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Caution: Some of these
quotes from Judaism are quite harsh. The quotes from
Jewish writings themselves are usually defended as
being "taken out of context" or "removed" with
apologies, and with the justification that such
sentiments were warranted because the Jews were
being persecuted. While the sentiment behind such
apologies may be genuine, the fact is that Judaism
itself is a plan for hegemony, as stated from the
very beginning, well attested in the Tenach or Old
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Quotes from the Bible,
Talmud and Zohar (Kabbala)
Note: The disparaging
comments regarding non-Jews are expurgated from
various editions of the Talmud. They are, however,
found in the
Soncino English translation of 1935. (Some of
these pages have been reproduced in
The Plot Against Christianity.) Where
they have been expunged, one can find an "o"
indicating "oral tradition," which means they are
still taught. Like it or not, Orthodox Judaism
fervently teaches ultimate supremacy over "the
nations," i.e., Gentiles, whom it pronounces as
inferior creatures.
Many Jews over the centuries,
especially those who are "non-practicing," have
exposed and apologized for these malicious comments
and supremacist attitude. (See concentration camp
survivor and Israeli citizen Prof. Israel Shahak's,
Jewish History, Jewish Religion.) They
are not to be held responsible; in many cases, they
were conditioned from birth and are appalled at the
mentality. Almost none of our "Jewish" friends agree
with this attitude, although some joke about it.
It is true that some of
these quotes have been taken out of context. We are
attempting here to find them and put them within
their context. Also, a number of these contentious
remarks are followed by mitigating commentary from
another rabbi (such as the quote about heathens
studying the Torah at Sanhedrin 59a).
Some of these
quotes are translated quite differently from version
to version, apparently at times softened. According
to Prof. Israel Shahak, the original Hebrew passages
possess greater vitriol than do the translations.
Because of the translation discrepancies, it is
difficult to verify these quotes. The verses
in dark blue
are confirmed to
be in the Soncino Talmud. We have removed
some particularly incendiary remarks because they
cannot easily be verified. For more information
regarding apparently erroneous Talmudic quotes
please see the writings of
Judy Andreas.
Further, it should be
noted that some of these texts, such as the Zohar,
Aruch, Yalkut, Tosefta and Soferim, may not be
contained within the Talmud proper but are
referenced therein, as "commentaries" and
"tractates" also considered "sacred texts." While
the Soncino Talmud quotes are represented verbatim
where possible, at least some of the statements
purportedly from these other texts represent
paraphrases.
The text is frequently deliberately
difficult to follow, in Hebrew as well, such that it
needs to be simplified. (Such as concerns the use of
terms for non-Jews/Gentiles: "Cutheans,"
"Samaritans," "Egyptians," "Canaanites," "Karaites"
and "Minim," which refers to the "Judeo-Christian
heretics," also considered the "Sadducees."
"Heathens," of course, and "Goyim," are well-known
terms used in the Talmud. "Goyim," referring to
Gentiles, is said to mean "unclean.")
It should be also kept
in mind that much of the Talmud was orally taught
and/or written down long before pogroms and
persecution of Jews were common. Thus, the notion
that these anti-Gentile statements are a reaction to
such persecution is untrue. Indeed, it has been
suggested that the persecution was in large part on
account of such anti-Gentile sentiments and
behavior. For a rebuttal or apology of these quotes,
see below.
History of the Bible:
The Old Testament was
compiled during the period from the sixth century
BCE to the first century CE. The New Testament was
compiled over a period of several hundred years
starting in the second century CE. The book
represents as a whole not "history" but mythology,
much of which was boldly plagiarized from other
cultures around the known world.
As Rabbi Lewis
Browne says in Stranger Than Fiction:
"The Bible is a
whole vast world of wisdom, beauty, and moral
truth – but it is not a chronicle of
literal history. Its episodes and
chronicles were in the mouths of desert
tribesmen for long centuries before ever they
were written down. For long centuries they were
passed on from father to son, growing grander
and more wonderful with each generation. So that
by the time they were set down in writing, the
literal truth in them, like the vein of gold in
a mountain, was crushed and tortured and broken
in a thousand places."
