"People Have NO IDEA What's Really Happening To The World..."

the yeshiva.net we are Divine ambassadors part of our mission in the world is to protect truth to fight for justice to stand up to evil and to protect innocent people so the Jewish people as all good people need to do whatever it is in their power to stand up to anti-semites to protect the Jewish people from anti-Semitism from anti-semites and anti-Semitism however and this is the important thing we must never internalize the anti-Semitism and make it the main motif of our story the main motif of our story is that we are agents of the creator of the world to transform the world welcome to ordinary people with extraordinary stories I'm K web host of this podcast joining me today we have Rabbi YY Jacobson who is returning again if you watched his previous episode he was talking a lot about his personal story and his personal life and we thought we'd have him back at this point in time to speak about the topic of anti-Semitism when we look outside we see that anti-Semitism nowadays is just so rampant and everyone is trying to Grapple with it and trying to find the answers to it and to what we can be doing and how do we look at this what perspective we can have on this situation so Rabbi Jacobson thank you so much for joining us we really appreciate your time and your wisdom thank you thank you for the invitation and for the privilege and opportunity thank you I got tremendous feedback on our previous convers previous one it was amazing we got tremendous feedback so many people were so touched and so enlightened by through your wisdom so that's why we keep having we keep having you back as long as you agree thank you that means a lot I appreciate it it's it's not always so good to be so good because then you just get asked back right in any case so the topic of anti-Semitism let's first how would you define what is anti-Semitism and how does it differ let's say from other forms of hate it's a very powerful question and I think uh anti-Semitism you know is we have a great maybe it's sad to say but we have a great Advantage you know what would they say hindsight is 2020 and Jews have been around uh for 3,700 years approximately since the first Jew Abraham and anti-Semitism has been there from day one or almost from day one so we have so much experience with uh anti-Semitism and uh when you have so much experience with antism there a lot of wisdom there a lot of a lot of pain but also a lot of wisdom so anyone whoever thinks about you know discusses anti-Semitism it's always so important to be able to have perspective we literally have 2020 vision of hindsight of almost 4,000 years of a people that hasn't had a day of almost hasn't had a day of peace and serenity and Tranquility so there's so much to learn from that and any healthy approach would really needed taken all of our history into context so you know one of the great one of the most important things about anti-Semitism is that it's never about what Jews do and don't do it's been around literally for thousands of years in countries that even never saw they never even saw Jews right people who never even had interactions with Jews and yet the anti-Semitism is so deep and so profound another fascinating thing is that it spans cultures religions philosophy secular cultures religious cultures from all types and shapes and it it tells you something so so profound and really there's only two ways to look at it either Jews are such a heinous evil disgusting abominable Nation Vermin of the earth bacteria of society the cancerous tumors that will destroy all of human civilization and therefore the hatred is so Justified and it should be pervasive and it should continue for eternity as long as there's even one Jew alive that's one perspective and then there's of course the antithetical perspective and that is wow what is this about the Jewish people what is this energy that they bring into the world that has triggered and continues to trigger millions billions and billions of people for thousands of years across cultures and countries and civilizations and Empires from all types and walks of life it's like wow wow I really want to learn about this and sadly to say Jews who are not anchored in a healthy and Powerful Jewish perspective naturally and I say this without judgment can easily gravitate to the other end to the other perspective it's like what are we doing so wrong that it's triggering this and and I get it because if as I one said in a lecture if my child is being expelled from every single classroom every sing single school by every single principal and teacher even schools that are known to be good schools nice schools good principles suddenly they say you know what maybe your kid has the problem so Jews look at themselves and they say we have been expelled literally from almost any country we lived in you could count on one hand the number of countries that have not expelled Jews and that includes New Zealand Australia and maybe another two or three including the United States of America although we came close so that's a tremendous blessing you know America but when you look at it's like that why did everybody expel us what is it my nose is it our wealth is it our poverty is it our relig there must be something so despicable and that's a perspective that I get and right sadly unconsciously unconsciously many Jews internalized us and the only the only only remedy is to really understand anti-Semitism from a true deep Jewish perspective which is a very spiritual perspective and you have to come to terms with very profound truths about the Jewish people that are uncomfortable for many Jews so so what would that spiritual perspective be I I mean we know we know it says that it's it's a known H it's a known fact that asov hates Jacob the spirit so yeah what does that mean like why why is that and what is the spiritual dimension of it yes I think one aspect of it is you know I've I've said the I've given a lecture the other day it was a few months ago at a at The jli Retreat and I said you know my stud people always ask me lectures or seminars or classes or emails you know can you really prove that Torah is from Heaven Can you really prove that Judaism is divine after everything said and done can a rational scientifically prone mind in 2025 really Embrace in an internalized and authentic