Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-03-17

| speak, Tor am yet q iau.--JeTemtah q. o.
Mr. Pteasdnis You have always been in the habit o.
taking the part of prosecuted nation. You endoa
voured it appears. TO give the people better idea
us, by showing them, much it laid in your power
the real Character fhe Jew, and that our unhappy ia.
ton has for ages past been unjusty hated and that VIC
have almost IN every country oeeD led slaughter when
our enemies had only opportunity. Every son off The
house of Israel will feel grateful those that are the
oeneactors OF our nation and IN the way feel
inyseii Obliged TO thank you for Your deendmp us-
IL has been the custom for ages past not alone to nur.
der tue adherents of the Mosaic law but also to attack
their doctrines, and TO pour out every denunciauu
against their teachers am not aonisled that this hap
Pened IN the dark ages of superstition and i'm countries
where The Jew is not equally protected by law with the
christian; but, that there should be found men in the
nineteenth century, in the United States who bear
the same enmy towards the Jewish Rabbies is more
than remarkable | do not pretend 10 say that enm
~ towards the Rabbes the sole motive of the an
thor OF ftdb6ihicat Ds2iiSoas; but this saw that IL
ought never TO have appeared good end whatever
can DC gained by IT. and il only tend TO wound the
.eeing of those that have different opinion of those
rug tctSe and ous who sacrificed not alone their
property, left their native land to seek an asylum i,
os'ant county, but who gave also up their lives and
"ouo not change the religion of the only od the cd
Oh their fathers These charges against the Rabbes
not new, no they have been repeated for above thou
SAND years past and often repeated they have been
reuted should therefore have uuderfa ken In an
swer men, might not appear, if these charges were
ei' az present unanswered, that thoy were either entire
~ unanswerabe, or that the Jews here i'm America
cared nothing about the holy religion entrusted TO them
oy INN, Who called them his beloved people Lest INV
enemy say, have prevailed against him; and those a,
trouble me rejoice when am NOV ed ito,terup) Pisa
Kill 5--lhe object of this is 10 show that Raschi,s
oPnons are well founded, and that neither the Misina
anu ia!tnud nor the Cabbaah are SO absurd ns tiey
are represented to be by the author of No C,arae /
WIN NOT De so VAN as TO suppose that CO convince
every body; but hope, that every unprecedented mind
VIII be satisfied that the Rabies are entitled TO some
G'e.,--lh I've learned author rdicule the idea
mat Metimsala learned man. that he went TO his
fathers school, &c. But is this so inpossble, Is il not
more 'hah probable that the first ages of the world
were not SO entirely destitute OF learning aud know
ledge of the supreme being? Surely man must
scarcely have any sense, if he serious in asserting
na, 'hoSe men who had actually knowledge of music
and other arts, should not have been able 10 write
sN any man; IS 1t probable that the world had no learn
ing whatever In the sixteen hundred wears before the
lood is compatible with the bengnly of Tic Alnigt-
10 destroy all men, they knew not, what was right,
but somebody may sav, "a hundred years is lorr
tune for studying" To this objection / can rive Two
answers First that the umberhundred shew an indie
hnlts long time; secondly, yet custom in many
P'aceS among The Jews that men attend all their life
iMe In The high schools Dothcy Hamdrash) where the
raw IS discussed by the learned men, and the know ece
OF IL acquired by those who wish TO learn it, And as
Il IS ihe OPINION OF the Rabies, thai the world had
knowledge even in those early times which is srrei,
more founded than the other, astonishing that
methusaa attended at the school of his father for full
INJURED years; moreover as Henoc in the Bible
mentioned as man, whose dongs were accepiabIe TO
NM +hctHusdidii uIeu just before The Hood,
DO invention Of Yarci, every BODY that onlv nm
uerstands arltlnetick, fad by referring to
Genesis v. q VII. Now tradition says Just seven
uays oeore that awful event; and this Improbable
1t is true that Hebrews believe that Messiah was
al Tue time of the destruction of The first temple BY
CseouchadnczzaF; but have read AT t,at nj
'e second temple This charge has nothing in it. which
cann any rnanneIlwhaever make the opinion of Yarchi
absurd as according opinion, have no prediction
ABOUT MesSiahs birth; but all believe is that God
III send US his dnonted messenger 10 redeem us from
uouoie captivity redemption which shall not alone be
SPIRITUAL bat also temporal inasnuch az tve strct,
adhere 10 the letter OF the prophets who n,edict ,
gathering together of all the children of israel from III
paris Vi Tue world, as IN )cu and 4 and also
an eagerncss to worship the Eternal, bi Go after
the i0Tiner event has taken place That ST. Paul Of
different opinion concerning The disappearance oil lie
hoc', can certainly be argument OF the ,yai,!ity
OF LIS other explanations of the law. Because il Il
T"cio or ought M least to be knolc, that we, Jew
90 rot admit any of the Gospels Epistes as proof
The Hebrew itself docs not show that lie was taken
away alive; tocac means surely take away as dead
In the like manner we find, when Job H. 2l heard of
Tie death of his children, lie said .4ona natht1 Un
ddhdi tncac where it certainly cannot mean that Job
supposed God had taken the children away y;tIopt
their seeing death. We have of Elahu alone positive
proof, that he assembled 10 Heaven toifhom sccinp
deah but OF no other human being, that ever lived
That there are other Rabies, who are not of the
same opinion with Rashi, nobody will DENY; but il
the learned gentleman will only take the trouble TO
examine the Talinud Badly. and Yerusfany he will
On cgc'V point. For have many Siam 1fictnn
namely such Mishna in which the of him who
taught II IS not MENTIONED and accordingly is admitted
10y all kabbes, is mentioBed who disaerees TO
III and NJ must then be conformabe 10 the written Mo-
saIc law, IS no Mishna be nsdercd as valid if il
dsagrecs with any part of the toriHen ic T0cah She
ochtdb-) The iGemarIl is the INTERPRETATION of the
mishna, or rather critical examination of IT, and il
compares the different opinions OF the Rabies among
themselves and with the written law, and every Misbna
whose conSuttondtfV Ito use we'll known pLasel can
not be proved rejected, from that originates TIE cx
pTession RELATE Hictcto keUottey. The Mislua who
was before only taught orally, written down by the
FdSSy Ifn6by Yeto0dGh h0chdioehe because he found
that The learned men grew less among nation after
the many prosecutions they had suffered in tue time of
Hadrian. The Tdirnud Ycrusbaimy was next complied
and long afterwards the Tdlnud Bully by I2ebeenn I'D
Rab 4sht, and finished by their grand children No.
body, who understands tho Talmud, can doubt the GOOD
intention of IFS authors, who spent their whole lives al
mostuPon these good Objects and even for this only they
deserve blessings #, every one who has any feeling
can value the great benefit rendered to the cause of