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[tahl-moo d, -muh d, tal-] /tl md, -md, tl-/

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the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.

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the primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara

either of two recensions of this compilation, the Palestinian Talmud of about 375 ad, or the longer and more important Babylonian Talmud of about 500 ad

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Talmudic, Talmudical, adjectiveTalmudism, noun

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C16: from Hebrew talmdh, literally: instruction, from lmadh to learn

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body of Jewish traditional ceremonial and civil law, 1530s, from late Hebrew talmud "instruction" (c.130 C.E.), from lama-d "to teach." Related: Talmudic.

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Collections of commentaries on biblical texts that form, with the Torah, the foundation for the religious laws of Judaism.

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The Gemara (also transliterated Gemora, Gemarah or, less commonly, Gemorra; '' noun - from Aramaic verb gamar, literally, "study") is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah. After the Mishnah was published by Judah HaNasi (c. 200 CE), the work was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their discussions were written down in a series of books that became the Gemara, which when combined with the Mishnah constituted the Talmud.

There are two versions of the Gemara. The Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi) was compiled by scholars of the Land of Israel, primarily of the academies of Tiberias and Caesarea, which was published between about 350400 CE. The Talmud Bavli was published about 500 CE by scholars of Babylonia, primarily of the academies of Sura, Pumbedita, and Mata Mehasia. By convention, a reference to the "Gemara" or "Talmud," without further qualification, refers to the Babylonian version, see Talmud.

The Gemara and the Mishnah together make up the Talmud. The Talmud thus comprises two components: the Mishnah the core text; and the Gemara analysis and commentary which "completes" the Talmud (see Structure of the Talmud).

The rabbis of the Mishnah are known as Tannaim (sing. Tanna ). The rabbis of the Gemara are referred to as Amoraim (sing. Amora ).

Because there are two Gemaras, there are in fact two Talmuds: the Jerusalem Talmud (Hebrew: , "Talmud Yerushalmi"), and the Babylonian Talmud (Hebrew: , "Talmud Bavli"), corresponding to the Jerusalem Gemara and the Babylonian Gemara; both share the same Mishnah. The Gemara is mostly written in Aramaic, the Jerusalem Gemara in Western Aramaic and the Babylonian in Eastern Aramaic, but both contain portions in Hebrew. Sometimes the language changes in the middle of a story.

In a narrow sense, the word Gemara refers to the mastery and transmission of existing tradition, as opposed to sevara, which means the deriving of new results by logic. Both activities are represented in the "Gemara" as a literary work. The term "gemara" for the activity of study is far older than its use as a description of any text: thus Pirke Avot (Ch.5), a work long preceding the recording of the Talmud, recommends starting "Mishnah" at the age of 10 and "Gemara" at the age of 15.

The analysis of the Amoraim is generally focused on clarifying the positions, words and views of the Tannaim. These debates and exchanges form the "building-blocks" of the gemara; the name for such a passage of gemara is a sugya (; plural sugyot). A sugya will typically comprise a detailed proof-based elaboration of the Mishna. Every aspect of the Mishnaic text is treated as a subject of close investigation. This analysis is aimed at an exhaustive understanding of the Mishna's full meaning.

In the Talmud, a sugya is presented as a series of responsive hypotheses and questions with the Talmudic text as a record of each step in the process of reasoning and derivation. The Gemara thus takes the form of a dialectical exchange (by contrast, the Mishnah states concluded legal opinions and often differences in opinion between the Tannaim. There is little dialogue). The disputants here are termed the makshan (questioner, "one who raises a difficulty") and tartzan (answerer, "one who puts straight").

The gemara records the semantic disagreements between Tannaim and Amoraim. Some of these debates were actually conducted by the Amoraim, though many of them are hypothetically reconstructed by the Talmud's redactors. (Often imputing a view to an earlier authority as to how he may have answered a question: "This is what Rabbi X could have argued ...") Rarely are debates formally closed.

The distinctive character of the gemara derives largely from the intricate use of argumentation and debate, described above. In each sugya, either participant may cite scriptural, Mishnaic and Amoraic proof to build a logical support for their respective opinions. The process of deduction required to derive a conclusion from a prooftext is often logically complex and indirect. "Confronted with a statement on any subject, the Talmudic student will proceed to raise a series of questions before he satisfies himself of having understood its full meaning." [1]. This analysis is often described as "mathematical" in approach; Adin Steinsaltz makes the analogy of the Amoraim as scientists investigating the Halakha, where the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta and midrash are the phenomena studied.

Prooftexts quoted to corroborate or disprove the respective opinions and theories will include:

The actual debate will usually centre on the following categories:

Why does the Mishna use one word rather than another? If a statement is not clear enough, the Gemara seeks to clarify the Mishna's intention.

Exploring the logical principles underlying the Mishnah's statements, and showing how different understandings of the Mishnah's reasons could lead to differences in their practical application. What underlying principle is entailed in a statement of fact or in a specific instance brought as an illustration? If a statement appears obvious, the Gemara seeks the logical reason for its necessity. It seeks to answer under which circumstances a statement is true, and what qualifications are permissible. All statements are examined for internal consistency.

Resolving contradictions, perceived or actual, between different statements in the Mishnah, or between the Mishnah and other traditions; e.g., by stating that: two conflicting sources are dealing with differing circumstances; or that they represent the views of different Rabbis. Do certain authorities differ or not? If they do, why do they differ? If a principle is presented as a generalization, the gemara clarifies how much is included; if an exception, how much is excluded.

Demonstrating how the Mishnah's rulings or disputes, derive from interpretations of Biblical texts. The Gemara will often ask where in the Torah the Mishnah derives a particular law. See Talmudic hermeneutics.

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Answer Zionism was (and is) the movement to establish and preserve a Jewish homeland.

It is the ideology that Jewish people should have their own state. The Land of Israel was promised to the Jewish people by God, according to the Bible. Jews lived in the Land of Israel from the time of Joshua until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Almost all Jews were exiled to other countries, known to Jews as the Diaspora. For centuries, Jews prayed for a return to Zion. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement, led by Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, encouraged Jews to turn the dream into reality, and lobbied the international community to understand that a "Jewish national home" was the only solution to anti-Semitism and the "Jewish problem."

In 1947, the dream was realized when the UN voted to partition Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs immediately attacked the Jews and in the middle of the war, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel declared its independence. Today, about half of the world's Jewry lives in Israel. Most Jews living in and out of Israel are supporters of Israel and the Zionist ideology, although a small percent believe only divine intervention should bring about a Jewish state.

It is worth noting that many Anti-Semites claim that Zionism is a code word for some unclear international cabal of evil Jews trying to control the world. Such a cabal does not exist and insinuations without evidence or with evidence that has proven to be a hoax that it does exist are Anti-Semitic. Aside from this, since such a cabal would not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism, it, therefore, could not be Zionism. Additional Definitions These are several other people's different descriptions:

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Zionism was (and is) the movement to establish and preserve aJewish homeland.

It is the ideology that Jewish people should have their own state.The Land of Israel was promised to the Jewish people by God,according to the Bible. Jews lived in the Land of Israel from thetime of Joshua until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in70 CE. Almost all Jews were exiled to other countries, known toJews as the Diaspora. For centuries, Jews prayed for a return toZion. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement, led byTheodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, encouraged Jews to turn the dreaminto reality, and lobbied the international community to understandthat a "Jewish national home" was the only solution toanti-Semitism and the "Jewish problem."

