SIGN THE PETITION
As quoted by Jewish legal scholar Maimonides
Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Rotze'ach 2:11 and the commentary of R. Yosef Karo, Kessef Mishneh
A Jew who killed a righteous gentile is not executed in a court of law as it says (Exodus 21:14) "If a man shall act intentionall against his fellow..." [and a gentile is not considered a fellow] and even more so that he is not executed for killing an unrighteous gentile.
- Gil Student, "Killing Gentiles Is Forbidden" Retrieved 05/35/2020 from
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/student/racism/talmud14.html
* MY NOTE: Judaism apologists will tell you that the above Jewish law does not allow Jews to murder Gentiles, but if they do there is no earthly punishment for it, they are punished in the next life... what is the difference? A law without a penalty is not a law at all
The Noahide laws are spelled out in the Talmudic folios of
Sanhedrin 56a-57b. It is within the Noahide code itself that we find that while
non-Jews are always executed under Noahide Law for theft or murder of a non-Jew
or a Jew, Jews are never executed for stealing from or murdering a non-Jew (it is put as a question but legal scholar Maimonides clears the speculation, Jews are never executed for murdering a non-Jew).
Sanhedrin 57a provides the legal proxy for the theft from and murder of
non-Jews (goys) by Jews. Footnote 34 is of primary importance to this Talmudic
passage because it explains why non-Jews may be robbed and killed. Footnote 34
references Baba Kamma 37b, the section which lays out the principle of
reciprocity. Here we learn that if an Israelite’s cow injures the cow of a
Canaanite, there is no liability, but if the cow of a Canaanite injures the cow
of an Israelite, the Canaanite must pay in full. Footnote 12 explains that this
is because the Canaanite does not accept “Jewish Law”, and therefore s/he
cannot be expected to be protected by it, but of course s/he is expected to pay
the one-way property damages. This is this same logic which is used to
condone murder and theft from non-Jews by Jews.
JEWS MY ROB AND STEAL FROM NON-JEWS (GOYS/CUTHEANS)
Has it not been taught: ‘With respect to robbery —
if one stole or robbed[30] or [seized] a beautiful woman,[31] or
[committed] similar offences,[32] if [these were perpetrated] by one
Cuthean (Goy)[33] against another, [the theft, etc.] must not
be kept, and likewise [the theft] of an Israelite by a Cuthean, but
that of a Cuthean by an Israelite may be retained‘?[34] But if
robbery is a capital offence, should not the Tanna have taught: He incurs a
penalty? — Because the second clause wishes to state, ‘but that of a Cuthean by
an Israelite may be retained,’ therefore the former clause reads, ‘[theft of an
Israelite by a Cuthean] must not be kept.’[35] But where a penalty is
incurred, it is explicitly stated, for the commencing clause teaches: ‘For
murder, whether of a Cuthean by a Cuthean, or of an Israelite by a Cuthean,
punishment is incurred; but of a Cuthean by an Israelite, there is no death
penalty’?[36] – 1962
Soncino Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 57a
FOOTNOTES:
30. Stole (ganab) refers to secret stealing, robbed (gazal),
to stealing by open violence.
31. In war, v. Deut. XXI, 10-14 — a species of robbery. [This is the only
possible and correct rendering of the text, contra Goldschmidt. Cf. Tosef A.Z.]
32. Acts which are not actual robbery, but partake of its nature.
33. ‘Cuthean’ (Samaritan) was here substituted by the censor for the original
goy (heathen).
34. [I.e., though it is forbidden to rob the heathen (v. Yad, Genebah
I, 2; VI, 8), the offence was non-actionable. For reason, v. B. K. (Sonc. ed.)
note on Mishnah 37b.]
35. But actually it is punishable too. [This is merely a survival of old
Semitic tribal law that regarded theft and robbery as a crime against the
state, and consequently punishable by death. V. Muller, D. H., Hammurabi, 88]
36. Thus the Tanna does refer to punishment; since then he omits a reference to
punishment in the clause under discussion, it shows that the heathen is not
executed for robbery. In the whole of this discussion the punishment referred
to is death.
“THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY”
MISHNAH. IN THE CASE OF PRIVATE OWNER’S[9] CATTLE[10]
GORING AN OX CONSECRATED TO THE TEMPLE, OR CONSECRATED CATTLE GORING A
PRIVATE OX, THERE IS NO LIABILITY, FOR IT IS STATED: THE OX OF HIS NEIGHBOUR,[11]
NOT [THAT IS TO SAY] AN OX CONSECRATED TO THE TEMPLE. WHERE AN OX
BELONGING TO AN ISRAELITE HAS GORED AN OX BELONGING TO A CANAANITE, THERE IS NO
LIABILITY,[12] WHEREAS WHERE AN OX BELONGING TO A CANAANITE GORES AN OX
BELONGING TO AN ISRAELITE, WHETHER WHILE TAM OR MU’AD,[13] THE
COMPENSATION IS TO BE MADE IN FULL.[14]- 1962
Soncino Babylonian Talmud, Baba Kamma 37b
FOOTNOTES
9. [Mishnah text: 'of an Israelite'.]
10. Lit., ‘ox’.
11. Ex. XXI, 35.
12. As Canaanites did not recognise the laws of social justice, they did not
impose any liability for damage done by cattle. They could consequently not
claim to be protected by a law they neither recognised nor respected, cf. J. T.
a.l. and Maim. Yad, Niz. Mam. VIII, 5. [In ancient Israel as in the modern
state the legislation regulating the protection of life and property of the
stranger was, as Guttmann. M. (HUCA. III 1 ff.) has shown, on the basis of
reciprocity. Where such reciprocity was not recognised, the stranger
could not claim to enjoy the same protection of the law as the citizen.]
13. I.e., the ox that did the damage.
14. So that they should guard their cattle from doing damage. (Maim. loc. cit.)
No comments:
Post a Comment