It's
about time that we Jews admit and have the Peoples of the World
recognize that we were and are the “Chosen People”.
We
were the first to embrace a God, whom none of the World Peoples
worshiped, and He, in turn, embraced us, freed us from slavery
promised us the territory on the East and West sides of the Jordan as
the Birth-Right of our Nation and, apparently, assumed we would
spread his Message of Love, Compassion & Justice to the World.
We
were required to proclaim his Uniqueness (Monotheism) and
heed
his Moral Principles (The Decalogue).
We
erred in believing that the world would observe, embrace and
emulate
our society's culture of high ethical, positive and constructive
principles.
We also erred in not sending out emissaries and our life
enhancing
cultural message to the world. This “Compiler” believes that
this
momentous failure of shameful excessive pride, resulting in
the
purposeful exclusion of others based on wrongful interpretation
of
God's will, led to a temporary Godly retreat from his all
encompassing
love
and protection of his Chosen People.
As
a result, other cultures embraced the Perfect Concepts of
Monotheism
and the Decalogue and proclaimed themselves the
true
heirs and interpreters of God's wishes for mankind.
Regretfully,
their misinterpretation and misguided desire to improve on those
“Perfect Concepts”, Monotheism & the Decalogue,
resulted in
an
obvious detraction therefrom. Neither the New Testament nor the Koran
are an improvement on the social enhancements proclaimed by the
treasure of Jewish Scriptures - the 5 Books Of Moses and the
Talmud/Mishna.
Also,
regretfully, the Christians and Muslims who were the
true
benefactors of the evolving Jewish Culture, through the millennium,
went
out of their way to denigrate, vilify and decimate the Originators
of
the principles they, boldly, proclaimed as theirs. They also
proceeded
to
undermine the principles of Love, Compassion & Justice by
emphasizing and exalting their Messengers, Christ & Muhammad,
rather than their exceptional Life Enhancing Message of Love,
Compassion & Justice.
Resulting
from their desire, to be seen as the Originators of the Godly Message
to Mankind, the Christians and Muslims, through the generations,
proceeded to inflict murderous Crusades, pogroms, expulsions, blood
libels, inquisitions and topping them all a Nazi Holocaust to better
show their hatred for the Jews act of “Deicide” and their love
for God.
Islam
in the 6th century, proclaimed itself as superseding both
Judaism and Christianity and proceeded to annihilate the Jews, in
their midst, who rejected conversion to Islam.
The
Muslim Fundamentalists, of today, are in world-wide conflict
with
both Judaism and Christianity. The vociferous Despotic &
Autocratic World Muslim Leaders and their Fundamentalist cohorts are
the major financial supporters of International Terrorism.
Their
objective of combating encroaching Democracy in the World
and
their determination, presently, to spread Sharia Law throughout the
Middle East and, eventually, worldwide has drastically undermined any
real hope for restoration of a World of international tranquility
that we all aspire to.
Those
Fundamentalist Leaders who are supportive of Mid East
Terrorism
are more intent on consolidating their Despotic regimes than
encouraging
the establishment of another Palestinian Democratic Nation.
It
took the Jews 2000 years of yearning for a return to Zion/Jerusalem.
If the Palestinians fail to cater to their own vested interests
rather than aiding the Despots Agenda of combating Middle East
encroaching Democracy – they may very well have to go on yearning
for an Independent State for many many long years.
And,
now, it is also time to tell you that the Jews, limited in numbers,
are truly an exceptionally talented, creative and productive people.
Their
brain power has been honed fine by ongoing compulsory
education
through the generations. The Children of Israel were coached
in
reading holy scriptures as far back as the establishment of the
Jewish Kingdom of Israel that survived for 750 years.
With
the destruction, by the Romans, of the second Temple in 70 CE, all
Jewish boys, in exile, were required to embrace compulsory
education. In the same era, other nations had only sparsely educated
groups of the religious and the aristocrats.
Jews,
notwithstanding their constantly dwindling and decimated numbers,
went on begetting and providing all Jewish boys with “learning.”
Jews,
because of their ongoing learning process and the demands on brain
power required to exist and overcome the physical adversities and the
economic limitations inflicted by those in whose midst they lived,
became, through connection with their exiled compatriots throughout
the world, promoters of commerce and proficient in the then emerging
scientific and medical fields.
While
Europeans only introduced organized “schooling” in the 7th
Century - the Jewish brains were hewed fine by ongoing compulsory
studies and the struggles to survive the ongoing fear and hatred of
the inhabitants of the countries in which they sought refuge.
