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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

agreement with a word of Christ's, even if only an alleged one,
aroused the greatest fury of the Jews and Elieser escaped stoning
with difficulty; later he made the most bitter reproaches to himself
for having in general listened to a word of Christ's.
When the same Jacob Sekhania was once called by Rabbi
Ishmael to the healing of a nephew bitten by a snake, the rabbi did
not allow him in. And when the boy died, the rabbi said: "May you
be blessed, that you have kept your body clean and not violated the
words of your comrades". 119
Another passage lets Jesus be the student of Rabbi Joshua
ben Perachia, and since he thought at one time that the rabbi wished
to repudiate him, Jesus went and set up a brick and worshipped
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it".
In the tractate Sota, fol.49a,b, it says: "These are to be
observed as signs ofthe Messiah: shamelessness increases, ambition
rises, the vine indeed gives fruits but wine is dearer, the government
turns to heresy, there is no reprimand, the meeting house is used for
wooing, the wisdom ofthe scholars begins to stink, those who avoid
sins are despised and truth is absent; the son disparages his father,
the daughter rebels against her mother, a man's enemies are his
house-mates, the atmosphere of the age is dog-like ..."
Rabbi Jehuda speaks similarly of the Christian age and
concludes likewise: "... and the appearance of the age will be like
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that of a dog".
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And at the end of the 19 century a rabbi teaches us that the
words, "With the increase in debauchees the judgements are reversed
and conducts corrupted ... While the lick-spittles have increased,
the proud also have ..." (Sota foL47b) relate to the Christians since
the latter have learned the healing of wounds through spittle from
their teacher Jesus Christ. This hatred of the Jews has something
uncanny about it, for never perhaps have so many insulting names
been given and maintained through the millennia to a man whom
even the most alien peoples do not refuse to respect, such as bastard,

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Aboda Zara, 27b.
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Sanhedrin, foil 07b.
121 Sanhedrin, fol.96b and 97a.
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