"The Talmud Unmasked" is the title of a
book written by the Reverend I. B. Pranaitis, a Roman Catholic Priest, who was
Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial
Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in old St. Petersburg,
Russia. The book was printed in 1892 and is dedicated to "His
Excellency Francisco Albino Symon".
Iustinus Bonaventura Pranaitis met his death at the hands of the
Bolsheviks when they took over the Government of Russia.
The following are excerpts from his book and other relevant information.
The Talmud
Judaism's Holiest Book
Some Teachings of
The Talmud
The Talmud on Mary
The Talmud on Jesus
The Talmud on Christians
Some Howlers
Tales of a Roman
Holocaust
A Revealing Admission
Pharisaic Rituals
A Great Rabbi
Deceives A Woman
Genocide
Advocated by The Talmud
Talmudic Doctrine: Non Jews
are Not Humans
The Teachings of
Maimonides
Deception and
Dissimulation
The Talmud gets its name from the word "Lamud"
- "taught", and meanns "The Teaching".
As to its origin, the Rabbis regard Moses as its first author. They hold that
besides the written law which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai on tables
of stone, which is called Torah Schebiktab, he also received
interpretations of it, or the oral law, which is called Torah Shebeal Peh.
They say that this is the reason why Moses remained so long on the mountain,
as God could have given him the written law in one day.
Moses is said to have transmitted this oral law to Joshua; Joshua in turn to
seventy Elders; these Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets to the Great
Synagogue. It is held that it was later transmitted successively to certain
Rabbis until it was no longer possible to retain it orally.
Regardless what may be said about this tradition it is known that, before the
birth of Christ, schools existed in Palestine in which sacred literature was
taught. The commentaries of the Doctors of the Law were noted down on
charts and lists as an aid to memory, and these formed the beginning of the
Talmud.
In the 2nd century AD Rabbi Jehuda, called The Saint, collected all the lists
and charts into a book which was called the Sepher Mischnaioth, or Mischnah
- a Deuterosis, or Secondary Law. He divided it into 6 parts,
each of which was divided into many chapters.
The Mischenah is the foundation and the principal part of the whole
Talmud. This book was accepted by Jews everywhere and was recognized as their
authentic Code of Law. It was expounded in their Academies both in Babylon
and in Palestine.
As the interpretations increased with the passing of time, the disputations
and decisions of the Doctors of the Law concerning the Mischnah were
written down, and these writings constituted another part of the Talmud called
the Gemarah.
These two parts are so arranged throughout the Talmud that the Mischnah
serves first as a kind of text of the law, and is followed by the Gemarah
as an analysis of its various opinions and leading to definite decisions.
However, not all the precepts of the Mischnah were discussed in the
Jewish schools. Those who were nullified by the destruction of the Temple,
and those whose observation was possible only in the Holy Land were not
commented upon and their explanation was left until the coming of Elijha and the
Messiah with the result that some parts of the Mischnah are lacking in
the Gemarah.
In interpreting the Mischnah of Rabbi Jehuda, the schools of Palestine
and Babylon followed each their own method and this gave rise to a twofold Gemarah
- the Jerusalem and the Babylonian vversions. The author of the Jerusalem
version was Rabbi Jochanan, who wrote 39 chapters of commentaries on the Mischnah
and which he completed in 230 AD.
The Babylonian Gemarah, however, was not compiled by any one person,
nor at any one time. Rabbi Aschi began it in 327 AD and laboured over it for 60
years. He was followed by Rabbi Maremar around about 427 AD. It was completed by
Rabbi Abina about 500 AD and, in all, consists of 36 chapters of
interpretations.
This twofold Gemarah, added to the Mischnah, makes also a
twofold Talmud: the Jerusalem version, which, on account of its brevity and
obscurity, is not much used; and the Babylonian version, which has been held in
the highest esteem by Jews of all times.
The Gemarah is followed by additions called Tosephoth (from Tosepheth,
or Tosiphta, meaning "addition"). It was thus that Rabbi
Chaia first styled his opinions on the Mischnaioth. He and Rabbi
Uschaia were the first to explain this book publicly in the schools.
Commentaries of the Mischnah which were made by the Doctors, outside the
schools, were called Baraietoth, or extraneous opinions. (from Baria,
"extraneous", or Baraietha, "extraneous teaching").
These Commentaries were further supplemented by other decisions called Piske
Tosephoth - short thesis and simple principles.
