From Rabbi Akiva to Rambam: A History of Love, Conflict and Redemption Throughout the generations, rather than being an amalgamation, the Jewish nation has succumbed to harmful relations, which even our sages had to endure, as evidenced by the following…
The process of the people of Israel’s formation depicts the battle between our hatred for each other and the need to connect for our survival. By and large, nations develop based on families and clans that have expanded or by…
The highest degree of cohesion that the people of Israel achieved was at the time of the First Temple, which King Solomon built after his father, King David, united the kingdom of Israel. To understand the course of events that…
Disunity based on Jewish self-hatred is at the center of every adversity we Jews have experienced throughout the generations. The fragmentation within us, the Jewish people, has now reached a level that threatens our daily lives and our very existence,…
Indeed, the phenomenon of Jewish self-hatred has soured our lives. Contrary to what would bring us tranquility as Jewish people, when our relations invert, with unfounded hatred replacing love, then we do not treat each other like other nations treat…
There is nothing that Jewish antisemites will not give to the nations of the world in return for some sympathy. They will give up their identity, tradition, history, sovereignty, and just about anything to get the world’s approval. But everything…
It is stressed in Sefat Emet: “Israel’s unity induces great salvations and removes all the slanderers.” But when the slanderers are our own Jewish people, it contradicts the call to unity stressed by our sages as our “life insurance” as a…
Throughout the ages, the outward expressions of that inner, natural hatred that has always haunted the Jews have changed. Regimes and ideologies rose and fell, but antisemitism persists. Each time the excuses for hating Jews become presented in different shapes…
In recent years, we have observed increasing hostility between Israelis and Jews who strongly criticize the Jewish people and the State of Israel. If accusations against the State of Israel could endanger the status of Jews, self-hating Jews would not…
I wish to thank everyone who participated in our World Kabbalah Convention very much. It brought us to a connection, direction and elevation that I did not expect. Truly, I did not expect it. I do not think anyone thought we…
When we analyze how the process of Jewish self-hatred takes place, it is the common understanding that the rejection of one’s identity can be triggered by external factors such as antisemitism and the resulting desire to distance oneself from negative…
Much has been written about antisemitism as the eternal hatred against Jews; far less attention has been devoted to the challenging self-examination of when the antisemites are Jews themselves and why this paradox occurs. Jewish self-hatred is the unique phenomenon…