RECTIFICATION: About the Blood Libel and Crucifixion

In Tora there is forbidden to murder people by the commandment “Do not kill!”. This commandment is described in the book of Genesis (in Hebrew “Beresheet” - “In the beginning”), in the story about the Flood: And surely your blood of your souls I will require. From the hand of every beast I will require it and from the hand of the man, from the hand of the brother of every man I will require the soul of Adam … who sheds human blood, by a man his blood to be shed, because by His own image God made the man!” [Genesis, ch. 9:5,6]. In Tora the punishment with death should be submitted only because of a very hard crime and the hardest crime is murder.

In Tora there is prohibited the ingestion of any blood, whether it is human or animal, or any mixing of blood with food or bread. This prohibition is described in Genesis: “But the flesh with its soul – its blood – do not eat … !” [Genesis, ch. 9:4]. Here is the prohibition on offering of a sacrifice' blood with bread: “Do not offer the blood of My sacrifice on bread … !” [Exodus, ch. 23:18]. The prohibition is repeated for leaven bread: “Do not slaughter an animal and spill the blood of My sacrifice on leaven bread!” [Exodus, ch. 34:25]. There is another place in Tora where the blood is absolutely prohibited: “Eternal law this is for your generations in all your places of habitation: any fat and any blood you shall not eat!” [Leviticus, ch. 3:17]. Therefore, when meat should be cooked, it must be completely bloodless. This rule together with the rule of a complete separation between the meat and dairy are essential in the so called Kashrut – rules for meal storage and cooking.

All these details have been most blatantly ignored by the Christian Church and Christian nations in the Middle Ages which is why the Jewish people have been falsely accused in ritual bloodshed repeatedly for many hundreds of years. The accusations of ritual murder along with the accusation of the plague have been used to justify pogroms and massive slaughters over the Jewish communities in Europe and justify their forced deportations. For the massive plague in XIV century the accusation has been that the Jews have poisoned the water wells, which in itself is madness and ignorance, because Jews have used the same wells for themselves as well, as all the other people. Those times the Jewish people have been burned ALIVE. Among the 25 million victims of this plague, many of them have been Jews too, despite of their cleansing rituals that they practice for thousands of years since the receiving of Tora from the Lord Creator.

The rumor of ritual bloodshed began in 1144 in Norwich, England, with the death of a 12-old boy named William. He has been found in the surrounding woodland. There hasn't been conducted any investigation. In 1150 a Benedictine monk Thomas of Monmouth, who wanted to prove his loyalty to the Church, has declared the child killed for a ritual blood draining, perpetrated by the Jews for their holiday Pesach (the passing over the Jewish homes in Egypt by God during the 10-th plague). During the next 25 years that monk has worked for the canonization of William by the Church as a martyr of the faith. In a consequence of that in 1190 all the Jews in Norwich have been murdered. The manuscript, written by Thomas of Monmouth “Life and passions of William of Norwich”, has been distributed all over Europe. Emily M. Rose wrote an entire work on this case, named “The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe”, published by Oxford University Press, 2015. With this absurd lie have begun the massive pogroms against the Jewish people. From then on about 150 allegations of ritual murders have been recorded, which always have been followed by massacres and persecutions over all the Jewish communities around Europe. The accusations have continued during and after the World War II. There are many Jews who's families escaped from Poland before the WW II, who described the hard life in Poland under the hammer of the Blood libel.

In 1298 an impoverished German nobleman, named Rindfleisch, has accused Jews from Rottingen in desecration of the Christian consecrated host, organized the crowd and all the Jews in Rottingen have been burned. It appeared that once Rindfleisch has borrowed money from a Jew and has not been able to pay that debt. In the period between 1296-1298 Rindfleisch organized riots and persecutions against Jews in Germany and Austria, in which about 100 000 Jewish people have been killed.

The most used indictment, which Christian nations used to justify their massive slaughters of Jews, has been the lie, that the Jewish people have crucified Jesus Christ on the cross. First: the crucifixion has never been a practice in the Jewish history, law or belief. Second: There has not been any Jew, who is judged and punished in the eve of Shabbat or Pesach. Jesus has been arrested, according to the scripture, BY THE ROMAN soldiers on Thursday evening – the first evening of Pesach. It's impossible for any Jew to participate in such act, especially after the holly supper with matzot (special unleaven bread) and wine and after all the blessings and prayers. Performing any work is prohibited on Pesach in the first two days and in the seventh day. That is why the supreme Jewish Court Sanhedrin could not be gathered for a lawsuit. Third: the Sinhedrin could never work on a lawsuit in the evenings. Fourth: the Sanhedrin could never issue a sentence during the period of 24 hours after the completion of the law-case. Fifth: the indictment of Jesus has been “Jesus of Nazareth, king of Israel”, which has been written on a board, attached to his cross. He obviously has been accused by the Roman deputy Pilate Pontius, that he has proclaimed himself for a king of Israel. Pilate HAD the full power and authority to release Jesus, if as it written, Jesus appeared to be innocent before Pilate, despite of any other opinion or any cry of the crowd. By the way, every Jewish man or woman SHOULD STAY HOME on Pesach, NOT OUTSIDE. So there should not be any crowd on the square. According to the Jewish law, Jesus' self proclamation to be a “Messiah” (anointed priest, anointed kohen), does not deserve a death penalty. At least, Jesus is a descendant from the tribe of Yehuda, not from the tribe of Levi, so he could not be a priest in the Holly Temple. This is an ultimate position in Tora, given by God the Lord of the world to Moses, Aaron and to all the Jewish nation. THEY HAVE NO CHOICE in the proclaming of "Mashiahh". “Messiah”, or in original “Mashiahh”, does not mean “Saviour” but “Anointed” and only a priest, a kohen from Levi should be anointed. For any law case, the Sanhedrin must be gathered. Sixth: no one else than the Romans themselves have arrested and crucified Jesus. All that mess happened because of the OCCUPATION of Israel by the bloody, slaughtering, raping, stealing and killing Roman empire. Please, read more about the Roman empire from PLUTARH AND SALUSTIUS. Kostas Varnalis (1884 – 1974) has written the book “The Dictators”, published in the middle of the XX century, based on original scripts from Plutarh and Salustius.