CHAPTER SIX
JUDAISM
Judaism
may be treated as the fountain of both Christianity and Islam because the former
is thought of as a Jewish heresy and the latter is claimed to be the reformed
version of the Jewish doctrine which was supposed to have suffered the indignity
of corruption over a period of centuries. Since all these faiths are rooted in
the sands of Arabia, they qualify as the Semitic religions and naturally express
a basic unity of purpose, display a common strand of thinking and employ methods
of securing the goal which may look different on the surface but at the bottom
are very similar.
Mythology and faith-founders
Concerned as the architects of
these faiths might have been with the amelioration of mankind, principally, they
were driven by the urge of dominance and sought Godhead through the activation
of human instincts of fear and favour. Essence of their fundamental precepts,
rituals, modes of action and magnitude of hope and despair, is firmly
established in the mythological traditions of the Middle East which I have
narrated in the previous Chapter and must be borne in mind by the reader for
future reference. The Semitic Reformers, if I may so call the founders of these
religions, as a mark of respect to their followers, though human, sought to
replace the existing gods and infuse the then current mythology with their own
divinity embellished with the fascination of superstition and poetic verve.
This theory represents a new point
of view and may not be palatable unless the reader is prepared to weigh the
argument with a cool and rational mind which the magnitude of this discussion
deserves. I shall start with the analysis of Judaism, the root of all Semitic
religions.
What is Judaism?
Primarily, it refers to Pentateuch,
the first five books of the Old Testament, i.e. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy, traditionally ascribed to Moses but in practice it is
based on Torah (Law or Teaching) which included the sacred Scriptures as well as
oral traditions, theological assertions, ethical proclamations' historical
recollections and even the rabbinic interpretations. Thus the boundaries of
Judaism have been made infinite to prove or disprove anything to suit the
convenience of the interpreter.
Pedigree and training of Moses
Judaism, is also loosely called
Mosaism after its founder, Moses, whose parents belonged to the tribe of Levi
which was one of the Jewish groups settled in Egypt. Moses, the son of Amram and
Jochebed, by a quirk of history ended up on the lap of Pharaoh's daughter and
was brought up in the Egyptian court as a prince. He was trained in the noble
arts of Egypt such as law-making, scribing, religion, civil administration and
warfare. Moreover, as Egypt ruled Palestine and a part of Syria, he knew the
history and geography of these countries from the court records.
The biblical Hebrews led by Moses
(Moshe) were variously known as Habiru or Hapiru. They lived in the Goshen
district, near the north-eastern part of the Egyptian delta. Who were these
Hebrews or Habirus?
Origins of the Hebrews
When Jacob, the Israel, entered
Egypt, his company consisted of "'seventy souls" but when they were
delivered from this land after 2 four hundred and thirty years, there
were 3 about six hundred thousand men on foot excluding women and children.
Estimating the number of wives and children, the size of the exodus has been put
as high as 2,000,000 though scholarly criticism has reduced it to 15,000.
Hebrews, it is claimed, did not
constitute an ethnic group; the word refers to people who were stateless;
they were considered bandits and vagabonds, and made their living by hiring
themselves out for menial tasks. Like their numbers, this definition of the word
"Hebrew" is by no means universally accepted.
I am inclined to think that the
numbers of the exodus approached half a million souls but they could not call
themselves Jews or Israelites. There are good reasons for this assumption:
1. Firstly, there is no mention of
Israel in the Egyptian records.
2. Secondly, it is not possible for
seventy one people (including Joseph who was already in Egypt) to multiply into
such a large multitude under conditions of severe slavery: their rate of death
would have been abnormally high owing to the hard labour, malnutrition, disease
and the genocidal policy of the Egyptian government.
3. Thirdly, as the history of negro
slaves shows, the white Americans frequently seduced their slave women. Thus,
modern American Blacks are black in name only; they are a mixed race. This is
even more true of the Jews who suffered far worse conditions of bondage in a
period when the moral conscience of mankind was still infant.
Promised Land
4. Finally, the members of the
exodus had ceased to be Jewish because they descended from the various ethnic
groups of slaves which the Egyptian pharaohs brought with them from the
conquered territories of Canaan (Palestine) and Syria; the number of prisoners
of war that Amenhotep II (1450-1425 B.C.) took during his nine-year campaign
alone, stood at 89,600. This explains the unusual increase in the numbers of
slaves who eventually came to be known as Jews or Hebrews.
They were badly needed in Egypt for
building-work. The significance of slave labour becomes evident when we realise
that an average Egyptian temple involved the transporting' hewing and laying of
2,300,000 blocks, weighing on average two and a half tons each. This was one of
the causes of the Egyptian military expeditions However, these slaves or Hebrews
remained Semitic for originating from Palestine and Syria. Therefore, Canaan,
projected as the "Promised Land" was not a new country but the
original homeland of the Jews, and their return amounted to home-coming in the
same sense as it has happened in the 20th Century after a "wandering"
of 1,800 years.
Egyptian attitude towards Jews
Without further harping back on
their past, now I may call them Jews or Israelites for the sake of clarity. Much
to the consternation of the Jews, as it may seem, the Old Testament makes it
clear ' that they were not trusted by the Egyptians who thought of them as a
threat to their national security for having no loyalty to the land of their
sojourn.
Mosaic miracle
Emergence of the Jews into a
tenacious, fruitful and self-confident race, is more attributable to the genius
of Moses and less to their own contrivance. The Mosaic miracle lies in the
psychological and intellectual understanding of his people and prescribing the
remedy for converting their weakness into strength, capriciousness into
resoluteness and stubbornest into willingness.
Moses knew that his people had been
toughened by the hard labour and perpetual cruelty of their Egyptian masters;
tenderness was neither a part of their culture nor theyyearned after it.
Survival was their natural concern as it would be of anyone else's, constantly
subjected to fear and rape, murder and cruelty. They had no intrinsic regard for
discipline which was imposed upon them from without and whose only purpose was
exploitation, and provision of sadistic enjoyment to the persecutors. Unity of
purpose or social cohesion that springs from conscience or pursuit of a noble
common goal, was alien to them. Yet they possessed a loose sense of social
belonging rooted in helplessness and servitude, and a desire to be free, happy
and human. This understanding must have been assisted by the common ambition to
escape and the fact that they all had originally come from the lands of
Palestine and Syria. Over the long period of their sojourn they had probably
evolved a communal language and a common culture based on inferior values
compatible with the traditions of servility. It leads to a startling conclusion,
that is, the Jews are the original Palestinians who had lost their identity and
were forced to conquer their land of origin!
Jewish character and potential
Curiosity, search for the
beautiful, and will to engage in a struggle to secure the best, made no part of
their mental make-up. They needed the cover of ignorance to protect themselves
against the harshness of reality and shunned the realm of thought and enquiry.
