune there. The first man went in while the two others remained outside. He saw some money on a table and started to put the money in his pocket, when he heard a...

... voice say, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table !" The man ran out the back door. The second man entered because the first took so long. He also saw the money on the table. As he started to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" This man also fled out the back door. The...

... third man got tired of waiting, and he went inside. He saw the money. As he began to put the money in his pocket, a strange voice said, "I am the ghost of the Holy Navel, put the money back on the table!" But instead of running away, the man said, "I am the ghost of Davy Crockett, and I will put the money in my pocket!" The ghost disappeared, and the man went out the front door a...

... [milweh]11  on interest [disqualifies the parties to the transaction]. Two witnesses testified against Bar Binithus. One said, 'He lent money on interest in my presence.' The other said, 'He lent me money on interest.' [In consequence,] Raba disqualified Bar Binithus [from acting as witness etc.]. But did not Raba himself rule: A borrower on interest is unfit to act as witness? Consequently he12 is...

... either [H] (lender) or [H] (loan). The witness who testified that he had borrowed money from Bar Binithus on interest. Ex. XXIII 1: this is not an exact quotation, but the general implication of the text. How, then, could the evidence of the latter be accepted? Its accepting the witness's evidence against Bar Binithus. Cf. supra 9b. Consequently, his evidence is valid only with regard to the accused...

... infrequent occurrence,21  or [that such appropriation was robbery only] judged by neighbourliness in general:22  but when it was seen that after all it was someone else's property23  that they seized,24  the Rabbis disqualified them. 'Those who compel a sale:' At first they thought, They do, in fact, pay money, and their pressure is incidental.25  But when they observed that they...

... Biblical sense, it was thought unnecessary to impose disqualification on its account. Though only by Rabbinical law, still, the ruling of the Rabbis was fully binding. And that it was greed for money that tempted them to transgress the laws. Yet perhaps the owners were willing to sell all the same. Without the owners' agreement to the sale. Because they allowed cattle to graze on other people's lands...

... [which is] in any case [due to him].]34  The other maneh [however] is money of doubtful ownership35  and is to be divided.36 And how is one to understand the Baraitha which teaches37  [that 'if] she gave birth to a male and a female, he only receives one maneh38  — Rabina replied: [This is possible] where [the promise of the sum of money was made by the father]. 'to him who...

... the same law applies also] to that which is not in the world!24 And let him reply to him [that] it25  [represents the view of] R. Johanan b. Beroka and [that] he holds the [same] opinion as R. Jose!26  Who can say that he27  holds such an opinion!28 Let him, then, reply to him [that our Mishnah speaks of the case] where [the money was offered by a husband] 'to him who would bring me...

.... i.e. that the sum of money spoken if in our Mishnah was not assigned to an embryo but promised by a husband to anyone who would report to him, on the confinement of his wife as to the sex of child (cf. supra). The question of an embryo's right of acquisition would consequently be outside the scope of our Mishnah: and R. Huna would accordingly be able to maintain, against R. Nahman's assumption, that...

... an embryo does not acquire possession. That our Mishnah deals with a promise to a stranger, and not with an assignment to an heir. Lit., 'he who will report to me'. Lit., 'an heir, what is his work'. A reporter on the birth of one's child could not possibly he described as heir At the time the father had assigned to him the sum of money. An embryo, however, as R. Huna stated, would not acquire...

... me.' I was once walking in the upper-market of Sepphoris when I came across one [of the disciples of Jesus the Nazarene]1  Jacob of Kefar-Sekaniah2  by name, who said to me: It is written in your Torah, Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot … into the house of the Lord thy God.3  May such money be applied to the erection of a retiring place for the High Priest?4 ...

... God'? — It means that he who only occupies himself with the study of the Torah is as if he had no God. But did he not occupy himself with acts of benevolence? Surely it has been taught: R. Eliezer b. Jacob says: One should not put his money into a charity-bag, unless it is supervised by a learned man such as R. Hanina b. Teradion!10  — He was indeed very trustworthy, but he did not...

... practise benevolence. But has it not been taught: He11  said to him [R. Jose b. Kisma]: I mistook Purim-money12  for ordinary charity money, so I distributed [of my own] to the poor!13  — He did indeed practise charity, but not as much as he might have done. When they brought up R. Eleazar b. Perata [for his trial] they asked him, 'Why have you been studying [the Torah] and why have...

... thee. II Chron. XV, 3. B.B. 10a. R. Han, b. Ter., who was a Charity-Treasurer. Money set aside for distribution among the poor for celebrating the Festival of Purim (v. Esther) which must not be applied by the recipient to any other purpose whatsoever. Having distributed the Purim Funds without specifying their purpose, he distributed his own money as Purim allowances. Infra 18a. The third charge...

... are seeking the good opinion of others, then you are in a very competitive madhouse. Many are doing the same. Whatsoever you do, you can never rely on it succeeding, and even if it succeeds, it brings nothing. It brings only more projects, more plans. If you earn money, by the time you have earned it the desire has arisen for more money, so you invest that money to earn more money and again you...

... invest and go on investing. By the time death arrives you have much money and an unlived life. And the second thing: happiness is not something that happens to you. It is already happening - you have just to be receptive. It is not that it happens sometimes and it doesn't happen sometimes. It is a decision on your part. Every morning when you get up, decide whether you want to be happy or unhappy today...

