For there is nothing hidden that will
not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or
brought out into the open.” Luke 8:17
The faith that is known as Judaism today was never called thus.
Rabbi Adolph Moses in collaboration with Rabbi H.G. Enlow explained
clearly in “Yahvism and Other Discourses,” that: “Among the innumerable
misfortunes which have befallen… the most fatal in its consequences is
the name Judaism… neither in biblical nor post-biblical, neither in
Talmudic nor in much later times, is the term Judaism ever heard…”
And what was it called before?
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein stated in his book
“The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith” that:
“Pharisaism 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 . . .”
Judaism is actually Pharisaism, and
therefore it is a misnomer since it is neither the doctrine of Judah nor
the doctrine that Christ the Judahite practiced.
“Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and thought of the Jew for all the future,” explains the Jewish Encyclopedia.
In fact, Pharisaism is the doctrine of
the Pharisees of old, an evil doctrine they brought back from their
Babylonian captivity. It does not follow the truth of the Bible, neither
of the Old Testament nor of the New. Its central tenets are found in a
book called the Talmud (the real Satanic Verses), a book full of worldly
traditions, lies, and superstitions.
“The Babylonian Talmud is based on the
mystical religious practices of the Babylonians which were assimilated
by the Judahite Rabbis during their Babylonian captivity around 600 B.C.
The Rabbis then used these occult traditions in place of the word of
God,” wrote Edward Hendrie in Solving the Mystery of Babylon the Great.
And that is why Jesus was constantly rebuking the Pharisees:
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44
“You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” Mark 7:8
“For you have taken away the key to knowledge.” Luke 11:52
“You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?” Matthew 23:33
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Matthew 23:15
The term Judaism was first coined by
historian Flavius Josephus as he described the history, the
civilization, the language, the poetry, the religion, the art, the
science, the manners, the customs, the institutions, and the demise
of the Ancient Judahites. It was not coined with the intention of
starting a religion, and nor is Judaism even mentioned in the Bible.
The people who first seized the term
Judaism and its historical content were first-century Christians. They
were using it as an educational tool to acquaint themselves with the
true Judahite Hebrews who practiced the doctrine of Yeshua. Such a
mechanism allowed them to better comprehend the Epistles of the
Apostles.
As a result, they were able to grasp two important facts that have eluded today’s Christians:
The Apocalypse of AD 70
a) that the Judahite Hebrews who became Christians were the true Israel of God, whom God spared the Great Tribulation during the Apocalypse of AD 70 –
b) that those who followed the Pharisees
were not the true Israel of God and therefore were not spared during
said catastrophe that saw the genocide and the end of the Hebrew race.
“For they are not all Israel which are of Israel…” Romans 9:6
“The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
“Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!” Matthew 23:38
In effect, those Judahite Hebrews who followed the Pharisees were the seed of the Devil, a truth the Apostle John was trying to convey in Revelation by calling them “Babylon.”
“The name written on her forehead was
a mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes, and of the
abominations of the earth.” Revelation 17:5
As for the word “Jew,” Jewish-born historian Benjamin H. Freedman explained it thus:
“When the word ‘Jew’ was first introduced
into the English language in the 18th century (1775) its one and only
implication, inference and innuendo was ‘Judean’. 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.”
As it stands, the adherents of Pharisaism
or Rabbinists not only hijacked the word Judaism, but they also
misappropriated the word Jew. However – over time and as it pertains to
Christianity – the word Jew was completely hollowed out of its “Judean”
or “Judahite” meaning because those who hijacked it were not of the
tribe of Judah. In fact, in many Christian circles today, that word
causes quite the confusion.
Again, here’s historian Benjamin Freedman:
“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 ‘Yeshua 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 ‘Yeshua was a Jew‘…
(They) 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 ‘Yeshua was a Jew’.”
The forced evolution of the word “Jew” is
similar to the evolution that befell the word “gay.” Gay=Merry became
Gay=Homosexual. Try telling someone who’s happy (and who’s not a
homosexual) that you’re glad he’s so “gay” and see what happens.
Another example is when many Christians
today interact with a Jew they just met, their immediate reaction is to
say, “Oh, Yeshua was a Jew too.” What they’re unwittingly saying is, “Oh,
Yeshua was a Pharisee too.”
