<P> The term "eye of a needle" is used as a metaphor for a very narrow opening . It occurs several times throughout the Talmud . The New Testament quotes Jesus as saying that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God". </P> <P> The eye of a sewing needle is the part formed into a loop for pulling thread, located at the end opposite from the point . </P> <P> The Babylonian Talmud applies the aphorism to unthinkable thoughts . To explain that dreams reveal the thoughts of a man's heart, the product of reason rather than the absence of it, some rabbis say: </P>

Easier to go through the eye of a needle