Obama Correct! Top Rabbi Claimed “GOD” Wanted Slavery!
President Barack Obama recently stirred controversy in claiming that “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vols 1 & 2 provides ample proof of that assertion, showing that Jews, the “chosen people,” were heavily involved in, and “frequently dominated,” the slave trade. Read below about the PRO-SLAVERY pronouncements of the most prominent rabbi in America at the time of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War:
[excerpt from The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 1]
No event caused the forces of bondage to rejoice more than when Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York issued a sermon that was to become known as the “Bible Defense of Slavery.” On January 4, 1861, he preached the most publicized sermon ever delivered by an American Jew up to that time. Said he:
“[I]t remains a fact which cannot be gainsaid that in his own native home, and generally throughout the world, the unfortunate negro is indeed the meanest of slaves. Much had been said respecting the inferiority of his intellectual powers, and that no man of his race has ever inscribed his name on the Parthenon of human excellence, either mental or moral.”
“What he did,” Rabbi Dr. Bertram W. Korn wrote, “was to place Judaism squarely in opposition to the philosophy of abolitionism…and insisted that…biblical tradition and law guaranteed the right to own slaves.”
This critical confirmation of “God’s will” from a prominent and respected Jewish authority, the highest paid American clergyman, gave the slavemaster all he needed to fight the righteous RELIGIOUS battle against the abolitionists. Raphall went a step further and actually condemned abolitionism and its practitioners:
“How dare you, in the face of the sanction and protection afforded to slave property in the Ten Commandments — how dare you denounce slaveholding as a sin? When you remember that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job — the men with whom the Almighty conversed, with whose names He emphatically connects His own most holy name, and to whom He vouchsafed to give the character of ‘perfect, upright, fearing God and eschewing evil’ — that all these men were slaveholders, does it not strike you that you are guilty of something very little short of blasphemy?”
He accused the abolitionists of being
“impulsive declaimers, gifted with great zeal, but little knowledge; more eloquent than learned; better able to excite our passions than to satisfy our reason.”
To Rabbi Raphall, slave property was placed under the same protection as any other species of lawful property. Slave ownership was not only lawful but a religious obligation.
A Southern rabbi praised Raphall for “the most forceful arguments in justification of the slavery of the African race.” The Southern press played Raphall’s proclamation prominently and often, for one of the “chosen” had cleared the moral obstacle from perpetual slavocracy. The Richmond Daily Dispatch called Raphall’s proslavery doctrine “the most powerful argument delivered.” The Charleston Mercury hailed his message as “defend[ing] us in one of the most powerful arguments put forth north or south.” After all, writes Robert Friedenberg, “[h]is explanation is clear, plausible, and entirely consistent with the thrust of Hebrew commentary…[and] compares favorably with the proslavery sermons delivered from Christian pulpits.” His speech was so well received that two weeks later he repeated it and raised funds for its issue as a pamphlet.