The Va·ad recommends that kibbutzim observe some of the sh'mittah laws by letting one field lie fallow as the sh'mittah field, and that they give a percentage of their income to the poor, because that was the original purpose of the law.

The old women used to say that he would have skinned a flint to have saved a halfpenny, if he had spoilt a sixpenny knife in doing it.

The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

[W]e agree that certain aspects, which appear in our material world, have their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.