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April 25, 2023 - Know More News - Adam Green
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Why Rabbis Love Christian Anti-Semitism | Epic Rabbi Mix by Adam Green - Know More News
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Anti-Semitism is a disease really of the Christian world.
The first probably in Western society is the Jews who are responsible for killing Christ.
And that's the mother of all.
Christians and Jews, the charge of deicide.
Jews had long been accused of being responsible for Jesus' death.
And so later on in history, as you know, Jews are being called Christ killers.
But things got worse once people thought Jesus was God.
Because if Jesus is God and the Jews killed him, it means the Jews killed God.
That became a charge against Jews even before the Council of Nicaea.
The charge of deicide.
That the Jews have murdered their own God.
In fact, he's the only God.
They murdered God.
So anti-Semitism, stage one, really got personal with the birth of Christianity and the disappointment of Christians that Jews did not accept one of their own as the Messiah.
To accuse someone not just of being, you know, oh, you know, you didn't know any better or anything.
No, you killed God.
You know, you did it.
And so this led to some very unfortunate kinds of anti-Judaism through the centuries, eventuating in modern times in the rise of anti-Semitism and eventuating, of course, as we all know, in the Holocaust.
So, you know, I'm not saying that the Council of Nicaea caused the Holocaust, but I am saying that this is participating in this kind of dialectic between Jews, this kind of dialogue between Jews and Christians that ended up very badly for Jews over the years.
Why the Jews?
Why do they have the kick-me sign on their back?
Well, I mean, I'd have to go back to the book of Matthew and even before that to Egypt in 300 BCE.
I mean, there's so many different peoples in the world.
Sure, I mean, I mean, a lot of them have gotten shit from a lot of people.
Why the Jews?
It just seems the Jews are always on the move.
Yeah, we are.
We are.
And I think here's one reason for it.
When the Jews rejected Jesus as the Son of God.
Oh, that thing.
Okay, that thing.
I knew there was something by it.
No, no, no, no, no, little detail.
Oh, he comes back to him, but it's bad.
But just think about it.
Just think about it for one second.
So, if you look at the idea that the Jews get the most power, the tiny Jews get the most powerful empire in the world, the Roman Empire, to do their bidding by killing Jesus.
And if you look at the anti-Semitic tropes that we see now, what is the Jew?
The Jew is not, it's not like racism, where the person of color is subhuman and the racist is punching down.
In the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, the Jew is the wily manipulator, the puppeteer, the person close to power that gets power to do its bidding.
And in a way, it all goes back to that original conspiracy.
As early as the New Testament, you have the accusation that it is Jews who killed Jesus.
Historically, this is not correct.
The Jews did not kill Jesus.
The Romans killed Jesus.
Jesus was crucified by order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate and was executed by Roman soldiers.
I've always thought it's interesting that Christians throughout history have said that the Jews killed Jesus and persecuted Jews as a result, but they've never said the Italians killed Jesus and persecuted the Italians as a result.
Why is that?
It was the Italians who did it.
It wasn't the Jews.
So, yeah, one of the quirks of history.
Right-wing anti-Semitism is kind of stupid people with anti-Semitism.
What I mean by that is what you very often see is people saying, you know, the Jews are corrupt, the Jews are the Jews, you know, they hate Jesus, the Jews kill Jesus, the Jews are corrupting our society.
Isaiah 53 has always been understood by the Jewish people as referring to God's most long-suffering servant.
A godly nation whose only crime was to bear witness to God in history.
A nation that, as Isaiah says, has been regarded as, quote, diseased, stricken by God, afflicted.
Wasn't it the Christians that always said about us Jews that we were afflicted by God for having killed Christ?
For having forsaken our Messiah?
Is that not the reason that I'm here tonight to defend my faith against yet another challenge?
Against yet another assault.
At least now we can do it voluntarily.
Once upon a time, we were forced into these debates at the blade, the sharp blade of a sword.
No one ever liked the Jews because it's in their DNA.
As Rabbishimoba Yukai says, Esav hates Yaakov.
And the Rambam says that even though Esav, sometimes he doesn't know why he hates Yaakov.
Nonetheless, he still hates him.
The Goim don't really know why they hate you.
They don't really know.
There's many Goim that their whole life they've never even seen a Jew.
They've never seen a Jew.
They tell them, Jews, oh, I hate them.
Killed them.
But you never saw one.
What did they ever do to you?
