First of all, most of the Jews I know and associate with do not even believe that any such person as Yéshu haNotzri ever existed. It’s pretty difficult to “reject” the figment of someone’s imagination.
I don’t believe in Santa Claus; the Easter bunny; the tooth fairy; or any other of the xian created lies that they tell their children every day. Do I reject them? How can I? They are not real; they are the figments of someone’s imagination.
If someone hands me a gift, I have two choices: accept it or reject it. Yet that gift is something tangible right there in my sight. How precisely does someone accept or reject something which is not real?
There are two different Talmudiym: Talmud Y’rushalmi and Talmud Bavli. Although there are 5 -7 entirely different people, from entirely different time periods, which have the name Yéshu, neither Talmud ever mentions or even glosses any such person as Yéshu HaNotzri.
The one killed for Sorcery lived in the Second Century BCE over one hundred years before your alleged man-god was even born.
The one born from the illicit union between the hair dresser and the Roman soldier lived just before 200 CE. And this story is not even found in either Talmud.
These are different people who lived at different times with entirely different stories.
The fact of the matter is that none of the people who tend to regurgitate this anti-Semitic, xian propaganda even have the first clue how to read what is actually written.
How do you know that the Romans of the late-Fourth Century CE, who invented xianity, did not use these differing stories of different people from different times to help create your man-god?
After all, historically speaking, most of the historical documents relating xianities history date from the Fifth – Ninth Centuries CE. There are precisely zero documents of Constantine’s lifetime contemporary with his lifetime. That is very strange because there are over 2 dozen secular and Government documents contemporary with Julius Caesar who lived nearly 400 years before Constantine. There are dozens through hundreds of surviving records of every Roman Emperor, contemporary with their lifetimes, yet the oldest records of Constantine are from more than 100 years after his death. In the ten years I worked in the field of Papyrology, I learned that this was a well-documented fact.
The fact of the matter is that xianity prior to 380 CE is a complete total historical vacuum. And everything pointing to it having a history prior to that is found in church records, mostly from 650 – 900 CE.
Most xians don’t even know that the 27 books they call the new testament have only been such for less than 500 years. Prior to that “Revelation/Apocylpse” was not part of it; 2nd Peter was not part of it; 6 of the “Pauline Epistles” were not part of it. Yet “The Shepherd of Hermas,” and “The Epistle of Barnabas” were part of it.
The current 27 books were decided at the Council of Trent on April 8th 1546 CE by the Roman Catholic Church; and for Protestants – The French Confession of Faith 1559 CE; The Belgic Confession of 1561 CE; and the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1647 CE.
To date there are over 5,830 Greek manuscripts of what are now considered the 27 canonical books of the xian new testament. There is not a single one of them that have not been tampered with by a so-called “corrector” (many of the larger codices have more than 20 “correctors”).
What precisely were they correcting?
Well if you take a good look at the manuscript history you will discover that the “church” changed the contents of the “new testament” more often than they changed their underwear. Between 500 – 1000 CE manuscripts came in spurts. Every time the church came up with a new doctrine, they changed the “new testament” to fit their new doctrine.
It is such a garbled mess, that if you took every single manuscript in existence and laid them side by side you could create 7 entirely different “new testaments.”
Jews have believed in, and have been doing exactly the same thing for 3,500 years. Xianity, which has existed in some form or another for 1,634 years, has not remained consistent in its belief system for even one entire century throughout its existence. If it had, why are there over 40,000 denominations of xianity today, who all have different belief systems? The only thing that any of them seem to share in common is the belief in Yéshu haNotzri, a fictional character.
As far as the original post, Y’sha’yahu 65 clears that up in its entirety just a few verses earlier. But I will address that in another post.
