Yom Kippur Explained – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman
Dr. Michael Laitman Explains Yom Kippur – A “Like a Bundle of Reeds” Interview Dr. Michael Laitman discusses the Yom Kippur holiday and the story of Jonah with “Like a Bundle of Reeds” executive editor, Chaim Ratz. “Like a Bundle of Reeds” is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics: * Are we Jews different from other nations? * Why was I born Jewish? * Why is there anti-Semitism? * Could the Holocaust happen again? * What can I do? * Why are there Jews? Download the eBook version of the new “What Is Yom Kippur? – The Great Secret of the Jews (That You Don’t Know About)” booklet for free here »...
The Roots of Anti-Semitism – Like a Bundle of Reeds with Dr. Michael Laitman [Video]
Dr. Michael Laitman discusses the roots of anti-Semitism and why anti-Semitism is on the rise with Like a Bundle of Reeds executive editor, Chaim Ratz. Like a Bundle of Reeds is a TV series originally broadcast on JLTV based on the book of the same title. It deals with the following topics: Are we Jews different from other nations? Why was I born Jewish? Why is there anti-Semitism? Could the Holocaust happen again? What can I do? Why are there Jews? Audio Disclaimer: Yes, we had some audio production problems in this episode & two others where this disclaimer is mentioned. All the rest of the series is fine, so we recommend checking out another episode of Like a Bundle of Reeds if the audio bothers you too...![The Struggle to Stop Fighting [Opinion]](http://www.bundleofreeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/the-struggle-to-stop-fighting_680x476.png)
The Struggle to Stop Fighting [Opinion]
If a person takes a bundle of reeds, he cannot break them all at once. But taken one at a time, even an infant will break them. Just so, Israel will not be redeemed until they are all one bundle. (Midrash Tanhuma, Nitzavim, Chapter 1) Even as a child I was troubled with deeper questions. As a child with a passion for knowledge and a penchant for research, I became intrigued with “life, the universe, and everything” (to paraphrase on Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). I was fascinated with nature, and intrigued with human nature. And one of the issues that touched me to the core was anti-Semitism. As I wrote in my latest book, Like a Bundle of Reeds, a shadow followed through my childhood years, and even through my teens. It was the specter of the Holocaust, that thing which many chose to never mention, though it was always there. When I grew up the questions surrounding anti-Semitism kept haunting me, and became a very tangible issue through my years as a refusnik (Soviet Jews denied permission to leave the USSR during the 1970s). But once outside of the Soviet Union, and being a new oleh in Israel, more worldly challenges demanded my attention, such as learning a new language and providing for my family. It just so happened that in Israel I became a...