With
“Emancipation” in France & Germany and with later immigration
to America and Canada the Jews mental prowess proved of exceptional
value to all the countries who approved Jewish emancipation.
Elementary
school learning was regarded as compulsory by Simeon
ben Shetah as early as 75 BCE and Joshua
ben Gamla in 64 CE. The education of older boys and men in a beit
midrash goes back to the Second
Temple period. The importance of education is stressed in the
Talmud, which
states that children should begin school at six. The rabbis stated
that they should not be beaten with a stick or cane, that older
students should help those who were younger, and that children should
not be kept from their lessons by other duties. According to Judah
ben Tema, “At five years the age is reached for studying the Bible,
at ten for studying the Mishnah, at thirteen for fulfilling the
mitzvoth, at fifteen for studying the Talmud.” (Avot 5:21). In
keeping with this tradition, Jews established their own schools or
hired private tutors for their children until the end of the 18th
century. Schools were housed in annexes or separate buildings close
to the synagogue.[3]
Rabbi
Meir
Simcha of Dvinsk (in to follow in God's ways to perform
righteousness and justice" ( are them on the doorposts of your
house and your (
Deuteronomy
contains several references to the duty to provide education:
“Remember the days of old, consider the years of ages past; ask
your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you.”
(Deut 32:7). The Book of Proverbs also contains many verses related
to education: “My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your mind
retain my commandments; For they will bestow on you length of days,
years of life and well-being.“ (Prov 3:1-2).[2]
Rabbi
Meir
Simcha of Dvinsk (in his Meshech Chochma) observes that God's
statement "[Abraham is blessed because] he will instruct his
children and his house after him to follow in God's ways to perform
righteousness and justice" (Genesis 18:19) is an implicit
mitzvah to teach Judaism.
Perceptions
of Jews by Renowned Gentiles:
#1
"Some
people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny
the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and
the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
--
Winston
Churchill
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#2
"The
Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the
everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is
the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest
of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
--
Leo
Tolstoy
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#3
"It
was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind
the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred
than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we
opened up without their aid."
-- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu,
French publicist,
1842
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#4
"The
Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner
life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without
being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of
our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique,
individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom,
progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the
Jews."
-- Thomas Cahill, Irish
Author
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#5
"One
of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has
taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not
learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have
learned to think at all."
-- William Rees-Mogg, former
Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member
of the House of
Lords
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#6
"It
is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar
people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is
called the Jewish people....
This people is not only of
remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time...
For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and
Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago,
these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who
have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians
testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things
over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved,
however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with
this people amazes me..."
-- Blaise Pascal, French
Mathematician
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-#7
"The
Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for
humanity, both divine and man-made. The Jews, therefore, stand at the
centre of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a
purpose."
--Paul Johnson, American
Historian
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#8
"As
long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in
righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as
to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and
strongest."
--Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
"Indeed
it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the
presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The
Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond
the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their
forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards
and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten
Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy.. They violated the
rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense
and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies,
including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They
angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000
years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers
and sisters.
They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink
of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in
even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty
to be holy and the privilege to serve one's fellow men.
They
had their hands in every human progressive endeavour, whether in
science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally
out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the
Bible and even their "saviour."
Jews taught the
world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only
a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the
world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral
consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would
have been lost without the Jews.. And while their subconscious tries
to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms
of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to
suppress it.
They deny that Jews remind them of a higher
purpose of life and the need to be honourable, and do anything to
escape its consequences.. It is simply too much to handle for them,
too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live
by.
So the nations of the world decided once again to go out
of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to
prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as
some of they themselves are.
All this in order to hide and
justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were
brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe
out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they
found a stick.
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than
to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are
completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews,
against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to
survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the
rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people
against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations
understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a
long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance.
Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify
their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their
own moral issues.
When Jews look at the bizarre play taking
place in The Hague , they can only smile as this
artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits
the Jews' uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that
they actually raise them.
The study of history of Europe
during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the
nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully
with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured
and oppressed them have written out their own curse."
--Olive
Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist
goes back to biblical times. One of the basic duties of Jewish
parents is to
R
the days of years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you,
your elders, they will tell you.” (Deu32:7). The Book of Proverbs
also contains many verses related to education: “My son, do
teaching, but let your mind retain my commandments; For they will
bestow on you length of days, years of life and well-being.“ (Prov
3:1-2).
It's about time that we Jews admit and have the Peoples of the World recognize that we were and are the “Chosen People”.
