Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Rabbi Robs Torah
From roitov(dot)com:
Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal
Over
time, I have covered most Jewish and Israeli holidays and
commemorative days, one of the exceptions being those following the
Jewish New Year, namely Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah.
These three are related; in Israel the last two are celebrated as
one. “Simchat Torah” literally means “The Joy of the Torah;”
it commemorates the conclusion of the annual cycle of Torah readings.
I skipped them due to their lesser importance; yet, in the 2012
celebrations an incredible event took place. On October 9, the rabbi
of Moshav Brosh in the Negev—whose name wasn't disclosed—was
arrested by the Israeli police after he became the main suspect of
stealing seven Torah scrolls from his synagogue. This was found
during the celebration of Simchat Torah; since this festival
symbolizes a public affirmation of Jewish identity, the event is
especially symbolic.
The theft was discovered by the eldest
son of Mordechai Vaknin, a resident of Moshav Brosh. During the
“Akafot”—the traditional encircling of the synagogue with the
scrolls—he got permission from his father to open the stylish box
where the scrolls were kept, in order to see them for the first time.
He rushed to the exciting task only to find the scrolls had been
replaced with paperboard, so that no one would feel the difference
while carrying the box around. “Dad, this isn't a Torah scroll.
There’s no parchment, it's fake,” said the kid to his father, and
the police were called. Despite the specific scroll being kept by the
synagogue and its rabbi, it was the property of the Vaknin family;
they had bought it four months before. The missing scrolls are valued
at between $12,900 and $31,000.
Following his arrest, the unnamed rabbi
said to the press: “I'm a bit confused. I intend to return the
stuff. I would like to apologize to anyone who might have been hurt
by this.”
The event is fascinating. “Torah”
is Hebrew for “Doctrine,” or “Teachings,” and is the name
reserved to the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old
Testament. The best known teachings are the Ten Commandments; one of
them is in Exodus 20:15, “Thou shalt not steal.” The rabbi openly
acknowledged having broken the rules he preaches, in addition to the
State laws. “Well, this is an exemption, they exist in every human
society,” would sensible Jews exclaim at this point. Their excuse
is not true on two levels.
In the most basic analysis, it is
difficult to trust the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. In
Rabbinical Fake: 6000 Differences I commented on discrepancies
appearing in different manuscripts of the Old Testament. Some of them
can be explained by the fact that during most of their history, they
were handwritten. Torah scrolls—like the abovementioned—are
handwritten even nowadays; this explains their high value. Tired
scribes made typos and changed the meaning; the most popular error is
the transformation of “she” (“ee”) into “he” (“oo,” a
yod letter becomes a vav), the difference is a vertical line spanning
the height of half a letter. However, some errors were intentional
and aimed at changing prophetic meanings, especially if they had
Christian implications. In Jewish Manipulations of the Bible I
analyzed such a modification in the texts of Acts 15:16-18 (New
Testament) and Amos 9:11-12 (Old Testament). Essentially, the robbing
rabbi could claim the Ten Commandments have been forfeited. He could
cite the fact that Samaritans have a different version of the Ten
Commandments. How could one trust such an ambiguous text?
However, the robbing rabbi doesn't need
to go into such complexities. For over two-thousand years rabbis have
not used the Old Testament; instead they rely on an interpretation of
it called the Talmud. In times of Jesus, the Talmud was still
incomplete, but its foundations already influenced the behavior of
the rabbis. The manipulation of the Mosaic Law for their personal
profit—the main task of the Talmud—is time and again denounced by
Jesus. The strongest text on the issue is the whole of Chapter 23 in
the Gospel of Matthew. However, that’s not the only relevant text.
He said:
Thus have ye made the commandment of
God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias
prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their
mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from
me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. (Matthew 15:6-9)
The problem is that the Talmud turns
around every Law, allowing rabbis to commit any crime in the name of
God. For example, the Talmud teaches in Baba Bathra, Folio 54b, that
non-Jews have no property rights. Their possessions are “like
unclaimed land in the desert.” The passage appears on page 222 of
the English Soncino edition: “Rab Judah said in the name of Samuel:
The property of a heathen is on the same footing as desert land;
whoever first occupies it acquires ownership.” This means that
robbing a non-Jew is not robbery at all. Our robbing rabbi could
claim the people he robbed from are not Jews and thus he is innocent.
