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he Talmud
is Judaism's holiest book (actually a
collection of books). Its authority
takes precedence over the Old Testament
in Judaism. Evidence of this may be
found in the Talmud itself, Erubin 21b (Soncino
edition): "My son, be more careful in
the observance of the words of the
Scribes than in the words of the Torah
(Old Testament)."
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The
supremacy of the Talmud over the Bible
in the Israeli state may also be seen in
the case of the black Ethiopian Jews.
Ethiopians are very knowledgeable of the
Old Testament. However, their religion
is so ancient it pre-dates the Scribes'
Talmud, of which the Ethiopians have no
knowledge. According to the N.Y. Times
of Sept. 29, 1992, p.4:
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"The
problem is that Ethiopian Jewish
tradition goes no further than the Bible
or Torah; the later Talmud and other
commentaries that form the basis of
modern traditions never came their way."
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Because
they are not traffickers in Talmudic
tradition, the black Ethiopian Jews are
discriminated against and have been
forbidden by the Zionists to perform
marriages, funerals and other services
in the Israeli state.
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Rabbi Joseph D. Soloveitchik (1903-1993) |
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Rabbi
Joseph D. Soloveitchik is regarded as
one of the most influential rabbis of
the 20th century, the "unchallenged
leader" of Orthodox Judaism and the top
international authority on halakha
(Jewish religious law). Soloveitchik was
responsible for instructing and
ordaining more than 2,000 rabbis, "an
entire generation" of Jewish leadership.
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N.Y. Times
religion reporter Ari Goldman described
the basis of the rabbi's authority:
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"Soloveitchik
came from a long line of distinguished
Talmudic scholars...Until his early 20s,
he devoted himself almost exclusively to
the study of the Talmud...He came to
Yeshiva University's Elchanan
Theological Seminary where he remained
the pre-eminent teacher in the
Talmud...He held the title of Leib
Merkin professor of Talmud...sitting
with his feet crossed in front of a
table bearing an open volume of the
Talmud." (N.Y. Times, April 10, 1993, p.
38).
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Nowhere
does Goldman refer to Soloveitchik's
knowledge of the Bible as the basis for
being one of the leading authorities on
Jewish law.
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The
rabbi's credentials are all predicated
upon his mastery of the Talmud. Other
studies are clearly secondary. Britain's
Jewish Chronicle of March 26, 1993
states that in religious school
(yeshiva), Jews are "devoted to the
Talmud to the exclusion of everything
else."
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The Talmud Nullifies the Bible
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The Jewish
Scribes claim the Talmud is partly a
collection of traditions Moses gave them
in oral form. These had not yet been
written down in Jesus' time. Christ
condemned the traditions of the Mishnah
(early Talmud) and those who taught it
(Scribes and Pharisees), because the
Talmud nullifies the teachings of the
Holy Bible.
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Shmuel
Safrai in The Literature of the Sages
Part One (p.164), points out that in
chapters 4 and 5 of the Talmud's Gittin
Tractate, the Talmud nullifies the
Biblical teaching concerning
money-lending: "Hillel decreed the
prozbul for the betterment of the world.
The prozbul is a legal fiction which
allows debts to be collected after the
Sabbatical year and it was Hillel's
intention thereby to overcome the fear
that money-lenders had of losing their
money."
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The famous
warning of Jesus Christ about the
tradition of men that voids Scripture
(Mark 7:1-13), is in fact, a direct
reference to the Talmud, or more
specifically, the forerunner of the
first part of it, the Mishnah, which
existed in oral form during Christ's
lifetime, before being committed to
writing. Mark chapter 7, from verse one
through thirteen, represents Our Lord's
pointed condemnation of the Mishnah.
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Unfortunately, due to the abysmal
ignorance of our day, the widespread
"Judeo-Christian" notion is that the Old
Testament is the supreme book of
Judaism. But this is not so. The
Pharisees teach for doctrine the
commandments of rabbis, not God.
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The
Talmudic commentary on the Bible is
their supreme law, and not the Bible
itself. That commentary does indeed, as
Jesus said, void the laws of God, not
uphold them. As students of the Talmud,
we know this to be true.
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Jewish
scholar Hyam Maccoby, in Judaism on
Trial, quotes Rabbi Yehiel ben Joseph:
"Further, without the Talmud, we would
not be able to understand passages in
the Bible...God has handed this
authority to the sages and tradition is
a necessity as well as scripture. The
Sages also made enactments of their
own...anyone who does not study the
Talmud cannot understand Scripture."