In 1947, the dream was realized when the UN voted to partitionPalestine between the Jews and the Arabs. The Arabs immediatelyattacked the Jews and in the middle of the war, on May 14, 1948,the State of Israel declared its independence. Today, about half ofthe world's Jewry lives in Israel. Most Jews living in and out ofIsrael are supporters of Israel and the Zionist ideology, althougha small percent believe only divine intervention should bring abouta Jewish state.

It is worth noting that many Anti-Semites claim that Zionism is acode word for some unclear international cabal of evil Jews tryingto control the world. Such a cabal does not exist and insinuationswithout evidence or with evidence that has proven to be a hoax thatit does exist are Anti-Semitic. Aside from this, since such a cabalwould not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism, it, therefore,could not be Zionism.

Additional Definitions
These are several other people's different descriptions:

• Zionism was the movement for (originally) the reestablishmentand (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in whatis now Israel. It was established as a political organization in1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann.
• The English word 'Zionism' has two distinct senses: 1: a policyfor establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews inPalestine; 2: a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19thcentury with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine
• Zionism is the belief that the Jews should have politicalself-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind theEstablishment of the State of Israel.
• Jewish nationalist movement with the goal of creating a Jewishhomeland.
• "Jewish" national movement
• Zionism = belief that Israel has the right to EXIST, which isno different to the belief that the 22 Muslim nations have a rightto exist.
• Zionism is basically the hope and wish of the Jews to return totheir homeland - The land of Israel. This is called Zionism becausethe land of Israel is also called "Zion". (In the Tanakh or JewishBible, it is referred to as another name of Jerusalem and in latereras the meaning became more general, regarding the whole land ofIsrael.)
• Zionism can be described as a yearning to make Israel ahomeland for Jews
• Zionism can be described as a peaceful nationalistic movement.It is the desire of Jews to peacefully live in their ancestrallands.
• The term Zionism refers to a national movement for the returnof the Jewish people to their homeland.

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Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of modern Zionism, recognized that anti-Semitism would further his cause, the creation of a separate state for Jews. To solve the Jewish Question, he maintained we must, above all, make it an international political issue.

Herzl wrote that Zionism offered the world a welcome final solution of the Jewish question. In his Diaries, page 19, Herzl stated Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies.

Zionist reliance on Anti-Semitism to further their goals continues to this day. Studies of immigration records reflect increased immigration to the Zionist state during times of increased anti-Semitism. Without a continued inflow of Jewish immigrants to the state of "Israel", it is estimated that within a decade the Jewish population of the Zionist state will become the minority.

In order to maintain a Jewish majority in the state of "Israel", its leaders promote anti-Semitism throughout the world to "encourage" Jews to leave their homelands and seek "refuge".

Most people are not aware that in March, 1933, when Hitler became the undisputed leader of Germany and began restricting the rights of German Jews, the American Jewish Congress announced a massive protest at Madison Square Garden and called for an American boycott of German goods.

On March 24, 1933, the London Daily Express published an article announcing that the Jews had already launched their boycott against Germany and described a forthcoming "holy war". The Express urged Jews everywhere to boycott German goods and demonstrate against German economic interests.

The Express said that Germany was "now confronted with an international boycott of its trade, its finances, and its industry....In London, New York, Paris and Warsaw, Jewish businessmen are united to go on an economic crusade."

The article went on, "worldwide preparations are being made to organize protest demonstrations."

On March 27, 1933 the planned protest at Madison Square Garden was attended by 40,000 protestors (New York Daily News headlines: "40,000 Roar Protest Here Against Hitler").

Similar rallies and protest marches were also held in other cities. The intensity of the Jewish campaign against Germany was such that the Hitler government vowed that if the campaign did not stop there would be a one-day boycott in Germany of Jewish-owned stores.

Hitler's March 28, 1933 speech ordering a boycott against Jewish stores and goods was in direct response to the declaration of war on Germany by the worldwide Jewish leadership.

That same spring of 1933 there began a period of private cooperation between the German government and the Zionist movement in Germany and worldwide to increase the flow of German-Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine.

Growing anti-Semitism in Germany and by the German government in response to the boycott played into the hands of the Zionist leaders. Prior to the escalation of anti-Semitism as a result of the boycott the majority of German Jews had little sympathy for the Zionist cause of promoting the immigration of world Jewry to Palestine. Making the situation in Germany as uncomfortable for the Jews as possible, in cooperation with German National Socialism, was part of the Zionist plan to achieve their goal of populating Palestine with a Jewish majority.

"For all intents and purposes, the National Socialist government was the best thing to happen to Zionism in its history, for it "proved" to many Jews that Europeans were irredeemably anti-Jewish and that Palestine was the only answer: Zionism came to represent the overwhelming majority of Jews solely by trickery and cooperation with Adolf Hitler." [1]

Sources: Barnes Review, "The Jewish Declaration of War on Nazi Germany, The Economic Boycott of 1933"

Other Resources of interest: The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, by Edwin Black

Zionism was supported by the German SS and Gestapo.[3] [4] [5] [6] Hitler himself personally supported Zionism.[7] [8] During the 1930's, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps throughout Germany where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine. As late as 1942 Zionists operated at least one of these officially authorized "Kibbutz" training camps[9] over which flew the blue and white banner which would one day be adopted as the national flag of "Israel".[10] The Transfer Agreement (which promoted the emigration of German Jews to Palestine) implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII is an important example of the cooperation between Hitler's Germany and international Zionism. [11] Through this agreement, Hitler's Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930's to support Jewish development in Palestine and further the Zionist goals. Hitler and the Zionists had a common goal: to create a world Jewish Ghetto as a solution to the Jewish Question.

The Transfer AgreementThe Zionist so-called "World Jewish Congress" declared war on the country of Germany,[12] [13] knowing that it would affect their Jewish brothers residing in that country who would be left without protection. When others tried to help them escape to other countries, the Zionist movement took actions which caused those countries to lock their doors to Jewish immigration (read more in the books, "Perfidy" and "Min Hametzer"). As a result of the Zionist influence five ships of Jewish refugees from Germany arriving in the United States were turned back to the gas chambers. The fundamental aim of the Zionist movement has been not to save Jewish lives but to create a "Jewish state" in Palestine. On December 7, 1938, Ben Gurion, the first head of the Zionist state of Israel' declared "If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel."[14] On August 31, 1949, Ben Gurion stated: "Although we have realized our dream of creating a Jewish State, we are only at the beginning. There are still only 900,000 Jews in Israel, whereas the majority of the Jewish people still remains abroad. Our future task is to bring all the Jews to Israel." Of the two and a half million Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis between 1935 and 1943, less than 9% went to settle in Palestine. The vast majority, 75%, went to the Soviet Union. In the mid-70's, more people emigrated out of Israel' than came in. The only surges of immigration to the Zionist state have occurred during anti-Semitic threats and persecution in foreign countries.[15] It follows that for the Zionist state to achieve its goal of a Jewish world ghetto anti-Semitism must be promoted and encouraged, and as we have seen, by acts of violence if necessary. "To attain its practical objectives, Zionism hopes it will be able to collaborate with a government that is fundamentally hostile to the Jews".[16] The use of anti-Semitism as a tool to coerce immigration to the Zionist state continues to the present day: Prime Minister Sharon has stated that anti-Semitism is on the rise and that the only hope for the safety of Jews is to move to Israel under the protection of the Zionist state. "The best solution to anti-Semitism is immigration to Israel. It is the only place on Earth where Jews can live as Jews," he said.[17] Those who continue to call the so-called "state of Israel" the "Jewish State" are not only promoting Zionism which is contrary to the beliefs of true Judaism, but also endorsing the promotion of worldwide anti-Semitism. In doing so they are endangering the lives of traditional Jews and denying their civil liberties and human rights. When the British foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour (sponsor of the 1905 Aliens Act to restrict Jewish immigration to the UK), wanted the British government to commit itself to a Jewish homeland in Palestine, his declaration was delayed - not by anti-Semites but by leading figures in the British Jewish community. They included a Jewish member of the cabinet who called Balfour's pro-Zionism "anti-Semitic in result". In contrast, a great statesman like Secretary of State Colin Powell, a supporter of traditional Judaism, has the courage to separate Judaism from Zionism and to acknowledge that speaking out against the actions of the Zionist state is not "anti-Semitism". We call upon our leaders in Washington to disassociate the actions of the Zionist state from traditional Judaism by no longer referring to "Israel" as the "Jewish State" but as "the Zionist State" and to speak out against the Zionist actions which promote anti-Semitism.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bibliography: Hitlers Zweites Buch ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1928, Stuttgart, 1961. English translation: Hitler's Secret Book, New York, 1961, pp 212-215.