Intellectually, they ranked no more than a pigmy who naively feels ten foot
tall, and mistakes vice for virtue, peevishness for perseverance and silliness
for sagacity. This attitude of the mind emanated from lack of education and
absence of a firm belief in the values of righteousness, ascendancy and
self-respect. Yet this weakness of the mind verged on the virtue of potential
docility and adaptability that had resided in their "stiff necks" for
a long time. Constant and habitual suffering, having become an integral part of
their daily lives, had assumed the role of a protective shield which acts as a
barrier against timidness and may stir one's dormant spirit to protest or even
challenge the oppressor.
The audacity of a hebrew who
questioned the authority of Moses (Ex. 2:14) must have assured him that
underneath the Jewish ashes of servitude, gleeds of freedom impatiently glowed
to become a bonfire.
The wisdom of great Moses spotted
the infirmities of his people, which he knew possessed the potential for
greatness. How? He knew that being stateless and idolatrous, they owed no
allegiance to Egypt or any particular deity; their minds were blank and
flexible; their ignorance desperately needed a code of conduct based on faith
which allows no rational enquiry and loves the varnish of superstition, made
fascinating by never-ending tales of miracles and supernatural deeds.
Mosaic intentions
What was in it for Moses?
Of course, he was already a prince,
but he was a prince of unknown origin, without any portfolio. His immense
talents, stupendous ego and colossal will looked for a venture that was way
beyond the reach of ordinary princes. Such a dream could be realised only by
fathering an ambitious, tenacious and upward-looking nation. So he adopted the
Mesopotamian theory of viceroyalty. It was not quite original because its
elements were practiced in various degrees in the Middle East, but the emphasis
he laid upon it and the spirit of collectivity he breathed into it, were
original.
Mesopotamian theory of
viceroyalty
The Mesopotamian faith held that
the king is not a god but his viceroy; it is the former who makes law and the
latter who enforces them. King is god's vicar and possesses no authority of his
own. The famous Hammurabi received his laws from Marduk, the Chief City God.
Power belonged to god in theory only because it was the ruler who wielded it and
could forge any law in the name of the deity.
Choosing doctrine of viceroyalty
for the Hebrews was an act of extraordinary vision on the part of Moses because
it suited their psychological make up; they would have shown no reverence to a
god-king like the pharaoh who was above law, and had been the source of
affliction to them for centuries. A viceroy like Moses who was one of God's
subjects as they were, and equally bound by the divine law, was quite
acceptable. Neither they had the gumption to enquire into the process of
law-making nor did they have any cause to question the integrity of Moses.
In fact, the device of viceroyalty
suited Moses quite well: it gave him the divine powers to make law and rule them
without having the responsibility to face the consequences of hard luck or bad
management. If anything went wrong, it was God's fault; he himself acted as God
without being called so.
Mosaic skill lay in exploiting the
superstitious minds of the Hebrews. He narrated the episode of the burning bush
which suffered no consumption at all. It was the genius of Moses which realised
that the introduction of a new god, who professed to be the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, should be accompanied by such an uncanny
event. Yet God observing the prevailing Hittite manners, does not reveal his
name and declares: "I AM THAT I AM".
Quite sagaciously, he did not
forget to express the usual apparent reluctance of the dominant for assuming the
reins of power. Moses told God that he was not willing to act as the divine
viceroy owing to his stammer and lack of eloquence. He agreed to carry the
yoke of authority only because his attitude infuriated the Lord! Thus Moses had
no choice but to become God's viceroy who must announce that God sent him to His
people!
The sweetest sound that the
stateless Hebrews ever heard was the offer of a national home - the Promised
Land. It was nothing like Egypt which had caused them untold misery, it was
"a land flowing with milk and honey".
Psychological skillof Moses
When Moses declared that God had
chosen the Children of Israel as his own people, it inflated their most
miserably deflated egos. All of a sudden their sense of.inferiority turned into
a complex of superiority and they felt the urge to stand on their own feet to
gain self-respect. Nobody questioned Moses: why had God preferred a rabble of
tattered, tortured and tasteless slaves to the rest of mankind, and how such a
one-sided, bigoted and unfair God, who ignored all his other children to adore a
handful of Jews, could be trusted or genuinely respected? They loved this
celestial opium and pretended their choice to be the pure gift of God which
admitted no ifs or buts.
Jews, the superior race
The chosen people, being the
superior race, expected their chooser to deliver them from Egypt miraculously.
So to lead them personally, the Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud
during the day and a pillar of light at night (Ex. 13: 21-22).
Contest between Yahwe and
Pharaoh
Yahwe, the Jewish God, entered a
stern contest of miracles with Pharaoh, the Egyptian god-king, to demonstrate
His might both to the Pharaoh and His newly-adopted children of Israel! For
displaying a lot of supernatural acts, He deliberately hardened Pharaoh's heart1
so that he should not allow the Children of Israel to leave! To multiply His
miraculous signs:
a. He turned Aaron's rod into a
serpent;
b. He turned all Egyptian water
into blood; the fish died and rivers stank;
c. He filled the land of Egypt with
frogs;
d. He turned dust into lice and
both man and beast became infested with them;
e. He sent a swarm of flies upon
Pharaoh, his servants, his people and the houses of all the Egyptians;
f. He killed all the cattle of the
Egyptians such as horses, asses, camels, oxen, sheep, etc;
g. He turned the ashes of the
Egyptian furnaces into brains which affected all magicians and Egyptians;
h. He sent thunder and hail, and
the fire ran upon the ground and heavy rain caused dreadful flood everywhere
except where the Children of Israel were!
i. He then sent heavy swarms of
devastating locusts against the Egyptians.
j. He inflicted a thick blanket of
darkness on all Egypt except where the Jews dwelt, and this phenomenon lasted
for three days.
False interpretations
To believe in such fairy tales, one
has to be either imbecile or totally brainwashed. Moslems have also invented
similar miracles about the Prophet Muhammad. The Jews dismiss them as
irrational, but when it comes to Moses they believe in their veracity literally.
It shows that their faculties of reason are programmed right from the cradle
through a highly biased system of nurture. Even the Jews trained in physics and
chemistry do not seem to be able to escape from the golden cage of superstition,
and insist that these biblical events are historically true. For example, they
say that the mention of rivers of blood and destruction of fish refers to the
period when heavily excessive rains in Etheopia caused erosion of the deep-red
soil. It affected the colour of the river whose dashing currents also happened
to carry flagellates i.e. red algae.
What a pity! The Old Testament does
not refer to red water and flagellates but real blood and real fish. One also
wonders why it was necessary for Yahwe to indulge in such a drama when he claims
to be All-powerful and possesses the ability to manipulate natural events.
Instead of repeatedly asking Pharaoh to let his people go, it would have been a
lot more dignified to strike Pharaoh and his armies dead to deliver the chosen
people. What a shame that they had to escape like thieves. Giving them the
courage to fight their way out of Egypt, would have been far more honourable.
