Rome (Our Correspondence). On jews’ murderous
reaction, that is on evil jewish action referred to crimes and murders against
things and lives of non-jews, especially if Christians; on talmudical command
and spirit of jewish piety and devotion.
The REACTION, as Mr. Chiarini defines it, or
the jewish race’s evil action against
all peoples, especially Christian ones, among whom such race is forced to live
scattered, is not only a religious
and political reaction in the sense
explained in our previous correspondence.
It is an especially criminal one that exercises
itself by means of prescribed murders which are considered by jews as religious
duties, precepts of the law and externalizations of piety and devotion. By
declaring this, we are not saying those other evil actions deriving from their religious and political reaction do not belong to the category of murders, more
or less strictly. We refer, for instance, to the corruption and the mutilation
of books, the invention of their absurd and immoral precepts, hurling daily
imprecations and curses, and particularly their deceits, their frauds, and
their most merciless usury. These are guilty actions, and notwithstanding this
they are not only allowed to them, but are also prescribed by jewish law,
religion and conscience regarding non-jews. We mean to go into minute details
on those which are defined by law crimes
and murders against property and
people. The more pious, devout and observant jews are of their law, the more
they are driven by their laws, piety and devotion. Let’s imagine that many or
even the most part or all of jews (as we’d like to believe) refrain from
observing their law, especially in the countries which are more subject to
police controls. If this really happens (we are not preventing it, for what’s
on trial here is judaism, not jews), this means that, thanks to God, there are
no good jews observing their law in its most mystical, ascetical and perfect
side anymore. In fact, since they were children, jews are formally trained to
hate mankind, especially Christians, as their conscience and devotion prescribe
to them.
Christians are the ones who, among all of
their disfavours, are already damned, whether for being non-jews or for
unfairly having all those possessions which have been stolen by jews who are
the only masters of the world and God’s chosen people for getting and ruling
the whole world.
If nobody among such a race so impiously bred
wants to take advantage from that kind of breeding in order to put into
practice the talmudical precept of universal misanthropy, then such jews are now
bad jews, and therefore are now good people in general, or they are at least
not different from other races. They are even better than non-jews since they
represent those who heroically hold out against all precepts of their law,
against dogmas of their religion, against all dictates of their conscience,
against all teachings of their priests, and against the whole tendency of their
familiar civil, social, and religious upbringing. As for this, in fact, current
jewish religion is different from the others, including the false ones: no
religion on earth imposes to hate mankind as the jewish one does. Therefore,
whereas the other men sin when they infringe this aspect of charity towards
their fellowmen, jews sin when they observe their law and religion, instead.
We can extrapolate current jewish dogmas and
precepts, dealing with the respect that jews owe to non-jewish properties and
people from considering first what the Talmud expressly allows to jews, as far
as regarding as properties of theirs, with full certainty and conscience, all
unguarded things they can find inside houses belonging to non-jews. In fact,
the Talmud (Bava Kamma 113, 2nd
edition of Venice): “Wherefrom do we know that objects lost by Goyim are
allowed things (that is to say, it is allowed to possess them). For (it
replies) it is written (Deuteronomy, 22, 3): de omni omissione fratris tui: that means you have to give back to your brother what he has lost, not to
the Goy, who is not your brother.”
This legal leave [i.e., permission, authorization
– Ed.] that all jews have to keep as theirs what non-jews lose, must be
extended against apostate jews, that is converted jews, in the Aveda Sara Treaty (26, 2) by the same
authors of the Tosefot. This leave
becomes precept in the Sanhedrin (76, 2). In fact, it states:
“He who gives back to a non-jew what he has lost by chance, won’t be forgiven
by God.” For, according to Raschi’s explanation, “if a jew gave back to his
owner what a non-jew has lost, the jew would acquaint him with the jewish law,
which is exclusively a jews’ affair,” whence we can see how rabbis are capable
of even making the Talmud worse by means of their commentaries. The Talmud only
offers a leave, where the rabbi
imposes the precept, as we can see in
Yoma 88, 1, and in Pische Tosephot, too.
The Bible commands (Deuteronomy, 24, 14) that
oprimes mercenarium afflictum et egenum
de fratribus tuis. Well, this merciful precept is enough for the Talmud (Bavia Metzia, III, 2) to build upon the leave for doing the opposite with the others. Who are these others, in the end? Raschi responds:
“The others are the peoples of the world who are not jews’ brothers.” Jews do
have the leave to oppress the broken-hearted, poor, mercenary non-jew, just as
the Bible calls him brother, by
stating not to oppress him. This is
the only reason alleged by Raschi and by the Talmud. It is an essentially
talmudical and rabbinical reason, for, according to the Talmud and rabbis, a
jew is nobody’s brother, except for his fellow-countrymen. The others are
enemies and they are not men, either, properly speaking.
