By REV. I. B. PRANAITIS
THE SECRET RABBINICAL TEACHINGS CONCERNING CHRISTIANS
Roman Catholic Priest; Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in old St. Petersburg.
(Translation of the author’s Latin Text)
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EDITOR’S NOTE
MANY people today are keenly interested to know what the Jewish Talmud really teaches about Christians, and for an accurate, authentic treatise on this subject, there is no need to go further than the scholarly work of the Rev. Father B. Pranaitis, an able Roman Catholic theologist and Hebraist, formerly on the staff of the Roman Catholic college of the Imperial Academy in old St. Petersburg. His work is in Hebrew and Latin and bears the imprimatur of his ecclesiastical superior.
This is an accurate translation of Father Pranaitis’ Latin text, and it is felt that it will be appreciated by those who are interested to know what this great scholar wrote on this important subject from original Talmudic sources. Father Pranaitis was one of those “liquidated”* by the Cheka during the Bolshevist revolution in Russia. Many readers will recall that we published a book in 1934 entitled, “Are These Things So?” said by many to reveal many things thereto f ore unknown. No reader with an open mind could answer that title question in the negative. We believe that this present work supplies a sequel to our previous book, and that
it proves that such things “Are So.” This work has been carefully translated and edited and will stand the test of scholarship, and therefore win the respect of the American people. The Intelligence Department of the defense forces of every country must supply, accurate information if defeat is to be avoided.
This book is sent forth by one who has dared to turn on the light of publicity in other publications. We shall watch with interest the reactions that will follow its appearance, and venture to suggest that critics be as careful to document their evidence as has been done with the facts presented herein.
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*The reader is directed to the epilogue, page 87, with
the suggestion that it be read at this time. -E’. N.S.
INDEX OF CONTENTS
ANTIPHONE
PROLOGUE
DESCRIPTION OF THE TALMUD
LIST OF TALMUDIC BOOKS
SOURCES
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PART I
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TEACHING OF THE TALMUD CONCERNING CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER I. JESUS CHRIST IN THE TALMUD
Art. 1. THE NAMES OF CHRIST
Art. 2. THE LIFE OF CHRIST
THE CHRISTIAN CROSS
Art. 3. THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST
CHAPTER II. CHRISTIANS IN THE TALMUD
Art. 1. THE NAMES OF CHRISTIANS
Art. 2. WHAT THE TALMUD TEACHES ABOUT CHRISTIANS
Art. 3. CHRISTIAN WORSHIP
PART II
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38
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46
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PRECEPTS OF THE TALMUD CONCERNING CHRISTIANS CHAPTER 1. CHRISTIANS ARE TO BE AVOIDED
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Art. 1. CHRISTIANS UNWORTHY TO ASSOCIATE WITH JEWS
Art. 2. CHRISTIANS ARE UNCLEAN
Art. 3. CHRISTIANS ARE IDOLATERS
Art. 4. CHRISTIANS ARE EVIL CHAPTER II. CHRISTIANS ARE TO BE EXTERMINATED
Art. 1. CHRISTIANS TO BE HARMED INDIRECTLY
1 . By not helping them
2. By interfering in their work
3. By deceit in legal matters
4. By harming them in things necessary for life Art. 2. CHRISTIANS TO BE HARMED DIRECTLY
1. Renegades to be killed
2. Apostates
3. Princes especially the Prince of Rome (the Pope) to be exterminated
4. All Christians to be killed
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5. Killing a Christian is an acceptable sacrifice to God 82
6. Heaven promised to those who kill Christians.
7. A Christian may be beheaded on the most solemn festivals
8. The Messiah expected will be revengeful
9. Jewish prayers against Christians
10. Christian prayers for the Jews
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX-HOW THE POPES TREATED THE JEWS
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AUTHOR’S DEDICATION
YOUR EXCELLENCY
In order to requite in some measure your very great kindness towards me, evidence of which I have experienced so often and in so many ways, I have undertaken to dedicate this little book to you. It is small in size but has been prepared with great care and labor, and I am led by the hope that you will not spurn it; for it is the first fruits of the labor of one whom you were once so kindly pleased to style the first fruits of your labors as Rector of this Academy. I therefore beg your Excellency to bless this work which I have recently completed, so that it may fulfil the purpose for which it was written. Bless me also that I may soon accomplish greater works for the glory of God and for the honor and advancement of our Alma Mater, over which you have ruled for eight years, and of which you are its greatest ornament.