These "episodes and
chronicles," however, did not represent the exploits
of "real people" but of mythical characters, many of
whom symbolized celestial and terrestrial bodies and
forces.
History of the Talmud
and Zohar:
The Talmud, which is
also called the Torah (as is Pentateuch or first
five books of the Old Testament, while the entire OT
is the "Tenach"), represents the enormous
compilation of the writings and pronouncements of
many rabbis and others who felt the need to make a
commentary on just about every subject under the
sun. It often reads like neurotic bickering by
less-than-sane individuals.
It, not the Old
Testament, is considered to be THE molding
literature that determines a Jew:
"...any decision
regarding the Jewish religion must be based on
the TALMUD as the final resume. . .. " (The
JEWS - Their History, Culture, and Religion,
Vol. 4, p. 1332, Jewish Publication Society
of America)
"The TALMUD is to
this day the circulating heart's blood of the
Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or
ceremonies we observe -- whether we are
Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely
spasmodic sentimentalists -- we follow the
TALMUD. It is our common law." (The Talmud;
Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith, by
Herman Wouk, "which also ran serially in the New
York Herald Tribune, 11/17/59")
Regarding what is
actually in the Talmud, Rabbi Lewis Browne says in
Stranger Than Fiction:
"There are in it
myths and vagaries, idiotic superstitions and
unhappy thoughts, things that are not merely
irrational but sometimes even quite offensive.
But there is also much profound wisdom buried in
it, and much lofty and generous thinking. Not
all the rabbis were bitter and hateful --
though, Heaven knows, they all had reason to be.
And not all of them were small-minded and
bigoted.... Granted there is much chaff in the
work, there are also kernels of richest wheat."
Unfortunately, those
kernels could take forever to find, by which time
many people would starve. Why look for seeds in mud
when you can go buy a bag of seeds? There are MANY
writings in the world much better than this neurotic
nonsense.
Rabbi Browne continues, regarding the
much-adored Zohar or Kabbala:
"...the real age of
the Cabala ...received its first impetus from a
book called the Zohar (the 'Splendor'),
late in the thirteenth century. This Zohar
contained a Cabalistic explanation of the Torah
that purported to reveal all the 'secret
meanings' underlying the peculiar phrases and
words of the holy text. A Spanish Jew named
Moses de Leon, who sponsored the book, claimed
it had been conceived and written by a
wonder-working rabbi eleven hundred years
earlier, and that the manuscript had lain hidden
away all the intervening years in a mysterious
cave. In all probability, however, he had
compiled himself from stolen material lifted by
him from Hindu, Persian, and Hebrew writings."
Thus, like the Bible,
the Zohar is a plagiarism of the mysteries of older
cultures.
Biblical Quotes
Regarding Israelite/Jewish Supremacy:
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the
LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his
own possession, out of all the peoples that are on
the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:6
When you draw near to a
city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to
it. And if its answer to you is peace and it opens
to you, then all the people who are found in it
shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.
But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war
against you, then you shall besiege it; and when the
LORD your God gives it into your hand you shall put
all its males to the sword, but the women and the
little ones, the cattle, and everything else in the
city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for
yourselves; and you shall enjoy the spoil of your
enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. Thus
you shall do to all the cities which are very far
from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD
your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall
save nothing that breathes ...
Deuteronomy 20:10-16
And in the days of those
kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which
shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty
be left to another people. It shall break into
pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end,
and it shall stand for ever ...
Daniel 2:44
[The Israelites] warred
against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and
slew every male.... And the people of Israel took
captive the women of Midian and their little ones;
and they took as booty all their cattle, their
flocks, and all their goods. All their cities in the
places where they dwelt, and all their encampments,
they burned with fire, and took all the spoil and
all the booty, both of man and of beast ...Moses
said to them, "Have you let all the women live?