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There is a
tiny Jewish sect which makes
considerable effort to eschew Talmud and
adhere to the Old Testament alone. These
are the Karaites, a group which,
historically, has been most hated and
severely persecuted by orthodox Jewish
rabbinate.
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To the
Mishnah the rabbis later added the
Gemara (rabbinical commentaries).
Together these comprise the Talmud.
There are two versions, the Jerusalem
Talmud and the Babylonian Talmud.
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The
Babylonian Talmud is regarded as the
authoritative version: "The authority of
the Babylonian Talmud is also greater
than that of the Jerusalem Talmud. In
cases of doubt the former is decisive."
(R.C. Musaph-Andriesse, From Torah to
Kabbalah: A Basic Introduction to the
Writings of Judaism, p. 40).
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This study
is based on the Jewish-authorized
Babylonian Talmud. We have published
herein the authenticated sayings of the
Jewish Talmud. Look them up for
yourself.
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We publish
the following irrefutable documentation
in the hope of liberating all people,
including Jewish people, from the
corrosive delusions and racism of this
Talmudic hate literature, which is the
manual of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews the
world over.
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The
implementation by Jewish supremacists of
Talmudic hate literature has caused
untold suffering throughout history and
now, in occupied Palestine, it is used
as a justification for the mass murder
of Palestinian civilians. The Talmud
specifically defines all who are not
Jews as non-human animals.
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Some Teachings of the Jewish Talmud
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Where a Jew Should Do Evil
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Moed
Kattan 17a: If a Jew is tempted to do
evil he should go to a city where he is
not known and do the evil there.
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Penalty
for Disobeying Rabbis
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Erubin
21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis
deserves death and will be punished by
being boiled in hot excrement in hell.
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Hitting a
Jew is the same as hitting God
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Sanhedrin
58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew,
the gentile must be killed.
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O.K. to
Cheat Non-Jews
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Sanhedrin
57a . A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean")
the wages owed him for work.
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Jews Have
Superior Legal Status
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Baba Kamma
37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an
ox of a Canaanite there is no liability;
but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox
of an Israelite...the payment is to be
in full."
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Jews May
Steal from Non-Jews
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Baba Mezia
24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a
gentile ("heathen") it does not have to
be returned. (Affirmed also in Baba
Kamma 113b). Sanhedrin 76a. God will not
spare a Jew who "marries his daughter to
an old man or takes a wife for his
infant son or returns a lost article to
a Cuthean..."
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Jews May
Rob and Kill Non-Jews
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Sanhedrin
57a . When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"),
there will be no death penalty. What a
Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.
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Baba Kamma
37b. The gentiles are outside the
protection of the law and God has
"exposed their money to Israel."
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Jews May
Lie to Non-Jews
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Baba Kamma
113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges")
to circumvent a Gentile.
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Non-Jewish
Children are Sub-Human
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Yebamoth
98a. All gentile children are animals.
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Abodah
Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state
of niddah (filth) from birth.
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Abodah
Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with
cows.
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Insults
Against Blessed Mary
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Sanhedrin
106a . Says Jesus' mother was a whore:
"She who was the descendant of princes
and governors played the harlot with
carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to
Shabbath 104b of the Soncino edition, it
is stated that in the "uncensored" text
of the Talmud it is written that Jesus
mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had
sex with many men.
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Gloats
over Christ Dying Young
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A passage
from Sanhedrin 106 gloats over the early
age at which Jesus died: "Hast thou
heard how old Balaam (Jesus) was?--He
replied: It is not actually stated but
since it is written, Bloody and
deceitful men shall not live out half
their days it follows that he was
thirty-three or thirty-four years old."
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Jesus in
the Talmud:
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Horrible
Blasphemies Against Jesus Christ
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While it
is the standard disinformation practice
of apologists for the Talmud to deny
that it contains any scurrilous
references to Jesus Christ, certain
Orthodox Jewish organizations are more
forthcoming and admit that the Talmud
not only mentions Jesus but disparages
him (as a sorcerer and a demented sex
freak). These orthodox Jewish
organizations make this admission
perhaps out of the belief that Jewish
supremacy is so well-established in the
modern world that they need not concern
themselves with adverse reactions.
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For
example, on the website of the Orthodox
Jewish Hasidic Lubavitch group--one of
the largest in the world--we find the
following statement, complete with
Talmudic citations:
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"The
Talmud (Babylonian edition) records
other sins of 'Jesus the Nazarene':
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1) He and
his disciples practiced sorcery and
black magic, led Jews astray into
idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign,
gentile powers for the purpose of
subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin
43a).