...; — Said he to him, 'Whither do you turn?29 To Part b Original footnotes renumbered. See Structure of the Talmud Files That the loss was not due to their own culpable negligence. Once the funds were divided, the Temple treasury bore the risks of the monies not yet received, the dividing being held to cover money lost in transit. Therefore the oath had to be taken before the treasurers. I.e., that...

... the theft or loss occurred before the dividing, in which case the senders are responsible and have to replace the monies. Sc. the first and the second shekels. Having been consecrated, they remain so. It is assumed that the messengers were unpaid, i.e., gratuitous bailees. Though the money was sacred, they had to swear, which contradicts our Mishnah. The oath was not imposed in order to free them...

... from further responsibility, there being no responsibility in the case of hekdesh on the part of a paid bailee for theft. They had to swear that the money was not in their possession, and so receive their wages. The treasurers were not liable for their wages — why swear to them? The treasurers should not entertain suspicions that the whole matter had been arranged between the messengers and the...

... Job, is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, And thy hope the integrity of thy ways? Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?15  If assdrivers sought grain from a person, he must not say to them, 'Go to so and so who sells grain,' whilst knowing that he has never sold any. R. Judah said: One may also not feign interest in16  a purchase when he has no money, since this is...

... known to the heart only,17  and of everything known only to the heart it is written, and thou shalt fear thy God.18 R. Johanan said on the authority of R. Simeon b. Yohai: Verbal wrong is more heinous than monetary wrong, because of the first it is written, 'and thou shalt fear thy God,' but not of the second. R. Eleazar said: The one affects his [the victim's] person, the other [only] his money...

.... IF A MAN LENDS [MONEY] TO HIS FELLOW, HE MAY TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM [WHEN THE DEBT MATURES] ONLY THROUGH THE COURT, AND HE MAY NOT ENTER HIS HOUSE TO TAKE THE PLEDGE, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THOU SHALT STAND WITHOUT.6  IF HE POSSESSED TWO ARTICLES, HE MUST TAKE ONE AND LEAVE ONE, RETURNING THE PILLOW AT NIGHT AND THE PLOUGH BY DAY. BUT IF HE [THE DEBTOR] DIES, HE NEED NOT RETURN [THE PLEDGE] TO HIS...

... HEIRS. R. SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAID: EVEN TO HIM HIMSELF [THE DEBTOR] HE MUST RETURN IT ONLY UP TO THIRTY DAYS; AFTER THAT, HE MAY SELL IT ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE COURT. GEMARA. Samuel said: Even the court officer7  may only forcibly seize [it], but not [enter to] take a pledge.8  But did we not learn: IF A MAN LENDS MONEY TO HIS FELLOW, HE MAY TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM ONLY THROUGH THE COURT...

... to the court officer.10  As for that, it is not proof. For11  this is its meaning: IF A MAN LENDS MONEY TO HIS FELLOW, HE MAY TAKE A PLEDGE OF HIM ONLY THROUGH THE COURT, from which it follows that a pledge may be taken through the court. But the creditor himself may not even seize forcibly [outside], so that HE MIGHT NOT ENTER HIS HOUSE TO TAKE THE PLEDGE.12 R. Joseph raised an objection...

... evening and Tuesday morning. If he has witnesses that he claimed his money during the whole of that period, he is believed on oath from Tuesday morning until evening, but not later. (So explained in H.M. 89, 3.) Deut. XXIV. 11. Lit., 'agent'. [H] denotes to take by force; [H], to enter the house and take a pledge. Thus, he may only seize an article from him in the street, but not enter the house and...

..., and the priest shall value him: according to the means of him that vowed shall the priest value him. Before retiring. Rashi: hence one must have a couch for dining placed four cubits distant from the sleeping couch, so that he will be bound to take the necessary exercise! To leave him sufficient money to buy these articles! — (Tosaf.). E.g., if silk nightwear was seized, it is sold, and out of...

... sudden death, Kareth V. Glos. Cf. Lev. XVIII, 29: For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. V. e.g., Lev. XX, 9ff. Only death penalty by the court releases from the money fine, v. Gemara. The phrasing of the Mishnah seems to imply that only the following maidens which are enumerated are entitled to fines — namely, only...

... requires for an analogy18  for it is taught: [[t is written:] — 'he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins,19  [this means that] this20  shall be like the dowry of virgins,21  and the dowry of virgins shall be like this.22  But Resh Lakish also requires it23  for [the same teaching] as that of Abaye, and R. Papa also requires it24  for the analogy?25...

..., the father cannot be called any more the father of the maiden'. He can only be called the father of the dead maiden, and to such the fine is not payable. Ex. XXII, 16. Gezerah shawah; an analogy based on similarity of expressions. V. Glos. Ex. XXII, 16. The money to be pact in the case of seduction. (Ex. XXII, 16.) By 'the dowry of virgins' is meant, according to this teaching, the sum of money to...

... be paid as a fine in Deut. XXII, 29, which is fifty; so here (Ex. XXII, 16) it has to be fifty. As in Ex. XXII, 16 the money consists of shekels, (this is derived from the special word [H], employed for 'pay')' so in Deut. XXII, 29, the fifty have to be shekels. The word 'the maiden'. The word 'the virgin'. Both the teaching of Abaye and the analogy are important to Resh Lakish and P. Papa. Lit...