...Now therefore, kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman who has known man by
lying with him. But all the young girls who have not
known man by lying with him, keep alive for
yourselves."
Numbers 31:7-18
He [the Jew] should not
press his fellow [Jew] for payment ...the foreigner
[Gentile] you may press for payment."
Deuteronomy 15: 2-3
You must not make your
brother pay interest, interest on money, interest on
food, interest on anything on which one may claim
interest. You may make a foreigner [Gentile] pay
interest but your brother [fellow Jew] you must not
make pay interest.
Deuteronomy 23: 19-20
Foreigners (Gentiles)
shall rebuild your walls, and their kings shall
minister to you ...Your gates shall be open
continuously; day and night they shall not be shut;
that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession. For the nation
or kingdom that will not not serve you; shall
perish; those nations shall be utterly laid
waste....
Isaiah 60:10-12
You shall suck the milk
of nations, you shall suck the breast of kings; and
you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and
your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 60:16
And strangers [Gentiles]
shall stand and feed your flocks, strangers shall be
your plowmen and vinedressers; but you shall be
called the priests of the LORD, men shall speak of
you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the
wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall
glory.
Isaiah 61:5-6
Talmudic Quotes:
The decisions of the
Talmud are words of the living God.
Jehovah himself
asks the opinions of earthly rabbis when there are
difficult affairs in heaven.
Rabbi Menachen,
Comments for the Fifth Book
Jehovah himself in
heaven studies the Talmud, standing: he has such
respect for that book.
Tractate Mechilla/Me'ilah
R.
Johanan said: A heathen who studies the Torah
deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded
us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance,
not theirs. Then why is this not included in the
Noachian laws? -- On the reading morasha [an
inheritance] he steals it; on the reading me'orasah
[betrothed], he is guilty as one who violates a
betrothed maiden, who is stoned.
An objection is
raised: R. Meir used to say. Whence do we know that
even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High
Priest? From the verse, [Ye shall therefore keep my
statutes, and my judgments:] which, if man do, he
shall live in them. Priests, Levites, and Israelites
are not mentioned, but men: hence thou mayest learn
that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a
High Priest! -- That refers to their own seven laws.
Sanhedrin 59a
To communicate anything
to a Goy about our religious relations would be
equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim
knew what we teach about them, they would kill us
openly.
Libbre David 37
A Jew should and must
make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books
contain anything against them.
Szaaloth-Utszabot,
The Book of Jore Dia 17
We
beg Thee, O Lord, indict Thy wrath on the nations
not believing in Thee, and not calling on Thy name.
Let down Thy wrath on them and inflict them with Thy
wrath. Drive them away in Thy wrath and crush them
into pieces. Take away, O Lord, all bone from them.
In a moment indict all disbelievers. Destroy in a
moment all foes of Thy nation. Draw out with the
root, disperse and ruin unworthy nations. Destroy
them! Destroy them immediately, in this very moment!
Prayer said on the eve of Passover
(Pranajtis: Christianus in
Talmudae Judeorum, quotations from: Synagoga
Judaica)
The Feast of Tabernacles
is the period when Israel triumphs over the other
people of the world. That is why during this feast
we seize the loulab and carry it as a trophy to show
that we have conquered all other peoples, known as
"populace"...
Zohar, Toldoth Noah
63b
When the Messiah comes
every Jew will have 2800 slaves.
Simeon Haddarsen,
fol. 56-D
Resh
Lakish said: He who is observant of fringes will be
privileged to be served by two thousand eight
hundred slaves, for it is said, Thus saith the Lord
of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that
ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of
the nations shall even take hold of the skirt of him
that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, etc.
Mas.
Shabbath 31b
On
the house of the Goy [Goy means unclean, and is the
disparaging term for a non-Jew] one looks as on the
fold of cattle.
