baruchobramowitz:Here on our church in Wittenberg a sow is sculpted in stone. Young pigs and Jews li
baruchobramowitz:Here on our church in Wittenberg a sow is sculpted in stone. Young pigs and Jews lie suckling under her. Behind the sow a rabbi is bent over the sow, lifting up her right leg, holding her tail high and looking intensely under her tail and into her Talmud, as though he were reading something acute or extraordinary, which is certainly where they get their ShemhamphorasMartin Luther in Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (On the Holy Name and the Lineage of Christ)Judensau on the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg, dated back to around 1300 CE. The text, though gibberish, is supposed to say “Rabbis of Shem HaMeforash.”Martin Luther often preached at this church, it is considered where the Protestant Reformation truly began. -- source link