Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-29
MODERN MORAL|SI FLAYS
BLOOD RITUAL Theory

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inner consciousness, rather than
through the observance OF. laws. and
customs. Orthodox Jews opposed
them on. that very. ground, fearing
that they would undermine the Jew.
.isll, faith.
And as for savagery! They were
crude. enough, but there Is no evil
dence that they were cruel. Their
searchings after knowledge had no
firm basis and no useful methods;
they did not, know what they were
looking for and they did not know
how to 60 about It. The result was
a lore Of no value to anybody and
with little influence on the thought OF
their time OF. any period since. But
there is no more reason for accusing
them than for accusing modern .math.
ematicians specializing about the
fourth dimension, of blood lust.
Yet somehow or other they have
acquired a name for mystery and
fearful rites. The Cabala has long
since ceased to be a force In the
world and those who called them
selves Cabalists exist, only in remote
districts Of Russia and Galicia, But
today all. Russia is talking OF ritual
murder. The. trial or Beifiss may be
only the first incident In a history 40
dreadful as that of Salem In the days
Of witcllcraft. S
The Talmud no longer contains any
thing like q complete record Of the
attitude toward Christ which was
nh no X oric<}o of <hn Tos,,o o. Tho timo
he lived and in the earlier centuries.
after the birth of Christianity. Most
Of the passages offensive to Chris.
tians were long since removed. But
n may find them In the little book
by DR.. Bernhard Pick, called Jesus
in the Talmud." DR.. Pick has been:
at pains to collect these passages In
the interest of history.
They contain a. systematic attempt
to discredit Christ. He Is attacked.
in them at every possible point, from.
his birth to the foundation of the.
faith which lived after. him. He was"
according to the >Talmul, an illegiti.
mate son. IIe%was an evil nan who
broke the Sabbath and tried to ab0l.
ish the distinction between clean and
unclean. He was q lew character. q
who. mingled with. the,
pllblicans and sinner, but cared moth:
ing for the society. of the elite, for,
the .scribes and savaHts. His mir
acleswerc fakes Which he had learn
ed during his sojourn III Egypt from
the magicians Of: that country. All
tllat~was good IN his pllil0sOplfy-.0f,
life was borrowed from the jewish.
lore later collected in the Tallnud.
His conviction fat his trial was just
Would itabe supposed" one passage
comments, "'that q revolutionary had,
Aught in his favor?", Finally. his res
direction did not, happen. His disci.
pies. stole his body. at night from the.
grave and thus gave color to the.
story that he had. come to: life, again.
The controversy over the author.
ship of certain of the sayings. attrib.
uted. to Jesus has continued down to
our own day. Many Jewish COM
follow the Talmud In as
sorting. that the. parallellsm7 between,
sayings and: those attributed
by the Talmud to certain rabbits
shows his, debt, to them rather than
their debt to him. 4.
Indeed, the story that is to be
found In the data of DR.. Picks books
is. the. story Of the reaction among
the respectable and the established
against the radical and the new
through the ages: On a lesser scale.
every age in history has found men
the brin1er of fresh tidi:fgS
In the same way.