For nearly 500 years after the Babylonian Talmud was completed, the study of
literature was hampered, partly due to public calamities and partly to
dissension among the scholars. But in the 11th century others wrote
further additions to the Talmud, the chief of which was the Tosephoth of
Rabbi Ascher. Others added further to the volume of sacred literature i.e. the Perusch
of Rabbi Moische ben Maimon ( Maimonides to Christians, Rambam to Jews) and
writings by Rabbi Schelomo.
And so the Mischnah, Gemarah, Tosephoth, the marginal
notes of Rabbi Ascher, the Piske Tosephoth and the Perusch
Hamischnaioth of Maimonides, all collected into one, constitute a vast work
which is called - The Talmud.
The Talmud is Judaism's holiest book. 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)."
"Those who devote themselves to reading the Bible exercise a certain virtue, but not very much; those who study the Mischnah exercise virtue for which they will receive a reward; those, however, who take upon themselves to study the Gemarah exercise the highest virtue" - tract Babha Metsia 33a.
"The Sacred Scripture is like water, the Mischnah wine, and the Gemarah aromatic wine" - tract Sopherim XV,7, fol 13b.
"He who transgresses the words of the Scribes sin more gravely than the transgressors of the words of the Law." - tract Sanhedrin X, 3 f.88b.
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 have more knowledge of the Old Testament than the Israelis. 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:
"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."
Because they don't traffic in Talmudic traditions, 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.
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.
The New York Times reporter Ari Goldman described the basis of the
rabbi's authority:
"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).
Nowhere does Goldman refer to Soloveitchik's knowledge of the Bible as the
basis for being one of the top authorities on Jewish law. The rabbi's
credentials are all predicated upon his mastery of the Talmud. All 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."
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."
There is a small Jewish sect which makes
considerable effort to eschew Talmud and adhere to the Old Testament alone.
These are the Karaites, a most hated and severely persecuted group within
Judaism.
The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as non human.
Misdrasch Talpioth p.225. "Jehovah created the non Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night".
Baba Mecia 114, 6. "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts".
More teachings
Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.
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.
Jews are Divine
Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (Gentile) hits a Jew, the Gentile must be killed. Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God.
It's O.K. to Cheat Non Jews
Sanhedrin 57a. A Jew need not pay a Gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.
Jews Have Superior Legal Status
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."
Jews May Steal from Non Jews
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..."
Jews May Rob and Kill Non Jews
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.
Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5 "How to interpret the word 'robbery'. A goy is forbidden to steal, rob or take women slaves, etc. from a goy or from a Jew. But the Jew is not forbidden to do all this to a goy."
Baba Kamma 37b. Gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel."
Jews May Lie to Non Jews
Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile.
Non Jewish Children Sub-Human
Yebamoth 98a. All Gentile children are animals.
Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.
Abodah Zarah 22a - 22b. Gentiles prefer sex with cows.
On God and the Talmud
"The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah Himself asks the opinion of rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven" - Rabbi Menachem Commentary on the Fifth Book.
"Jehovah Himself studies the Talmud standing,
He has such respect for the Book" - Tract Mechilla.
Mary is called Stada - "a prostitute".
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 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.
Jesus is referred to as Otho Isch - "that man"; Peloni -"a certain one"; Naggar bar naggar - "The carpenter son of a carpenter"; Talui - "the one that was hanged"; Jeshu or Isschu (an abreviation of Jeschua -saviour) composed of the initial letters of Immach SCHemo Vezikro, meaning "May his name and memory be blotted out".
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."
The book Zohar,III, (282) tells us that Jesus died like a beast and was buried in that "dirty heap ... where they throw the dead bodies of dogs and asses, and were the sons of Esau (Christians) and Ismael (Arabs), also Jesus and Mahommad, uncircumcised and unclean like dead dogs are buried."
Sanhedrin 43a. Says Jesus ("Yeshu" and in footnote #6, Yeshu "the Nazarene") was executed because he practised sorcery.
Gittin 57a. Says Jesus ( see footnote #4) is being boiled in "hot excrement."
Sanhedrin 43a. Jesus deserved execution:
"On the eve of the Passover, Yeshu was hanged ... Do you suppose that he
was one for whom a defence could be made? Was he not a Mesith
(enticer)?"
