The Jewish Talmud And Its Use For Christian Apologetics
https://www.equip.org/articles/the-jewish-talmud-and-its-use-for-christian-apologetics/
from the article:
In other places, the Talmud dramatically endorses the gospel narrative, albeit indirectly. In a book devoted to explaining why the Jewish rejection of Jesus was entirely reasonable, Orthodox Jewish scholar David Klinghoffer admitted:
The Talmud states that from forty years before the Temple’s destruction and onward, there were supernatural omens of the disaster to come ”” that is, starting from the inception of the Christian religion following the death of Jesus. The eternal fire of the Temple altar would not stay lit. The monumental bronze Temple gates opened by themselves. Josephus confirms the Talmud’s account of the inner Sanctuary’s east gate and its mysterious openings. He adds other portents from these years: a bright light shining around the altar and the Sanctuary at three in the morning, a cow brought for sacrifice giving birth to a lamb, apparitions of chariots and armies flying through the sky above the whole land of Israel.”8
Jewish anti-Christian apologist Rabbi Tovia Singer reluctantly admits:
In Tractate Yoma 39b, the Talmud…discusses numerous remarkable phenomena that occurred in the Temple during the Yom Kippur service…. There was a strip of scarlet-dyed wool tied to the head of the scapegoat which would turn white in the presence of the large crowd gathered at the Temple on the Day of Atonement. The Jewish people perceived this miraculous transformation as a heavenly sign that their sins were forgiven. The Talmud relates, however, that 40 years before the destruction of the second Temple [approximately AD 30 at the time of the Crucifixion] the scarlet colored strip of wool did not turn white.11