and mature way this idea that Torah is divine what we call Torah isay and it's a very legitimate and good question of course because there are so many myths out there and I I've said to students I said that maybe one of the most powerful proofs in thousands of years that literally Torah is divine is when you look at the world during this past year and a half because something unimaginable and unfathomable happened literally and that is Israel was attacked attacked Out of the Blue October 7th 2023 Sor 5784 in the most heinous and barbaric way atrocities that reminded us literally of the Holocaust and barbarity that reminded us of the Middle Ages literally 1648 1649 and we're not going to get graphic here but everybody knows the story sad and they continue as we speak the bias babies brought back in coffins Etc [Music] and what you would expect on a minimal level would be some empathy some understanding and in the most elite academic institutions of the United States of America not North Korea not Syria and Egypt and Afghanistan but United States of America Elite institutions academic institutions dedicated to Progressive thought to Liberal thinking to open mindedness to tolerance to sensitivity for human rights Hamas was lorded and praised the Jewish people in Israel deemed as the villain and this happened all over America all over the world and Jews began scratching their heads like who's living in a nightmare who's living in The Matrix is this a real world is this a fake world is this the United States of America is this Harvard University Oxford University Columbia University Yale University n University I mean Jewish parents have been paying $3 $400,000 to get their kids through universities and this for them was the quinty cenal American Nas the golden Medina we made it my kid made it through Harvard $400,000 less I told them you can give the money to kabad and send your kids to Yesa and you they'll know the difference between Hitler and church know the difference between good and evil that's said it's not so complicated and but what does this show us what does this tell us and never mind in newspapers and and websites the levels of anti-Semitism from people who were considered civilized and and I said this for me for me this is the greatest proof that Torah is literally Divine when you read it the Torah says God has chosen the Jewish people to revolutionize the landscape of planet Earth to transform the world to be his agents to create Divine bring in Divine Consciousness into the world or inic terms to turn the world into a place of Holiness morality goodness and godliness now we we live in in in such different times we have come to doubt this you know we're just people we suffered a lot finally We Made It in America we did amazingly well here with God's grace I mean America has been so good to the Jewish people my parents and so many other parents are refugees who ran away from stalinist Russia or from Hitler's Holocaust or every person unbelievable opportunity for religious Jews for secular Jews for Jews who wanted to assimilate for Jews who didn't want to assimilate for Jews who wanted to make money for Jews who wanted to go into Academia to Hollywood and to Wall Street and politics and polit incredible incredible stuff what happened there and and the government even assisting people and the freedom the freedom of religion I mean such incredible opportunity and felt finally right made it you know this is if this is exile you know what does redemption look like like what else do you want what and we even have a state of Israel it's like we have a main you want to go to Israel for three weeks and ew and and Strauss ice cream you can do that you can even visit the Western Wall and then you come back to your beautiful apartment in Lakewood mon Beverly Hills Chicago Toronto not Toronto Toronto is not the United States too C you from anywhere right really really really amazing no interesting that you say this because when I was recently interviewing n in black he was saying that the reason why he decided to convert to Judaism one of the things that struck him was the anti-Semitism the suffering of the Jews and when he was learning about the Holocaust and it was just fascinating to me to hear that someone who heard about the suffering of Jews decided because of that the this proves the authenticity of the Torah it just show what a soul what an what a soul does has un unbelievable there seems to want to say something cute want interviewed me in the beginning of Corona we did a we did a zoom together and he said you know when I was learning for conversion I wanted to learn Judaism so and chabas is the best day to learn Torah so he said I put on your classes every shabas and I learned with you and and this and it was amazing shabas I said you know I think you're the first person I could say I'm so proud that you were listening but it's it's such a true sentiment it's like where is this coming from unless right unless somebody cannot accept that the Jewish people represent an energy in the world that is literally otherworldly none of this makes sense and we're going to do one of two things either just blame oursel endlessly and incessantly and become schmus and spineless victims of always finding where we are at fault which is one of the greatest Jewish traumas that we have from 2,000 years of Exile self shame self-loathing inferiority complexes etc etc or it's just such a sense of Despair and Gloom and depression when really really Jews were never embarrassed by this because it just showed them what a good job we're doing it showed them that that this is true this is you're dealing with a very holy people and the the our greatest responsibility is for us to recognize our Holiness and not to live in fear but to live charged as never before with completing our mission right so do you think that there's been like an explosion after October 7th it seems like there's been such an explosion of anti-Semitism but there's also been an explosion of the opposite of people who are know love the Jews who came out as well and do you think that there's any connection of that to the time period of mashiah when things are going to become much clearer who the good and who the evil is what like how would you explain that I think absolutely I think you know we're dealing now with a world that every few years is changing