However, as claimed at the beginning of
this section, the problem runs deeper.
The robbing rabbi is not an exception
The robbing rabbi may not be the rule,
but he clearly is not an exception. There is no way a complete review
of rabbinical crimes in the State of Israel could be reviewed in this
article. Recently, I reported on "Rabbi accused of bribery
appointed Head of Jerusalem Rabbinical Court". In May 2012,
Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar appointed Rabbi Yisrael
Yifrah to head the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court, a court that is just
one level below the Great Rabbinical Court. Shortly before that,
Rabbi Yifrah had his name removed from a list of candidates to the
latter court because he was accused of bribery, extortion, and
refusing to compel abusive husbands to grant their wives a divorce.
He is unable to refute the accusations, yet, he lives well and happy,
enjoying his new job while ruining the lives of many.
In Monster Rabbi, I expanded on Rabbi
Dov Lior. Among his notable achievements are:
*He legitimized killing non-Jews during
wartime; this is used by the IDF while using Palestinian human
shields – including children.
*He ruled that Jewish women should not
use sperm donated by a non-Jewish man, claiming that a baby born
through such an insemination will have the negative genetic traits
that characterize non-Jews. He literally said: “Gentile sperm leads
to barbaric offspring.”
*He is directly connected to the
assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Leading rabbis have testified that he
was the source of rulings labeling the late Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin a "rodef" and a "moser" (“pursuer” and
“giver,” in other words a traitor who endangers Jewish lives).
Yigal Amir - Rabin's assassin - used to travel to Hebron to get
advice from the rabbi.
*He instructed Baruch Goldstein, who
massacred many Palestinians praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs in
1994. After the massacre, the rabbi ruled that Goldstein was “holier
than all the martyrs of the Holocaust” (and the ADL didn’t sue
him!).
*Menachem Livni, who headed a terror
organization dubbed the "Jewish Underground" and was
convicted of murders testified that the spirit behind the Underground
was the rabbi Dov Lior. The latter was very specific in his demands,
and according to the testimony of the murderer, the rabbi was
involved in the details and decided how and when they would act. Lior
pressured the hesitant perpetrators to blow up six buses with all
their passengers. The buses were loaded with explosives with the
object of killing hundreds. Only the delay enabled the Shin Bet
security service to arrest them at the last minute.
Shmuel Eliyahu is the rabbi of Tzfat.
Recently, he issued a decree instructing residents not to rent rooms
or houses to Israeli Arabs. The last are full citizens of the State
of Israel. Subsequently, posters appeared all over the town, saying:
“Don't rent rooms to Arabs. Don't give work to Arabs. Don't give
Arabs any foothold in our community.” Jews renting rooms to Israeli
Arabs (in other words Palestinians with Israeli citizenship) got
telephonic threats. One such a case was that of Eliyahu Zvieli (89,
survivor of WWII) who rented rooms to three Palestinian students. He
reported that "People have called the house and threatened to
attack, they said they would burn it down if we don't leave."
Other odd events related to strange rabbinical interpretations of the
Bible can be read at Rabbi Lays down Religious Basis for Attack on
Syria and many other places, including the official media of the
State of Israel.
Invariably, in all these events we
witness behavior and interpretations that contradict the principles
of God’s teachings. Incredibly, they even contradict the laws of
the State of Israel, an entity recently defined as “inflicting
terror” by the UN. Most of the time, these criminals enjoy the
protection of that state. One must conclude that these crimes are not
only accepted and common, but are the real hidden law behind that
society.
The Truth
Complex laws and their even more
complex interpretations—both kept largely inaccessible to the
people—are the root of evil. They allow corrupt priests and
humanist administrators to thrive in happy camaraderie, ruining the
lives of innocents. The State of Israel is as ungodly as these rabbis
are. A robbing rabbi is an aberration to God. Instead, the Laws of
God are simple and were summarized two millennia ago in the Gospel of
Matthew 22:37-40: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto
it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
P.S. Nuff said.
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