Texas Christians Protest Chabad’s Hanukkah

For Immediate Release

Frisco, Texas, December 16, 2014 — Friends of Michael Hoffman, a scholar who has written extensively on the dark side of Judaism, held a demonstration on Hanukkah Eve at a Chabad Lubavitch menorah lighting event and at the home of a prominent Chabad rabbi.

Chabad-Lubvitch is the most politically connected, wealthy and powerful Orthodox Judaic group in America, often consulted by Presidents and “family values” Republican politicians and office-holders. Chabad is a radical Zionist group which termed Baruch Goldstein, the mass murderer of 40 Palestinians, a “Tzaddik” (saint). In the Tanya, Chabad’s canonical text, all gentiles are declared to be super-abundant trash. This is Chabad’s view of Arab people in particular.

The American media consistently report on Chabad in the most cosmetic and friendly terms; seldom giving any hint of its racism and hatred.

Concerning Hanukkah, Hoffman says, “It’s a Talmudic festival of Judaic self-worship presented as a Biblical commemoration of the Maccabees. John 10:22-23 refers to the Feast of the Dedication which celebrates the rededication of the Israelite temple in December 164 B.C., after its desecration by the pagan ruler Antiochus.” According to Hoffman, “1 Macc. 1:41-59 shows that, like the rabbis of our time, King Antiochus forbade the true worship of Yahweh and the correct use of the Scriptures. The attendance of Jesus at the Feast of the Dedication in no way implicated him in the perverted Talmudic Hanukkah, which came centuries later and which is dedicated to Judaic idolatry of themselves in defiance of Yahweh. Judaism mimics the religion of the Bible. It has a Moses, a Noah, and an 8 day festival. But these are not the Biblical Moses or Noah or 8 day festival,” Hoffman concluded. 

At Chabad’s “giant menorah lighting” staged Dec. 16 at the Frisco Heritage Center, local Christian activist Mickey Henry and associates distributed flyers on the true nature of Orthodox Judaism, contrary to the fantasies about Judaism promulgated by Protestant fundamentalists, neocon Catholics and the corporate media. Mr. Henry reports that “Judaics from all over the Dallas metroplex were there.” He and his group also “distributed the flyer to 24 houses on the rabbi’s street, including the rabbi’s...house itself.”

The media were contacted concerning the protest but complete suppression of all news concerning the counter-event seems to be the order of the day. Mr. Hoffman stated, “It is essential to the Talmudic power structure in the U.S. that news of a Christian educational movement to tell the truth about Judaism and its Hanukkah should be censored, lest it grow by leaps and bounds. May God richly bless Mickey Henry and his cohort. I hope many other Christians throughout our nation will emulate his fine example.”

The flyer disseminated by Henry’s group is available as a pdf file for copying and distribution — see this link. It also reproduced below. 

Mr. Henry can be contacted at: christiansforconversionofjewsATgmail.com 

(substitute @ for AT in the preceding address)

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 Does the Talmud Agree with Moses? 

Alexander McCaul, in his book The Talmud Tested (alternative title, The Old Paths), answered this question with a resounding, “No!” McCaul examined 40-odd topics, comparing the teachings of Moses with the teachings of the rabbis. In each case, he found the rabbis to be at odds with the authoritative written Torah of G-d. He then compared the teaching of the Christian New Testament on these same topics and found total agreement. 

Christianity, properly understood, does not do away with the Law of Moses (see Greg Bahnsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics). Through the grace and righteousness applied to us through the sacrifice of the True Passover Lamb, Jesus the Messiah, the Law’s just punishment for sin has been satisfied. But the Law of Moses still applies as the rule of life for all Christians (see R.J. Rushdoony’s The Institutes of Biblical Law). Just as McCaul made clear, the New Testament is the correct expositor of Moses! 

The prophet Isaiah foretold that Messiah must suffer for our sins: 

Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. ~ Isaiah 53:4-6 

The most famous student of Rabbi Gamaliel proclaimed this good news to the Jews of his day: 

“And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that G-d has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ “

As for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and SURE blessings OF DAVID.’ “Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.’ 