No, they're the worst people in the world.
They destroyed the world, but you don't ever know one.
The reality is, Abu Tai is that Esav Sone Li Yaakov.
Esav hates Yaakov.
This is a fact that is no different than gravity.
It's no different than all of the other laws of nature.
It just is.
There are people that are born with an anti-Semitic feeling.
They hate Jews.
They don't know why, what for, where does it come from?
But they can't stand them.
I met such people too.
The people in the world, they don't exactly know what's the reason for it.
But feeling bad towards Jews is something natural.
It's embedded in nature.
No one can do anything about it.
But it's something that truly comes from the very foundation of the world.
that Jews are that group that bear inside them the plan and the program for the correction of the world.
The people who are in the world and the people who are in the world, are the people who are in the world.
They are the people who are in the world and are the people who are in the world.
Like our sages said, It's a law of nature that which means, of course, it's the name, the identity of the non-Jewish world.
They hate the Jewish people.
But we have to keep in mind, we Jews have to keep in mind that the reason God wanted it this way is so that the Jewish people will know that we are different if we are considered to be the nation of God.
Tracing the roots of anti-Semitism in history or even in religion and theology.
We all know that anti-Semitism is the world's oldest hatred.
And it began at the very beginning of the Jewish people.
We've been hated since we've existed.
In fact, Rashi, the great biblical commentator, comments in Parshas Veislach in the name of Revshon Bar Yachai, the great sage.
Halacha Biyadua, Sheisav Sone Li Yaakov.
This different girsa is different exact languages, but essentially it's axiomatic or it's built in.
The Almighty created a world in which the Jewish people, we, who are designated as a nation of priests, we who are meant to be an example to the world.
We who bear a responsibility to live a certain elevated lifestyle.
We are hated and we are hated.
We will be hated and somehow this is built into the fabric as difficult as that is to accept.
All this anti-Semitism you see now, the Goim were anti-Semite from day one.
All these Goim that attacks us now were around 10 years ago in the time of Hussein Obama.
They were here in the time George Bush, in the times of Reagan, in the times of Carter, and all these presidents.
Nothing is new by them.
They go to the church and they convince them we killed JC and all kinds of other things.
The Jews, the Jews, the Jews, is from day one and will always remain.
Now we know that Esau is the enemy of Yaakov.
And our sages said in the Talmud, It's a law of nature that Esau, who is the symbol of all the nations, Christians or not, he hates Jacob.
The world hates the Jewish people no matter what we do.
The Jewish people could prove to be a source of blessing to the world and yet the world will always hate us.
Esaf represents all the nations.
As Ishmael represents the Arab nations and they all hated us.
It's still going on until today.
Acts of anti-Semitism keep on going, happening everywhere in France, even in America.
Unfortunately, this is a law of nature.
As our sages said, It is a law of nature that Esau will always hate the Jewish people.
Will hate Jacob.
Jacob is the Jewish people.
And Esaf is the non-Jewish world.
There is a desire to wipe out the Jews.
And the desire to wipe out Israel is part of the desire to wipe out the Jews.
And it is a reason that I believe in the truth ultimately of the biblical narrative, especially the first five books, the Torah, that when God chose the Jews, this chosenness led them to be the world's hated people because they ended up the conscience of the world.
So in an odd way, though, aren't you making an argument against religion here?
Because if the idea is that, well, this was the chosen group, and look what, you know, as what's his name, as Tebia said in Fiddler on the Republican See, I wish we could be chosen for something else.
Well, isn't that actually an argument against religion?
Because the Jews were sort of set up, whether it's divine or man-made, that there was a setup that, guess what, you're going to be exterminated and kicked across the world?
So if you would have asked me, if you would have, if I'd have been at Sinai and I would have been told this is what's going to happen to the Jews because they're chosen, I would have said to God, thanks but no thanks.
Conspiracy theorists find culprits to blame for something that they find threatening or bothersome.
The conspiracy theorists reject logic.
So if you were to explain the irrationality of anti-Semitism to a conspiracy theorist, they would just blow you off.
They aren't interested in logic.
They are prejudiced and that's how they look at things.
Simply put, anti-Semitism makes people stupid.
It is delusional.
It's something that's always with us.
I think unlike, and that is why it may be a mistake to lump it in with, you know, all other isms, all other antis.
Because you can't reason people out of anti-Semitism because no one was ever reasoned into it.
