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"In Abhodah Zarah (26b, Tosephoth) it says:"Even the best of the Goim should be killed""

— Justinas Pranaitis

January 1, 1970

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Antisemites Roman Catholic priests Catholics from Lithuania

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Comment. This is incorrect. The phrase occurs, not in the Avodah Zarah, but in Soferim 15:10, in the following context: "Yoḥai taught: Kill the best of the heathens in time of war; crush the brain of the best of serpents. The most worthy of women indulges in witchcraft. Happy is he who does the will of the Omnipresent."

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Comment. This is incorrect. The phrase occurs, not in the Avodah Zarah, but in Soferim 15:10, in the following context: "Yoḥai taught: Kill the best of the heathens in time of war; crush the brain of the best of serpents. The most worthy of women indulges in witchcraft. Happy is he who does the will of the Omnipresent."