Berlin Encyclopaedia Judaica (New York and Jerusalem: 1971), Vol. 5, p.648. See also, J.-C. Horak, "Zionist Film Propaganda in Nazi Germany," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1984, pp 49-58.

Perfidy, Author: Ben Hecht, Milah Press, Incorporated; April 1, 1997

Min Hameitzer, Author:Rabbi Weissmandl; The book Unheeded Cry by Abraham Fuchs, is a partial translation.

Holocaust Encyclopedia, "Escape from German Occupied Europe", http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005470

"Immigration Policies", Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/grobim.html

"The Tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis", Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/stlouis.html

[1] Quoted in: Ingrid Wecker, Feuerzeichen: Die "Reichskristallnacht" (Tubingen: Grabert, 1981), p. 212. See also: Th. Herzl, The Jewish State (New York: Herzl Press, 1970), pp 33, 35, 36, and Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement (New York: Macmillan, 1984), p.73

[2] Th. Herzl, "Der Kongress, " Welt, June 4, 1897. Reprinted in: Theodore Herzls zionistische Schriften (Leon Kellner, ed.), ester Teil, Berlin: Judischer Verlag, 1920, p. 190 (and p.139)

[3] Francis R. Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985), pp. 54-55.; Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1970, 1990) pp. 178-181

[4] Jacob Boas, "A Nazi Travels to Palestine," History Today (London), January, 1980, pp. 33-38.

[5] Facsimile reprint of front page of Das Schwarze Korp, May 15, 1935, in: Janusz Piekalkiewicz, Israels Langer Arm (Frankfurt: Goverts, 1975), pp. 66-67.

[6] Das Schwarze Korps, Sept. 26, 1935. Quoted in: F. Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985), pp. 56-57

[7] F. Nicosia, Third Reich (1985), pp. 141-144; On Hitler's critical view of Zionism in Mein Kapf, see. Esp. Vol. 1, Chap. 11. Quoted in: Robert Wistrich, Hitler's Apocalypse (London: 1985), p. 155.;

[8] W. Feilchenfeld, et al., Haavra-Transfer (1972). Entire text in: David Yisraeli, The Palestine Problem in German Politics 1889-1945 (Israel: 1974), pp. 132-136.

[9] Y. Arad, et al., eds., Documents On the Holocaust (1981), p. 155. (The training kibbutz was at Neuendorf, and may have functioned even after March 1942.)

[10] Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (New York: Bantam, pb., 1976), pp 253-254; Max Nussbaum, "Zionism Under Hitler," Congress Weekly (New York: American Jewish Congress), Sept. 11, 1942.; F. Nicosia, The Third Reich (1985), pp 58-60, 217.; Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement (1984), p. 175.

[11] E. Black, The Transfer Agreement (1984), pp. 328, 337.

[12] "Judea Declares War on Germany!" London Daily Express headline, March 24th, 1933 [13] "The worldwide boycott against Germany in 1933 and the later all-out declaration of war against Germany initiated by the Zionist leaders and the World Jewish Congress enraged Hitler so that he threatened to destroy the Jews" (Rabbi Schwartz, New York Times, Sept. 30, 1997)

[14] Yvon Gelbner, "Zionist policy and the fate of European Jewry", in Yad Vashem studies (Jerusalem, vol. XII, p. 199).

[15] Institute for Jewish Affairs of New York, quoted by Christopher Sykes in "Crossroads to Isarl", London 1965, and by Nathan Weinstock, "Le sionisme contre Israel," p. 146.

[16] Lucy Dawidovitch, "A Holocaust Reader", p. 155.

[17] "Sharon Urges Jews to go to Israel", BBC News, 17 Nov. 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3275979.stm

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THE TALMUD & THE BIBLE

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 1: 20-21

What about the Bible? Is Scripture sufficient in itself and considered by the Hebrew Roots ministries to be the inerrant Word of God? Are the Old and New Testament the complete revelation of God's will for the salvation of man. Do they constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice? Or is it true as stated by Peter Michas that we must return to the Hebrew or Aramaic writings and the Oral traditions of Judaism for New Testament doctrine?

"since existing New Testament manuscripts are Greek, written to express Hebraic concepts, why be limited to the Greek or English translations when we have Hebrew, The New Testament is in the pattern of the Jewish traditional work of Torah, Mishnah, Haggadah, Halakah, Talmud and Midrash, but inspired by God Himself for the common people."

Hyam Maccoby, grandson to the famous Rabbi Haim Zundel Maccoby, the Polish Kamenitzer Maggid, [spirit guide], expounds the view of Peter Michas and other Hebrew Roots advocates that the Gospels were written in an era of extreme prejudice and hatred towards the Jews and that this anti-Semitism was reflected in the New Testament. Hyam Maccoby impugns the accounts of Mark and Luke:

"What had been the history of the Christian Church since the death of Jesus? The bulk of the New Testament which purports to give this history is The Acts of the Apostles; but this is a Gentile-Christian composition written about 100 A.D. by Luke, giving a Gentile-Christian slant to the events of those years. By reading between the lines of Acts, by following using a supplementary sources such as Josephus, the Talmud and early Christian historians, we can reconstruct the true history of the early church." 5.

Error in the Bible?

Other Hebraic Roots and related groups make the excuse that there is error in the Christian Bible. Promoting their NEW Translation called The Book of Yahweh, the House of Yahweh disparages the Bible:

"Wisdom of the Ancients" bears an uneasy resemblance to Ancient Wisdom, which is the esoteric term used by occultists for Gnosis or Mysticism. William Kingsland wrote of this wisdom in his book, The Gnosis or Ancient Wisdom in the Christian Scriptures: Or the Wisdom in a Mystery:

Perhaps Peter Michas is correct in saying that we need to understand the original concepts from history and as they are taught now particularly from these books and the Jewish people themselves. Obviously, they would hold the keys to the Hebrew Roots of Christianity as taught by the Jewish sages. Avi ben Mordechai, an Orthodox Sephardic Jew, claims that the ancient Jewish teachers of the Law hold the answers:

However, 1 Corinthians 2:5 states: "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."