Anti-Semitism is something that is just always with us and comes in strange waves and motions.
And we need to be able to deal with it even if we can't fully understand it.
The fact that anti-Semitism, it's more than just about the Jews.
It's about the health of a society that for pretty much all through human history, certainly as long as the Jews have been around, whenever a society becomes anti-Semitic, it's an indication about something wrong in their body politic.
That's interesting to me.
That's exactly right.
I wrote this book not just because my synagogue in Pittsburgh was the one that was shut up in October 27, 2018, but because the more I researched this topic and looked at Jewish history and really all of history, I found that societies where anti-Semitism thrives are societies that are dead or dying.
Why is that?
It's because anti-Semitism is the ultimate conspiracy.
And when anti-Semitism thrives, it's a sign that that society has replaced truth with lies.
And so anti-Semitism is a kind of one way to think about it is that it's a thought virus that's carried forward in civilization.
And just like any of us have lots of viruses in our body at a given time, as long as we're healthy, they don't show themselves.
But anti-Semitism can be described as a herpes disease.
When a society begins to become unhealthy and tearing itself apart, as we see here and throughout Europe, anti-Semitism begins to show its face.
We have been proclaimed as the nation of God.
For that, we have suffered terribly in the past.
The Jewish people still suffer from anti-Semitism and all the things and the persecution that still follows till today.
Why?
So that we should remember who we are, so that we should be kept different than all the nations.
They have persecuted us.
They have dealt with us with terrible cruelty.
Anti-Semitism is such a cruel thing against the Jewish people.
Because Jewish nation did not do anything wrong against the humanity of the world.
Ever ask yourselves, what is it that you do that makes people hate you?
Why is it you've been expelled from country after country?
Why did the Nazis feel the need to exterminate you?
And we can't answer that question because the fact is, we didn't do anything.
In fact, quite the contrary, they benefited Any country which had a Jewish population in it, any country which got rid of the Jewish population went down and slumbered in the world after being very successful.
And yet the world does not recognize any of these.
And anti-Semitism continues to go on.
To be the nation of God is not easy.
So that we should remember that we have been separated from the nations.
The prophecy says that one day the nations will recognize that and they will join also.
Hopefully, but right now we still hear about so many cases of anti-Semitism, especially now again.
After 2,000 years of persecutions and killing and massacres and things that are so cruel.
Unbelievable.
But one thing is our consolation.
We are still here.
We are still alive, as we say.
Esau became Edoim, which is a nation.
Edoim became Rome.
The Torah says Esau is Edoim.
The Gemara says, the Talmud says that Rome, that Edoim is Rome.
Zuraimi.
God decided that he doesn't want a nation, or rather Rome, a nation to be the greatest persecutory agent for the Jews.
Because that would mean that until the Mashiach comes, Rome has to be the major dominant force or nation in the entire world.
And God does not want that.
As it is, Rome was, you know, a nation for at least probably close to a thousand years.
And then the one in Constantinople won even another thousand years after that.
So what God did, which is interesting, he changed the form of Esoph.
Instead of it being Rome, it became Christianity.
They say, Jew me down, or whatever other kind of obscenities they use against us.
Every culture, every civilization had its own way to put us down.
Its own way to denigrate us.
They call us dhimmis or whatever it was.
So we were Bishvala Matzef.
The Raobanu, they saw in us, Hashfalim Sheba Umis.
We were the paradigm of a lowly nation.
In every cathedral across Europe, there are two statues on the roof.
Every single cathedral.
One statue is triumphant of a goddess.
It's head up, strong, robust, victorious.
His name is Christina.
And then there is a statue of a lowly creature, subjugated, beaten, and broken.
And his name is Synagoga.
That's what's on top of every cathedral in Europe.
That nice continent that housed the Holocaust.
That hated us for centuries on end.
Exactly what Omaji says is true of Christianity.
Christianity could not see the Jews succeed.
The doctrine of witness in Christian theology needed to show that we had to suffer.
Right?
It's ironically saved us because we have to exist.
Right?
But you can imagine ways which you can exist through.
Right?
In other words, you had to live on some level.
But you had to suffer a lot.
Because that proves that you were wrong.
You had to have a special status of suffering.
And so that unique status of that special hatred reserved for the Jew was the hatred of our brother Isaac.
It was the greatest paradox of history.
Christianity produced so much anti-Semitism.
Not only Christianity, but actually produced so much anti-Semitism.
