Vulgar words in Hebrew Literature (Page 1)
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It states that all ass-drivers are wicked, camel-drivers are honest, sailors are pious, physicians are destined for hell, and butchers are company for Amalek.
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One of them is said to have changed a woman into an ass, and ridden the ass to market, when another sorcerer changed the ass again into a woman.
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Some of the laws of Sodom are also recorded: "Whosoever cut off the ears of another's ass received the ass till his ears grew again."
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The Rabbis also say that when the Messiah comes to fulfil the prophecy of riding upon an ass (Zech.
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If one ride on an ass, he must dismount: if he cannot dismount, he must turn his face; and if he cannot turn his face, he must direct his heart toward the Holy of Holies.
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"As much as three times three heaps for fifty cubits square of ten times ten ass panniers, each containing a letech.
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One must not bring forth an ass with a pack-saddle, when it is not tied upon him before the Sabbath; nor with a bell, even though it be muffled, nor with a ladder(107) on its throat, nor with a strap on its leg; nor may cocks and hens be led forth with twine or straps on their legs.
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But in no place may they sell working cattle-calves, ass-foals, either unblemished or broken down.
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"They must bring him on an ass or even in a bed."
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And everywhere they must not sell to them the large cattle, calves, ass foals, unblemished or blemished.
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"Has one hired an ass to bring on him wine of idolatrous libation?"
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R. Eliezer allowed it, "as is said, 'Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God.
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The panniers of an ass, and the staff of the threshing-wagon, and the pole of a bier, and the horn vessels of travellers, and a chain for keys, and the stitch-hooks of washers, and a garment sewed with a mixture of wool and linen, are reckoned as one for uncleanness, but not reckoned as one for sprinkling.
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Behold they say, 'that the bones of an ass are clean, but the bones of Jochanan the high-priest are unclean.'