in such rapid pace and such such Transformations happening in such a short of time Lally the last 100 years the world has changed in a way that hasn't changed for 5,000 years in the last 50 years it has changed dramatically and in the last five and 10 years it's like if you missed the news for the week right I sometimes shut the news for a few days because I need to be a little normal and think right and you come back a few days later it's like you know it's like what happened in the last few days it's it's so it's so dramatic and it's so intense that's on a global level emotionally too we're seeing such rapid change and upheavals within people's person we spoke a little bit about this in our in our in our previous conversation and interview so I think a lot of Truth is coming to the whenever whenever Society is experiencing such upheavals and Transformations there is naturally an element of anxiety and fear but really what's happening is truth is coming to the FL it's being spit in our face the Prophet Daniel speaks about the fact that during Messianic times there'll be Clarity he says the words things will become clear good evil black white hatred love bigotry acceptance and I think we are seeing that in a very very powerful ways and it's it's it's painful but it's also a tremendous blessing and by the way people are seeing this in their personal and familiar lives we have been good at repressing stuff for thousands of years and it did us well and today it's not working like today the infections the toxicity it's all coming to the four but that means also the faith is coming to the four the fortitude the resilience all the evil but also all the goodness and I think we see both and whenever you're in such a space it's like almost God and history beaconing at you like show up show up this is not a time to cow it's a time to lead this is a time to empower this is a time to inspire and the fact that there's so much ugliness that's emerging is only only an opportunity to be able to give people Clarity so that we could really choose you can finally choose choose which side of History you're going to be on choose what type of person you're going to be choose in which frequency you're going to live in this frequency of of fear shame hate guilt negativity toxicity or in the frequency of Oneness and authenticity and love and Redemptive Consciousness what a gift the gift of choice the gift of choices only when you see two choices and you see the contrast and then you could like oh wow we could finally choose what is much worse is when there's confusion and there's blurriness and this fog you know there's just this fog the fog in the mind fog in the soul and things are very very confusing it's that tree of knowledge that's mixed between good and evil and then you don't know what's life and what's death and and who's right and who's wrong and what's real and what's not real and when things come to the for in this way it's a tremendous opportunity so sh should we be fighting like if if this is just a spiritual reality that is you know just supposed to be and it's going to be it was it was from the beginning of the time and it's going to be till the end of the time so should we be fighting anti-Semitism should we be calling out anti-Semitism should we be putting our strength into that or should we just be shining the beacon of light as you're saying like what what should be our attitude towards anti-semites and anti-Semitism such an important and Powerful question we are Divine ambassadors part of our mission in the world is to protect truth to fight for justice to stand up to evil and to protect innocent people so the Jewish people as all good people need to do whatever it is in their power to stand up to anti-semites to protect the Jewish people from anti-Semitism from anti-semites and anti-Semitism to call out evil to educate Society in every conceivable and possible way with absolute Clarity conviction moral fortitude resilience and Faith however and this is the important thing we must never internalize the anti-Semitism and make it the main motif of our story the main motif of our story is that we are agents of the creator of the world to transform the world to create a Divine Revolution where Divine awareness and Consciousness floods the Earth like the water covers the sea in the phrase of the prophet Isaiah about the Messianic times our mission is to be able to hold up the frequency of love and Oneness and I want to I want I want to articulate something that I think in cabalistic andic literature is articulated in the most stunning of ways stunning of ways and it's even saying it is soothing for my soul even though it's such a painful subject and that is what is the real you know what is the the core of anti-Semitism we can get into all of the historical data and facts and that's important but I want to like get to the core of it the core of it is as follows the Jewish people were chosen by the creator of the world to hold up a certain frequency what's this frequency we can live on different frequencies literally I could live on the frequency of hate guilt shame negativity jealousy animosity insecurity comparing myself to others looking for validation whatever it is the Jewish people were chosen to hold up the frequency of Truth what's the frequency of Truth the frequency of Truth is the Oneness of Hashem the Oneness of God that pervades every leaf every reptile every fish every bird every mammal every human being every Star every atom every neuron every cell from the black hole to a tiny frog or squirrel in my backyard here in Mony New York the Oneness of Hashem that pervades everything and that life is about a choice between tuning into the frequency of Oneness and truth and trust and faith and love or tuning out of that frequency into the frequency of ego which is easing god out or easing greatness out to the all of the different distractions in life whatever they may be which take me away from the frequency of Oneness the Jewish people were chosen to hold up this frequency all of anti-Semitism is the attempt of what the cabala calls the kipa the shells of reality that are not ready to face the truth that everything is part of Oneness fighting this frequency by killing the Jews by persecuting the Jews they hope consciously or unconsciously that they will finally be able to extricate themselves in the