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“The Talmud may have protected the Jews from schism and sectarian divisions, but the price the Jews paid for this protection was complete rabbinic control. The Talmud took the sacred scriptures out of the hands of the Jews and made their interpretation the sole purview of the rabbis as codified in Talmudic lore. The word of God was nullified by the Talmud. The Talmud, the saying went, permitted whatever the Torah forbade. The Jew, in other words, could not appeal to sacred writ without the permission of the rabbis who controlled the Talmud. The Talmud became, as a result, control through hermeneutics. The Talmud became, according to Walsh, “the chief means employed by the Annas and Caiaphas of each age to keep the mass of the Jewish people in ignorance of the true nature of Christianity, and to fan their misunderstanding of it to hatred.“ To fan this hatred, the Talmud contained “the most scurrilous and vindictive blasphemies against Christ.” The Talmud claimed that Christ was a bastard (Kallah 51A) off-spring of a Jewish whore and a Roman soldier (Sanhedrin 106A) who is in hell buried in boiling excrement (Gittin 57A). During persecution, the most controversial parts of the Talmud were committed to memory and transmitted orally, but the tradition of blasphemy and subversion continued unabated. The Talmud insured blasphemy and subversion became part of Jewish culture, because, as one scholar noted, the Talmud was “the creator of the Jewish nation and the mold of the Jewish soul.”<br> | “The Talmud may have protected the Jews from schism and sectarian divisions, but the price the Jews paid for this protection was complete rabbinic control. The Talmud took the sacred scriptures out of the hands of the Jews and made their interpretation the sole purview of the rabbis as codified in Talmudic lore. The word of God was nullified by the Talmud. The Talmud, the saying went, permitted whatever the Torah forbade. The Jew, in other words, could not appeal to sacred writ without the permission of the rabbis who controlled the Talmud. The Talmud became, as a result, control through hermeneutics. The Talmud became, according to Walsh, “the chief means employed by the Annas and Caiaphas of each age to keep the mass of the Jewish people in ignorance of the true nature of Christianity, and to fan their misunderstanding of it to hatred.“ To fan this hatred, the Talmud contained “the most scurrilous and vindictive blasphemies against Christ.” The Talmud claimed that Christ was a bastard (Kallah 51A) off-spring of a Jewish whore and a Roman soldier (Sanhedrin 106A) who is in hell buried in boiling excrement (Gittin 57A). During persecution, the most controversial parts of the Talmud were committed to memory and transmitted orally, but the tradition of blasphemy and subversion continued unabated. The Talmud insured blasphemy and subversion became part of Jewish culture, because, as one scholar noted, the Talmud was “the creator of the Jewish nation and the mold of the Jewish soul.”<br> | ||
The Talmud would also be instrumental in the rise of the revolutionary spirit when it re-emerged during the Reformation. “We can boldly assert,” Graetz writes, “that the war for and against the Talmud aroused German consciousness and created a public opinion without which the Reformation, like many other efforts, would have died in the hour of birth, or perhaps would never have been born at all.” The Talmud also became the link between the Neoplatonist thaumaturgy of Julian and later assaults on the Catholic Church from behind the mask of Freemasonry. Masonic theology, according to Rabbi Benamozegh, is “at root nothing else than...the theology of the Kaballah.”” | The Talmud would also be instrumental in the rise of the revolutionary spirit when it re-emerged during the Reformation. “We can boldly assert,” Graetz writes, “that the war for and against the Talmud aroused German consciousness and created a public opinion without which the Reformation, like many other efforts, would have died in the hour of birth, or perhaps would never have been born at all.” The Talmud also became the link between the Neoplatonist thaumaturgy of Julian and later assaults on the Catholic Church from behind the mask of Freemasonry. Masonic theology, according to Rabbi Benamozegh, is “at root nothing else than...the theology of the Kaballah.”” ''See'' — [[Gnosticism#Kabbalah|Kabbalah]], [[Gnosticism#Freemasonry|Freemasonry]] | ||
''See'' — [[Gnosticism#Kabbalah|Kabbalah]], [[Gnosticism#Freemasonry|Freemasonry]] | |||
Now, about this charge, anti-Semitism. The word has several meanings. One is an embedded hatred of Jewish people... As such, it is a grave sin, a disease of the heart, a variant of racism. Which brings us to a second definition... And that is a word to describe the branding iron wielded by a tiny clique, to burn horribly heretics from their political orthodoxy. It is used to frighten, intimidate, censor and silence; to cut off debate; to so smear a man’s reputation that no one will listen to him again; to scar men so indelibly that no one will ever look at them again without saying, ‘Say, isn’t he an anti- Semite?’ | Now, about this charge, anti-Semitism. The word has several meanings. One is an embedded hatred of Jewish people... As such, it is a grave sin, a disease of the heart, a variant of racism. Which brings us to a second definition... And that is a word to describe the branding iron wielded by a tiny clique, to burn horribly heretics from their political orthodoxy. It is used to frighten, intimidate, censor and silence; to cut off debate; to so smear a man’s reputation that no one will listen to him again; to scar men so indelibly that no one will ever look at them again without saying, ‘Say, isn’t he an anti- Semite?’ | ||