Above all, the fact that Yahwe deliberately 2 hardened the heart of Pharaoh so
that he should violently resist the release of Israelites, makes the whole
episode a gigantic farce.
Mosaic skill and Jewish
nationality
It was traditional for almost every
community in the Near East to stabilise communal life around a particular deity
by establishing a special relationship with it through their Chief or ancestor.
Moses realised that his disunited people most urgently needed a common bond of
unity which could be provided by an exclusive God who should care more about
them than anybody else because this was the only way to give them the feeling of
being chosen. Yahwe's claim to be the creator of all mankind sounds hollow in
view of his special leanings towards the Jews. Moses chose Him as the God of
Israel for His truculency to give his people military qualities so that they
could conquer the "Promised Land". The so-called "Song of the
Sea" in Ex 15:1-8 and the "Song of Deborah" in Judges 5, praise
Yahwe, the divine warrior. Realising the slavish mentality of the Hebrews who
had learnt to obey the person of the commander without scrutinising the quality
of his commands, Moses founded Judaism on the superstition of Yahwe to create a
similar relationship between him and the Children of Israel as exists between a
lord and vassal. Blood ties did not originally form a part of the Jewish
nationhood; it developed much later through the exclusivity of divine bigotry.
Scholars have remarked that such a prototype was present in the treaties made
between the Hittite kings and their vassals during 1450 - 1200 B.C.
Mosaic urge of dominance
Of course, we read in the Old
Testament that Yahwe spoke to Moses face to face as friends talk to each other,
and we also note that the Jewish people had seen Him when He visited them in the
wilderness. It makes Him a physical and visible entity. If this is the case, why
can't He be contacted in person now when He is most desperately needed by
mankind, including the Jews? The truth is that He was an invisible nonentity
then as He is now. Moses deliberately founded Judaism on the abstract doctrine
of divinity to appoint himself as the Lord's viceroy to create and rule the
Jewish nation through the mechanism of fear and favour.
The Covenant
Setting himself up as the mediator,
the great Moses suggested a contractual relationship between God and man and
called it a "Covenant". And to make sure that nobody challenged his
innovation, he declared that such a covenant had always existed between Yahwe
and the Jewish patriarchs such as Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In fact, he
portrayed it as a continuation of the old Covenant which emphasised a two way
obligation - one side is based on fear and the other on favour. In plain
language, it means that God will favour the Children of Israel if they fear Him,
through exclusive worship by crying, cringing and crawling before Him.
What is worship?
Worship means obeying Yahwe's laws
which are eternal and seek to control all man's aspects of life such as what to
believe in, how to think, walk, talk, sleep, wear, eat, drink, deal with other
people, and so on. These are the characteristics of slavery and the ingredients
of brainwashing for turning people into robots which can be operated by the
flick of a switch.
The Covenant and mechanism of
fear and favour
Now let us see how the Covenant
exploits fear and favour mechanism of mankind:
a. To activate fear, the Covenant
stipulates:
A Jew shall love Yahwe from the
bottom of his heart and instill His love in the hearts of his children.
Moses tells his people that the
Lord God is "a consuming fire, and even a jealous God" who wants blind
and total obedience from the Children of Israel. If they swerve a bit, He
promises to lay an utter and most agonising curse upon them by way of lethal
diseases, physical destruction, slavery, homelessness, foreign domination, and
all the humiliation and torture one can think of. Further, Yahwe shall carry out
complete destruction of the disobedient Jews, gleefully.
b. The Covenant quite aptly
remembers the human quest for favours:
If Jews obey Yahwe in the
prescribed manner, He will lay all these curses on the enemies of the Jews and
hate them.
Further, to strengthen the Covenant
and to make it workable, Yahwe adds some sweetest clauses to it and tells His
loyal children what favours they can expect of Him:
1. He assures them that he is a
faithful God and shall keep His covenant with a thousand generations of the
loyal Jews who shall be "blessed above all people" and there will be
no barrenness amongst them or their cattle because they are holy to God who has
chosen them to be a special people.
2. They shall be loaded with
earthly riches.
3. God s promises that the Jewish
race shall multiply immensely.
4. Yahwe shall make the Jews reign
over many nations but they shall not be reigned-over by the foreigners. He will
enable Jews to subdue all antagonistic nations, and shall deliver them to his
chosen people for total destruction: this process shall continue until no man is
left to be able to stand up to them. Further, Yahwe promises to make them the
head and not the tail.
Nature of the Jewish Covenant
One should note that in this
covenant there is no reference to humanity, moral virtue or life after death. It
is simply a secular contract founded on materialism! It clearly follows that
whatever makes a Jew rich and powerful, is proper.
Moses and Yahwe
While Jacob is the father of the
"Children of Israel", Moses is the founder of the Jewish nation. His
sincerity as the national father is beyond doubt. But his fervent desire to be
obeyed and adored has been overlooked. He did not declare himself to be God; he
presented himself as God's servant but in such a way that God can be approached
only through his medium. It is the Moses-made laws that have come to be known as
God's laws and there are several biblical accounts which show that Moses was
wiser, and better tempered than God and could rebuke Him and prevail upon Him. I
have no doubt that this apparent viceroy was Yahwe himself. How?
Coming of Yahwe
a. As the story goes, Moses acts as
a medium between God and his people at their request, and not that he wants
power!
When people noticed the glorious
coming of Yahwe through thunder, lightning, musical noise and mountain-smoking,
they promised to listen to Moses but he should not let God speak to them because
it might lead to their death.
It is obvious that Moses was made
of different materials from the rest of the people; he could withstand God's
majesty without coming to harm but the folks were sure to suffer death by
Yahwe's contact. Again, Moses had the power to dissuade God from talking to
people.
Contest between Moses and Yahwe
b. Worship of the molten calf by
the Jews kindles God's jealousy which far excells the possessive attitude of a
petty lover, afraid of losing to his rival. Quite cleverly, Moses uses this
event to demonstrate that Jews are his people and not Yahwe's:
God angrily commands Moses to get
out of His sight. In a temper, He disowns Jews and calls them "Moses'
people" whom he had brought out of Egypt and who had corrupted themselves
(Ex. 32:7).
However, the sagacity of Moses
rises to the occasion and with a view to staying in the background he asserts
that Jews are the Lord's people and it is He who brought them out of Egypt but
he does not allow the episode to rest here. As God at this point, intends to
consume the Children of Israel with his boiling wrath, Moses cannot afford to
lose the opportunity of humiliating Him for establishing his (Moses') own
superiority:
He tells God impolitely that He is
about to do a wicked thing against His own people and shames Him by asserting
what the Egyptians would say. Moses Commands the Lord to refrain from this evil
and repent (Ex. 32: 12-14). Here God Surrenders to man! What a blasphemous
attitude it is! Yet the Jews claim to be a monotheistic people.
