Reddit reviews Jesus in the Talmud

If you want to know why contemporary Jews dont accept Jesus, look to the Talmud. Remember the Talmud was written a few hundred years after Christ, so he's referenced like 50+ times. None of them positive mind you. Basically The Talmud teaches that Jesus Christ was illegitimate, Mary was a whore who lay with a Roman soldier. Christ was conceived during menstruation; that he had the soul of Esau (Issacs son); that he was a fool, a conjurer, a seducer; that he was crucified, buried in hell and set up as an idol ever since by his followers. If you're interested in the topic read "Jesus in the Talmud" by Peter Schafer, he was a professor at Stanford Princeton that put it all the references to Jesus in one book with explanation of the context of every passage. https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Talmud-Peter-Sch%C3%A4fer-ebook/dp/B002WJM5Y6

So yea, modern Talmudic Jews are not fans of Jesus, and modern Judiasm a false religion. Christ died so that all men be saved.

It's very unclear what are references to Jesus in the Talmud and what are not. There is a figure called "Yeshu" who is depicted unfavorably. The section you refer to is very unclear. Here is the text from the Soncino edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 57a):

> [Onkelos] then went and raised Balaam by incantations. [Onkelos] asked him: "Who is in repute in the other world?" [Balaam] replied: "Israel." "What then," [Onkelos] said, "about joining them?" [Balaam] replied: "Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever." [Onkelos] then asked: "What is your punishment?" [Balaam] replied: "With boiling hot semen."

> [Onkelos] then went and raised by incantations the sinners of Israel. He asked them: "Who is in repute in the other world?" They replied: "Israel." [Onkelos asked,] "What about joining them?" They replied: "Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches the apple of his eye." [Onkelos] said: "What is your punishment?" They replied: "With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: 'Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement.'"

Now, in some versions of the Babylonian Talmud, it doesn't say the "sinners of Israel." In some versions, it says "Yeshu." No one knows what the original was, and it's been debated if this "Yeshu" even is the same person as Jesus. You may find this book worthwhile.

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A further note: Many claim that "Yeshu" is not even a personal name, but an acronym standing for the phrase, "May his name and his memory be obliterated."