Rabbi Daniel Lapin Ep 309 | How Candace Owens Defames The Talmud--And Now: The Truth
A blistering rebuttal to recent claims about Jewish texts and history. The show unpacks a discredited 19th century fraud used to smear the Talmud. Listeners get a primer on what the Talmud and Mishnah actually are and how translations can mislead. The conversation also examines Jewish political diversity and why emotion often overrules facts.
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Emotion Over Facts Fuels Influence
- Candace Owens spreads anti-Jewish claims despite obvious factual errors about Israel and Jerusalem.
- Rabbi Daniel Lapin highlights that feelings, not facts, help her retain a following.
Behavior, Not Texts, Reveals Faith
- Judging a faith by isolated texts misunderstands both the culture and the behavior of adherents.
- Rabbi Daniel Lapin argues behavior, not scripture alone, often reveals a religion's social impact.
Don't Judge Texts From Surface Reading
- Avoid judging complex religious texts solely via translations if you lack cultural context.
- Seek immersion or expert study before drawing conclusions about dense religious works.
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Intro
00:00 • 36sec
Candace Owens' Controversial Claims
00:36 • 2min
Falsehood About Jerusalem's Arab Quarter
02:22 • 3min
Jews, Politics, and Stereotypes
05:20 • 5min
Owens' Attack on the Talmud
10:29 • 2min
Why Translations Mislead
12:40 • 5min
August Rohling's Discredited Book
17:31 • 2min
The Rohling–Bloch Challenge
19:37 • 3min
What the Talmud Is
22:43 • 8min
Compilation into Mishnah and Talmud
30:46 • 6min
Explaining 'Don't Cook Goat In Milk'
37:09 • 8min
Spiritual Reasons for Dietary Laws
45:06 • 4min
Why People Follow Nonsense
49:18 • 4min
Outro
52:58 • 5sec
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I am Islamophobic, not because of the brutal descriptions and bloodthirsty directives easily found in the Koran, but because terrorists of the Islamic faith have perpetrated thousands of attacks that have killed tens of thousands of innocent victims since the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th, 2001. In other words, it is not words in holy books that tell us about a faith, it is the behavior of its adherents. I am willing to acknowledge that as an outsider, I don't understand the full implications of ancient texts. But I do understand murderous behavior. Candace Owens ignores the reality that nobody walking the streets of Rome, London, or Sydney, need fear being knifed or shot by a briefcase-wielding Jewish accountant. Instead, she focuses on, not Jewish holy texts, no, on a discredited book written by a 19th century anti-Semitic academic fraud whose book tells of horrors in Jewish holy texts but which in fact do not exist. What is the Talmud? What happened to Candace Owens' hero, August Rohling. How are the Five Books of Moses linked to the Talmud? Why does the Torah repeat a strange law three times? If you would like a chance of a free personal coaching session with the rabbi, see this https://rabbidaniellapin.com/coaching/ What do the laws of thermodynamics have to do with understanding the Talmud?
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