Here Moses depicts his serenity,
cool and virtuousness in contrast to the impetuosity, hot-headedness and vicious
temper of Yahwe. Thus, he projects himself as the controller who drives from
behind instead of leading from the front.
c. Numbers, the fourth book of
Moses, narrates yet another episode when the Jews denigrate the Promised Land
and want to return to Egypt. Yahwe's wrath, which seems to dwell on the surface
and keeps waiting for the smallest breeze of discord, flares up again:
Yahwe, the Jewish God once again
feels provoked by His people and threatens to destroy them. Moses steps in and
shames Him. God yields to Moses as usual (Numbers 14: 11-20).
Moses the Divine
d. Moses returned to his people
after staying forty days and forty nights with the Lord.
The Jews noticed that his face
shone; they were afraid to talk to him, and he had to mask his face to alleviate
their fears (Ex. 34:30,33).
One must realise that Yahwe has a
similar radiant face (Ex. 33:20).
Semitic theory of viceroyalty
The theory of viceroyalty seems to
be the crux of the Semitic culture. Instead of declaring that the protagonist is
propounding his personal views or prescribing his own principles, he pretends
that whatever he says or does, he simply carries out the commands of a
supernatural being. Thus he convinces people that he has no personal motive;
they easily fall for it especially when the viceroy's teachings and commandments
carry a promise of secular or celestial rewards.
Since the supernatural being is, as
portrayed by the viceroy (prophet), and cannot be seen or contacted directly by
the people, the viceroy and God become one and the same person.
Significance of Mosaic Law to
Jews
A divine viceroy possesses super
ego and ardently desires to be worshipped. In fact, worship is a form of total
obedience to the legal commands of the lawgiver. To make sure that he was
eternally adored, Moses created a nation whose identity was founded on the law
that was immortal, inviolable and immutable. The Mosaic Law has determined the
Jewish vision, vanity and way of life over the last thirty two centuries.
The value of Mosaic Laws should be
judged as follows:
a. The purpose of the Mosaic Laws;
b. Relevance of the Mosaic Laws to
the Jewish nationhood;
The nature of the Mosaic Laws as a
form of legal code.
a I have already said that the
purpose of the Mosaic law was to secure the highest possible position of
adoration for Moses. I have explained this point by describing him as the
viceroy, and stated that since Yahwe cannot be contacted or traced Moses, who is
capable of rebuking and dominating Yahwe, is Yahwe himself but in the cloak of a
viceroy.
b. However, I have not as yet
touched upon the second part of this assertion i.e. the founding of Jewish
nationality on law. The understanding of this point is not possible unless we
first realise the significance that the Mosaic law attaches to itself: All those
who do not obey the Jewish law literally are cursed as well as those who
disagree with this principle (Deut. 27:28).
Not only every comma, full stop and
word of the law is binding on a Jew but it is also eternal (Deut. 29:29).
The rise and fall, mirth and
misery, honour and dishonour - in fact, the entire Jewish destiny depends upon
obedience or disobedience to the law. Chapter 8 of Deuteronomy makes it amply
clear.
After this introduction, now I may
proceed to describe the Jewish legal nationalism:
Jewish legal nationalism
1. Moses portrays God as Jewish for
making covenants exclusively with the Jewish patriarchs - Noah, Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. He is obviously not interested in other nations:
If the Jews keep Yahwe's covenant,
He will exalt them over all other nations and treat them as His treasure (Ex
19:5).
2. His sole, or at least major
concern, is confined to the Jews. Why? Because He has chosen them from the rest
of mankind. This is the reason that they are the best, the special, the holy and
the blessed.
3. Jewish law ensures final victory
of the Jews over the insolent Gentiles who will be presented to the Chosen race
bit by bit for their total destruction, and whose destiny it is to become the
Jewish inheritance (Ps. 2: 8-9).
The true relationship between Jews
and Gentiles is that of a master and slave!
4. Jewish law declares the land of
the "Canaan" as the "Promised Land" or legal homeland for
the Children of Israel.
5. Since God personally went to
Egypt and brought them to the "Promised Land", it is distinctly the
home for the Jews; they are forbidden to mix with or make covenants with
non-Jews (Philistines) who should be expelled from there. (Exodus 23:32-33)
6. Jews must maintain their racial
purity by not marrying the Gentiles. (Ex. 34:12-16). Eventually this law was
made so fierce that the Jews were required not only to divorce their non-Jewish
wives but also disown their own children from such spouses (Ezra 10:2-24).
7. To maintain racial purity, a
bastard shall not be allowed to enter into congregation of the Lord even to his
tenth generation (Deut. 23:2).
8. Even in foreign lands, Jews must
organise themselves as distinct communities for practicing the Mosaic law (Deut.
4:5-6).
9. To make Jews an equitable
fraternity, they are forbidden to have Jewish bondmen and bondmaids. Nor are
they allowed to rule over one another with rigour. On the contrary, their slaves
must be Gentile, and any non-Jew born in the land where Jews dominate, may be
treated as a Jewish possession and inheritance (Lev. 25:43-46). To foster this
sense of communal belonging, a Jew is not allowed "to lay usury" upon
a fellow-Jew (Ex. 22:25).
10. To make Jewishness the central
point of law, and thereby the focus of every Jew's dream, the Old Testament
declares Jerusalem the Holy City where Yahwe dwells.
Thin in the ferret of Zionism which
teaches (Isiah 4:3. 52:1) every Jew to treat Israel as his real home and pine to
return, regardless of where he is born.
c. Should I analyse the Jewish code
as the law in its national sense i.e. legislative enactment, case law etc.? This
is not necessary because the Jewish law like any divine law, is based on faith,
and not reason. Thus, it is something which may be adored but cannot be
practiced. Let me give you a few examples:
1. It is more concerned with
retribution than reform and justice (Ex. 21:24-26).
2. It commands complete rest on
Saturday (the Sabbath) and prescribes death even for gathering sticks (Numbers
15:32). Jesus was accused of blasphemy for healing people on the Sabbath Day!
In the modern times, at least 50~o
of all Jews shall qualify for divine execution owing to their business
activities associated with Saturday.
3. It prescribes death by stoning
of a son who does not obey his father or mother. (Deut. 21:18-21)
If this law were applied strictly,
how many Jewish children would survive?
Nature of Yahwe
Since Jewish nationhood is based on
the laws of Yahwe (as claimed by Moses and prophets), one cannot evaluate the
role of Judaism without assessing the nature of Yahwe. It is a highly emotional
subject for its psychological connotations, yet it cannot escape scrutiny
because of its fundamental importance to the seekers of truth. Let us have a
look at Him:
Yahwe, the reluctant God
1. God repented when He looked at
the wicked state of the earth and He thought of destroying man along with
reptiles, animals and birds. He repented for creating them. However, Noah found
favour with Him (Gen. 6:5-8).
