Page 70 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

The Track of the Jew through the Ages

This was the belief ofthe Jews from Asia to Western Europe.
When finally the Catholic Church strongly opposed the persecution
formulas, subjected the Talmud to a strict censorship and erased all
passages aimed at Christ, there rang out on the part of the Jews a
hue and cry on the violation of intellectual freedom. One need not
disparage the Church but every impartial person must admit that
here too it was a completely Jewish principle according to which it
proceeded and which Rabbi Tarphon specified in this way: "By the
life of my children, should the writings of the Christians come into
my hands I would burn them all, including the names of God that
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they contain"."
Now what does the Talmud say about Christ, what did these
passages contain that were so repugnant to the Catholic Church?
As his wit, his turns of phrase, and word-plays have helped
the present-day Jew to an unfortunate fame, the Jew of the past
already employed this special gift in a similar way. And Christ owes
his most humiliating names partly to this poisonous and
contemptuous word-play.
Referring to Num 24: 17: "There arose a star out of Jacob",
the Christians often named Jesus "the son of the stars", Ben Stara;
that the Jews turned into Ben Stada (son of a whore, according to R
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Cassel).
Mary is thought of in the Talmud only as a mistress, and
since it does not take chronology strictly into consideration (it lets
Christ's most bitter enemy Rabbi Akiba be his contemporary), it
identifies the wife of a certain Paphos living in the time of Rabbi
Akiba who, on account of her indecent life, was considered an
absolute whore, with Mary. The son of this habitual adulteress and
a Roman soldier, thus of the most depraved creature that the Jew
could imagine, is the "bastard" Jesus Christ.
Another name for Jesus appears from time to time: Ben
Pandera, literally "son ofthe panther". This designation is explained
in the following manner: in their contact with Greek life the Jew

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Tractate Sabbath 116a.
There are many such word-plays: The chalice [German: Kelch] was called Keif
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(dog), Pesach (Easter) Kesach (dissection).
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