Primacy of the Talmud

Author, Nesta Webster quotes Talmud translator, Michael Rodkinson's view of the importance of the Talmud in Jewish life and the lesser importance of Scripture given by the Talmud:

The Babylonian Talmud states that man can debate God and win: "A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate." Baba Mezia 59b.

Maimonides defines the various ways one would be considered a denier of the Law, referring not to the Bible, but the oral law as set down by the sages:

Who are the scribes whose words (the oral law) must be listened to and obeyed above all the written law? Quoting again from Hyam Maccobys, Revolution in Judaea, the following explanation is given of the terms Pharisee, Sadducee, scribes and rabbis, at the time of Christ.

The Pharisees and Sadducees were both believers in the word given by God to man, but the Pharisees added extra-Biblical oral teachings as authority over the written Word of God. They called the Sadducees heretics for not doing so. Those in the Hebrew Roots movement parallel the Pharisees in that they look to these extra-Biblical works for their guidance---and advise Christians to follow suit.

However, Jesus said of the Sadducees: "...ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God..." Mark 12:24

Exclusiveness of the Talmud

Hebrew Roots and Nazarene teachers advise Christians to study the Talmud; however, the Talmud itself teaches that its precepts are only for the Jews. P.L.B. Drach states in his De l' Harmonie entre l'Elise et la Synagogue,

It should be noted that Mr. Drachs knowledge comes firsthand: "The Jewish Encyclopdia has an article on Drach in which it says he was brought up in a Talmudic school" 24.

Is this what Larry Rowland means by "understanding in order to grasp all that scripture has to offer"? Considering the immense importance of the Talmud in Hebrew thought and Hebraic Roots teachings, it behooves Christians to understand the nature and contents of the Talmud.

The Talmud

Avi ben Mordechai has redefined the gospel as the Oral Torah:

The Talmud itself affirms, again, the authority of its own teachings in 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 (Old Testament)."

"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth." Titus 1:14

Global Unity

Project Genesis is connected to such Hebrew Roots sites as Larry Rowland's Messengers of Truth. The purpose of Project Genesis includes education about Jewish roots: "Project Genesis promotes further Jewish education about our Jewish roots, as represented in Jewish sources"

According to their Facts: "Our teachers are Orthodox, so they approach the tradition from a traditional perspective (which is logical, after all). But our program so carefully avoids labels and politics that Conservative and Reform Rabbis have actively expressed their support of the program to their congregants and colleagues."33.

The term Halacha is used frequently when discussing the Midrash, Mishnah and Talmudic teachings. What is Halacha?

With that in mind we see from the Hypertext Halacha, distributed by Project Genesis, a list of topics from these Sacred Jewish books, relevant to everyday life. A few of these are:

". . .the oddest rabbinical conceits are elaborated through many volumes with the finest dialectic, and absurd questions are discussed with the highest efforts of intellectual power: for example, how many white hairs may a red cow have, and yet remain a red cow; what sort of scabs require this or that purification; whether a louse or a flea may be killed on the Sabbath-the first being allowed, while the second is a deadly sin; whether the slaughter of an animal ought to be executed at the neck or the tail; whether the high priest put on his shirt or his hose first; whether the Jabam, that is, the brother of a man who died childless, being required by law to marry the widow, is relieved from his obligation if he falls off a roof and sticks in the mire." 38.

Avi ben Mordechai, an Orthodox Sephardic Jew, indicates that we need to incorporate the Jewish "halacha" teachings in order for "believers" to be unified globally. His intention is that Jewish teachers and eventually a Jewish high court should be in place in order to teach us the Law.

Here we have a glimpse of the true agenda behind the Hebrew Roots Movement: to return mankind to the Law as interpreted by a high court reminiscent of the Sanhedrin! Yet the New Testament boldly states that Christians are no longer under Law but have "become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even him who was raised from the dead, that ye should bring forth fruit from God. (Rom. 7:4) How can Jews and Christians be unified as "believers" if each community believes a different gospel? Moreover, what is the Jewish attitude toward Jesus Christ, the Savior who liberates men from bondage to the Law? To discover the Rabbinic view of Jesus Christ, we must take a closer look at the Talmud, which Jews regard as superior to both the Old and New Testaments.

THE TALMUD & JESUS CHRIST

Footnotes

1. Peter Michas, http://www.ez/com/~peterm/HB.GK.RF.HTML 2. Fitzmeyer, "Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls; p.104 ; as cited in Andrew Gould's Some Disturbing Aspects of the So-Called 'Hebrew Roots Movement,' and Their Implications". 3. Unger's Bible Dictionary p. 706, Ibid. 4. Ibid p.422 Ibid. 5. Hyam Maccoby; "Revolution in Judaea: Jesus and the Jewish Resistance"; p. 230, ii. Ocean Books; 1973 6. House of Yahweh, http://www.yahweh.com 7. Jacob Prasch; Explaining the Midrash; http://www.cw.co.za/moriel/midrash.html%5D 8. Ibid. 9. Kingsland, William. THE GNOSIS OR ANCIENT WISDOM IN THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES: OR THE WISDOM IN A MYSTERY; London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954 (1937), Kingsland, p.83 10. Avi ben Mordechai; http://www.millenium7000.com/halacha.htm 11. Michael Rodkinson (i.e. Rodkinssohn), in Preface to the translation of the Talmud, Vol. I. p. x. ; as Cited in: Nesta H. Webster, p. 370-371., "Secret Societies and Subversive Movements" Omni Publications, Eighth edition, 196412. Rev. I. B. Pranaitis; The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians; The Talmud; holywar.org/txt/talmud_unmasked.html 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Pranaitis, op.cit. 16. Maccoby, op.cit., p.77-78 17. Ibid., p. 74 18. Ibid., p.74-75 19. Ibid., p.75 20. Ibid., p..76 21. Ibid., p.77 22. Ibid., p.281 23. P.L.B. Drach, De lHarmonie entre lElise et la Synagogue, I. 167. Cited in: Nesta H. Webster, op. cit. p.371 24. Webster, Ibid., p.11-12 25. Rev. I. B. Pranaitis; holywar.org/txt/talmud_unmasked.html 26. Avi ben Mordechai, email to Ed Tarkowski, May 1998 27. Ibid. 28. Fabre d' Olivet, La Langue He'braique, p.28 (1815); 2. According to the Jewish view God had given Moses on Mt. Sinai alike the oral and the written Law, that is, the Law with all its interpretations and applications."-Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah,I.99 (1883)quoting other Jewish authorities; as Cited in Nesta H. Webster; Ibid., p.6 29. Kabbalah in English, http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/arcana/index.html 30. Ibid. 31. Ibid. 32. Maccoby, op.cit., p. 281 33. Project Genesis, http://www.torah.org/info/genesis.html 34. Hypertext Halacha; http://www.torah.org/learning/halacha/ 35. Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) - What is "Halacha?" How is it determined?; http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet-faqs/html/judaism/FAQ/03-Torah-Halacha/faq-doc-45.html 36. http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/city_services/lists/halacha/index.htm 37. Hypertext Halacha; http://www.torah.org/learning/halacha/ 38. Solomon Maimon: an Autobiography, translated from the German by J. Clark Murray, p. 28 (1888). The original appeared in 1792. As Cited in: Webster ; op.cit. p. 7 39. Avi ben Mordechai, Halacha; http://www.millenium7000.com/halacha.htm

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At various times during the Hadrian persecutions, the sages were forced into hiding, though they managed to reconvene at Usha in 122 CE, and then in a time of quiet managed to re-establish again at Yavneh in 158 CE.

