Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala by Various
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equal to him who has fulfilled the whole law.
_Kiddushin_, fol. 39, col. 2. If any man vow a vow by only one of all the utensils of the altar, he has vowed by the corban, even although he did not mention the word in his oath. Rabbi Yehuda says, "He who swears by the word Jerusalem is as though he had said nothing." _Nedarim_, fol. 10, col. 2. Balaam was lame in one foot and blind in one eye. _Soteh_, fol. 10, col. 1, and _Sanhedrin_, fol. 105, col. 1. One wins eternal life after a struggle of years; another finds it in one hour (see Luke xxiii. 43). _Avodah Zarah_, fol. 17, col. 1. This saying is applied by Rabbi the Holy to Rabbi Eliezar, the son of Durdia, a profligate who recommended himself to the favor of heaven by one prolonged act of determined penitence, placing his head between his knees and groaning and weeping till his soul departed from him, and his sin and misery along with it; for at the moment of death a voice from heaven came forth and said, "Rabbi Eliezar, the son of Durdia, is appointed to life everlasting." When Rabbi the Holy heard this, he wept, and said, "One wins eternal life after a struggle of years; another finds it in one hour." (Compare Luke xv. 11-32.) |
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