The Good News Talmud, Part X. The Town and Country Animosities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of Heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.

- Matthew 13:52

Part X. The Town and Country Animosities of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

A Jewish Rabbi and Catholic Priest Study Talmud Together

Because of the Internet, there will someday be a website where every single passage from the Gospels will be cross-referenced with at least two or three corresponding passages from the Talmud. A free information society benefits the Judeo-Christian tradition tremendously. Some Christians remain hesitant because of the old animosities between the Church and Jewish Rabbis and Scholars. This tendency is completely explainable. Many of the Church's best intellectuals, like Rabbi Joshua ben Joseph (Jesus Christ) Himself, were from the countryside, and were not the wealthy and important physicians, advisers, and bankers of Kings and Queens, as quite a few Talmudic Rabbis happened to be at the time. Tomorrow's Christians will understand the continuing tension between Nazareth (country), the hometown of the common man and scholar, and Jerusalem, the cesspool capital of the elite media's hypocrisy, nepotism, and corruption (town).

The debate about the wickedness of the Talmud is over as more Christians finally read and discover the Judeo-Christian goodness clearly written in the very text that has been misquoted and vilified for far too long. The real fight is between the common man and the secular elites who scoff at the Gospels, the Talmud, the Old Testament, and many other religious texts they dismiss as 'out-dated', 'superstitious', and 'mythological'. The Wisdom of the Talmud lives in throughout the country, while the city gleefully mocks Judeo-Christian believers just as Pharaoh and his magicians, Caesar and his Senatorial elite, and Greco-Roman Philosophers did so long ago. In the end, the Talmud will end up as a major study tool of the 21st Judeo-Christian scholars of tomorrow.

TALMUD: He who refuses to accept an apology from one who has offended him is wicked. (Numb. Rabba 19.
GOSPEL: If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying ‘I repent,’ you must forgive them. (Luke 17:3-4)

TALMUD: If you have not acquired knowledge, what can you claim to be possessed of? If you have knowledge, what do you lack?(Numbers Rabba 19)
GOSPEL: After three days they found Him (Jesus) in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers. When they saw Him, they were astonished...And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them; and His mother treasured all these things in her heart. And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. (Luke 2:46-52)

TALMUD: Let not the nations of the earth say that God has favoured Israel and neglected them, for whatever benefit He bestowed on Israel was given also to other nations. (Numbers Rabba 20)
GOSPEL: These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ (Matthew 10:5-7)

TALMUD: In man's intellect there seem to be four degrees, and thus we find him losing his wits by four several degrees when indulging in strong drink. When a man drinks one-fourth more than is good for him, he loses one-fourth of his intellect; when he indulges in as much again, half of his faculties are for the time paralysed; after the third cup over and above what is good for him, he begins to speak incoherently, indeed he knows not what he says; and when he has indulged in the full four parts he is intellectually wrecked. (Numbers Rabba 10)
GOSPEL: Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. (Luke 21:34)

TALMUD: Rabbis Gamaliel, Joshua, Eleazar b. Azaria and Akiba were preachers in Rome. (Exodus Rabba 30)
GOSPEL: On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. And the Gospel must first be preached to all nations. (Mark 13:9-10)

The Talmud is not anti-Christian, but is filled with Rabbis who disagree

TALMUD: Of the many that go to sea most return, only a small percentage are lost. Also of those who plunge into the sea of matrimony most are happy, and only a small number are misalliances. (Numbers Rabba 9)
GOSPEL: Jesus answered, 'Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because you refused to accept God's teaching, but divorce was not allowed in the beginning.' (Matthew 19:7-9)

TALMUD: If any one tells you that there is no such thing as resurrection, refer him to what one of God's servants (Elijah) did (1 Kings 17) (Numbers Rabba 14)
GOSPEL: Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. (John 5:24-25)

TALMUD: If any one tells you that there is no such thing as resurrection, refer him to what one of God's servants (Elijah) did (1 Kings 17) (Numbers Rabba 14)
GOSPEL: That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question....Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead-have you not read what God said to you, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. (Matthew 22:23-33)

Study Talmud Christian Scholars and Be Surprised by Goodness!

TALMUD: Man's eyes and his heart prompt him to sin. (Numbers Rabba 17)
GOSPEL: I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
(Matthew 5:28)

TALMUD: If you have not acquired knowledge, what can you claim to be possessed of? If you have knowledge, what do you lack?(Numbers Rabba 19)
GOSPEL: Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering. (Luke 11:52)

TALMUD: The truth of the Torah is a weapon to its possessor. (Numbers Rabba 12)
GOSPEL: All who stand before others and say they do not believe in me, I will say before my Father in Heaven that they do not belong to me. Don't think that I came to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:33-34)

An Illuminated Page of the Talmud

TALMUD: He who refuses to accept an apology from one who has offended him is wicked. (Numb. Rabba 19.
GOSPEL: Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.' (Matthew 18:21-22)

May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

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