world from this truth that the Jewish people are holding up to their face and it's very very hard to accept and they push against us and sometimes they're very successful a holocost was quite successful it wiped out a third a third of the Jewish people right most European Eastern European jury was wiped out hmon came close to success hmon you know I'm laughing but his agenda was exactly Hitler's agenda and hamas's agenda and Iran's agenda to wipe out every single living Jew what what is this what what what what is it what it's our nose what we like sushi we like Chinese food we like Gulf it's very very deep it's so deep remember now fa and I heard it recording P 1965 dedicated talk antisemitism and this was his point the Jewish people are holding up the frequency of Oneness and this is push back let's destroy it and you know what happens they push down the Jewish people but we come right back and the reason we come right back is you can destroy God you can destroy the frequency of Truth what is mssiah Messiah is when all the Clippers when all the shells in the world say okay we got it it's time to surrender it's time to surrender to truth that is Redemptive Consciousness we must fight anti-Semitism but our main goal is hold up the frequency of Truth hold up the frequency of Love Don't duck don't surrender this is not about ego this is not about arrogance this is about the Divine mission to Heal the World when Jews start internalizing the hatred with self-doubt and ambivalence it creates emotionally sick Jews the leadership of Israel for Generations I grew up at the feet of the laab chereb as many of you know and I was privileged the last years to be one of his oral scribes one of the most painful things that I experienced throughout my entire childhood was the Reb almost at every single public address crying his heart out that the leadership of the Jewish people in Israel don't understand what it means to be a Jew what it means to be a proud Jew and how to deal with poisonous hatred instead of concessions and more concession and more concessions that literally invites the devil into your home which is exactly what happened at October 7th or as Winston Churchill said appeasement is feeding the alligator in the hope that you will be eaten last right instead hold up the frequency of Love of Life be obsessed with love of life and stop apologizing and the world will respect you because those who hate you will hate you regardless and those who are looking for truth will admire you so deeply they're craving for this they're yearning for this I mean if you just look at the developments recently you have and and this is really really completely Beyond politics but you have a njw considered the leader of the free World okay having the for the first time in history to say that America who does not own the Middle East is going to occupy occupy Gaza take all of its residents and send them to some Paradise country where they can live in peace turn Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East reporters were screaming it's their home it's their home and the President says their home it's a hell H ho it's a hell hole what a home what a home you want people to die and die and die more war more war more I'm giving them an alternative and I'm thinking to myself and Jews who were promised and given by God Israel 4,000 years ago Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses Joshua David Solomon Etc we're embarrassed to say this for 60 years we're embarrass even speak like we were so afraid of the Word occupation the Word occupation as though Jews are occupying the whole world from Japan to Alaska from Peru to Moscow we have one little little tiny country the size of New Jersey and Dallas International Airport that the creator of the world has given us with 52 Muslim countries around and we're afraid to say the words this is mine and not because I'm a conqueror because it's one little piece of land that the creator of the world gave to the Jewish people for eternity this is what happens when Jews instead of understanding who they are from within are looking without for validation could you tell me I'm a good guy could you tell me I'm happy could you tell me please that I'm a smart fellow you know we talk about psychologically the the desperation for the need of validation not knowing who you are from inside collectively this is one of our greatest crises for thousands of years right but when when you say that you know the reason for anti-Semitism is because we're holding up this this uh Symphony of the world we're holding up this this this this truth so why would it be against Jews who are not religious or who are not connected to holding up this a good that's that's that's such a good question you know who asks this question always these Jews these Jews did everything I intim I'm sure I inter married yeah I remember my mother told me about a woman who says who was commed to her that one of her children became religious and she says to my mother I don't understand what happened I raised her on GL trafe right I fed her only tra where did she get these crazy thoughts of religion right these are what these Jews are saying we have contributed more money to Harvard University and Columbia University than any other demographic in the world we have built more museums we have sponsored more programs for tolerance between Arabs and Jews than anybody else in the world when I went to visit those who were evacuated from the south after the massacres of October 7th one of the woman was telling me she looks at me she says r you don't understand I was the one who was transporting cancer patients from Gaza to Israeli hospitals day after day after day because I love people because I want coexistence and these are the people who came into my house and murdered my family she couldn't even understand it she couldn't wrap her around it like where we're the atheists we're the seculars we're not the that's the question fundamentalists right excellent but if it is a spiritual concept that they're fighting against that you know then why are they fighting against exactly everyone very powerful and the answer to this is as powerful as the question sometimes answers are not as good as questions in this case I think the answer is more on to the question and I'm GNA quote here the RAB who once said on Pur that the Milla the Book