Thursday, 17 June 2010

Protestant reformer Martin Luther cracks a funny about the Talmud



"Here on our church in Wittenberg a sow is sculpted in stone. Young pigs and Jews lie suckling under her. Behind the sow a rabbi is bent over the sow, lifting up her right leg, holding her tail high and looking intensely under her tail and into her Talmud, as though he were reading something acute or extraordinary, which is certainly where they get their Shemhamphoras.*"
Source page 194

*One of the 72 names of God
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ì Judensau (Jewish sow) sculpture. Many more examples, as old the 13th century here


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