Here's an uncensored RESPONSE to JEW-HATRED

Candace Owens was on the Pierce Morgan show she was debating with another Rabbi and she's come out as an anti-semite as a Jew hater I mean you listen to her opinions she's just her comments about the Holocaust when the issue of islamist extremism was raised that this is starting to show and emerge in the US her reply is there's also extremist Judaism and you have to be careful you have these crazy kabad people they're are followers of the lbab and they have crazy extremist views and they're following this rabi and they're digging tunnels at their world headquarters and throwing benches and she starts ragging on about kabad how just like there's extremist Islam well there's also extremist Jews be careful they might give you some good cholent and chicken soup I don't know the initial reaction would be to be defensive okay friends The Story begins we are back we're exploring the secrets of the talmud the values ethics and lessons from the talmud and we are on the toward the bottom of bra 32b and if you're following the link on k.org that I had sent it's the second to last Hebrew paragraph of the page toward the bottom where it says the sages taught and I think today's lesson is going to be very relevant to the times which we find ourselves in because what I see over here is a lesson in how to approach anti-semites I believe I just you know you follow people on social media and or see what people post on social media advocates for Jewish people and I strongly believe we are approaching anti-Semitism incorrectly because we're spending so much try time trying to defend ourselves and less time trying to become ourselves and if we were more comfortable with ourselves and needing less the validity of other people I think we'd be in a much healthier space with that introduction that's not directly what the t's addressing but I think it's strongly related let's read it inside you guys see it the sages taught there was a related incident it's continuing from a previous incident in the talmud there was a related incident involving a particular Pious man who is praying while traveling along his path when an officer came and greeted him the pious man did not pause from his prayer and did not respond with a greeting so he's in the middle of the amida he's doing with concentration and some sort of Officer or government official comes up to him and says hey and he's just ignoring him he's back in his book the officer waited for him until he finished his prayer after he finished his prayer the officer said to him you good for nothing you endangered yourself I could have killed you right that's how it works in uh a lot of these countries isn't it written in your Torah take utmost care and guard yourself diligently and that's the verse but from which we derive the obligation to remain healthy you not put yourself in danger he says you put yourself in danger you ignored a government official who has the power to to take you into custody to kill you to do negative things to you you should have that should have uh been a priority over prayer you could have interrupted your prayers for that and is it it also written take therefore good heed onto yourselves why did you ignore the danger to your life this is what this Officer says he's kind of messing with this Jew and using his own laws and rules rules and to kind of mess with him when I greeted [Music] you why did you not respond with a greeting were I to sever your head with a sword who would hold me accountable for your spilled blood would have been your fault you had it come this is what the officer says to the guy what does the pious man say to him which by the way that's in some ways he's right you generally don't interrupt or pause in the middle of the IMA because you're talking to God unless it's a life-threatening situation um this is a life threatening situation right if an officer or police officer were to stop you in the middle of doing while you're at the airport or whatever it is it's questionable do you stop do you not stop right how big of a scene is it going to make but if you're in a communist country Canada no I'm kidding I've been waiting for that if you're if if you're in a communist country you're in China you're in Russia and an officer stops you and you don't answer right what might happen next right if you're in Iran and you're in the middle of talking to God you're doting and you don't stop you have to stop so he says the blood would have been on your hands you're doing something wrong now it's interesting by the way just to point out that the officer didn't actually kill him he was just messing with him right he didn't actually say what he was going to do he was just being theoretical over here philosophical about it the pious man said to him wait for me until I will appease you with my words in other words I have a good I have a good explanation over here he said to him had you been standing before a flesh and blood king a physical King and your friend came and greeted you would you return his greeting this is what the pious man asks him let's go to the top of 33a the officer says to him him no the pious man continue and if you would greet him what would they do to you so you're standing in front of a king in his Palace he's King's in his on his throne you're standing right there and you start chatting with somebody else what would that King do to you the officer said to him they would cut off my head with a sword the pious man said to him isn't this ma a matter isn't this matter aary inference there's no good English word for that