With so much persecution and unrest, with the Jewish people fleeing the land of Israel, the rabbis knew that they would not be able to keep a central seat of rabbinic power alive for long.

Yet, during these great periods of chaos, some of the finest rabbinic minds made their mark. Among them:

Yehudah HaNasi

Now, another man was to emerge and make his mark the son of Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel II Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi (in English "Judah, the Prince").

In a time of chaos, the rabbis decide that they must do the unprecedented write down the Oral Law.

He is one personality who is absolutely fundamental to understanding this period of time, and one of the greatest personalities of Jewish history.

So great was he that he is now affectionately referred to in Jewish scholarship as only Rebbe.

He had a unique combination of attributes being both a great Torah scholar and a strong leader that gave him the power to lead the Jewish people at this chaotic time. He was also a man of tremendous personal wealth, which put him in a position to wheel and deal and do what needed to get done, not just with the Jews in the Land of Israel but with the Roman authorities as well.

Hadrian dies in 139 C.E and with his death came an improvement in the treatment of the Jewish community in Israel. During a period of relative quiet, Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi managed to befriend the Roman emperors who succeeded Hadrian, particularly Marcus Aurelius (161-180 C.E.). Writes historian Rabbi Berel Wein in his Echoes of Glory (p. 224):

The years of Marcus Aurelius' reign, ending in his death in 180, was the high-water mark in the intercourse between Rome and the Jews. The Jews, under the leadership of Rabbi [Yehudah HaNasi], would use this period of blissful respite to prepare themselves for the struggle of darker days surely lurking around the corner.

At this time circa 170-200 CE the Mishnah was born.

Mishnah

What is the Mishnah?

In past installments we discussed the fact that at Mount Sinai the Jewish people received the Written Torah and the Oral Torah. The Oral Torah was the oral explanation of how the written laws should be executed and followed.

The Oral Torah passed from generation to generation and was never written down(2). Why? Because the Oral Torah was meant to be fluid. The principles stayed the same, but the application of those principles was meant to be adapted to all types of new circumstances.

This worked exceptionally well as long as the central authority the Sanhedrin remained intact, and the chain of transmission was not interrupted. (That is, teachers were able to freely pass on their wisdom to the next generation of students.) But in the days since the destruction of the Temple, the Sanhedrin had been repeatedly uprooted and teachers had to go into hiding.

Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi realized that things would not get better any time soon. He saw that the Temple would not be rebuilt in his generation and possibly in many generations to come. He saw the Jews fleeing the land as a result of the constant persecutions and impossible living conditions. He saw that the central authority was weaker than ever and might cease altogether To make sure that the chain of transmission would never be broken, he decided that the time had come to write down the Oral Torah.(3)

This was a mammoth undertaking. Although much of the work may have already been done by previous generations of rabbis, the monumental task of editing, explaining and organizing this vast amount of material was left to Rabbi Yehudah. The end result of this massive undertaking was a definitive, yet cryptic (the basic principles were all there yet a teacher was still required to elucidate the material) version of the entire Oral Law called the Mishnah. (Incidentally, the word Mishnah means "repetition" because it was studied by repeating; Mishnah then, by extension, means "learning.") Maimonides, in his introduction to his Mishneh Torah, explains it as follows:

He gathered together all the traditions, enactments, and interpretations and expositions of every position of the Torah, that either come down from Moses, out teacher, or had been deduced by the courts in successive generations. All this material he redacted in the Mishnah, which was diligently taught in public, and thus became universally known among the Jewish people. Copies of it were made and widely disseminated, so that the Oral Law might not be forgotten in Israel

Six Categories of Jewish Law

The Mishnah, which is written in Hebrew, is divided into six basic segments or "orders" and further subdivided into 63 tractates with a total of 525 chapters. These 6 segments dealing with six basic areas of Jewish law:

Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi finished the Mishnah in ca. 190 CE in the town of Tzipori in the Galilee. You can visit the site today which is very interesting from an archeological perspective. At a site called Beit She'arim (where the Sanhedrin had previously been located prior to its move to Tzipori), there is a vast number of burial caves carved into the side of a mountain. Based on evidence found at the site, archaeologists believe that one of these caves contains the grave of Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi, along with many other great scholars of that time.

Not long after the death of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi the period know as the era of the Tannaim came to a close. The term Tanna, is derived from the Aramaic word "to teach" and covered a period of 200 years from ca.10 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. beginning with Rabbi Shimon the son of Hillel the Elder and ending with Rabbi Yossi ben Yehuda.

Writing The Talmud

During the centuries following the completion of the Mishnah, the chain of transmission of the Oral law was further weakened by a number of factors: Economic hardship and increased persecution of the Jewish community in Israel caused many Jews, including many rabbis, to flee the country. Many of these rabbis emigrated to Babylon in the Persian Empire. The role of the rabbis of Israel as the sole central authority of the Jewish people was coming to an end.

This decentralization of Torah authority and lack of consensus among the rabbis led to further weakening of the transmission process. It became clear to the sages of this period that the Mishnah alone was no longer clear enough to fully explain the Oral Law. It was written in shorthand fashion and in places was cryptic. This is because it was very concise, written on the assumption that the person reading it was already well-acquainted with the subject matter.

So they began to have discussions about it and to write down the substance of these discussions.

Since at this time a significant portion of the Jewish population was living in Babylon, which was outside the bounds of the Roman Empire, the rabbis there put together their discussions, the end product of which was called Talmud Bavli or the Babylonian Talmud. Even before this process had begun in Babylon, in the land of Israel, another set of discussions took place and the end result was Talmud Yerushalmi or the Jerusalem Talmud. (Incidentally, the Jerusalem Talmud was not written in Jerusalem; it was written in Tiberias, the last place where the Sanhedrin sat, but was called the Jerusalem Talmud in deference to the Sanhedrin's rightful home.)

Due to persecution of the Jewish community in Israel the Jerusalem Talmud, completed in the mid 4th century C.E., was never completed or fully edited. The Jerusalem Talmud is much shorter (it contains only four of the six sections of the Mishnah(4)) and is more cryptic and harder to understand than the Babylonian Talmud. The situation of the Jews in Babylon was much more stable and the rabbis in Babylon had considerably more time to edit and explain the subject matter.

Although there are two Talmuds, they are not really separate. The Rabbis of Babylon had access to the Jerusalem Talmud while they were working on their text. But if there is dispute between the two Talmuds, the Babylonian Talmud is followed.(5) Both because Babylonian Talmud is considered more authoritative and the Jerusalem Talmud is more difficult to study, Jewish students pouring over the Talmud in yeshiva are using chiefly the Babylonian Talmud. The Talmud is more than just an application of the details of the Jewish law as expounded in the Mishnahh. It's the encyclopedia of all Jewish existence.

The Talmud also contains a lot of agadata these are stories that are meant to illustrate important points in the Jewish worldview. These stories contain a wealth of information on a huge range of topics. you name it, it's in there.

