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Be
very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The
woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not
from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the
arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.
— 
Talmud
A
parable borrowed from my friend and Brother, Frater Oz, who picked it
up and modified it from another Sister who learned it in the Talmud.

A young man knocks on the door of a great Thelemic philosopher.

“I wish to study The Book of the Law.”

“Do you know Greek?”

“No.“

“Hebrew?”

“No.”

“Have you ever studied any of our other Holy Books?”

“No,
but I graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in philosophy, and
received a PhD from Yale. I’d like to round out my education with a bit
of Thelema.”

“I doubt that you are ready to understand Liber AL.
It is the broadest and deepest of books. But The Law is for All, so I
will examine you in logic, and if you pass the test I will teach you
about Thelema.”

“Excellent! I’m well-versed in logic.”

“First
question. Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean
face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

”The burglar with the dirty face.”

“Wrong.
The one with the clean face. Examine the logic. The burglar with a
dirty face looks at the one with a clean face and thinks his face is
clean. The one with a clean face looks at the burglar with a dirty face
and thinks his face is dirty. So the one with the clean face washes.”

“Very clever. Another question please.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“We established that. The burglar with the clean face washes.”

“Wrong.
Both wash. Examine the logic. The one with a dirty face thinks his face
is clean. The one with a clean face thinks his face is dirty. So the
burglar with a clean face washes. When the one with a dirty face sees
him washing, however, he realizes his face must be dirty too. Thus both
wash.”

“I didn’t think of that. Please ask me another.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“Well, we know both wash.”

“Wrong.
Neither washes. Examine the logic. The one with the dirty face thinks
his face is clean. The one with the clean face thinks his face is dirty.
But when clean-face sees that dirty-face doesn’t bother to wash, he
also doesn’t bother. So neither washes. As you can see, you are not
ready for Thelema.”

“But Frater, please, give me one more test.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“Neither!”

“Wrong.
And perhaps now you will see why Harvard and Yale cannot prepare you
for Thelema. Tell me, how is it possible that two men come down the same
chimney, and one emerges with a clean face, while the other has a dirty
face?”

“But you’ve just given me four contradictory answers to the same question! That’s impossible!”

“No, my son, that’s Thelema.”
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There
is also an anecdote about a Gentile who asked a Rabbi: ‘What purpose
did your G-d have in speaking with Moses from the midst of a bush?’ He
answered: ‘To teach that there is no place void of the Divine Presence,
not even so lowly a thing as a bush.’ The saying is attributed to G-d:
‘In every place where you find the imprint of men’s feet, there am I.’
— 
Abraham Cohen (1887-1957), Everyman’s Talmud (1949)
State
molto attenti a far piangere una donna perché Dio conta le sue lacrime.
La donna è uscita dalla costola dell'uomo, non dai piedi, infatti non
doveva essere calpestata; non è uscita nemmeno dalla testa per essere
superiore all'uomo; ma dal fianco per essere uguale, un po’ più in basso
del braccio per essere protetta, e dal lato del cuore per essere amata.
(Talmud)

A young man knocks on the door of a great Talmudic scholar.

“Rabbi, I wish to study Talmud.”

“Do you know Aramaic?”

“No.“

“Hebrew?”

“No.”

“Have you ever studied Torah?”

“No,
Rabbi, but I graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in philosophy, and
received a PhD from Yale. I’d like to round out my education with a bit
of Talmud.”

“I doubt that you are ready for Talmud. It is the
broadest and deepest of books. If you wish, however, I will examine you
in logic, and if you pass the test I will teach you Talmud.”

“Good. I’m well versed in logic.”

“First
question. Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean
face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

”The burglar with the dirty face.”

“Wrong.
The one with the clean face. Examine the logic. The burglar with a
dirty face looks at the one with a clean face and thinks his face is
clean. The one with a clean face looks at the burglar with a dirty face
and thinks his face is dirty. So the one with the clean face washes.”

“Very clever. Another question please.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“We established that. The burglar with the clean face washes.”

“Wrong.
Both wash. Examine the logic. The one with a dirty face thinks his face
is clean. The one with a clean face thinks his face is dirty. So the
burglar with a clean face washes. When the one with a dirty face sees
him washing, however, he realizes his face must be dirty too. Thus both
wash.”

“I didn’t think of that. Please ask me another.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“Well, we know both wash.”

“Wrong.
Neither washes. Examine the logic. The one with the dirty face thinks
his face is clean. The one with the clean face thinks his face is dirty.
But when clean-face sees that dirty-face doesn’t bother to wash, he
also doesn’t bother. So neither washes. As you can see, you are not
ready for Talmud.”

