Rabbi Professor Martin Lockshin presents his lecture “Does Judaism Teach that Anti-Semitism is Universal and Inevitable?” before an audience at Temple Kol Ami in Scottsdale, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: At least for the last 1,000 years Judaism has been teaching that, as we say in the Haggadah, “not just once did somebody try to destroy us, rather in every generation they try to destroy us, but the Blessed Holy One saves us from them.” However, we cannot find this teaching anywhere in the Bible. This lecture will attempt to pinpoint when and why this idea, that anti-Semitism is universal and inevitable, developed.
