After Midrashic interpretation is applied, they come out with : "‘It is not in heaven.’4 What did he mean by this? — Said R. Jeremiah: That the Torah had already been given at Mount Sinai; we pay no attention to a Heavenly Voice" (Baba Metzia 59b)
Talmud - Mas. Baba Metzia 59b
We learnt elsewhere: If he cut it into separate tiles, placing sand between each tile: R. Eliezer declared it clean, and the Sages declared it unclean; and this was the oven of ‘Aknai.1 Why [the oven of] ‘Aknai? — Said Rab Judah in Samuel's name: [It means] that they encompassed it with arguments2 as a snake, and proved it unclean. It has been taught: On that day R. Eliezer brought forward every imaginable argument ,3 but they did not accept them. Said he to them: ‘If the halachah agrees with me, let this carob-tree prove it!’ Thereupon the carob-tree was torn a hundred cubits out of its place — others affirm, four hundred cubits. ‘No proof can be brought from a carob-tree,’ they retorted. Again he said to them: ‘If the halachah agrees with me, let the stream of water prove it!’ Whereupon the stream of water flowed backwards — ‘No proof
can be brought from a stream of water,’ they rejoined. Again he urged: ‘If the halachah agrees with me, let the walls of the schoolhouse prove it,’ whereupon the walls inclined to fall. But R. Joshua rebuked them, saying: ‘When scholars are engaged in a halachic dispute, what have ye to interfere?’ Hence they did not fall, in honour of R. Joshua, nor did they resume the upright, in honour of R. Eliezer; and they are still standing thus inclined. Again he said to them: ‘If the halachah agrees with me, let it be proved from Heaven!’ Whereupon a Heavenly Voice cried out: ‘Why do ye dispute with R. Eliezer, seeing that in all matters the halachah agrees with him!’ But R. Joshua arose and exclaimed: ‘It is not in heaven.’4 What did he mean by this? — Said R. Jeremiah: That the Torah had already been given at Mount Sinai; we pay no attention to a Heavenly Voice, because Thou hast long since written in the Torah at Mount Sinai, After the majority must one incline.5R. Nathan met Elijah6 and asked him: What did the Holy One, Blessed be He, do in that hour? — He laughed [with joy], he replied, saying, ‘My sons have defeated Me, My sons have defeated Me.’ It was said: On that day all objects which R. Eliezer had declared clean were brought and burnt in fire.7 Then they took a vote and excommunicated him.
The Talmud Tested: A Comparison of the Principles and Doctrines of Modern Judaism with the Religion of Moses and the Prophets
- Alexander McCaul, Professor of Hebrew and Rabbinic Literature at Kings College, London
Partial list of Contents
Judaism’s perversion of Moses
Rabbinic injustice to women, slaves and gentiles
Rabbinic intolerance toward other nations
Hatred in the Talmud contrasted with charity in the Bible
Compulsory conversion of gentiles
Judaism’s ‘anti-semitic’ attitude toward fellow Jews regarded as am ha’aretz
Impoverished Jews whipped for accepting help from Christians
Converts to Christianity to be killed
Rabbinic contempt for sons of Noah
Intolerance of rabbinic prayers
Rabbinic lies and legends
Judaism a heathen religion: astrology, charms and amulets
Excommunication in Judaism
Synagogue system based on the oral law
Members of the Sanhedrin had to be skilled in magic
Polygamy
Divorce
Judaism’s oppression of the poor
Propaganda techniques and tricks of rabbinic deceit
Judaism as moral and intellectual slavery.
Rabbinic authority exalted above all others
Jews forbidden to love their gentile neighbors
Rabbinic permission to violate God’s commands
The rabbinic criminal code
The impenitent Jew at the tribunal of God’s judgment
and much more.
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A Comparison of the Principles and Doctrines of Modern Judaism
with the Religion of Moses and the Prophets"
i often wonder why Christians (and others) don't understand the evil nature of the parallel religion of Talmudic Judaism
posing (for the unaware)
as Moses & The Prophets.
i'm fully aware that we should expect little else from the unregenerate.....Islam; Pagan Religions, etc.
but Talmudic Judaism is specifically insidious, as it takes the Name of The True God and makes a mockery of everything He is; said, and did.
and it
masquerades as Moses & The prophets (primarily for self-preservation; and for the continued "blessings" from America per - the ludicrous re-interpretation of Genesis 12:3).
i lay the blame for damage done to Christianity.... (and the True Judaism still practiced by a few in the Jewish community (Karaites)...though without coming to the knowledge of Christ through Moses, even that will avail them nothing)....at the feet of those inside the Body of Christ who are supposed to know this. why don't we KNOW what Jesus was so against?
are we afraid to research? afraid to speak?
i understand that. persecution isn't fun.
......
i wonder how it is Christians (who used to know this) openly ridicule and reject the notion that Mystery, Babylon The Great was indeed 1st Century Jerusalem...as these antiGod / antichrist doctrines which had been adopted and developed
in Babylon and were leavened into Biblical Judaism/Torah (Which is basically Christianity).
when Jesus walked the earth in Judea/Jerusalem and region - there was a division among the people because of HIM.
not just doubt vs certainty:
Love, understanding and joy that
this was the Promised Messiah - vs - Revolutionary subversion and murderous hatred
that this was The Messiah.
The Bible testifies to this over, and over.
Jesus Himself makes it plain.
Revelation 17:5
4The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, 5and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." 6And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus
yet, we have Christians who refuse to believe it.
perhaps it's because the disguise has been so successful.