e, because by so doing he showed most respect
for his father's memory, was presumed to be the one on whom the father
had fixed his affections; he accordingly was supposed to be the one
intended, and the others were therefore excluded from the patrimony. The
disappointed ones went straight to the government and denounced the
Rabbi. "Here is a man," said they, "who arbitrarily deprives people of
their rights, without proof or witnesses." The consequence was that the
Rabbi was sent to prison, but he gave the authorities such evidence of
his shrewdness and sense of justice, that he was soon restored to
freedom.

_Bava Bathra_, fol. 58, col. 1.

Till ten generations have passed speak thou not contemptuously of the
Gentiles in the hearing of a proselyte.

_Sanhedrin_, fol. 94, col. 1.

The ten tribes will never be restored, for it is said (Deut. xxiii. 28),
"God cast them into another land, as it is this day." As this day passes
away without return, so also they have passed away never more to return.
So says Rabbi Akiva, but Rabbi Eleazar says, "'As it is this day'
implies that, as the day darkens and lightens up again, so the ten
tribes now in darkness shall in the future be restored to light." The
Rabbis have thus taught that the ten tribes will have no portion in the
world to come; for it is said (Deut. xxix. 28), "And the Lord rooted
them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation." "And he rooted them out of their land," that is, from this
world, "and cast them into another land," that is, the World to come. So
says Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Shimon ben Yehuda says, "If their designs
continue as they are at this day, they will not return, but if they
repent they will return." Rabbi (the Holy) says, "They will enter the
world to come, for it is said (Isa. xxvii. 13), 'And it shall come to
pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish.'"

_Sanhedrin_, fol. 110, col. 2.

Ten things are detrimental to study:--Going under the halter of a camel,
and still more passing under its body; walking between two camels or
between two women; to be one of two men that a woman passes between; to
go where the atmosphere is tainted by a corpse; to pass under a bridge
beneath which no water has flowed for forty days; to eat with a ladle
that has been used for culinary purposes; to drink water that runs
through a cemetery. It is also dangerous to look at the face