And yet, who do they respect most?
Who do they adore?
Who do they talk to all day?
Who do they believe in?
Who do they worship?
Just another Jewish kid.
That's why God uses anti-Semitism to get the Jews back on track.
it sounds odd if you notice i have that other nations suffer from natural disasters of terrible earthquakes and and all kinds of horrible tsunamis that really We suffer, by and large, with suffering from the behavior of the non-Jewish world.
Others don't.
Eskimos don't.
They suffer from things, but not that.
But Jews clearly suffer from the behavior of the non-Jew.
Why?
Because we really trigger it.
This can be very weird to you.
Listen carefully.
When we turn our back on God, heaven forbid, when we don't observe the commandments, the light is diminished.
Meaning, the non-Jew does not have a way to go in the correct direction.
And he turns against God.
If you turn against God, what did we say in the beginning of this show?
That he turns against the Jewish people.
We trigger anti-Semitism.
Meaning, if we're not bring the light to the world by performing commandments, then the world, as a result, turns against God and then turns against the Jewish people.
So the way for the coming of the Messiah to be hastened is for the children of Israel to turn to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and form the mitzvah.
As a result, the nations of the world will go by your light.
See Isaiah chapter 60, 61.
It says that explicitly, the nations and the kings will go by your light.
Arise and shine, for your light is coming.
You see, this is a very bizarre statement.
It's fail to understand.
They say, halocha, it is a law, it is a fact.
Esaf Sun is Yaakov.
Asaph hates Yaakov.
What is that statement?
What is the Allocha that he hates?
I mean, if you hate someone, fine.
Why did Chazal have to tell me that Esauf hates Yaakov?
Because what Chazal is saying to me is a shocking fact.
Esop is the medicine for Yaakov.
When Yaakov loses his thing and he starts to work too much on what?
On Sinoskinam, Asaf comes along and smacks his brother around a couple of times and teaches him a good quick lesson.
And that's the medication for Yaakov.
Because the Jews have suffered at the hands of Christians for 1800 years.
And finally, we have achieved what's called a Tahara.
A Tahara means we are now purified from our Sinuskinam for the next 2,000 years so that we can all go to the hospital and take our medicine which is called Christian anti-Semitism.
That's the medicine.
We have to earn that through the death of these sages.
That's the connection of what it is.
That's why for the last 2,000 years we need the Christians with all their shaggas to teach us, brothers, that we're really brothers.
Bad lesson.
Not good.
But you know something?
It's a Tahara.
The British will be still saving us.
And at the end, finally, when we kind of get the idea, and we're very far from that idea, but we won't get it.
We will.
What happens is, Christo, the Mashiach appears.
You gotta understand that whatever we've reached the point to Christianity of a tremendous Tahara to all the riches.
Esuf Sunis Yaakov.
They want our medication.
Unbelievable.
It was Esau doing the job of the older brother to the kid brother Yaakov.
Still protecting them in that sense.
Even though they were very cruel and so on.
Titus puts down the revolution, Vespasian Titis with ferocity.
Later at the Batkov Vierbolt, Hadrian puts it up with ferocity because we are annoying.
We are a rebellious city that annoys the empire.
They have to put us down.
And we don't stop fighting them.
That's pagan Rome.
That's it, don't they?
They don't hate us more than anybody else, and they don't love us more than anybody else.
We're not special to them, and we're not hated.
We're just there.
And we're annoying.
And we keep rebelling.
And we keep wanting this.
And we don't put their Abu Dazza on our Bekamik Dash.
And we just stop, we just keep fighting them.
So they put us down and they just kill us the way they would deal with anyone else.
However, when Constantine takes over Rome, when the Christians take over Rome, there's something going on.
Historians debate and they look at the part of the origins of anti-Semitism.
I mean, some believe it's a little bit earlier than Christianity.
Baby's father, Vincione Penelope, talks about the origins of the Inquisition.
He talks about the origins of Christianity, of anti-Semitism just before Christianity.
In Alexandrian Greek, Greek society of Alexandria, that's where it really begins.
And we see there's some anti-Jewish people.
However, most historians will look at Christianity as the beginning of anti-Semitism.
When I say anti-Semitism, it means that anti-Jewishness.
In other words, the people who come and write and hate Jews to hate Jews, that comes from whom?
That comes from, and that can only come from within.
Hatred like that can only come from your wayward son.
Because it can only come from within.
