Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala by Various
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Ibid.
These three love their fellows:--Proselytes, slaves, and ravens. Ibid. These three are apt to strut:--Israel among the nations, the dog among animals, the cock among birds. Some say also the goat among small cattle, and some the caper shrub among trees. Ibid., fol. 25, col. 2. There are three whose life is no life:--He who lives at another's table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction. Some say also he who has only a single shirt in his wardrobe. Ibid., fol. 32, col. 2. Three things are said respecting the finger-nails:--He who trims his nails and buries the parings is a pious man; he who burns these is a righteous man; but he who throws them away is a wicked man, for mischance might follow, should a female step over them. _Moed Katan_, fol. 18, col. 1. The orthodox Jews in Poland are to this day careful to bury away or burn their nail parings. Three classes appear on the day of judgment:--The perfectly righteous, who are at once written and sealed for eternal life; the thoroughly bad, |
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