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Oct. 3, 2020 - Know More News - Adam Green
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'God's Chosen' SUPREMACISTS
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Remember who we are.
We are the chosen people.
Slaves, not animals, the chosen people.
His bar shall flourish.
See?
Told you I was one of the chosen people.
You are now officially one of God's chosen people.
Joseph for what you ask.
An interesting question.
There will always be peace in Jerusalem.
And prosperity for Judah.
For God has chosen us as his people.
That is why we gather at this temple of the Lord.
I want to know why the Jews are always held to a higher standard than everybody else.
Because we're the chosen people.
Queen Isabella has rather precipitously expelled all the Jews from Spain.
The chosen people.
Well, I can assure you, my dear son, there's not one drop of Jewish blood in you.
Hey, Linda.
What's wrong?
The Jewish people have had such a tumultuous history, and yet they were still able to give us this.
The everything bagel.
It's all you'd ever want in one bagel.
And the chosen people who created it.
Church has shown the positive purification can be achieved by burning people.
Nazism is just doing the same thing, but on a bigger scale.
In a way, we are the new chosen people.
Can I get a red house?
Oh yes!
That feels good, doesn't it?
Feels good to be proud of who you are.
Now I don't think I need to tell you there's a lot of hate out there.
Hate for awesome people like us.
And if there's one thing I've learned, it's that the only way to fight hate is with more hate.
We are not the freaks of society, everyone else is!
Yeah!
Chinchers are the chosen people, the chosen racer!
And we must view the rest of the world as the low-life dark-skinned rats that they are.
Our precious Lord and Savior was himself a Jew.
If we love God, we must love what God loves.
And God loves his chosen people.
We are commanded by the word of God to give him no rest from our prayers.
For who?
Today for Israel.
Might I say I am a Jewish person.
The chosen people.
We are the chosen people.
Sure.
Well, you are the chosen people.
I love you.
I'm sorry for all this hate.
How does the Torah view non-Jews?
Does the Torah view non-Jews as inferior to Jews?
Well, we are the chosen people.
We are racist.
Meaning that we know God chose us to be his people.
You're racist?
Of course not.
Of course not.
But there is a basic difference between Jews and non-Jews.
We are God's chosen people.
And if the Jewish leaders don't like that, then they can burn their local Bibles.
The Burnburn Kahana.
I believe that yes, they are God's chosen people.
Because we believe in the Word of God, the Bible.
And in the Bible, it says that He has set them apart and that they are His chosen people.
It's a shared inheritance with God's chosen people.
He chose them first and then everybody else came along.
There's a lot of imagery about the vine of Israel and the Gentiles being grafted on as children of Abraham.
Through Jesus Christ and through his sacrifice on the cross.
So we all become part of God's chosen people.
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.
In the 12th century, a Jewish teacher, rabbi, philosopher, Judah Halevi, wrote a book called the Kuzari and advanced the idea that 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.
We have a different kind of soul.
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.
And that shows up today coming out of that milieu among the Chabad Chasidrim.
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.
And that's our souls have a special unique relationship with God that requires us to be those servants here in this world.
to lead the immorality.
They spend an awful lot of time explaining how that doesn't mean Jewish superiority.
Certainly not anymore, but it does.
It is a tradition of that comes out of oppression.
And that's thoroughly offensive to contemporary sensibility.
Rabbi, why did God play favorites and make the Jews the chosen people?
In fact, um this is one of the most misunderstood concepts in all of Judaism.
It is one that Christopher Hitchens not only misunderstands, but destructively misportrays in his book.
God never played favorites with the Jews.
The word chosen, or goyimnesatich, have made you a light to the nations, is never a noun, it is a verb.
It connotes an activity.
You are chosen by God to spread the light of God and the laws of God to all the inhabitants of the earth to tell them how they too are God's children.
To tell them how they too matter, how they too are loved by God.
That is why Judaism always insists on not converting people to our faith, because you do not upgrade when you become a Jew.
We are the only nation on earth that exists on the non-copyright to truth held by our religion.
According to Judaism, one does not have to be Jewish to be fulfilled or to fulfill his purpose and to live a true decent life.
Basically, it's only that Jews have to fulfill 613 commandments to fulfill their purpose for creation, and the Gentile world to fulfill their seven no-hide laws to fulfill their purpose in creation.
Christopher Hitchens actually uses the concept of chosenness to sadly justify antisemitism.
Quote, page 250.
By claiming to be chosen in a special exclusive covenant with the Almighty, the Jews invited hatred and suspicion and evinced their own form of racism.
So we're hated because we told the world that we're chosen.
Well, my friends, the British sort of think they're chosen.
I lived there for 11 years.
They sing a song called Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the world.
No one hated the British for that.
I believe it's the waves.
Hold on.
Rules the waves.
Well, they never really took the British and sort of gassed them or anything like that.
Um the Japanese have a rising sun on their flag because they believe that they are the land of the rising sun, the sun rises for them.
I don't see that there's any particular hatred of the Japanese for that belief.
Um Marcus Garvey, I just filmed a television show in Jamaica with my family.
Marcus Garvey founded black power in the 1920s with the famous motto, Black is beautiful.
I didn't see people segregating blacks because of that belief.
On the contrary, they were hated well before it.
They were hated for no reason at all.
To say that Jews are hated for anti-Semit for for a claim to chosenness is to justify the most pernicious hatred in the history of the world.
Okay, but let's go back to the liturgical formulation.
And as I said, and as I said, God never chose us And never played favorites.
It was not that you are sufficient to now make everybody like you, get everybody to emulate you, because your path is the only correct path.