By the way, that's why Islam never had anything to prove.
That's why they never hated us as much.
In other words, the psyche of Christianity was they had to prove that they are the true Israel.
So they had to make us evil.
They had to put us down.
Because there was change.
They were one of us.
They now moved past.
So Christianity creates the idea of anti-Semitism.
That's where it stems from.
It stems from the brother or the son, right?
A real unresolved edibuka.
It just doesn't go away.
In other words, that destruction, that hatred, it's unique to Christianity, right?
Yes, Islam doesn't like any unbeliever.
But there's no special status of lowliness to the Jew like there is in Christianity.
Christianity deals with us with the hatred of Esaf on the level of Ahaim.
So Rome itself, if it becomes the Midrashic Edom, follows suit.
It follows suit that it begins, like Ya Badiyah begins, with another nation that needs to be destroyed because of their arrogance and their excessive pride.
It ends under Christian domination with the hatred that only a brother can hate.
Right?
That intense hatred, that ability to prove you're wrong, I'm right.
The older will serve the younger.
So what is that supposed to mean?
You know, if we see that there's a constant rivalry between two kingdoms, right?
So what does that mean?
Is that the older will serve the younger, right?
Is that in the end a resolution?
Is that what will happen ultimately?
And the answer is yes.
The older means whoever comes out first will serve the younger.
So of course we know Esoph came out first and of course we know Yaakov came out second.
So that prophecy would say that Esau is going to serve Yaakov.
In other words, that's the resolution.
You shouldn't think that this is going to go on for all time.
No, there's going to be a resolution.
Whatever happens, the resolution must be where the older will serve the younger.
That's the resolution.
You see?
So in what way?
What is that supposed to mean?
So therefore, the older will serve the younger if the older remains righteous.
Because that's really the job of Esau.
The job of Esau is to serve Yaakov.
Why?
Because the job of Esau is to contend with the world, the physical world, right?
And to subdue it toward righteousness, to channel all the physicality towards spirituality.
And of course, the job of Yaakov is spirituality.
Esuf can do it by becoming as an of.
Interesting, right?
He can do it by becoming a persecutory agent, which he became, right?
Or he could do it by helping Yaakov spiritually and assisting him to do the Tikkun, one, to do the rectification, and to protect him from nations that want to destroy him.
So we see which is really very important, the real relationship between these two people.
The very important idea.
So we can imagine, right, that this has been going on for what?
Thousands of years.
You know, whether it be through Esau or Edoim or Rome or Christianity or Western civilization, for instance, Europe, with the Holocaust and so on.
They have been wiping out the Jews.
The way Asaf serves Yaakov, and I want you to hear this list as a deep idea, is by his opposition.
So let's go back in Jewish history for a little bit.
Esop was always at our throats from the time of the destruction of the second Beisa Mikdash.
Now, you could say, well, that didn't make us stronger, it made us weaker.
No, it's not true.
Opposition made us stronger.
It made us define ourselves against the backdrop of who we aren't and what we don't want to be.
Even today, one of the most effective tools of bringing Jewish consciousness to secular kids is taking them to Yad Vashem, taking them to the concentration camps.
Hello movements!
I'm on a trip.
But the Khadosh Bakur, needless to say, is the number one and the only one in En-Odmil Vado.
But Khadoshbohu decides who's going to do what and when.
The same thing, it's not only with the Iraq, it's with everything.
Somebody asked me not too long ago, where was Hashem in the Holocaust?
I says, where was he?
He did it.
What do you think somebody else can do something without the permission of Hashem?
Hashem did it.
He used a few monsters, Hitler and his clan, but who gave it okay to do that?
And if you think for a second that Hitler or anybody from that group had their own hand in it, then that's heresy.
The Kadnoshbahu himself did the Holocaust.
And when people ask, where was Hashem in the Holocaust?
He did it.
Because if you're saying anybody else did it, that is heresy.
So Hashem decides who's going to be in charge, and Hashem decides who's going to be the Irbrav.
And that's what's going on in the last 4,000 years.
It's almost like saying that Pa'o had a mind of his own.
No.
It says clearly that Hashem says, I have hardened the heart of Pa'a.
Because I don't have the capacity to put myself through this stage of purity.
So Hashem has to put leaders on us that press us.
It says in the Talmud, intracted Sanhedrin, if we do chuvah as a nation, then meadni galim, then we get redeemed.