Oh, the blasphemy!
A word is what it is according to the
meaning of its time. The word “Jew” today is so entrenched in describing
one who follows Pharisaism (or Judaism) that it’s been completely
emptied of its original meaning. Hence it no longer describes a Judahite
or Judean, the actual word
in the non-translated bible. That is why it needs to be struck from the
translated bible, because all it does is create confusion in the
Christian mind; and that very confusion is exactly what the demonic
forces want in order to unseat Christians as the new Chosen People –
chosen to love and to do good – and to calumniate Christ as a Pharisee.
“God is not the author of confusion…” 1 Corinthians 14:33
Once the words “Judaism” and “Jew” were
commandeered, they became the immediate revisionist words that
historians endeavored to apply to everything “Jewish,” especially as
such impetus was spurred on by that well-financed group historian
Benjamin Freedman mentioned. See How the Ashkenazi Jews conquered the West.
As a result, the words that were
previously used to describe the adherents of Pharisaism and their
religion were sanitized. This in turn caused compromised writers of all
stripes to follow suit, as they searched for any excuse to exploit the
word “Jew” in reference to proselytes of Pharisaism.
For example, pre-18th century playwrights
employed the word IEWE (Iewe is old English and means Jehudite/Judahite
or Judean) in their work, but unlike the word Jew it was pronounced Yee-hoo-wee, stretching its best to imitate the original Hebrew phonetic of Ye-hu-wdiy.
Its usage was never meant to describe a JEW in the sense of the
religious person we know today, but that didn’t matter to those who had
revisionism in mind.
Yeshua whips satanic the money changers.
As a case in point, in The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s Shylock the Iewe
was a fictional creative construct that borrowed its obvious tautology
from the biblical Judahite money changers, whom Yeshua whipped and chased
out of the Temple. Its creation was not intended to mimic Rabbinists of
Shakespeare’s time. Nonetheless, it’s been widely and erroneously
interpreted to mean a “JEW” in the modern sense.
In “Was Shylock Jewish?” Professor Emma Smith clarified it thus:
“That ‘Jew’ (Iewe) might be an adjective
rather than a noun – an attribute of a person which does not always or
only denote religion or race – is common in its deployment in early
modern English… In the early modern period, the signifier ‘Jew’ (Iewe)
had become at least partially detached from the racial or religious
signified with which it is now firmly associated… R.H. Tawney – along
with Shakespeare’s own biography – demonstrated long ago that
Elizabethan money lending was ‘not a profession but a bye-employment’.
Thus the early modern association between Jews and money lending was
almost always a knowing fiction…”
Shylock & Jessica
Yet,
compromised historians and critics convoluted the whole
Shylock-money-lender thing and re-engineered it to be construed as
anti-“Jew” – just the way they twisted Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Iewe of Malta into The Rich Jew of Malta. As Professor Smith pointed out: “…the representation of antisemitism is more interesting and significant to us…”
However, Shakespeare was not anti-Jew as
some allege, and nor was Shylock created to malign those who today are
known as Jews, especially when he was penned at a time when “Jews” were
called Rabbinists (followers of the Babylonian Talmud), and everyone
knew they were not of the tribe of Judah.
And that’s why one should always be suspicious of the cry-wolf accusation of antisemitism, as “Jews” are not even Semites.
“…it is impossible to change the genetic
make-up from Caucasian to Semitic. Which automatically nullifies their
claim to be returning to Israel, the land of their forebears, because
their forebears were never in Biblical Israel,” explained
Benjamin Disraeli, a former Jew who converted to Christianity and a
Victorian Prime Minister of Great Britain, referring to his fellow Ashkenazim who were migrating from Russia and Eastern Europe to Palestine, with a view to turning the Arab country into Israel.
ADDENDUM
The Babylonian Talmud
(As submitted to us by Mr. Larry Silverstein)
You must ALWAYS say Talmudic Jew and Talmudic Judaism, when speaking about Rabbinism (Pharisaism):
RABBINISM
Unwitting Disciples of Zoroaster: The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Rabbanism in the Talmud and Midrash. In short, modern Yiddish Jews who control banking, business, Israel, NYC, and most of the secular world and are behind most, if not all, of the evil that is spread over the earth. Bloodline of lucifer, nephilim. The damned
From 226 to 379, the Persian kings
gathered and systematized the works of Zoroaster. The result was
twenty-one great volumes – against the twenty-one words of the most holy
Persian prayer, the Ahuravarrya. Known as Nusk, it is the Talmud of the
Zoroastrians (speaking anachronistically).