of Esther talks about Hayman who hated M because he wouldn't bow down to him or to put it an our uh vocabulary M would hold up the Divine Symphony and the frequency of Oneness and he would not let it go even when hon passed it now hmon wasn't stupid hmon was a deep guy he looked at M said everybody was bowing down to him now I want to ask you a question if if I don't know six billion people were bowing down to you every time you walk down the street and one old Jew did not bow down to you big deal big deal why did hmon care so much everybody's bowing down to you the whole world is crazy about you the answer is he knew that m is the only one who got it right everybody else is just selling their soul everybody else they don't believe they don't even know who they are M actually hum and looked into M's eyes he knew that M got it right this drove him crazy it created such a powerful void in Hon's life so what does he do he says I want to kill this man but then he says no I'm not killing him I'm goingon to kill every last Jew man woman and child because they told him about the nation of M what did they tell him what did the Reb said what did they tell him and the Reb said beautiful words this is actually purm 1966 which means almost 60 years ago and a year before the sixth day war the rebbi said hmon thought it to ask a question this M's stubbornness not to bow down to me is it coming from his own intelligence and spiritual Acumen and the inner emotional work that he did on himself and they told him no it's something that belongs to the entire nation every Jewish child has it the Reb said Inon realized every Jewish baby is a little little M and even that Jew who screams I'm an atheist I'm secular I'm not connected I don't learn Torah I don't observe m i don't even believe in it I think the whole Bible is fiction maybe I like a filter fish I had good grandparents who were religious but I'm really disassociated from this I'm just a liberal Progressive left-wing Democrat who believes in science and physics and I'm a darwinian I I really don't buy into any of this they would be sent to the gas Chambers just as the Jew with theal and the great Rabbi and Mystic and Scholar why so the Tanya the author of The Tanya is the founder of kaban and it's probably one of the most fundamental ideas in inic philosophy and spirituality he says in chapter 18 this only tells you who's holding up the frequency every Jew every Jew how their very presence they may not see it in themselves but the whole world sees it in them and I'm going to tell you H beautiful and this is the this is the truth and because it's so true this is how the alterb in t makes a point and he says so stop living a lie where you're betraying yourself every every day start seeing yourself the way everybody else sees you because they're actually seeing the truth and you know deep down when it comes to a moment of true vulnerability and authenticity you know that you won't give that up so that's that's that that's the sad thing when I am split Within Myself you know and I don't know who I really am and then what I need to say is oh they hate me just because I have money or because I don't have money it used to be because we live in the and we smell and then it was because we assimilate with everybody it's because we're successful because we're unsuccessful it's because we have our own religion because we are religious because we're not really religious there's always different excuses we want to because we're capitalists because we're Communists because we're socialists because in every generation there's another excuse but it's all coming back to the same point there's a Holiness that the Jewish people embody and the world is sensitive to it and the evil is even more sensitive to it because evil is allergic to goodness and and I always tell campus students I said you want to know how holy the Jewish people are just look at who hates them you know tell me who hates you and I'll tell you who you are when you're hated by Pharaoh by hmon by Nadar by Titus by vaspian by ketki by Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler akman himler goils Rosenberg yaser Arafat nasra and Osama Bin Laden right raani andad and sinir wow did you memorize all this this is my history incredible wow incredible yes when you're hated by all these people I want to know what are you doing right I want to be your friend that's why NBL converted I want to be your friend right what is your secret wow if Hitler sees in you the embodiment of evil endangering his very existence wow wow you're doing something right Stalin sees you as the greatest enemy of mankind everyone who believes in murder and rape and sadism and barbarity sees you as culprit number one whom we have to get rid of you are the embodiment of Satan wow I want to be your friend I want to know your secret how much goodness do you represent that all of these people who murdered millions of their own people not just they murdered millions of their own people right stal mured more Soviets than hit Stalin murdered more people than Hitler and most of them his own people the Soviets and they hate you more than anybody else wow it says in Psalms I become wise for my enemies and this is another incredible thing you see is people think that the Jewish people today are not the same Jews who stood at sin who left Egypt who experienced porm who experienced Kaneka who coronated King Solomon who built the first temple the it's not the same Jews come on on we're just living in the 20 it's not the same you know we have some memories maybe we still keep the seventh day but look at anti-Semitism and you'll see it's exactly the same Jews who left Egypt and stood at SI and the same Kash who fought the Syrian Greeks and Kaneka and the same RAB AKA who fought the Romans the same exact Jews just look at the hatred and you'll see it hasn't faded the same intense Venom towards our ancestors 100 500 th000 2,000 3,000 years ago still lives today what does that mean it means that our spiritual energy is as strong as ever look in the mirror and you'll see it look look look what they're seeing in you don't call yourself a simple insignificant valueless Jew who's just around after thousands of years you're literally carrying that frequency of divine Infinity that They Carried when they left Egypt and they stood at Mount sin it's your genes it's