So why is there Anti-Semitism?

January 24, 2020 00:56:46
So why is there Anti-Semitism?
Purim With Rabbi Kaplan
So why is there Anti-Semitism?

Jan 24 2020 | 00:56:46

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Show Notes

Talmud Tisch - Intermediate Talmud Masechet Megillah - Daf/Page 13b-14a -? Making an offer the King can't refuse; a fortune to allow genocide of the Jews. Shockingly, the “pay for slay,” is declined: “keep your silver, and do as you please” he counters! Clearly the monarch is also a vicious anti-Semites, yet their prevailing attitudes seems so disparate. An enigmatic metaphor is presented: two landowners with mirror-image issues – one landowner struggles with a superfluous mound, while the other an annoying ditch, they meet and a final solution emerges. Richly elucidated, a Torah-true perspective on this pernicious hate emerges. against us.

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