A MAN MUST ALWAYS CARRY HIMSELF AS THOUGH HE WERE A SCHOLAR.


There is no breach:
[that is], may our company not be like that of David from which issued Ahitophel.
Or like that of Saul from which issued Doeg the Edomite.
Or like that of Elisha, from which issued Gehazi.
In our broad places: may we produce no son or pupil who disgraces himself in public.

Even of Moses & Aaron for disgracing the Lord in public at the waters of Meribah.

To The Guardian Angels of the various nations.
From the context this would seem to refer to the nations of the earth. Rabbi, however, says it to mean the assembly of the wise men.

We now assume control of the assembly of the Jinn.
Ursuping the entirety of the milky way.
The devils are in the details.
They are ever reduced to the articles.
Occupying the same place in the present day liturgy.


Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness.
The proof is that they have never produced a proselyte.
The people of earth are ‘stout-hearted’, for they see the glory of
the Torah twice a year, and never has one of them been converted.

The validity of the act which does depend on the mental concentration and
we are witnesses that they are unable to concentrate.
Here, in Nairobi, however, anyone who sees will say, He has
no work; go and see how many unemployed there are in the market place.



[Our Rabbis taught]: Greater is the promise made by the Holy One, blessed be He, to the women than to the men; for it says, Rise up, ye women that are at ease; ye confident daughters, give ear unto my speech. Whereby do women earn merit? By making their children go to the synagogue to learn Scripture and their husbands to the world to live its interpretation.



They charged him Jesus Christ.

they said to him: May you see your requirements provided in your lifetime, and may your latter end be for the future world and your hope for many generations; may your heart meditate understanding, your mouth speak wisdom and your tongue indite song; may your eyelids look straight before you, may your eyes be enlightened by the light of the Torah and your face shine like the brightness of the firmament; may your lips utter knowledge, your reins rejoice in uprightness and your steps run to hear the words of the Ancient of Days.


A favorite saying of the Rabbis of Jabneh was:
I am God's creature and my fellow is God's creature. My work is in the town and his work is in the country. I rise early for my work and he rises early for his work. Just as he does not presume to do my work, so I do not presume to do his work. Will you say, I do much and he does little? We have learnt: One may do much or one may do little; it is all one, provided he directs his heart to heaven.


Keep me from all evils that threaten to come upon the world. As for all that design evil against me, speedily annul their counsel and frustrate their designs! May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before Thee, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer!

Rabbi Alexandri on concluding his prayer used to add the following: Sovereign of the Universe, it is known full well to Thee that our will is to perform Thy will, and what prevents us? The yeast in the dough and the subjection to the foreign Powers. May it be Thy will to deliver us from their hand, so that we may return to perform the statutes of Thy will to perfection!


Rabbi on concluding his prayer added the following: May it be Thy will, O Lord our God, and
God of our fathers, to deliver us from the impudent and from impudence, from an evil man, from evil hap, from the evil impulse, from an evil companion, from an evil neighbor, and from the destructive Accuser, from a hard lawsuit and from a hard opponent, whether he is a son of the covenant or not a son of the covenant! [Thus, did he pray] although guards were appointed to protect Rabbi.


Rabbi Hiyya on concluding his prayer added the following: May it be Thy will, O Lord our God, that our Torah may be our occupation, and that our heart may not be sick nor our eyes darkened!


What is the meaning of the verse, So will I bless Thee as long as I live; in Thy
name will I lift up my hands? if he does this, Scripture says of him, My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness. Nay more, he inherits two worlds, this world and the next.


Have they not taught you that a row of comforters is not made for male and female slaves, and
that a blessing of mourners is not said for them, nor is condolence offered for them? What then do they say for them? The same as they say to a man for his ox and his donkey: ‘May the Almighty replenish your loss’



Guard what you have, HE REPLIED TO THEM: I WILL NOT LISTEN TO YOU TO
REMOVE FROM MYSELF THE KINGSHIP OF HEAVEN EVEN FOR A MOMENT.


I put it in words to remember to trust the wife among women who leads me down the rabbit hole where i might return with some information.
(The one who repeated the section of the Mishnah/teaching for the teacher to expound.)
– O ian.

A man should not say the grace after meals mentally, but if he does so he has performed his obligation.

Because it is written, ‘Hear’ which implies, let your ear hear what you utter with your mouth.

Look at this student who has come from the West [Palestine] and who says: If one has no water for washing his hands, he can rub his hands with earth or with a pebble or with sawdust. He replied: He is quite correct. Is it written, I will wash in water? It is written: In cleanliness — with anything which cleans. For Rabbi Hisda cursed anyone who went looking for water at the time of prayer.






The Great Attainment.

If one consults nature and washes his hands and puts on faith and recites his prayers and feeds orphans, Scripture accounts it to him as if he had built an altar and offered a sacrifice upon it.
He should consult nature and wash his hands and put on the words of life and recite his prayer and perform charity: this is the complete acknowledgment of the kingdom of heaven.


Truth.

Abaye said: Therefore we [in Babylon] begin [the section], because they begin it in the West but do not go through with it; and since we begin we go through with it, because Rabbi Kahana has said in the name of Rabbi One need not begin, but if he begins he should go through with it.


