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Can someone actually explain to me why the Talmud is suddenly popular for anti semites? I have been Jewish for 21 yrs and never heard of it until someone used it as a way to say I was evil
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Anonymous 2d

There is a group of fake Talmud quotes that makes its rounds through the antisemite circles. None of these are actually in the Talmud and are from an antisemitic propaganda called the Talmud unmasked.

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Anonymous 1d

It’s not suddenly popular. Most of the Talmud “quotes” you will encounter originate from a German book from the late 1800s, I forget the name. Basically all are out of context, often say the opposite of what the memes claim, and some are completely fabricated. It’s popular because the Talmud is extremely opaque even if you speak, read, write, and understand Hebrew, and it’s fairly inaccessible compared to the Tanakh, so people can just make up shit and say it’s in there and no one checks.

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Anonymous 2d

do you know what the Mishna is?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Basically, talmud is 63 tractates of commentary and debate on the Mishna, which helps form the basis of Halacha

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

I just don’t understand bc my family never studied it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

It takes many years to study so if you aren’t going to yeshiva I’m not surprised

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

Wow even as a Jew I’ve seen these and duly thought these were real

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Yes, but the Talmud includes the Mishna, with the Gemara being the commentary. There are two versions of the Talmud, with one being Babylonian and the other from Jerusalem

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Tbf there are admittedly some batshit crazy things in there, but it was basically Reddit for rabbinic commentaries back then so like it’s par for course. The Talmud doesn’t even agree with itself lmao, it’s basically a recorded forum of nerds arguing and explaining

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