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 yourseves; 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 …
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