by Dreams End » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:37 am
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>First, that Talmud first entered into Judaism during the Captivity, hence the name Babylonian Talmud<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Bablyon yes. captivity no. Almost 1000 years to late (captivity in 6th century <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>b.c.e.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, final redaction of Talmud 1000 years later...redacting 300 years of commentary.) Information on the "two" talmuds below. I'm no expert...only showing that it's easy to find this info. And please don't ANYONE think I've read the talmud. The one on sacred texts is the only public domain translation...and it's only about 1/3 of the total.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud)<br><br> Main articles: Jerusalem Talmud, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]], and [[{{{5}}}]]<br><br>The Gemara here is a synopsis of almost 200 years of analysis of the Mishna in the Academies in Israel. Due to the location of the Academies, the agricultural laws of the Land of Israel are discussed in great detail. It was redacted in the year 350 C.E. by Rav Muna and Rav Yossi in Israel. Together, this Gemara and the Mishnah are known as Talmud Yerushalmi (The Jerusalem Talmud; however, the name is a misnomer, as it was not written in Jerusalem. As such it is also known more accurately as the Palestinian Talmud or The Talmud of the Land of Israel.)<br><br>References to the Yerushalmi are usually not by page (as in the Babylonian Talmud) but by the Mishna which is under discussion. References are therefore in the format of [Tractate chapter:Mishna] (e.g. Berachot 1:2). As the Babylonian Talmud is considered more influential, references to the Yerushalmi are generally prefaced by "Yerushalmi" to clarify their origin.<br><br>The classical commentaries on the Yerushalmi are the P'nei Moshe and the Korban ha-Eidah, which are printed alongside the Talmudic text in most versions of the Yerushalmi.<br>[edit]<br><br>Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud)<br><br>The Gemara here is a synopsis of more than 300 years of analysis of the Mishna in the Babylonian Academies. It was redacted as a formal collection by Rav Ashi and Ravina, two leaders of the Babylonian Jewish community, around the year 550. Rav Ashi actually died in 427 CE, leaving an early version of the Talmud that is no longer extant. Ravina furthered the editorial process well after Rav Ashi's death. Editorial work by the Savoraim or Rabbanan Savoraei (post-Talmudic rabbis), continued on this text for the next 250 years; much of the text did not reach its final form until around 700. (See eras within Jewish law.) The Mishnah and Babylonian Gemara together form the Talmud Bavli (the "Babylonian Talmud"<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud#The_two_Talmuds">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal...wo_Talmuds</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Bit more:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Babylonian Academies<br><br>It was during this period that Babylonia emerged as the great center of religious studies which rivaled Palestine. Between the third and the fifth centuries, Babylonian academies--the future yeshivot--established a method of commentary on the Bible which became the basis for the Babylonian Talmud. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>This tradition, later disseminated by the geonim (heads of the Babylonian academies), was to be accepted by the entire Jewish world. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->Paradoxically perhaps, the sons of a community of which nothing is known prior to the third century, determined the norms and behavior of Jews throughout the world for fifteen centuries. <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Ancient/TheStoryI/Expanding_Diaspora/Babylon.htm">www.myjewishlearning.com/...abylon.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br>Also, please keep in mind that Talmud is two parts. The Mishnah, commentaries on the written law, was first written down around 200 c.e. in Galilee. this was a compilation of an oral tradition extending back 5 or 600 years...and it's always hard to date oral traditions. The written Mishnah is a look at the state of this oral tradition in 200 c.e.<br><br>the Gemara, is commentary on the commentaries. And so comes later. There are two sets...and the Bablylonian, as noted above, is the one that is considered "standard".<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Here's another wikipedia quote about the return from captivity. I don't consider wikipedia infallible...just a place to start.<br><br>Three separate occasions are mentioned (Jeremiah 52:28-30). The first was in the time of Jehoiachin in 597 BCE, when the temple of Jerusalem was partially despoiled, and a number of the leading citizens were removed. After eleven years (in the reign of Zedekiah) a fresh rising of the Judaeans occurred; the city was razed to the ground, and a further deportation ensued. Finally, five years later, Jeremiah records a third captivity. After the overthrow of Babylonia by the Persians, Cyrus gave the Jews permission to return to their native land (537 BCE), and more than forty thousand are said to have availed themselves of the privilege. (See Jehoiakim; Ezra; Nehemiah and Jews.) Previously, the northern tribes had been taken captive by Assyria and never returned; survivors of the Babylonian exile were all that remained of the Children of Israel. The Persians had a different political philosophy of managing conquered territories than the Babylonians or Assyrians. Under the Persians, local personages were put into power to govern the local populace.<br><br>When the Israelites returned home however, they found a mixture of peoples practicing a religion very similar to their own, but not identical to it. Hostility grew up between the returning Jews and the Samaritans, the mixed-blood people of the region, which has continued to the present day. According to the Bible, the Samaritans were foreign peoples, settled into the area by the kings of Assyria, who had partially adopted the Israelite religion; in reality, most of them were probably simply Israelites who had remained behind, and thus had had no part in the sweeping changes of the Israelite religion brought about among the captives. Or perhaps, alternatively; the fierce purity of the Jewish religion and cultural identity of the Babylonian Jews returning from exile, seventy years after their deportation, completely eclipsed the partial faith of the mixed group of Israelite survivors, who had practised paganism for hundreds of years in Israel (including the worship of a golden bull), and who had inter-married with the peoples sent into the territory by the Assyrians (and which was strictly forbidden by Mosaic Torah 'law', and punished by Nehemiah). The hatred and disgust of the Hebrew Judeans for the Samaritans prompted Jesus of Nazareth to later propound the parable of the "good Samaritan".