 Benjamin Freedman wrote the following in 1954 for Dr David Goldstein,
LL.D. of Boston, Massachusetts, to explain the history of Khazarian Jews.
It has been printed as a booklet with the title Facts are Facts
The Truth about Khazars
(Facts are Facts)
by Benjamin H. Freedman
My Dear Dr. Goldstein,
Your very outstanding achievements as a convert to Catholicism impress
me as without a comparable parallel in modern history. Your devotion to
the doctrine and the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church defy any attempt
at description by me only with words. Words fail me for that.
As a vigorous protagonist preserving so persistently in propagating
the principles of the Roman Catholic Church, - its purposes, its policies,
its programs, - your dauntless determination is the inspiration for countless
others who courageously seek to follow in your footsteps.
In view of this fact it requires great courage for me to write to you
as I am about to do. So I pray you receive this communication from me you
will try to keep in mind Galatians 4:16 "Am I therefor become you enemy,
because I tell you the truth?" I hope you will so favor me.
It is truly a source of great pleasure and genuine gratification to
greet you at long last although of necessity by correspondence. It is quite
a disappointment for me to make your acquaintance in this manner. It would
now afford me a far greater pleasure and a great privilege also if instead
I could greet you on this occasion in person.
Our very good mutual friend has for long been planning a meeting with
you in person for me. I still wish to do that. I look forward with pleasant
anticipation to doing this in the not too distant future at a time agreeable
with you.
You will discover in the contents of this long letter valid evidence
for the urgency on my part to communicate with you without further delay.
You will further discover this urgency reflected in the present gravity
of the crisis which now jeopardizes an uninterrupted continuance of the
Christian faith in its long struggle as the world's most effective spiritual
and social force in the Divine mission of promoting the welfare of all
mankind without regard for their diversified races, religions, and nationalities.
Your most recent article coming to my attention appeared in the September
issue of 'The A.P.J. Bulletin', the official publication of the organization
calling themselves The Archconfraternity of Prayer for Peace and Goodwill
to Israel. The headline of your article, 'News and Views of Jews', and
the purpose of the organization stated in the masthead of the publication,
"To Promote Interest in the Apostalate to Israel" prompts me to take Father
Time by his forelock and promptly offer my comments. I beg your indulgence
accordingly.
It is with reluctance that I place my comments in letter form. I hesitate
to do so but I find it the only expedient thing to do under the circumstances.
I beg to submit them to you now without reservations of any nature for
your immediate and earnest consideration. It is my very sincere wish that
you accept them in the friendly spirit in which they are submitted. It
is also my hope that you will give your consideration to them and favor
me with your early reply in the same friendly spirit for which I thank
you in advance.
In the best interests of that worthy objective to which you are continuing
to dedicate the years ahead as you have so diligently done for many past
decades, I most respectfully and sincerely urge you to analyze and to study
carefully the data submitted to you here. I suggest also that you then
take whatever steps you consider appropriate and necessary as a result
of your conclusions. In the invisible and intangible ideological war being
waged in defense of the great Christian heritage against its dedicated
enemies your positive attitude is vital to victory. Your passive attitude
will make a negative contribution to the total effort.
You assuredly subscribe fully to that sound and sensible sentiment that
"it is better to light one candle than to sit in darkness." My solitary
attempts to date "to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the
shadow" may prove no more successful with you now than they have in so
many other instances where I have failed during the past thirty years.
In your case I feel rather optimistic at the moment.
Although not completely in vain I still live in the hope that one day
on of these "candles" will burst into flame like a long smoldering spark
and start a conflagration that will sweep across the nation like a prairie
fire and illuminate vast new horizons for the first time. That unyielding
hope is the source of the courage which aids me in my struggle against
the great odds to which I am subjected for obvious reasons.
It has been correctly contended for thousands of years that "In the
end Truth always prevails." We all realize that Truth in action can prove
itself a dynamic power of unlimited force. But alas Truth has no self-starter.
Truth cannot get off dead-center unless a worthy apostle gives Truth a
little push to overcome its inertia. Without that start Truth will stand
still and will never arrive at its intended destination. Truth has often
died aborning for that most logical reason. Your help in this respect will
prove of great value.
On the other hand Truth has many times been completely "blacked out"
by repeating contradictory and conflicting untruths over and over again,
and again, and again. The world's recent history supplies sober testimony
of the dangers to civilization inherent in that technique. That form of
treason to Truth is treachery to mankind. You must be very careful, my
dear Dr. Goldstein, not to become unwittingly one of the many accessories
before and after the fact who have appeared upon the scene of public affairs
in recent years.
Whether unwittingly, unwillingly or unintentionally many of history's
most noted characters have misrepresented the truth to the world and they
have been so believed that it puzzles our generation. As recently as 1492
the world was misrepresented as flat by all the best alleged authorities
on the subject. In 1492 Christopher Columbus was able to demonstrate otherwise.
There are countless similar instances in the history of the world.
Whether these alleged authorities were guilty of ignorance or indifference
is here beside the point. It is not important now. They were either totally
ignorant of the facts or they knew the facts but chose to remain silent
on the subject for reasons undisclosed by history. A duplication of this
situation exists today with respect to the crisis which confronts the Christian
faith. It is a vital factor today in the struggle for survival or the eventual
surrender of the Christian faith to its enemies. The times in which we
are living appear to be the "zero hour" for the Christian faith.
As you have observed, no institution in our modern society can long
survive if its structure is not from its start erected upon a foundation
of Truth. The Christian faith was first erected upon a very solid foundation
of Truth by its Founder. To survive it must remain so. The deterioration,
the disintegration, and finally the destruction of the structure of the
Christian faith today will be accelerated in direct ratio to the extent
that misrepresentation and distortion of Truth become the substitutes of
Truth. Truth is an absolute quality. Truth can never be relative. There
can be no degrees to Truth. Truth either exists or it does not exist. To
be half-true is as incredible as to be half-honest or to be half-loyal.
As you have undoubtedly also learned, my dear Dr. Goldstein, in their
attempt to do an "ounce" of good in one direction many well-intentioned
persons do a "ton" of harm in another direction. We all learn that lesson
sooner or later in life. Today finds you dedicating your unceasing efforts
and your untiring energy to the task of bringing so-called or self-styled
"Jews" into the Roman Catholic Church as converts. It must recall to you
many times the day so many years ago when you embraced Catholicism yourself
as a convert. More power to you, and the best of luck. May your efforts
be rewarded with great success.
Without you becoming aware of the fact, the methods you employ contribute
in no small degree to dilution of the devotion of countless Christians
for their Christian faith. For each "ounce" of so-called good you accomplish
by conversion of so-called or self-styled "Jews" to the Christian faith
at the same time you do a "ton" of harm in another direction by diluting
the devotion of countless Christians for their Christian faith. This bold
conclusion on my part is asserted by me with the firm and fair conviction
that the facts will support my contention. In addition it is a well-known
fact that many "counterfeit" recent conversions reveal that conversions
have often proved to be but "infiltrations" by latent traitors with treasonable
intentions.
The attitudes you express today and your continued activity in this
work require possible revision in the light of the facts submitted to you
in this letter. Your present philosophy and theology on this subject seriously
merit, without any delay, reconsideration on your part. What you say or
write may greatly influence a "boom" or a "bust" for the Christian faith
in the very near future far beyond your ability to accurately evaluate
sitting in your high "white ivory tower." The Christians implicitly believe
whatever you write. So do the so-called or self-styled "Jews" whom you
seek to convert. This influence you wield can become a danger. I must call
it to your attention.
Your reaction to the facts called to your attention in this letter can
prove to be one of the most crucial verdicts ever reached bearing upon
the security of the Christian faith in recent centuries. In keeping with
this great responsibility I sincerely commend this sentiment to you hoping
that you will earnestly study the contents of this letter from its first
word to its very last word. All who know you will are in the fortunate
position to know how close this subject is to your heart. By your loyalty
to the high ideals you have observed during the many years you have labored
so valiantly on behalf of the Christian faith you have earned the admiration
you enjoy. The Christian faith you chose of your own free will in the prime
of life is very proud of you in more ways than as a convert.
Regardless of what anyone anywhere and anytime in this whole wide world
may say to the contrary, events of recent years everywhere establish beyond
any question of a doubt that the Christian faith today stands with one
foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel figuratively speaking
of course. Only those think otherwise who deliberately shut their eyes
to realities or who do not chose to see even with their eyes wide open.
I believe you to be too realistic to indulge yourself in the futile folly
of fooling yourself.
It is clear that the Christian faith today stands at the cross-roads
of its destiny. The Divine and sacred mission of the Christian faith is
in jeopardy today to a degree never witnessed before in its long history
of almost 2000 years. The Christian faith needs loyal friends now as never
before. I somehow feel that you can always be counted upon as one of its
loyal friends. You cannot over-simplify the present predicament of the
Christian faith. The problem it faces is too self-evident to mistake. It
is in a critical situation.
When the day arrives that Christians can no longer profess their Christian
faith as they profess it today in the free world the Christian faith will
have seen the beginning of its "last days." What already applies to 50%
of the world's total population can shortly apply equally to 100% of the
world's total population. It is highly conceivable judging from present
trends. The malignant character of this malady is just as progressive as
cancer. It will surely prove as fatal also unless steps are taken now to
reverse its course. What is now being done toward arresting its progress
or reversing its trend?
My dear Dr. Goldstein, can you recall the name of the philosopher who
is quoted as saying that "Nothing in this world is permanent except change?"
That philosophy must be applied to the Christian faith also. The $64 question
remains whether the change will be for the better or for the worse. The
problem is that simple. If the present trend continues for another 37 years
in the same direction and at the same rate traveled for the past 37 years
the Christian faith as it is professed today by Christians will have disappeared
from the face of the earth. In what form or by what instrumentality the
mission of Jesus Christ will thereupon and thereafter continue to make
itself manifest here on earth is as unpredictable as it is inevitable.
In the existing crisis it is neither logical nor realistic to drive
Christians out of the Christian "fold" in relatively large numbers for
the dubious advantage to be obtained by bringing a comparatively small
number of so-called or self-styled "Jews" into the Christian "fold".
It is useless to try to deny the fact that today finds the Christian
faith on the defense throughout the world. This realization staggers the
imagination of the few Christians who understand the situation. This status
of the Christian faith exists in spite of the magnificent contributions
of the Christian faith to the progress of humanity and civilization for
almost 2000 years. It is not my intention in this letter to expose the
conspirators who are dedicating themselves to the destruction of the Christian
faith nor to the nature and extent of the conspiracy itself. That exposure
would fill many volumes.
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current
events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy. The
world-wide network of diabolical conspirators implement this plot against
the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian
clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy
than other Christians. They seem to bury their heads in the sands of ignorance
or indifference like the legendary ostrich. This ignorance or indifference
on the part of the Christian clergy has dealt a blow to the Christian faith
already from which it may never completely recover, if at all. It seems
so sad.
Christians deserve to be blessed in this crisis with a spiritual Paul
Revere to ride across the nation warning Christians that their enemies
are moving in on them fast. My dear Dr. Goldstein, will you volunteer to
be that Paul Revere?
Of equal importance to pin-pointing the enemies who are making war upon
the Christian faith from the outside is the necessity to discover the forces
at work inside the Christian faith which make it so vulnerable to its enemies
on the outside. Applying yourself to this specific phase of the problem
can prove of tremendous value in rendering ineffective the forces responsible
for this dangerous state of affairs.
The souls of millions of Christians who are totally unknown to you are
quite uneasy about the status of the Christian faith today. The minds of
countless thousands among the Christian clergy are troubled by the mysterious
"pressure" from above which prevents them exercising their sound judgment
in this situation. If the forces being manipulated against the Christian
faith from the inside can be stopped the Christian faith will be able to
stand upon its feet against its enemies as the Rock of Gibraltar. Unless
this can be done soon the Christian faith appears destined to crumble and
to eventually collapse. An ounce of prevention is far preferable to a pound
of cure you can be sure in this situation as in all others.
With all the respect due to the Christian clergy and in all humility
I have an unpleasant duty to perform. I wish to go on record with you here
that the Christian clergy are primarily if not solely responsible for the
internal forces within the Christian faith inimical to its best interests.
This conclusion on my part indicates the sum total of all the facts in
my book which add up to just that. If you truly desire to be realistic
and constructive you must "hew to the line and let the chips fall where
they may." That is the only strategy that can save the Christian faith
from a fate it does not deserve. You cannot pussy-foot with the truth any
longer simply because you find that now "the truth hurts", -someone you
know or like.
At this late hour very little time is left in which to mend our fences
if I can call it that. We are not in a position to waste any of our limited
time. "Beating it around the bush" now will get us exactly nowhere. The
courageous alone will endure the present crisis when all the chips are
down. Figuratively and possibly literally there will be live heroes and
dead cowards when the dust of this secular combat settles and not dead
heroes and live cowards as sometimes occurs under other circumstances.
The Christian faith today remains the only "anchor to windward" against
universal barbarism. The dedicated enemies of the Christian faith have
sufficiently convinced the world by this time of the savage methods they
will adopt in their program to erase the Christian faith from the face
of the earth.
Earlier in this letter I stated that in my humble opinion the apathy
of the Christian clergy might be charged with sole responsibility for the
increasing dilution of the devotion of countless Christians for the Christian
faith. This is the natural consequence of the confusion created by the
Christian clergy in the minds of Christians concerning certain fundamentals
of the Christian faith. The guilt for this confusion rests exclusively
upon Christian leadership not upon Christians generally. Confusion creates
doubt. Doubt creates loss of confidence. Loss of confidence creates loss
of interest. As confusion grows more, and more, and more confidence grows
less, and less, and less. The result is complete loss of all interest.
You can hardly disagree with that, my dear Dr. Goldstein, can you?
The confusion in the minds of Christians concerning fundamentals of
the Christian faith is unwarranted and unjustified. It need not exist.
It would not exist if the Christian clergy did not aid and abet the deceptions
responsible for it. The Christian clergy may be shocked to learn that they
have been aiding and abetting the dedicated enemies of the Christian faith.
Many of the Christian clergy are actually their allies but may not know
it. This phase of the current world-wide campaign of spiritual sabotage
is the most negative factor in the defense of the Christian faith.
Countless Christians standing on the sidelines in this struggle see
their Christian faith "withering on the vine" and about ripe enough to
"drop into the lap" of its dedicated enemies. They can do nothing about
it. Their cup is made more bitter for them as they observe this unwarranted
and this unjustified ignorance and indifference on the part of the Christian
clergy. This apathetic attitude by the Christian clergy offers no opposition
to the aggressors against the Christian faith. Retreat can only bring defeat.
To obviate surrender to their dedicated enemies the Christian clergy must
"about face" immediately if they expect to become the victors in the invisible
and intangible ideological war now being so subversively waged against
the Christian faith under their very noses. When will they wake up?
If I were asked to recite in this letter the many manners in which the
Christian clergy are confusing the Christian concept of the fundamentals
of the Christian faith it would require volumes rather than pages to tell
the whole story. Space alone compels me here to confine myself to the irreducible
minimum. I will limit myself here to the most important reasons for this
confusion. Brevity will of necessity limit the references cited to support
the matters presented in this letter. I will do my best under the circumstances
to establish the authenticity of the incontestable historical facts I call
to your attention here.
In my opinion the most important reason is directly related to your
present activities. Your responsibility for this confusion is not lessened
by your good intentions. As you have heard said so many times "Hell is
paved with good intentions." The confusion your articles create is multiplied
a thousand-fold by the wide publicity given to them as a result of the
very high regard in which you personally are held by editors and readers
across the nation, Christian and non-Christian alike. Your articles constantly
are continually reprinted and quoted from coast to coast.
The utterance by the Christian clergy which confuses Christians the
most is the constantly repeated utterance that "Jesus was a Jew." That
also appears to be your favorite theme. That misrepresentation and distortion
of an incontestable historic fact is uttered by the Christian clergy upon
the slightest pretext. They utter it constantly, also without provocation.
They appear to be "trigger happy" to utter it. They never miss an opportunity
to do so. Informed intelligent Christians cannot reconcile this truly unwarranted
misrepresentation and distortion of an incontestable historic fact by the
Christian clergy with information known by them now to the contrary which
comes to them from sources believed by them to be equally reliable.
This poses a serious problem today for the Christian clergy. They can
extricate themselves from their present predicament now only be resorting
to "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". That is the
only formula by which the Christian clergy can recapture the lost confidence
of Christians. As effective spiritual leaders they cannot function without
this lost confidence. They should make that their first order of business.
My dear Dr. Goldstein, you are a theologian of high rank and a historian
of note. Of necessity you also should agree with other outstanding authorities
on the subject of whether "Jesus was a Jew." These leading authorities
agree today that there is no foundation in fact for the implications, inferences
and the innuendoes resulting from the incorrect belief that "Jesus was
a Jew". Incontestable historic facts and an abundance of other proofs establish
beyond the possibility of any doubt the incredibility of the assertion
so often heard today that "Jesus was a Jew".
Without any fear of contradiction based upon fact the most competent
and best qualified authorities all agree today that Jesus Christ was not
a so-called or self-styled "Jew". They do confirm that during His lifetime
Jesus was known as a "Judean" by His contemporaries and not as a "Jew",
and that Jesus referred to Himself as a "Judean" and not as a "Jew". During
His lifetime here on earth Jesus was referred to by contemporary historians
as a "Judean" and not as a "Jew." Contemporary theologians of Jesus whose
competence to pass upon this subject cannot challenge by anyone today also
referred to Jesus during his lifetime here on earth as a "Judean" and not
as a "Jew".
Inscribed upon the Cross when Jesus was Crucified were the Latin words
"Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum". Pontius Pilate's mother-tongue. No one
will question the fact that Pontius Pilate was well able to accurately
express his own ideas in his own mother-tongue. The authorities competent
to pass upon the correct translation into English of the Latin "Iesus Nazarenus
Rex Iudeorum" agree that it is "Jesus of Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans."
There is no disagreement upon that by them.
During His lifetime here on earth Jesus was not regarded by Pontius
Pilate nor by the Judeans among whom He dwelt as "King of the Jews". The
inscription on the Cross upon which Jesus was Crucified has been incorrectly
translated into the English language only since the 18th century. Pontius
Pilate was ironic and sarcastic when he ordered inscribed upon the Cross
the Latin words "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum". About to be Crucified,
with the approval of Pontius Pilate, Jesus was being mocked by Pontius
Pilate. Pontius Pilate was well aware at that time that Jesus had been
denounced, defied and denied by the Judeans who alas finally brought about
His Crucifixion as related by history.