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2) He was
sexually immoral, worshipped statues of
stone (a brick is mentioned), was cut
off from the Jewish people for his
wickedness, and refused to repent
(Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah 47a).
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3) He
learned witchcraft in Egypt and, to
perform miracles, used procedures that
involved cutting his flesh, which is
also explicitly banned in the Bible (Shabbos
104b).
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[Note: we
have printed and preserved in our files
a hard copy of this statement from the
Lubavitch"Noah's Covenant Website," as
it appeared on their website at
http://www.noahide.com
http://www.noahide.com n June
20, 2000, in the event that denials are
later issued and the statement itself
suppressed].
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Let us
examine further some of these
anti-Christ Talmud passages:
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Gittin
57a. Says Jesus is in hell, being boiled
in "hot excrement."
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Sanhedrin
43a. Says Jesus ("Yeshu" and in Soncino
footnote #6, Yeshu "the Nazarene") was
executed because he practiced sorcery:
"It is taught that on the eve of
Passover Jesus was hung, and forty days
before this the proclamation was made:
Jesus is to be stoned to death because
he has practiced sorcery and has lured
the people to idolatry...He was an
enticer and of such thou shalt not pity
or condone."
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Kallah
51a."The elders were once sitting in the
gate when two young lads passed by; one
covered his head and the other uncovered
his head. Of him who uncovered his head
Rabbi Eliezer remarked that he is a
bastard. Rabbi Joshua remarked that he
is the son of a niddah (a child
conceived during a woman's menstrual
period). Rabbi Akiba said that he is
both a bastard and a son of a niddah.
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"They
said, 'What induced you to contradict
the opinion of your colleagues?' He
replied, "I will prove it concerning
him." He went to the lad's mother and
found her sitting in the market selling
beans.
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"He said
to her, 'My daughter, if you will answer
the question I will put to you, I will
bring you to the world to come.'
(eternal life). She said to him, 'Swear
it to me.'
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"Rabbi
Akiba, taking the oath with his lips but
annulling it in his heart, said to her,
'What is the status of your son?' She
replied, 'When I entered the bridal
chamber I was niddah (menstruating) and
my husband kept away from me; but my
best man had intercourse with me and
this son was born to me.' Consequently
the child was both a bastard and the son
of a niddah.
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"It was
declared, '..Blessed be the God of
Israel Who Revealed His Secret to Rabbi
Akiba..."
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In
addition to the theme that God rewards
clever liars, the preceding Talmud
discussion is actually about Jesus
Christ (the bastard boy who "uncovered
his head" and was conceived in the filth
of menstruation). The boy's adulterous
mother in this Talmud story is the
mother of Christ, Blessed Mary (called
Miriam and sometimes, Miriam the
hairdresser, in the Talmud).
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"The
Editio Princeps of the complete Code of
Talmudic Law, Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
-- replete not only with the most
offensive precepts against all Gentiles
but also with explicit attacks on
Christianity and on Jesus (after whose
name the author adds piously, 'May the
name of the wicked perish')... --Dr.
Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish
Religion, p. 21.
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"The
Talmud contains a few explicit
references to Jesus...These references
are certainly not complimentary...There
seems little doubt that the account of
the execution of Jesus on the eve of
Passover does refer to the Christian
Jesus...The passage in which Jesus'
punishment in hell is described also
seems to refer to the Christian Jesus.
It is a piece of anti-Christian polemic
dating from the post-70 CE period..." --Hyam
Maccoby, Judaism on Trial, pp. 26-27.
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"According
to the Talmud, Jesus was executed by a
proper rabbinical court for idolatry,
inciting other Jews to idolatry, and
contempt of rabbinical authority. All
classical Jewish sources which mention
his execution are quite happy to take
responsibility for it; in the talmudic
account the Romans are not even
mentioned.
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"The more
popular accounts--which were
nevertheless taken quite seriously--such
as the notorious Toldot Yeshu are even
worse, for in addition to the above
crimes they accuse him of witchcraft.
The very name 'Jesus' was for Jews a
symbol of all that is abominable and
this popular tradition still persists...
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"The
Hebrew form of the name Jesus--Yeshu--was
interpreted as an acronym for the curse,
'may his name and memory be wiped out,'
which is used as an extreme form of
abuse. In fact, anti-zionist Orthodox
Jews (such as Neturey Qarta) sometimes
refer to Herzl as 'Herzl Jesus' and I
have found in religious zionist writings
expressions such as "Nasser Jesus" and
more recently 'Arafat Jesus." --Dr.
Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish
Religion, pp. 97- 98, 118.
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Talmud
Attacks Christians and Christian Books
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Rosh
Hashanah 17a. Christians (minnim) and
others who reject the Talmud will go to
hell and be punished there for all
generations.
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Sanhedrin
90a. Those who read the New Testament ("uncanonical
books") will have no portion in the
world to come.
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Shabbath
116a. Jews must destroy the books of the
Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
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Dr. Israel
Shahak of Hebrew University reports that
the Israelis burned hundreds of New
Testament Bibles in occupied Palestine
on March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History,
Jewish Religion, p. 21).
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Sick and
Insane Teachings of the Talmud
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Gittin 69a
. To heal his flesh a Jew should take
dust that lies within the shadow of an
outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat
it.
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Shabbath
41a. The law regulating the rule for how
to urinate in a holy way is given.
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Yebamoth
63a. States that Adam had sexual
intercourse with all the animals in the
Garden of Eden.
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Yebamoth
63a. Declares that agriculture is the
lowest of occupations.
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Sanhedrin
55b. A Jew may marry a three year old
girl (specifically, three years "and a
day" old).
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Sanhedrin
54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as
long as the child is less than nine
years old.
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Kethuboth
11b. "When a grown-up man has
intercourse with a little girl it is
nothing."
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Yebamoth
59b. A woman who had intercourse with a
beast is eligible to marry a Jewish
priest. A woman who has sex with a demon
is also eligible to marry a Jewish
priest.
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Abodah
Zarah 17a. States that there is not a
whore in the world that the Talmudic
sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with.
On one of his whorehouse romps, Rabbi
Eleazar leanred that there was one
particular prostitute residing in a
whorehouse near the sea, who would
receive a bag of money for her services.
He took a bag of money and went to her,
crossing seven rivers to do so. During
their intercourse the prostitute farted.
After this the whore told Rabbi Eleazar:
"Just as this gas will never return to
my anus, Rabbi Eleazar will never get to
heaven."
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Hagigah
27a. States that no rabbi can ever go to
hell.
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Baba Mezia
59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats
Him. God admits the rabbi won the
debate.
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Gittin
70a. The Rabbis taught: "On coming from
a privy (outdoor toilet) a man should
not have sexual intercourse till he has
waited long enough to walk half a mile,
because the demon of the privy is with
him for that time; if he does, his
children will be epileptic."
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Gittin
69b. To heal the disease of pleurisy
("catarrh") a Jew should "take the
excrement of a white dog and knead it
with balsam, but if he can possibly
avoid it he should not eat the dog's
excrement as it loosens the limbs."
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Pesahim
111a. It is forbidden for dogs, women or
palm trees to pass between two men, nor
may others walk between dogs, women or
palm trees. Special dangers are involved
if the women are menstruating or sitting
at a crossroads.
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Menahoth
43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to
say the following prayer every day:
Thank you God for not making me a
gentile, a woman or a slave.
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Tall Tales
of a Roman Holocaust
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Here are
two early "Holocaust" tales from the
Talmud: Gittin 57b. Claims that four
billion Jews were killed by the Romans
in the city of Bethar. Gittin 58a claims
that 16 million Jewish children were
wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by
the Romans. (Ancient demography
indicates that there were not 16 million
Jews in the entire world at that time,
much less 16 million Jewish children or
four billion Jews).
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A
Revealing Admission
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Abodah
Zarah 70a. The question was asked of the
rabbi whether wine stolen in Pumbeditha
might be used or if it was defiled, due
to the fact that the thieves might have
been gentiles (a gentile touching wine
would make the wine unclean). The rabbi
says not to worry, that the wine is
permissible for Jewish use because the
majority of the thieves in Pumbeditha,
the place where the wine was stolen, are
Jews. (Also cf. Gemara Rosh Hashanah
25b).
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Pharisaic
Rituals
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Erubin
21b. "Rabbi Akiba said to him, "Give me
some water to wash my hands."
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"It will
not suffice for drinking," the other
complained, "will it suffice for washing
your hands?"
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"What can
I do?' the former replied, "when for
neglecting the words of the Rabbis one
deserves death? It is better that I
myself should die than that I transgress
against the opinion of my colleagues."
[This is the ritual hand washing
condemned by Jesus in Matthew 15: 1-9].