“For David, after he had served the purpose of G-d in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay; but He whom G-d raised did not undergo decay. “Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses. “Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you: 

‘BEHOLD, YOU SCOFFERS, AND MARVEL, AND PERISH; FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHING A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE, THOUGH SOMEONE SHOULD DESCRIBE IT TO YOU.’” ~ Acts 13:32-41 We share this Good News with you out of a concern for your souls and a genuine desire to glorify  God. As Michael Hoffman has shown in his book, Judaism’s Strange Gods, the Talmud repeatedly blasphemes Jesus the Messiah, calling Him the idolatrous (Sotah 47a, Sanhedrin 107b) bastard son (Kallah 51a) of a whore (Sanhedrin 106a) who practiced sorcery (Sanhedrin 43a) and is currently boiling in excrement (Gittin 57a), and treats Gentiles as refuse (Kerithoth 6b, Yebamoth 98a, Sanhedrin 58b, etc.). In spite of this, we reach out to you, desiring that you should bring glory to G-d in belief and action. Isaiah taught that Messiah would be a light to the Gentiles (Isaiah 11:10, 42:6, and 49:6). We beg you, share in that light with us: set aside Talmudic blasphemies against Jesus the Messiah, repent and trust in Him for the remission of your sins, and live life in submission to His Lordship through His Law. 

North Texas Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews 

Mickey Henry: ChristiansForConversionOfJewsATgmail.com 

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Also see: As a Symbol of Hanukkah, Obama Opens the Door to Communist Cuba

Book review: The Talmud Tested, and Found Wanting

Book Review 

Alexander McCaul’s “The Talmud Tested”

Reviewed by Mickey Henry

TribalTheocrat.com

The Talmud Tested, and Found Wanting

“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.”  Jeremiah 6:16 (KJV)

Alexander McCaul’s The Talmud Tested, a book originally published in the 19th century under the title The Old Paths, Or The Talmud Tested By Scripture; Being A Comparison Of The Principles And Doctrines Of Modern Judaism With The Religion Of Moses And The Prophets, has recently been republished by Independent History & Research with an all new introduction by Christendom’s foremost living scholar of rabbinic Judaism, Michael Hoffman.  This consistently Christian critique of Judaism is a very important work of scholarship in a field that, with the exception of Hoffman and a handful of others, has been almost entirely neglected by the modern Church.

Style and Divisibility of the Book

The chapters comprising the contents of The Talmud Tested were originally written by McCaul as a series of 60 individual weekly installments.  In each installment, a particular topic is selected and dissected in a formulaic manner:
1. The topic is introduced.
2. The position of modern Judaism is detailed from authoritative Judaic sources.
3. The position of the Old Testament is stated.
4. The position of Judaism is shown to be in violation of the Old Testament.
5. The position of the New Testament is stated, and shown to be in agreement with the Old.
6. The installment is summarized, and the superiority of Christianity as the proper interpreter of the Old Testament is further established.

The book is topical or episodic in nature, and the reader may choose to interact with as little or as much of the book as he chooses, generally without regard to order.  At nearly 700 pages, this tome is outwardly intimidating to the slow reader or the novice, but in actuality is effortlessly divisible without loss of comprehension.  My suggestion:  read Hoffman’s introduction and the first two chapters, then read as few or as many of the topics as interest you, and finish with the summary and restatement of the core argument in the final chapter.

Stylistically, even though this book was written at a time known for its stilted language, the weekly installments making up its chapters were originally employed as missionary tracts for general consumption. Its scholarship is considerable, but McCaul is nevertheless eminently readable.

