The old paths, or the Talmud tested by Scripture: Being a comparison of the principles and doctrines of modern Judaism with the religion of Moses and the prophetsMcCaul, Alexander
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The old paths, or the Talmud tested by Scripture: Being a comparison of the principles and doctrines of modern Judaism with the religion of Moses and the prophets
McCaul, Alexander
Judaism -- Works to 1900
The land has not got “all its inhabitants.” There can be no
jubilee, and therefore those that wish to be saved, must, according to
the oral law, turn Jews, or take their chance of living to a year of
jubilee. But we are not necessitated to argue from the principles. The
thing is expressly laid down in the oral law. After explaining, as we
have quoted above, who are the pious of the world, and that when the
jubilee is possible, is the only time for receiving them, it adds—
אבל בזמן הזה אפילו קבל עליו כל התורה כולה חוץ מדקדוק אחד אין מקבלין אותו
׃
“But in the present time, though a man should be willing to take upon
him the whole law, with the exception of only one of its least
requirements, he is not to be received.” Now then what becomes of the
boasted toleration of the Talmud? It says, that “the pious of the
nations of the world may be saved.” But it says, first, that such
converts can only be received when the jubilee can be celebrated. It
says, secondly, that this only opportunity has not occurred for the last
2,700 years; and, lastly, it positively forbids the Jews in the present
time to give the Gentiles a chance of salvation, unless they are willing
to receive the whole law. What use is it then to talk of the pious of
the world, or to say that people of other religions may be saved?
According to the Talmud, there are no pious of the nations, unless
perchance there may be some descendants of those who were received 2,700
years ago. But all history that we have ever seen is silent on the
subject. We do not know of a single congregation of Noahites in the
whole world. The forefathers of the Christians were not received during
the usage of jubilee. They were idolaters received against the wishes of
the Rabbinists. The Britons and the Saxons were converted to
Christianity long after the final dispersion of the Jews, that is, at a
time when, according to the Talmud, it was unlawful to add to the pious
amongst the nations. Neither were they received according to the
Talmudic condition, in the presence of three learned Jews.
וצריך לקבל עליו בפני שלשה חברים ׃
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