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9. ANIMALS
In Zohar, II, (64b) it says: ‘...People who worship idols, and who are
called cow and ass, as it is written: I have a cow and an ass...’
Rabbi Bechai, in his book Kad Hakkemach, ch. I, beginning with the
word Geulah - redemption - referring to Psalm 80, v.13: The boar out of
the wood doth waste it, says: ‘The letter ain is dropped [suspended] the
same as these worshippers are followers of him who was suspended.’
Buxtorf (Lex.) says: ‘By wild pig the author here means the Christians who
eat pork and, like pigs, have destroyed the vineyard of Israel, the City of
Jerusalem, and who believe in the ‘suspended’ Christ. Else the letter ain is
dropped in this word because they, as worshippers of Christ who was
hanged, are also dropped.’
Rabbi Edels, in commenting on Kethuboth (110b) says: ‘The Psalmist
compares the Akum to the unclean beast in the woods.’
10. WORSE THAN ANIMALS
Rabbi Schelomo Iarchi (Raschi), famous Jewish commentator, explaining
the law of Moses (Deuter. XIV, 21) forbidding the eating of meat of
wounded animals, but which must be given to the ‘stranger in thy gates,’ or
which, according to Exodus (XXII, 30) is to be thrown to the dogs, has
this to say: ‘...for he is like a dog. Are we to take to word ‘dog’ here
literally? By no means. For the text in speaking of dead bodies says, Or
thou mayest sell it to an alien. This applies much more to the meat of
wounded animals, for which it is permitted to accept payment. Why
therefore does the Scripture say it may be thrown to ‘dogs?’ In order to
teach you that a dog is to be more respected than the Nokhri.’
11. THEY PROPAGATE LIKE BEASTS
In the Sanhedrin (74b) Tosephoth, it says: ‘The sexual intercourse of a
Goi is like that of a beast.’
And in Kethuboth (3b) it says: ‘The seed of a Goi is worth the same as
that of a beast.’
Hence it is to be inferred that Christian marriage is not true marriage.
In Kidduschim (68a), it says: ‘...How do we know this? Rabbi Huna says:
You can read: Remain here with the ass, that is, with a people like an ass.
Hence it appears that they are not capable of contracting marriage.’
And in Eben Haezer (44, 8): ‘If a Jew enters into marriage with an Akum
(Christian), or with his servant, the marriage is null. For they are not
capable of entering into matrimony. Likewise if an Akum or a servant
enter into matrimony with a Jew, the marriage is null.’
In Zohar (II, 64b) it says: ‘Rabbi Abba says: If only idolaters alone had
sexual intercourse, the world would not continue to exist. Hence we are
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