Page 170 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

The Track of the Jew through the Ages

Rabbi Papa: "If one has eaten or drunk out of a paired dish
or beaker, how does one prevent the evil consequences? One grasps
the thumb of one's right hand with the left hand and the thumb of
the left hand with the right hand and speaks thus: 'You and I are
three'. But if one hears it said, 'You and I are four', then one says,
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'You and I are five', etc."
"It is said in Jon 2:1: 'Then the Eternal presented a great
fish to swallow Jonah'. But it says in v.3: 'And Jonah prayed to the
Eternal to go out from the stomach of the fish and said: "I have
called on the Lord from my confinement'". There is no doubt;
perhaps the great fish spat him out and the small fish swallowed
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Rabbi Meier: "Whence can it be proved that even the
embryos in the mother's womb began to sing a song? Because it
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says in Ps. 68:27: 'In the congregations praise the Lord God,
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from the womb of Israel'".
"When a scratch blisters, one blows the trombone on
Sabbath. But we have learnt: When other punishments are aroused
and attack all, e.g., itches, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, one does not
blow but cries (prays) to God? There is no question, it is only a
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matter of whether the itch is moist or dry".
Rabbi Jehuda said: "One places in the synedrium (council)
only such a man who is able to clean out (through conclusions) the
worm from the Torah ". Rabbi said: "I can pronounce it clean through
conclusions. If even a snake, which kills or increases impurity
thereby, is clean, then the determination is certainly valid in relation
to a worm that does not kill and does not increase impurity!" That is
not tenable since it (the snake) is only like a thorn (which can kill us
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and is nevertheless clean).
And it says in Ex. 8:2: "And the frog came up and covered
Egypt". According to Rabbi Eleazar it was just a frog but it multiplied
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Pesachim, fol.llOa.
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Nedarim, fol.51b.
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[ft.68:26],
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Sota, fol.30b.
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Baba Kamma, fol.36 and 37a.
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Sanhedrin.
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