<br>[edit]<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I can only guess that your questions are to support a theory of some Bablylonian influence, or, more likely, actual separate Bablylonian cult that somehow overtakes Judaism and secretly subverted it (at least, I've seen such theories). I highly doubt you'll find much real evidence about that. So far, everything I've read says that information on the Jewish community in Babylon is pretty scant before about 200 c.e. But it's clear that the Talmud comes long after the captivity and, in fact, can only be said to be related in the sense that it was the captivity that created a Jewish community there in the first place.<br><br>Like any religious community, especially one exiled all over the place and lasting thousands of years, there are all different strains, currents, controversies, perspectives, debates, theological differences, etc. I don't claim to know much about all those. <br><br>As to your first question about my "list" of secret organizations. I have no good list. My assumption is that if they are secret I don't know much about them.<br><br>The list I was referring to was an extension of the various forces acting on history. I accepted "secret societies" on that list. I would also add the military/industrial complex and its underground/criminal counterpart to that list. I also am interested in "open conspiracy". That is, one can read records from the Trilateral Commission, Kissinger, etc, where there is some frank (if surely only partial) disclosures of intent and method.<br><br>Notice that the first director of the CIA was Allen Dulles...attorney for Rockefeller. I accept with horror the idea that U.S and British corporations, such as those of the Rockefellers backed the nazi cause to the hilt. So, you have Dulles in the CIA, fronting for "naziism by other means" I suppose. And I believe (doing this from memory due to time) Dulles was pretty central to the wholesale importation of Nazis into the scientific and intelligence communities.<br><br>I don't think much of that would be too controversial to all sides of this particular thread.<br><br>So, part of my list revolves around wealthy industrialists such as Rockefeller and their interaction with Nazi forces and the influence those forces had at the beginning of our postwar conversion to a permanent warfare state. <br><br>How about those "secret" societies. I've seen very little good evidence that can convince me that there is one, overarching "Illuminati" running everything. But I certainly believe in the role of such societies...and I'm imagining the most powerful ones are still secret.<br><br>Masons? P-2 and Gladio is enough to convince me that the Masonic network is used for nasty things. This is not the same as suggesting a nearly omnipotent Masonic conspiracy to rule the world. I simply think history is too much of a chaotic system for such reductionist thinking. But where there's smoke...as they say...and I'd say there's lots of smoke where the Masons are concerned. Since I'm not privy to their secret documents, I don't know how central they are, and how much they act on their own agenda or are used as a convenient network by those with THEIR own agendas. <br><br>And from masonry you get Crowley/Golden Dawn and much of the Western Occult tradition. From Crowley comes Hubbard and Scientology. This tradition also incorporates much of the Blavatsky material, also considered important by the Nazis. From Scientology you also get SRI and you are back to the military/industrial complex...which we can now call the military/industrial/occult complex.<br><br>These associations are not exactly proof, but they are suggestive. What I DON'T do is assume a level of knowledge I don't have. How much influence do these groups really have. How central are they. How often are occult groups, for example, really just psychological experiments by Yale student CIA interns? <br><br>I could keep going. I simply don't know how to point to one person/group and say "they are the ones behind it all." I think alliances may change, newcomers arrive on the scene (surely Bill Gates is part of this in our computer age) and others lose importance. <br><br>Toss in the illegal underworld of drug/weapons/slave/child peddlers and there's a far VASTER arena that no FOIA request (that's the freedom of information act for non-U.S. citizens) could ever touch. Go FOIA Iran-Contra figure Adnan Kashoggi about his ties to John "Men are from Mars" Gray and the beginnings of the 9/11 truth movement. <br><br>I assume that the networks are more complex and also more secret, in some ways, than gets assumed around here. I also assume that anyone who actually exposes secrets that are damaging to this network will end up buried in unhallowed ground, if you know what I mean. Two shots to the head and a nod and a wink from a coroner.<br><br>So sorry if I don't name enough of the "right" names. Not a single reference to Venetians for example. I don't think the "lines of succession" are as clean as that. <br><br>Ultimately, there is very dark, very scary, unbelievable stuff that goes on behind the scenes (sometimes just BARELY behind the scenes). I think it's worse than we imagine, even on this site. Someone on this site remarked on the "Finders" thread that it was the first time they had that experience of understanding that this stuff is real...it's not just a game to play at night in front of a computer screen. I've had that feeling a few times when something indisputable pops up. And that's just the stuff that gets through the filters.<br><br>Oh...and since we're on it, anti, I actually DO believe your story about Anglia, etc. I don't understand all of it...really, I don't understand most of it. Too much "inside baseball" about people whose role in English society I don't even know. I don't buy your "mason-monarch-zionist" version of history, nor does the term zionist in that context have any recognizable meaning for me. <br><br>But since you think I am a Mason...I guess that's no surprise.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>