God's repentance determines His
attitude towards creation which is absolutely negative. Secondly, He did not
know what He was doing. Thirdly, He did not have the ability to create righteous
beings. It also shows His callous nature - Why destroy animals, fowls and
reptiles for man's sins? It also indicates the illogical and simple mind of God.
If Adam's children were wicked, how could Noah's children be good? After all,
Noah was a descendant of Adam, and hence belonged to the same species.
The fact is that this type of
mythology regarding blood, wickedness of man and his destruction had been rife
in the Middle East long before the advent of Moses. He simply incorporated these
tales in his authorship.
Yahwe the Old Man
2. God is a kind of old man who is
liable to forget and cannot remember things easily. Therefore, when He
established a covenant with Noah, He set up His bow in the clouds so that
whenever He looked at it, it would remind Him of the covenant (Gen. 9:13-16).
3. The biblical narrative about
Abraham, the common ancestor of Jews and Arabs is rather distressing. Moslems
claim that it is distorted and fake but the Jews who are extremely respectful to
their elders, have never denied it.
Abraham and Self-Glory
This is how the story goes:
Abraham, at the age of 100, had a
son Isaac, from Sarah, his wife. An Egyptian bondwoman called Hagar also bore
him a son, Ishmael. Sarah looked down upon Ishmael for his inferior birth and
denied him equal status with Isaac. God sided with Sarah and told Abraham to get
rid of Ishmael. To glorify himself in the eyes of God, Abraham did exactly what
he was told and left the baby along with Hagar to perish in the wilderness of
Beer-Sheba (Gen. 21:12-14).
This story is compatible with the
Jewish tradition; they believe in themselves as the superior race, thus implying
the inferiority of the Gentile. Ishmael depicted this racial philosophy. It also
conforms to the Arabian attitude: their children from concubines never ranked
equal to the progeny of their wives.
Ishmael was a baby, an innocent
baby. How could God, who created both Isaac and Ishmael, be so partial and
unfair? And what about Abraham himself? Would a kind father do such a thing to
his baby son under any circumstances? This type of obedience to God shows the
selfish nature of the obedient who would go to any length for securing the
pleasure of his superior. The fact that Abraham was also willing to murder Isaac
to amuse God, proves this point. Again, the God who issues such commands to
gratify His own ego, is not worthy of worship because firstly, His commands
prove that He possesses an insatiable ego; secondly, His commands set-up evil
and unreasonable precedents and thus corrupt mankind, and lastly when He does
such things to try the believers, He obviously does not know their mind and thus
lacks the much heralded omniscience.
Yahwe, the patron of thieves
4. God is out to patronise the Jews
at all costs, even if it involves deceit, dishonesty, and despoilment. This is
the reason that some rabbinic interpretations hold that there is no sin if a Jew
manipulates a Gentile for his own benefit:
As Jews prepare to leave Egypt,
Yahwe commands Moses that he should tell his people to borrow precious things of
their neighbours such as jewellery and diamonds. Yahwe softens the hearts of the
Egyptians who lend them what they want and then scarper with their hoodwinked
possessions. And Yahwe approves of this theft! He should because it is He who
organised it (Ex. 11:2 and 12:35-36)
The jealous God
5. Jewish God is infested with
jealousy, acts out of spite and rejoices in excessive retribution:
He warns Jews that they must not
serve other Gods because He is a jealous God and avenges the iniquity of fathers
to the fourth generation of their children (Ex. 20:5 and 34:14).
This is the reason that in Numbers
21: 5-9, we find that God sends fiery serpents to Jews for complaining about
lack of bread and water.
6. Jews claim to have made
monotheism i.e. oneness of God, as the foundation of the human culture but Yahwe
does not claim to be the only God because He forbids them not to assail other
gods with abuse (Ex. 22:28). In fact, Yahwe is the God of Israel (though He
claims to have creative powers) (Ex. 24:10).
Yahwe, a physical entity
7. Jewish God is a visible and
physical entity; He walks and talks; possesses a soul 2, and human
characteristics such as loathing and loving, meanness and munificence, kindness
and cruelty etc.
No
sense of justice
8. Yahwe has no sense of justice:
He rewards and punishes people not according to any particular principle. This
is fully borne out by the story of Rahab (Josh 6:17).
One good act saves the harlot and
all her associates irrespective of their character but the entire city is marked
for destruction without any reference to individual investigation! Like all
dictators, Yahwe's word is the law, and reason forms no part of it.
Yahwe, the slave of desire
9. Jewish God has desires and
dreams like ordinary mortals but there is a difference: an ordinary mortal may
check or renounce his desire but God does not; desire to Him is what intense
light is to a moth, flower is to a bee, air is to a homosapien or water is to
fish.
His greatest desire is to be loved
and worshipped. This is all he exists for, and this is the sole reason that He
created mankind and the universe. The intensity of such a desire, gives Him a
lopsided mind and an extremely selfish ego. Obviously, when the number of
worshippers dwindles, he feels derided and His destructive urge descends upon
people for vengeance suffused with virulence, vice and vitiosity.
Worship, the lowest form of
behaviour
Worship is simply a euphemism for
self-degradation which consists of crying, cringing and crawling before someone
who is haughty, self-centred and psychologically disturbed. Self-degradation is
a sin against one's own sanctity, honour and dignity. The God who loves to
humiliate man is not praiseworthy. This renders worship the lowest desire which
equates divinity with vanity and all its attendant vices.
Moses declared that the Lord had
commanded him to declare His laws. In fact, he claimed to have received
"two tablets" containing Yahwe's laws written with His own finger. The
truth is that he was a capable nomothete in his own right. He was brought up in
the Egyptian court where scribing was considered as one of the noblest arts and
law-making was the most sacred priestly function. The fact that the Jewish
priesthood went to the descendants of his brother Aaron whose loquacity asserts
itself through the pages of the Old Testament, clearly confirms the hypothesis
that Moses was a scribe and law-expert. Yet he chose to declare himself as the
Vicar and not God. Why? Because he knew that Akhenaton, the Egyptian
monotheistic high priest of God, retained all the trappings of celestial divinty
and secular dignity. Why not follow the same approach which was likely to be
more fertile, fecund and forceful because the rabble which he led would not have
sincerely obeyed a Pharaoh-like God whose tyranny, trickery and torture had
reduced them to subhuman level. Again, there had existed the tradition of
viceroyalty in the Mesopotamian lands. It declared that God was the real ruler
and the king wielded power as His deputy or viceroy.
Egyptian roots of Jews
Moses knew well that there was no
hope of winning the Promised Land without welding the Egyptian slaves into an
effective and cohesive force. These slaves had been originally deported from the
Syrian and Palestinian territories by the conquering Pharaohs. Thus what came to
be known as the Jews were originally Palestinians whose social identity was
diluted by their Egyptian masters.
