Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-02
TALMUD TEACHES
MANS EQUALITY

and moral excellence, and with the
greatest force and enthusiasm exalting
the principles of purity and chastity,
truth and honesty, humility and for
bearance, patience and resignati tion, dis
Interested benevoence and goodness.
and OF universal philanthropy and toll
Grafton, regulating the conduct and ac-
tiOns OF men In all their relations of life
as children of heaven and inhabitants
of earth.
THE first question asked in the next
world is, Have you dealt honestly?
An offense against man is worse than
sin against God.
THE greatest punishment is in store
for commercial immortality.
The greatest of heroes is he who
turns an enemy into friend.
Show Kindness to foe, even In pref
erence TO a friend, and so conquer
yourself.
BE humble! God first revealed him
self to Moses from lowly thorn bush.
BE rather Of those who are cursed
or prosecuted than Of those who curse
or persecute.
Cheerful Under Suffering
"The true friends Of God are those
VINO are prosecuted and do not retail
late, those who receive an offense in
silence, those who do good from pure
love of God and those who are cheerful
under suffering
NO book can condemn in stronger
language the sinfuness of sin. The
enormity is even exaggerated of such
popular sins as pride, slander, lying,
cheating, anger, hatred and revenge.
The proud man Is an atheist
The slanderer kills three persons.
"Usurers are compared to murderers.
Hurting another's feelings or put
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ding his blood.
THE sin of hating fellow man is as
great as the sins of ldolatry, adultery
and murder combined. Anger is idol
airy; once yield to your passions and
you know not where they will lead
you to.
The highest ideal Of human conduct
is to be attained by striving to initiate
Gods loving ways; as he is pure and
merciful, good and kind even to his en-
emies, so be thou.
Idle Piety Despised
'The merit of religion consists in
tactive goodness; idle piety is despised.
Education is important only be-
cause and when it leads to good deeds.
''The highest aim should be to act in
harmony with Gods will out of pure
love of God, and without any expecta-
ton of a reward.
"The absolute equality of all men is
the basis of Talmudic Jurisprudence
and ethics.
Morality and love are considered the
essence of religion.
"Active kindness is the beginning and
end of the Jewish law. Charity is the
strongest thing on earth-stronger even
than all-conquering death.
THE laws of charity and morality in
the Talmud recognize no distinction
i of race or creed.
1.-THE toleration of the rabbis can
scarcely be surpassed. No need for a
gentle to become a proselyte to be
| happy here or hereafter!
EVERY good man is called a priest
of Cod and ...
The pious men of every race
Will have their share of future grace
No Original Sin
1.-The Talmud does not believe in
original sin. The soul enters the body
absolutely pure, and it should be mans
aim to restore 1t as pure.
1.-THE Talmud does not believe in
everlasting punishment nor in per-
sonal DEVIL Satan is not without us.
but within us, and Identical with our
passions.
1.-The rabbis were the greatest of op-
timists; they did not mourn a golden
past, but were sure of glorious future.
when all mankind will recognize the
Fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of men.
1.-The Talmud is valuable as book of
history. 1t opens to us the very heart
of the Jewish people to give us an IN
sight into the lives of the nations the
Jews came into contact with. Further
every subject that occupied the minds
of the ancients in the fields of science
and literature finds place in the store
house of the Talmud, which accordingly
shows it's encyclopaedia character"
Having referred to the internal ar
rangements and to the growth and de-
velopment of the Talmud till 1t was f1n-
ally edited at the end of the sixth CEN
| tury DR.. Myers spoke of the rabbis,
the builders of the Talmud and of
| their schools.
Education, the rabbis' passion, and
honored above all things, was not to
be monopolized by any class, but should
be universal" he said. Education was
Most Rabbs Were Artisans
"Most of the rabbis were poor arti-
sans working with their hands for scant
bread whilst they enlarged Israers
intellectual and spiritual Kingdoms.
Labor, manual labor, was held in
the highest esteem, considered to con-
fer honor upon the laborer. Engage in
the most menial position rather than
be dependent on others.
"In the schools of the rabbis free
speech and discussion prevailed and
not even a miracle could silence the
sovereign voice of reason.
1.-THE Talmud natural organic de-
velopment of the Hebrew Bible, offers
moreover valuable commentary to the
New Testament, written in hotbed of
rabbinism, and showing analogies on
almost every page of doctrines and
ethics as well as of words and phrases.
Koran Based on TaImud
"The Koran again is chiefly based
upon Talmudic teachings adapted to
the requirements of the children of
the desert.
Judaism, Christianity and Moham-
mechanism represented by their text
books the Talmud, the New Testa-
ment and the Koran respectively are
| typified in the three rings of Lessing's
| famous apologize in Nathan the Wise.
"If Jews, Christians and Mohamme-
dams could only have known how much
they possessed in common which they
equally valued and revered, none of the