Except for His few followers at that time in Judea all other Judeans
abhorred Jesus and detested His teachings and the things for which He stood.
That deplorable fact cannot be erased from history by time. Pontius Pilate
was himself the "ruler" of the Judeans at the time he ordered inscribed
upon the Cross in Latin words "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum", In English
"Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans". But Pontius Pilate never referred
to himself as "ruler" of the Judeans. The ironic and sarcastic reference
of Pontius Pilate to Jesus as "Ruler of the Judeans" can hardly be accepted
as recognition by Pontius Pilate of Jesus as "Ruler of the Judeans". That
is inconceivable by any interpretation.
At the time of the Crucifixion of Jesus Pontius Pilate was the administrator
in Judea for the Roman Empire. At that time in history the area of the
Roman Empire included a part of the Middle East. As far as he was concerned
officially or personally the inhabitants of Judea were "Judeans" to Pontius
Pilate and not so-called "Jews" as they have been styled since the 18th
century. In the time of Pontius Pilate and not so-called "Jews" as they
have been styled since the 18th century. In the time of Pontius Pilate
in history there was no religious, racial or national group in Judea known
as "Jews" nor had there been any group so identified anywhere else in the
world prior to that time.
Pontius Pilate expressed little interest as the administrator of the
Roman Empire officially or personally in the wide variety of forms of religious
worship then practiced in Judea. These forms of religious worship extended
from phallic worship and other forms of idolatry to the emerging spiritual
philosophy of an eternal, omnipotent and invisible Divine deity, the emerging
Yahve (Jehovah) concept which predated Abraham of Bible fame by approximately
2000 years. As the administrator for the Roman Empire in Judea it was the
official policy of Pontius Pilate never to interfere in the spiritual affairs
of the local population. Pontius Pilate's primary responsibility was the
collection of taxes to be forwarded home to Rome, not the forms of religious
worship practiced by the Judeans from whom those taxes were collected.
As you well know, my dear Dr. Goldstein, the Latin word "rex" means
"ruler, leader" in English. During the lifetime of Jesus in Judea the Latin
word "rex" meant only that to Judeans familiar with the Latin language.
The Latin word "rex" is the Latin verb "rego, regere, rexi, rectus" in
English means as you also well know "to rule, to lead". Latin was of course
the official language in all the provinces administered by a local administrator
of the Roman Empire. This fact accounts for the inscription on the Cross
in Latin.
With the invasion of the British Isles by the Anglo-Saxons, the English
language substituted the Anglo-Saxon "king" for the Latin equivalent "rex"
used before the Anglo-Saxon invasion. The adoption of "king" for "rex"
at this late date in British history did not retroactively alter the meaning
of the Latin "rex" to the Judeans in the time of Jesus. The Latin "rex"
to them then meant only "ruler, leader" as it still means in Latin. Anglo-Saxon
"king" was spelled differently when first used but at all times meant the
same as "rex" in Latin, "leader" of a tribe.
During the lifetime of Jesus it was very apparent to Pontius Pilate
that Jesus was the very last Person in Judea the Judeans would select as
their "ruler" or their "leader". In spite of this situation in Judea Pontius
Pilate did not hesitate to order the inscription of the Cross "Iesus Nazarenus
Rex Iudeorum". By the wildest stretch of the imagination it is not conceivable
that this sarcasm and irony by Pontius Pilate at the time of the Crucifixion
was not solely mockery of Jesus by Pontius Pilate and only mockery. After
this reference to "Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans" the Judeans
forthwith proceeded to Crucify Jesus upon that very Cross.
In Latin in the lifetime of Jesus the name of the political subdivision
in the Middle East known in modern history as Palestine was "Iudaea". It
was then administered by Pontius Pilate as administrator for the Roman
Empire of which it was then a part. The English for the Latin "Iudaea"
is "Judea". English "Judean" is the adjective for the noun "Judea". The
ancient native population of the subdivision in the Middle East known in
modern history as Palestine was then called "Iudaeus" in Latin and "Judean"
in English. Those words identified the indigenous population of Judea in
the lifetime of Jesus. Who can deny that Jesus was a member of the indigenous
population of Judea in His lifetime?
And of course you know, my dear Dr. Goldstein, in Latin the Genitive
Plural of "Iudaeus" is "Iudaeorum". The English translation of the Genitive
Plural of "Iudaeorum" is "of the Judeans". It is utterly impossible to
give any other English translation to "Iudaeorum" than "of the Judeans".
Qualified and competent theologians and historians regard as incredible
any other translation into English of "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum" than
"Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans". You must agree that this is
literally correct.
At the time Pontius Pilate was ordering the "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum"
inscribed upon the Cross the spiritual leaders of Judea were protesting
to Pontius Pilate "not to write that Jesus was the ruler of the Judeans"
but to inscribe instead that Jesus "had said that He was the ruler of the
Judeans". The spiritual leaders of Judea made very strong protests to Pontius
Pilate against his reference to Jesus as "Rex Iudaeorum" insisting that
Pontius Pilate was not familiar with or misunderstood the status of Jesus
in Judea. These protests are a matter of historical record, as you know.
The spiritual leaders in Judea protested in vain with Pontius Pilate.
They insisted that Jesus "had said that He was the ruler of the Judeans"
but
that Pontius Pilate was "not to write that Jesus was the ruler of the Judeans".
For after all Pontius Pilate was a foreigner in Judea who could not understand
the local situations as well as the spiritual leaders. The intricate pattern
of the domestic political, social and economic cross-currents in Judea
interested Pontius Pilate very little as Rome's administrator.
The Gospel by John was written originally in the Greek language according
to the best authorities. In the Greek original there is no equivalent for
the English that Jesus "had said that He was the ruler of the Judeans".
The English translation of the Greek original of the Gospel by John, XIX,
19, reads "Do not inscribe 'the monarch (basileus) of the Judeans (Ioudaios),
but that He Himself said I am monarch (basileus) of the Judeans (Ioudaios)'
". "Ioudaia" is the Greek for the Latin for "basileus" in Greek. The English
"ruler", or its alternative "leader", define the sense of Latin "rex" and
Greek "basileus" as they were used in the Greek and Latin Gospel of John.
Pontius Pilate "washed his hands" of the protests by the spiritual leaders
in Judea who demanded of him that the inscription on the Cross authored
by Pontius Pilate be corrected in the manner they insisted upon. Pontius
Pilate be corrected in the manner they insisted upon. Pontius Pilate very
impatiently replied to their demands "What I have written, I have written."
The inscription on the Cross remained what it had been, "Iesus Nazarenus
Rex Iudaeorum", or "Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans" in English.
The Latin quotations and words mentioned in this letter are verbatim
quotations and the exact words which appear in the 4th century translation
of the New Testament into Latin by St. Jerome. This translation is referred
to as the Vulgate Edition of the New Testament. It was the first official
translation of the New Testament into Latin made by the Christian Church.
Since that time it has remained the official New Testament version used
by the Catholic Church. The translation of the Gospel of John into Latin
by St. Jerome was made from the Greek language in which the Gospel of John
was originally written according to the best authorities on this subject.
The English translation of the gospel by John XIX, 19, from the original
text in the Greek language reads as follows, "Pilate wrote a sign and fastened
it to the Cross and the writing was "Jesus the Nazarene the monarch of
the Judeans' ". In the original Greek manuscript there is mention also
made of the demands upon Pontius Pilate by the spiritual leaders in Judea
that Pontius Pilate alter the reference on the Cross to Jesus as "Ruler
of the Judeans". The Greek text of the original manuscript of the Gospel
by John establishes beyond any question or doubt that the spiritual leaders
in Judea at that time had protested to Pontius Pilate that Jesus was "not
the ruler of the Judeans" but only "had said that He was the ruler of the
Judeans".
There is no factual foundation in history or theology today for the
implications, inferences and innuendoes that the Greek "Ioudaios", the
Latin "Iudaeus", or the English "Judean:" ever possessed a valid religious
connotation. In their three respective languages these three words have
only indicated a strictly topographical or geographical connotation. In
their correct sense these three words in their respective languages were
used to identify the members of the indigenous native population of the
geographic area known as Judea in the lifetime of Jesus. During the lifetime
of Jesus there was not a form of religious worship practiced in Judea or
elsewhere in the known world which bore a name even remotely resembling
the name of the political subdivision of the Roman Empire; i.e., "Judaism"
from "Judea". No cult or sect existed by such a name.
It is an incontestable fact that the word "Jew" did not come into existence
until the year 1775. Prior to 1775 the word "Jew" did not exist in any
language. The word "Jew" was introduced into the English for the first
time in the 18th century when Sheridan used it in his play "The Rivals",
II,i, "She shall have a skin like a mummy, and the beard of a Jew". Prior
to this use of the word "Jew" in the English language by Sheridan in 1775
the word "Jew" had not become a word in the English language. Shakespeare
never saw the word "Jew" as you will see. Shakespeare never used the word
"Jew" in any of his works, the common general belief to the contrary notwithstanding.
In his "Merchant of Venice", V.III.i.61, Shakespeare wrote as follows:
"what is the reason? I am a Iewe; hath not a Iewe eyes?".
In the Latin St. Jerome 4th century Vulgate Edition of the New Testament
Jesus is referred to by the Genitive Plural of "Iudaeus" in the Gospel
of John reference to the inscription on the Cross, - "Iudaeorum". It was
in the 4th century that St. Jerome translated into Latin the manuscripts
of the New Testament from the original languages in which they were written.
This translation by St. Jerome is referred to still today as the Vulgate
Edition by the Roman Catholic Church authorities, who use it today.
Jesus is referred as a so-called "Jew" for the first time in the New
Testament in the 18th century. Jesus is first referred to as a so-called
"Jew" in the revised 18th century editions in the English language of the
14th century first translations of the New Testament into English. The
history of the origin of the word "Jew" in the English language leaves
no doubt that the 18th century "Jew" is the 18th century contracted and
corrupted English word for the 4th century Latin "Iudaeus" found in St.
Jerome's Vulgate Edition. Of that there is no longer doubt.
The available manuscripts from the 4th century to the 18th century accurately
trace the origin and give the complete history of the word "Jew" in the
English language. In these manuscripts are to be found all the many earlier
English equivalents extending through the 14 centuries from the 4th to
the 18th century. From the Latin "Iudaeus" to the English "Jew" these English
forms included successively: "Gyu", "Giu", "Iu", "Iuu", "Iuw", "Ieuu",
"Ieuy", "Iwe", "Iow", "Iewe", "leue", "Iue", "Ive", "lew", and then finally
in the 18th century, "Jew". The many earlier English equivalents for "Jews"
through the 14 centuries are "Giwis", "Giws", "Gyues", "Gywes", "Giwes",
"Geus", "Iuys", "Iows", "Iouis", "Iews", and then also finally in the 18th
century, "Jews".
With the rapidly expanding use in England in the 18th century for the
first time in history of the greatly improved printing presses unlimited
quantities of the New Testament were printed. These revised 18th century
editions of the earlier 14th century first translations into the English
language were then widely distributed throughout England and the English
speaking world among families who had never possessed a copy of the New
Testament in any language. In these 18th century editions with revisions
the word "Jew" appeared for the first time in any English translations.
The word "Jew" as it was used in the 18th century editions has since continued
in use in all elections of the New Testament in the English language. The
use of the word "Jew" thus was stabilized.
As you know, my dear Dr. Goldstein, the best known 18th century editions
of the New Testament in English are the Rheims (Douai) Edition and the
King James Authorized Edition. The Rheims (Douai) translation of the New
Testament into English was first printed in 1582 but the word "Jew" did
not appear in it. The King James Authorized translation of the New Testament
into English was begun in 1604 and first published in 1611. The word "Jew"
did not appear in it either. The word "Jew" appeared in both these well
known editions in their 18th century revised versions for the first times.
Countless copies of the revised 18th century editions of the Rheims
(Douai) and the King James translations of the New Testament into English
were distributed to the clergy and the laity throughout the English speaking
world. They did not know the history of the origin of the English word
"Jew" nor did they care. They accepted the English word "Jew" as the only
and as the accepted form of the Latin "Iudaeus" and the Greek "Ioudaios".
How could they be expected to have known otherwise? The answer is they
could not and they did not. It was a new English word to them.
When you studied Latin in your school days you were taught that the
letter "I" in Latin when used as the first letter in a word is pronounced
like the letter "Y" in English when it is the first letter in words like
"yes", "youth" and "yacht". The "I" in "Iudaeus" is pronounced like the
"Y" in "yes", "youth", and "yacht" in English. In all the 4th century to
18th century forms for the 18th century "Jew" the letter "I" was pronounced
like the English "Y" in "yes", "youth", and "yacht". The same is true of
the "Gi" or the "Gy" where it was used in place of the letter "I".
The present pronunciation of the word "Jew" in modern English is a development
of recent times. In the English language today the "J" in "Jew" is pronounced
like the "J" in the English "justice", "jolly", and "jump". This is the
case only since the 18th century. Prior to the 18th century the "J" in
"Jew" was pronounced exactly like the "Y" in the English "yes", "youth",
and "yacht". Until the 18th century and perhaps even later than the 18th
century the word "Jew" in English was pronounced like the English "you"
or "hew", and the word "Jews" like "youse" or "hews". The present pronunciation
of "Jew" in English is a new pronunciation acquired after the 18th century.
The German language still retains the Latin original pronunciation.
The German "Jude" is the German equivalent of the English "Jew". The "J"
in the German "Jude" is pronounced exactly like the English "Y" in "yes",
"youth", and "yacht". The German "J" is the equivalent of the Latin "I"
and both are pronounced exactly like the English "Y" in "yes", "youth"
and "yacht". The German "Jude" is virtually the first syllable of the Latin
"Iudaeus" and is pronounced exactly like it. The German "Jude" is the German
contraction and corruption of the Latin "Iudaeus" just as the English "Jew"
is the contraction and corruption of the Latin "Iudaeus". The German "J"
is always pronounced like the English "Y" in "yes", "youth", and "yacht"
when it is the first letter of a word. The pronunciation of the "J" in
German "Jude" is not an exception to the pronunciation of the "J" in German.
The English language as you already know, my dear Dr. Goldstein, is
largely made up of words adopted from foreign languages. After their adoption
by the English language foreign words were then adapted by contracting
their spelling and corrupting their foreign pronunciation to make them
more easily pronounced in English from their English spelling. This process
of first adopting foreign words and then adapting them by contracting their
spelling and corrupting their pronunciation resulted in such new words
in the English language as "cab" from the French "cabriolet" and many thousands
of other words similarly from their original foreign spelling. Hundreds
of others must come to your mind.
By this adopting-adapting process the Latin "Iudacus" and the Greek
"Ioudaios" finally emerged in the 18th century as "Jew" in the English
language. The English speaking peoples struggled through 14 centuries seeking
to create for the English language an English equivalent for the Latin
"Iudaeus" and the Greek "Ioudaios" which could be easily pronounced in
English from its English spelling. The English "Jew" was the resulting
18th century contracted and corrupted form of the Latin "Iudaeus" and the
Greek "Ioudaios". The English "Jew" is easily pronounced in English from
its English spelling. The Latin "Iudaeus" and the Greek "Ioudaios" cannot
be as easily pronounced in English from the Latin and Greek spelling. They
were forced to coin a word.
The earliest version of the New Testament in English from the Latin
Vulgate Edition is the Wyclif, or Wickliffe Edition published in 1380.
In the Wyclif Edition Jesus is there mentioned as One of the "iewes". That
was the 14th century English version of the Latin "Iudaeus" and was pronounced
"hew-weeze", in the plural, and "iewe" pronounced "hew-wee" in the singular.
In the 1380 Wyclif Edition in English the Gospel by John, XIX.19, reads
"Ihesus of nazareth kyng of the iewes". Prior to the 14th century the English
language adopted the Anglo-Saxon "kyng" together with many other Anglo-Saxon
words in place of the Latin "rex" and the Greek "basileus". The Anglo-Saxon
also meant "tribal leader".
In the Tyndale Edition of the New Testament in English published in
1525 Jesus was likewise described as One of the "Iewes". In the Coverdale
Edition published in 1535 Jesus was also described as One of the "Iewes".
In the Coverdale Edition the Gospel by John, XIX.19, reads "Iesus the Nazareth,
kynge of the "Iewes". In the Cranmer Edition published in 1539 Jesus was
again described as One of the "Iewes". In the Geneva Edition published
in 1540-1557 Jesus was also described as One of the "Iewes". In the Rheims
Edition published in 1582 Jesus was described as One of the "Ievves". In
the King James Edition published in 1604-1611 also known as the Authorized
Version Jesus was described again as one of the "Iewes". The forms of the
Latin "Iudaeus" were used which were current at the time these translations
were made.
The translation into English of the Gospel by John, XIX, from the
Greek in which it was originally written reads "Do not inscribe `the monarch
of the Judeans' but that He Himself said `I am monarch' ". In the original
Greek manuscript the Greek "basileus" appears for "monarch" in the English
and the Greek "Ioudaios" appears for "Judeans" in the English. "Ioudaia"
in Greek is "Judea" in English. "Ioudaios" in Greek is "Judeans" in English.
There is no reason for any confusion.
My dear Dr. Goldstein, if the generally accepted understanding today
of the English "Jew" and "Judean" conveyed the identical implications,
inferences and innuendoes as both rightly should, it would make no difference
which of these two words was used when referring to Jesus in the New Testament
or elsewhere. But the implications, inferences, and innuendoes today conveyed
by these two words are as different as black is from white. The word "Jew"
today is never regarded as a synonym for "Judean" nor is "Judean" regarded
as a synonym for "Jew".
As I have explained, when the word "Jew" was first introduced into the
English language in the 18th century its one and only implication, inference
and innuendo was "Judean". However during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries
a well-organized and well-financed international "pressure group" created
a so-called "secondary meaning" for the word "Jew" among the English-speaking
peoples of the world. This so-called "secondary meaning" for the word "Jew"
bears no relation whatsoever to the 18th century original connotation of
the word "Jew". It is a misrepresentation.
The "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew" today bears as little relation
to its original and correct meaning as the "secondary meaning" today as
for the word "camel" bears to the original and correct meaning of the word
"camel", or the "secondary meaning" for the word "ivory" bears to the original
and correct meaning of the word "ivory". The "secondary meaning" today
for the word "camel" is a cigarette by that name but its original and correct
meaning is a desert animal by that ancient name. The "secondary meaning"
of the word "ivory" today is a piece of soap but its original and correct
meaning is the tusk of a male elephant.