but in Hebrew we say which means how do we translate is there a good translation for this somebody shared with me once a translation they use in the legal uh terms but isn't it something like uh something follows logically because of exactly like like B has to be true if a is true exactly like if I if I can reach the top shelf Rabbi Raleigh for sure can reach the top shelf right didn't you see a term 40 or something yeah but that I think that's like a French word no it's from Latin but we use it in English we use it in okay fine um for area Hebrew say you are standing before a king of Flesh and Blood and whom you fear is limited because today is here but tomorrow he's in the grave so you're afraid of a king of Flesh and Blood you'll respect him and not just be distracted and talk to somebody else even though he's here temporarily he's not Eternal would you have reacted in that way way right I who is standing and praying before The Supreme King of Kings the Holy One Blessed Be he who lives and he and endures for all of eternity all the more so I could not pause to respond to someone's greeting if you're afraid or or have reverence for a temporary King shouldn't we have reverence for an eternal King now mind you this is an anti-semite I don't know if he believes in God necessarily right maybe not the same version of God but this is what he's saying how did the officer react to this when he heard this the officer was immediately appeased and the pious man returned home in peace okay a number of questions practical questions come up here which is where does this Pious man get this piousness to ignore the officer at the expense of his life there there's there's something called in the talm a you know what a means a means a Pious person literally a means a fool and sometimes a person could be a foolish Pious person and that's that's frowned upon the tal gives several examples of a of a of a Pious fool somebody who sees somebody Dr drowning he says I should save him oh it's a woman I can't save her that would be physical cont right that's called that's a Pious fool right obviously life would be the priority saving somebody's life would be the priority and Jewish law of not touching the opposite gender but would be suspended the T gives another example um let's say you know there's a there's a um there's a Jewish welfare program in the Bible right called and Le and right the corner of your field that you have to leave and the sheaves of your field that you had forgotten to collect while you're reaping your field but you're supposed to or or harvesting your field you're supposed to leave it for the poor people right now how do you define poor people right there's an income level that the Tom talks about and somebody who's just below the income level and now you give him a quarter for charity out of the kind of your heart and you put him above the income level but now you're starving the guy because he can't collect that charity anymore right the name of kindness It's called The I'm just giving random examples in the tal of of a foolish Pious person he's not really P he's more foolish than he is pious obviously right we it you say Pious factiously over here we don't refer to this man is a foolish Pious person he's just a Pious person and it sounds like we we we see his behavior as something commendable something we want to learn from this is how we do it during prayer we stand up what is going on here so there are a number of commentaries that address this some of them say the fact that the officer had introduced himself he already knew this was heading in the right direction that he's messing with me he's not actually going to kill me right he was able to read a situation but there are some commentaries that take this uh that see this very differently why was he allowed to put his life in danger and not respond to the officer he didn't even notice the officer that's the real answer he was praying he was doing to God he was connecting with God when we're standing and connecting with God it's you're like on a date you go on a date with your spouse you shut off your phone talking with God I shot off the world nobody else matters this anti-semite was irrelevant that's why he didn't answer him the real reason why he didn't answer him and if I'm going to I'm not going to sacrifice my relationship to answer the phone I'm not going to sacrifice my connection with God because you want to say hey why didn't you answer me while we were praying in other words this fellow was so comfortable with his relationship with Hashem so comfortable with his Jewish identity he didn't care about the other guy about the anti-semite it wasn't like please don't distract me and this is why it's important that I pray and let me justify it's like bro I'm in the middle of something come back to me soon he didn't even he didn't even give him the attention when I read this story in the talmud the the first thing that came up in my mind was what's going on in in current uh events of Jews and Israel being blamed for things they aren't doing and US thinking that we need us as a community thinking that we need to justify ourselves we have to justify why it's okay to protect ourselves or why it's okay to publicly be Jewish and wear a keep on campus and why it's necessary and why Israel is necessary because there was a holocaust and we need the safety space and please understand why do we need to explain this to the world if we are comfortable in our identity I'm not saying we shouldn't explain this to the world I'm saying we shouldn't feel like we need to explain it to the