Due to the hostilities between the
Persians and the Arabs in the latter half of the eighth century, the
books of the Nusk were singled out for destruction. What now remains to
the remnants of Zoroastrianism are five volumes:
(1) Yasna – the book of sacrifices, which
contains seventy-two chapters among them the Gatha passages (the oldest
and most hallowed writings of the Zend-Avesta)
(2) Vendidad – twenty-two chapters on the laws regulating evil spirits.
(3) Yasht -an elaborate, detailed account of the Persian deities.
(4) The Vispered – twenty-four chapters (a supplement to Yasna).
(5) Khorda – an abridged edition of the laws in the Zend-Avesta.
The Talmud was greatly influenced by
Persian culture. It derives, in fact, much of its content directly from
the Zend-Avesta, as will be detailed in brief below. One finds in the
Talmud not only Persian superstition and legend, but many legal
decisions handed down in accordance with Persian code. Not to mention
the customs and usages of Persian life. Even the forms and expressions
of the literary Pahlavi entered into the Talmud in no small way. The
Persian influence on the Talmud is so great that, at times, it is
difficult to separate what is Jewish from what is Persian in it.
DEMONS
Let’s start with a look at Ahriman.
Ahriman’s myriads of helpers are referred to as divs, what we now call
devils. Vendidad I, 21 notes that these divs are more numerous than the
dust of the earth (as does Talmud Masekhet Berakhot 6, Midrash Tehillim
17, Tanhuma, etc.,). The following passages from the Talmud and Midrash
regarding demons (divs) were derived or directly copied from Vendidad
II:
Masekhet Sanhedrin 25 notes that devs are
particularly active in graveyards. Masekhet Gitin 68 and Midrash
Qohelet state that divs are male and female. Masekhet Berakhot 61 and
Masekhet Hulin 105 state that demons can assume the shape of human
beings, or flys. Masekhet Hagigah 16 contends that demons, like human
beings, can reproduce. Masekhet Gitin 68 calls Ashemdai (Aesmadiv in
Persian) the greatest of the divs. One of the fundamental teachings of
Persian religious conduct is the avoidance of unclean hands (Masekhet
Shabbat 109). It was believed that Sabetkh, a div, rests upon such
hands: The Qissur Shulhan Arukh 2.1 quoting Yosef Caro’s Beit Yosef
states, “when a man is asleep, the holy soul departs from his body, and
an unclean spirit descends upon him. When rising from sleep, the unclean
spirit departs from his body except for his fingers, and does not
depart until one spills water upon them three times alternately. One is
not allowed to walk four cubits (six feet) without having one’s hands
washed, except in cases of extreme necessity.”
Masekhet Megillah 3 states that during
the period of night, no one must offer or receive the hand of another
(for fear of an evil spirit). Masekhet Shevu‘ot 15 and Masekhet Berakhot
4 contain the Persian prayer to repel the unseen forces of evil.
The driving off of evil spirits by
adjuration was an integral part of the Persian religion. Whole systems
of conjuration were devised by them; and many were the invocations with
which some of them commanded the devils. All of these spells and
“prayers” can be found in the Talmud. A few examples will serve to
illustrate:
Vendidad II, 223 and Masekhet Qiddushin
81 state that the chief thing to utter when exorcising a demon was, “I
expel you from me.”
If one has been bitten by a mad dog, a
spell must be intoned in order to eject the hurtful spirit. [This very
incantation, from Vendidad I.30, as well as the spell to ward against
forgetfulness and the spell to insure that the sheep of the
slaughterhouse may be fat have been written in the Talmud]
The Persian beliefs in cameos, amulets,
and talismans were also absorbed into the Talmud, along with the reading
of sacred writings to restore health. In general, Zoroastrian influence
is directly responsible for the presence of demons and devils in the
Midrash and Talmud.