But how far can this oppression allowed to
jews by law against non-brothers be extended? It can achieve theft (Bava Metzia, III, 2; and 61, in the
Tosephot.) For in Leviticus it is written non
opprimes socium tuum neque rapies (Leviticus 19, 13). Then, a jew is
allowed to rob a non-jew, as he cannot be a socius
of the jew.
Chiarini says people have been looking in
vain for this text in recent printings of the Talmud, whence it was taken away
by censorship. Anyway, traces of its mutilations are evident. Everybody knows
erased or rectified texts are those which can be better learnt by heart and
which are orally handed down from teachers to pupils, in the synagogues. Jews
do believe their law forbids helping non-jews in any serious and dangerous
occurrence, even when they run the risk of losing their lives. We are sure that
many jews would be ready to face danger to save a Christian from death. But, by
doing this, they would sin against their law and their conscience. For in Avada Zara 26, 1 and elsewhere it is written: “it is forbidden to save an
Accum’s life,” that is to say, a non-jew, as the book we’re referring to
explains in Thosephot 20, 1. It also
motivates it: “for rescuing idolaters or non-jews from death is meant to
increase their number. Moreover, the Writ forbids being moved to pity in front
of their doom in any case.”
According to jewish logic it is evident that
to allow the creation of an idolater or a non-jew is considered a sin as much
as it is considered a sin to rescue his life from death. And if it is forbidden
to be moved to pity upon non-jews’ fate, it is far less allowed to cooperate in
changing it from bad to good.
Moses Maimonides is also the author of the Turims which get from all of this jewish
casuistry the various rules to be followed in regards to this subject.
According to jews the first rule says that: “it is forbidden to jews to kill a
non-jew or to push him on the verge of ruin, for jews are not at war with
non-jews, at the moment (Yad Chasaka P. 1, C. 10, N. I and elsewhere). We are
going to deal with this rule in a while.” The II rule says (ibidem) that if a jew gets in touch with
betrayers, apostates, and Epicurean Israelites, “he must kill them all, as they
afflict jews and get them out of the Lord’s way.”
The Talmud (Berachot, 18), then, confirms the above-mentioned rule by means of
Rabbi Schila’s example, who killed a jew because he had threatened the rabbi of
informing against him since the rabbi had talked behind some non-jews’ backs.
So, it is far too normal that only a few jews dare say the whole truth about
their own fellow-countrymen and their current law, which is concealed and
almost unapproachable inside their rabbinical books.
The third Rule (Characka P. 4, C. 8, N. 10)
says that when jews have the power in their hands, at the level they already
had in Palestine, after the coming of the Messiah, “Jews will force all
non-jews by every means in order to make them practice at least those precepts
named Noachites (therefore, non-jews will
also be forced to undergo circumcision) and kill the unwilling ones.”
Maimonides says this law was given to Moses by God himself. Whence we can
suppose how happy Christian peoples’ fate would be, if they were ruled by jews.
These are the three rules to which rabbis
reduce jewish morals, as far as jews’ right to kill non-jews is concerned. But
Chiarini says (page 350 of the 1st volume of his Theory of Judaism) that those Christians who really believe in the
First Rule, forbidding to jews to kill non-jews – even now and before the
Messiah’s coming – are really simpleminded. “Misanthropy of diaspora jews goes
far beyond, and our opinion is not different from the one of those who believe
that jewish law forces his followers to kill non-jews, even before the
Messiah’s coming.”
Chiarini produces for it the following
arguments. First of all, in the Bible (Lev. 19, 16) it is written: non stabis super sanguinem socii tui.
Now, it is known that non-jews are not included among jews’ fellows, according
to the Talmud. Therefore, we have already observed the Talmud expressly allows
jews to put into practice with non-jews the opposite of what they have to do
with their fellows. From such general talmudical rule, we necessarily deduce
jews do not have to make scruples about spilling non-jews’ blood. Moreover, the
Bible states (Deut. 20, 16) nullum omnino
permittes vivere. To tell the truth, here it only refers to the seven
peoples of Canaan. But, for the same reason for which all those peoples were
then exiled, that precept is still observed by current jews as obligatory in
the regards of current non-jews. All non-jews are idolaters as the Canaanites
were. And Maimonides says (Sepher Mitzvot
fol. 85, C. 2, 3 under the title Mitzvot
Lo Taaseh): “whoever does not kill a non-jew, when he can, he infringes a
negative precept,” formally contradicting in this way the above-mentioned First
Rule, obviously created for Christians more than for jews. Eisenmenger, in his Disclosed Judaism, Raimondo Martino, in
his Pugio Fidei, Bustorfio and
Bartolucci and those who probe the study of the Talmud share this opinion. And
Chiarini comes to the conclusion that, though the duty to kill non-jews doesn’t appear to be that universally
admitted in the books which are obligatory to jews, as for the other duty
saying not to save non-jews from death, nevertheless there is no doubt at all
jews believe – or they can be authorized to believe – they are allowed to kill
non-jews. Therefore, after all, the matter reduces itself to this: perhaps jews are not obliged to kill
Christians by their Talmud, at the moment, though they are, maybe. But, as for the leave of killing them with no scruples
of conscience, it is sure they have it all, according to the texts and the
above-mentioned authors. When the Messiah comes – that is to say, whenever and
wherever (which is the same) – jews will be able to rule Christians, then they
will not have just the leave, but they will have the strict duty to kill all
those who do not want to undergo circumcision or convert to judaism, according
to the law and current jewish theory, leaving practice out of consideration. In
fact, as there are thieves and murderers among Christians who, by robbing and
killing, impiously infringe their own law, so nihil obstat –
nothing prevents – jews from being honest and not murderers. Those jews, as
they do not rob nor murder Christians, devoutly infringe their own law, or they
at least refrain from an impious action which is considered as an innocent act
by jewish law.