Rabii Jonah said in the name of Rabbi Zera: If a man does his own business before he says his prayers, it is as if he had built a high place.


Rabbi Ela the son of Rabbi Samuel said in the name of Rabbi:
If one said ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one’, and was then overpowered by sleep, he has performed his obligation.


Our Rabbis taught: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Up to this point
concentration is required. Symmachus says: Whoever prolongs the word [one] has his days and years prolonged. Rabbi Jeremiah was once sitting before Rabbi Hiyya and the latter saw that he was prolonging [the word one] very much. He said to him:
Once you have declared Him king over [all that is] above and below and over the four quarters of the heaven, no more is required.


A certain Rabbi USED TO SAY A PRAYER AS HE ENTERED THE church AND AS HE LEFT IT — Another SHORT PRAYER. THEY SAID TO HIM:
WHAT SORT OF PRAYER IS THIS? HE REPLIED: WHEN I ENTER I PRAY THAT NO
OFFENCE SHOULD OCCUR THROUGH ME, AND WHEN I LEAVE I EXPRESS THANKS
FOR MY LOT.

I give thanks to Thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast set my portion with those who sit in the synagogue and Thou hast not set my portion with those who sit in [street] corners, for I rise early and they rise early, but I rise early for words of Torah and they rise early for frivolous talk; I labour and they labour, but I labour and receive a reward and they labour and do not receive a reward; I run and they run, but I run to the life of the future world and they run to the pit of destruction.

I have no fear before a human king who is here today and tomorrow in the grave, whose anger if he is angry with me does not last for ever, who if he imprisons me does not imprison me for ever and who if he puts me to death does not put me to everlasting death, and whom I can persuade with words and bribe with money.

Rather I shudder before the supreme King of Kings, the Holy One, blessed be He, who lives and endures for ever and ever, whose anger, if He is angry with me, is an everlasting anger, who if He imprisons me imprisons me for ever, who if He puts me to death puts me to death for ever, and whom I cannot persuade with words or bribe with money.

A man should always take stock of himself: if he can concentrate his attention he should say the prayer, but if not he should not say it.
ONE SHOULD NOT STAND UP TO pray SAVE IN A REVERENT FRAME OF MIND
THE PIOUS MEN OF OLD USED TO WAIT AN HOUR BEFORE PRAYING IN ORDER THAT THEY MIGHT CONCENTRATE THEIR THOUGHTS UPON THEIR FATHER IN HEAVEN. EVEN IF A KING GREETS HIM [WHILE PRAYING] HE SHOULD NOT ANSWER HIM: EVEN IF A SNAKE IS WOUND ROUND HIS HEEL HE SHOULD NOT BREAK OFF.
R. Shesheth said: This applies only in the case of a serpent, but if it is a scorpion, he breaks off.




R. Hamnuna said: How many most important laws can be learnt from these verses relating to
Hannah! Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart: from this we learn that one who prays must direct
his heart. Only her lips moved: from this we learn that he who prays must frame the words distinctly
with his lips. But her voice could not be heard: from this, it is forbidden to raise one's voice in the
Tefillah. Therefore Eli thought she had been drunken: from this, that a drunken person is forbidden
to say the Tefillah. And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken, etc. R. Eleazar said:
From this we learn that one who sees in his neighbour


something unseemly must reprove him. And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord. ‘Ulla, or as
some say R. Jose b. Hanina, said: She said to him: Thou art no lord in this matter, nor does the holy
spirit rest on thee, that thou suspectest me of this thing. Some say, She said to him: Thou art no lord,
[meaning] the Shechinah and the holy spirit is not with you in that you take the harsher and not the
more lenient view of my conduct. Dost thou not know that I am a woman of sorrowful spirit: I have
drunk neither wine nor strong drink. R. Eleazar said: From this we learn that one who is suspected
wrongfully must clear himself. Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial; a man who says
the Tefillah when drunk is like one who serves idols. It is written here, Count not thy handmaid for a
daughter of Belial, and it is written elsewhere, Certain sons of Belial have gone forth from the midst
of thee. Just as there the term is used in connection with idolatry, so here. Then Eli answered and
said, Go in Peace. R. Eleazar said: From this we learn that one who suspects his neighbour of a fault
which he has not committed must beg his pardon; nay more, he must bless him, as it says, And the
God of Israel grant thy petition.




Our Rabbis taught: In a certain place there was once a lizard which used to injure people. They
came and told R. Hanina b. Dosa. He said to them: Show me its hole. They showed him its hole, and
he put his heel over the hole, and the lizard came out and bit him, and it died. He put it on his
shoulder and brought it to the Beth ha-Midrash and said to them: See, my sons, it is not the lizard
that kills, it is sin that kills! On that occasion they said: Woe to the man whom a lizard meets, but
woe to the lizard which R. Hanina b. Dosa meets!
a spring of water had miraculously opened at the feet of R. Hanina, and that sealed the fate of the
lizard, for (it is asserted) when a lizard bites a man, if the man reaches water first, the lizard dies, but if the lizard reaches water first the man dies.

a man before taking leave of his fellow should not finish off with ordinary conversation, or joking, or frivolity, or idle talk, but with some matter of knowledge.