The "secondary meaning" of words often become the generally accepted
meanings of words formerly having entirely different meanings. This is
accomplished by the expenditure of great amounts of money for well-planned
publicity. Today if you ask for a "camel" someone will hand you a cigarette
by that name. Today if you ask for a piece of "ivory" someone will hand
you a piece of soap by that name. You will never receive either a desert
animal or a piece of the tusk of a male elephant. That must illustrate
the extent to which these "secondary meanings" are able to practically
eclipse the original and correct meanings of words in the minds of the
general public. The "secondary meaning" for the word "Jew" today has practically
totally eclipsed the original and correct meaning of the word "Jew" when
it was introduced as a word in the English language. This phenomena is
not uncommon.
The United States Supreme Court has recognized the "secondary meaning"
of words. The highest court in the land has established as basic law that
"secondary meanings" can acquire priority rights to the use of any dictionary
word. Well-planned and well-financed world-wide publicity through every
available media by well-organized groups of so-called or self-styled "Jews"
for three centuries has created a "secondary meaning" for the word "Jew"
which has completely "blacked out" the original and correct meaning of
the word "Jew". There can be no doubt about that.
There is not a person in the whole English-speaking world today who
regards a "Jew" as a "Judean" in the literal sense of the word. That was
the correct and only meaning in the 18th century. The generally accepted
"secondary meaning" of the word "Jew" today with practically no exceptions
is made up of four almost universally-believed theories. These four theories
are that a so-called or self-styled "Jew" is (1) a person who today professes
the form of religious worship known as "Judaism", (2) a person who claims
to belong to a racial group associated with the ancient Semites, (3) a
person directly the descendant of an ancient nation which thrived in Palestine
in Bible history, (4) a person blessed by Divine intentional design with
certain superior cultural characteristics denied to other racial, religious
or national groups, all rolled into one.
The present generally accepted "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew"
is fundamentally responsible for the confusion in the minds of Christians
regarding elementary tenets of the Christian faith. It is likewise responsible
today to a very great extent for the dilution of the devotion of countless
Christians for their Christian faith. The implications, inferences and
innuendoes of the word "Jew" today, to the preponderant majority of intelligent
and informed Christians, is contradictory and in complete conflict with
incontestable historic fact. Christians who cannot be fooled any longer
are suspect of the Christian clergy who continue to repeat, and repeat,
and repeat ad nauseam their pet theme song "Jesus was a Jew". It actually
now approaches a psychosis.
Countless Christians know today that they were "brain washed" by the
Christian clergy on the subject "Jesus was a Jew". The resentment they
feel is not yet apparent to the Christian clergy. Christians now are demanding
from the Christian clergy, "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth". It is now time for the Christian clergy to tell Christians
what they should have told them long ago. Of all religious groups in the
world Christians appear to be the least informed of any on the subject.
Have their spiritual leaders been reckless with the truth?
Countless intelligent and informed Christians no longer accept unchallenged
assertions by the Christian clergy that Jesus in His lifetime was a Member
of a group in Judea which practiced a religious form of worship then which
is today called "Judaism", or that Jesus in His lifetime here on earth
was a Member of the racial group which today includes the preponderant
majority of all so-called or self-styled "Jews" in the world, or that
the so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world today are the
lineal descendants of the nation in Judea of which Jesus was a national
in His lifetime here on earth, or that the cultural characteristics of
so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world today correspond
with the cultural characteristics of Jesus during His lifetime here on
earth and His teachings while He was here on earth for a brief stay. Christians
will no longer believe that the race, religion, nationality and culture
of Jesus and the race, religion, nationality and culture of so-called or
self-styled "Jews" today or their ancestors have a common origin or character.
The resentment by Christians is more ominous than the Christian clergy
suspect. Under existing conditions the Christian clergy will find that
ignorance is not bliss, nor wisdom folly. Christians everywhere today are
seeking to learn the authentic relationship between the so-called or self-styled
"Jews" through-out the world today and the "Judeans" who populated "Judea"
before, during and after the time of Jesus. Christians now insist that
they be told correctly by the Christian clergy about the racial, religious,
national and cultural background of the so-called or self-styled "Jews"
throughout the world today and the basis for associating these backgrounds
with the racial, religious, national and cultural background of Jesus in
His lifetime in Judea. The intelligent and informed Christian are alerted
to the exploded myth that the so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout
the world today are the direct descendants of the "Judeans" amongst whom
Jesus lived during His lifetime here on earth.
Christians today are also becoming more and more alerted day by day
why the so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world for three
centuries have spent uncounted sums of money to manufacture the fiction
that the "Judeans" in the time of Jesus were "Jews" rather than "Judeans",
and that "Jesus was a Jew". Christians are becoming more and more aware
day by day of all the economic and political advantages accruing to the
so-called or self-styled "Jews" as a direct result of their success in
making Christians believe that "Jesus was a Jew" in the "secondary meaning"
they have created for the 18th century word "Jew". The so-called or self-styled
"Jews" throughout the world today represent themselves to Christians as
"Jews" only in the "secondary meaning" of the word "Jew". They seek to
thereby prove their kinship with Jesus. They emphasize this fiction to
Christians constantly. That fable is fast fading and losing its former
grip upon the imaginations of Christians.
To allege that "Jesus was a Jew" in the sense that during His lifetime
Jesus professed and practiced the form of religious worship known and practiced
under the modern name of "Judaism" is false and fiction of the most blasphemous
nature. If to be a so-called or self-styled "Jew" then or now the practice
of "Judaism" was a requirement then Jesus certainly was not a so-called
"Jew". Jesus abhorred and denounced the form of religious worship practiced
in Judea in His lifetime and which is known and practiced today under its
new name "Judaism". That religious belief was then known as "Pharisiasm".
The Christian clergy learned that in their theological seminary days but
they have never made any attempt to make that clear to Christians.
The eminent Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, the head of The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, often referred to as "The Vatican of Judaism", in
his Foreword to his First Edition of his world-famous classic "The Pharisees,
The Sociological Background of Their Faith", on page XXI states:
"...Judaism...Pharisiasm became Talmudism, Talmudism became
Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But
throughout these changes in name...the spirit of the ancient Pharisees
survives, unaltered...From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North
Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia,
and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered...demonstrates
the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement..."
The celebrated Rabbi Louis Finkelstein in his great classic quoted from
above traces the origin of the form of religious worship practiced today
under the present name "Judaism", to its origin as "Pharisaism" in Judea
in the time of Jesus. Rabbi Louis Finkelstein confirms what the eminent
Rabbi Adolph Moses states in his great classic "Yahvism, and Other Discourses",
in collaboration with the celebrated Rabbi H.G. Enlow, published in 1903
by the Louisville Section of the Council of Jewish Women, in which Rabbi
Adolph Moses, on page 1, states:
"Among the innumerable misfortunes which have befallen...the
most fatal in its consequences is the name Judaism...Worse still, the Jews
themselves, who have gradually come to call their religion Judaism...Yet,
neither in biblical nor post-biblical, neither in talmudic, nor in much
later times, is the term Judaism ever heard...the Bible speaks of the religion...as
"Torah Yahve", the instruction, or the moral law revealed by Yahve...in
other places...as "Yirath Yahve", the fear and reverence of Yahve. These
and other appellations CONTINUED FOR MANY AGES TO STAND FOR THE RELIGION...To
distinguish it from Christianity and Islam, the Jewish philosophers sometimes
designate it as the faith or belief of the Jews...IT WAS FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,
WRITING FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF GREEKS AND ROMANS, WHO COINED THE TERM JUDAISM,
in order to pit it against Hellenism...by Hellenism was understood the
civilization, comprising language, poetry, religion, art, science, manners,
customs, institutions, which...had spread from Greece, its original home,
over vast regions of Europe, Asia and Africa...The Christians eagerly seized
upon the name...the Jews themselves, who intensely detested the traitor
Josephus, refrained from reading his works...HENCE THE TERM JUDAISM COINED
BY JOSEPHUS REMAINED ABSOLUTELY UN-KNOWN TO THEM...IT WAS ONLY IN COMPARATIVELY
RECENT TIMES, AFTER THE JEWS BECAME FAMILIAR WITH MODERN CHRISTIAN LITERATURE,
THAT THEY BEGAN TO NAME THEIR RELIGION JUDAISM." (emphasis supplied).
This statement by the world's two leading authorities on this subject clearly
establishes beyond any question or any doubt that so-called "Judaism" was
not the name of any form of religious worship practiced in Judea in the
time of Jesus. The Flavius Josephus referred to in the above quotation
lived in the 1st century. It was he who coined the word "Judaism" in the
1st century explicitly for the purpose recited clearly above. Religious
worship known and practiced today under the name of "Judaism" by so-called
or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world was known and practiced in Judea
in the time of Jesus under the name "Pharisaism" according to Rabbi Louis
Finkelstein, head of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and all
the other most competent and qualified recognized authorities on the subject.
TALMUDIC PHARISAISM
The form of religious worship known as "Pharisaism" in Judea in the
time of Jesus was a religious practice based exclusively upon the Talmud.
The Talmud in the time of Jesus was the Magna Charta, the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, ALL ROLLED INTO
ONE, of those who practiced "Pharisaism". The Talmud today occupies the
same relative position with respect to those who profess "Judaism". The
Talmud today virtually exercises totalitarian dictatorship over the lives
of so-called or self-styled "Jews" whether they are aware of that fact
or not. Their spiritual leaders make no attempt to conceal the control
they exercise over the lives of so-called or self-styled "Jews". They extend
their authority far beyond the legitimate limits of spiritual matters.
Their authority has no equal outside religion.
The role of the Talmud plays in "Judaism" as it is practiced today is
officially stated by the eminent Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, the Director
of Inter-religious Activities of the North American Jewish Committee and
the President of the Jewish Chaplains Association of the Armed Forces of
the United States. In his present capacity as official spokesman for the
American Jewish Committee, the self-styled "Vatican of Judaism", Rabbi
Morris N. Kertzer wrote a most revealing and comprehensive article with
the title, "What is a Jew" which was published as a feature article in
"Look" Magazine in the June 17, 1952 issue. In that article Rabbi Morris
N. Kertzer evaluated the significance of the Talmud to "Judaism" today.
In that illuminating treatise on that important subject by the most qualified
authority, at the time, Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer stated:
"The Talmud consists of 63 books of legal, ethical and historical
writings of the ancient rabbis. It was edited five centuries after the
birth of Jesus. It is a compendium of law and lore. IT IS THE LEGAL CODE
WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LAW AND IT IS THE TEXTBOOK USED
IN THE TRAINING OF RABBIS." (emphasis supplied).
In view of this official evaluation of the importance of the Talmud in
the practice of "Judaism" today by the highest body of so-called or self-styled
"Jews" in the world it is very necessary at this time, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
to inquire a little further into the subject of the Talmud. In his lifetime
the eminent Michael Rodkinson, the assumed name of a so-called or self-styled
"Jew" who was one of the world's great authorities on the Talmud, wrote
"History of the Talmud." This great classic on the subject was written
by Michael Rodkinson in collaboration with the celebrated Rabbi Isaac M.
Wise. In his "History of the Talmud" Michael Rodkinson, on page 70, states:
"Is the literature that Jesus was familiar with in his early
years yet in existence in the world? Is it possible for us to get at it?
Can we ourselves review the ideas, the statements, the modes of reasoning
and thinking, ON MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, which were current in his
time, and MUST HAVE BEEN EVOLVED BY HIM DURING THOSE THIRTY SILENT YEARS
WHEN HE WAS PONDERING HIS FUTURE MISSION? To such inquirers the learned
class of Jewish rabbis ANSWER BY HOLDING UP THE TALMUD. Here, say they,
is THE SOURCE FROM WHENCE JESUS OF NAZARETH DREW THE TEACHINGS WHICH ENABLED
HIM TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD; and the question becomes, therefor, an
interesting one TO EVERY CHRISTIAN. What is the Talmud? THE TALMUD, THEN,
IS THE WRITTEN FORM OF THAT WHICH, IN THE TIME OF JESUS WAS CALLED THE
TRADITION OF THE ELDERS AND TO WHICH HE MAKES FREQUENT ALLUSIONS. What
sort of book is it? (emphasis supplied)
Stimulated by that invitation every Christian worthy of the name should
immediately take the trouble to seek the answer to that "interesting" question
"to every Christian". My dear Dr. Goldstein, your articles do not indicate
whether you have taken the time and the trouble to personally investigate
"what sort of book" the Talmud is either before or after your conversion
to Catholicism. Have you ever done so? If you have done so what is the
conclusion you have reached regarding "what sort of book" the Talmud is?
What is your personal unbiased and unprejudiced opinion of the Talmud?
Is it consistent with your present views as a devout Roman Catholic and
a tried and true Christian? Can you spare a few moments to drop me a few
lines on your present views?
In case you have never had the opportunity to investigate the contents
of the "63 books" of the Talmud so well summarized by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
in his illuminated article "What is a Jew", previously quoted, may I here
impose upon your precious time to quote a few passages for you until you
find the time to conveniently investigate the Talmud's contents personally.
If I can be of any assistance to you in doing so please do not hesitate
to let me know in what manner you can use my help.
From the Birth of Jesus until this day there have never been recorded
more vicious and vile libelous blasphemies of Jesus, or Christians and
the Christian faith by anyone, anywhere or anytime than you will find between
the covers of the infamous "63 books" which are "the legal code which forms
the basis of Jewish religious law" as well as the "textbook used in the
training of rabbis". The explicit and implicit irreligious character and
implications of the contents of the Talmud will open your eyes as they
have never been opened before. The Talmud reviles Jesus, Christians and
the Christian faith as the priceless spiritual and cultural heritage of
Christians has never been reviled before or since the Talmud was completed
in the 5th century. You will have to excuse the foul, obscene, indecent,
lewd and vile language you will see here as verbatim quotations from the
official unabridged translation of the Talmud into English. Be prepared
for a surprise.
In the year 1935 the international hierarchy of so-called or self-styled
"Jews" for the first time in history published an official unabridged translation
of the complete Talmud in the English language with complete footnotes.
What possessed them to make this translation into English is one of the
unsolved mysteries. It was probably done because so many so-called or self-styled
"Jews" of the younger generation were unable to read the Talmud in the
many ancient languages in which the original "63 books" of the Talmud were
first composed by their authors in many lands between 200 B.C. and 500
A.D.
The international hierarchy of so-called or self-styled "Jews" selected
the most learned scholars to make this official translation of the Talmud
into English. These famous scholars also prepared official footnotes explaining
unabridged translation of the Talmud into English where they were required.
This official unabridged translation of the Talmud into English with the
official footnotes was printed in London in 1935 by the Soncino Press.
It has been always referred to as the Soncino Edition of the Talmud. A
very limited number of the Soncino Edition were printed. They were not
made available to any purchaser. The Soncino Edition of the Talmud is to
be found in the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. A
set of the Soncino Edition of the Talmud has been available to me for many
years. They have become rare "collector's items" by now.
The Soncino Edition of the Talmud with its footnotes is like a double-edged
sword. It teaches the Talmud to countless millions of the younger generation
of so-called or self-styled "Jews" who are not able to read the Talmud
in the many ancient languages in which the Talmud was written by its authors
between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D. It also teaches Christians what the Talmud
has to say about Jesus, About Christians and about the Christian faith.
Someday this is bound to back-fire. Christians will some day challenge
the assertion that the Talmud is the "sort of book" from which Jesus allegedly
"drew the teachings which enabled him to revolutionize the world" on "moral
and religious subjects". The rumbling is already heard in places.
Verbatim quotations from the Soncino Edition of the Talmud are required
to illustrate the enormity of the Talmud's iniquity. My comments with verbatim
quotations will prove inadequate to do that. In spite of the low language
I will of necessity therefore include in this letter to you I have no compunctions
in the matter because the United States Post Office authorities do not
bar the Soncino Edition of the Talmud from the mails. Nevertheless I apologize
in advance for the language which will of necessity appear in this letter
to you. You now understand.
The official unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud published in 1935
was "Translated into English with Notes, Glossary and Indices" by such
eminent Talmudic scholars as Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, Rabbi Dr. Samuel Daiches,
Rabbi Dr. Israel W. Slotki, M.A., Litt.D., The Reverend Dr. A. Cohen, M.A.',
Ph.D., Maurice Simon, M.A., and the Very Reverend The Chief Rabbi Dr. J.H.
Hertz wrote the "Foreword" for the Soncino Edition of the Talmud. The Very
Reverend Rabbi Hertz was at the time the Chief Rabbi of England.
The following are but a few of the many similar quotations with footnotes
from the Soncino Edition of the Talmud, the "sort of book" from which Jesus
allegedly "drew the teachings which enabled him to revolutionize the world"
on "moral and religious" subjects:
(Book)
SANHEDRIN, 55b-55a: "What is meant by this? - Rab said: Pederasty with
a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child
above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not
treated as with a child above that (2) What is the basis of their dispute?
- Rab maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse,
may, as the passive subject of pederasty throw guilty (upon the actual
offender); whilst he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse cannot
be a passive subject of pederasty (in that respect) (3). But Samuel maintains:
Scriptures writes, (And thou shalt not lie with mankind) as with the lyings
of a woman (4). It has been taught in accordance with Rab: Pederasty at
the age of nine years and a day; (55a) (he) who commits bestiality, whether
naturally or unnaturally: or a woman who causes herself to be beastially
abused, whether naturally or unnaturally, is liable to punishment (5)."
(footnotes) "(1) The reference is to the passive subject of sodomy.
As stated in supra 54a, guilt is incurred by the active participant even
if the former be a minor; i.e., less than thirteen years old. Now, however,
it is stated that within this age a distinction is drawn. (2) Rab makes
nine years the minimum; but if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser
age, no guilt is incurred. Samuel makes three the minimum. (3) At nine
years a male attains sexual matureness. (4) Lev XVIII, 22 (5) Rashi reads
("xxx") (Hebrew characters, Ed.) instead of ("zzz") (Hebrew characters,
Ed.) in our printed texts. A male, aged nine years and a day, who commits
etc. There are thus three distinct clauses in this Baraitha. The first -a
male aged nine years and a day - refers to the passive subject of pederasty,
the punishment being incurred by the adult offender. This must be its meaning:
because firstly, the active offender is never explicitly designated as
a male, it being understood, just as the Bible states, Thou shalt not lie
with mankind, where only the sex of the passive participant is mentioned;
and secondly, if the age reference is to the active party, the guilt being
incurred by the passive adult party, why single out pederasty: in all crimes
of incest, the passive adult does not incur guilt unless the other party
is at least nine years and a day? Hence the Baraitha supports Rab's contention
that nine years (and a day) is the minimum age of the passive partner for
the adult to be liable." (emphasis in original, Ed.)