If it is true that there are not pious and
devout jews observing their law at their best, even in the most ascetical and
mystical aspects of rabbinical talmudism, this is a historical matter
concerning criminal trials. As it is well-known, many of those trials took
place in different cities and centuries. They are not trials brought about for
ordinary crimes, which nowadays are common more and more, and they get
atrocious more and more as the lights of civilization increase. We are
referring to murders which are properly and strictly talmudic and which are
executed for devotion and in homage to jewish law and spirit. One of these
trials, among the last ones, is most notorious: the murder of Father Thomas of
Calangianus, Apostolical Missionary Capuchin from Sardinia and his Christian
servant Ibrahim Amarah. Such murders were made for the purpose of rabbinical
devotion and piety by the most pious and devout jews of Damascus who had been
friends of the above-mentioned Father for many years. The authentic trial transcription
still exists, with questionings, replies and confessions, all very
evident, along with other official
documents pertinent to that trial, enclosed in the Historical Report by the Father G.B. of Mondovì, Apostolical
Missionary Capuchin, printed several times, and printed in Marseille in 1852 as
a third edition, as well.
But, as this Report is not to be found in any present edition, and one hardly
hints at it but very concisely in Rhorbacher’s recent eclesiastical stories or
other’s (being also impossible to find those French newspapers of 1840-41 that
dealt with that tragic occurrence for a long time), we have to draw from it
what strictly suits our purpose: that is to say, to demonstrate that
Christians’ murderers are not all jews, but only the jews who want to strictly
obey their current law, considering it a pious deed. As the executioner who
believes he is doing his duty before God and society by killing the wicked
taken to him, the most mystical, most ascetical, most observant jews of all
their law’s devotions are sure to fulfil their state’s duty and to do
meritorious deeds before God and their rabbinical society by murdering as many
Christians as possible, not only damaging their things, but damaging their very
lives.
Let us listen to what Chiarini says on this
matter: he is a very moderate and staid person in his opinions, and
nevertheless he lived for a long time beside Polish jews, and couldn’t refrain
from stating that “jews’ bloody prejudice to lay a snare for Christians’
children for sacrificing them at Passover, perhaps lies solely in the
fanaticism of a small quantity of low jews who do it in order to renew the
killings [in the name] of God committed by their ancestors and to abuse
Christians’ blood.” Then, Chiarini supposes as notorious and certain, at least
among Polish jews, this bloody prejudice,
perpetrated by the dregs of jewish society, only. In fact, as everybody knows,
the mob always complies with the laws and rabbinical teachings anywhere.
Chiarini thinks that their custom of laying snares to Christian children is
founded on a very dreadful text taken from the Avadazara (26, 2 and elsewhere) saying: “Goyim, marauders, and
shepherds of small herds mustn’t be saved from a well, as they mustn’t be
hurled into it. Minim (that is to say,
Christians), betrayers and apostates must be hurled into a well and must not be
saved from it.” Rabbi Scheschet said: If
there is a ladder in the den, the jew who takes it away (so who has fallen into
the den can’t use it) has to pronounce positive words by saying: I am taking it
away, so that a bad beast can’t use it to get into the den. Rabbis Rabba
and Joseph say: if there is a stone on
the mouth of the well, the jew must close it by means of that stone in order
not to make it open again, pronouncing these words: I am doing this so that my
beasts go by over it.
Rabbi Nackman said: If there is a ladder in
the well, while taking it away, he must say: I need to do it to make my son get down from the roof. As far as this
text is concerned, Raimondo Martino and Bustorfio say the the term Minim here refers to Christians in
particular. Raschi has also said that Minim
are idolater priests, whether they are non-jews or converted jews… And so,
in Raschi’s opinion, that jewish piety applies to Christian priests only. This
would already mean a lot. But it is certain that the text refers to all
Christians, as we can see from its prayer or curse against the Minim, in which it is said that: informers must drop any hope: may all heretics
perish at once; may all of them be exterminated all of a sudden. As for the
arrogant ones, do uproot them, God, do destroy them, do extirpate them at once.
