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>Saint Simon and Toaff's thesis
>Regarding Toaff’s book, the following must be made clear:
>(1) Testimonies about the "Blood Passover" are innumerable in the Middle Ages. Documents and testimonies that date back centuries, at a time when there was no press, tell the same story. It is simply impossible that so many documents and testimonies, of different origins in time and space, have been "invented". Anyone with any sense of inquiry understands this
>(2) At the end of the Middle Ages, magic was very strong in Jewish circles, even in the sphere of synagogal and home ceremonies, as we have shown. In the discreet/esoteric sphere, Kabbalism advocated practices contrary to the Torah - given that Kabbalism considers the God of creation as the demiurge whose law every initiate must strive to free themselves and, thus, be able to know the Ain Sof, true god according to Kabbalah. Ritual murder was a way for Jewish Kabbalists to pursue this
