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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt:...them, and he went to him. The former uncovered his arm, remarking: "The wind Shida is blowing." CHAPTER FOUR. (Fol. 35) R. Juda said in the name of Rab: "It happened once that a man during the year of famine entrusted a golden dinar to a widow. The latter deposited it in a pitcher where she kept her flour and unknowingly baked it into the bread and gave it to a poor man. On a certain day the owner of the dinar asked her to return the coin. Whereupon she said to him: 'May one of this woman's children be poisoned if I benefited the least by your dinar, for I lost it and do not know where it is.' It was related that it did not take long, but that one of that woman's children died. The Eabbis upon being informed of this incident remarked: 'If such a thing happens to one who swears truly, how much the more severely will it happen to one who swears falsely?'" But why was she indeed punished? Because she benefited by the space where the dinar was lying in the bread, whereby dough was saved by her. If so, then why do the Rabbis consider it a true oath? She did derive a benefit out of it. This means that she intended to swear truly. TJlla said: "Impudent is the bride who commits an act of prostitution immediately after her wedding." R. Mari, the son of Samuel's daughter, said: "Where is the Biblical passage to prove it? (Ib. 1, 12.) While the king sat at his table, my Valerian sendeth forth their smell." Rab said: "However, it speaks with courtesy about us (Israel), for it is written, Send forth in a delicate language and it does not say stench." Our Rabbis taught: Those who are being humiliated by others, but do not humiliate others; who listen to their reproaches without even answering them; who...