Vehim love, and if we don't, I will put on them a king, that his decrees are worse than Haman, and he will make them do chuva.
So that's what's going on.
Hashem gives us the opportunity.
Do chuvah.
You're not going to put chubbah.
I'm going to put on your king.
It can be a king, a president.
Talmud calls it a king.
King means a ruler.
And he will oppress you.
He will put a lot of decrees on you.
And you will scream, Hashem, help us, get us out of this.
Exactly what happened in the time of Amman, exactly what happened in many times in history.
So we kind of need these evil puppets because they put us on the right track.
There's rules and then they have to be enforced.
Hashem made rules, so he put the force of evil to enforce it.
Originally, the klipah, the force of evil, was created to protect the kiddusha, to protect holiness.
What is a klipah?
It's a husk that was created to cover the godly spark and protect it.
The fact that it went and manifested into becoming worse, that's a whole different thing.
But the entire show in the last 4,000 years, and not that I'm saying that the world exists for 4,000 years, I'm going back to the flood.
That's where I'm kind of starting it.
But everything, Hashem is the orchestra.
Hashem is the architect.
Hashem is the designer.
He's the one who's sending the evil individuals.
He's the one who's sending also the saviors.
So I'm just saying that as a disclaimer.
I'm not saying in any type of a way that the Iraq Rab has the upper hand over Hashem.
Hashem is the one who's sending the Irab.
Why?
We're going to have to learn.
Why?
Hashem has his reasons.
And the same thing.
One can ask, why did Hashem send Titos to destroy his temple?
Why did Hashem send the Buchad Netzer to destroy the temple?
Why did Hashem send a paro to put us in slavery?
So we learned that the slavery was in order to get all the junk out of the, to get the klipah out, to get the kedushah out of the junk.
So the whole exile is to clean us, is to purify us, because we, our souls, are godly sparks stuck in a shell of impurity.
And one of the ways of getting the impurity off and getting the godly spark out is through suffering.
So we have to go through exile.
think if we would have a good leader would be suffering no so how would it be suffering so it has to be a bad leader to put us through suffering but at the end of the day just to make a long story short Hashem is number one, there's nobody above Hashem.
And to make things clear, Hashem is the one who sends these dobermans to bite us.
The Jewish people loves humanity, but they have to be different because that's our life, that's our nature.
Even God said, I mean, in the words of the Prophet Bilam, the Jewish people cannot assimilate with other nations.
And even if there are assimilations here and there, but the Jewish people as it is in general, Grosso Modo, cannot assimilate.
It is protected by the Almighty.
We have remained until today, which after so many years of suffering, after so many years of persecutions and hatred, we are still today a nation that is really, really showing the world tremendous in a tremendous way that the Jewish people is something to contend with.
The world is coming to his senses towards the Jewish people.
Little by little, even though there is so much anti-Semitism and everything.
The two things that are the most important in the life of the nation of Israel.
What are the two things?
In order to reserve the Jewish nation and the Jewish religion, two things you need.
One, Torah, those who were connected to Torah, they remain Jews.
Generation after generation without assimilation.
And two, separation from the Gohim.
The Jews always live in ghettos.
Always live in ghettos.
Even way before the Holocaust.
It wasn't something the Nazis made up.
The Jews wanted to be alone.
They didn't want to be mixed with anybody else.
Every country where the Jews were, there was a Jewish community.
Why now all of a sudden there's massive attacks?
Because Hashem said, enough is enough.
Why did we have one day a Holocaust?
There was 150 years of assimilation before the Holocaust.
Why Hashem waited 150 years?
And if you waited so long, why didn't you just wait forever?
And that's it.
Because he got to a situation that Hashem said, if I wait another 23 years, there's not going to Be one Jew left.
If not for the Holocaust, who knows what would have happened to the Jewish people?
It's actually the pressure and the hatred from the nations of the world towards Israel that will eventually pressure that group of Israel to carry out their vocation, their metaphysical role, if you will.
I'm not looking at anti-Semitism as something that needs to be, you know, to end because it's a natural dynamic.
It comes as a natural result of the incorrect behavior of Jews.
And that's why I see anti-Semitism as a vital role, a vital force in the system.
Because without it, that group, that people of Israel, would make even more problems and would scatter completely.
So anti-Semitism, in a sense, guards that group, the people of Israel.
However, it needs to be more on point, more directed.