your energy look at it wow celebrate it so does that mean that we can't do anything about it though like the you know on the one hand it's a wow because it's h been happening for thousands of years and they realize who we are but on the other hand it almost feels like well it's just going to continue no matter what so that's a very sad like Outlook as well but I think it's to the contrary I think there's a tremendous amount we can do on two fronts first of all there's the natural front and there's the supernatural front on the natural front I think Jewish people are living today in a position where they have thank God been given a gift that they can defend themselves through Israel and also through allies many good people many still very good people whether it's in the United States of America or around the world and this is where we need to be able to stand up with absolute pride and conviction in the words of theal somebody who comes to kill you kill him first this must be done on every level politically militarily and also spiritually and socially and educationally in other words when the Jewish people will finally be able to embrace who they are and understand that their rights for example to the land of Israel don't come from the United Nations or from the Bal for declaration or from any individual who agrees that they're entitled to have a land that belongs to the Jewish people but it's the it's it's it's a sacred gift of Hashem of God to the Jewish people that Abraham Isaac Jacob David Solomon Samuel and Saul Saul and Jeremiah Amos and Isaiah walked on this soil and it's not just a history it's it's truth of History it's that too but it's also a Divine truth woven into the fabric of reality is that Israel belongs to the Jewish people stop conceding stop compromising the Arabs never got the memo that we won they never got it you know why because we pushed them away with one hand and we brought back the terror with another hand we're like yeah we want but we're a democracy and you also have a point and the terrorists all around Israel realized oh we could win this war they don't have the confidence they don't have the unwavering strength for every Victory we made another concession for every Triumph we said but you know what we're not really sure about this and this has been the worst disaster in the last 100 years that a modern powerful country should make such grave errors of doubting itself and not understanding its neighbors it made it worse not only for the Jews it made it worse for the Arabs so this is on a very practical level Jews need a different way of thinking stop appeasing stop being afraid of people's opinions realize who you are what your responsibility is never ever ever make compromises with people who want to murder every single child of yours stop that game the war against tamas and Gaza it started Tom late October 8th no the moment the fogal family was slaughtered in itamar Friday night an entire family was slaughtered that was October 7th the gates of hell should have opened up on terrorists but Jews appeased and appease and appease and deluded themselves that they're developing this new Middle East shim peris said we have M new Middle East and it's the fanatic radicals like the laere who are destroying the peace and who are pessimists and don't believe in a bright future and when one Jew is murdered a family is murdered a bus explodes it's just it's just it's nothing this was Jews Jews severed from their soul from their conscience from their Torah the Torah says you need to protect a country and you need to protect every citizen with unwavering strength so that's something that needs to be done should be done on every level on all fronts with every resource that we have unapologetically and in fact all good people in the world will say thank you even if officially they won't be able to approve of everything but especially today they'll say thank you they will love it on a spiritual level though it's only an invitation to show us how much progress there was how much progress there is thousands of years the world is getting closer to Redemption those of these efforts so not only is there not something that it's not only not an invitation to passivity but on the contrary it means that every single time a Jew Tunes in that frequency of Oneness and love and faith and trust which is basically channeled through Torah and Mitzvah through Torah and mitv that's the channel of the frequency of Oneness every time we tune into it there you're making a real real difference and no go what what what about Jews who are afraid you know because of the anti-Semitism to display their jewishness what what would you say about that you know what is there there's a a real danger to wear a yamaka in some City in France you know or in in the on the subway in New York City what would you say to that or put your mauza on your doorpost in your college campus right right it's a it's it's this is a very very sensitive question because uh you know can one demand from a person you if a person feels his real danger in this neighborhood or this community that if he has a muza on the door he goes a yamako or he has a a garment that displays that he or she is a Jew and they could be viciously physically attacked I understand I think we have to be very very sensitive to you know that course that physical reality but I do think that on a collective level on a collective level our response must never be ducking in fear on the contrary our response must be to redouble our jewishness and to be able to realize that our responsibility to the world is to actually educate and Enlighten and Inspire the world and like Abraham smash the idols of stupidity of hatred of superficiality without shame without hesitancy without extraordinary deliberation that paralyzes us so I think collectively as a community the call of the hour is the opposite Jewish pride in the most powerful way and not pride in an arrogant way like I don't care about anybody Jewish pride in a real way is the most humble thing you can do you're a messenger it's not even about you it's not even about us it's it's really not you know you know what the interesting thing is about anti-Semitism is don't take it personal this has nothing to do with you and me I'm not so good-looking I'm not so brilliant I'm not the whatever it is it's nothing to do with us this