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« Reply #30 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:23 pm »

Then they told him that they thought perhaps he suspected they might eat some of the figs, because he always rose so early in the morning to gather them.

"God forbid," exclaimed the owner of the fig-tree; "I rise early to gather the figs because, if the sun shines brightly upon them, they breed worms."

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« Reply #31 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:33 pm »

So he persuaded them to return and study under his fig-tree. That morning he did not gather the figs, and the sun shone on the fig-tree, and the ripe fruit bred worms, and was no longer fit to gather.

Then said the Rabbi and his students:

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« Reply #32 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:41 pm »

"The master of the fig-tree knows the season of each fig, and when it ought to be gathered, and gathers it. Thus the Holy One, blessed be He, knows the season of the righteous, and when it is best to remove them from this. world."


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« Reply #33 on: March 24, 2010, 01:15:52 pm »

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19:* Mitzvah, from tzivah, to command, to permit (comp. Æthiopic use of the root), is quite untranslatable by any single word, in the sense in which it is here used, and in which it is commonly used by modern Jews. Mitzvah means here something commanded by God, or sanctioned by tradition and religious practice, which it is an honour and a pleasure to do; something that benefits the doer by giving him an opportunity for holiness; some ethical or ceremonial activity pleasing to God, or imparting a proud sense of self-satisfaction to the doer. Thus a rich man will thank a beggar for the Mitzvah of giving the latter a Sabbath meal; and, when the Warden of a Synagogue calls on a congregant to carry the Bible up to the reading desk, this is "conferring a Mitzvah on him."



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« Reply #34 on: March 24, 2010, 01:16:04 pm »

THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.
A pious and learned Rabbi, who died quite young, was the subject of this parable.

"A certain king had a vineyard, and he hired a great number of labourers to work in it. There

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« Reply #35 on: March 24, 2010, 01:16:21 pm »

was among them one labourer who worked better and more quickly than all the others, and even more than was necessary. What did the king? He took him by the hand and walked about the vineyard talking with him. And at eventide, all the labourers came to receive their reward, and that labourer came with them, and the king paid him for the full day.

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« Reply #36 on: March 24, 2010, 01:16:30 pm »

"Then the other labourers complained. They said: 'Behold we have worked all the day while this one only worked two hours, and the king has given him a full day's pay!'

"Then the king said: 'What right have you to be envious? This one did more in his two hours of proper work, than you did, who toiled all day.'

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« Reply #37 on: March 24, 2010, 01:16:43 pm »

"Thus Rabbi Bun bar Chyia learned more of the Torah in his twenty-eight years of life than many another is able to learn in a hundred years."


Midrash Koheleth on the verse, "Sweet is the Sleep of the Labourer." Comp. Shir hashireem Rabbah on "My Beloved went down to his Garden," etc.
     Bereshith R., Chap. LXII.



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« Reply #38 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:00 pm »

THE LIKENESS OF A PALM-TREE.
"The righteous shall grow like the palm-tree," says the Psalmist (Ps. xcii. 13).

Just as the palm-tree, because of its great height, and because its branches are high up, casts its shadow a long way off, while lower trees have their shadow on the earth, just beneath

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« Reply #39 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:11 pm »

them; so the righteous have their reward in the far-off world of the after-life.

Just as the palm-tree will produce fine dates and some that are bad, and not fit to be gathered, so among the people of Israel, some are pious and learned in the Law of God, others are ignorant, stupid, and wicked.

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« Reply #40 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:19 pm »

In another way Israel may be likened to a palm-tree. Nothing that grows on the palm-tree is useless. It bears dates for food, Lulabs * that are brought into the house of prayer, for rejoicing before God when The Praise * is sung; the branches serve for shade, and the fibres are made into ropes; while the wood serves for the beams of houses. Thus, in Israel, no one is without his aim in life, and his proper function. Some are masters of Scripture, others of the study of the traditional law,
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« Reply #41 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:30 pm »

others of Hagadah. † The mission of others is good works and of others charity; and others have lower, but no less useful, work in the world. None need be without his life-work. But as the central stem, the heart of the palm-tree, always grows up straight towards heaven, so the heart of the whole people, and of every individual, should be constantly turned towards their Father which is in Heaven.




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« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:44 pm »

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22:* "The Praise," Hallel, consists of Psalms cxiii.–cxix. inclusive, and is sung in the Synagogue on every new moon and festival. During the eight days of Tabernacles, palm branches, bound up with myrtle and willows (Lulabs), are waved during this part of the service, as commanded in Exodus.

22:† See Introduction.

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« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2010, 01:17:58 pm »

p. 23

THE TUTOR AND THE NAUGHTY PRINCELING.
The world, with all its wonderful growths, was made to teach man and to nurture him. Therefore when man falls into sin, and breaks the laws of nature and of God, nature and the material world suffer with him, for his sin. It is like a young prince entrusted to the care of a tutor. Whenever the prince was naughty the tutor was punished.


Bereshith Rabbah in explaining the destruction of the world at the flood.



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« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2010, 01:18:17 pm »

THOSE NEAREST.
The punishments that come upon Israel are greater than those that come on the peoples of the world. Because those that are nearest to God are bound to be more holy than those that are far off. To them were given more laws, and from them more is expected. "In those that are near Me I will be sanctified."

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