Not just hatred for no reason and not violence, but rather it needs to be pressure of telling that group, you have to serve your role in the system.
You have to demonstrate your role in the world.
And if you don't do it, all of us are going into a crisis.
Look at what's happening in the world.
And gradually, on all levels, we'll see ourselves in crisis on all levels of nature.
This group has to enable this correction for all of human society.
Remember, not many people think about this.
From the womb of Rifka came out two different nations, one good, one bad.
From the womb of Avraham, I mean, from Avraham, came out Itzchat and Ishmael.
What's going on?
Trust Hashem, he knows what he does.
But we believe that as we know, our sages said that Ishmael did teshuva.
Isab, nothing is said about him, but at the end, the nations will become one and will join the Jewish people.
I don't want to say much more about that, but our prophets were very clear about that.
And now we are approaching that time.
That's what we believe.
Every nation in history were world empires, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Persian Empire.
They wanted to destroy us.
And these are the most powerful, magnificent civilizations that walk the earth.
And they are all in the dust.
They are gone.
They are simply memories in history.
And the little nation they wanted to destroy is still here.
Indeed, it is a miracle.
If you ask me why, how do I explain it rationally?
The short answer is there is no rational explanation.
And that is precisely the proof that God must have created us or designated us for a special purpose.
There has to be a reason because otherwise it makes no sense.
Anti-Semitism.
It is the most amazing, the most awesome thing in the world.
We live in Minnesota.
You go up a couple of hours north into the Iron Range, Indian reservations.
They've never seen a Jew in the world.
They've never seen a Jew.
They hate Jews.
How is this?
This is a miracle.
What is this phenomenon?
The way it started is this.
Every person chose a God.
Every nation chose a religion.
And by that, they related to the Creator and earned their way to heaven or the blessings on earth or whatever it was.
Then the Jews come along and they say, no, we're Jewish, even if we don't believe in God.
They say, wait a minute, that's not fair.
What makes you the exception?
Same is true with the land of Israel.
Every country is up for grabs.
Every country has been occupied and what the occupiers turn it into their country.
The Angles took over England, so it became England.
But Israel?
No.
The Babylonians capture Israel.
It's Israel.
It never became Babylonia.
The Romans conquered Israel.
Was it ever Rome?
No, it was never Rome.
It was Israel.
Wait a minute.
What makes Israel the exception?
Take a look at the Torah.
Right from the beginning, what caused all the problems?
What caused all the hatred?
Jealousy.
What was the problem, Kayen and Heaven?
They had the whole world to themselves and they couldn't share it.
Jealousy.
What was the problem between Yitzhak and Ishmael?
Jealousy.
What was the problem between Ja'akov and Asa?
What was the problem between Yosef and his brothers?
Anti-Semitism is jealousy.
And the jealousy comes either because they feel that we have something that they don't have, or our existence makes them feel that they are empty.
So what's the solution?
Let's be friends.
Why can't we love each other and get along?
Not good enough.
That's just a ceasefire.
That's not real peace.
This is the good news.
If you read the secondary stories, in every case where there was an anti-Semitic attack, the entire non-Jewish community came out in support of the Jews.
That doesn't make headlines.
But it's true.
So the anti-Semitism of today, the darkness of today, is simply a total lack of knowledge.
It's the absence of light, which is dangerous, but curable.
But we have to do our part.
What is our part?
Speaking to the world about right and wrong, about holiness, about godliness.
We have to bring God back to the world because the world has lost touch.
So what makes a Jew Jewish?
Not the religion.
In fact, Judaism is not a religion.
We are his people doing what he needs done.
You are Jewish.
So God expects of you something different than he expects of a non-Jew.
They are the nations of the world.
Meaning, they are responsible for the world's condition.
Our job is to bring God to the world.
So if non-Jews are raising the world towards God, and we are bringing God more and more into the world, we are bringing heaven and earth together.
And when we bring heaven and earth together, it is more godly, more divine than heaven itself.
We are the light to the nations.
It's our job to inspire them in their part of this project.
We haven't done that very much because for most of our history, if we offered an opinion, we were shot.
But now the world is desperate to hear from us.
It's become very apparent to Christians, to Muslims, that their innovation on the Bible has not been good.
So now they want to know what was the original Bible?
How did the Jews understand it a thousand years before there was Christianity?
We can now really be a light to the nations because they're listening.
And what is the message that we should give our non-Jewish neighbors?
God needs you more than you need him.
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