The Talmud on Gentiles



So here is a Antisemitic website which tries to prove that the gemara subscribed to the doctrine of Jewish Supremacy. I am sure you have all seen these, there are so many of these on the web.

And here is an Orthodox Jewish website trying to reject these accusations and explain the gemara's statements to make them more palatable. Okay, that's to be expected as well.

Yep, and here is an Orthodox Jewish website trying to prove that the gemara ( as well as other sources) did, in fact, subscribe to the doctrine of Jewish Supremacy. Ever seen that before? No?  

 Well, then here are some highlights: 
 
The Kuzari explains that there are four levels in creation: inanimate, plant, vegetation, and human and above that, in a category all their own, are Jews. For the mystically inclined among us - gentiles are from the three impure kelipos like all forbidden things...

Gemara Bava Basra 10b... R' Yehoshua said, "tzedaka meromem goy" refers to the Jews .. and "v'chesed l'umim chatas" means all the tzedaka and chesed that the goyim do is a cheit for them because they do it only to prolong their rule as it says [verse in Daniel]...

We do not desecrate the Shabbos to save gentiles...

Many meforshim say that "beloved is man for he has been created with tzelem (elokim) is referring to JEWS...Even a Jew who sins is better than one who lacks mitzvos [I.e. a non-Jew] ...

Furthermore, if offered the choice, a Jew would not choose to be on the level of those who lack mitzvos [I.e. non-Jew], just as a human being who is sick and suffers, if given the choice to be a horse or fish or bird, although these all live contentedly without suffering ... would not choose this...

And it only says Jews are G-d's children while on this forum, this thread is just one example, posters mistakenly say that all of humanity are children of G-d. And many meforshim explain "adam" as referring to the Jewish people as was posted earlier which fits with what it says everywhere else in Tanach etc. that Jews are G-d's beloved...

There are numerous maamorei Chazal that says otherwise, that we are morally superior. For example, Yevamos 79a that Jews, by their nature, are rachmonim, baishonim, and gomlei chasadim (compassionate, bashful, and doers of kindness). Rambam quotes this in Hilchos Isurei Bi'ah, 19:17....

 IOW, it's not that they are sub-human, it's that they are merely human while we, in addition to being human, have an extra, Divine dimension.

All of the posters who subscribe to this bigotry on that site are Chabad, one is a head- moderator and another is a shlucha.

So here's a shout out to all you thousands of people who are going to be mekareved by well-meaning Lubavitchers this year.

You will meet lots of wonderful people, beautiful families and even good friends. You will be impressed by their sincerity, their love for life and their joy in religion. You will be jealous and you will want your life to be so rich and so fulfilling and you will desperately follow them and emulate them and adopt their customs and holidays and you will send your kids to their schools and learn sichos with them and dance at hakafos in their shuls.
 
But know that these people, the vast majority of them at least,  are bigoted and ethnocentric and believe in the moral and spiritual superiority of the Jew over everyone else. Yes, there is a minority. These  are the shluchim at college campuses or other places where bigotry is not looked upon well and they tend to subscribe to a watered down version of these views, adopting an apologetic position when possible and trying to interpret their sources in the best possible light, twisting words beyond their basic meanings.
 
Go and be mekareved. But do so with an honest understanding of what you are getting into. Before it is too late.