has to do with the creator of the world don't take it personal we credit for it then therefore we don't have to shame ourselves for it this literally has to do you can open the Bible it says it hundreds of times the creator of the world chose us for this Mission it's a tremendous privilege it also comes with a lot of pain but it also comes with profound Bliss because when you tune into that energy of Being A Channel Of God there's nothing as Blissful there's nothing as powerful it's the only real reality all other Joys are distractions and cause more anxiety this is the only place to be in but there is pain because the world is not because Messiah is not here yet that's the pain the only pain is that the truth of this love is not evident in every nook and cranny and crevice of civilization and that's where we must plow ahead with the greatest of conviction and Clarity and joy sometimes it's not so clear for example there might be some people who are borderline anti-semites or somewhat anti-semitic but are also on the side of Truth or goodness or right you know the right-wing commentators who are promoting you know uh life and and and positivity and and morality should we be using these individuals for our goals or should we be staying away from them it's a very very great good question and uh I'm thinking of a precedent but it's a very different type of precedent but I think it may it may it may Enlighten Us in this area it's a story that I heard and he said it publicly from Alan dtz and he said that he once wrote he was of course a law professor in Harvard University for many decades and Professor dtz told his story publicly I think at a banquet of theab and he also it many other times and he may have wrote it but I think I heard it from him at that event or maybe another event and he said that there was a kabad institution somewhere in the United States create making a dinner and honoring Jesse Helms I believe it was who at that time was very very anti-israel extremely and dtz wrote a letter to the LA and as he put it I had a lot of and I told him rabne you know I don't know if this was your decision but you should certainly tell your emissaries that this is a horrible horrible affront to the Jewish people and to Justice and to everything you represent you're a Jew you love Israel you love Judaism and this man is an is is an anti- anti- anti-israel advocate and he speaks about it verbally and he says the re wrote him back a very very respectful letter and he says that if I could find common ground with people it's a foundation to be able to help them heal in other areas as well if I can find common ground with people I want to use it as an opportunity to be able to elevate them to educate them and and and therefore I don't agree with you so de didn't dismiss DT's claim he just explained him a different perspective and dtz says today this same man is one of the greatest mouth greatest spokesmen in America pro Israel he says he says Reb was really really right so this is a very sensitive question and it's a good question and I don't think we should you know see one side as absolutely right one side is absolutely wrong but as a student of the rebba I I I see so much see so much depth and and courage in that argument because it's not about spinelessness and it's not about let's fight for Israel and we're not going to give a voice to anti-semites who are against Israel even if when it comes to abortion or it comes to transgender you know they're on my side of the aisle and I get that I get that but the Reb's position was very different everybody knows that in terms of a spine of what it is to be a Jew and to believe in God and to believe in Tori and not gonna find a comparison to and yet in our generation he's considered the most tolerant Jew alive how do these two come together I I I saw the Reb I grew up with the rebba I knew you could not move him an inch eye of a needle when it came to values when it came to truth when it came to Torah mitz when it came to fear of God and yet this person everybody knows was considered the embodiment of intolerance Tolerance on rtion the two are not a contradiction real real relationship with God in the most authentic way looks for every opportunity to find the authenticity and people and help them find it in themselves and when you know who you are you could connect to everybody without compromising your boundaries and your values and your when you don't know who you are you have to have very strong boundaries like get out of my ghetto but when you know who you are I could connect with anybody and my intention is one intention I want to find the good in them because it's there and I want to help them find it in themselves so I think that approach can be a very very powerful approach in these areas as well interesting without without selling your soul this is not about selling your soul or selling Israel God forbid it's really so you don't think it was you don't think it was because of Israel like in other words are you equating anti-Semitism with anti-israel anti-zionism as well what about the Jews who are against Israel but are not anti-semitic is that just because they have no pride in in in their Heritage and who I think I think they they listen Jews have been reading the New York Times for generations and the New York Times has been published by Jews and is still published by Jews and during the Holocaust they minimize what was happening in the Holocaust and they wrote a public apology and they said the reason is that the Jews then were scared of triggering the Rosevelt Administration and making them feel that the Jews you know are again are looking for attention and it can create anti-Semitism and maybe even weaken their efforts in defeating Germany all these types of horrific warped calculations that allow Jews to remain silent when six million Jews were being gassed and today too there are Jews who are so indoctrinated are so brainwashed so don't think for themselves and have such so lost touch with who they are their faith their Heritage their history and their Matas apparo is appeasement appeasement appeasement so that everybody thinks I am a mench I'm an Quint essential mench sometimes there's arrogance stupidity trauma that all come together and create the profile of Jews who become their own worst enemies and and I I feel bad for them I have empathy