Before giving any more verbatim quotations from the "sort of book" from
which it is falsely alleged Jesus "drew the teachings which enabled him
to revolutionize the world" on "moral and religious subjects" I wish to
here again recall to your attention the official statement by Rabbi Morris
N. Kertzer in `Look' Magazine for June 17, 1952. In that official statement
made by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer on behalf of The American Jewish Committee,
self-styled "The Vatican of Judaism", informed the 20,000,000 readers
of "Look' magazine that the Talmud "IS THE LEGAL CODE WHICH FORMS THE BASIS
OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LAW AND IT IS THE TEXTBOOK USED IN THE TRAINING OF
RABBIS". Please bear this in mind as you read further.
Before continuing I wish also to call your attention to another feature.
Confirming the official view of Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer, the New York `Times'
on May 20, 1954 ran a news item under the headline "Rabbis Plan a Fund
to Endow Two Chairs". The news item itself ran as follows: "Special to
the New York Times, Uniontown, Pa. May 19 - Plans for raising $500,000,
for the creation of two endowed chairs at the `Jewish Theological Seminary
of America' were announced today at the fifty-forth annual convention of
the `Rabbinical Assembly of America'. THE PROFESSORSHIPS WOULD BE KNOWN
AS THE LOUIS GINSBERG CHAIR IN TALMUD..." This is further proof that the
Talmud is not yet quite a dead-letter in the "TRAINING OF RABBIS". Is further
proof needed on that question?
The world's leading authorities on the Talmud confirm that the official
unabridged Soncino Edition of the Talmud translated into English follows
the original texts with great exactness. It is almost a word-for-word translation
of the original texts. In his famous classic "The History of the Talmud
Michael Rodkinson, the leading authority on the Talmud, in collaboration
with the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise states:
With the conclusion of the first volume of this work at the beginning
of the twentieth century, we would invite the reader to take a glance over
the past of the Talmud, in which he will see... that not only was the Talmud
not destroyed, but was so saved that NOT A SINGLE LETTER OF IT IS MISSING;
and now IT IS FLOURISHING TO SUCH A DEGREE AS CANNOT BE FOUND IN ITS PAST
HISTORY...THE TALMUD IS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD. During the twenty
centuries of its existence...IT SURVIVED IN ITS ENTIRETY, and not only
has the power of its foes FAILED TO DESTROY EVEN A SINGLE LINE, but it
has not even been able materially to weaken its influence for any length
of time. IT STILL DOMINATES THE MINDS OF A WHOLE PEOPLE, WHO VENERATE ITS
CONTENTS AS DIVINE TRUTH... The colleges for the study of the Talmud are
increasing almost in every place where Israel dwells, especially in this
country where millions are gathered for the funds of the two colleges,
the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati and the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America in New York, in which the chief study is the Talmud... There
are also in our city houses of learning (Jeshibath) for the study of the
Talmud in the lower East Side, where many young men are studying the Talmud
every day."
This "divine truth" which "a whole people venerate" of which "not a
single letter of it is missing" and today "is flourishing to such a degree
as cannot be found in its history" is illustrated by the additional verbatim
quotations which follow:
(Book)
SANHEDRIN, 55b: "A maiden three years and a day may be acquired in marriage
by coition, and if her deceased husband's brother cohabits with her, she
becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; (if a
niddah) she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn
defiles that upon which he lies, as a garment which has lain upon (a person
afflicted with gonorrhea)." (emphasis in original text of Soncino Edition,
Ed.)
(footnotes) "(2) His wife derives no pleasure from this, and hence there
is no cleaving. (3) A variant reading of this passage is: Is there anything
permitted to a Jew which is forbidden to a heathen. Unnatural connection
is permitted to a Jew. (4) By taking the two in conjunction, the latter
as illustrating the former, we learn that the guilt of violating the injunction
`to his wife but not to his neighbor's wife' is incurred only for natural
but not for unnatural intercourse." (emphasis in original, Ed.)
(Book)
SANHEDRIN, 69a " `A man'; from this I know the law only with respect
to a man: whence do I know it of one aged nine years and a day who is capable
of intercourse? From the verse, And `if a man'? (2)-He replied: Such a
minor can produce semen, but cannot beget therewith; for it is like the
seed of cereals less than a third grown (3)."
(footnotes) (2) `And' (`) indicates an extension of the law, and is
here interpreted to include a minor aged nine years and a day. (3) Such
cereals contain seed, which if sown, however, will not grow."
(Book)
SANHEDRIN, 69b "Our rabbis taught: If a woman sported lewdly with her
young son (a minor), and he committed the first stage of cohabitation with
her, -Beth Shammai say, he thereby renders her unfit for the priesthood
(1). Beth Hillel declare her fit...All agree that the connection of a boy
nine years and a day is a real connection; whilst that of one less than
eight years is not (2); their dispute refers only to one who is eight years
old.
(footnotes) (1) i.e., she becomes a harlot whom a priest may not marry
(Lev XXL,7.). (2) so that if he was nine years and a day or more, Beth
Hillel agree that she is invalidated from the priesthood; whilst if he
was less than eight, Beth Shammai agree that she is not."
(Book)
KETHUBOTH, 5b. "The question was asked: Is it allowed (15) to perform
the first marital act on the Sabbath? (16). Is the blood (in the womb)
stored up (17), or is it the result of a wound? (18).
(footnotes) "(15) Lit., `how is it'? (16) When the intercourse could
not take place before the Sabbath (Tosaf) (17) And the intercourse would
be allowed, since the blood flows out of its own accord, no would having
been made. (18) Lit., or is it wounded? And the intercourse would be forbidden."
(Book)
KETHUBOTH, 10a-10b. "Someone came before Rabban Gamaliel the son of
Rabbi (and) said to him, `my master I have had intercourse (with my newly
wedded wife) and I have not found any blood (7). She (the wife) to him,
`My master, I am still a virgin'. He (then) said to them; Bring me two
handmaids, one (who is) a virgin and one who had intercourse with a man.
They brought to him (two such handmaids), and he placed them on a cask
of wine. (In the case of ) the one who was no more a virgin its smell (1)
went through (2), (in the case of) the virgin the smell did not go through
(3). He (then) placed this one (the young wife) also (on the cask of wine),
and its smell (4) did not go through. He (then) said to him: Go, be happy
with thy bargain (7). But he should have examined her from the beginning
(8)."
(footnotes) "(1) i.e., the smell of wine. (2) One could smell the wine
from the mouth (Rashi). (3) One could not smell the wine from the mouth.
(4) i.e., the smell of wine. (5) Rabban Gamaliel (6) To the husband. (7)
The test showed that the wife was a virgin. (8) Why did he first have to
experiment with the two handmaids."
(Book)
KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. "Rabba said, It means (5) this: When a grown up
man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl
is less than this (6), it is as if one puts the finger in the eye (7),
but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown up woman, he makes her
as `a girl who is injured by a piece of wood' ".
(footnotes) "(5). Lit., `says'. (6) Lit., `here', that is, less than
three years old. (7) Tears come to the eyes again and again, so does virginity
come back to the little girl under three years."
(Book)
KETHUBOTH, 11a-11b. "Rab Judah said that Rab said: A small boy who has
intercourse with a grown up woman makes her (as though she were ) injured
by a piece of wood (1). Although the intercourse of a small boy is not
regarded as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by
a piece of wood."
(footnotes) "(1) Although the intercourse of a small boy is not regarded
as a sexual act, nevertheless the woman is injured by it as by a piece
of wood."
(Book)
HAYORATH, 4a. "We learnt: (THE LAW CONCERNING THE MENSTRUANT OCCURS
IN THE TORAH BUT IF A MAN HAS INTERCOURSE WITH A WOMAN THAT AWAITS A DAY
CORRESPONDING TO A DAY HE IS EXEMPT. But why? Surely (the law concerning)
a woman that awaits a day corresponding to a day is mentioned in the Scriptures:
He hath made naked her fountain. But, surely it is written, (1)- They might
rule that in the natural way even the first stage of contact is forbidden;
and in an unnatural way, however, is (that the ruling might have been permitted)
(3) even in the natural way (4) alleging (that the prohibition of) the
first stage (5) has reference to a menstruant woman only (6). And if you
prefer I might say: The ruling may have been that a woman is not regarded
as a zabah (7) except during the daytime because it is written, all the
days of her issue (8)." (emphasis appears in Soncino Edition original,
Ed.)
(footnotes) "(13) Lev. XV, 28. (14) Cf. supra p. 17, n. 10. Since she
is thus Biblically considered unclean how could a court rule that one having
intercourse with her is exempt? (15) Lev XX, 18. (1) Ibid. 13. The plural
"xxxx" (Hebrew characters, Ed.) implies natural, and unnatural intercourse.
(2) Why then was the case of `a woman who awaits a day corresponding to
a day' given as an illustration when the case of a menstruant, already
mentioned, would apply the same illustration. (3) The first stage of contact.
(4) In the case of one `who awaits a day corresponding to a day'; only
consummation of coition being forbidden in her case. (5) Cf. Lev XX, 18.
(6) Thus permitting a forbidden act which the Sadducees do not admit. (7)
A woman who has an issue of blood not in the time of her menstruation,
and is subject to certain laws of uncleanness and purification (Lev XV,
25ff). (8) Lev XV, 26. Emphasis being laid on days."
(Book)
ABODAH ZARAH, 36b-37a. "R. Naham b. Isaac said: They decreed in connection
with a heathen child that it would cause defilement by seminal emission
(2) so that an Israelite child should not become accustomed to commit pederasty
with it...From what age does a heathen child cause defilement by seminal
emission? From the age of nine years and one day. (37a) for inasmuch as
he is then capable of the sexual act he likewise defiles by emission. Rabina
said: It is therefore to be concluded that a heathen girl (communicates
defilement) from the age of three years and one day, for inasmuch as she
is then capable of the sexual act she likewise defiles by a flux.
(footnotes) (2). Even through he suffered from no issue.
(Book)
SOTAH, 26b. "R. Papa said: It excludes an animal, because there is not
adultery in connection with an animal (4). Raba of Parazika (5) asked R.
Ashi, Whence is the statement which the Rabbis made that there is no adultery
in connection with an animal? Because it is written, Thou shalt not bring
the hire of a harlot or the wages of a
dog
etc.; (6) and it has been taught:
The hire of a dog (7) and the wages of a harlot (8) are permissible, as
it is said, Even both of these (9) - the two (specified texts are abominations)
but not four (10)...As lying with mankind. (12) But, said Raba, it excludes
the case where he warned her against contact of the bodies (13). Abaye
said to him, That is merely an obscene act (and not adultery), and did
the All-Merciful prohibit (a wife to her husband) for an obscene act?"
(emphasis in the original text, Ed.)
(footnotes) "(4) She would not be prohibited to her husband for such
an act. (5) farausag near Baghdad v. BB. (Sonc. Ed.) p. 15, n.4. He is
thus distinguished from the earlier Rabbi of that name. (6) Deut. XXIII,
19. (7) Money given by a man to a harlot to associate with his dog. Such
an association is not legal adultery. (8) If a man had a female slave who
was a harlot and he exchanged her for an animal, it could be offered. (9)
Are an abomination unto the Lord (ibid). (10) Viz., the other two mentioned
by the Rabbi. (11) In Num. V. 13. since the law applies to a man who is
incapable. (12) Lev. XVIII, 22. The word for `lying' is in the plural and
is explained as denoting also unnatural intercourse. (13) With the other
man, although there is no actual coition." (emphasis appears in original
Soncino Edition, Ed.)
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 55b. "Raba said; for what purpose did the All-Merciful write
`carnally' in connection with the designated bondmaid (9), a married woman
(10< and a sotah (11)? That in connection with the designated bondmaid
(is required) as has just been explained (12). That in connection with
a married woman excludes intercourse with a relaxed membrum (13). This
is a satisfactory interpretation in accordance with the view of him who
maintains that if one cohabited with forbidden relatives with relaxed membrum
he is exonerated (14); what, however, can be said, according to him who
maintains (that for such an act one is) guilty? The exclusion is rather
that of intercourse with a dead woman (15). Since it might have been assumed
that, as (a wife), even after her death, is described as his kin (16),
one should be guilty for (intercourse with) her (as for that) with a married
woman, hence we are taught (that one is exonerated).
(footnotes) (9) Lev. XIX,20. (10) Ibid. XVIII,20 (11) Num. V, 13. (12)
SUPRA 55a. (13) Since no fertilization can possibly occur. (14) Shebu.,
18a, Sanh. 55a (15) Even though she dies as a married woman. (16) In Lev.
XXI, 2. where the text enumerates the dead relatives for whom a priest
may defile himself. As was explained, supra 22b, his kin refers to one's
wife." (emphasis in Soncino Edition original, Ed.)
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 103a-103b. "When the serpent copulated with Eve (14) with
lust. The lust of the Israelites who stood at Mount Sinai (16) came to
an end, the lust of idolators who did not stand at Mount Sinai did not
come to an end."
(footnotes) "(14) In the Garden of Eden, according to tradition. (15)
i.e., the human species. (16) And experienced the purifying influence of
divine Revelation."
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 63a. "R. Eleazar further stated: What is meant by the Scriptural
text, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh (5)? This teaches
that Adam had intercourse with every beast and animal but found no satisfaction
until he cohabited with Eve.
(footnotes) "(5) Gen. II, 23. emphasis on This is now." (emphasis appears
in original Sonsino Edition, Ed.)
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 60b. "As R. Joshua b. Levi related: `There was a certain town
in the Land of Israel the legitimacy of whose inhabitants was disputed,
and Rabbi sent R. Ramanos who conducted an inquiry and found in it the
daughter of a proselyte who was under the age of three years and one day
(14), and Rabbi declared her eligible to live with a priest (15)."
(footnotes) "(13) A proselyte under the age of three years and one day
may be married by a priest. (14) And was married to a priest. (15) i.e.,
permitted to continue to live with her husband."
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 59b. "R. Shimi b. Hiyya stated: A woman who had intercourse
with a beast is eligible to marry a priest (4). Likewise it was taught:
A woman who had intercourse with that which is no human being (5), though
she is in consequence subject to the penalty of stoning (6), is nevertheless
permitted to marry a priest (7).
(footnotes) "(4) Even a High Priest. The result of such intercourse
being regarded as a mere wound, and the opinion that does not regard an
accidentally injured hymen as a disqualification does not so regard such
an intercourse either. (5) A beast. (6) If the offense was committed in
the presence of witnesses after due warning. (7) In the absence of witnesses
and warning."
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 12b "R. Bebai recited before R. Naham: Three (categories of)
woman may (7) use an absorbent (8) in their marital intercourse (9), a
minor, a pregnant woman and a nursing woman. The minor (10) because (otherwise)
she might (11) become pregnant, and as a result (11) might die...And what
is the age of such a minor? (14). From the age of eleven years and one
day until the age of twelve years and one day. One who is under (15), or
over this age (16) must carry on her marital intercourse in the usual manner."
(footnotes) "(7) (so Rashi. R. Tam; Should use, v.Tosaf s.v.) (8) Hackled
wool or flax (9) To prevent conception (10) May use an absorbent. (11)
Lit., `perhaps'. (14) Who is capable of conception but exposed thereby
to the danger of death. (15) When no conception is possible. (16) When
pregnancy involves no fatal consequences."
(Book)
YEBAMOTH, 59b. "When R. Dimi came (8) he related: It once happened at
Haitalu (9) that while a young woman was sweeping the floor (10) a village
dog (11) covered her from the rear (12) and Rabbi permitted her to marry
a priest. Samuel said: Even a High Priest.
(footnotes) "(8) From Palestine to Babylon (9) (Babylonian form for
Aitulu, modern Aiterun N.W. of Kadesh, v. S. Klein, Beitrage, p. 47). (10)
Lit., `house'. (11) Or `big hunting dog' (Rashi), `ferocious dog' (Jast.),
`small wild dog' (Aruk). (12) A case of unnatural intercourse.
(Book)
KETHUBOTH, 6b. "Said he to him: Not like those Babylonians who are not
skilled in moving aside. (7), but there are some who are skilled in moving
aside (8). If so, why (give the reason of) `anxious.? (10) - for one who
is not skilled. (Then) let the[m] say: One who is skilled is allowed (to
perform the first intercourse on Sabbath), one who is not skilled is forbidden?
-Most (people) are skilled (11). Said Raba the son of R. Hanan to Abaye'
If this were so, then why (have) groomsmen (12) why (have) a sheet? (13) -
He (Abaye) said to him: There (the groomsmen and the sheet are necessary)
perhaps he will see and destroy (the tokens of her virginity) (14).
(footnotes) "(7) i.e., having intercourse with a virgin without causing
a bleeding. (8) Thus no blood need come out, and `Let his head be cut off
and let him not die!' does not apply. (9) If the bridegroom is skilled
in `moving sideways'. (10) He need not be anxious about the intercourse
and should not be free from reading Shema' on account of such anxiety.
(11) Therefor the principle regarding `Let his head be cut off and let
him not die!' does not, as a rule, apply. (12) The groomsmen testify in
case of need to the virginity of the bride. V. infra 12a. If the bridegroom
will act in a manner that will cause no bleeding, the groomsmen will not
be able to testify on the question of virginity. (13) To provide evidence
of the virginity of the bride. Cf. Deut. XXII,17. (14) It may happen that
he will act in the normal manner and cause bleeding but he will destroy
the tokens and maintain that the bride was not a virgin; for this reason
the above mentioned provisions are necessary. Where however he moved aside
and made a false charge as to her virginity, the bride can plead that she
is still a virgin (Rashi)."
After reading these verbatim quotations from the countless other similar
quotations which you will find in the official unabridged Soncino Edition
of the Talmud in the English language are you of the opinion, my dear Dr.
Goldstein, that the Talmud was the "sort of book" from which Jesus "drew
the teachings which enabled him to revolutionize the world" on "moral and
religious subjects"? You have read here verbatim quotations and official
footnotes on a few of the many other subjects covered by the "63 books"
of the Talmud. When you read them you must be prepared for a shock. I am
surprised that the United States Post Office does not bar the Talmud from
the mails. I hesitate to quote them in this letter.
