Know More News - Adam Green - The Jewish Soul
Aired: 2021-01-01
Duration: 01:53

[00:00:00]  While some Christians in the Middle Ages portrayed Jews as supernatural creatures, as demons, devils, or the antichrist, some Jews, on the other hand, imagine themselves as possessing a special degree of holiness, putting them on a higher plane than all other human beings.
[00:00:19]  In the 12th century, a Jewish teacher, rabbi, philosopher, Judah Halevi, wrote a book called the Kuzari, and advanced the idea that
[00:00:34]  Adam, the original Adam, had a special spiritual spark that was eventually conveyed to Abraham and then eventually conveyed to Jewish people, and Jews have that additional level of spiritual capacity.
[00:00:55]  We have a different kind of soul.
[00:00:59]  Then in the 17th century, in Poland, there developed a belief that there was a plant soul, an animal soul, a human soul, and a Jewish soul.
[00:01:11]  And that shows up today coming out of that milieu among the Chabad Chasidrim.
[00:01:19]  All people are God's children, but God chose one to lead in morality, but again, not holier than thou, but unique in what our responsibilities are.
[00:01:30]  And that's our so our souls have a special unique relationship with God that requires us to be those servants here in this world to lead the immorality.
[00:01:41]  They spend an awful lot of time explaining how that doesn't mean Jewish superiority, certainly not anymore, but it does.