Humble them now. May the Lord be blessed, He who humbles the enemy and the
arrogant. Here, informer and heretic stand for Apostates and Epicurean
Israelites, while arrogant and enemy stand for non-jews in general. This concept was better explained in the
ancient text of the prayer before being altered as it is nowadays, in the
above-mentioned text, for fear of Christians. Other very curious texts exist.
Chiarini says we could deduce from them such law, or at least this leave or
devotion, adopted by jews against Christian children. Those texts are the ones
which command to create problems, as much as one is able to, for Christians
during their holy feasts. Therefore, in the talmudical treaty Taanith i.e. on fastings (27, 2) a question is asked: Why do most pious in Israel never fast during the first day of the
week? The main reason is not said, that is, it has been taken away by
censorship. But the Aruk’s author
suggests us to suspect it, by mentioning this point and replying: because it is their holy day: that is to
say, because it is Sunday. Consulting the most ancient edition of Cracowia, we
clearly read: During the first day of the week, Christians do not have to fast.
And in that one of the Talmud of Venice, as well as in the old editions of the Ayn Yacob or Ayn Israel, the whole text says: Fasting during the first day of the week because of the Goyim is not
allowed. In another talmudical text, it is ordered to behave like
Christians during the days of their religious feasts in order to perturb them.
Rabbi Judah asks: Is it allowed to require a debt from non-jews before feasts
start, for this can afflict them? No, the wise men reply: This affliction is
not enough, since non-jews can be happy again after paying it. Then, it is
necessary to cause a positive and permanent affliction to non-jews during their
holy feasts, in order to drive them away from the exercise of their idolatrous
cult, as Rabbi Bartenora says. This precept shows in a rather evident way, says
Chiarini, where men can be driven to by the fanaticism and ignorance of the
jewish mob. As for the right texts, on which most devout and observant jews
found this law of their own, or at least, according to Mr. Chiarini, this leave
or bloody devotion of theirs, it is sure, he adds, that whenever a non-jew
offends a jew, he commits a crime of high treason and deserves to be killed as
it is said in the Sanhedrin (58, 2):
“Whenever a non-jew ill-treats a jew, he ill-treats God Himself, and since he
commits a crime of high treason this way, he then deserves death.” So, even for
this reason, according to Chiarini, there is nothing weird in supposing that
most pious, most zealous, and most observant jews – who are among the poorest
mob in the ghettos, that is in places where there is little surveillance – feel
free by spirit of talmudic judaism to pursue their bloody and cruel
retaliations and devotions on young and non-young Christians, in the many ways
told by law reports which took place in many cities. Chiarini says on this
regard (page 355) that “to deny that jews from different places in Europe have
committed such cruel crimes is to erase from history at least 30 or 40 evident
and detailed occurrences of this kind. This would mean to destroy all the
momuments kept in several cities with all their stories related to these
dreadful attempts. It would mean, in the end, to refuse the testimonies of people
who are still alive and testified to such crimes, which were at least
attempted, when not committed. In this year 1827 (what would Chiarini have said, if he wrote in 1841, after the Damascus
case?), some jews had fun in putting a Christian child into a drawer. If we
consider they did this a couple of days before their Passover and they did it
by means of all precautionary measures usually recommended in such cases by
Talmudists, we will not be able to consider this event as a simple joke. I
could be charged with having the intention to renew the libel carried on during
the Middle-Ages when jews were accused of poisoning fountains and rivers. I
reply that to perpetrate such a poisoning is impossible, but that evil acts
could be attempted by a people who profess such a religious and moral doctrine
as depraved as the talmudic one is. We do not think that this is a good reason
enough to reject all jews, even though those crimes are really allowed to them
and commanded by their laws as well. We believe we have to find a way to
destroy this spirit of intolerance of theirs before granting them civil rights.
According to us, a good means to destroy their intolerance is to reveal the
true spirit of judaism. We do think that the worst jews’ enemies are those ill-informed
authors who consider this matter wrongly, distorting everything and even
destroying the chance to improve that race, instead of making it happier and
more helpful for the nation.”
We have reported this text in order to spread
the authoritative opinion of such a qualified author, not only in the regards
of theory, but also in the regards of the bloody and criminal past and current
jewish practice carried on by the most pious, devout and observant jews.
Nevertheless, we willingly acknowledge that in the so-called civil countries,
that is to say those more watched by police, and by jews who are more civilized
and therefore less observant, this special bloody talmudic observance, as the
other jewish observances, is little perpetrated or isn’t at all. We are going
to discuss this topic presently.