In support of the contention by the top echelon among the outstanding
authorities on this phase of the present status of the Talmud, further
proof of the wide influence exerted by the Talmud upon the so-called or
self-styled "Jews" is supplied by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer's article "What
is a Jew" in the June 17, 1952 issue of `Look Magazine'. Rabbi Morris N.
Kertzer's article contains a lovely picture of a smiling man seated in
a chair with a large opened book upon his lap. Seated around him on the
floor are about a dozen smiling men and women. They are paying close attention
to the smiling man in the chair with the opened book upon his lap. He is
reading to the persons on the floor. He emphasizes what he is reading by
gestures with one of his hands. Beneath this photograph of the group is
the following explanation:
"ADULTS STUDY ANCIENT WRITINGS TOO. RABBI, IN THIS PICTURE, SEATED IN
CHAIR, LEADS GROUP DISCUSSION OF TALMUD BEFORE EVENING PRAYER." (emphasis
supplied)
This picture and explanation indicate the extent the Talmud is the daily
diet of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in this day and age. The Talmud
is first taught to children of so-called or self-styled "Jews" as soon
as they are able to read. Just as the Talmud is the "textbook by which
rabbis are trained" so is the Talmud also the textbook by which the rank-and-file
of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" are "trained" to think from their
earliest age. In the translation of the Talmud with its texts edited, corrected
and formulated by the eminent Michael Rodkinson, with its first edition
revised and corrected by the celebrated Reverend Dr. Isaac M. Wise, on
page XI, it states:
"THE MODERN JEW IS THE PRODUCT OF THE TALMUD" (emphasis supplied)
To the average Christian the word "Talmud" is just another word associated
by them with the form of religious worship practiced in their synagogues
by so-called or self-styled "Jews". Many Christians have never heard of
the Talmud. Very few Christians are informed on the contents of the Talmud.
Some may believe the Talmud to be an integral part of the religious worship
known to them as "Judaism". It suggests a sort of bible or religious text
book. It is classed as a spiritual manual. But otherwise few if any Christians
have an understanding of the contents of the Talmud and what it means in
the daily lives of so-called or self-styled "Jews". As an illustration,
my dear Dr. Goldstein, how many Christians have any conception of the "Kol
Nidre" (All Vows) prayer recited in synagogues on the Day of Atonement?
In Volume VIII of the Jewish Encyclopedia on page 539 found in the Library
of Congress, the New York Public Library and libraries of all leading cities,
will be found the official translation into English of the prayer known
as the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer. It is the prologue of the Day of
Atonement services in the synagogues. IT is recited three times by the
standing congregation in concert with chanting rabbis at the alter. After
the recital of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer the Day of Atonement religious
ceremonies follow immediately. The Day of Atonement religious observances
are the highest holy days of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" and are
celebrated as such throughout the world. The official translation into
English of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer follows"
"ALL VOWS, OBLIGATIONS, OATHS, ANATHEMAS, whether called `konam',
`konas', or by any other name, WHICH WE MAY VOW, OR SWEAR, OR PLEDGE, OR
WHEREBY WE MAY BE BOUND, FROM THIS DAY OF ATONEMENT UNTO THE NEXT, (whose
happy coming we await), we do repent. MAY THEY BE DEEMED ABSOLVED, FORGIVEN,
ANNULLED, AND VOID AND MADE OF NO EFFECT; THEY SHALL NOT BIND US NOR HAVE
POWERS OVER US. THE VOWS SHALL NOT BE RECKONED VOWS; THE OBLIGATIONS SHALL
NOT BE OBLIGATORY; NOR THE OATHS BE OATHS." (emphasis supplied)
The implications, inferences and innuendoes of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows)
prayer are referred to in the Talmud in the Book of Nedarim, 23a-23b as
follows:
(Book)
"And he who desires that NONE OF HIS VOWS MADE DURING THE YEAR SHALL
BE VALID, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, `EVERY
VOW WHICH I MAKE IN THE FUTURE SHALL BE NULL (1). (HIS VOWS ARE THEN INVALID,)
PROVIDING THAT HE REMEMBERS THIS AT THE TIME OF THE VOW." (emphasis in
original and supplied, Ed.)
(footnotes) "(1) This may have provided a support for the custom of
reciting Kol Nidre (a formula for dispensation of vows) prior to the Evening
Service of the Day of Atonement (Ran)...Though the beginning of the year
(New Year) is mentioned here, the Day of Atonement was probably chosen
on account of its great solemnity. But Kol Nidre as part of the ritual
IS LATER THAN THE TALMUD, and, as seen from the following statement of
R. Huna b. Hinene, THE LAW OF REVOCATION IN ADVANCE WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC.
(emphasis supplied and in original text, Ed.)
The greatest study of the "Kol Nidre" (all Vows) prayer was made by
the eminent psycho-analyst Professor Theodor Reik, the celebrated pupil
of the famous Dr. Sigmund Freud. The analysis of the historic, religious
and psychological background of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer by Professor
Reik presents the Talmud in its true perspective. This important study
is contained in Professor Reik's "The Ritual, Psycho-Analytical Studies".
In the chapter on the Talmud, on page 168, Professor Reik states:
"THE TEXT WAS TO THE EFFECT THAT ALL OATHS WHICH BELIEVERS
TAKE BETWEEN ONE DAY OF ATONEMENT AND THE NEXT DAY OF ATONEMENT ARE DECLARED
INVALID." (emphasis added)
Before explaining to you how the present wording of the "Kol Nidre" (All
Vows) prayer was introduced into the Day of Atonement synagogue ceremonies,
my dear Dr. Goldstein, I would like to quote a passage to you from the
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia confirms
the fact that the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer has no spiritual value
as might be believed because it is recited in synagogues on the Day of
Atonement as the prologue of the religious ceremonies which follow it.
The secular significance of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer is indicated
forcefully by the analysis in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. In Volume
VI, on page 441, it states:
"The Kol Nidre HAS NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL IDEA
OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT...it attained to extraordinary solemnity and
popularity by reason of the fact that it was THE FIRST PRAYER RECITED ON
THIS HOLIEST OF DAYS."
My dear Dr. Goldstein, prepare for the shock of your life. Compelled by
what you may now read here about the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer you
must be shocked to learn that many Christian churches actually "peal their
bells" on the Day of Atonement in celebration of that holy day for so-called
or self-styled "Jews." How stupid can the Christian clergy get? From what
I have learned after a cursory inquiry I am unable to say whether it was
a case of stupidity or cupidity. With what you already know, together with
what [you] will additionally know before you finish this letter, you will
be able to judge for yourself whether it was stupidity or cupidity. There
is not one single fact in this entire letter which every graduate of a
theological seminary did not have the opportunity to learn.
The following news item was featured in the New York `World Telegram'
on October 7th only a few days ago. Under a prominent headline "JEWISH
HOLIDAYS TO END AT SUNDOWN" the New York `World Telegram' gave great prominence
to the following story:
"Synagogues and temples throughout the city were crowded yesterday
as the 24 hour fast began. Dr. Normal Salit, head of the Synagogue Council
of America, representing the three major Jewish bodies, had called on other
faiths TO JOIN THE FAST... Cutting across religious lines, MANY PROTESTANT
CHURCHES IN THE CITY PEALED THEIR BELLS LAST NIGHT TO SOUND THE KOL NIDRE,
TRADITIONAL MELODY USED AT THE START OF YOM KIPPUR. THE GESTURE OF GOOD-
WILL WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE MANHATTAN OFFICE OF THE PROTESTANT COUNCIL"
(emphasis supplied).
That just about "tops" anything I have ever had come to my attention revealing
the ignorance and indifference of the Christian clergy to the hazards today
facing the Christian faith. From my personal contacts with the Manhattan
Office of the Protestant Council in the recent past I hold out very little
hope for any constructive contribution they can make to the common defense
of the Christian faith against its dedicated enemies. In each instance
they buckled under the "pressure" exerted upon them by the "contacts" for
so-called or self-styled "Jews". If it was not so tragic it would be comic.
It was a joke indeed but the joke was on the Christian clergy. Ye Gods!
"Many" Christian churches "pealed their bells", as the Protestant Council
reports the event, "TO SOUND THE KOL NIDRE, TRADITIONAL MELODY USED AT
THE START OF YOM KIPPUR". Just where does betrayal of a trust and breach
of faith begin?
The present wording of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer dates from
the 11th century. A political reversal in eastern Europe compelled the
so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe to adopt the present
wording of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer. That story involves the history
of the so-called or self-styled "Jews. Before relating here as briefly
as possible the history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" of eastern
Europe I would like to quote here another short passage from the Jewish
Encyclopedia. In analyzing the course of history which resulted in the
present wording of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer the Jewish Encyclopedia
in Volume VII, on page 540, states:
"AN IMPORTANT ALTERATION IN THE WORDING of the `Kol Nidre'
was made by Rashi's son-in-law, Meir ben Samuel, WHO CHANGED THE ORIGINAL
PHRASE `FROM THE LAST DAY OF ATONEMENT TO THIS ONE' to `FROM THIS DAY OF
ATONEMENT UNTIL THE NEXT' ". (emphasis supplied)
You will agree, my dear Dr. Goldstein, that Meir ben Samuel knew what he
was doing. The wording of that altered version of the "Kol Nidre" (All
Vows) prayer makes the recital of the prayer a release during the coming
year from any obligations to respect any oath, vow or pledge during the
coming year. Like any one-year license obtained from the Federal, State
or Municipal governments, the altered version of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows)
prayer extends immunity in advance for one year from all obligations to
observe the terms of oaths, vows and pledges made in the year following
the date of the Day of Atonement when the prayer was recited. Each year
however it becomes necessary to renew this "license" which automatically
revokes in advance any oath, vow or pledge made during the next twelve
months, by again appearing in a synagogue on the next Day of Atonement
and reciting the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer again. Do you approve of
this?
The passage in the Talmud referring to "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer
certifies to several serious situations. It certifies that "Kol Nidre"
(All Vows) prayer was added as a prologue to the Day of Atonement religious
services long after the completion of the Talmud between 500 A.D. - 1000
A.D. by the statement, "as part of the ritual is later than the Talmud."
It confirms that Meir ben Samuel who authored the present altered version
of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer lived in the 11th century. Furthermore,
the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe believed it served
their purpose better to keep secret from their Christian conquerors their
attitude on oaths, vows and pledges, "the law of revocation in advance
was not made public."
With a complete and accurate knowledge of the origin and history of
the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
it is quite impossible for yourself or for anybody to intelligently understand
the harmful influence the Talmud has exerted for ten centuries , and the
"Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer for seven centuries upon the course of world
history. These two little known factors are the hub and the spokes of the
"big wheel" rolling merrily along the road to complete world domination
in the not distant future, without arousing suspicion, and wearing the
innocent disguise of an alleged religious belief as their only defense
mechanism. This insidious intrigue creates a most effective camouflage
for the conspirators. The virility of their plot presents a problem in
the defense of the political, economic, social and cultural ideologies
developed under a Christian civilization.
You will probably also be an astonished as the 150,000,000 Christians
years ago when I electrified the nation with the first publication by me
of the facts disclosed by my many years of research into the origin and
the history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe.
My many years of intensive research established beyond the question of
any doubt, contrary to the generally accepted belief held by Christians,
that the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe at any time
in their history in eastern Europe were never the legendary "lost ten tribes"
of Bible lore. That historic fact is incontrovertible.
Relentless research established as equally true that the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe at no time in their history could
be correctly regarded as the direct lineal descendants of the legendary
"lost ten tribes" of Bible lore. The so-called or self-styled "Jews" in
eastern Europe in modern history cannot legitimately point to a single
ancient ancestor who ever set even a foot on the soil of Palestine in the
era of Bible history. Research also revealed that the so-called or self-styled
"Jews" in eastern Europe were never "Semites", are not "Semites" now, nor
can they ever be regarded as "Semites" at any future time by any stretch
of the imagination. Exhaustive research also irrevocably rejects as a fantastic
fabrication the generally accepted belief by Christians that the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe are the legendary "Chosen People"
so very vocally publicized by the Christian clergy form their pulpits.
Maybe you can explain to me, my dear Dr. Goldstein, the reason why and
just how the origin and the history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom was
so well concealed from the world for so many centuries? What secret mysterious
power has been able for countless generations to keep the origin and the
history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom out of history text-books and
out of class-room courses in history throughout the world? The origin and
history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom are certainly incontestable historical
facts. These incontestable historic facts also establish beyond any question
of doubt the origin and history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews"
in eastern Europe. The origin and history of the Khazars and Khazar kingdom
and their relationship to the origin and early history of the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe was one of history's best kept
secrets until wide publicity was given in recent years to my research on
this subject. Do you not think, my dear Dr. Goldstein, that it is time
this whole subject was dragged out of its hiding place?
In the year 1948 in the Pentagon in Washington I addressed a large assembly
of the highest ranking officers of the United States Army principally in
the G2 branch of Military Intelligence on the highly explosive geopolitical
situation in eastern Europe and the Middle East. Then as now that area
of the world was a potential threat to the peace of the world and to the
security of this nation I explained to them fully the origin of the Khazars
and Khazar Kingdom. I felt then as I feel now that without a clear and
comprehensive knowledge of that subject it is not possible to understand
or to evaluate properly what has been taking place in the world since 1917,
the year of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It is the "key" to that
problem.
Upon the conclusion of my talk a very alert Lieutenant Colonel present
at the meeting informed me that he was the head of the history department
of one of the largest and highest scholastic rated institutions of higher
education in the United States. He had taught history there for 16 years.
He had recently been called back to Washington for further military service.
To my astonishment he informed me that he had never in all his career as
a history teachers or otherwise heard the word "khazar" before he heard
me mention it there. That must give you some idea, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
of how successful that mysterious secret power was with their plot to "block
out" the origin and the history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom in order
to conceal from the world and particularly Christians the true origin and
the history of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe.
The Russian conquest in the 10th-13th centuries of the little-known-to-history
Khazars apparently ended the existence for all time of the little-known-to-history
800,000 square mile sovereign kingdom of the so-called or self-styled "Jews"
in eastern Europe, known then as the Khazar Kingdom. Historians and theologians
now agree that this political development was the reason for the "IMPORTANT
CHANGE IN THE WORDING OF THE `KOL NIDRE' by Meir ben Samuel in the 11th
century, and for the policy adopted by the so-called or self-styled "Jews"
that "THE LAW OF REVOCATION IN ADVANCE WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC". Will you be
patient with me while I review here as briefly as I can the history of
that political emergence and disappearance of a nation from the pages of
history?
Prior to the 10th century the Khazar Kingdom had already been reduced
by Russian conquests to an area of about 800,000 square miles. As you can
see on the map from the Jewish Encyclopedia [Reproduced in the book form
of this tract, "Facts are Facts"] the territory of the Khazar Kingdom in
the 10th century was still by far the largest of any nation in Europe.
The population of the Khazar Kingdom was made up for the most part of Khazars
with the addition of the remnants of the populations of the 25 peaceful
agricultural nations which had inhabited this approximately 1,000,000 square
miles before their conquest by the invading Khazars. In the 1st century
B.C. the Khazars had invaded eastern Europe from their homeland in Asia.
The Khazars invaded eastern Europe via the land route between the north
end of the Caspian Sea and the south end of the Ural Mountains. (see map.)
The Khazars were not "Semites". They were an Asiatic Mongoloid nation.
They are classified by modern anthropologists as Turco-Finns racially.
From time immemorial the homeland of the Khazars was in the heart of Asia.
They were a very warlike nation. The Khazars were driven out of Asia finally
by the nations in Asia with whom they were continually at war. The Khazars
invaded eastern Europe to escape further defeats in Asia. The very warlike
Khazars did not find it difficult to subdue and conquer the 25 peaceful
agricultural nations occupying approximately 1,000,000 square miles in
eastern Europe. In a comparatively short period the Khazars established
the largest and most powerful kingdom in Europe, and probably the wealthiest
also.
The Khazars were a pagan nation when they invaded eastern Europe. Their
religious worship was a mixture of phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous
worship practiced in Asia by pagan nations This form of worship continued
until the 7th century. The vile forms of sexual excess indulged in by the
Khazars as their form of religious worship produced a degree of moral degeneracy
the Khazar's king could not endure. In the 7th century King Bulan, ruler
at that time of the Khazar Kingdom, decided to abolish the practice of
phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous worship and make one of the
three monotheistic religions, about which he knew very little, the new
state religion. After a historic session with representatives of the three
monotheistic religions King Bulan decided against Christian and Islam and
selected as the future state religion as the religious worship then know
as "Talmudism", and now known and practiced as "Judaism". This even is
well documented in history.
King Bulan and his 4000 feudal nobles were promptly converted by rabbis
imported from Babylonia for that event. Phallic worship and other forms
of idolatry were thereafter forbidden. The Khazar kings invited large numbers
of rabbis to come and open synagogues and schools to instruct the population
in the new form of religious worship. It was now the state religion. The
converted Khazars were the first population of so-called or self-styled
"Jews' in eastern Europe. So-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe
after the conversion of the Khazars the descendants of the Khazars converted
to "Talmudism", or as it is now know "Judaism", by the 7th century mass
conversion of the Khazar population.
After the conversion of King Bulan none but a so-called or self-styled
"Jew" could occupy the Khazar throne. The Khazar Kingdom became a virtual
theocracy. The religious leaders were the civil administrators also. The
religious leaders imposed the teachings of the Talmud upon the population
as their guide to living. The ideologies of the Talmud became the axis
of political, cultural, economic and social attitudes and activities throughout
the Khazar kingdom. The Talmud provided civil and religious law.