The purpose of Mosaic Law
The whole purpose of the Mosaic law
was to create a nationality based on supernatural reverence to God who was stern
and frightening, yet could shower favours upon those who believed in Him
sincerely and obeyed His commands readily. Since all the divine business was to
be done through the viceroyalty of Moses, it was more prudent to stay in the
background than lead from the front because if anything went wrong, it could be
blamed upon God or the people -and the viceroy was always there to intercede for
them and claim the credit.
Yahwe, the creation of Mosaic
Law
In fact, not only the nationhood of
the Jews but the entity of Yahwe, is also the creation of the Mosaic law. I
applaud the ingenuity of Moses because it was all in a good cause. Giving the
helpless, hopeless and homeless slaves a chance of freedom and self-elevation,
is no mean task. The long story of wandering in the wilderness is an integral
part of this process. For no fewer than forty years, Moses toughened and trained
his people in a certain way of life which eventually came to be known as
"Judaism". As the third generation emerges, we find, well-disciplined
armies of the "Children of Israel" settling in Canaan as the
conquerors.
Faith and unsociality
Orthodox Judaism is a fine example
of blind faith which blurs senses and becomes the antithesis of rationality,
eventually leading to a total incompatibility between one's beliefs and deeds.
In simple language, it represents a way of life which demonstrates contradiction
between one's theory (the basic doctrine) and actions because people expect
realism in social dealings. Thus, unconsciously, one begins to live in a world
of hallucinations. As a result, the life turns into a continuous process of
make-believe culminating in a split personality. Since the believer is no longer
capable of showing realism in his dealings with others, he develops an ego based
on insincerity, hypocrisy and escapism, or alternatively an attitude wishing
destruction to those who stand in his way. Fear is the hallmark of this attitude
which incites believers to look down upon non-believers; it persuades them to
seek seclusion, and become either a community within a community or dominate the
rest of the community through mischievous but well-groomed plans of domination.
This is necessitated by the fear of losing one's identity, no matter how ugly
and inhuman, and provides the motive for reinforcing and inflating it by
antisocial measures. In a nutshell, submission to blind faith leads to unsocial
behaviour and the loss of the faculty of social adjustment.
Shudras of India and Jews
Faith moulds personality. Take, for
example, Shudras of India who accepted inferiority of birth as the foundation of
their faith, suffered totally inhuman indignity voluntarily without ever raising
a sigh of protest. However, the faith of the Jews was based on self-superiority
which actively incited them to look down upon the rest of mankind. This inflated
view of self, temporarily gave them national conscience, social cohesion and
also high moral piety compatible with their claim as a chosen race but the
natural consequences of such a philosophy soon generated the psychological
patterns of behaviour, injurious to honourable existence; it turned their
national conscience into obsession and bigotry, their social cohesion suffered
through a process of dispersion, mainly brought upon by themselves, and their
piety suffered from the exotic gales of odium which they frequently encountered
in the lands of Gentiles.
Manipulation of Judaism by David
In fact, the Jews as a nation were
manipulated by their own heroes who inculcated in them the divine cult of
royalty. David, the second king of Israel,
who ranks second to Moses, replaced
the old relationship of covenant between God and people through their tribal
chiefs, with his own divinity, and that of his seed. It was he who in his
capacity as the ruler and, the person as a descendant of Jacob, assumed the
status of true relationship between God and the Children of Israel. YaLwe was
enthroned on Mount-Zion, and at His right hand was seated King David, His
anointed, who shared the divine authority as a coregent, i.e. the equal partner.
It was, in fact, the existing Jebusite cult of Zion which he adopted for his own
advantage.
Messiah ("the anointed
one"), the title of the kings of the line of David became the prototype of
an awaited Messiah who would return to restore the dignity of the Jews the same
way as he had done by nearly annihiliating the Philistines. The return of David
which is equated with the coming of David's "son" was ascribed to the
advent of Jesus who claimed to have come from the seed of David. By projecting
himself a heavenly figure who ranked as the divine mediator, David assumed the
role of a deity yet Jews claim to be strictly monotheistic people!
David and Bathsheba
David was human and not divine.
This fact is well narrated in 2 Samuel, Chapter 11. One day, staring down from
the roof of his house, he noted the figure of a "very beautiful" woman
- Bathsheba who was bathing herself. Her tender body froze his glances but
warmed his heart. She became the focus of his palpitations, and his infatuation
with her persuaded him to ignore the fact that she was the wife of Uriah, the
Hittite. David had him murdered, married her and from this union came Solomon,
the Wise.
For welding together various parts
of his kingdom, David took wives from many tribes. Does a god need indulging in
political manipulations? Though the beauty, delicacy and fascination of these
women served him well, the fact that most of them were heathen and came from
cultures of conflicting values, contributed to the eventual disintegration of
the Jewish kingdom. Again, the story of Abishag, a "very fair" damsel
(I King 1:1-4) testifies to the humanity of David.
Solomon's anti-Jewish conduct
Solomon, David's son, went even
further. His wisdom involved him in the unusual hobby of concubine-collecting.
Their number rose to 300, and it was in addition to his 700 wives who came from
different nationalities and religions. He ceased to possess a purely Jewish
faith because he erected shrines to Chemosh and Milcom, the Moabite and Ammonite
gods. Their sancturies were built on the mountain ridge east of Jerusalem (I
Kings 11:1-13). Thus the special people of jealous Yahwe came to be governed by
Solomon, the idolater, yet Yahwe, the perpetually violent God, addicted to
frequent fits of rage and claiming to be allpowerful, could not punish Solomon.
It is the natural causes that led to the fall of the Jewish kingdom, and not the
wrath of Yahwe.
Decline of the Jewish nation
The eighty-year rule of David and
Solomon marks the political apex of the Jewish race but it cannot be termed as
an empire in the usual sense of the word. After Solomon, the Jewish kingdom
split into Israel (Ephraim) the northern kingdom which contained ten tribes, and
Judah which radiated with the heavenly City of Jerusalem. This division showed
the inability of the Children of Israel to live as one nation, and was brought
about by lack of mutual tolerance and co-operation. The two kingdoms, however,
lasted for about two centuries. Samaria, the city of Israel, was captured in 722
B.C.E. by Assyria; it subsequently lost its identity in the Assyrian provincial
system. Nobody knows what happened to the ten tribes of Israel. It has been
remarked that the people of Kashmir are the descendants of these lost Jewish
tribes, and another preposterous statement treats the Red Indians of the United
States of America as the progeny of the missing Jews! By 597, Judah was captured
by the Babylonians. The revolt of 589 attracted severe punishment leading to the
burning and plundering of the Temple and Jerusalem. The era of Dispersion starts
with these tragic events - marking the exile of Jews from their homeland.
