Talk:February 6, 2006

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(4) Daryl Bradford Smith says that the Khazar converts to Judaism did not embrace the Torah but embraced the Talmud, “a virulent form of Judaism.” He doesn’t understand the relationship between the Torah and the Talmud, obviously, since he then goes on to state that the Talmud is based in Kabbalah (the relationship is the other way around). Again, it is a tradition amongst allot of Orthodox groups that the authority of the Talmud (and the word of the Rabbis) superceeds the authority of the Torah. I would agree, though, Kabbalah is a later invention (though what Daryl may mean here is that hte mystical traditions that hte Kabbalah is based upon inspired some views in the Talmud, such as burning black cat's fur to see 'Ovim).

(5) Daryl Bradford Smith says he spoke with Ray McGovern over the past day or so and that he would be appearing on the radio show again. Ray McGovern has yet to reappear on the show. It appears McGovern would like to distance himself from obvious Jew-hatred. I would rather you put "obvious Jew-hatred" in quotation marks with the word This at the biggining. This may be the feeling of McGovern, but it is not Smith's intention (it is most likely anti-Semitism in an abstract, memetic sense, self-perpetuating urban legends which appeal to the paranoia people feel amongst commited Jews).