Am I missing something here? I see no "intolerance."

Catholic Queen Isabella and The Catholic Spanish Inquisition are routinely accused of Anti-Semitism in the extreme, because they believed that Jєωs and Muslims could not be trusted to defend Catholic Spain from Islamic aggression, but would instead betray Spain to her enemies.  By modern standards, that is "intolerance."  Of course, I believe that modern standards have made terms like:  tolerance, racism, anti-semtism, islamaphobia, homophobia, bigotry, prejudice and bias meaningless.  

The Patriarch of Alexandria at the time handed the keys of the Babylon fort (the key fort in Egypt)  over to the Muslims so that they could take over and the rest is history.  

Yes, but the тαℓмυd is worse.

There are decent Jєωs out there who pay their taxes and love their families and all that. Should we be praying that all ѕуηαgσgυєs in America burn down? No. Is their holy book atrocious dreck? Absolutely. The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

Poche, you don't seem to get it.


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What is the difference between the тαℓмυd and the Torah?

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Shulamit Widawsky, BA Psychology & Judaism, American Jєωιѕн University
Answered Dec 1, 2015 · Author has 6.9k answers and 11.9m answer views


Originally Answered: What is the difference between Torah and тαℓмυd?

The Torah is the Hebrew Bible, and while some people think of just the "Five Books of Moses" Torah refers to all of the Hebrew Bible, including such books as Joshua, Psalms, Book of Ruth, etc.  The first five books are written in the scroll that is read in the ѕуηαgσgυє every week.  Other books of the Torah may also be written in their own individual scrolls.  But all of them are available in book form as well.

The first five books of Torah were originally memorized orally, and took written form over time, http://www.britannica.com/topic/... in the period from 1200 to 100 BCE.  Well before the тαℓмυd took shape.




The тαℓмυd is the compilation of the historic rabbis "discussing" or "debating" what the Torah means.  Some of the tractates come to conclusions, but many leave the debate open ended.  This is part of why Jєωs can continue to study Torah and тαℓмυd, and continue to debate meanings, in all times and cultural changes.  The format of the тαℓмυd is always in book form, The entire тαℓмυd consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6,200 pages long.

The тαℓмυd has two components: the Mishnah (Hebrew: משנה, c. 200 CE), which is a written compendium of Rabbinic Judaism's Oral Torah (тαℓмυd translates literally as "instruction" in Hebrew); and the Gemara (c. 500 CE), an attempt at clarification of the Mishnah and related writings that often ventures onto other subjects and expounds broadly on the Hebrew Bible. In the middle of the page is the text that is being discussed, and the sections around the central text, as well as in the margins, are the commentaries that sometimes build upon each other, and were written at very different times in history, but took this form some time less than a thousand years ago.  The oldest full manuscript of the тαℓмυd, known as the Munich тαℓмυd dates from 1342 and is available online



The actual way various passages of each of these texts were created will probably be debated for all time.  But the major difference between them is that tradition tells us G-d gave us Torah, and rabbis gave us тαℓмυd.