It might be very interesting for you, my dear Dr. Goldstein, if you
have the patience, to allow me to quote for you here form Volume IV, pages
1 to 5, of the Jewish Encyclopedia. The Jewish Encyclopedia refers to the
Khazars as "Chazars". The two spellings are optional according to the best
authorities. The two are pronounced alike. Either Khazar or "Chazar" is
pronounced like the first syllable of "costume" with the word "Czar" added
onto it. It is correctly pronounced "cos(tume)Czar". The Jewish Encyclopedia
has five pages on the Khazars but I will skip through them:
"CHAZARS: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history
are interwoven with THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF RUSSIA...driven
on by the nomadic tribes of the steppes and by THEIR OWN DESIRE FOR PLUNDER
AND REVENGE...In the second half of the sixth century the Chazars moved
westward...The kingdom of the chazars was firmly established in MOST OF
SOUTH RUSSIA LONG BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN MONARCHY BY THE
VARANGIAN (855)...At this time the kingdom of the Chazars stood at the
height of its power AND WAS CONSTANTLY AT WAR... At the end of the eighth
century...the chagan (king) of the Chazars and his grandees, TOGETHER WITH
A LARGE NUMBER OF HIS HEATHEN PEOPLE, EMBRACED THE JEWISH RELIGION... The
Jewish population in the entire domain of the Chazars, in the period between
the seventh and tenth centuries, MUST HAVE BEEN CONSIDERABLE... about THE
NINTH CENTURY, IT APPEARS AS IF ALL THE CHAZARS WERE JEWS AND THAT THEY
HAD BEEN CONVERTED TO JUDAISM ONLY A SHORT TIME BEFORE... It was one of
the successors of Bulan named Obadiah, who regenerated the kingdom and
STRENGTHENED THE JEWISH RELIGION. He invited Jewish scholars to settle
in his dominions, and founded SYNAGOGUES AND SCHOOLS. The people were instructed
in the bible, Mishnah, and the TALMUD and in the `divine service of the
hazzanim'.. In their writings the CHAZARS USED THE HEBREW LETTERS ... THE
CHAZAR LANGUAGES PREDOMINATED... Obadiah was succeeded by his son Isaac;
Isaac by his son Moses (or Manasseh II); the latter by his son Nisi; and
Nisi by his son Aaron II. King Joseph himself was a son of Aaron, AND ASCENDED
THE THRONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE CHAZARS RELATING TO SUCCESSION...
The king had twenty-five wives, all of royal blood, and sixty concubines,
all famous beauties. Each one slept in a separate tent and was watched
by a eunuch...THIS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF THE DOWNFALL OF
THE CHAZAR KINGDOM ... The Russian Varangians established themselves at
Kiev... until the final conquest of the Chazars by the Russians...After
a hard fight the Russians conquered the Chazars... Four years later the
Russians conquered all the Chazarian territory east of the Azov ... many
members of the Chazarian royal family emigrated to Spain... Some went to
Hungary, BUT THE GREAT MASS OF THE PEOPLE REMAINED IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY."
The greatest historian on the origin and the history of the so-called or
self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe was Professor H. Graetz, himself a
so-called or self-styled "Jew". Professor H. Graetz points out in his famous
"History of the Jews" that when so-called or self-styled "Jews" in other
countries heard a rumor about so-called or self-styled "Jews" in the Khazar
Kingdom they believed these converted Khazars to be the "lost ten tribes".
These rumors were no doubt responsible for the legend which grew up that
Palestine was the "homeland" of the converted Khazars. On page 141 in his
"History of the Jews" Professor H. Graetz states:
"The Chazars professed a coarse religion, which was combined
with sensuality and lewdness...After Obadia came a long series of Jewish
Chagans (kings), for ACCORDING TO A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE STATE ONLY JEWISH
RULERS WERE PERMITTED TO ASCEND THE THRONE...For some time THE JEWS OF
OTHER COUNTRIES HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONVERSION OF THIS POWERFUL KINGDOM
TO JUDAISM, and when at last a vague rumor to this effect reached them,
THEY WERE OF THE OPINION THAT CHAZARIA WAS PEOPLED BY THE REMNANT OF THE
FORMER TEN TRIBES."
When the Khazars in the 1st century B.C. invaded eastern Europe their mother-tongue
was an Asiatic language, referred to in the Jewish Encyclopedia as the
"Khazar languages". They were primitive Asiatic dialects without any alphabet
or any written form. When King Bulan was converted in the 7th century he
decreed that the Hebrew characters he saw in the Talmud and other Hebrew
documents was thereupon to become the alphabet for the Khazar language.
The Hebrew characters were adopted to the phonetics of the spoken Khazar
language. The Khazars adopted the characters of the so-called Hebrew language
in order to provide a means for providing a written record of their speech.
The adoption of the Hebrew characters had no racial, political or religious
implication.
The western European uncivilized nations which had no alphabet for their
spoken language adopted the alphabet of the Latin language under comparable
circumstances. With the invasion of western Europe by the Romans the civilization
and the culture of the Romans was introduced into these uncivilized areas.
Thus the Latin alphabet was adopted for the language of the French, Spanish,
ENGLISH, Swedish and many other western European languages. These languages
were completely foreign to each other yet they all used the same alphabet.
The Romans brought their alphabet with their culture to these uncivilized
nations exactly like the rabbis brought the Hebrew alphabet from Babylonia
to the Khazars when they introduced writing to them in the form of the
Talmud's alphabet.
Since the conquest of the Khazars by the Russians and the disappearance
of the Khazar Kingdom the language of the Khazars is known as Yiddish.
for about six centuries the so-called or self-styled "Jews" of eastern
Europe have referred to themselves while still resident in their native
eastern European countries as "Yiddish" by nationality. They identified
themselves as "Yiddish" rather than as Russian, Polish, Galician, Lithuanian,
Rumanian, Hungarian or by the nation of which they were citizens. They
also referred to the common language they all spoke as "Yiddish" also.
There are today in New York City as you know, my dear Dr. Goldstein, many
"Yiddish" newspapers, "Yiddish" theaters, and many other cultural organizations
of so-called or self-styled "Jews" from eastern Europe which are identified
publicly by the word "Yiddish" in their title.
Before it became known as the "Yiddish" language, the mother-tongue
of the Khazars added many words to its limited ancient vocabulary as necessity
required. These words were acquired from the languages of its neighboring
nations with whom they had political, social or economic relations. Languages
of all nations add to their vocabularies in the same way. The Khazars adapted
words to their requirements form the German, the Slavonic and the Baltic
languages. The Khazars adopted a great number of words from the German
language. The Germans had a much more advanced civilization than their
Khazar neighbors and the Khazars sent their children to German schools
and universities.
The "Yiddish" language is not a German dialect. Many people are led
to believe so because "Yiddish" has borrowed so many words from the German
language. If "Yiddish" is a German dialect acquired from the Germans then
what language did the Khazars speak for 1000 years they existed in eastern
Europe before they acquired culture from the Germans? The Khazars must
have spoken some language when they invaded eastern Europe. What was that
language? When did they discard it? How did the entire Khazar population
discard one language and adopt another all of a sudden? The idea is too
absurd to discuss. "Yiddish" is the modern name for the ancient mother-tongue
of the Khazars with added German, Slavonic and Baltic adopted and adapted
numerous words.
"Yiddish" must not be confused with "Hebrew" because they both use the
same characters as their alphabets. There is not one word of "Yiddish"
in ancient "Hebrew" nor is there one word of ancient "Hebrew" in "Yiddish".
As I stated before, they are as totally different as Swedish and Spanish
which both likewise use the same Latin characters for their alphabets.
The "Yiddish" languages is the cultural common denominator for all the
so-called or self-styled "Jews" in or from eastern Europe. To the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" in and from eastern Europe, "Yiddish" serves them
like the English language serves the populations of the 48 states of the
United States. Their cultural common denominator throughout the 48 states
is the English language, or wherever they may emigrate and resettle. The
English language is the tie which binds them to each other. It is the same
with the "Yiddish" language and so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout
the world.
"Yiddish" serves another very useful purpose for so-called or self-styled
"Jews" throughout the world. They possess in "Yiddish" what no other national,
racial or religious group can claim. Approximately 90% of the world's so-called
or self-styled "Jews" living in 42 countries of the world today are either
emigrants from eastern Europe, or their parents emigrated from eastern
Europe. "Yiddish" is a language common to all of them as their first or
second language according to where they were born. It is an "international"
language to them. Regardless of what country in the world they may settle
in they will always find co-religionists who also speak "Yiddish". "Yiddish"
enjoys other international advantages too obvious to describe here. "Yiddish"
is the modern language of a nation which has lost its existence as a nation.
"Yiddish" never had a religious implication, although using Hebrew characters
for its alphabet. It must not be confused with words like "Jewish". But
it is very much.
Directly north of the Khazar Kingdom at the height of its power a small
Slavic state was organized in 820 A.D. on the south shore of the Gulf of
Finland where it flows into the Baltic Sea. This small state was organized
by a small group of Varangians from the Scandinavian peninsula on the opposite
shore of the Baltic Sea. The native population of this newly formed state
consisted of nomad Slavs who had made their home in this area from earliest
recorded history. This infant nation was even small than our state of Delaware.
This newly-born state however was the embryo which developed into the great
Russian Empire. In less than 1000 years since 820 A.D. this synthetic nation
expanded its borders by ceaseless conquests until it now includes more
than 9,500,000 square miles in Europe and Asia, or more than three times
the area of continental United States, and they have not stopped.
During the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries the rapidly expanding
Russian nation gradually swallowed up the Khazar kingdom, its neighbor
directly to the south. The conquest of the Khazar Kingdom by the Russians
supplies history with the explanation for the presence after the 13th century
of the large number of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in Russia. The large
number of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in Russia and in eastern Europe
after the destruction of the Khazar Kingdom were thereafter no longer known
as Khazars but as the "Yiddish" populations of these many countries. They
so refer to themselves today.
In the many wars with her neighbors in Europe after the 13th century
Russia was required to cede to her victors large areas which were originally
part of the Khazar Kingdom. In this manner Poland, Lithuania, Galicia,
Hungary, Rumania, and Austria acquired from Russia territory originally
a part of the Khazar Kingdom. Together with this territory these nations
acquired a segment of the population of so-called or self-styled "Jews"
descended from the Khazars who once occupied the territory. These frequent
boundary changes by the nations in eastern Europe explains the presence
today of so-called or self-styled "Jews" in all these countries who all
trace their ancestry back to the converted Khazars. Their common language,
their common culture, their common religion, and their common racial characteristics
classify them all beyond any question of doubt with the Khazars who invaded
eastern Europe in the 1st century B.C. and were converted to "Talmudism"
in the 7th century.
The so-called or self-styled "Jews" throughout the world today of eastern
European origin make up at least 90% of the world's total present population
of so-called or self-styled "Jews". The conversion of King Bulan and the
Khazar nation in the 7th century accomplished for "Talmudism", or for "Judaism"
as "Talmudism" is called today, what the conversion of Constantine and
the western European nations accomplished for Christianity. Christianity
was a small comparatively unimportant religious belief practiced principally
in the eastern Mediterranean area until the conversion to the Christian
faith of the large populations of the western European pagan nations after
the conversion of Constantine. "Talmudism", or "Judaism" as "Talmudism"
is known today, was given its greatest stimulus in all its history with
the conversion of the large pagan Khazar population in the 7th century.
Without the conversion of the Khazar population it is doubtful if "Talmudism",
or "Judaism" as "Talmudism" is known today, could have survived. "Talmudism",
the civil and religious code of the Pharisees, most likely would have passed
out of existence like the many other creeds and cults practiced by the
peoples in that area before, during and after "Pharisaism" assumed its
prominent position among these creeds and cults in the time of Jesus. "Talmudism",
as "Pharisaism" was called later, would have disappeared with all its contemporary
creeds and cults but for the conversion of the Khazars to "Talmudism" in
the 7th century. At that time "Talmudism" was well on its way towards complete
oblivion.
In the year 986 A. D. the ruler of Russia, Vladimir III, became a convert
to the Christian faith in order to marry a Catholic Slavonic princess of
a neighboring sovereign state. The marriage was otherwise impossible. Vladimir
III thereupon also made his newly-acquired Christian faith the state religion
of Russia replacing the pagan worship formerly practiced in Russia since
it was founded in 820 A.D. Vladimir III and his successors as the rulers
of Russia attempted in vain to convert his so-called or self-styled "Jews",
now Russian subjects, to Russia's Christian state religion and to adopt
the customs and culture of the numerically predominant Russian Christian
population. The so-called or self-styled "Jews" in Russia refused and
resisted this plan vigorously. They refused to adopt the Russian alphabet
in place of the Hebrew characters used in writing their "Yiddish" language.
They resisted the substitution of the Russian language for "Yiddish" as
their mother-tongue. They opposed every attempt to bring about the complete
assimilation of the former sovereign Khazar nation into the Russian nation.
They resisted with every means at their disposal. The many forms of tension
which resulted produced situations described by history as "massacres",
"pogroms", "persecution", discrimination, etc.
In Russia at that period of history it was the custom as in other Christian
countries in Europe at that time to take an oath, vow or pledge of loyalty
to the rulers, the nobles, the feudal landholders and others in the name
of Jesus Christ. It was after the conquest of the Khazars by the Russians
that the wording of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer was altered. The
new altered version of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer is referred to
in the Talmud as "the law of revocation in advance". The "Kol Nidre" (All
Vows) prayer was regarded as a "law". The effect of this "LAW OF REVOCATION
IN ADVANCE" obtained for all who recited it each year on the eve of the
Day of Atonement divine dispensation from all obligations acquired under
"oaths, vows and pledges" to be made or taken in the COMING YEAR. The recital
of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer on the eve of the Day of Atonement
released those so-called or self-styled "Jews" from any obligation under
"oaths, vows or pledges" entered into during the NEXT TWELVE MONTHS. The
"oaths, vows and pledges" made or taken by so-called or self-styled "Jews"
were made or taken "with tongue in cheek" for twelve months.
The altered version of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer created serious
difficulties for the so-called or self-styled "Jews" when its wording became
public property. It apparently did not remain a secret very long, although
the Talmud states "the law of revocation in advance was not made public".
The altered version of the "Kol Nidre" (All Vows) prayer soon became known
as the "Jews Vow" and cast serious doubt upon "oaths, vows or pledges"
given to Christians by so-called or self-styled "Jews". Christians soon
believed that "oaths, vows or pledges" were quite worthless when given
by so-called or self-styled "Jews". This was the basis for so-called "discrimination"
by governments, nobles, feudal landholders, and others who required oaths
of allegiance and loyalty from those who entered their service.
An intelligent attempt was made to correct this situation by a group
of German rabbis in 1844. In that year they called an international conference
of rabbis in Brunswick, Germany. They attempted to have the "Kol Nidre"
(All Vows) prayer completely eliminated from the Day of Atonement ceremonies,
and entirely abolish from any religious service of their faith. They felt
that this secular prologue to the Day of Atonement ceremonies was void
of any spiritual implication and did not belong in any synagogue ritual.
However the preponderant majority of the rabbis attending that conference
in Brunswick came from eastern Europe. They represented congregations of
Yiddish-speaking so-called or self-styled "Jews" of converted Khazar origin
in eastern Europe. They insisted that the altered version of the "Kol Nidre"
(All Vows) prayer be retained exactly as it was then recited on the Day
of Atonement. They demanded that it be allowed to remain as it had been
recited in eastern Europe since the change by Meir ben Samuel six centuries
earlier. It is today recited in exactly that form throughout the world
by so-called or self-styled "Jews". Will the 150,000,000 Christians in
the United States react any differently when they become more aware of
its insidious implications?
How genuine can the implications, inferences and innuendoes of the so-called
"brotherhood" and "interfaith" movements be under these circumstances?
These so-called movements are sweeping the nations like prairie fires.
If the Talmud is the axis of the political, economic, cultural and social
attitudes and activities of so-called or self-styled "Jews" participating
in these two so-called movements, how genuine are the "oaths, vows or pledges"
taken or given in connection with these two so-called movements by so-called
or self-styled "Jews"? It would be a superlative gesture of "brotherhood"
or of "interfaith" if the National Conference of Christians and Jews succeeded
in expunging from the Talmud all anti-Christ, anti-Christian, and anti-
Christianity passages. At a cost of many millions of dollars the National
Conference of Christians and Jews succeeded in expunging from the New Testament
passages which so-called or self-styled "Jews" regarded as offensive to
their faith. A great portion of the cost was supplied by so-called or self-styled
"Jews". Christians might now supply funds to expunge from the Talmud passages
offensive to the Christian faith. Otherwise the so-called "brotherhood"
and "interfaith" movements are merely mockeries.
The National Conference of Christians and Jews might look into the millions
of dollars being invested today by so-called or self-styled "Jews" to insure
that the Talmud shall remain the axis of political, economic, cultural
and social attitudes and activities of so-called or self-styled "Jews"
today, and future generations. Violating the basic principle of "brotherhood"
and "interfaith" so-called or self-styled "Jews" are spending millions
of dollars each year to establish and equip quarters where the teachings
of the Talmud can be indoctrinated into the minds of children from the
time they are able to read and write. These few news items were selected
from hundreds like them which are appearing daily in newspapers clear across
the nation:
"Two new Jewish Centers, built at a cost of $300,000 will be
opened to 1000 students for daily and Sunday school activities next month,
it was announced by the Associated Talmud Torahs." (Chicago Herald-Tribune,
8/19/50.)
"The Yeshiva School Department now provides daytime an approved English-Hebrew
curriculum for grades 1 to 5 (aged 5 1/2 to 10). The afternoon Talmud Torah
has opened a new beginner's class and is accepting enrollment of advanced
as well as beginner students." (Jewish Voice, 9/18/53.)
"RABBI TO TALK ON TALMUD TO SHOLEM MEN. Dr. David Graubert presiding
rabbi of Bet Din, and professor of rabbinical literature at the College
of Jewish Studies, will present the first of his series of four lectures,
``The World of the Talmud'. (Chicago Tribune, 10/29/53.)
"MARYLAND GRANTS DEGREE IN TALMUD. Baltimore, (JTA). New Israel Rabbinical
College has been granted here authority by the Maryland State Board of
Education to issue degrees of Master of Talmudic Law and Doctor of Talmudic
Law." (Jewish Voice, 1/9/53.)
"TALMUD LESSONS ON AIR FROM JERUSALEM. Weekly radio lectures on the
Talmud, in English, will be available shortly on tape recordings for local
stations in the United States and Canada, it was announced today." (California
Jewish Voice, 1/11/52.)
Earlier in this letter, my dear Dr. Goldstein, you remember reading a quotation
by the most eminent authority on the Talmud to the effect that "THE MODERN
JEW IS A PRODUCT OF THE TALMUD." Would it surprise you to learn that many
Christians also are the "PRODUCT OF THE TALMUD". The teachings of the Talmud
are accepted by Christians in the highest echelons. I will only quote one
of the subject of the Talmud, the former President of the United States.
In 1951 President Truman was presented with his second set of the "63 books"
of the Talmud. On the occasion of his acceptance the newspapers carried
the following news item:
"Mr. Truman thanked us for the books and said that he was glad to get
them as `I have read many more of the ones presented four years ago than
a lot of people think'. He said that he did read a lot and that the book
he read the most is the Talmud which contains much sound reasoning and
good philosophy of life".