May these pages be to Your Excellency the proof of my perpetual and sincere love and gratitude. Your Excellency’s devoted disciple, IUSTINUS BONAVENTURA PRANAITIS ANTIPHONE
“Let our writings be open to all the people. Let them see what our moral code is like! We need not be afraid of this test, for we have a pure heart and a clean spirit. Let the nations investigate the habitations of the children of Israel, and of their own accord convince themselves of what they are really like! They will then exclaim for certain with Baalam, when he went out to curse Israel: `How beautiful are thy tents 0 Israel: how beautiful thy homes!” “In its attitude towards non-Jews, the Jewish religion is the most tolerant of all the religions in the world. . .. The precepts of the ancient Rabbis, though inimical to Gentiles, cannot be applied in any way to Christians.” “A whole series of opinions can be quoted from the writings of the highest Rabbinical authorities to prove that these teachers in culcated in their own people a great love and respect for Christians, in order that they might look upon Christians, who believe in the true God, as brothers, and pray for them.” “We hereby declare that the Talmud does not contain anything inimical to Christians.”
1 J. Singer: Should the Jews become Christians? p .6. Vienna, 1884.
2 Daniel Chwolson : Do Jews use Christian Blood? pp. 11, 12, St. Peters
burg, 1879.
3 Polish Magazine L:raelita (Warsaw) No. 48, p. 459c, 1891 .
4 Dr. A. Jellenek: Gegen die Antisemiten (Against the Anti-Semites)
p. 9, Vienna, 1882.
PROLOGUE
MANY people who are interested in the Jewish question are wont l~1 to ask whether or not there is anything in the Talmud, which is not beautiful and sublime, and entirely removed from anything like hatred of Christians. The confusion of opinion about the matter is so great, that to listen to those who argue so wisely about it, you would think that they were discussing a very ancient and remote race of people, and not the people of Israel who live in our midst according to an unchanging moral code by which the religious and social life of the Jews has been regulated to this day. This being so, I have undertaken to show what the Talmud really teaches about Christians, and thus satisfy the wishes of those who desire to find out about this doctrine from genuine original sources.
To this end I have translated the best-known Talmudic books which refer to the Christians, and have arranged these sources in such order as to bring out clearly the picture of a Christian as represented to the Jews by the Talmud . Lest I be accused of using a corrupted text of the Talmud or of not having interpreted it correctly, as is generally the case with those who have attempted to disclose secret Jewish teachings, I have placed the Hebrew text opposite the Latin. 5 I have divided the whole into two sections, the first of which treats of the teachings of the Talmud about Christians, and the other, the rules which Jews are obliged to follow when living among Christians.
I preface these with a brief discussion about the Talmud itself in the following chapter. In this book the Hebrew text has been omitted Translator.
THE TALMUD
THE TALMUD gets its name from the word LAMUD taught and means The Teaching. By metonymy it is taken to mean the book which contains the Teaching, which teaching is called Talmud, that is, the doctrinal book which alone fully expounds and explains all the knowledge and teaching of the Jewish people.
As to the origin of the Talmud, the Rabbis 6 regard Moses as its first author. They hold that, besides the written law which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai on tables of stone, which is called Torah Schebiktab, he also received interpretations of it, or the oral law, which is called Torah Shebeal Peh . They say that this is the reason why Moses remained so long on the mountain, as God could have given him the written law in one day.’ Moses is said to have transmitted this oral law to Joshua ; Joshua in turn to the seventy Elders ; these Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets to the Great Synagogue. It is held that it was later transmitted successively to certain Rabbis until it was no longer possible to retain it orally.
Whatever may be said about this story of the Rabbis, it is sufficiently known to us that before the birth of Christ, schools existed in Palestine in which sacred literature was taught . The commentaries of the Doctors of the law were noted down on charts and 6 cf. Rabbi Levi in Berakhoth, fol . 5a ; Rabbi Iochanan in Megillah, f .19b. 7 To prove this they appeal to Exodus Ch . XXIV, 12 : “And the Lord God said to Moses, come up to me into the mountain, and be there : and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written ; that thou mayest teach them .” They assert that in this passage the words “tables of stone” mean the ten commandments, that “a law” means the Pentateuch, “commandments” mean the Mischnah ; “which I have written” the Prophets and the Hagiographers ; and “that thou mayest teach them” the Gernarah. cf. Berakhoth, fol. 5a. lists as an aid to memory, and these, when collected together, formed the beginnings of the Jewish Talmud.
In the second century after Christ, Rabbi Jehuda who, because of the sanctity of his life, was called The Saint, and The Prince, realizing that the learning of the Jews was diminishing, that their oral law was being lost, and that the Jewish people were being dispersed, was the first to consider ways and means of restoring and preserving their oral law. He collected all the lists and charts and from them he made a book which was called the Sepher Mischnaioth, or Mischnah- a Deuterosis, or secondary law. He divided it into six parts, each of which was divided into many chapters. We shall consider these later…
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