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Genocide
Advocated by the Talmud
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Minor
Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10. This is
the saying of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: Tob
shebe goyyim harog ("Even the best of
the gentiles should all be killed").
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This
passage is from the original Hebrew of
the Babylonian Talmud as quoted by the
1907 Jewish Encyclopedia, published by
Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by
Isidore Singer, under the entry,
"Gentile," (p. 617).
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This
original Talmud passage has been
concealed in translation. The Jewish
Encyclopedia states that, "...in the
various versions the reading has been
altered, 'The best among the Egyptians'
being generally substituted." In the
Soncino version: "the best of the
heathens" (Minor Tractates, Soferim
41a-b].
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Israelis
annually take part in a national
pilgrimage to the grave of Simon ben
Yohai, to honor this rabbi who advocated
the extermination of non-Jews. (Jewish
Press, June 9, 1989, p. 56B).
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On Purim,
Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli army officer
Baruch Goldstein, an orthodox Jew from
Brooklyn, massacred 40 Palestinian
civilians, including children, while
they knelt in prayer in a mosque.
Goldstein was a disciple of the late
Brooklyn Rabbi Meir Kahane, who told CBS
News that his teaching that Arabs are
"dogs" is derived "from the Talmud."
(CBS 60 Minutes, "Kahane").
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University
of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud Sprinzak
described Kahane and Goldstein's
philosophy: "They believe it's God's
will that they commit violence against
goyim, a Hebrew term for non-Jews." (NY
Daily News, Feb. 26, 1994, p. 5).
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Rabbi
Yitzhak Ginsburg declared, "We have to
recognize that Jewish blood and the
blood of a goy are not the same thing."
(NY Times, June 6, 1989, p.5).
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Rabbi
Yaacov Perrin said, "One million Arabs
are not worth a Jewish fingernail." (NY
Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6).
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Talmudic
Doctrine: Non-Jews are not Human
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The Talmud
specifically defines all who are not
Jews as non-human animals, and
specifically dehumanizes Gentiles as not
being descendants of Adam. Here are some
of the Talmud passages which relate to
this topic.
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Kerithoth
6b: Uses of Oil of Anointing. "Our
Rabbis have taught: He who pours the oil
of anointing over cattle or vessels is
not guilty; if over gentiles (goyim) or
the dead, he is not guilty. The law
relating to cattle and vessels is right,
for it is written: "Upon the flesh of
man (Adam), shall it not be poured
(Exodus 30:32]); and cattle and vessels
are not man (Adam).
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"Also with
regard to the dead, [it is plausible]
that he is exempt, since after death one
is called corpse and not a man (Adam).
But why is one exempt in the case of
gentiles (goyim); are they not in the
category of man (Adam)? No, it is
written: 'And ye my sheep, the sheep of
my pasture, are man" (Adam); [Ezekiel
34:31]: Ye are called man (Adam) but
gentiles (goyim) are not called man
(Adam)."
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In the
preceding passage, the rabbis are
discussing the portion of the Mosaic law
which forbids applying the holy oil to
men.
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The Talmud
states that it is not a sin to apply the
holy oil to Gentiles, because Gentiles
are not human beings (i.e. are not of
Adam).
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Another
example from tractate Yebamoth 61a: "It
was taught: And so did R. Simeon ben
Yohai state (61a) that the graves of
gentiles (goyim) do not impart levitical
uncleanness by an ohel [standing or
bending over a grave], for it is said,
'And ye my sheep the sheep of my
pasture, are men (Adam), [Ezekiel
34:31]; you are called men (Adam) but
the idolaters are not called men
(Adam)."
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The Old
Testament Mosaic law states that
touching a human corpse or the grave of
a human imparts uncleanness to those who
touch it. But the Talmud teaches that if
a Jew touches the grave of a Gentile,
the Jew is not rendered unclean, since
Gentiles are not human (not of Adam).
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From Baba
Mezia 114b: ""A Jewish priest was
standing in a graveyard. When asked why
he was standing there in apparent
violation of the Mosaic law, he replied
that it was permissible, since the law
only prohibits Jews from coming into
contact with the graves of humans (Adamites),
and he was standing in a gentile
graveyard. For it has been taught by
Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: 'The graves of
gentiles [goyim] do not defile. For it
is written, 'And ye my flock, the flock
of my pastures, are men (Adam)' (Ezekiel
34:31); only ye are designated men
(Adam)."
