Tumah
Veteran Member
I don't think there's any question that the Christian doctrine of Original Sin originates in Jewish sources.
Specifically about buying them for use as a sacrifice.
No, it's a third century Rabbi from Israel.
Orthodox Jews reject the Christian doctrine of Original Sin. We embrace the Jewish doctrine, which we call "The Sin of the Tree of Knowledge" or "Sin of the First Man" and it's effects on mankind - including ourselves. See for instance:
The Sages taught in a baraita: There were four people who died only because of the counsel of the primordial snake, in the wake of which all of humanity became mortal, and not on account of any personal sin. And they are: Benjamin, son of Jacob; Amram, father of Moses; Yishai, father of David; and Chileab, son of David. And all of these are known through tradition except for Yishai, father of David, with regard to whom it is written explicitly: “And Absalom placed Amasa over the army instead of Joab, and Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who engaged in intercourse with Abigail, daughter of Nahash, the sister of Zeruiah, mother of Joab” (II Samuel 17:25). But was Abigail the daughter of Nahash? Was she not the daughter of Yishai, as it is written: “And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail” (I Chronicles 2:16)? Rather, she was called “daughter of Nahash” to indicate that she was the daughter of one who died only because of the counsel of the snake.
The Zohar (which you quote in some posts, or I would not have brought it up) does claim that with the sin of the Golden Calf, the impurity was returned to Israel as well. You can find this statement about Israel which bears some similarity to the one you found about bestiality among Gentiles:
Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: The Jewish people knew that idol worship is of no substance; they did not actually believe in it. And they worshipped idols only in order to permit themselves to engage in forbidden sexual relations in public