Tosefta, Tractate Erubin VIII
When a Jew has a Gentile
in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same
Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so
that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property
of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no
one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to
seize it.
Schulchan Aruch,
Choszen Hamiszpat 156
If it can be proven that
someone has given the money of Israelites to the
Goyim, a way must be found after prudent
consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.
Choschen Hamm 388,
15
Happy will be the lost
of Israel, whom the Holy One, blessed be He, has
chosen from amongst the Goyim, of whom the
Scriptures say: "Their work is but vanity, it is an
illusion at which we must laugh; they will all
perish when God visits them in His wrath." At the
moment when the Holy One, blessed be He, will
exterminate all the Goyim of the world, Israel alone
will subsist, even as it is written: "The Lord alone
will appear great on that day!...
Zohar, Vayshlah 177b
That the Jewish nation is the only nation selected
by God, while all the remaining ones are
contemptible and hateful.
That all property of other nations belongs to the
Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to
seize upon it without any scruples.
An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles
of morality towards people of other tribes. He may
act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself
or to Jews in general.
A
Jew may rob a Goy, he may cheat him over a bill,
which should not be perceived by him, otherwise the
name of God would become dishonored.
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat, 348
R.
Hanina said: If a heathen smites a Jew, he is worthy
of death; for it is written, And he looked this way
and that way, and when he saw that there was no man,
he slew the Egyptian. [Ex. 2:12] R. Hanina also
said: He who smites an Israelite on the jaw, is as
though he had thus assaulted the Divine Presence;
for it is written, one who smiteth man [i.e. an
Israelite] attacketh the Holy One.
Sanhedrin 58b
[In other words, if a non-Jew
kills a Jew, the non-Jew can be killed. Punching an
Israelite is akin to assaulting God. (But
killing a
non-Jew is NOT like assaulting God.]
If
a goy killed a goy or a Jew he is responsible, but
if a Jew killed a goy he is not responsible.
Tosefta, Aboda Zara, VIII, 5
Has it
not been taught: "With respect to robbery -- if one
stole or robbed or [seized] a beautiful woman, or
[committed] similar offences, if [these were
perpetrated] by one Cuthean ["Cuthean" or
"Samaritan" = goy/gentile/heathen/non-Jew] against
another, [the theft, etc.] must not be kept, and
likewise [the theft] of an Israelite by a Cuthean,
but that of a Cuthean by an Israelite may be
retained?" But if robbery is a capital offence,
should not the Tanna have taught: He incurs a
penalty? -- Because the second clause wishes to
state, "but that of a Cuthean by an Israelite may be
retained," therefore the former clause reads,
"[theft of an Israelite by a Cuthean] must not be
kept." But where a penalty is incurred, it is
explicitly stated, for the commencing clause
teaches: "For murder, whether of a Cuthean by a
Cuthean, or of an Israelite by a Cuthean, punishment
is incurred; but of a Cuthean by an Israelite, there
is no death penalty?"
Sanhedrin 57a
[Translation: A Jew may rob a
Goy, but a Goy may not rob a Jew. If a Goy murders
another Goy or a Jew, he should be killed, but a Jew
will not be incur the death penalty for killing a
non-Jew.]
Kill the Goyim by any
means possible.
Choshen Ha'mishpat
425:50
Everyone who sheds the
blood of the impious [non-Jews] is as acceptable to
God as he who offers a sacrifice to God.
Yalkut 245c
Extermination of the Christians is a necessary
sacrifice.
Zohar, Shemoth
Tob shebbe goyyim harog
- Even the best of the Goyim (Gentiles) should be
killed.
Soferim 15, Rule 10
[NB: Hoffman says, "This
passage is not from the Soncino edition but is from
the original Hebrew of the Babylonian Talmud as
quoted by the 1907 Jewish Encyclopedia, published by
Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore Singer,
under the entry, 'Gentile,' (p. 617)." Another
source says this passage is at Avodah Zara 26b. We
have not been able to verify any of these
references. It does not seem to be at Avodah Zara
26b of the Soncino edition.]