Former President Truman says he benefits by "much sound reasoning" and
his brand of "good philosophy of life" which absorbs from the "book that
he reads the most." His recent term in office reflected his study of the
Talmud. No one familiar with the Talmud will deny that. But does our former
President Truman known that Jesus did not feel the way he feels about the
Talmud? The "much good reasoning" and the "good philosophy of life" in
the Talmud were constantly and consistently denounced by Jesus in no uncertain
terms. Former President Truman should refresh his memory by reading the
New Testament passages where Jesus expresses Himself on the question of
the Pharisees and their Talmud. Will Mr. Truman state that in his opinion
the Talmud was the "sort of book" from which Jesus "drew the teachings
which enabled him to revolutionize the world" on "moral and religious subjects"?
Before leaving the Talmud as my subject I would like to refer to the
most authentic analysis of the Talmud which has ever been written. You
should obtain a copy of it and read it. You will be amply rewarded for
your trouble in finding a copy of it. I can doubly assure you. The name
of the book is "The Talmud". It was written almost a century ago in French
by Arsene Darmesteter. In 1897 it was translated into English by the celebrated
Henrietta Szold and published by the Jewish Publication Society of America
in Philadelphia. Henrietta Szold was an outstanding educator and Zionist
and one of the most notable and admirable so-called or self-styled "Jews"
of this century. Henrietta Szold's translation of Arsene Darmesteter's
"The Talmud" is a classic. You will never understand the Talmud until you
have read it. I will quote from it sparingly:
"Now Judaism finds its expression in the Talmud, which is not
a remote suggestion and a faint echo thereof, but in which it has become
incarnate, in which it has taken form, passing from a state of abstraction
into the domain of real things. THE STUDY OF JUDAISM IS THAT OF THE TALMUD,
AS THE STUDY OF THE TALMUD IS THAT OF JUDAISM . . . THEY ARE TWO INSEPARABLE
THINGS, OR BETTER, THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME . . . Accordingly, the Talmud
is the completest expression of religious movement, and this code of endless
prescriptions and minute ceremonials represents in its perfection the total
work of the religious idea . . . The miracle was accomplished by a book,
the Talmud . . . The Talmud, in turn, is composed of two distinct parts,
the Mishna and the Gemara; the former the text, the latter the commentary
upon the text . . . By the term Mishna we designate A COLLECTION OF DECISIONS
AND TRADITIONAL LAWS, EMBRACING ALL DEPARTMENTS OF LEGISLATION, CIVIL AND
RELIGIOUS . . . This code, which was the work of several generations of
Rabbis . . . Nothing, indeed can EQUAL THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TALMUD unless
it be the ignorance that prevails concerning it . . . This explains how
it happens that a single page of the Talmud contains three or four different
languages, or rather specimens of one language at three or four stages
of degeneracy . . . Many a Mischna of five or six lines is accompanied
by fifty or sixty pages of explanation . . . is Law in all its authority;
it constitutes dogma and cult; it is the fundamental element of the Talmud
. . . The DAILY STUDY OF THE TALMUD, WHICH AMONG JEWS BEGAN WITH THE AGE
OF TEN TO END LIFE ITSELF, necessarily was a severe gymnastic for the mind,
thanks to which IT ACQUIRED INCOMPARABLE SUBTLETY AND ACUMEN . . . SINCE
IT ASPIRES TO ONE THING: TO ESTABLISH FOR JUDAISM A `CORPUS JURIS ECCLESIASTICI'."
The above quotations were culled from a treatise intended to sugar-coat
the Talmud. In painting a nice word-picture of the Talmud the author could
not escape mentioning the above facts also. Coming from this source under
the circumstances the facts stated above do not add glory to the Talmud.
"The Talmud Unmasked, The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians,"
was written by Rev. I.B. Pranaitis, 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 Rev. Pranaitis was the
greatest of the students of the Talmud. His complete command of the Hebrew
language qualified him to analyze the Talmud as few men in history.
The Rev. Pranaitis scrutinized the Talmud for passages referring to
Jesus, Christians and the Christian faith. These passages were translated
by him into Latin. Hebrew lends itself to translation into Latin better
than it does directly into English. The translation of the passages of
the Talmud referring to Jesus, Christians and Christian faith were printed
in Latin by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1893
with the Imprimatur of his Archbishop. The translation from the Latin into
English was made by great Latin scholars in the United States in 1939 with
funds provided by wealthy Americans for that purpose.
In order not to leave any loose ends on the subject of the Talmud's
reference to Jesus, to Christians and to the Christian faith I will below
summarize translations into English from the Latin texts of Rev. Pranaitis'
"The Talmud Unmasked, The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians".
It would require too much space to quote these passages verbatim with their
foot-notes form the Soncino Edition in English.
First I will summarize the references by Rev. Pranaitis referring to
Jesus in the Talmud in the original texts translated by him into Latin,
and from Latin into English:
Sanhedrin, 67a — Jesus referred to as the son of Pandira, a soldier
Kallah, 1b. (18b) — Illegitimate and conceived during menstruation.
Sanhedrin, 67a — Hanged on the eve of Passover. Toldath Jeschu. Birth
related in most shameful expressions
Abhodah Zarah II — Referred to as the son of Pandira, a Roman soldier.
Schabbath XIV. Again referred to as the son of Pandira, the Roman.
Sanhedrin, 43a — On the eve of Passover they hanged Jesus.
Schabbath, 104b — Called a fool and no one pays attention to fools.
Toldoth Jeschu. Judas and Jesus engaged in quarrel with filth.
Sanhedrin, 103a. — Suggested corrupts his morals and dishonors self.
Sanhedrin, 107b. — Seduced, corrupted and destroyed Israel.
Zohar (III, 282) — Died like a beast and buried in animal's dirt heap.
Hilkoth Melakhim — Attempted to prove Christians err in worship of
Jesus
Abhodah Zarah, 21a — Reference to worship of Jesus in homes unwanted.
Orach Chaiim, 113 — Avoid appearance of paying respect to Jesus.
Iore dea, 150,2 — Do not appear to pay respect to Jesus by accident.
Abhodah Zarah (6a) — False teachings to worship on first day of Sabbath
The above are a few selected from a very complicated arrangement in
which many references are obscured by intricate reasoning. The following
are a few summarized references to Christians and the Christian faith although
not always expressed in exactly that manner. There are eleven names used
in the Talmud for non-Talmud followers, by which Christians are meant.
Besides Nostrim, from Jesus the Nazarene, Christians are called by all
the names used in the Talmud to designate all non-"Jews": Minim, Edom,
Abhodan Zarah, Akum. Obhde Elilim, Nokrim, Amme Haarets, Kuthim, Apikorosim,
and Goim. Besides supplying the names by which Christians are called in
the Talmud, the passages quoted below indicate what kind of people the
Talmud pictures the Christians to be, and what the Talmud says about the
religious worship of Christians:
Hilkhoth Maakhaloth — Christians are idolators, must not associate.
Abhodah Zarah (22a) — Do not associate with gentiles, they shed blood.
Iore Dea (153, 2). — Must not associate with Christians, shed blood.
Abhodah Zarah (25b). — Beware of Christians when walking abroad with
them.
Orach Chaiim (20, 2). — Christians disguise themselves to kill Jews.
Abhodah Zarah (15b) — Suggest Christians have sex relations with animals.
Abhodah Zarah (22a) — Suspect Christians of intercourse with animals.
Schabbath (145b) — Christians unclean because they eat accordingly
Abhodah Zarah (22b) — Christians unclean because they not at Mount
Sinai.
Iore Dea (198, 48). — Clean female Jews contaminated meeting Christians.
Kerithuth (6b p. 78) — Jews called men, Christians not called men.
Makkoth (7b) — Innocent of murder if intent was to kill Christian.
Orach Chaiim(225, 10) — Christians and animals grouped for comparisons.
Midrasch Talpioth 225 — Christians created to minister to Jews always.
Orach Chaiim 57, 6a — Christians to be pitied more than sick pigs.
Zohar (II, 64b) — Christian idolators likened to cows and asses.
Kethuboth (110b). — Psalmist compares Christians to unclean beasts.
Sanhedrin (74b). Tos. — Sexual intercourse of Christian like that of
beast.
Kethuboth (3b) — The seed of Christian is valued as seed of beast.
Kidduschim (68a) — Christians like the people of an ass.
Eben Haezar (44,8) — Marriages between Christian and Jews null.
Zohar (II, 64b) — Christian birth rate must be diminished materially.
Zohar (I, 28b) — Christian idolators children of Eve's serpent.
Zohar (I, 131a) — Idolatrous people (Christians) befoul the world.
Emek Haschanach(17a) — Non-Jews' souls come from death and death's
shadow.
Zohar (I, 46b, 47a) — Souls of gentiles have unclean divine origins.
Rosch Haschanach(17a) — Non-Jews souls go down to hell.
Iore Dea (337, 1). — Replace dead Christians like lost cow or ass.
Iebhammoth (61a) — Jews called men, but not Christians called men.
Abhodah Zarah (14b) T — Forbidden to sell religious works to Christians
Abhodah Zarah (78) — Christian churches are places of idolatry.
Iore Dea (142, 10) — Must keep far away physically from churches.
Iore Dea (142, 15) — Must not listen to church music or look at idols
Iore Dea (143, 1) — Must not rebuild homes destroyed near churches.
Hilkoth Abh. Zar (10b) — Jews must not resell broken chalices to Christians.
Chullin (91b) — Jews possess dignity even an angel cannot share.
Sanhedrin, 58b — To strike Israelite like slapping face of God.
Chagigah, 15b — A Jew considered good in spite of sins he commits.
Gittin (62a) — Jew stay away from Christian homes on holidays.
Choschen Ham. (26,1) — Jew must not sue before a Christian judge or
laws.
Choschen Ham (34,19) — Christian or servant cannot become witnesses.
Iore Dea (112, 1). — Avoid eating with Christians, breeds familiarity.
Abhodah Zarah (35b) — Do not drink milk from a cow milked by Christian.
Iore dea (178, 1) — Never imitate customs of Christians, even hair-comb.
Abhodah Zarah (72b) — Wine touched by Christians must be thrown away.
Iore Dea (120, 1) — Bought-dishes from Christians must be thrown away.
Abhodah Zarah (2a) — For three days before Christian festivals, avoid
all.
Abhodah Zarah (78c) — Festivals of followers of Jesus regarded as idolatry.
Iore Dea (139, 1) — Avoid things used by Christians in their worship.
Abhodah Zarah (14b) — Forbidden to sell Christians articles for worship.
Iore Dea (151,1) H. — Do not sell water to Christians articles for
baptisms.
Abhodah Zarah (2a, 1) — Do not trade with Christians on their feast
days.
Abhodah Zarah (1,2) — Now permitted to trade with Christians on such
days.
Abhodah Zarah (2aT) — Trade with Christians because they have money
to pay.
Iore Dea (148, 5) — If Christian is not devout, may send him gifts.
Hilkoth Akum (IX,2) — Send gifts to Christians only if they are irreligious.
Iore Dea (81,7 Ha) — Christian wet-nurses to be avoided because dangerous.
Iore Dea (153, 1 H) — Christian nurse will lead children to heresy.
Iore Dea (155,1). — Avoid Christian doctors not well known to neighbors.
Peaschim (25a) — Avoid medical help from idolators, Christians meant.
Iore Dea (156,1) — Avoid Christian barbers unless escorted by Jews.
Abhodah Zarah (26a). — Avoid Christian midwives as dangerous when alone.
Zohar (I, 25b) — Those who do good to Christians never rise when dead.
Hilkoth Akum (X,6) — Help needy Christians if it will promote peace.
Iore Dea (148, 12H) — Hide hatred for Christians at their celebrations.
Abhodah Zarah (20a) — Never praise Christians lest it be believed true.
Iore Dea (151,14) — Not allowed to praise Christians to add to glory.
Hilkoth Akum (V, 12) — Quote Scriptures to forbid mention of Christian
god.
Iore Dea (146, 15) — Refer to Christian religious articles with contempt.
Iore Dea (147,5) — Deride Christian religious articles without wishes.
Hilkoth Akum (X,5) — No gifts to Christians, gifts to converts.
Iore Dea (151,11) — Gifts forbidden to Christians, encourages friendship.
Iore Dea (335,43) — Exile for that Jew who sells farm to Christian.
Iore Dea (154,2) — Forbidden to teach a trade to a Christian
Babha Bathra (54b) — Christian property belongs to first person claiming.
Choschen Ham(183,7) — Keep what Christian overpays in error.
Choschen Ham(226,1) — Jew may keep lost property of Christian found
by Jew.
Babha Kama (113b) — It is permitted to deceive Christians.
Choschen Ham(183,7) — Jews must divide what they overcharge Christians.
Choschen Ham(156,5) — Jews must not take Christian customers from Jews.
Iore Dea (157,2) H — May deceive Christians that believe Christian
tenets.
Abhodah Zarah (54a) —Usury may be practiced upon Christians or apostates.
Iore Dea (159,1) — Usury permitted now for any reason to Christians.
Babha Kama (113a) — Jew may lie and perjure to condemn a Christian.
Babha Kama (113b) — Name of God not profaned when lying to Christians.
Kallah (1b, p.18) — Jew may perjure himself with a clear conscience.
Schabbouth Hag. (6d). — Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge
wording.
Zohar (I, 160a). — Jews must always try to deceive Christians.
Iore Dea (158,1) — Do not cure Christians unless it makes enemies.
Orach Cahiim (330,2) — Do not assist Christian's childbirth on Saturday.
Choschen Ham.(425,5) — Unless believes in Torah do not prevent his
death.
Iore Dea (158,1) — Christians not enemies must not be saved either.
Hilkkoth Akum (X,1) — Do not save Christians in danger of death.
Choschen Ham(386,10) — A spy may be killed even before he confesses.
Abhodah Zorah (26b) — Apostates to be thrown into well, not rescued.
Choschen Ham(388,15) — Kill those who give Israelites' money to Christians
Sanhedrin (59a) — `Prying into Jews' "Law" to get death penalty
Hilkhoth Akum(X,2) — Baptized Jews are to be put to death
Iore Dea(158,2)Hag. — Kill renegades who turn to Christian rituals.
Choschen Ham(425,5) — Those who do not believe in Torah are to be killed.
Hilkhoth tesch.III,8 — Christians and others deny the "Law" of the
Torah.
Zohar (I, 25a) — Christians are to be destroyed as idolators.
Zohar (II, 19a) — Captivity of Jews end when Christian princes die.
Zohar (I, 219b) — Princes of Christians are idolators, must die.
Obadiam — When Rome is destroyed, Israel will be redeemed.
Abhodah Zarah(26b) T. — "Even the best of the Goim should be killed."
Sepher Or Israel 177b — If Jew kills Christian commits no sin.
Ialkut Simoni (245c) — Shedding blood of impious offers sacrifice to
God.
Zohar (II, 43a) — Extermination of Christians necessary sacrifice.
Zohar (I, 38b,39a) — High place in heaven for those who kill idolators.
Hilkhoth Akum(X,1) — Make no agreements and show no mercy to Christians
Hilkhoth Akum (X,1) — Either turn them away from their idols or kill.
Hilkhoth Akum (X,7) — Allow no idolators to remain where Jews are strong.
Choschen Ham(388,16) — All contribute to expense of killing traitor.
Pesachim (49b) — No need of prayers while beheading on Sabbath.
Schabbath (118a). — Prayers to save from punishment of coming Messiah.
In the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, unless recently
removed, you can find a copy of "The Talmud Unmasked, The Secret Rabbinical
Teachings Concerning Christians" by the Rev. I. B. Pranaitis. A copy of
the original work printed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892 can be made
available to you by our mutual friend if you are interested in reading
the above passages in the original Hebrew text with their Latin translation.
I trust my summaries correctly explain the original text. I believe they
do. If I am in error in any way please be so kind as to let me know. It
was very difficult to reduce them to short summaries.
The National Conference of Christians and Jews need not scrutinize the
"63 books" of the Talmud to discover all the anti-Christ, anti-Christian,
and anti-Christian faith passages in the books which are "THE LEGAL CODE
WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LAW" and which is "THE TEXTBOOK
USED IN THE TRAINING OF RABBIS". They can also keep that, as Rabbi Morris
Kertzer also points out, as explained earlier, that "ADULTS STUDY ANCIENT
WRITINGS TOO... IN... GROUP DISCUSSION OF TALMUD BEFORE EVENING PRAYER".
If the National Conference of Christians and Jews are genuinely interested
in "interfaith" and "brotherhood" do you not think, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
that they should compel a start at once to expunge from the Talmud the
anti-Christ, anti-Christian, and anti-Christianity passages from the Talmud
in the "brotherly" way they expunged passages from the New Testament? Will
you ask them?
Throughout the world the Oxford English Dictionary is accepted as the
most authoritative and authentic source for information on the origin,
definition and use of words in the English language. Authorities in all
fields everywhere accept the Oxford English Dictionary brings out clearly
that "Judaist" and "Judaic" are the correct forms for the improper and
incorrect misused and misleading "Jews" and "Jewish". You will agree completely
with the Oxford English Dictionary if you consider the matter carefully.
"Judaist" and "Judaic" are correct. "Jews" and "Jewish" are incorrect.
"Jew" and "Jewish" do not belong in the English language if the use of
the correct words is of interest to the English-speaking peoples.
The so-called or self-styled "Jews" cannot truthfully describe themselves
as "Jews" because they are not in any sense "Judeans". They can correctly
identify themselves by their religious belief if they so wish by identifying
themselves as "Judaists". A "Judaist" is a person who professes so-called
"Judaism" as his religious belief, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
The origin of "Jew" has not its roots in "Judaism" as explained. The adjective
form of "Judaist" is "Judaic". "Jewish" as an adjective is just as incorrect
as "Jew" is as a noun. "Jewish" has no reason to exist.
Well-planned and well-financed publicity by so-called or self-styled
"Jews" in English-speaking countries in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries
created a wide acceptance and use for "Jewish". "Jewish" is being used
today in many ways that are no less fantastic and grotesque than incorrect
and inaccurate. "Jewish" is used today to describe everything from "Jewish
blood", whatever that may be, to "Jewish Rye Bread", strange as that may
sound. The many implications, inferences and innuendoes of "Jewish" today
resulting from its commercial uses beggar description.
At the 1954 annual meeting of the St. Paul Guild in the Plaza Hotel
in New York City before more than 1000 Catholics, a Roman Catholic priest
who was the main speaker and the guest of honor referred to "my Jewish
blood". It just happens that this priest was born a so-called or self-styled
"Jews" in eastern Europe and was converted to Catholicism there about 25
years ago. It seems unique that a priest who has professed Catholicism
that length of time should mention "my Jewish blood" to Catholics. The
radio blasts and the out-door signs blazon "Levy's Jewish Rye Bread", in
the same city at the same time. Between these two extremes are countless
other products and other services which advertise themselves in print,
on radio and television, as "Jewish".
