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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: “How did people commit suicide in ancient Rome?”

It seems that the Jewish people has chosen a method somewhat reminiscent of an ancient Roman custom.

How did people commit suicide in ancient Rome?

They would get into a warm bath and cut their veins; then sit there and bleed quietly peacefully, to death.

This is what is happening to the Jewish people these days.

There is a constant bleeding, not dramatic, but ongoing and unceasing.

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz