Are Jews scapegoats? Oops! Who are they?
First and foremost, I am not interested in poking into a wasps’ nest. I am posing a question and I will be grateful for any and all contributions! This is a public forum, where all contributors are welcome!
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It has been a problem for quite a while that quite a few people from the lowest levels of popular culture kept blaming “the Jews” for their own predicaments.
My ancestry, based on my paternal great-grandparents, would qualify me for the WW2 labor camps in Germany, Poland or, for that matter, Sweden. In a well-known movie, Schindler’s List, a Swedish industrialist imports mostly Jewish slaves from Germany during WW2, and is celebrated by the movie-makers as a hero, but Mossad’s predecessors took him out already in 1947 (not a trace left of him), which had happened two years before Mossad was officially formed. Still, I would be unacceptable for an orthodox Jewish community (“only the mother is certain”). So, am I a Jew or not? I usually say, “If you are black and you are persecuted for that, I am black. If you are a Jew, and if you are hurt for that, I am a Jew.” And the line goes on.
Grew up in a Jewish neighborhood, so the culture is extremely familiar to me. In 2010-2014, I used to frequent the JCC in Las Vegas, Nevada, because it was the closest place for me to feel home. Not for religious services most of the time, although I found the religious music captivating. I used to meet with other college professors for a two-hour conversation every week, and I felt like I was in good company. Many of my few friends were, and are, Jewish, but we never became friends on those terms; we simply cared for each other.
I know, I know. The Torah is basically the same as the Old Testament, but the diversion comes in with quotes like the following ones from the Talmud:
(This “partial list of quotes from the Talmud” is circulating on the Internet)
Non-Jews are Not Human Baba Mezia 114a-114b. Only Jews are human ("Only ye are designated men").
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).
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.
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.
Attacks Christians and their Books, Rosh Hashanah 17a . Christians ("minim") and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations (see footnote #11 for the definition of minim).
Sanhedrin 90a.Those who read the New Testament ("uncanonical books," see footnote #9) 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. See footnote #6.
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. Shabbath 86a-86b.
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").
Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal”
Abodah Zara 26b: “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed”
Sanhedrin 59a: “ A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Torah) is guilty of death”
Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them they would kill was openly.”
Yebhamoth 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.”
Schabouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
Hilkkoth Akum XI: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
Hilkkoth Akum XI: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
Choschen Hamm 388 15: “If it can be proven that someone has given the money of the Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found under prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.”
Choschen Hamm 266 1: “A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to the Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the powers of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property If it is done to honor the name of God, namely if by doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people.”
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim ask if any of our books contain anything against them.”
Baba Necla 114,6: “The Jews are human beings but the nations of the world are not human beings but animals.”
Simeon Haddersen fol. 56-D: “When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”
Nidrasch Talpaoth p. 225 L: “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.”
Aboda Sarah 37a: “A gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.”
Gad. Shas. 2:2: “A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.”
Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: “If a goy kills a goy or a Jew he is responsible; But if a Jew kills a goy he is not responsible.”
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hammiszpat 388: “It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”
When it comes to ancient texts, the Bible also has some intriguing ambiguities, although Christians are encouraged to listen to the Spirit, instead of just reading the word (at least, according to St. Paul). The current (fake?) Pope, however, just instructed his still-active followers “not to listen to Jesus in private,” which is a travesty at best and I’m not going into details about the worst. Well, in 1711, after the Jansenists’ (Pascal was one of them) emphasized a personal relationship with God, which Catholicism has been confirming in the last 100 or more years, their monastery ended up like the city of Carthage; razed and even the earth salted.
So, when Christ is saying that if one of your limbs causes you to commit sin, you must cut it off, would you take it verbatim? Origen, one of the first “Church Fathers” did, but that was a long time ago. I’m quite sure, you wouldn’t be interested.
Of course, for Christians, it’s hard not to take it seriously, when they learn that in traditional Judaism, Christ is in the lowest level of Hell, being broiled in excrement. It’s only icing on the cake that “goy,” the traditional term for heathens in Judaism, means “cow,” so the not-Jewish are only supposed to be at the level of animals, good enough only as slaves.
That however, in today’s world, piercings and tattoos often contradict with the Talmud’s instructions, according to which even slaves are not allowed to be tattooed or pierced without their consent. If you look at today’s actors, actresses, and other popularized players, they have tattoos and piercings all over them… Is it possible that it’s not a contradiction?
Conclusion:
There is no such thing as “the Jews.” Even average German citizens voiced that opinion after Germany’s defeat in WW2. Hitler’s mother, for one was treated by a Jewish doctor before she died, and Hitler respected him for the rest of his life.
There are many brands of Jews, who don’t necessarily care for each other, and some of them in my life did a lot of good things for me and for other people, making them just as much of my “neighbor” as anyone else.
Some of the eugenicists happen to be from a group that may have been Jewish at one point, but they do not exclusively represent any version of Judaism; they seem to be using Jews (among whom many are atheists and yes, most people in the MSM and in American movies are Jewish), Zionists, and Freemasons (except for those of the 33rd degree) as patsies. The monsters are, and always have been, very much willing to sacrifice Jews on their way to achieve their goals as collateral damage.
Here is an interesting link, although I can't determine how reliable it is:
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/10/24/questions-about-the-hebrews-and-judaism/
In a couple of days, I hope to collect your ideas and attaach them to the text.
I am not a Talmudic scholar. But I am aware that there are a large number of anti-semitic websites that push the idea that the Talmud is some book of evil that teaches Jews to hate gentiles.
The Talmud is a complex work full of debates between the Rabbis, sometimes on the most exceptional, minute pieces of the law. Some of the conversations sound outlandish if one does not know the context of the conversation or the question being discussed.
There are websites from Talmudic scholars that address the internet claims such as the ones in the post. But there are fewer of them than Torah scholars.
This attack on the Talmud was addressed by a speech by Rabbi Tovia Singer. You can listen to it at the following website.
https://www.simpletoremember.com/media/a/attack-on-talmud/
Some websites that address these accusations against the Talmud.
https://israelnjudaism.blogspot.com/2010/09/lies-about-talmud.html
http://talmud.faithweb.com/
Please accept these in good faith.