Christians are described as Notsrim (from Notsri
- Nazareth) as well as names which also deescribe all non Jews:
Abhodah Zarah - "strange worship",
"idolatry".
Akum - made up of the letters Obhde Kokhabkim UMazzaloth
-"worshipers of stars and planets&quoot;.
Obhde Elilim - "servers of idols".
Minim -"heretics".
Edom - "Edomites".
Nokhrim - "strangers", "foreigners".
Goi or Goy (pl. Goim or Goyim ; fem. Goiah)
- all non Jews, but it also has the meaninng of "a troop of animals" or
"a flight of locusts" (Strongs Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible).
Amme Haarets - "people of the earth", "idiots".
Basar Vedam - "flesh and blood", "carnal men"
(devoid of spirit).
Apikorosim - "Epicureans".
Kuthim - "Samaritans".
Rosh Hashanah 17a. Christians ("minim") and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations.
Sanhedrin 90a. Those who read the New Testament ("non canonical books,") will have no portion in the world to come.
Shabbath 116a (p. 569). Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
Dr. Israel Shahak reports that the Zionists burned
hundreds of New Testament books in Occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf.
"Jewish History, Jewish Religion," Pluto Press, p. 21).
Gittin 69a. To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix it with honey and eat it.
Shabbath 41a. The law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.
Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.
Yebamoth 63a. Declares that agriculture is the lowest of occupations.
Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a day" old).
Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.
Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing."
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.
Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there is not a whore in the world that Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with.
Hagigah 27a. States that no rabbi can ever go to hell.
Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate.
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."
Gittin 69b (p. 329). 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."
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 cross-roads.
Shabbath 86a - 86b. Because Jews are holy
they do not have sex during the day unless the house can be made dark. A Jewish
scholar can have sex during the day if he uses his garment like a tent to make
it dark.
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.
Abodah Zarah 70a. The question was asked of the
rabbi whether some 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.
Erubin 21b (p. 150). "Rabbi Akiba said to him, "Give me some water to wash my hands."
"It will not suffice for drinking," the other complained, "will it suffice for washing your hands?"
"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."
A
Great Rabbi Deceives A Woman
Kallah 51a (Soncino Minor Tractates). Teaches that God approves of rabbis who lie: "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.
"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. "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.'
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.
It was declared, '..Blessed be the God of Israel Who Revealed His Secret to Rabbi Akiba..."
In addition to the theme that God rewards clever
liars, the preceding discussion is actually about Christ (the lad who 'uncovered
his head'). The reference to the lad's mother is of course to the mother of
Jesus, Mary (called Miriam and sometimes, Miriam the hairdresser, in the
Talmud).
Genocide
Advocated by The Talmud
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").
This passage is not from the Soncino edition but is from the original Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud as quoted by the 1907 Jewish Encyclopaedia, published by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore Singer, under the entry, "Gentile," (p. 617).
This original Talmud passage has been concealed in translation. The Jewish Encyclopaedia 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].
Israelis annually take part in a national pilgrimage to the grave of Simon ben Yohai, to honour this rabbi who advocated the extermination of non Jews. (Jewish Press of June 9, 1989, p. 56B).
On Purim, Feb. 25, 1994, Israeli army officer Baruch Goldstein, an orthodox Khazar from Brooklyn, massacred 40 Palestinian civilians, including children, while they knelt in prayer in a mosque. Goldstein was a disciple of the late Rabbi Kahane who has stated that his view of Arabs as "dogs" is "from the Talmud." (Cf. CBS 60 Minutes, "Kahane").
Univ. 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).
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).
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin says, "One million Arabs
are not worth a Jewish fingernail." (NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6).
Talmudic
Doctrine: Non Jews are Not Humans
The Talmud specifically defines all who are not Jews as non human animals, and specifically dehumanizes Gentiles as not being descendants of Adam. The following Talmudic passages illustrates this point:
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.
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 [Hebrew: 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 [Hebrew: adam] shall it not be poured [Exodus
30:32]"; and cattle and vessels are not man [adam]. 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].
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].
The Mosaic law states that touching a human corpse or grave imparts
uncleanness to those who touch it. But the Talmud here teaches that if a Jew
touches the grave of a gentile, it does not make him unclean, since gentiles are
not human (literally, Adam).
Baba Mezia 114b: Said he [Rabbah] to him: Art
thou not a priest: why then dost thou stand in a cemetery? - He replied: Has the
Master not studied the laws of purity? For it has been taught: R. Simeon ben
Yohai said: 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].
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 [adam], and he was standing in a gentile graveyard.
Berakoth 58a R. Shila administered lashes to
a man who had intercourse with an Egyptian woman. The man went and informed
against him to the Government, saying: There is a man among the Jews who passes
judgement without the permission of the Government. An official was sent to
[summon] him. When he came he was asked: Why did you flog that man? He replied:
Because he had intercourse with a she ass.
They said to him: Have you witnesses? He replied: I have. Elijah thereupon
came in the form of a man and gave evidence. They said to him: If that is the
case he ought to be put to death! He replied: Since we have been exiled from our
land, we have no authority to put to death; do with him what you please.
While they were considering his case, R. Shila exclaimed, "Thine, Oh
Lord, is the greatness and the power" [1 Chronicles 29:11] What are you
saying? they asked him. He replied: What I am saying is this: Blessed is the All
Merciful who has made the earthly royalty on the model of the heavenly, and has
invested you with dominion, and made you lovers of justice.
They said to him: Are you so solicitous for the honour of the Government?
They handed him a staff and said to him: You may act as judge. When he went out
that man said to him: Does the All Merciful perform miracles for liars?
He replied: Wretch! Are they not called asses? For it is written: "Whose
flesh is as the flesh of asses" [Ezekiel 23:20]. He noticed that the man
was about to inform them that he had called them asses. He said: This man is a
persecutor, and the Torah has said: If a man comes to kill you, rise early and
kill him first. So he struck him with the staff and killed him. He then said:
Since a miracle has been wrought for me through this verse, I will expound
it."
The original text of Sanhedrin 37a applies
God's approval only to the saving of Jewish lives. This is demonstrable by
referring to Jewish books such as the Hesronot Ha-shas.
"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, New York,
1975, pg. 3)
Here is what Maimonides (Rambam) actually taught about saving people's lives,
especially about saving the lives of Gentiles and Christians, or even Jews who
dared to deny the divine inspiration of the Talmud: Maimonides, Mishnah Torah,
Moznaim Publishing Corporation, Brooklyn, New York, 1990, Chapter 10, English
Translation, pg. 184:
"Accordingly, if we see an idolater 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.
It is, however, forbidden to cause one of them to sink or push him into a pit or the like, since he is not waging war against us. To whom does the above apply? To Gentiles" [Hebrew: goyim, found on pg. 185]. (The Hebrew text of the Feldheim 1981 edition of Mishnah Torah has this also).
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 for Jews towards Christians, and also towards Jews who deny the Talmud.
Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, Chapter 10 English Translation, pg.184,
"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." The commentary accompanying the preceding statement of Maimonides mentions that Jesus was an example of a min (plural: minnim). The commentary also states that the followers 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).
According to Maimonides' "Principles," pg. 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'."
Maimonides asserted that it is the duty of Jews to save only Jews. Ordinary Gentiles are to be allowed to perish, but not actively killed, except during war; while Christians and Jewish so-called heretics are to be executed.
And there is more: "As for Gentiles, the basic talmudic principle is that their lives must not be saved, although it is also forbidden to murder them outright. The Talmud itself [Abodah Zarah 26b] expresses this in the maxim 'Gentiles are neither to be lifted [out of a well] nor hauled down [into it]'.
Maimonides explains [in Mishnah Torah 4:11]: 'As for Gentiles with whom we are not at war ... their death must not be caused, but it is forbidden to save them if they are at the point of death; if, for example, one of them is seen falling into the sea, he should not be rescued, for it is written: 'neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy fellow [Leviticus 19:16]' - but [a Gentile] is not thy fellow." (Jewish History, Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak, Pluto Press, London, Boulder, Colorado, pg. 80)
It is not too surprising that Maimonides would have taught this concerning saving the lives of Gentiles.
Maimonides taught in another section 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. 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, Book Ten, translated by Herbert Danby, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1954, pgs. 8-9)
The Talmud (i.e., the Babylonian Talmud) text of Sanhedrin 37a restricts the duty to save life to saving only Jewish lives. The censorship book, written by Jews (Hesronot Ha-shas), notes that the Talmud texts which use the universalistic phrase, "Whoever destroys the life of a single human being ... it is as if he had destroyed an entire world; and whoever preserves the life of a single human being ...it is as if he had preserved an entire world," have been censored (tampered with).