Diaspora and Jerusalem
Diaspora proved painful to the
Jews, not because they did any worse than they had done in their homeland. The
source of chagrin lay in their love for Jerusalem, the divine city. It was not
an ordinary remorse but tinged with a very deep sense of guilt which declared
that their deportation was the result of their gross disobedience to Yahwe. The
mere inability to defend the holiest shrine spelt eternal condemnation.
However, the Jewish prophets, whose
prestige, prosperity and popularity, depended upon the act of prophecy assured
the Children of Israel that the condemnation was not eternal but would last only
as long as it took them to repent and mend their ways. It was declared as their
destiny to return to Jerusalem, their home, as a reward for their piety.
Ezekiel/Jerusalem
Ezekiel, the priest who was carried
away in the deportation of 597 is considered to be the founder of Judiasm. He
declared in 593 that he had been required by Yahwe to act as His prophet. He was
prophet of both judgement and promise, that is, Jews were destined to discover
delight after doom, and delight meant returning home - to Jerusalem where on
Mount-Zion, Yahwe was enthroned. This is the focal point of the Messianic
message and this is the reason that the Jews in all countries even after so many
centuries still think of their settlement as a soujourn. Perhaps, proper
interpretation requires to state that the Jewish sojourn abroad is a form of
punishment but Yahwe will bring them home as He delivered
Them from Egypt (and Babylon).
Zion, i.e. Jerusalem, is the Holy
City and Bride of Yahwe, the Lord of hosts, who is pledged to be her redeemer.
Only for a small moment had He forsaken her but would restore her with great
mercies.
Was it proper of Yahwe to forsake
His bride? He left her again and again but blamed the believers for infidelity.
No, the Jews were innocent. They were not gutless. Nor were they impious. No
nation has served the Lord with greater fervour and devotion than the Children
of Israel yet no nation has ever suffered from the divine wrath one-tenth as
much as they have.
Jerusalem and Jewish fate
To a Gentile, Yahwe is just an
abstraction whose sanctity and omniscience have been drummed up by the ruling
and priestly classes of the Children of Israel to foster their own interests.
The Jewish loyalty to the Yahwe's City has been held as the fountain of
disloyalty to their lands of settlement. It has been asserted that the Jews have
failed to show patriotic respect for their exotic abodes which attract lip
reverence only. This attitude has resulted in the greatest horrors that human
mind can imagine. Is there any country where they have not been beaten, bruised
and brutally treated, where they have not been molested, mangled and murdered,
where they have not been pillaged, plundered and persecuted, where they have not
been derided, despised and desolated? During the last 2,500 years, was there a
century when their damsels were not raped, when their children were not
considered a burden on the host country, when they were not thought of less
desirable than animals, when they were not treated with contempt? Denial of
human rights, denial of justice, denial of decent neighbourhood and denial of
equal social status - formed integral parts of the Gentile attitude which was
further inflamed by religious prejudices. In the Christendom, they were despised
as murderers of Jesus and in the Islamdom, they deserved no grace as
members of the "condemned" race.
However, it will be unfair of me if
I fail to add that the Jews suffered all this torture and humiliation in good
faith and as a devotion to the Lord. Their loyalty to their ideal has no
parallel in history. It ought to be eulogised, yet I hesitate to commend it.
Why? Because it is based on blind faith and not reason, because the Jewish mind
has been paralysed by the Biblical myth of self-superiority and because the
irrational attitudes of every generation of Jews carry the seeds of destruction
for their offsprings. The veracity of these statements is borne out by the fact
that Yahwe has not multiplied the seed of Israel like the stars of the sky or
the dust of the earth. Is He really capable of delivering His side of the
covenant?: I have no doubt that the Jews have observed their religious
principles with greater piety, zeal and sincerity than any other nation and thus
discharged their side of the deal.
History testifies to the fact that
the Jews suffered because of fundamentalism, that is, following the biblical
commands literally. As I shall show shortly, their social recovery began when
some of them made reason a part of their faith. Unfortunately, the majority of
them are still not ready to salute the goddess of reason, but practicalities of
political sovereignty may bring the Children of Israel around to see things as
they really are.
The Jew Bill
Strange as it may seem, the
emancipation of Jews is directly linked with the emancipation of the European
mind from the Christian dogma as a result of the Reformation. The (British)
Plantation Act of March 19, 1740 was the first to treat Jews in the American
Colonies as "His Majesty's natural born subjects of this kingdom" but
"The Jew Bill" which was enacted in May 1753, had to be repealed a
year later as a result of the vehement opposition by the Christian merchants of
London.
Cause of European hatred of Jews
This revocation stemmed from the
firmly-held belief, as in other European countries, that Jews were an Asian race
which deserved anathema for circumcision, odd ways of worshipping the Supreme
Being, unsocial attitudes toward the Gentile, as carriers of hereditary corrupt
character, for setting up a state within a state, for lacking loyalty to their
country of abode and for looking funny owing to their overgrown beards and
wearing caftans.
The modern Jews may not have
changed their religious principles but they have certainly modified their looks.
Their ancestors could not have imagined a Jew with blonde hair, blue eyes and
pink complexion!
French advocacy of human rights
However, by 1789, France emerged as
the active champion of civil liberties. HE dedication to eradicate inequality
and the zest to humanise the human mind whicl has suffered from inhuman
deformities such as racial prejudice, religious bigotry sectarian hatred,
suppression of individual rights and denial of justice, extender the libertarian
charter known as "The Rights of Man and of the Citizen" to emancipate
Jewry from the shackles of social taboos and tortures. However suspicion of the
Jewry was so great that their admission to the European society was based not on
grace but a stringent test which included several questions, raiser in the
Assembly of Jewish Notables, held on 29th July, 1806, at the instruction of the
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Here is the summary of the questions:
French Test - Questions for
Jewry
1. Do Jews believe in having more
than one wife at the same time?
2. Do Jews believe in divorce,
especially when the French law forbids it?
3. Do they believe in intermarriage
with Christians?
4. Are non-Jewish Frenchmen
considered as brethren or stangers by the Jews?
5. Do the Jews born in France and
treated as French citizens, treat France as their country? Will they defend it,
and be bound to obey the French laws?
6. Is a Jew forbidden by law to
take usury from a fellow Jew?
7. Does the Jewish law allow usury
in relation to strangers?
Jewish reaction
The answers that members of the
Assembly of Jewish Notables gave contradict the Mosaic tenets through silence,
evasion and utterly new interpretations. For example, about usury they said that
the Hebrew word "neshekh" had been improperly translated as usury. It
meant interest of any sort and not just usurious interest and therefore the
existing meaning of the word lacked relevance! Did they, then, lie or deceive?
Not at all. For the first time in their long history, they realise that stiff
necks break easily but the flexible necks are durable. Their answers were based
on wisdom, compromise and the will to modify their faith and the ways of life.
