Let me get this straight, and, I'm going to ignore the strawman.Numar Patru wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 3:04 pm Again, unserious. You've already indicated that you understand what the Talmud is and that not nearly every statement therein is meant to be taken seriously or applied as law.
Just to drill down into how irrelevant to the actual topic at hand some statements in the Talmud are, you're citting Gittin, which is a tractate specifically related to divorce contracts. The whole discussion that even mentions this inflated number of deaths stems from a six-page-long digression having to do with the disposition of land ownership during the Jewish revolt. This digression itself is a digression from the larger main topic of divorce and is relevant only because the status of land ownership during the revolt might determine who received the land in a divorce settlement. This whole subtopic itself seems to have been inserted in the middle of a conversation about the rights of deaf-mutes in divorces.
This is typical of how antisemites "read the Talmud."
Talmud: makes offhand remark about Jesus in the context of a discussion about how long after a meat meal one can drink milk
Antisemite: "The Talmud is obsessed with Jesus!"
Are you saying that I have 1)misrepresented what is written or 2)in any way altered the meaning of what was said?
To be honest, it sounds a lot like the holocaust, rivers of blood, people killed in peculiar ways by the millions.
Now, I'm not saying there isn't some type of gematria involved. But, the number 4,000,000,000 seems like it may be an exaggeration to me.