We were the first to embrace a God, whom none of the World Peoples worshiped, and He, in turn, embraced us, freed us from slavery promised us the territory on the East and West sides of the Jordan as the Birth-Right of our Nation and, apparently, assumed we would spread his Message of Love, Compassion & Justice to the World.
We were required to proclaim his Uniqueness (Monotheism) and
heed his Moral Principles (The Decalogue).
We erred in believing that the world would observe, embrace and
emulate our society's culture of high ethical, positive and constructive
principles. We also erred in not sending out emissaries and our life
enhancing cultural message to the world. This “Compiler” believes that
this momentous failure of shameful excessive pride, resulting in
the purposeful exclusion of others based on wrongful interpretation
of God's will, led to a temporary Godly retreat from his all encompassing
love and protection of his Chosen People.
As a result, other cultures embraced the Perfect Concepts of
Monotheism and the Decalogue and proclaimed themselves the
true heirs and interpreters of God's wishes for mankind.
Regretfully, their misinterpretation and misguided desire to improve on those “Perfect Concepts”, Monotheism & the Decalogue, resulted in
an obvious detraction therefrom. Neither the New Testament nor the Koran are an improvement on the social enhancements proclaimed by the treasure of Jewish Scriptures - the 5 Books Of Moses and the Talmud/Mishna.
Also, regretfully, the Christians and Muslims who were the
true benefactors of the evolving Jewish Culture, through the millennium,
went out of their way to denigrate, vilify and decimate the Originators
of the principles they, boldly, proclaimed as theirs. They also proceeded
to undermine the principles of Love, Compassion & Justice by emphasizing and exalting their Messengers, Christ & Muhammad, rather than their exceptional Life Enhancing Message of Love, Compassion & Justice.
Resulting from their desire, to be seen as the Originators of the Godly Message to Mankind, the Christians and Muslims, through the generations, proceeded to inflict murderous Crusades, pogroms, expulsions, blood libels, inquisitions and topping them all a Nazi Holocaust to better show their hatred for the Jews act of “Deicide” and their love for God.
Islam in the 6th century, proclaimed itself as superseding both Judaism and Christianity and proceeded to annihilate the Jews, in their midst, who rejected conversion to Islam.
The Muslim Fundamentalists, of today, are in world-wide conflict
with both Judaism and Christianity. The vociferous Despotic & Autocratic World Muslim Leaders and their Fundamentalist cohorts are the major financial supporters of International Terrorism.
Their objective of combating encroaching Democracy in the World
and their determination, presently, to spread Sharia Law throughout the Middle East and, eventually, worldwide has drastically undermined any real hope for restoration of a World of international tranquility that we all aspire to.
Those Fundamentalist Leaders who are supportive of Mid East
Terrorism are more intent on consolidating their Despotic regimes than
encouraging the establishment of another Palestinian Democratic Nation.
It took the Jews 2000 years of yearning for a return to Zion/Jerusalem. If the Palestinians fail to cater to their own vested interests rather than aiding the Despots Agenda of combating Middle East encroaching Democracy – they may very well have to go on yearning for an Independent State for many many long years.
And, now, it is also time to tell you that the Jews, limited in numbers, are truly an exceptionally talented, creative and productive people.
Their brain power has been honed fine by ongoing compulsory
education through the generations. The Children of Israel were coached
in reading holy scriptures as far back as the establishment of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel that survived for 750 years.
With the destruction, by the Romans, of the second Temple in 70 CE, all Jewish boys, in exile, were required to embrace compulsory education. In the same era, other nations had only sparsely educated groups of the religious and the aristocrats.
Jews, notwithstanding their constantly dwindling and decimated numbers, went on begetting and providing all Jewish boys with “learning.”
Jews, because of their ongoing learning process and the demands on brain power required to exist and overcome the physical adversities and the economic limitations inflicted by those in whose midst they lived, became, through connection with their exiled compatriots throughout the world, promoters of commerce and proficient in the then emerging scientific and medical fields.
While Europeans only introduced organized “schooling” in the 7th Century - the Jewish brains were hewed fine by ongoing compulsory studies and the struggles to survive the ongoing fear and hatred of the inhabitants of the countries in which they sought refuge.
With “Emancipation” in France & Germany and with later immigration to America and Canada the Jews mental prowess proved of exceptional value to all the countries who approved Jewish emancipation.