world for their validity because we have a stronger sense of validity deep down inside I reflect back on the story of The Exodus of Egypt the night before The Exodus Hashem commands the Jewish people to paint the doorposts with blood Jewish people should remain in their homes the angel of death is going to come and slay the firstborn of all Egyptians and it's important that Jewish people stay indoors shelter stay at home I remember when the shelter in place during Co four or five years ago took place it was around the time where it was around pesak time and everybody was referencing this quote in the Bible shelter at home stay in place for pesak right this was the first Passover and we were commanded to shelter at home why so the basic reason and this is the reason Rashi brings is that this angel of death you know get out of the way the Egyptians are out and about the angel of death is going to kill them and you stay at home and just don't don't get in the way one of the commentaries known as the abarbanel one of my favorite commentaries really lot of fun a lot of interesting explanations by raise of hands have you heard of the abarbanel his name is ranel Abel originally lived in Spain um I know I'm going on a little bit of a tangent here hope you're okay with itel lived in Spain in 14 1500s he was an accountant and a rabbi you know whose accountant he was King Fern fer Fernand Fernando and Queen Isabella he was their accountant and when it came time for the expulsion and all the Jews are being kicked out of Spain he's packing his bags and they say we're going to offer you the opport to stay because we're you're a good accountant and you get to stay he says no I'm not leaving my people if the Jews are going I'm going and he ended up leaving and unfortunately as a result of that he lost a lot of his writings as well um he then moved to Italy fascinating okay sorry my that was all in Brackets um brackets closed the abarbanel says why shelter in place the angel of death doesn't know and God doesn't know that these are Jews these are Egyptians kill these people don't kill these people it's going to get confused remember the story of Kamar coma we discussed a couple weeks ago our last Tom class right so he gonna get confused he doesn't know so the aranel says there's a different reason why we needed to shelter in place what's going to happen the the the angel of death is coming and killing the first borns what's Pharaoh going to do guys get out of Egypt and we're going to be tempted to run out of Egypt because Pharaoh just gave us permission shelter in place you don't need Pharaoh's permission to leave Egypt you're not leaving Egypt and you're not going to be free because Pharaoh says you're free you're going to be free because God says you're free so shelter in place and you're going to go out not in the middle of the night when Pharaoh releases you out of out of pressure but when God redeems you in broad daylight the next morning that's when you're going to get to go that's when you're going to get to leave in other words the validity of our freedom is not coming from Pharaoh it's coming from God the validity of us being the Jewish people of us having a connection to our promised land does not come from the UN or from CNN or any of those any of these people we don't need their validity we don't need to explain it to them it comes from God I'm sorry if I'm getting a little political here but um and I might get canceled for this but what the heck no I'm kidding just yesterday Candace Owens was you guys saw this Candace Owens was on the Pierce Morgan show um she was debating with another Rabbi yeah exactly I see the comment there um she was debating with another Rabbi who was also uh controversial for other reasons which we won't get into on the air um and she's come out as an anti-semite as a Jew hater I mean you listen to her opinions she's just her comments about the Holocaust her comments about and when the issue of islamist extremism was raised that this is starting to show and emerge in the US her reply is there's also extremist Judaism and you have to be careful you have these crazy kabad people they're followers of the laab and they have crazy extremist views and they're following this Rabbi who died 30 years ago and that they're continuing to follow his path and they're digging tunnels at their world headquarters and throwing benches and she starts ragging on about kabad how just like there's extremist Islam who wants to kill people in the name of jihad because they don't believe what you believe well there's also extremist Jews be careful right they might give you some good cholent and chicken soup I don't know what's they'll ask you if you've wrapped today yeah exactly it's I feel and the reason why I mention this is because the initial reaction from any uh any Jew who would respect the would be to be defensive and to start explaining how she's Incorrect and how she said some horrible things as well which we don't need to get into you can watch it on YouTube um but to explain why she's Incorrect and why that's a lie and why she's misleading people and we have to explain ourselves have to justify our existence and then I read this story in the talmood of this Pious person who has a connection and doesn't care about the officer why do I need to justify my existence to Candace Owens or to the world watching her who cares the best response is to feel very strong about who I am maybe we will respond to her maybe somebody will respond to her but the moment we feel the need to be defensive is the moment that we've lost focus on who