Thank you Tolstoy

[Yaakov Mendel]

The great Russian writer Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was not Jewish. He described himself as a humanist. He never was a communist. He did not support the Russian empire and the regime of Tsars. As a result, the secret police was watching him and had his books taken from the printer several times.
He wrote the following beautiful text about Jews :

" What is a Jew? This question is not as strange as it may seem at first glance. Let’s examine this free creature that was insulated and oppressed, trampled on and pursued, burned and drowned by all the rulers and the nations, but is nevertheless living and thriving in spite of the whole world.

What is a Jew that did not succumb to any worldly temptations offered by his oppressors and persecutors so that he would renounce his religion and abandon the faith of his fathers?

A Jew is a sacred being who procured an eternal fire from the heavens and with it illuminated the earth and those who live on it. He is the spring and the source from which the rest of the nations drew their religions and beliefs.

A Jew is a pioneer of culture. From time immemorial, ignorance was impossible in the Holy Land, even more so than nowadays in civilized Europe. Moreover, at the time when the life and death of a human being was worth nothing, Rabbi Akiva spoke against the death penalty which is now considered to be an acceptable punishment in the most civilized countries.

A Jew is a pioneer of freedom. Back in primitive times, when the nation was divided into two classes, masters and slaves, Moses’ teaching forbid holding a person as a slave for more than six years.

A Jew is a symbol of civil and religious tolerance, “So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.” These words were uttered during distant, barbarian times when it was commonly acceptable among the nations to enslave each other.

In terms of tolerance, the Jewish religion is far from recruiting adherents. Quite the opposite, the Talmud prescribes that if a non-Jew wants to convert to the Jewish faith, then it has to be explained to him how difficult it is to be a Jew and that the righteous of other religions also inherit the heavenly kingdom. A Jew is a symbol of eternity.

The nation which neither slaughter nor torture could exterminate, which neither fire nor sword of civilizations were able to erase from the face of earth, the nation which first proclaimed the word of Lord, the nation which preserved the prophecy for so long and passed it on to the rest of humanity, such a nation cannot vanish.

A Jew is eternal; he is an embodiment of eternity."

Leo Tolstoy, 1891


Thank you, Tolstoy. The Jewish people will not forget you.

[IsraeliGovtAreKapos]

Such bullcrap. Especially this:

A Jew is a pioneer of culture. From time immemorial, ignorance was impossible in the Holy Land, even more so than nowadays in civilized Europe. Moreover, at the time when the life and death of a human being was worth nothing, Rabbi Akiva spoke against the death penalty which is now considered to be an acceptable punishment in the most civilized countries.

A Jew is a pioneer of freedom. Back in primitive times, when the nation was divided into two classes, masters and slaves, Moses’ teaching forbid holding a person as a slave for more than six years.

A Jew is a symbol of civil and religious tolerance, “So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.” These words were uttered during distant, barbarian times when it was commonly acceptable among the nations to enslave each other.

In terms of tolerance, the Jewish religion is far from recruiting adherents. Quite the opposite, the Talmud prescribes that if a non-Jew wants to convert to the Jewish faith, then it has to be explained to him how difficult it is to be a Jew and that the righteous of other religions also inherit the heavenly kingdom. A Jew is a symbol of eternity.

These "blessings" are as the same "blessings" Nazis give when they "bless" Israel for defending her enemies in war and murderering her own (in other words, saying a good Jew is a dead, self-beating Jew). Coming from a Russian Orthodox Nazi who admired Marx.

It is just amazing that even in our forum, Jews search for love from the Gentile - and not just Gentiles, but Gentiles who have holocausted millions of Jews physically and spiritually.

[Yaakov Mendel]

Such bullcrap.

These "blessings" are as the same "blessings" Nazis give when they "bless" Israel for defending her enemies in war and murderering her own (in other words, saying a good Jew is a dead, self-beating Jew). Coming from a Russian Orthodox Nazi who admired Marx.

It is just amazing that even in our forum, Jews search for love from the Gentile - and not just Gentiles, but Gentiles who have holocausted millions of Jews physically and spiritually.

The "bullcrap" is yours. In what way is Tolstoy guilty of the holocaust of millions of Jews ? This is ludicrous.
I don't hate the entire world. Yes, righteous Gentiles are my friends. If you lack sensitivity and intelligence so much that you fail to see the respect and the admiration Tolstoy beautifully expresses toward the Jewish people, then I feel sorry for you. But coming from someone like you, who, judging by his posts on this forum, hates 100% of Gentiles and 99% of Jews, and regularly calls for their physical extermination, I cannot say I am surprised... Now you can call me a self-hating Galut Jew or whatever other insult, I couldn't care less.