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Many in the west believe that Judaism is just Christianity without the New Testament and therefore see the two as

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compatible sister religions. This is wrong. Judaism as we see it today is far more than just the Old Testament. All

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branches of Judaism that exist today with the exception of the minuscule Kerites act are part of what is called

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rabbitic Judaism. It was founded in 70 AD following the destruction of the second temple. What makes rabbitic

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Judaism unique is its rabbitic tradition conserved in the Talmud, a series of teachings and rulings which were

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developed up until 500 AD. Rabbitic Judaism's uniqueness is best explained by one of its own stories in the Talmud

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known as the oven of Aknai. In it, various rabbis are arguing over what kind of ovens were seen as pure. Rabbi

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Elizer argued for one kind of oven, but the majority disagreed. Elizer went so far as to call forth miracles to

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validate his point. But the other rabbis refused to accept supernatural evidence in [music] what they considered a legal

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debate. Eventually, God himself through a divine voice announces that Rabbi Elizer is correct. But the majority of

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rabbis still refused and argued against God, claiming the Torah is on earth, not

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in heaven. Therefore, human rabbis are responsible for its interpretation through their own logic and consensus,

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not God. God conceds, claiming, "My children have defeated me." And the precedent is set that human rabbis for

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majority opinion are the final interpreters of the law, not the lawgiver. This is rabbitic Judaism.

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Rabbitic Judaism does not see God in the same way Christians do. In Christianity, there's a massive distinction between the letter of the law and the spirit of

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the law. But in rabbitic Judaism, the letter of the law is the spirit of the law. If a rabbi finds what we would call

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a loophole, then that loophole was always intended. As a result, Christianity and rabbitic Judaism can't

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even call upon their shared foundation in the Old Testament because later rabbis have reinterpreted the Old Testament in ways unrecognizable through

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a Christian lens. For example, the Old Testament repeatedly and strongly condemns any [music] attempt at sorcery,

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necromancy, the likes. The Talmud agrees it's wrong and yet is filled with rabbis doing exactly that. Raising the dead,

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creating golems, etc. Why is this permissible? Because they found a quote creative loophole or exception. This is

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made even clearer by the Talmudic view of Jesus. It claims a necromancer rabbi known as Ankulos summoned the spirit of

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Jesus which reveals that he is being eternally tortured in the afterlife by burning in excrement. His sin he mocked

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the teachings of the rabbis. To mock the teachings of the rabbis in rabbitic Judaism is comparable to blasphemy of

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the Holy Spirit in Christianity. The Talmud then goes on to talk about Jesus's mother, Mary, calling her a harlot who slept around, who then

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[music] made up lies to explain her pregnancy. And the Talmud shows incredible enmity towards Christians at times. But why? There are two reasons.

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First, Christians are a rival claimant to the legacy of Israel and God's covenant. According to the rabbis, Christians are attempting to steal their

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birthight, which they see as belonging to them through bloodline. Secondly, the Romans were the ones who caused the great diaspora and destroyed their

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second temple, making them their greatest enemy. When the Roman Empire was Christianized, it combined their two

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most hated foes. Interestingly, all of Western civilization sees itself as the successor of the Christian Romans, and rabbitic Judaism seems to agree.