Vulgar words in Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala (Page 1)
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When a priest performs the service of the Temple in a state of defilement, his brother priests are not required to lead him before the tribunal, but the juniors of the priestly order are to drag him out into the hall and brain him with clubs.
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These were:--The well that followed Israel in the wilderness, the manna, the rainbow, the letters of the alphabet, the stylus, the tables of the law, the grave of Moses, the cave in which Moses and Elijah stood, the opening of the mouth of Balaam's ass, the opening of the earth to swallow the wicked (Korah and his clique).
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Bastards are mostly cunning, and servants mostly handsome.
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The woman drank and was transformed into an ass, which he mounted and rode to the market-place.
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15), "I have not taken one ass from them."
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or whose ass have I taken?"
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It is said that he hired every horse, mule, camel, and ass he could find in all Israel to carry the oil, and that on nearing his city the people turned out to meet him and compliment him for the service he had done them.
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20), "And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass."
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9), "Poor, and riding upon an ass."
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Then Adam replied, "This is an ox, this is an ass," and so on.
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For one form of uncleanness the soul will be invested with the body of a Gentile, who will (eventually) become a proselyte; for another, the soul will pass into the body of a mule; for others, it transmigrates into an ass, a woman of Ashdod, a bat, a rabbit or a hare, a she-mule or a camel.
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Ishmael transmigrated first into the she-ass of Balaam, and subsequently into the ass of Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair.
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Supposing an ass, or a dog, or a cat, had first met him upon his return, would he have sacrificed it for a burnt-offering?
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Rabbi Akiba was once traveling through the country, and he had with him an ass, a rooster, and a lamp.
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If thy friends agree in calling thee an ass, go and get a halter around thee.