Elementary school learning was regarded as compulsory by Simeon ben Shetah as early as 75 BCE and Joshua ben Gamla in 64 CE. The education of older boys and men in a beit midrash goes back to the Second Temple period. The importance of education is stressed in the Talmud, which states that children should begin school at six. The rabbis stated that they should not be beaten with a stick or cane, that older students should help those who were younger, and that children should not be kept from their lessons by other duties. According to Judah ben Tema, “At five years the age is reached for studying the Bible, at ten for studying the Mishnah, at thirteen for fulfilling the mitzvoth, at fifteen for studying the Talmud.” (Avot 5:21). In keeping with this tradition, Jews established their own schools or hired private tutors for their children until the end of the 18th century. Schools were housed in annexes or separate buildings close to the synagogue.[3]
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (in to follow in God's ways to perform righteousness and justice" ( are them on the doorposts of your house and your (
Deuteronomy contains several references to the duty to provide education: “Remember the days of old, consider the years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you.” (Deut 32:7). The Book of Proverbs also contains many verses related to education: “My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your mind retain my commandments; For they will bestow on you length of days, years of life and well-being.“ (Prov 3:1-2).[2]
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (in his Meshech Chochma) observes that God's statement "[Abraham is blessed because] he will instruct his children and his house after him to follow in God's ways to perform righteousness and justice" (Genesis 18:19) is an implicit mitzvah to teach Judaism.
Perceptions of Jews by Renowned Gentiles:
#1
"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
-- Winston Churchill
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#2
"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
-- Leo Tolstoy
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#3
"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid."
-- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#4
"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews."
-- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#5
"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all."
-- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#6
"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people....
This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..."
-- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-#7
"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man-made. The Jews, therefore, stand at the centre of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."
--Paul Johnson, American Historian
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#8
"As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest."
--Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy.. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.
They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one's fellow men.
They had their hands in every human progressive endeavour, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "saviour."
Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews.. And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it.
They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honourable, and do anything to escape its consequences.. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by.
So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.
All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues.
When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague , they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews' uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.
The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse."
--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist goes back to biblical times. One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to
R the days of years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you.” (Deu32:7). The Book of Proverbs also contains many verses related to education: “My son, do teaching, but let your mind retain my commandments; For they will bestow on you length of days, years of life and well-being.“ (Prov 3:1-2).
It's about time that we Jews admit and have the Peoples of the World recognize that we were and are the “Chosen People”.
We were the first to embrace a God, whom none of the World Peoples worshiped, and He, in turn, embraced us, freed us from slavery promised us the territory on the East and West sides of the Jordan as the Birth-Right of our Nation and, apparently, assumed we would spread his Message of Love, Compassion & Justice to the World.
We were required to proclaim his Uniqueness (Monotheism) and
heed his Moral Principles (The Decalogue).
We erred in believing that the world would observe, embrace and
emulate our society's culture of high ethical, positive and constructive
principles. We also erred in not sending out emissaries and our life
enhancing cultural message to the world. This “Compiler” believes that
this momentous failure of shameful excessive pride, resulting in
the purposeful exclusion of others based on wrongful interpretation
of God's will, led to a temporary Godly retreat from his all encompassing
love and protection of his Chosen People.
As a result, other cultures embraced the Perfect Concepts of
Monotheism and the Decalogue and proclaimed themselves the
true heirs and interpreters of God's wishes for mankind.
Regretfully, their misinterpretation and misguided desire to improve on those “Perfect Concepts”, Monotheism & the Decalogue, resulted in
an obvious detraction therefrom. Neither the New Testament nor the Koran are an improvement on the social enhancements proclaimed by the treasure of Jewish Scriptures - the 5 Books Of Moses and the Talmud/Mishna.
Also, regretfully, the Christians and Muslims who were the
true benefactors of the evolving Jewish Culture, through the millennium,
went out of their way to denigrate, vilify and decimate the Originators
of the principles they, boldly, proclaimed as theirs. They also proceeded
to undermine the principles of Love, Compassion & Justice by emphasizing and exalting their Messengers, Christ & Muhammad, rather than their exceptional Life Enhancing Message of Love, Compassion & Justice.
Resulting from their desire, to be seen as the Originators of the Godly Message to Mankind, the Christians and Muslims, through the generations, proceeded to inflict murderous Crusades, pogroms, expulsions, blood libels, inquisitions and topping them all a Nazi Holocaust to better show their hatred for the Jews act of “Deicide” and their love for God.
Islam in the 6th century, proclaimed itself as superseding both Judaism and Christianity and proceeded to annihilate the Jews, in their midst, who rejected conversion to Islam.
