Posted on 12/06/2014 7:49:48 PM PST by Phinneous
A light unto nations. In the spirit of the recent Dennis Prager posts on the Ten Commandments, an audio class on Jewish impact on the World. A fascinating anthropological-like contrasting of world history against Jewish History. It's long-ish but highly informative on how the good old (ancient) days weren't so good without the Ten Commandments. Hate the civil society? Blame the Joooooooooossssss!
All right, but apart from that, what have the Jews ever done for us?
I always found it interesting how the same group that gave us the backbone of capitalism - investment, finance, banking - also gave us communism.
Well. The jooos have not only contributed mightily to our lives in this workd — they’ve helped humanity greatly in preparing for good lives in the next life too “Salvation is of the Jews. ...”
But other then this world and the next, the jooos havent contributed much.
I believe Rabbi Spiro comments on that. Come on, Shabbos just ended, everyone grab your headphones and your dish soap.
A whole lot of Nobel Prizes.
Theory of relativity.
The Torah / Old Testament.
We Jews gave Yeshua to the world. Those that worship Him are worshiping a Jew. Merry Christmas. You’re welcome.
the Torah/”Old Testament” (Hebrew Scriptures)/and the “New Testament” (Greek Scripures)
dfwgator’s line there was a takeoff from the movie “The Life of Brian”.
Engels and Marx, both German. Funny how people forget that Germany gave us communism. And their Lenin stunt in WWI gave us the misery of the USSR.
Matter of fact, a totally ‘gentile’ group waded ashore at Plymouth Colony with “community” riding on their backs. Governor William Bradford attributed the ‘starving winter’ to the colony having had a form of socialism forced upon them by their financial backers.
In his words, “This community was nearly our undoing.” He used ‘community’ as we would used ‘communism’ or ‘socialism’.
The argument between the individual and the collective really came into serious discussion and societal trail in America, and Bradford accurately described the options and the consequences of those options.
Another FReeper authored “Shemitta, For The Land Is Mine” and posted it on the internet. It is an interesting look at Old Testament on land ownership/management and the urban/rural relationship in terms of long term land productivity and societal survival.
These issues far predate the Russian and German Jewish migration into America.
The earliest Jewish communities were in Neu Amsterdam (Stuyvesant's era) and in Savannah. Those were not socialism impaired.
“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations ...They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”- John Adams
Well, the idea might go back to Plato, so it is not an innovation, and Christians practiced a true form of "Communism" in the sense that they freely shared all that they had, but this was a matter of free-choice, and everyone was expected to do their part. It was not a practice based on resentment and entitlement.
Communism as Marx created it was merely a system of envy and thievery that has always appealed to the trash of every race, whether Greek or Jew, Barbarian or Civilized. Russia in particular is a sort of trash bin of humanity, attracting the worst of everywhere into its Babylon. Today they are still at their old games, but there aren't any Jews running things over there anymore. Same thing with the Chicoms or other dictatorships of the world.
Great conservative talk radio, example, Mark Levin.
Marx was born a Jew. His father "converted" to Christianity for business reasons.
The lineage from his father (converted to avoid persecution) and his mother (Jewish) would state otherwise.
Germany has been a boiling pot of envy for a long time. Their language has multiple words for the various forms of it, and they have customs such as mounting "envy heads" over their doorways to scare it away. Envy leads to warfare, which leads to brilliance increasing in concentration in the surviving population.
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