This information was vital to the Jewish people because Jewish law was never applied by reading a sentence in the Torah and executing it to the letter. Take for example, "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth." It was never Jewish law that if someone blinded you, that you should go and blind him. What is the good of having two blind people? It was always understood on two levels: 1) that justice must be proportional (it's not a life for an eye) and 2) that it means the value of an eye for the value of the eye, referring to monetary damages. Thus, the Talmud presented the written and oral tradition together.

To read the Talmud is to read a lot of arguments. On every page it seems that the rabbis are arguing. This kind of argument the purpose of which was to arrive at the kernel of truth is called pilpul. This word has a negative connotation outside the yeshiva world, as people read these arguments and it seems to the uneducated eye that the rabbis are merely splitting hairs, and that some of the arguments have absolutely no basis in everyday life. But this is not so.

The reason why the rabbis argued about things that may not have any application to everyday life was to try to get to truth in an abstract way to understand the logic and to extract the principle. These rabbis were interested in knowing what reality is and in doing the right thing. Reality is what Judaism is all about the ultimate reality being God.

Another important point is that much of the discussion and dispute is focused on relatively minor points while the larger issues are generally not disputed. You don't see a single argument as to whether or not you eat pork, or whether or not you can light a fire on the Sabbath. These things were a given, they were totally agreed upon. Only small points were subject to discussion. And these rabbis were wise enough to know that a day would come when the principles established by getting to the core kernel of truth would have far reaching implications.

Gemara

When you look at the page of the Babylonian Talmud today, you will find the Hebrew text of the Mishnah is featured in the middle of the page. Interspersed between the Hebrew of the Mishnah are explanations in both Hebrew and Aramaic which are called the Gemara.

The Aramaic word Gemara means "tradition." In Hebrew, the word Gemara means "completion." Indeed, the Gemara is a compilation of the various rabbinic discussions on the Mishnah, and as such completes the understanding of the Mishnah.

The texts of the Mishnah and Gemara are then surrounded by other layers of text and commentaries from a later period.

The text of the Mishnah is quoting rabbis who lived from about 100 BCE to 200 CE. These rabbi are called the Tanaim, "teachers." In this group are included such greats as Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Akiva, and of course Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi. (In the Gemara, they usually have the title Rebbe before their first name although there are many exceptions such as the names: Hillel, Shamai, Ben Azai and Ben Zoma.)

The text of the Gemara is quoting the rabbis who lived from about 200 CE to about 500 CE. These rabbis are called, Amoraim, "explainers" or "interpreters." In this group are included Rav Ashi, Reb Yochanan, etc. (Names of the Babylonian Amoraim usually are preceeded by the title Rav as opposed to the Amoraim of Israel who continued to use the title Rabbi/Rebbe. This is because the authentic institution of smicha rabbinic ordination was only done in the Land of Israel.)

The surrounding text of today's Talmud also quotes Rishonim, literally "the first ones," rabbinic authorities (from c. 1,000 C.E. until 1,500 C.E.) who predated Rabbi Joseph Caro, the 16th century author of the code of Jewish law known as the Shulchan Aruch. Among the most prominent Rishonim are Rashi, his students and descendants who were the chief authors of the Tosafos, Maimonides and Nachmanides. We will discuss the contributions of these rabbis in future installments.

Just how important was the work of Rabbi Yehudah Hanasi and those that followed him would become very clear in the next hundred years when the Jewish people face another threat to their religion. This is when the Roman Empire decides to convert its entire population to Christianity.

1) See Talmud Avodah Zara 10a-b; Breishit Rabbah 67:6; 75:5 2)See Midrash Tanchuma Ki Tisa 34; Talmud Gittin 60a; 3) For a detailed explanation of actions of Rebbi Yehuda HaNasi see Maimonides, Introduction to Mishneh Torah. See also Iggerot of Rabbi Sheriram Gaon 1:1. 4) The Baylonian Talmud covers tractates: Moed, Nashim, Nezikin and Kodshim, while the Jerusalem Talmud covers tractates Moed, Nashim, Nezikin and Zeraim. 5)See Rif on Talmud Eruvin 35b

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By Cohen G. Reckart, Pastor

The Babylonian Talmud

1.) Introduction 2.) What Is The Talmud 3.) Phariseeism Is Talmudism 4.) Frightening Quotes From The Talmud 5.) Kabbalah-Cabalah Apostasy 6.) Destroying Christians Through Sin

Introduction:

The Babylonian Talmud is considered a very holy book by most Christians. And yet most have never seen one or read one. How then did they come to this opinion except by careful deception. This alleged holy book has within it the most satanic plot against humanity in any religion. It replaces the Old Testament (Torah) in such a subtle manner and in such evil ways as to make it obsolete and of little importance except as a crutch for its existence.

The contents of the Talmud reveals both the antichrist and the great whore. No Christian could read this book in a true heart of faith in Jesus and not come away from a study of it shocked and alarmed.

Who is antichrist John asked: "except he that denieth that Messiah has come in the flesh, he is antichrist."

While Oneness and Trinitarians throw this verse backwards and forwards at each other, the truth is that it was aimed by John against the unbelieving Jews and Temple Cult and perhaps the gnostics. Catholic trinitarians were not in existence at this time and the Apostles would not have thrown this antichrist accusation at themselves. God in flesh was not a problem with the Greeks, they believed in gods in flesh from ancient times. This leaves only the Jews and the gnostics as those who denied Jesus was Messiah come in the flesh.

Yet, in this clear and pointed description of antichrist, is the basic doctrine that Jesus as Messiah must be denied and blasphemed. This one factor of identity comes through loud and clear in the Babylonian Talmud. And before the accusation of *antichrist* can be hurled at anyone else it must first be lodged against all unbelieving Jews especially those who embrace the Talmud.

Within the Talmud is identified the Great Whore of Mystery Babylon. That this unbelieving Israel who supports and promotes the Babylonian Talmud are Jews, is confessed in the contents of the book. That this Israel is the divorced ex-wife of God, is proven by Jeremiah 3:8. That apostate Israel was called a whore-wife of God is documented in the Scriptures in so many places and in so many ways, that to deny it, makes the one denying it a blatant liar. Israel is the Whore of Babylon and the Talmud exposes this to any honest researcher of the prophetic verses in Scripture. The question is not, is Israel the Great Whore and Mystery Babylon, but what role does the Catholic Church and Islam, her two admitted daughters, play in the events of the endtime preceding the second coming of Jesus Messiah?

It is my opinion that the Pope and all of Catholicism, including Protestant Catholicism, will become false prophets for this revived beast system that had a wound by asword (the head or Temple Mount) and yet did live in 1948.

By false prophets, I mean these groups will become the voices to convince the world that apostate Israel is the legitimate heir of Abraham's Promises and Covenants and that she can obtain eternal salvation without need of faith or salvation through the blood of the New Covenant. This heresy is already being prophesied by Catholics and her Protestant daughters.

These false prophets will declare that Israel and the Jews do not need Jesus Messiah to be saved, they can be saved by revived law-keeping, animal blood sacrifices, and a revived priesthood.

These will claim that a new rip-proof vail can be hung back up and that God will join back together again what he divided asunder when Jesus was nailed to the Cross.

These false prophets will come forth preaching observance of the Law either by necessity or free-will, and allege that this Noahide conversion is what Jesus Messiah planned all along as a means for Gentiles to be added to Old Testament Israel and keep the Law (Old Torah).

