Dr. Kastein‘s words in this instance are carelessly chosen if they were intended to disguise what occurred: a matter is not made ―comprehensible‖ to others by distorting and twisting it, changing its meaning, and substituting ambiguous terms for precise ones. Moreover, so learned a Judaic scholar must have known what the Jewish Encyclopaedia records, that the later Talmud even ―prohibited the teaching to a Gentile of the Torah, anyone so teaching ‗deserving death.‘‖ Indeed, the Talmud saw such danger in the acquirement by the heathen of knowledge of the Law that it set up the oral Torah as the
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