Page 53 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

The strictly orthodox camp naturally speaks in higher tones.
One need only glance at the present-day Jewish newspapers:
according to them, the Jews are so much above all other peoples
because they were the first of all men who had recognised god. In
the programme of the Youth Association of the "Agudas Israel" is
set down the sentence: "The Jews are the children of god". As a
programme point!
A Talmudic scholar from Poland (from where indeed all
our Jews originate) speaks in the following manner: "The Gospels
have no authoritative worth either as a historical source or as ethical
literature" ... "Christianity fell in the establishment of its moral
foundations in the opposite of Judaism, in flight from the world, in
the calumniation of every culture, every progress", and he praises
Rabbi Ishmael, who says that the Gospels sow envy, hatred and
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jealousy between Israel and his Father in heaven". How Dr. Lippe
imagines the opposite of flight from the world emerges sufficiently
from the Talmud, the only book recognised by him. There, for
example, Isaiah says to King Chiskia: "You will die because you
did not concern yourself with propagation". 75
Regarding the value of life Rabbi Jehuda says: "Three things
lengthen the days and years of man: the one who spends a long time
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in prayer, at table and in the lavatory". Rabbi Elieser the Great
says: "One who in dream sleeps with his mother can hope for reason.
One who sleeps with a betrothed virgin can hope for the Torah. One
who in dream sleeps with his sister can hope for wisdom. One who
in dream sleeps with the wife of a man can be sure that he is a son of
the future world. One who in dream sees a goose can hope for
wisdom! One who sleeps with it will become a school leader. One
who in dream relieves himself, that is a good sign to him. But this is
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the case only if he has not cleaned himself after, etc." And the
Rabbi Ishmael respected by Dr. Lippe maintains of the Christians:
"About them David said, Ps 139:21: should I not hate those who

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Dr. K. Lippe, Rabbinisch-wissentschaftliche Vortrage, Drohobycz, 1897. [Karel
Lippe (1830-1915) was a Zionist doctor in Romania.]
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Tractate Berachoth, fol.l0a,b.
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Ibid., fol.54b and 55a.
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Fol.56b.
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