A Review of Michael Hoffman’s “Judaism Discoveredâ€
“Judaism Discovered:
A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit â€
Important, Titanic work - Nothing Like It Exists Anywhere
September 9, 2008
for the low, low price of only $588.14,
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Reviewed by a New Yorker who critiques books at Amazon.com under the pen name, “Happy Daze 11.â€
As opposed to some of the ‘non-reviews’ posted on this book, I will actually review it from having knocked back this behemoth over my vacation week. Hoffman’s latest work eclipses everything he has done to date. When Hoffman says he has spent more than a decade researching the Talmud and historical Orthodox writers and writings, he is not kidding. The extensive footnoting and source material he quotes from and cites would take 10 years to digest, even if you were a full time student. Books this well documented are nominated for literary awards, as this one should be.
What this book is: Orthodox sages and rabbis talking about God, other rabbis and their flocks, and non-Jews, in their own books. 99% of the Talmudic source material referred to comes from the works of the Talmudic sages and various grand rabbis themselves. You get a sprinkling of quotes from major Israeli and American newspapers as well. Nothing this book refers to was culled from any non-Jewish source.
What this book is not: anti-Jewish, or an argument for any violence or maltreatment or legal restriction of or upon the Jewish community. If anything, when you read this work and realize what Talmudic tin gods really believe(d), you will rank the Talmud in a far worse category than Mein Kampf, or any other traditional “hate†tract.
What this book accomplishes beyond the shadow of a doubt: I will make an analogy – The Talmud and orthodox Talmudists are akin to a business that keeps two sets of accounting books – one set of books they show to the Internal Revenue Service (non-Jews), the “other set†of books is known only to corporate insiders – the “other set†shows the true financial condition and profit margin of the “company.†Hoffman shows you the Talmudic Orthodox “other set†of books – what the Talmudic rabbis really say and believe about God, themselves, their flocks, and the general non-Jewish population. What they say behind closed doors, i.e. what they really think, write, believe, and teach as set forth in their own books. What the “other set†has, will make you ill, angry, surprised, and disgusted. You will pity the poor souls trapped by the Talmud.
Hoffman shows you how two sets of books are kept, he shows you when historically, the “other set†of books was discovered, what happened, who discovered it, and who tried to suppress it and who supported publishing it. Sometimes it was a Protestant Reformer, sometimes it was the Vatican. (The section of the book dealing with Luther and the Vatican regarding the publishing of the Talmud is worth the price of the book alone. [$45.00 at http://www.revisionisthistory.org/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=9667307.26889*Le7uS5&product=Books_and_Pamphlets] One hundred books, both Protestant and Catholic, could be spawned from this section alone – as well as the Kabbalistic infiltration into the Vatican during the Renaissance....Trad. Catholics take note.)
The Talmudic primary source material relied upon; yes, there is legal authority to treat non-Jews as sub-humans; Yes, there is Talmudic and religious authority from the greatest Talmudic sages for kicking, spitting upon, cursing, killing, injuring, and stealing from non-Jews; cursing non-Jewish houses and cemeteries, and spitting on other religious clergy and Christian symbols is also permitted through linguistic trickery and wholesale nullification of the Bible and the Ten Commandments.
What “they†really believe is beyond shocking. From the nighttime arousal positional police, obsession with female pubic hair, women’s menstrual flow, Talmudic toilet laws, the hole in the sheet for Talmudic intercourse; even the fact that a woman giving birth to a mentally retarded or infirm child is under lifetime suspicion for having caused the birth defect herself by not observing the several thousand Talmudic laws regarding menstruation, is given thorough documentation.
Perhaps the greatest insult: that “the rebbes†are considered to have greater moral authority than God, and in the case of one Orthodox sect, their now-deceased rabbi has been put in a higher position than whatever “being†they call God. I say “being they call God†because that being is not found in the Bible – you’d sooner find that “being†in a Luciferian book. That rabbi was supposed to live forever—it must have come as quite a shock to him when he died. Hoffman could have called this book a study of ethnic megalomania. When put in proper perspective, the Islamic sharia police in Iran pale in comparison to the Talmudic police in Orthodox communities in the United States and in “Israel.†Women are still being beaten and kicked to the back of the bus, only this time its not African-American Rosa Parks, it’s orthodox Judaic women in parts of “Israel.†By rabbinical decree, women can’t ride bicycles either, in upstate New York. Hoffman quotes the communities’ own newspapers!
