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I used to be a zionist. Then I actually read what the Talmud says about the gentiles and children.
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Anonymous 3w

bro doesn’t even know what the Talmud is

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Anonymous 3w

Did you actually read it or just snippets of it on the internet with zero context bc that’s not reading it

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Anonymous 3w

here is another great moment (“sneeze from below” means fart)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Do you? Please explain since you are so much more knowledgeable about the texts of rabbinic judiasm than me.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Those passages you see on the Nazi sites are in the book next to passages that say the exact opposite thing bc it’s a recording of an argument

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

the Talmud is a collection of transcripts of rabbinic debates dating back thousands of years. each page of the Talmud has a small snippet of Torah in the middle, surrounded by the conflicting opinions and counter opinions of many rabbis, and then surrounded by the even more conflicting opinions and counter opinions of later rabbis. the proper way to read the Talmud is Daf Yomi, or one page a day in a prescribed cycle— it takes 7 years to finish— and with a chavruta partner

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

a chavruta partner is a debate partner who you disagree with often but there is mutual respect and integrity. together you and your chavruta partner are supposed to continue the debates of the rabbis and form your own conclusion

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

It kinda sounds like they are a bit more knowledgeable about this OP

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

the Talmud is full of stories and debates that range from poignant to ridiculous, emotional to sarcastic, sensible to utterly inscrutable. some of them revolve around events that would almost never happen or certainly never happen in real life but would be a conundrum for Jewish law if they ever did. sometimes rabbis play devils advocate to antagonize each other, sometimes they make an argument that they actually oppose in order to make a point or to bring it up for debate

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

a decontextualized quote from the Talmud is almost meaningless bc without the rest of the page you have no idea who said it, why, how the others responded, and if they ever came to a consensus on the answer to the debate

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

just for fun here is one of my favorite talmud moments

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Anonymous 3w

oh hell yeah, Talmud is basically generations of religious old dudes with OCD who did nothing but try to out-OCD each other for thousands of years

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