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I hit peak Jew when I wanted some of those bling-blings so I pretended to be Jewish and joined a synagogue so I could get with a good stock broker.
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When I started having political discussions with them. Before that I always liked them.
Discussions that would go like this:
(from this page)Jane Rachel Litman writes that, when faced with the teachings of the ancient rabbis, some Jews respond with out and out denial. She describes a class she taught on Talmud:
The background sound in the small library is muted but intense. Pairs of scholars lean over their talmudic texts whispering energetically, trying to puzzle out the meaning of the particular sugya, passage. The teacher directs them back toward the group and asks for questions.
One student raises a hand: "I don't understand verse 5:4 of the tractate Niddah. What does the phrase 'it is like a finger in eye' mean?"
The teacher responds, "This refers to the hymen of a girl younger than three years old. The Sages believed that in the case of toddler rape, the hymen would fully grow back by the time the girl reached adulthood and married. Therfore, though violated, she would still technically be counted as a virgin and could marry a priest. It's an analogy: poking your finger in the eye is uncomortable, but causes no lasting harm."
There is a collective gasp of breath among students. Their dismay is palpable. They do not like this particular talmudic text or the men behind it. But its authors, the talmudic rabbis, hardly wrote it with this particular group of students in mind -- mostly thirty- and forty-year old women in suburban Philadelphia taking a four-week class titled 'Women in Jewish Law' at their Reform synagogue.
The questioner perists. 'I don't understand. Are you saying this refers to the rape of a three year-old girl?'
"Or younger," the teacher responds dryly.
"I don't see how it says anything about rape and hymens. You must be mistaken. I don't believe the rabbis are talking about rape at all. I think this statement has nothing to do with the rest of the passage."
The teacher (I'll admit now that it was me, a second-year rabbinic student) responds, "Well, that's the common understanding. What do you think it means?" The woman is clearly agitated, "I don't know, but I do know that it couldn't be about child rape." This is week three of the class. The woman does not return for week four. Denial.
So yeah, that definitely peak Jewed me.Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (Gentile) hits a Jew, the Gentile must be killed, hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God.
Sanhedrin 54b. A Jewish man may marry a female child who has reached the age of three years and one day and may consummate that marriage
Sanhedrin 57a. A Jew need not pay a Gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.
Sanhedrin 57a. When a Jew murders a Gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty, and what a Jew steals from a Gentile he may keep.
Yebamoth 98a. Gentiles, "whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses," have children who are legally fatherless.
Abodah Zarah 22a-22b. Gentiles can't be trusted with cows because they do immoral things with them, and they sexually prefer the cattle of Israelites to their own wives.
Shabbath 116a. Jews should destroy Christian books [ironically].
Minor Tractates. Soferim 15, Rule 10. Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed (Tob shebe goyyim harog).
Yebamoth 63a. Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.
Baba Mezia 59b. God admits a rabbi won a debate against Him.
When I got fed up with salt beef.
Seriously though, reading the Talmud will make anyone, including Jews, hit peak Jew. I'm not joking when I say that plenty of Jews, especially Reform ones, outright refuse to study the Talmud because it's just that abhorrent:
(from this page)
We can also learn from the Talmud that:
So yeah, that definitely peak Jewed me.
Edit - don't just assume that what I'm saying is true, or that I'm making stuff up to bash the Jewish religion for no good reason. Crosscheck these quotes with this copy of the Talmud, which was translated by a Jew, is posted on a Jewish website, and hasn't been influenced by "anti-Semites" (in any case, I'm not an anti-Semite; I choose to spend my Sunday mornings worshipping a Semite, and then after I have finished worshipping that particular Semite, I take out a string of beads and ask a Semite to pray for me 53 times. My problem isn't with "Semites" - a group which includes Arabs, as well - but with the racist and offensive Pharisaic Jewish religion.)
Berakhot 58b ברכות נ״ח ב
The Sages taught: One who sees the houses of Israel inhabited and tranquil recites: Blessed…Who establishes the border of the widow. One who sees them in ruins he recites: Blessed…the true Judge. One who sees the houses of the nations of the world inhabited recites: “The Lord will destroy the house of the proud, but He will establish the border of the widow” (Proverbs 15:25). And if he sees them in ruins he recites: “God of vengeance, Lord, God of vengeance, shine forth” (Psalms 94:1).
Shabbat 146a
Rabbi Yohanan then explained to them: Why are gentiles ethically contaminated? It is because they did not stand on Mount Sinai. As when the snake came upon Eve, i.e., when it seduced her to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, it infected her with moral contamination, and this contamination remained in all human beings. When the Jewish people stood at Mount Sinai, their contamination ceased, whereas gentiles did not stand at Mount Sinai, and their contamination never ceased.