What is
[the meaning of] Mount Sinai? The mountain whereon
there descended hostility [sin'ah ] toward idolaters
[non-Jews].
Shabbath 89a
The same
has been taught as follows: If the ox of an
Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite [non-Jew] there
is no liability, but if an ox of a Canaanite gores
an ox of an Israelite... the payment is to be in
full, as it is said: He stood and measured the
earth, he beheld and drove asunder the nations
[Gentiles], and again, He shined forth from Mount
Paran...implying that from Paran he exposed their
money to Israel.
Baba
Kama 38a
[Trans: The property of the
Israelite is more valuable than that of the Gentile.
Mount Paran refers to Deut. 33:2, where God offered
the law to the nations (Gentiles), who rejected it.
The money of the Gentiles is available to the
Israelites.]
ONE
SHOULD NOT PLACE CATTLE IN HEATHENS' INNS, BECAUSE
THEY ARE SUSPECTED OF IMMORAL PRACTICE WITH THEM. A
WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ALONE WITH THEM, BECAUSE THEY
ARE SUSPECTED OF LEWDNESS, NOR SHOULD A MAN BE ALONE
WITH THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SUSPECTED OF SHEDDING
BLOOD...
Why then
should we not leave female animals alone with female
heathens? -- Said Mar 'Ukba b. Hama: Because
heathens frequent their neighbors' wives, and
should one by chance not find her in, and find the
cattle there, he might use it immorally. You may
also say that even if he should find her in he might
use the animal, as a Master has said: Heathens prefer the cattle of Israelites to their
own wives, for R. Johanan said: When the
serpent came unto Eve he infused filthy lust into
her.
Avodah Zarah 22a-b
He who
pours the oil of anointing over cattle or vessels is
not guilty; if over heathens or the dead, he is not
guilty. The law relating to cattle and vessels is
right, for it is written: Upon the flesh of man
[adam] shall it not be poured; and cattle and
vessels are not man. Also with regard to the dead,
[it is plausible] that he is exempt, since after
death one is called corpse and not man. But why is
one exempt in the case of heathens; are they not in
the category of adam?—No, it is written: And ye my
sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are adam [man]: Ye
are called adam but heathens are not called ‘adam.
But is it not written: And the persons [adam] were
sixteen thousand? -- Because it is used in
opposition to cattle. But is it not written: And
should I not have pity on Nineveh [that great city,
wherein are more than six score thousand persons
[adam]?--This too is used in opposition to cattle.
Mas. K'rithoth 6b
[This passage refers to anointing
with oil. "Heathens," i.e., Gentiles, are not "adam"
or man but are equated with cattle]
An
objection was raised: And the persons were sixteen
thousand!--This is due to [the mention of] cattle.
Wherein are more than six-score thousand persons
that cannot discern between their right and their
left hand!--This is due [to the mention of] cattle.
Mas.
Yevamoth 61b
[Again non-Jews are referred to as "cattle."]
All Israelites will have a part in the future
world... The Goyim, at the end of the world will be
handed over to the angel Duma and sent down to hell.
Zohar, Shemoth, Toldoth Noah,
Lekh-Lekha
Jehovah created the
non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have
to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently
an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the
Jew day and night.
Midrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L
Everything a Jew needs for his church ritual no goy
is permitted to manufacture, but only a Jew, because
this must be manufactured by human beings and the
Jew is not permitted to consider the goyim as human
beings.
Schulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim 14, 20, 32, 33, 39
A Jew may do to a
non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he
treats a piece of meat.
Hadarine, 20, B; Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat
348
A Jew may violate but
not marry a non-Jewish girl.
Gad. Shas. 2:2
A
boy-goy after nine years and one day old, and a girl
after three years and one day old, are considered
filthy.