This priest who talks to Catholics about "my Jewish blood" when he addresses
audiences also refers to the "Jewish blood" of Mary, Holy Mother of Jesus,
to the "Jewish blood" of the Apostles, and to the "Jewish blood" of the
early Christians. What he means by "my Jewish blood" mystifies those Catholics
who hear him. They query "What is `Jewish blood' "? They ask what happens
to "Jewish blood" when so-called or self-styled "Jews" are converted to
Catholicism? And in the extreme case when a so-called or self-styled "Jew"
becomes a Roman Catholic priest? How is "Jewish blood" biologically different
from the blood of persons who profess other religious faiths, they ask.
It is hard for me to believe that there is anything biologically different
which determines characteristics typical of a specific religious belief.
Are the inherent racial and national characteristics determined by religious
dogma or doctrine?
The word "Jewess" raises a similar question. If "Jewess" is the female
for the male "Jew" I must admit that I have been unable to find female
as well as male designation for persons professing any religious belief
other than so-called "Judaism". Are there any other that you know? I have
searched for the female of Catholicism, Protestantism, Hindu, Moslem, and
others but without success. It seems very popular now to refer to Mary,
Holy Mother of Jesus, as a "Jewess". It does seem unrealistic to identify
the sex of members of any religious belief by appropriate designations.
If the word "Jew" is regarded as descriptive of a race or a nation, as
is often the case, it is equally unrealistic to indicate the sex of members
of a race or a nation by a suffix used for that purpose. I know of no case
in that respect except "Negress", and the Negro race strongly objects to
the use of that designation, and strongly.
Another word is creating more problems among Christians. I refer to
"Judeo-Christian". You see it more and more day by day. Based on our present
knowledge of history, and on good sense applied to theology, the term "Judea-Christian"
presents a strange combination. Does "Judeo" refer to ancient "Pharisaism",
or to "Talmudism", or to so-called "Judaism"? In view of what we know today,
how can there be "Judeo-Christian" anything? Based upon what is now known
"Judeo-Christian" is as unrealistic as it would be to say anything is "hot-cold"
, or "old-young", or "heavy-light", or that a person was "healthy-sick",
or "poor-rich", or "dumb-smart", or "ignorant-educated", or "happy-sad".
These words are antonyms, not synonyms. "Judeo-Christian" in the light
of incontestable facts are also antonyms, not synonyms as so-called or
self-styled "Jews" would like Christians to believe. More sand for Christian's
eyes.
An "Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies" has been established by Seton
Hall University. It is actually a "one-man Institute". Father John M. Oesterreicher
is the "one-man Institute". The "Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies"
occupies a small office in a down-town office building in Newark, N. J.
This "one-man Institute", according to their literature, has no faculty
except Father Oesterreicher, and no students. Father Oesterreicher was
born a so-called or self-styled "Jew" and became a convert to Catholicism.
I have had the pleasure of hearing him talk on many occasions. Addresses
by Father Oesterreicher and literature by mail are the principal activities
of the "Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies". Father Oesterreicher also
plans
to publish books and circulate them throughout the world, in large quantities.
Father Oesterreicher leaves no stones unturned to convince Catholics
that "Judaeo-Christian" is a combination of two words that are synonyms
theologically. Nothing could be further from the truth. Father Oesterreicher
impresses that viewpoint upon his Catholic audiences. Father Oesterreicher
talks to Catholic audiences only, so far as I am able to tell. In his addresses
Father Oesterreicher impresses upon Catholics the opinion he personally
holds on the question of the dependence of the Christian faith upon so-called
"Judaism". His audiences depart Father Osterreicher's addresses very much
confused.
It would make better Catholics out of Father Oesterreicher's audiences
if he would "sell" Jesus and the Catholic Church rather than try to "sell"
so-called "Judaism" to his audiences. Well-planned and well-financed publicity
by so-called or self-styled "Jews" manages to keep Christians well informed
on the subject of so-called "Judaism". If Father Oesterreicher would concentrate
upon "selling" Jesus and the Christian faith to audiences of so-called
or self-styled "Jews" he would be doing more towards realizing the objectives
of Christian effort. The activities of this "one-man Institute" are somewhat
of a deep mystery. But I am certain that Monsignor McNulty will never allow
the "Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies" to bring discredit upon the
fine record of Seton Hall as one of the foremost Catholic universities
anywhere. But it will bear watching, and Monsignor McNulty will always
appreciate constructive comment.
The word "anti-Semitism" is another word which should be eliminated
from the English language. "Anti-Semitism" serves only one purpose today.
It is used as a "smear word". When so-called or self-styled "Jews" feel
that anyone opposes any of their objectives they discredit their victims
by applying the word "anti-Semite" or "anti-Semitic" through all the channels
they have at their command and under their control. I can speak with great
authority on that subject. Because so-called or self-styled "Jews" were
unable to disprove my public statements in 1946 with regard to the situation
in Palestine, they spent millions of dollars to "smear" me as an "anti-Semite"
hoping thereby to discredit me in the eyes of the public who were very
much interested in what I had to say. Until 1946 I was a "little saint"
to all so-called or self-styled "Jews". When I disagreed with them publicly
on the Zionist intentions in Palestine I became suddenly "Anti-Semite No.
1".
It is disgraceful to watch the Christian clergy take up the use of the
word "anti-Semitism". They should know better. They know that "anti-Semitism"
is a meaningless word in the sense it is used today. They know the correct
word is "Judaeophobe". "Anti-Semite" was developed into the "smear-word"
it is today because "Semite" is associated with Jesus in the minds of Christians.
Christians are accessories in the destruction of the Christian faith by
tolerating the use of the smear-word "anti-Semitic" to silence by the most
intolerant forms of persecution employing that smear word Christians who
oppose the evil conspirators.
It no doubt grieves you as much as it grieves me, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
to see our nation's moral standards sink to new all-time lows day by day.
Of that there is very little doubt. The moral standards of this nation
in political, economic, social and spiritual fields are the factors which
determine the position we will occupy in world affairs. We will be judged
on that basis from afar by the other 94% of the world's total population.
Our 6% of the world's total population will succeed or fail in its efforts
to retain world leadership by our moral standards because in the last analysis
they influence the attitudes and activities of the nation. The moral standards
are the crucible in which the nation's character is refined and molded.
The end product will never be any better than the ingredients used. It
is something to think about.
There is much for which this Christian country can still feel very proud.
But there is also much for which we cannot feel proud. A correct diagnosis
of our nation's rapidly deteriorating moral standards in all walks of life
will reveal the cause as the nation's current psychosis to concentrate
primarily on how to (1) "make MORE money" and (2) "have MORE fun". How
many persons do you personally know who include among their daily duties
service and sacrifice in the defense against its enemies of that priceless
birthright which is the God-given heritage of all those blessed to be born
Americans? What services? What sacrifices?
With very few exceptions this generation seems to regard everything
as secondary to our accountability to unborn generations for our generation's
breach of the faith and betrayal of our trust to posterity. The sabotage
of our nation's moral standards is more incidental to the program of that
inimical conspiracy than accidental in the continued march of mankind towards
an easier existence. The guidance and control of this nation's place in
history has gravitated by default into the hands of those persons lease
worthy of that trusteeship. This notable achievement by them is their reward
for their success in obtaining effective and numerous Christian "male prostitutes"
to "front" for them. Too many of these efficacious Christian "male prostitutes"
are scattered throughout the nation in public affairs for the security
of the Christian faith and the nation's political, social and economic
stability.
A "male prostitute" is a male who offers the faculties of his anatomy
from the neck up for hire to anyone who will pay his "asking price" exactly
as the female of the same species offers the facilities of her anatomy
from the neck down to anyone who will pay her "asking price". Thousands
of these pseudo-Christian "male-prostitutes" circulate freely unrecognized
in all walks of life proudly pandering pernicious propaganda for pecuniary
profit and political power. They are the "dog in the manger". The corroding
effect of their subtle intrigue is slowly but surely disintegrating the
moral fiber of the nation. This danger to the Christian faith cannot be
overestimated. This peril to the nation should not be underestimated.
The Christian clergy must remain alerted to it.
The international "crime of crimes" of all history, that reprehensible
iniquity in which this nation played the major role, was committed in Palestine
almost totally as a result of the interference of the United States in
that situation on behalf solely of the Zionist world-wide organization
with its headquarters in New York City. The interference of the United
States in that situation on behalf of the aggressors illustrates the power
exerted upon the domestic and foreign policies of this government by the
"male prostitutes" fearlessly functioning on behalf of the Zionist conspirators.
It is the blackest page in our history.
The responsibility for that un-Christian, non-Christian and anti-Christian
"cause" can be honestly deposited on the door-step of the Christian clergy.
They must assume the full guilt for that inhumane and unholy crime committed
in the name of Christian "charity". Sunday after Sunday, year in and year
out, the Christian clergy dinned into the ears of 150,000,000 Christians
who go to church regularly that Christians must regard it as their "Christian
duty" to support the Zionist conspiracy for the conquest of Palestine.
Well, we "sowed a wind", now we will "reap a whirlwind".
The 150,000,000 Christians in the United States were "high pressured"
by the Christian clergy to give their unqualified support to the Zionist
program to "repatriate" to their "homeland" in Palestine the so-called
or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe who were the descendants of the
Khazars. Christians were exhorted by the Christian clergy to regard the
so-called or self-styled "Jews" in eastern Europe as God's "chosen people"
and Palestine as their "Promised Land". But they knew better all the time.
It was a case of cupidity not stupidity you can be sure.
As a direct result of the activities of the "male prostitutes" on behalf
of the Zionist program, and contrary to all international law, to justice
and to equity, anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the 150,000,000
Christians in the United States, with few exceptions, demanded that the
Congress of the United States use the prestige and the power of this nation,
diplomatic, economic and military, to guarantee the successful outcome
of the Zionist program for the conquest of Palestine. This was done and
the Zionists conquered Palestine. We are responsible.
It is a well-established and an undeniable historic fact that the active
participation of the United States in the conquest of Palestine, on behalf
of the Zionists, was the factor responsible for the conquest of Palestine
by the Zionists. Without the active participation of the United States
on behalf of the Zionists it is certain that the Zionists would never have
attempted the conquest of Palestine by force of arms. Palestine today would
be an independent sovereign country under a form of government established
by self-determination of the lawful and legal Palestinians. This was aborted
by the payment of countless millions of dollars to Christian "male prostitutes"
by Zionists on a scale difficult for the uninitiated to even imagine.
With your kind permission anticipated, I beg to respectfully and sincerely
now submit to you here my comments on several passages in your latest article
which appeared in the September issue of the A.P.J. Bulletin under the
headline "News and Views of Jews". Deep down in my heart, my dear Dr. Goldstein,
I truly feel that I can make a modest contribution towards the big success
I wish you in the valuable work you are attempting, under such discouraging
handicaps. My reactions to what you state in your article may prove helpful
to you. My comments here were conceived in that spirit. May I suggest that
you favor them with your consideration accordingly. I feel that you may
be so close to the "trees" that you cannot see the "forest" in its true
perspective. You may find a genuinely sincere outsider's point of view
helpful to you in orienting your yesterday's attitudes to today's realities
and to tomorrow's seemingly certain probabilities. I believe you will.
You realize, my dear Dr. Goldstein, that all "Laws of Nature" are irrevocable.
"Laws of Nature" can neither be amended, suspended or repealed regardless
how we fell about them. One of these "Laws of Nature" is fundamentally
the basic reason "WHY JEWS BECOME CATHOLICS", the subtitle in your article
which attracted my attention. The "Law of Nature" to which I refer is the
law that "TO EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTIONS." In
my respectful opinion that "Law of Nature is the alpha and omega of all
questions as to "WHY JEWS BECOME CATHOLICS."
In your article you make this mystery sound very complicated. However,
it really is very simple. The so-called or self-styled "Jews" who become
Catholics today are subconsciously reacting to that "Law of Nature". The
conversion to Catholicism of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" is the
"EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION" of that "Law of Nature". Their conversion
is a "REACTION" not an "ACTION". Can you any longer doubt that after reading
these facts?
Catholicism has proven itself spiritually the "EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION"
of the religious worship practiced today under the name "Judaism", and
prior to that name under the names "Talmudism" and "Pharisaism". What is
spiritually conspicuous in Catholicism is conspicuous by its absence in
so-called "Judaism". What is spiritually conspicuous in so-called "Judaism"
is conspicuous by its absence in Catholicism, thank God. Anything which
may be said by anyone to the contrary notwithstanding, Catholicism and
so-called "Judaism" are at the opposite extremes of the spiritual spectrum.
Our subconscious mind never sleeps. It remains awake all the while the
conscious mind is asleep. This subconscious mind of so-called or self-styled
"Jews" is "WHY JEWS BECOME CATHOLICS". The more spiritually sensitive subconscious
minds of the so-called or self-styled "Jews" for 2000 years has been seeking
a spiritually secure beach-head as a refuge from the terror of the Talmud.
After a lifetime breathing the atmosphere of the Talmud so-called or self-styled
"Jews" found Catholicism a wholesome and refreshing change of spiritual
climate. They could not resist the spiritual force of the "EQUAL AND OPPOSITE
REACTION" WHICH ATTRACTED THEM TO CATHOLICISM.
Catholicism supplied a sacred sanctuary for the more spiritually sensitive
subconscious mind of the so-called or self-styled "Jew" seeking security
in his escape from the Talmud. Before sailing into the safe port of Catholicism
the subconscious mind of the more spiritually sensitive so-called or self-styled
"Jews" would embark upon that voyage of their more courageous co-religionists
but for one reason. They fear reprisals by their co-religionists.
In your article you mention just a few of the many penalties imposed
by reactionary so-called or self-styled "Jews" upon their co-religionists
who become converts to Catholicism. Conversion to Catholicism has even
deprived many former so-called or self-styled "Jews" from earning their
living. Many families faced starvation for that reason. A convert to Catholicism
must be ready and willing to suffer the economic, social and political
hardships his former co-religionists will make him pay as the price for
the spiritual wealth he will acquire with conversion to Catholicism.
Investigation by you will convince you that so-called or self-styled
"Jews" never turn spiritually to Catholicism "BECAUSE SUCH WAS THE JEWISH
RELIGION: BECAUSE SUCH IS THE CATHOLIC RELIGION", as you state in your
article. A so-called or self-styled "Jew" might question the wisdom of
conversion from the original to a copy of the original. Inasmuch as so-called
"Judaism" is a modern name for "Talmudism", and "Talmudism" is a name given
to the ancient practice of "Pharisaism", how can you reconcile what you
state that ". . . SUCH WAS THE JEWISH RELIGION: . . . SUCH IS THE CATHOLIC
RELIGION".
Several so-called or self-styled "Jews" who were recently converted
to Catholicism are my personal friends. Not one of those whom I have asked
became a Catholic because they felt "THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE JEWISH
CHURCH GLORIFIED", as you state in your article. What "JEWISH CHURCH" they
ask me? I am unable to answer. What "JEWISH CHURCH" I ask you? "Pharisaism"?
"Talmudism"? Surely you would not venture the opinion that the Catholic
Church is "Pharisaism" or "Talmudism" now "GLORIFIED" as Catholicism, would
you?
It must be quite apparent to you now that so-called or self-styled
"Jews" who became converts to Catholicism do not believe that the Catholic
Church, as you state in your article, "IS THE CHURCH OF JEWISH CONVERTS
AND THEIR DESCENDANTS". They do not regard Jesus as a "CONVERT" to the
Catholic Church. You include Jesus as a "CONVERT" to the Catholic Church,
in your article. In your article you state, "FIRST CAME CHRIST, THE JEW
OF JEWS". I never heard that designation before. Is it original? Nor will
converted so-called or self-styled "Jews" concur at all with "THEN CAME
THE APOSTLES, ALL JEWS", as you also state in your article. There is unquestionably
too big an area of disagreement here to disregard the views of those who
have become converts to Catholicism. Nor can these converts to Catholicism
be made to believe as truth "THEN CAME THE THOUSANDS OF THE FIRST MEMBERS
OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHO WERE JEWS", as you state in your article under
discussion here.
My dear Dr. Goldstein, as a former so-called or self-styled "Jew" for
almost half your life, when you became a convert to Catholicism did you
do so for the reasons you state in your article "WHY JEWS BECOME CATHOLICS"?
That would be difficult for me to believe in spite of the further statements
you make in your article "IN FACT THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A CATHOLIC
CHURCH WERE IT NOT FOR THE JEWS". That statement appears incredible in
view of incontestable facts, but these facts may not have been available
to you when you made it.
If so-called or self-styled "Jews" believed what you state in your article
they would undoubtedly prefer to stay put spiritually in their "JEWISH
CHURCH", by which you mean no doubt so-called "Judaism". They would query
why Catholics expected them to leave their "JEWISH CHURCH" to enter the
Catholic Church. It might appear more logical to expect Catholics to return
to the original of the Catholic Church, the "JEWISH CHURCH", or so-called
"Judaism". On the basis of what you state, that would not be inconsistent.
You take away my breath when you further state "CATHOLICISM WOULD NOT
EXIST WERE IT NOT FOR JUDAISM". That leaves very little for me to say after
writing these 62 pages of facts and comments. In a certain sense there
is certain sense to what you state if you feel that the existence of so-called
"Judaism", in the time of Jesus and since then, created the necessity for
the existence of Catholicism. But in no sense can the Catholic Church be
adjudicated the projection of "Pharisaism", "Talmudism", or so-called "Judaism".
We should get together in person to go into this matter more fully.
I hope you will extend that privilege to me in the not too distant future.
In closing this letter I sincerely request that you bear in mind while
reading this letter Galatians, 4:16, "Am I therefor become your enemy,
because I tell you the truth?" And to this I add, "I hope not". I hope
that we shall continue to be the very best of friends. If the Christian
faith is to be rescued from its dedicated enemies we must all join hands
and form a "human lifeline". We must pull together, not in different directions.
We must "bury the hatchet" but not in each other's heads.
Looking forward with pleasant anticipation to the delight of meeting
with you in person whenever you find it convenient and agreeable for yourself,
and awaiting your early reply for which I take this opportunity to thank
you in advance, and with best wishes for your continued good health and
success, please believe me to be
Most respectfully and very sincerely,
Benjamin H. Freedman
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