This vicissitude transformed their lives completely and the dawn of the 19th
century illumined their faculties of knowledge which had been darkened by the
forces of ignorance such as bigotry, orthodoxy and social repression. The same
people who had been seen fit to live in ghettoes started building mansions and
skyscrapers for themselves and made a considerable contribution to the various
branches of science, art and literature. This sudden burst of good fortune owed
nothing to Yahwe's favours but to the bounteous attitudes of the Western nations
that had made considerable strides in all walks of life. The simple proof of
this truth lies in the fact that even today the eastern Jews stand at the same
intellectual level as their eastern neighbours. While their contributions to the
Western civilization are of high value, they lack the pioneering element. The
spirit and direction of their achievements has been provided by the
free-thinking, libertarian and humane West. Their own traditions brought them
nothing but misery, humiliation and never-ending servitude. They are a boastful
lot and claim to have civilised the West. It is not the Bible that has civilised
the West, it is the West that has humanised the Bible, which provoked crusades
through prejudice and bigotry to perpetrate international carnage for 400 years.
Nature of Jewish Covenant with
Yahwe
Of course, one thing is indigenous
to the Jews, that is, love of money and power. This is the whole purpose of
their covenant with Yahwe which says nothing about morality, salvation or
heaven, and solely confines itself to the worldly gains! It is for this reason
that they believe in the godliness of riches, and devote their entire lives to
wealth-creation which makes them tremendous merchants and entrepreneurs. Nothing
pleases a Jew more than counting money. It is the possession of money which
makes the Jews powerful, and the power brings in its wake vanity, arrogance,
ruthlessness and the supercilious attitudes which tempt the powerful to look
down upon others. This is something which is acquired as well as drilled into
them from the cradle. It is a part of their faith which is founded on
consciousness of self-superiority.
Feeling of superiority on the
ground of wealth alone is one thing, but when it arises from the belief that one
belongs to God's chosen race, and is accompained by personal wealth, it becomes
a mania which makes "Mr Superior" extremely self-centred and ignorant
of reality; he loses objectivity and indulges in subjectivity which constitutes
his entire life. Regretfully, the sense of divine superiority combined with
personal wealth, which leads to a vain and ostentatious life style, has become
the bane of the Jews. This fact was self-evident during the 20th century when
they were persecuted by the Nazi. What was the cause of it? The Nazi jealousy or
the Jewish vanity - or both?
Jewish untouchability
It is claimed that the Nazi
behaviour was inhuman and despicable because it subjected women and children to
torture and sought to exterminate the Western Jewry. Of course, I abhor the Nazi
but I cannot indulge in indiscriminate condemnation of the German people who
have expressed manly qualities over the last 2000 years and made considerable
contribution to civilization through Reformation, and scientific, literary and
artistic innovations. Except for a short period when the Germans were misled by
the slogans of extreme nationalism, they were God-fearing people who did not
practice racism. The fact that the German lands constituted the Holy Roman
Empire, and a Christian of any nationality could become the German Emperor, was
an achievement of a high cultural order. Their nationalism is a recent
phenomenon, indeed, but the Jewish nationality which has existed for at least
3000 years is based on racial superiority sanctioned by God himself. It is to
maintain their physical and spiritual purity that they were commanded by their
law to shun the company of the Gentiles, and not to eat food prepared by a
non-Jew. This untouchability is the fundamental precept of the Hindu Caste
system which raised a small section known as the Brahman to the highest social
dignity, as their birth right, and created a large menial section of the Shudras,
born of impurity. The Brahmans adopted exactly the same attitude towards the
lower Indian classes as the Jews were legally required to practice against the
non-Jews. I wonder if the Jews are not an offshoot of the Brahman Caste!
I regret to say that Hitler's
principles and practices were shaped by:
a. The Jewish philosphy; and
b. The Jewish historical conduct.
Jewish philosophy
a. The basic Jewish philosophy
states that God is at the helm of history and natural phenomena. He has chosen
Jews as a mark of divine love. Since God chooses the best, the Jews are the
superior race and God's people who have been appointed by Him *to turn the wheel
of history for executing the divine will which is nothing but the glorification
of God through the glorification of the Jews because God has made a covenant
with the Jews to raise them above the rest of mankind. All historical events of
importance, therefore, must take place through the agency of the Jews and
conform to their dreams and dignity, and schemes of splendour and supremacy.
Further, Yahwe, the Jewish God, is committed by the covenant to enable the Jews
to rule the Gentiles and present all hostile and refractory nations to them, one
by one, for their total destruction by the Jews!
As a symbol of their special
relationship with God, and racial superiority, they claim that they were
personally led out of Egypt by Yahwe who humbled pharaoh through miracles, and
manipulated the operation of natural phenomena for theirrelease.
This Jewish philosophy which is
extremely rude and offensive to the Gentiles for treating them as inferior,
ignorant and ill-fated, and whose ultimate destiny is to wear the yoke of Jewish
servitude, has been loudly acclaimed and proclaimed by the Jewish philosophers
over the centuries:
Judah teen Samuel ha-Levi
(C1075-1141) believed that it is not the contemplation of the cosmos but of the
Jewish history which procures the knowledge of God!
Nachman Krochmal preached that the
Jewish people have a special relationship with the Universal spirit who is the
God of Israel!
Samuel Hirsch declared that in the
early times of the Jewish history God revealed himself by miracles and wonders
of prophecy but now He manifests Himself through the miracle of the existence of
the Jewish people!
Solomon Formstecher held that when
eventually the Jewish element in Christianity becomes dominant, it will then be
proper for the Jews to give up their isolation!
It is the anti-Gentile philosophy
which has become the bane of the Jews who believe to be the superior race under
the influence of their religious dogma. The Nazi, who were determined to
exterminate the Jews, caught the disease of racial superiority from them yet
they have learnt nothing from the horrors of the holocaust.
b. I shall postpone discussion of
the Jewish historical conduct to Chapter Nine of this book.
* Revelation leads to brainwashing
which restricts believers faculties of reason and moral conscience. Thus its
benignant effects are far outweighed by its malignant influences. This truth is
clearly bourne out by the Jewish faith which declares that:
a. The Jews are the Superior
(Chosen) race.
b. They have the Divine Right to be
at the helm of history and, therefore, all major human events take place through
their agency.
This is the reason that they want
to control every organization for imprinting their own name on events of major
significance, and this is why they resent the success of a rising Gentile and
conspire to drag him down. Obviously, this is what makes them an ostentatious
lot and they indulge in acts devoid of virtue for the sheer hell of keeping a
grip on the oars of history. The crazy theories such as Marxism and lethal
devices like atom bombs, originate from the Jewish infatuation with controlling
human destiny.
It is not that they are more
intelligent than other races. Their behaviour is determined by revelation which
goads them to be superior and they are trained right from the cradle to be
assertive, enterprising, domineering and egotistic. They have been made to pay
for their attitudes in every century but they prefer the hallucinatory delights
of revelation to the honour of their virgins, safety of babes and dignity of
mankind.
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Introduction
to Book II
