Adonijah was deprived of life for no other reason than that he was given to quarreling. It is lawful to slander one so evil disposed as he was. _Perek Hashalom._ God will say to the prince of hell, "I from above and thou from below shall judge and condemn the slanderer." _Erchin_, fol. 15, col. 2. The third tongue (i.e., slander) hurts three parties: the slanderer himself, the receiver of slander, and the person slandered. Ibid. Four classes do not receive the presence of the Shechinah: scorners, liars, flatterers, and slanderers. _Sanhedrin_, fol. 103, col. 1. Where are we told that when two sit together and study the law the Shechinah is with them? In Mal. iii. 16, where it is written, "They that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it." _Berachoth_, fol. 6, col. 1. Why did Elijah employ two invocations, saying twice over, "Hear me! hear me!" (1 Kings xviii. 37.) Elijah first prayed before God, "O Lord, King of the universe, hear me!" that He might send fire down from heaven and consume all that was upon the altar; and again he prayed, "Hear me!" that they might not imagine that the result was a matter of sorcery; for it is said, "Thou hast turned their heart back again." _Berachoth_, fol. 9, col. 2. The twofold invocation of Elijah, which betokens his intense earnestness, anagrammatically expressed, is echoed in the words of the bystanders, "The Lord He is the God, the Lord He is the God." "I dreamed," said Bar Kappara one day to Rabbi (the Holy), "that I beheld two pigeons, and they flew away from me." "Thy dream is this," replied Rabbi, "thou hast had two wives, and art separated from them both without a bill of divorcement." Ibid., fol. 56, col. 2. The Rabbis teach concerning the two kidneys in man, that one counsels him to do good and the other to do evil; and it appears that the former is situated on the right side and the latter on the left. Hence it is written (Eccl. x. 2), "A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left." Ibid., fol. 61, col. 1. For two sins the common people perish: they speak of the holy ark as a box and the synagogue as a resort for the ignorant vulgar. _Shabbath_, fol. 32, col. 1. On the self-same day when Jeroboam introduced the two golden calves, the one into Bethel and the other into Dan, a hut was erected in a part of Italy which was then subject to the Greeks. Ibid., fol. 56, col. 2.