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New NCAA President Myles Brand
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The Jewish Babylonian Talmud |
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Instructs Jews To Anticipate Turmoil |
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When Jews Use Their Positions Of Authority To |
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Displace Christians and Non-Jews |
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The Jewish Babylonian Talmud states: |
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“God says, These [the Gentiles] are
my handiwork, and so are these [the Jews]; how shall I destroy the former on
account of the latter?² R. Papa
said: Thus men say, ‘When the ox runs
and falls, the horse is put in the stall.’³”
(The brackets are in the text.) |
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The translator and editor
explain this text in their footnotes: |
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“² To avenge the wrongs suffered
by the Jews. Because the suffering
would be so great that even the Almighty would lament it, R. Johanan desired
to be spared the Messiah’s coming.” |
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“³ The horse is made to replace
it, but when the ox recovers, it is difficult to remove the horse. So the [Jews…(the footnote errs and says
Israelites)] having fallen, were replaced in power by the Gentiles: but on their recovery, it will be difficult
to remove the Gentiles from their position without inflicting much
suffering.” (Bracketed statement
original to this comment.) |
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(see The Babylonian Talmud,
Soncino Translation, Sanhedrin, Volume 1, p. 667) |
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The point is simple. Although the historical assumptions and logic may be lacking in the Babylonian Talmud, Jews are expressly told that as they gain power and use that power to displace non-Jews…they should expect that their actions will inflict much suffering. Although the text of the footnote doesn’t make it clear, the obvious presumption is that the Jews are concerned here with Jewish suffering…not suffering experienced by non-Jews. |