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Ezekiel
34:31 is the alleged Biblical proof text
repeatedly cited in the preceding three
Talmud passages. But Ezekiel 34:31 does
not in fact support the Talmudic notion
that only Israelites are human. What
these rabbinical, anti-Gentile racists
and ideologues have done in asserting
the preceding absurdities about Gentiles
is distort an Old Testament passage in
order to justify their bigotry.
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In
Berakoth 58a the Talmud uses Ezekiel
23:20 as proof of the sub-human status
of gentiles. It also teaches that anyone
(even a Jewish man) who reveals this
Talmudic teaching about non-Jews
deserves death, since revealing it makes
Gentiles wrathful and causes the
repression of Judaism.
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The
Talmudic citation of this scripture from
Ezekiel as a "proof-text" is specious,
since the passage does not prove that
Gentiles are animals. The passage from
Ezekiel only says that some Egyptians
had large genital organs and copious
emissions. This does not in any way
prove or even connote that the Egyptians
being referred to in the Bible were
considered animals. Once again, the
Talmud has falsified the Bible by means
of distorted interpretation.
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Other
Talmud passages which expound on Ezekiel
23:20 in this racist fashion are: Arakin
19b, Berakoth 25b, Niddah 45a, Shabbath
150a, Yebamoth 98a. Moreover, the
original text of Sanhedrin 37a applies
God's approval only to the saving of
Jewish lives (cf. the Hesronot Ha-shas,
Cracow, 1894).
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Moses
Maimonides: Advocate of Extermination
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We will
now examine the post-Talmudic
commentator Rambam (Moses Maimonides).
This revered "sage" taught that
Christians should be exterminated. He
has the highest stature in Judaism:
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"Moses
Maimonides is considered the greatest
codifier and philosopher in Jewish
history. He is often affectionately
referred to as the Rambam, after the
initials of his name and title, Rabenu
Moshe Ben Maimon, "Our Rabbi, Moses son
of Maimon." [Maimonides' Principles,
edited by Aryeh Kaplan, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America,, p. 3].
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Here is
what Maimonides (Rambam) taught
concerning saving people's lives,
especially concerning saving the lives
of gentiles and Christians, or even Jews
who dared to deny the "divine
inspiration" of the Talmud:
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Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, (Moznaim
Publishing Corporation, Brooklyn, New
York, 1990, Chapter 10, English
Translation), p. 184: "Accordingly, if
we see an idolater (gentile) being swept
away or drowning in the river, we should
not help him. If we see that his life is
in danger, we should not save him." The
Hebrew text of the Feldheim 1981 edition
ofMishnah Torah states this as well.
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Immediately after Maimonides' admonition
that it is a duty for Jews not to save a
drowning or perishing gentile, he
informs us of the Talmudic duty of Jews
towards Christians, and also towards
Jews who deny the Talmud. Maimonides,
Mishnah Torah, (Chapter 10), p. 184:
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"It is a
mitzvah [religious duty], however, to
eradicate Jewish traitors, minnim, and
apikorsim, and to cause them to descend
to the pit of destruction, since they
cause difficulty to the Jews and sway
the people away from God, as did Jesus
of Nazareth and his students, and Tzadok,
Baithos, and their students. May the
name of the wicked rot."
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The Jewish
publisher's commentary accompanying the
preceding statement of Maimonides states
that Jesus was an example of a min
(plural: minnim).
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The
commentary also states that the students
of Tzadok were defined as those Jews who
deny the truth of the Talmud and who
uphold only the written law (i.e. the
Old Testament).
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According
to Maimonides' Principles, p. 5,
Maimonides "spent twelve years
extracting every decision and law from
the Talmud, and arranging them all into
14 systematic volumes. The work was
finally completed in 1180, and was
called Mishnah Torah, or "Code of the
Torah."
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Maimonides
taught in another part of the Mishnah
Torah that gentiles are not human: "Man
alone, and not vessels, can contract
uncleanness by carriage. ...The corpse
of a gentile, however, does not convey
uncleanness by overshadowing. ...a
gentile does not contract corpse
uncleanness; and if a gentile touches,
carries, or overshadows a corpse he is
as one who did not touch it.
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"To what
is this like? It is like a beast which
touches a corpse or overshadows it. And
this applies not to corpse uncleanness
only but to any other kind of
uncleanness: neither gentiles nor cattle
are susceptible to any uncleanness."
(The Code of Maimonides, vol. 10,
translated by Herbert Danby, Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1954, pp.
8-9).
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Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot
Rotze'ach 2:11: "A Jew who killed a
righteous gentile is not executed in a
court of l