Anyone interested in comparative religion or the intersection of religion and modern politics needs this book on their shelf. When Hoffman quotes a Christian scholar stating that a Talmudist taking an oath is the “trickiest thing†because they are not bound to the oath by the Talmud (unless certain circumstances exist), you need not wonder why there is no real Middle East Peace process. Middle Eastern peacemakers should read this book to learn how to deal with Talmudic oath trickery.
Curses, demons, performing circumcisions via fellatio, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, self worship, megalomania, what it boils down to is that man-made laws and rules by evil people have been given divine writ through the Talmud, which as Hoffman shows beyond the shadow of a doubt, has been elevated to the status of God-given law. The laws and rules are ridiculous and have only hurt rank and file Judaics, as well as the whole world.
It strikes me from reading Hoffman, as if the Talmud is nothing but a distillation of every occult “Voodoo†religion that has ever existed in the world, down into one set of books called the Talmud. Could there be anything more noble than to evangelize the Judaics from their Talmudic creed?
What about “Thou shalt not beat up women†???
“We are trying to ENFORCE the will of God†(i.e. the ‘God of Lies and Darkness’)
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Amazon vs. Michael Hoffman
is turning into an interesting dispute. Here is Hoffman's side of the story:
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/page1/page9/page9.html
There is also a forum discussion on the Amazon page.
Now, frankly, I have no sympathy whatsoever for people whose motivation for critiquing the extremes of Talmudic Judaism stems from their devotion to their own weird-ass organized religion, and this does appear to be the case with a lot of the people posting in the forum (ie, they're thankful for this book on behalf of Jeebzus and his righteous battle against the Babylonian gods). I do, however, take quite an interest in research which tends to undermine the false positioning of Islam as a woman-hating, extremely socially oppressive religion relative to a supposedly enlightened, hyper-ethical religion practiced by Jews.
In other words, the moral of this story should be that fucked-uppedness is guaranteed to be found in ANY organized religion, and especially ones which are used as tools of social control (meaning basically ALL of them, and CERTAINLY including Christianity).
For some reason, I found the number of churches and cathedrals in France unexpectedly depressing. Every time I saw a spire poking up out of some dinky picturesque town I was reminded of the ways that the essential message of Jesus was co-opted, distorted, and used to control most human beings for the benefit of a few.
I had the same feeling in the Vatican
All I could think of while viewing the accumulated riches around me (vast swathes of marble statuary, golden baptismal fonts, ivory this and that, gorgeous frescos, etc.) was how the Church stole this from others using the dogma of Jesus. It's all the same, every religion gets co-opted if it's not an outright scam to begin with.
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But lets not forget that not only religions are co-opted. Ever since the enlightenment when people finally got up the nerve to publicly expose religion as bunkum the world's would be controllers have been co-opting science and rationality, too. How else can we explain Michael Shermer, professional "skeptic"? Basically anything that lots of people start to have faith in becomes a useful tool in their control, be it belief in metaphysical superheroes, the "scientific process", nationalism, or cults of celebrity. Those who promote effective critical thinking (kof kof ahem ahem) are marginalized and denounced since they threaten the control exerted by... whomever exerts it. On the point Cass raises about people like Hoffman being their own kind of fanatics, I agree. That means, though, that they are often the only people who will be willing to reveal things about whomever they perceive as their enemy, things that we would all benefit from knowing. For all the evils fo Islamophobia, we know that there are issues with individual liberty within Islam, especially among women. Now, who is most likely to tell us all those things? Zionists and neocons, of course--the other side, in other words. In the middle of such conflicts we can only observe the back and forth and suss out as much truth as we can from what is likely to also contain lots of distortion and propaganda...
You're right, G. This was a
You're right, G.
This was a good post. If people start to have "faith" in something, then there's trouble. Maybe we can blame the faulty educational system in this country for the fact that people don't want to see the obvious demolition aspect of 9/11. They say things like "I'm not a physicist, so I couldn't hope to understand gravity or how steel melts" quickly followed by "so are YOU a physicist? If not, then why should I listen to you?"
AIDS, global warming, and a few other things, like vaccines seem to inspire the same mental shut-down. "Oh I can't think for myself about SCIENCE -- I have to just listen to what others in power tell me about science. See, this person has a lab coat on, so s/he must be a trustworthy disseminator of information. Plus, s/he is on teevee!" Appollo, same thing. I guess if people think they cannot think, then they really can't.
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