Topics Covered by the Book

The following is a list of topics covered in The Talmud Tested (a few of the topics are discussed in multiple installments):
1. Rabbinism not a Safe Way of Salvation
2. Implicit Faith not due to the Rabbis
3. Rabbinic Injustice to Women, Slaves, and Gentiles
4. Rabbinic Intolerance towards other Nations
5. Talmudic Intolerance contrasted with the Charity of the Bible
6. Compulsory Conversion of the Gentiles
7. The Feast of Purim
8. Rabbinic Contempt for the Sons of Noah
9. Christians cannot be reckoned amongst the “Pious of the Nations of the World”
10. Rabbinic Washing of Hands
11. Rabbinic Artifices respecting Leaven at the Passover
12. The Passover a Type of Future Deliverance
13. Severity of the Rabbinic Ordinances
14. Severity and Artifice
15. Sabbath Mixture
16. Intolerance of Rabbinic Prayers
17. Rabbinic Legends
18. Rabbinic Magic
19. Astrology
20. Amulets
21. Charms
22. Sabbatic Laws
23. Fast for the Destruction of the Temple
24. Rabbinic Excommunication
25. New Year’s Day
26. Justification
27. Day of Atonement
28. Feast of Tabernacles
29. Prayers for the Dead
30. Almsgiving
31. Priests and Levites
32. Rabbinic Ideas of the Deity
33. Title of Rabbi
34. Sanhedrin
35. Contempt for the Female Character
36. Polygamy
37. Divorce
38. Rabbinic Laws concerning Meat
39. The Birth of Messiah
40. Slaughtering of Meat
41. Laws concerning Meat with Milk
42. Rabbinism oppressive to the Poor
43. Gentile Wine
44. Mourning for the Dead
45. Dispensation from an Oath
46. Meritoriousness of Circumcision
47. Cruelty to the Unlearned

A “Safe” Book on Judaism

McCaul wrote with a missionary intent:  to draw the Judaic peoples away from the yoke of rabbinic oppression and works righteousness to salvation in Jesus Christ.  The Talmud Tested is frank and unrelenting in its assessment of the Talmud and the other authoritative texts of Judaism, but McCaul treats the Judaic peoples themselves with charity.   There is nothing in this book similar to Old Right “Jew hate”, and that makes it an ideal candidate for a church library, a homeschool course on comparative religions, or for those who, due to the almost universal sentimentalism of our age, find such blistering polemics unattractive.

It’s refreshing to read a book critical of Judaism that does not assent to its central lie:  the fiction that modern Judaism is the religion of the Old Testament.  For Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but is the evolution of the Pharisaic system as authoritatively stipulated by the Talmud.  When reading authors like Douglas Reed, it is difficult to take them seriously as astute critics of Judaism when they openly subscribe to its biggest lie.  McCaul wrote with utter fidelity to the New Testament as well as the Old; a claim that may only rightly be made of a handful of others, such as Hoffman, Elizabeth Dilling, and Johann Andreas Eisenmenger.

Christianity Better Comprehended

The study of comparative religion has the rewarding effect of drawing out the distinctions in one’s own beliefs.  I found McCaul to be an able and clear-minded theologian, and would recommend reading The Talmud Tested on the basis of Christian studies alone.  But because modern Judaism is the evolution of Phariseeism, studying Judaism in particular has an illuminating effect on many New Testament passages.  The difficult “you’ve heard it said” passages of the Sermon on Mount (Matthew 5) are immediately clarified when you realized that Christ was attacking specific Pharisaic perversions of God’s Law that denied the role of the Law in the life of the mind and turned sanctification into nothing but a rigid, entirely externalized observation of a set of rules.  I found especially instructive McCaul’s explanation of the parable of the Good Samaritan as a pointed condemnation of the Pharisaic oral law teaching that a Jew may do nothing to save the life of a Gentile in distress.

Why Purchase this Edition?

A moment’s search will quickly reveal that other facsimiles of this book are available, so why purchase this edition?  The reasons are threefold:

1. Independent History & Research, Hoffman’s imprint, was painstaking in the preparation of this reprint.  A fine original was used as the source, and professionally scanned.  There are no missing or misaligned pages, no underlining or margin notes, no stains or unintelligible words.  The print is crisp and easily readable.

2. Hoffman wrote an excellent 20-page introduction to this edition.  I found the context he provided very helpful.  Further, an extensive extract from a historical work detailing McCaul’s labors with the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews provides much useful background.

3. Christendom has all but forgotten its scholars.  Purchasing this edition supports the continued work of Michael Hoffman.

The Bottom Line:

Highly recommended.  Buy it from Independent History & Research, read it, and purchase additional copies to pass on to your church elders and other serious Christians.

The Talmud Tested may be purchased directly from Independent History and Research here:

http://revisionisthistorystore.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-talmud-tested-by-professor-of.html

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