we really are and that's a problem the moment we're very focused on who we are like that Pious person in prayer I'm using this Pious person in prayer as a model to understand our general connection with God which is inseparable and the more comfortable we are with that the more we don't care about these officers bothering us from the outside reminds me of the story of porim um Esther was afraid to be proud of her Jewish identity she was afraid to serve as an advocate for the Jewish people right morai says go go in there she says I can't I'm they're going to kill me they're you know the king doesn't respect you he says this is you think you ended up in this position by accident you think you're a Jew who happens to be the queen and the Jews happen to be in trouble and you happen to have the ability to save them and it's not your job he says go and she ends up going and the first thing she does first of all she fasts she does t shua she does which is not usually the best thing you want to do before you know fasting and stuff before going into a king after you haven't seen him for 30 days and it's not going to impress him but that wasn't her goal her goal was to become more comfortable with her Judaism her comfortable with her relationship with God and she walks in and she tells the king uh after the banquet and you know after a series of of various events that there somebody who wants to eradicate my people and um this is causing a lot of pressure on me he says who's your people who is this he says it's h on he wants to kill the Jewish people and she reveals that she's Jewish immediately she earns the respect of she earns the respect of the king the moment she was comfortable with her Judaism was the moment that the Jewish people were respected the moment we feel that we need to respond to Candace Owens because we need to be defensive the moment that we feel that our freedom comes from Pharaoh rather than God the moment that we feel that we need to start justifying our connection to God to this officer who's bothering us we're missing the point we're not connecting properly the solution to anti-Semitism I'm not saying that we should not serve as advocates and throw these things in the garbage but I'm saying that if that's the starting point I believe that's a problem it's not going to work if we want to remain strong in our Jewish identity and shut down anti-Semitism um and anti-semites and Jew haters we have to be very comfortable with we are very comfortable with who we are I want to share with you another story I've shared with you this story in the past but I think it's very relevant to our discussion right now in the 1920s there was a mentor Mas in Thea system his name was kman kelman was a special special teacher in the Yesa he would teach and he would Mentor the young students Inspire them and for bring with them he was very committed to the extent that the Yeshiva was constantly on the Run constantly moving because yiva was actually illegal in communist Russia and and had to move every few months and he would move with it it went from laich to Rav to I don't know it's a bunch of different places eventually it made its way to Israel and eventually it made its way to America he's teaching in the evening a Tanya class to Young students maybe teenagers I don't know underground in a basement and they have two students on the outside watching to make sure the KGB doesn't come or to inform him should the KGB come and at some point the KGB got word that this Tanya class was taking place in the evenings so they had sent an officer to come beforehand go into the class in the basement hide behind the door and basically surprise make a surprise arrest so in the middle of his class he's getting all into it and and passionate and he's really just people are soaking it in and the officer pops out with his rifle and says now what do you have to say without skipping a beat ROM looks up slams his fist on the table and says my let's pray evening service right class is over that's what I have to say I totally dismissed the guy he was so comfortable with this Judaism he was so comfortable with what he was doing he was so confident that what he was doing is the truth and it can not not do it because this is what's going to bring light and goodness to the world he didn't care about that officer he was like theid in this story just praying and I don't care about this guy dismiss him and the guy respected it you know what the guy did he let them finish myff then he arrested kman ended up getting a citation he had to do community service he had to do street cleaning kman used to wear his shab his clothing the street cleaning because to him it wasn't um something he bickered about and like why me it was a badge of honor he knew why he was doing the street cleaning it was because he was so proud been confident with who he was if you look at the end of the story what was the officer's ultimate reaction he didn't just leave this Jew alone it says when he heard this the officer was immediately appeased and the pious man returned home in peace and the commentaries point out that the officer started off as an enemy and turned out eventually to be an advocate to be a supporter to the point that this guy was able to leave in peace with protection because when we're comfortable with our Judaism when we're comfortable with who we are when we're proud of who we are nothing can get in the way when we have a strong stable connection with God what what could be stronger than that okay that's my story and I'm sticking to it I'm waiting for the recording to finish