Going as far back as 900 years, the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides, who was considered the greatest Jewish mind of all time, said that Christianity serves a godly purpose as does Islam.
He respected and admired Islam.
He said the Jews could even pray in mosques because they don't worship any kind of image or any kind of icon.
So God never chose the Jews as a form of favoritism.
He gave us this incredible mission.
One might even say that it's a humbling motif rather than something that breeds arrogance.
It means that we, if we ever think for a moment that we're it, that we are the end, God made us the means to other ends.
To make sure that we spread the knowledge of God.
So when we say the chosen people, it's not in any way talking about other nations, talking about ourselves.
The fact that we're different, is it something to be embarrassed of, something to hide?
Should I be low profile?
Or should I look at this as something which a privilege God gave me?
When the astronauts went off to out of space and they looked so strange, they didn't feel inferior.
They felt very proud they have a special mission to accomplish.
And that's what it means when we say that, but we're doing it because God chose me and gave me this particular mission to accomplish.
But when you distort and invent, and when you make statements like a claim to chosenness breeds anti-Semitism, no, the Jews were the Jews should not be blamed for the hatred shown to them.
We should never blame a victim.
It's not a woman who dresses in a suggestive way that leads her to being raped, God forbid.
It is hatred that leads to those things, and that's why God said in the Ten Commandments that we cannot kill, we cannot steal, we have to live by a moral code, and finally, it's the reason why, in the most moral and uh affirm greatest moral affirmation of the history of the world, God says in Genesis 2, He created every human being, regardless of religion, creed, color, or faith, or non-faith in his indelible image.
And uh friends, we read in this week's biblical portion Kitavo, and the Lord has affirmed this day that you are his treasured people, and that he will choose you high above all the nations.
The idea behind that the Jews are the chosen people is one of the most misunderstood concepts in history.
Indeed, this lethal combination, misunderstanding, and often deliberate distortion has caused immense suffering to the Jewish people at the hands of persecutors who point to the chosen people concept as evidence that the Jews claim to be superior to other religions, superior to other nations, and even the Jews covet world supremacy.
The concept of the chosen people was never meant to assert Jewish superiority or supremacy.
Rather, the concept of chosenness designates the Jewish people's special mission to introduce the world to absolute monotheism and to an ethical value system.
I believe the emergence of Christianity and Islam as great world religions represents a fulfillment of that mission.
When the Jews were first chosen for this mission more than 3300 years ago, only Jews and pagans existed.
Today, the great majority of the world's population adheres to one of the three Abrahamic faiths.
Thus, we speak of a Judeal Christian ethic, or more accurately, a Judeo-Christian Islamic ethic.
It should be understood that being chosen has in fact proven to be more than a burden, than a gift to the Jewish people.
Because the Jews were chosen, we have suffered.
Indeed, if Jews are superior to other peoples in any respect, it is in the staggering amounts of persecution and bloodshed that we have endured.
Thousands of years of subjugation, coercion, martyrdom, oppression, crusades, inquisition, pogroms, and the holocaust.
All of this has been our destiny for the so-called privilege of being chosen.
The special mission of the Jewish people is far from complete.
There is still much work to be done to ensure that people around the world, including Jews, Muslims, and Christians live ethical lives that focus primarily on service, compassion, and kindness to our fellow human beings.
As long as that work remains undone, the Jewish people must continue to play that special role.
Serving as a voice of conscience to greater humanity.
Shabbat Shalom.
When I was in Hebrew school in sixth grade, I had a teacher that told me that Jews were better than Gentiles.
And I honestly was shocked.
From that point on, uh it really made me question what Judaism was really all about.
And it turned me off from my religion, honestly.
The idea that Jews are chosen, Bacharbanu, the call ha'im, chosen from among all the other peoples, fits into the liturgy at key moments, key public moments, such as when a Jew is called to an aliyah to the Torah to bless the Torah as it's being read.
The blessing they say includes you have chosen us from among all the peoples.
It's a very public, it's a very visible and people are aware of what's being said.
Another key moment in the liturgy where the chosenness comes right up is in Havdalah, when they say we're God is blessed for having separated the darkness from the light, separated the many days of the week from the Shabbat, separated the many peoples of the world from the Jews.
I feel like we're special and I'm glad that God chose us and that we're Jews and we're one of a kind.
Everybody saw that God is giving his book to the children of Israel.
He called himself the God of Israel, and he says clearly in the text, I chose you from all the nation to be my children.
But when he gave us the Torah, he gave the entire world the seven laws of Israel.
They have a part as part of...
100%.
We say that already.
100%.
No question about this.
You have to learn the seven law of Noah.
You can Google it.
You have it all over this website.
We explain that.
You have to be a good person.
You cannot hate anybody because of race, especially not the Jewish people, because they are the chosen people of God.
He loves them very much.
Hating them is considering hating God Himself, because he's the father.
You cannot go against the Son of a person and telling the person, I love you.
I love you, I have to respect your son.
Even if the son is not the greatest son, it's not even the issue here.
When the Messiah comes, um, that non-Jews will end up being like slaves to Jews and things like that.
Is that part of like where does that come from?
What you're saying is correct.
What you're saying is correct.
And what does it mean?
Uh yeah, it says the lands will work for you.
Do you believe that the Gentiles, the Goim, will one day become the slaves of the Jews?
It's gonna, it's part of the Torah.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
and they don't want the Jewish person to work.
Do you think the Go'em will be the Jewish people?
Okay, must go a moon.
Shalom.
I knew that the king was the most powerful king.
The second time he was the king who was the most famous king.
Uh uh I'm in Shah Agoim, you have a Dim Shala Yudim.
Okay.
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