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IN SPITE OF PROTESTATIONS TO THE CONTRARY!
A Sad Sample of
| Talmudic Teachings VIOLATING BOTH THE LETTER AND THE INTENT OF THE HOLY WORD OF GOD |
condemned the Jewish Pharisees and Scribes of His own time for teachings of which many are being continued today in the Jewish Talmud, and so further continuing their corrupting influence on understanding.
described them as –
| "...invalidating the Word of God for the sake of your traditions..." | and | "...teaching as doctrines the precepts of men..." |
| Matthew 15:1-9 | Mark 7:1-13. |
Talmud reflects these same oral traditions which later became Judaic orthodoxy. It reflects the Pharisaic teachings which Christ condemned and which later they even claimed to come from an oral law given at the same time as the written Sinai covenant in order to give the Talmud equal credibility to Holy Scripture,
thereby blasphemously asserting a special authority to itself, even above the holy written Word of God, as is taught today.
| But a Jewish Definition: |
"Rabbinical Judaism holds that the Five Books of Moses, called the (Written) Torah, have always been transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition. Two guides to laws were given to Moses at Mount Sinai. The first, known as Torah she-bikh-tav, or the "Written Law" is composed of only the Five Books of Moses – Genesis through Deuteronomy [Historically and Biblically a very inaccurate statement; for instance, Deuteronomy was given in Transjordan 38-years-after Sinai]. These five books are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. ...
"The second law given to Moses at Sinai, known as Torah she-be'al-peh, is the exposition of the Written Law as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation. This Oral Law is, in some sense, the more authoritative of the two. The traditions of the Oral Law are considered as the basis for the interpretation, and often for the reading, of the Written Law. [emphasis mine]
"The Mishnah was redacted around the year 200 CE/AD by Yehudah Ha-Nasi (יהודה הנשׂיא / "Judah the Prince"). Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were recorded mostly in Aramaic and were redacted as the Gemara. The Mishnah and the Gemara together form the Talmud."
"The second law given to Moses at Sinai, known as Torah she-be'al-peh, is the exposition of the Written Law as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation. This Oral Law is, in some sense, the more authoritative of the two. The traditions of the Oral Law are considered as the basis for the interpretation, and often for the reading, of the Written Law. [emphasis mine]
"The Mishnah was redacted around the year 200 CE/AD by Yehudah Ha-Nasi (יהודה הנשׂיא / "Judah the Prince"). Rabbinic commentaries on the Mishnah over the next three centuries were recorded mostly in Aramaic and were redacted as the Gemara. The Mishnah and the Gemara together form the Talmud."
| "more authoritative" |
Judaism claims to base itself on the written Word of God given to Moses, it actually understands this only in terms of its Talmud. Tragically the Talmud effectively neutralizes the precious purposes of the commandments of God, which is why the Lord Jesus spoke in such damning terms of the teachers of these oral traditions, which continue among us in the synagogue and religious Jewish community today.
The Talmud itself consists of two parts: the oral law codified, the Mishnah, and commentary on this called the Gemara. As noted above, Jewish tradition asserts an absolute status for their oral law (the Mishnah) by claiming it was given by God at Sinai at the same time as the Mosaic Scripture of the Sinai Covenant Law.
Mishnah is the written summary of this oral law codified by Rabbi Judah the Prince (Rav Yehuda ha-Nasi) in the 2nd century AD. Over the next 300 years, Jewish teachers debated and expounded on the Mishnah. These debates and commentaries were compiled into what is called the Gemara (also called Talmud in a more restricted use of the term).
Discussions of the Jewish 'sages' from Palestine are contained in the Jerusalem Talmud, edited by the disciples of Rabbi Yohanan in Tiberias in the 4th century AD. In Mesopotamia, the Babylonian Talmud, was compiled by Rabbi Ashi (d.427) and Ravina (d.421) in the 5th century AD and is traditionally considered to be more extensive and authoritative.
some Zionist Christian leaders today, such as John Hagee (Cornerstone Church, San Antonio, Texas), ignorantly teach that as a child the Lord Jesus was trained in the Mishnah, even though it was only codified long after Judaism had formally rejected the gospel of Christ in the rulings of Gamaliel II (c.100 AD; great-grandson of Hillel and grandson of Gamaliel I) that all Jews should daily recite a prayer against heretics directed at Jewish Christians, thus excommunicating those holding to the understanding of the T'nakh (Old Testament Holy Scripture) as taught by the Lord Jesus and His faithful.
An particular example of Talmudic perversion and undermining of God's Word to Israel is the so-called prosbul of Rabbi Hillel, which Jewish tradition made authoritative in the second century AD.
prosbul allows the Lender/Creditor to avoid God's Sabbatical Year cancellation of the debts-owed (which God had strictly commanded) by formally 'transferring' responsibility for debt collection to a religious court to act on behalf of the Creditor, thus destroying the very purpose of this commandment of the Lord in Deuteronomy 15:2, which was to protect the borrower from the bondage of long-term debt.
| Blasphemous Hypocrisy |
