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Shtisel - highly recommended movie series on ultra orthodox Jewish life.

Carl Emerson

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Friends I have been watching the series on Youtube called "Shtisel"

I would like to highly recommend this for several reasons.

1. Education wise it is a pretty accurate glimpse of a little known corner of Jewish culture - you will likely learn a lot.

2. Spiritually is gives insight into the passion of modern Judaism seriously in need of Messiah Jesus.

3. Here we see with some intensity the partial blinding mentioned in Romans 11:25

"For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in..."