OTHER ELEMENTS
To attempt to detail every point where
the Talmud draws upon the Zend-Avesta would take a book. The following
section will detail some of the more prominent concepts:
The matter of benedictions, or the saying of grace over something that is eaten is of Persian origin (Vendidad II.112)
The entire marriage ritual, with its special blessings, ceremony and rites is fully delimitated in the Zend-Avesta (II.157, 158, III.228)
Vendidad II.130 and Midrash Tehillim both contend that the righteous who dwell in Paradise are as luminous as the stars.
Vendidad 18, 166 and Masekhet Sanhedrin 17 state that the art of magic does not come from the Evil Power, and all wise men (in the case of the Talmud the men of the Sanhedrin can practice it).
Both the Zend-Avesta (according to the Persians) and Torah (according to the Talmud) are able to repel demonic influences, merely by their recitation (c.f., Seder Eliyhau, Zuta 82, Masekhet Megillah 31, and Masekhet Ta‘anit 27).
The passage in the Zend-Avesta where Ahura Mazda speaks to Zoroaster of the life of virtue that follows death has been copied directly into the Talmud (Masekhet Avot 86).
The disciples of Zoroaster are assured of a heavenly existence, so the Talmud says of the nation of Israel (Masekhet ‘Eruvin 10).
God is with him who studies and mediates in the night (Vendidad 18, Masekhet ‘Avodah Zarah 3, Masekhet Berakhot 30).
The entire marriage ritual, with its special blessings, ceremony and rites is fully delimitated in the Zend-Avesta (II.157, 158, III.228)
Vendidad II.130 and Midrash Tehillim both contend that the righteous who dwell in Paradise are as luminous as the stars.
Vendidad 18, 166 and Masekhet Sanhedrin 17 state that the art of magic does not come from the Evil Power, and all wise men (in the case of the Talmud the men of the Sanhedrin can practice it).
Both the Zend-Avesta (according to the Persians) and Torah (according to the Talmud) are able to repel demonic influences, merely by their recitation (c.f., Seder Eliyhau, Zuta 82, Masekhet Megillah 31, and Masekhet Ta‘anit 27).
The passage in the Zend-Avesta where Ahura Mazda speaks to Zoroaster of the life of virtue that follows death has been copied directly into the Talmud (Masekhet Avot 86).
The disciples of Zoroaster are assured of a heavenly existence, so the Talmud says of the nation of Israel (Masekhet ‘Eruvin 10).
God is with him who studies and mediates in the night (Vendidad 18, Masekhet ‘Avodah Zarah 3, Masekhet Berakhot 30).
The Persians believed that life is but a
passing, unimportant state of existence, only after death does one truly
begin to live, so Midrash Qohelet Rabba. Zoroastrians were loath to
convert others to their faith, so too is found in the Talmud a
discouragement to prosetylization (Masekhet Qiddushin 70).
Though the Zend-Avesta was unknown before
the coming of Zoroaster, the righteous who had lived before him were
aware of it, and followed the precepts it contained. The Talmud, in this
vein, contends that the Patriarchs perfectly observed the Torah even
though it had not yet been given (Masekhet Yoma 28).
Truly, all of the enjoinments concerning
demons and spirits detailed in the Vendidad may be found in the Talmud.
It is as if the authors of the Talmud sat down and copied the Vendidad
into the Talmud. Many of the laws of Yasna: sacrificial arrangement,
rendering of divine service, and regulations of cleanliness form the
major portion of Talmudic law in these matters. The list goes on and on,
to the extent that one begins to wonder if Rabbanites are unwitting
disciples of Zoroaster.
THE TALMUD IN JUDAISM
Both classical and modern-day Judaism
gives precedence to the Talmud more than the Torah and other books of
the Old Testament. The article establishes the central role and
authority of Talmud from standard Jewish and secular sources.
There is a misconception about Judaism
common among Christians and Muslims. This is the misleading idea that
Judaism is a ‘biblical religion’; that the Old Testament has in Judaism
the same central place and legal authority which the Bible has for
Protestant or even Catholic Christianity. The legal interpretation of
sacred texts is rigidly fixed in Judaism – but by the Talmud, rather
than by the Bible itself (Shahak 1994).
The supremacy of the Talmud over the
Bible may be seen in the case of the black Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopians
are very knowledgeable of the Old Testament. However, their religion is
so ancient that it pre-dates the Talmud, of which the Ethiopians have no
knowledge. The New York Times wrote,
“The problem is that Ethiopian Jewish
tradition goes no further than the Bible or Torah; the later Talmud and
other commentaries that form the basis of modern traditions never came
their way.”[1]
Because they are not versed in Talmudic
tradition, the black Ethiopian Jews are discriminated against and have
been forbidden to perform marriages, funerals and other services in the
Israeli state. It is the natural consequence of Jewish belief of
considering the Talmud superior to the Torah. The Talmud states,
Erubin 21b (Soncino edition):
“My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah.”
Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz is the
founder of the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, and has
enjoyed the backing of Israeli presidents and prime ministers; he is a
recipient of Israel’s highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize. He is
currently translating the Talmud into English, French, and Russian. He
writes,
“If the Bible is the cornerstone of
Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar, soaring up from the
foundations and supporting the entire spiritual and intellectual
edifice. In many ways the Talmud is the most important book in Jewish
culture, the backbone of creativity and of national life. No other work
has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish
life, shaping spiritual content and serving as a guide to conduct.”[2]
“Historically speaking, the Talmud is the
central pillar of Jewish culture. This culture is many faceted, but
each of its numerous aspects is connected in some way with the Talmud.
This is true not only of the literature that deals directly with the
interpretation or continuation of the Talmud, but also of all other
types of Jewish creativity.”[3]
The importance of the Talmud and its authority can be understood by what the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia states,
“The Talmud is undoubtedly one of the
most remarkable literary productions of all times. It is an encyclopedia
covering the whole scene of human life. It is almost impossible to
convey to one who has not spent years in the study of this complex work
an idea of its true nature, as even the most exact translations cannot
catch the inner spirit of the Talmud … As a repository of the Oral Law,
the Talmud’s authority is regarded as divine by Orthodox Jews, and hence
it is held to be binding and immutable. Conservative and Reform Jews,
however, do not recognize the absolute binding power of the Talmud,
although they acknowledge the great part it has played in determining
Jewish religious ideas and observances.”[4]
Herman Wouk is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of eleven novels, three plays, and two works of nonfiction. In
his book, This is My God; the Jewish Way of Life, serialized in the New
York Herald-Tribune in 1959, he wrote:
“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.”[5]
THE ROLE OF THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD IN JUDAISM
The Talmud is not an ancient document
with no relevance to modern Judaism. On the contrary, the Encyclopedia
Britannica tells us that with the rebirth of a Jewish national state
since 1948 and the revival of Jewish culture, the Talmud has achieved
renewed importance. Orthodox Judaism has always focused upon its study
and has believed it to be the absolute religious authority. It has
become one of the aims of religious (Orthodox) Jews there to establish
the law of Talmud as the general law of the state. Aside from Israel,
the legal system described above has continued to function down to the
present day in Jewish communities all over the world. The jurisdiction
of rabbinic courts is voluntarily accepted by Orthodox Jews. These
courts continue to exert authority, especially in the areas of family
and dietary law, the synagogue, and the organization of charity and
social activity. Furthermore, Conservative Judaism, too, has always been
committed to the Talmud. Thus, a network of day schools and higher
institutions of learning in which the Talmud occupies a major role in
the curriculum has been established. Scores of young Conservative Jews
now search in the Talmud for answers to their crucial problems.[6]
Footnotes:
[1] N.Y. Times: Sept. 29, 1992, p.4
[2] Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz, The Essential Talmud, page 3
[3] Adin Steinsaltz, The Essential Talmud, trans. Chaya Galai (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 266
[4] Herschel Revel, Librarian of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, New York, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. “Talmud,” Volume 10, page 165.
[5] Herman Wouk, This is My God; the Jewish Way of Life quoted by Elizabeth Dilling in The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today, page 2.
[6] “Talmud and Midrash.” Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006.
[1] N.Y. Times: Sept. 29, 1992, p.4
[2] Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz, The Essential Talmud, page 3
[3] Adin Steinsaltz, The Essential Talmud, trans. Chaya Galai (New York: Basic Books, 1976) 266
[4] Herschel Revel, Librarian of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, New York, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. “Talmud,” Volume 10, page 165.
[5] Herman Wouk, This is My God; the Jewish Way of Life quoted by Elizabeth Dilling in The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today, page 2.
[6] “Talmud and Midrash.” Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006.