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Dangerous "health remedies" from the Talmud

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The Jewish "sages" who wrote the Talmud carried several superstitious and even dangerous ideas about human health. Many of their health remedies include inserting animal excrement into one’s rectum, ingesting dust from outside public toilets, and even engaging in strange rituals such as tying lice to other men’s penises and obtaining threads from prostitutes. For sun stoke, place a plucked chicken on your head until it sticks there Abaye said: My mother told me that for a sun-stroke [fever] the remedy is on the first day to take a jug of water, [if it lasts] two days to let blood, [if] three days to take red meat broiled on the coals and highly diluted wine. For a chronic heat stroke, he should bring a black hen and tear it lengthwise and crosswise and shave the middle of his head and put the bird on it and leave it there till it sticks fast, and then he should go down [to the river] and stand in water up to his neck till he is quite faint, and then he should swim out and sit...
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Sex In The Bible

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To further underscore the point that the Bible, far from being a guidebook of high moral standards, is instead a perverse collection of immoral degradation, we will now proceed to review some hideous sexrelated teachings and stories in this “holy book.”  Incest In The Bible The first troubling sexual passage we encounter in the Bible is Genesis 4:17, which says: “And Cain knew his wife,” which means that he had sexual relations with her. Why is this troubling? Because this wife of Cain, going by the biblical narrative, must have been his sister, which would mean that they were committing incest. Bible defenders try to explain this away by saying that this practice would have been acceptable—and even necessary—in the beginning, to get the human race started. However, this is not by any means the only time incest is referred to in the Bible. Rather, we discover that incest continued for many generations thereafter, and on an alarming scale at that. Here is a small sampling of such oc...
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Kol Nidre — The Talmudic doctrine of deception

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The Talmud provides a proxy for Jews called the "Kol Nidre" (all vows) which even many Jews claim excuses them from telling the truth, not just to non-Jews but even other Jews. Because the Jews traditionally use the Kol Nidre when they feel "persecuted", they may use this proxy when questioned about Noahide Law if they feel the revelation of these laws would make non-Jews suspicious or angry. The Talmud is very complicated, not every statement is a law, sometimes it is a commentary or the opinion of a certain Rabbi, sometimes a stipulation or refutation, however the quotes below should give you a good idea about Talmudic reasoning on certain issues. I. Sanctification” and “Desecration of the Name” Throughout the Talmud, the term “Sanctification” and “Desecration of the Name” comes up very often, especially when Jews are speaking about perhaps not being 100% honest with non-Jews.  The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia gives us half the story on “desecration of the name”; they...
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