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and filled the entire land of Egypt. But the Tannaites are of an
entirely different opinion on that. Rabbi Akiba says: "It was only
one frog and this filled the entire land of Egypt". Then Rabbi Eleazar
ben Azaria said to him: "Akiba, what do you have to do with the
Haggadah? 344 There was only one frog but it whistled to the others
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and they all approached".
I break off these clever hair-splittings, they suffice to
demonstrate palpably their intellectual emptiness. But one point must
still be emphasised. A large space is taken up in all their utterances
by sexual questions, we have seen some examples already. But how
they are handled is characteristic. Not with a natural sensuality, and
even not with the objective neutrality of a hygienist but with the
repulsive lecherousness of bald old men who cannot do enough in
the imagination of sexual activities. The pen hesitates to write down
such citations but there remains nothing else to do in order to refute
the complaint of having done an injustice.
Rabbi Chama: "The one who sets up his bed between the
north and the south gets children of the male sex, as it says in Ps.
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17:14: 'And with thy 'treasure' thou fillest their wombs, they
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will have an abundance of children'".
Three things are an illustration of the future world, the
Sabbath, the sun and service. Ofwhat sort? Ifthey meant the service
of the bed (sexual intercourse), this surely becomes weak? Only the
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service of the opening of the woman is meant.
Woman is a tube full of vituperation whose mouth is full of
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blood. Rabbi Jochanan: "Every woman who invites her husband
to sexual intercourse gets children of a kind that was not existent
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even in the age of Moses".
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[Doctors who repeated the Law, hence the term "Mishnah", meaning "repetition
of the Law"]
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[The Haggadah is a Jewish text that is read at the Passover commemorating the
liberation from slavery in Egypt.]
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Sanhedrin, fol.67a,b.
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[penis]
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Berachoth, fol.56.
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Ibid., fol.57b.
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Shabbat, fol,152a.
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'Entbin, fol.lOOb.
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