In other words, this universalistic rendering is not the authentic text of the Talmud and thus, for example, this universalistic version which Steven Spielberg in his movie, "Schindler's List" attributed to the Talmud (and which became the motto of the movie on posters and in advertisements), is not from the authentic Talmud, but rather constitutes propaganda intended to give a humanistic gloss to a Talmud which is, in its essence, racist and chauvinist hate literature.
In the authentic, original Talmud text it states that "whoever preserves a single soul of Israel, it is as if he had preserved an entire world" (emphasis supplied). The Talmud sanctions only the saving of Jewish lives. This is upheld by the modern editions of the Talmud.
The most recent translation of even the Jerusalem Talmud restricts the blessing for saving life to saving only a Jewish life. Though the Talmud passage at issue (Sanhedrin Mishnah 4.5/Sanhedrin 37a) mentions Adam, this does not prove that the passage's original intent was universal, since the Talmud elsewhere teaches that Gentiles are not Adam, but are in fact animals.
The greatest of all Talmud codifiers, Moses
Maimonides, taught that Gentiles on the point of death should not be saved, and
Christians should be killed.
The response of the orthodox rabbis to documentation
regarding the racism and hatred in the Talmud is simply to brazenly lie, in
keeping with the Talmud's Baba Kamma 113a which states that Jews may use
lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile. The Simon Wiesenthal
Center, a powerful, multi-million dollar rabbinical propaganda center dispatched
Rabbi Daniel Landes in 1995 to deny that the Talmud dehumanizes non Jews.
"This is utter rot," he said. His proof? Why, his word, of course.
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In 1994, Rabbi Tzvi Marx, director of Applied Education at the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem, made a remarkable admission concerning how Jews in the
past have issued two sets of texts: the authentic Talmudic texts and
commentaries with which they instruct their own youth in the Talmud schools (kollels)
and "censured and amended" versions which they disseminate to the
gullible goyim (non Jews) for public consumption.
Rabbi Marx states that in the version of Maimonides' teachings published for public consumption, Maimonides is made to say that whoever kills a human being transgresses the law.
But, Rabbi Marx points out "...that this only reflects the censured and amended printed text, whereas the original manuscripts have it only as "whoever kills an Israelite." ("Tikkun: A Bi-Monthly Jewish Critique," May - June, 1994).
The Jewish book, "Hesronot Ha-shas" (i.e. "that which is removed from the Talmud," cf. William Popper, "The Censorship of Hebrew Books," p. 59), is important in this regard.
"Hesronot Ha-shas" was reprinted in 1989 by Sinai Publishing of Tel Aviv. Hesronot Ha-shas is valuable because it lists some of the original Talmud texts that were later changed or omitted, with the resulting falsified texts nowadays being cited for Gentile consumption as authentic.
Popper (pp. 58-59), states: "It was not always that long passages ... were censored ... but often single words alone were omitted; ...Often, in these cases, another method of correction was used in place of omission - substitution."
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the translator of the most recent English version of the Babylonian Talmud, says, "Indeed, almost every passage dealing with non Jews must be suspected of having undergone some change." (Talmud Reference Guide, by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Random House, New York, 1989, p. 50).
For example, the translators of the English Soncino version of the Talmud sometimes translate the Hebrew word goyim (Gentiles) under any number of terms such as "heathen, Cuthean, Egyptian, idolater" etc. But these are actually references to Gentiles (all non Jews). In footnote 5 of the Soncino edition Talmud it is stated: "Cuthean (Samaritan) was here substituted for the original goy..." Christians are sometimes referred to by the code word Min or Minim.
It is the standard disinformation practice of the Pharisees to deny the existence of the racist Talmudic passages we have cited, in order to claim that such passages are the "fabrications of 'anti-Semites."
In 1994, the 80 year old Dowager Lady Jane Birdwood
was arrested and prosecuted in a criminal court in London, England for the
"crime" of publishing in her pamphlet, "The Longest Hatred,"
the truthful statement that the Talmud contains anti Gentile and anti Christian
passages.
In the course of her trial a rabbi was called as a prosecution witness. The
rabbi proceeded to flatly deny that the Talmud contained anti Gentile and
anti-Christ passages and on the basis of the rabbi's "prestige," the
old woman was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail and fined the
equivalent of $1,000.
Note: Some of the quotations are taken from Bible Believers Website