These will lie to the world and teach that the New Covenant is not the New Covenant Jesus taught that the Communion Cup was to symbolize. They will go forth teaching that the New Covenant was postponed until the Millennial. They will enter into houses and lead silly women captive with the doctrine that the Gospel of Grace is not the Gospel of the Kingdom. They will deceive millions that the Kingdom did not come on the Day of Pentecost. And we would simply say these are all lies.

Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom in Matthew 16:18-19. Any honest person knows these three keys were used on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2:38 (Key #1 Repentance; Key #2 Water Baptism in the name of Jesus Messiah and; Key # 3 Receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit).

Now if the Kingdom was postponed how then could Peter use the keys of the Kingdom on the Day of Pentecost to open the doors to the New Torah (Testament) Church? If Peter did not use these keys to the Kingdom, and Acts 2:38 does not contain the Keys, then Acts 2:38 is not the plan of salvation in our day and in our time. When then did Peter use the keys? Acts 2:38 would only be for entry into the Millennial. That is simply a false doctrine.

Now, study excerpts of the Babylonian Talmud and see for yourself that it exposes the antichrist and the great whore.

What is the Talmud

"The Talmud, then, is the written form of that which, in the time of Jesus was called the traditions of the elders and to which he makes frequent allusions (History of the Talmud, Michael Rodkinson, p. 70)."

"The teachings of the Talmud stand above all other laws. They are more important than the laws of Moses (Rabbi Ismael)."

"The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah himself asks the opinion of the early rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven (Rabbi Menachem, Commentary on Fifth Book)."

Phariseeism Is Talmudism

"Phariseeism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became modern Rabbinism. Both throughout these changes in name ...the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered (Pharisees, the Sociological Background of Their Faith, Louis Finkelstein, p.21)."

"The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees ...The Talmud is the largest and most important single member of that literature ...and the study of it is essential for any real understanding of Phariseeism (Universal Jewish Encyclopedia under Pharisees)."

What was the doctrine of the Pharisees that would demand in the days of Christ that Gentiles secretly be called the serpent's seed? What is contained in the Talmud that would give us some hint of the serpent seed doctrine?

Frightening Quotes From The Talmud

"Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would 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 (Talmud, Midrasch Talpiothe)."

"When the serpent copulated with Eve he infused her with lust. The lust of the Israelites who stood at Mount Sinai came to an end, the lust of idolaters who did not stand at Mount Sinai DID NOT COME TO AN END (Talmud, Yehamoth 103a-103b [see above])."

The Jews believe that anyone who can not trace an ancestor through Israel to Mount Sinai, is a part of that serpent seed. This serpent seed is identified throughout Talmudic teachings without further identity as "idolaters." In the Talmud, Christians are called "beasts" and "idolaters." (Case Of The Nazarene Reopened, Hyman E. Goldin, pp 423, 431-432, 775, & 781). This derogatory racism and bigotry identifies Christians as the serpent's seed.

R. Eleasar further stated: "What is meant by the Scripture text, 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh?' This teaches that Adam had intercourse with every beast and animal but found no satisfaction until he cohabited with Eve (Talmud, Yebamoth, 63a)."

Now it is alleged that Adam and Eve were given permission by God to freely "eat" [have connection] with these non-human beasts, but told not to "eat" or have connection with the beast that was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

This means God approved sex with animals, adultery and or free love.

Speaking of a Jewish woman who might "freely" have connection with a Gentile, and the Gentile, who according to this doctrine is called a beast (animal), Rabbi Shimi ben Hiyya said: "A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a priest [footnote: 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 (Talmud, Yebamoth, 59b)."

The Zohar teaches that the serpent, called Samael, had sexual relations with Eve, thus defiling her. Then Eve in turn defiled Adam in the same way (this is the basis of gnosticism).

The Zohar also teaches that the serpent [who is also said to be a god] was the father of Cain. Why did William Branham preach the Babylonian Zohar and not the Bible?

Kabbalah-Cabalah Apostasy

The Cabalah is the Talmudic Babylonian mystical system, containing the teaching of the ten Sefiroths. These are ten steps of sexual perfection reaching from the divine into the lower material world and from the material world reaching up through ten levels of sexual perfection to the divine.

Many Jews believe that God is in perfect sexual union with the Malkuth or Kingdom of Israel, when they celebrate the Sabbath. Because of this, it is customary among the orthodox Jews for a man to cheer up his wife on the Sabbath in commemoration of God cheering up his Shekinah ...Israel, being in conjugal union also on the Sabbath. Christian Sabbath keepers?

"To have God's name upon them, they teach, they must fulfill their "sacred" duty to have offspring, for that is their first step to perfection. Only through sex can they climb the ten-runged ladder of the "tree of life" to the perfection of the Shekinah, that is the state of perfect liberty in sexual expression."(Stephen Jones, The Babylonian Connection p. 144 the word "Shekinah" has sexual overtones)."

"Christians often use the term Shekinah to describe the glory of God or the fire of this presence. The word is not found in the Bible, but it comes from a Hebrew word shakan ["to dwell"],and the Jews relate it to shakab ["to lie down sexually"]. Thus in Judaism those who learn the perfect methods of performing the sex act attain the glory of the Shekinah (ibid), like in the song--*You Light Up My Life*."

Destroying Christians Through Sin

In the doctrines of Jewish Cabalah messianism, the belief is that Israel as the Shekinah has been separated from God because of her sins [spiritual adultery]. Because of Israel's sins it is believed by Cabalist that the light of Israel resident in the Shekinah has turned to darkness. Each righteous Jew was thought to possess a spark of the Shekinah. Collectively, these sparks were manifested as a flame of fire over the mercy seat in the holy of hollies. They claim the divine sparks indwelling in the Shekinah departed from the Jews because they departed from righteousness. Some believe this divine presence came over into the New Testament Church as witnessed by the "TONGUES OF FIRE THAT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM" (Acts 2: 3).

In the Isaac Luria secret doctrines of Cabalism, each Gentile Christian who now has the Holy Ghost and one of those alleged righteous sparks, is like a shell imprisoning a part of Israel's future destiny. THEY BELIEVE THESE SHELLS MUST BE BROKEN SO THE SPARK CAN ESCAPE. That is, the Gentile Christians must be made to become wicked and evil and depart from righteousness, so the divine sparks will forsake them as they did the first Jews, and then return to Israel again. It is believed by these Cabalists, that when Israel turns to righteousness [Talmudic Pharisee Judaism], and the Gentile Christians are fully led into the abyss of wickedness [liberalism], by the cult of the all seeing eye, Jacob Frank's secret "Sabbatians," (Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman, To Eliminate The Opiate, Vol. 1, p 130), then Rome [Talmudist label all Christians figuratively as Rome], will be destroyed (The coming great blood-bath by the whore). Talmudist believe their Messiah will come and do this BEFORE setting up the millennial communistic utopia.

Talmud, Abadian: "When Rome is destroyed Israel will be redeemed."

Rome here is figurative of all Christian groups and people.

Also, Talmud, Zohar 1,219b: "Captivity of Jews ends when Christian Princes die."

Christian Princes here are the Ministers of Jesus Messiah. The coming world-persecution (the great blood-bath) by antichrist, will perform this task (a trial-run was carried out under Communism in Russian and China).

The Talmud teaches that Israel cannot be fully redeemed until Christianity as Jesus established it is destroyed. Is this not the Great Whore of Revelation 17 & 18 identified. And Jerusalem sits on seven mountains. The Beast and Antichrist, find their fulfillment here, where the "head" (mountain; Mount Moriah), had a wound by a sword (70AD), and yet did live (1948).

