The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-06
Interpreting the TnImud.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: NJ.
Gribayedoff in his letters attempts TO prove
the inhumauity OF the Jews and bases all
his charges on "the alb omina0le Talmudic
spirit which perverts the Jews from the cradle
up" NJ. Gribayedoff quotes what he regards as
authoritative anu authentic. But his state
ments arc false and cannot be found rs he
quotes them. Some years ago a countrymano of
NJ. Gribayedoff's-a Russian priest named Luz
tostansky-published o volume of misQuota-
lions from the Taimud. q work which, l have no
doubt, has served N. Gribayedoff we'll. for 1t is
unauestionably his authority for the charges he
has made. That work was characterized as a
pack OF lies" by the late NJ. Gederbaum. then
editor of the Hamelitz a Hebrew paper issued
at St. Petersburg. Lutostansky, to prove his
case. sued his antagonist for defamation of
character. and at the trial that followed it was
consisted OF fictitious and distorted selections
from the Tslmud.
This Is very plain, There is no mention of
Gentle. the Hebrew word ndchriim meaning
strangers. either Jews or nou-Jews. And In
NO way can the passage be made to read. Non
XIV. u. he quotes: "A Jew shall not give to a
dogs. for they are better than the Gentiles.'
This l. untrue. Rashi simply says that which
shall not eat anything that dieth OF itself. unto
the stranger canst thou give It .
IN 4 = eo@meniins. goes on to say that If the meat
be not sold or given away imeat that Is not
kosher LolsanH IL mas ss thrown to the dogs;
that RASH said. THAT dogs are better than
Christians. The injunction to eat kosher ,cleanj
food 10 Biblical, as Is the command to give or
sell tbs unclean 10 the stranger that is In thy
The quotation from Rabbi Edels that " Gen.
tiles are asses" 10 as absdrd az It is untrue. Are
they1 FROM the Schulchan Aruch is quoted:
for tha milk enRenners "A malicious nature in
the Jew This is correct. executing that moth
ing, is said about such nursing ensendering " a
is very simple. The Jew being forbidden to eat
anything not kosher, must not allow his child
eat unclean food. This Is the only reason for the
opinion. and it is in accordance with the divine
S 9mmHsd in as the a saas 81 nSeisr0n %Tnsh ai forb i'd:
any woman. be she, Gentle or not, from nursing
Jewish child, i she . eat clean food; and hence
mothers frequently allowed Christian women to
nurse their Young. Is not The injunction about
est care be taken that the milk a child imbibcs
shall rot contain, the germs Of disease. due TO
the eating OF unclean food? Is there not truth
In the oft.repeated statement that n being has
limb bed good or evil with its MOI her's milk p
SsIs TnSta9 ipa Teg OF ehE@E ssid !, the hs, e be most 81
unfortunate. NJ. Gribayedof.. for a child to
imbibe the noxious germs OF religious and racial
hatred aid intolerance?
who slay Gentlles will enter the fourth palace Of
i uIaNlrN fnNlo 10 v. " tiibt :
DO you know? | do not and I doubt II any ono
does. AS II entering the fourth palace of Para
disc when In the future world were no, sufi-
Client reward. NJ. Gribayedotf goes on 10 quote
from Santedrln, 1872. who Intends to Kill a
beast. but kills a Gentle, snail not be pun
ished." This, | suppose. refers to the world we
are in now. Well, suppose a Gentle kills a jew
Internationally while h~unting-that Is. trying tn
Kill a beast-would you have that GENTLE found
guilty e murder. NJ. Gribayedofff Does the
law of any civilized State provide that killing
without generalization should be regarded "a
murder? Tie passage quoted or rather mis-
quoted simply provides that a jew the passage
being written for Jewsl who may by accident
kill not only. a Gentle. but "Odom" oIebrew
for human being. shall not be considered guilty
of murder. and that view is entertained in
every civilized court OF law.
, To think of i'll In this enlightened age, and
In the columns of the best edited newspaper in
our free land. a Russian scholar attempts TO fan
the fast-dyinR embers OF bivotry and intoler-
ancei And how does he attempt III By acous-
Ing the Jews-the same people who gave the
world its code OF morals and Its great religious
teachers. Moses, CHRIST, and MOham med-hy
accusing them OF observing laws. prepared by
their great rabbi-, permitting murder. They
who received for the world the Divine com
mand, "ThOu shalt not kill" they preaching
and committing murder! How absurd. with the
history of the world before us.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8. JOSEPH LEvESsoN.