The Muslim Fundamentalists, of today, are in world-wide conflict
with both Judaism and Christianity. The vociferous Despotic & Autocratic World Muslim Leaders and their Fundamentalist cohorts are the major financial supporters of International Terrorism.
Their objective of combating encroaching Democracy in the World
and their determination, presently, to spread Sharia Law throughout the Middle East and, eventually, worldwide has drastically undermined any real hope for restoration of a World of international tranquility that we all aspire to.
Those Fundamentalist Leaders who are supportive of Mid East
Terrorism are more intent on consolidating their Despotic regimes than
encouraging the establishment of another Palestinian Democratic Nation.
It took the Jews 2000 years of yearning for a return to Zion/Jerusalem. If the Palestinians fail to cater to their own vested interests rather than aiding the Despots Agenda of combating Middle East encroaching Democracy – they may very well have to go on yearning for an Independent State for many many long years.
And, now, it is also time to tell you that the Jews, limited in numbers, are truly an exceptionally talented, creative and productive people.
Their brain power has been honed fine by ongoing compulsory
education through the generations. The Children of Israel were coached
in reading holy scriptures as far back as the establishment of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel that survived for 750 years.
With the destruction, by the Romans, of the second Temple in 70 CE, all Jewish boys, in exile, were required to embrace compulsory education. In the same era, other nations had only sparsely educated groups of the religious and the aristocrats.
Jews, notwithstanding their constantly dwindling and decimated numbers, went on begetting and providing all Jewish boys with “learning.”
Jews, because of their ongoing learning process and the demands on brain power required to exist and overcome the physical adversities and the economic limitations inflicted by those in whose midst they lived, became, through connection with their exiled compatriots throughout the world, promoters of commerce and proficient in the then emerging scientific and medical fields.
While Europeans only introduced organized “schooling” in the 7th Century - the Jewish brains were hewed fine by ongoing compulsory studies and the struggles to survive the ongoing fear and hatred of the inhabitants of the countries in which they sought refuge.
With “Emancipation” in France & Germany and with later immigration to America and Canada the Jews mental prowess proved of exceptional value to all the countries who approved Jewish emancipation.
Elementary school learning was regarded as compulsory by Simeon ben Shetah as early as 75 BCE and Joshua ben Gamla in 64 CE. The education of older boys and men in a beit midrash goes back to the Second Temple period. The importance of education is stressed in the Talmud, which states that children should begin school at six. The rabbis stated that they should not be beaten with a stick or cane, that older students should help those who were younger, and that children should not be kept from their lessons by other duties. According to Judah ben Tema, “At five years the age is reached for studying the Bible, at ten for studying the Mishnah, at thirteen for fulfilling the mitzvoth, at fifteen for studying the Talmud.” (Avot 5:21). In keeping with this tradition, Jews established their own schools or hired private tutors for their children until the end of the 18th century. Schools were housed in annexes or separate buildings close to the synagogue.[3]
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (in to follow in God's ways to perform righteousness and justice" ( are them on the doorposts of your house and your (
Deuteronomy contains several references to the duty to provide education: “Remember the days of old, consider the years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you.” (Deut 32:7). The Book of Proverbs also contains many verses related to education: “My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your mind retain my commandments; For they will bestow on you length of days, years of life and well-being.“ (Prov 3:1-2).[2]
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (in his Meshech Chochma) observes that God's statement "[Abraham is blessed because] he will instruct his children and his house after him to follow in God's ways to perform righteousness and justice" (Genesis 18:19) is an implicit mitzvah to teach Judaism.
Perceptions of Jews by Renowned Gentiles:
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"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world."
-- Winston Churchill
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"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
-- Leo Tolstoy
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"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid."
-- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842
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-#4
"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews."
-- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author
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-#5
"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all."
-- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords
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"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people....
This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..."
-- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
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"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man-made. The Jews, therefore, stand at the centre of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."
--Paul Johnson, American Historian
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"As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest."
--Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic
"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy.. They violated the rules of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.
They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one's fellow men.
They had their hands in every human progressive endeavour, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "saviour."
Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews.. And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it.
They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honourable, and do anything to escape its consequences.. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by.
So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.
All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.
Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues.
When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague , they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews' uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them.
The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse."
--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist goes back to biblical times. One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to
R the days of years of ages past; ask your father, he will inform you, your elders, they will tell you.” (Deu32:7). The Book of Proverbs also contains many verses related to education: “My son, do teaching, but let your mind retain my commandments; For they will bestow on you length of days, years of life and well-being.“ (Prov 3:1-2).