Talmud, Sepher or Israel 177b: "If a Jew kills a Christian he commits no sin." And they killed thousands in their own tribes in the first seventy years of the Church, for which there has been no apology and no holocaust museums to show-off the antichrist bigotry and hatred against their King and killing their own people. From the Temple went forth orders and permission to bounty hunters to seek out, persecute, and kill the elect of Messiah. After killing Stephen, James, and many hundreds more, these would resort to the Temple at Mount Moriah to flatter God by offering up animal sacrifices to show they rejected the bastard blood of Jesus for salvation (the Apostle Paul was one of these hired bounty hunters).

The Arabs are not the only ones with zealots who will kill and are killed. Jewish zealots are taught the Talmudic promise that they will go straight to heaven when they die after killing Christians or bad Jews. These zealots were called the *Iscarri* and worked out of the Temple through secret underground passages and from Masada. Judas joined in this group of zealots in the Temple as a *new* Iscarri assassin which is why he is called *Judas Iscarriot* (see Josephus Wars: VII, Chapter VIII). This very mentality was carried out against the Apostles and first Church for nearly a hundred years. It will be the authority of the great blood-bath that is coming that fills up the whore's cup of judgment:

Revelation 6:11--And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until other Christians also and other Ministers, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled (BJV).

Jewish and Gentile Christians opposing this Babylonian new world order, will be marked as Jew haters; antisemites; arrested for alleged hate crimes; lose their jobs, homes and property; be put in prison; and some will be killed. It is not if, .........but WHEN? The Iscarri will arise again under some new name but whose purpose and plans are the same: blot out Jesus Messiah and all who follow him!

The United Nations, American FBI/ATF/Rome & Constantinople, Protestantism, Islam, and ALL religious denominations, the Masonic Lodge, the Anti-Defamation League, the Rosicrucians, Jesuits, Knights of Columbus, Eastern Star women, and other cults and groups, will assist in the great Iscarri blood-bath. The coming Antichrist will be the supreme Iscarri as he sits in the grand *lodge* and then in the Temple in Jerusalem as God, and orders the deaths of millions who refuse to take an anti-Jesus mark. Antichrist and hatred against Messiah and the Saints will increase. Now is the time, not later, to come out of their false doctrines and teachings and be the people of Messiah. If not now, ...WHEN?

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Ernest R. Trattner writes: "The destruction of the Jewish National State and the burning of the Temple necessitated tremendous changes of a structural nature. Many old regulations had to be abolished. The High Court at Jamnia also took upon itself the power to suspend certain Biblical laws which were either obsolete or incapable of being fulfilled due to changed conditions. Of the many prohibitions abrogated by the rabbis none benefitted Judaism more than setting aside the age-old tradition against putting the Oral Law into written form. Despite the fact that for centuries it was regarded as a serious transgression of Judaism to commit any part of the Oral Law into writing, the demands of the new age were entirely too compelling to be denied. The time had now come when the memory of the sages (even as it was trained in those days) could no longer hold the vast accumulation by oral transmission. Since the destruction of the Temple, the growth of the Oral Law, and the extension of its principles, mushroomed into a huge bulk. Individual teachers, jurists, and disciples resorted to jotting down various aspects of the Oral Law as aids to memory. From such beginnings as these arose the vast literature of the Talmud." (Understanding the Talmud, p. 8)

Moses Mielziner writes: "Finally R. Jehuda Hanasi, flourishing towards the end of the second century, undertook the great task of establishing a general code of the oral law. By virtue of his eminent learning, his dignity as Patriarch and as head ofa celebrated academy, he succeeded in accomplishing this task. Taking the unfinished work of R. Akiba and R. Meir as basis, and retaining, in general, its division and arrangement, he examined and sifted the whole material of the oral law, and completed it by adding the decisions which his academy gave concerning many doubtful cases. Unanimously adopted opinions he recorded without the names of their authors or transmitters, but where a divergence of opinions appeared, the individual opinion is given in the name of its author, together with the decision of the prevailing majority, or side by side with that of its opponent, and sometimes even with the addition of short arguments pro and con." (Introduction to the Talmud, p. 5)

Hermann L. Strack writes: "Mishna signifies specifically: (1) the entire content of the traditional law as far as it had been developed by the end of the second post-Christian century; (2) the sum of the teachings of any one of the teachers active up to that date (Tannaim); (3) a single statement of law, in which sense the term halakah was also employed; (4) any collection of such statements, as when reference is made to the 'Mishnayoth Gedoloth, the great Mishna collections, e.g. the Mishna of Hiyya, of Hoshaiah, of Bar Kappara; (5) par excellence by Mishna is meant the collection made by the Judah ha-Nasi ('Rabbi') which, however, in the form in which it has come down to us, contains many additions and modifications." (Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, p. 3)

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The collections of extra-biblical Jewish religious writings are often confusing to read and categorize for modern readers, especially those who own a Western mindset or Christian background. The Talmud could be most concisely described as a collection of collections. These collections are of oral laws based on the Torah, or Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament or Tanakh, and of commentary on and additional material relating to those oral laws.

There are four important Hebrew terms used in this discussion: - Mishnah (written record of the oral law) - Gemara (commentaries on the Mishnah) - Halakha (detailed legal discussions based on the Mishnah) - Talmud (the overarching document containing the previous three)

Some parts of the Talmud began developing hundreds of years before the birth of Messiah. Oral laws which expanded upon the Torah were passed down from rabbi to rabbi as a way to ensure that the Law was followed as closely as possible. In theory because of the serious lack of well-educated rabbis alive at the time, Rabbi Judah the Prince chose to write down these oral codes, called the Mishnah, around AD 200. Not only did Rabbi Judah record these rules and commentaries, but he arranged them systematically into six different sections and 63 subsections called "tractates." This introduced a vast difference in the study of the Torah, for never had a rabbi been able to look up in one place everything said in the Torah, along with oral laws, on one subject.

Around AD 400 Jewish rabbis in Palestine edited together the many commentaries, called Gemara, and legal discussions, called Halakha, which had since been made about the Mishnah. This document is known as the Jerusalem Talmud. Over 100 years later, rabbis in Babylon compiled and edited these documents as well, creating the Babylonian Talmud. This later document, containing more and what are generally held to be more advanced commentaries on the Mishnah, is almost exclusively used for study by Jewish rabbis and scholars today. If "The Talmud" is referenced, one may assume the Babylonian Talmud is intended.

It should be noted that the term "Talmud" is sometimes, or even often in some circles, used in place of "Gemara" and therefore placed in parallel with the Mishnah. This is not technically correct, but is somewhat pervasive, and must be determined by context.

From the perspective of Followers of Jesus, the Talmud and its various parts are of value in understanding how the Torah was and is interpreted, and is invaluable in understanding post-temple Judaism. This compilation is the heart and soul of Jewish life and thought today. However, it does not acknowledge or provide the hope of Jesus, Messiah. We welcome our Jewish friends to accept the beautiful fulfillment of the Torah and Tanakh which they have taken such enormous care to understand. Jesus came to fulfill the Law of Moses, to free us from this impossible task-master, and bring us into full relationship with the God who has cared for and pursued Israel for so long. To understand this fulfillment further, we recommend reading Acts 7 and the book of Hebrews. This site also has information which you may find helpful as you explore Jesus as Messiah.

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