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I've heard more than my fair share of talk of how the тαℓмυd is evil. Given the way I have heard the Jєωs speak of non-Jєωs (goyim a.k.a chattel), I would not doubt that. Though, I really want to know what's actually written in that book so that I can see for myself what form of evil is written in it.
The story of the burning begins several years before the event actually occurred. In 1240, an apostate (convert from Judaism to Christianity) named Nicholas Donin challenged the great Rabbis in France at that time to defend the тαℓмυd from his charges that it was a work that demonstrated a hostility towards Christianity and thus could not be allowed to exist in a Christian state. What resulted from this challenge was one of the first recorded disputations, debates between Jєωs and Christians which effectively amounted to Judaism on trial. Setting a pattern that was to be imitated by subsequent disputations in several countries in Europe over the following few centuries, this disputation was held before the King and Queen, in this case King Louis IX, and the Christian side was argued by a former Jєω. This was an important fact as it tended to add to the insidiousness with which the case was tried. As we shall see, the questions posed to the Jєωs tended to stem from a superficial reading of the тαℓмυd, focusing on passages that could only be read in context and with further explanation as passed down from generation to generation. The apostate accusers were generally well-versed in the traditional Rabbinic interpretations, and thus they were somewhat prepared for what they were going to hear. The Jєωιѕн defenders were aware of this fact, and thus their answers are often not the standard answers that they would have given had they been lecturing to their students in the Beit HaMidrash, but rather are answers designed to placate the attending royalty and to prove in any way possible that the Christians were not singled out by the Rabbis of the тαℓмυd as a nation that must be reviled.