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JUDAISM DISCOVERED 467 MICHAEL HOFFMAN
... The Jewish people are still in exile
until the coming of Moshiach even while
they are in Eretz Yisroel, and this is not a
redemption and not the beginning of a redemption...
Regarding this non-Jew, today
he shows you a smiling face for some political
consideration and within (his heart)
he lays plots. We must daven to Hashem
that we may come in peace out of all this,
Chazal have already taught us, "The voice
is the voice of Yaakov and the hands are the
hands of Eisav."
"The voice is the voice of Yaakov but the hands are the hands of Eisav"
—Statement by Rabbi Eliezer Shach on gentiles seeking peace with Judaics
"Eretz Yisroel," in Michtavim uMaamarim (1987), volume one, ("letters")
The status of the gentile in the Oral Law of Judaism as bequeathed to
the Tanna'im, and committed to writing and institutionalized in the
formative Tannaitic period, are among the most hateful and homicidal in all
of the sacred rabbinic halakha. Much of the extreme contempt for gentiles
which Judaism imparts emanates from these foundational texts. In
Jerusalem in 1975, Prof. Y. Cohen of Ben-Gurion University published a
remarkable study, The Status of the Gentile in Jewish Law of the Tannaite
Era: