Somehow listening to Rabbi Bar Hayyam’s peroration the exchange between Frodo and Gandalf about Gollum comes to mind:
“But this is terrible!” cried Frodo. “Far worse than the worst that I imagined from your hints and warnings. O Gandalf, best of friends, what am I to do? What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he a chance!”
“Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.”
“I am sorry,” said Frodo. “But I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum.”
“You have not seen him,” Gandalf broke in.
“No, and I don’t want to,” said Frodo. I can’t understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.”
“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement”…
I made the acquaintance of Rabbi Bar Hayyam and his repugnant peroration in The Saker’s “A Crash Course on the True Causes of Antisemitism” first posted September 28, 2017 on Unz.com. The first time I attempted to watch it, I was unable to complete it. I only managed two-thirds of it.
I quote from The Saker’s original essay:
Of pity, and compassion, I hear in Rabbi Bar Hayyam’s voice, nothing. Of history, of context, of reference to the analysis tools of Textual and Higher Criticism, of “ethics”? I hear, nothing. He evidently believes this bogus putrid morass and of its primacy, with limpid sincerity. Of the origins and veracity of the “Noahide Laws” — of whose existence I was entirely unaware until I first read The Saker’s piece sometime between September 2017 and now — he says, nothing. But as a gentile according to them and according to him, I stand convicted, and condemned… to death. He does not compare me to Gollum. But without a moment’s hesitation or caution to his audience, he compares me to a poisonous snake.
This individual is I suspect well-known and respected if not world-wide in the Jewish diaspora, than certainly in the tiny nation of Israel. And for over one hour and forty-seven minutes he utters abominations and banalities worthy of Joseph Goebbels or Heinrich Himmler.
And thus, Bolshevism and The Holodomor; and thus, Gaza… 🤔
“Jesus wept.” (The Gospel of St. John 11:35),
Capt. Roy Harkness
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