“Rabbi, please, give me one more test.”

“Two burglars come down a chimney. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face. Which one washes his face?”

“Neither!”

“Wrong.
And perhaps now you will see why Harvard and Yale cannot prepare you
for Talmud. Tell me, how is it possible that two men come down the same
chimney, and one emerges with a clean face, while the other has a dirty
face?”

“But you’ve just given me four contradictory answers to the same question! That’s impossible!”

“No, my son, that’s Talmud.”
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The
Jewish people have always been keenly aware that their continued
survival and development depend on study of the Talmud, and those
hostile to Judaism have also been cognizant of this fact. The book was
reviled, slandered, and consigned to the flames countless times in the
Middle Ages and has been subjected to similar indignities in the recent
past as well. At times, talmudic study has been prohibited because it
was abundantly clear that a Jewish society that ceased to study this
work had no real hope of survival.
- The Essential Talmud by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
anónimo ha preguntado:
You mentioned Lilith in another post. Who is she?
In the ancient folklore of Mesopotamia and which found its way into
the Babylonian Talmud there was a legend of a female demon named Lilith.
Lilith means “night walker”. This demon supposedly roamed the land at
night stealing the life of young infants. This was probably a
supernatural explanation for crib death.


Many centuries later a legend grew up about Lilith. It was said that
she was Adam’s first wife. According to the legend she refused to take a
subordinate position in sex and demanded to be the equal of Adam. She
was banished for this and being childless she wandered the Earth as a
malevolent spirit of the night taking from other women that which she
could not possess herself namely babies.


The Lilith legend was applied to women who rejected the standard
position of dutiful wife and mother. She was the ancient midwife, herb
woman and healer. She was the strong willed woman who preferred the
company of other women to that of men. She was a lesbian according to
some and a seducer of young girls.


I think the legend illustrates the difficulty the ancient patriarchal
societies had with strong willed independent women, They did not know
what to make of such women and so literally demonized them.


Image credit: John Curtis on Deviant Art 
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For
#YomHaShoah: the despair of David Djenciarski’s scene commemorating
deportation in Lodz juxtaposed against the hope expressed by the first
post-Holocaust printing of Nedarim by Vaad Hatzala, part of the series
known as the Survivors’ Talmud
‎Be
very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The
woman came out of a man’s rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not
from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the
arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.
— 
Talmud
In
the Mishnaic period there were scholars who permitted the use of
scrolls written in Greek. On this the Rabbis of Eretz Israel commented:
Different languages are good for different things – Hebrew for speech,
Aramaic for lamentation, Greek for song, Latin for military matters.
- The Essential Talmud by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
nytimes.com
An Index for the Talmud, After 1,500 Years
The
Talmud is a formidable body of work: 63 volumes of rabbinical discourse
and disputation that form Judaism’s central scripture after the Torah.
It has been around for 1,500 years and is studied every day by tens of
thousands of Jews. But trying to navigate through its coiling labyrinth
can be enormously difficult because the one thing this monumental work
lacks is a widely accepted and accessible index.


But now that breach has been filled, or so claims the publisher of
HaMafteach, or the Key, a guide to the Talmud, available in English and
Hebrew. It was compiled not by a white-bearded sage, but by a courtly,
clean-shaven, tennis-playing immigration lawyer from the Bronx.


The index’s publisher, Feldheim Publishers, predicts it will be
snatched up by yeshivas and libraries, but more important, it will be a
tool for inveterate Talmud students — and there are plenty of those.
Feldheim’s president, Yitzchak Feldheim, said the first printing of
2,000 books — a market test — sold out in a few days here and in Israel.
More printings have been ordered.
» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)
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Another
important qualification related to acceptability of the confession of
the accused. If the defendant in a civil case admits the charge, there
is no need of further clarification, and sentence is passed accordingly.
The basis for this procedure is not the assumption that the defendant
is telling the truth, but the belief that every man is entitled to give
away his money as a gift. Therefore, if he decides to state that the
charge against him is a just one, it is not the concern of the court to
seek further facts. This is not so where criminal law is concerned. The
basic assumption in halakha is that a man does not belong only to
himself; just as he has no right to cause physical harm to others, so he
has no right to inflict injury on himself. This is why it was
determined that the confession of the defendant had no legal validity
and should not be taken into consideration. This rule, which has its own
formal substantiation, served courts for centuries as a powerful weapon
against attempts to extract confessions by force or persuasion. Not
only can no man be forced to incriminate himself through his own
testimony, but self-incrimination has no significance and is
unacceptable as evidence in court.
- The Essential Talmud by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
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