Derangement of the Mind/ madness/ craziness/ insanity

Madness. Lack of sanity of knowledge (a prey of mortal hearing, which drives, strikes, prevents).

("Even a completely righteous person who takes a bribe is not released from the world without mental derangement" - Ketubot 105b; and likewise: "But when Israel recite the Shema in a state of mental confusion, one comes before and one comes after, and they do not direct their minds in the recitation of Shema; the Holy Spirit cries out and says: Flee, my beloved, and be like a gazelle" - Song of Songs Rabbah (Vilna), section 8; and likewise: "And because of shortness of breath and mental derangement, his prayer was garbled, a mixture of Ashdodite and Hebrew all together" - Mendele Mocher Sforim / Travels of Benjamin the Third II, 19; and likewise: "He went and danced and sang to the point of mental derangement... his face like a torch of fire, his eyes closed... and he danced and roared" - Bialik / The Trumpet Was Ashamed, A 128; and likewise: "They locked the exiles in train cars, and there they remained until they reached fainting and mental derangement" - Devorah Baron / Exiles, 20)

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