for them if I can do something if they're open to any form of education and Enlightenment I will do it with humility and not with any arrogance or Pride because I I'm not I'm not going to judge anybody because if I had those levels of trauma and if I was addicted to the writers in the New York Times for whom Israel and Hamas are literally equated as as as as as equal equal or other or other media Outlets you know where would I be today thank God I had the privilege of standing at the feet of the rebba for the first 22 years of my life and therefore developing an approach to life and teaching today an approach to life that is so liberating and so expansive and the most important thing it's so authentic it's it's real you're not repressing you're not denying you're not minimizing evil you're not looking away half of the time it's real it's authentic it's like it's nauseous to be anywhere else I feel bad and if I could do something to help educate somebody I will do it with happiness but it's important to distinguish will you you're part of the solution or you're part of the problem when the when the Reb told dtz I'm not upset that they invited this person I don't think it was the Reb's idea but I'm not upset that they're inviting this Senator the rebba would felt that they were not being part of the problem they were not being part of the spineless um flattery of the Jewish people who are literally busy flattering their enemies hoping they're going to be eaten last but why wouldn't it be seen as such it's it could be and and and DT that was D point right that was dz's Point who who what do you feeding the codar you're feeding those who hate us what so they'll maybe maybe smile to you in 20 years when you're being led to the gas Chambers they'll give you a wave with a smile that was n what's point right fight these people to the nail and and it it's it's an amazing Point CU I don't think you know I don't think somebody in Kamas should be invited to a kabad dinner and banquet to address the situation but what I'm dealing with a proud American who's trying to be a patriot and who's actually sensitive to justice but has been brainwashed for Generations against Israel and knows about Israel less than I know about karoo in Australia knows about the reality of Israel but you're talking about fundamentally a good person who means well here the Rabbi says of course you should invest re ources in order to educate them and open them up to a side of the Jewish people in Israel that they don't know anything about in fact this was Abraham's Mission remember when Abraham came into the world you had an entire world steeped in Insanity of paganism and craziness and immorality and what was Abraham's job educate Enlighten you know what's going to happen suddenly you'll see there are millions of people who are ready to listen don't give up on God's world right don't give up on God's world but remember what your mission is don't sell don't sell the vision so th this will probably this interview will probably be airing around par zakar the para where we remember we remember a Malik how much of our energy should be focused on remembering the negativity versus bringing the light what would be the Reba's perspective on that what wonder what a wonderful question yeah no I mean I know the rebba wasn't into like making the Holocaust are you know this is the essence of what Judaism is is Holocaust Education of course but why like how much should we be educating versus remembering the evil yeah so it's interesting this question is often asked and it's almost like the two sides are pitted against each other and I personally would not see it that way I think it has to be reframed we have a daily Mitzvah there's a custom by many many Jews at the end of the morning prayers to talk about six things that we ought to remember they're called the six remance it's a very interesting Jewish custom so almost like every day stop take a deep breath close your eyes or open your eyes and remember six things and one of the things we remember every single day is remember what amik did to you why do I have to remember that every single day we have sh which is a whole shabas and a week P dedicated to remembering aik and it's a big mitvah shab it's actually according to many a Biblical Mitzvah to hear the reading of the Torah and Z but many Jews have literally a daily custom to remember amik so shows you the centrality of remembering amalik and Jewish thought it even says in the Torah remember him from generation to generation and never forget why and the answer is because remembering a Malik constantly is our only guarantee to stand up against amalik in every form and fashion and by the way inic literature there's a beautiful discussion how amalik exists inside of us too there are forces of poison and hatred and negativity and doubt and kipa shells and fakeness inside of us and every single day I have to like remember like yeah this is a part of me and it could it could rear its ugly head any moment and if I don't remember what it is and how nauseating it is and how abominable it is I can go down that rabbit hole so it's so important individually and collectively to remember amalik every day but here is the vignette and that is remembering amalik is the introduction to live with your true Essence not to allow a mik internally or externally to Define your agenda to allow Your Divine Consciousness to Define your agenda to allow God and His Torah to Define your agenda so that's where the two are completely not pitted against each other it's not like am I gon to live my entire life remembering Hitler Iran kbal and Hamas and we hope they all get wiped out very soon like Hitler or I'm gonna live as a proud Jew remembering a Malik from a Torah perspective is the inlude it's the Vista it's the foyer it's the in production in order to be able to neutralize aik whatever that Malik represents and then say and therefore this is not who I am I am a Jew who's going to build God's world who's going to build the world of redemption there's a beautiful letter written in 1965 by the Reb Ellie wizel Professor Eli wizel who was of course an aitz and buen vaal Survivor and I had also the privilege of meeting him a few times personally he was a close friend of my father and I should mention that his wife Mar and wiel just passed away a few weeks ago and she deserves a lot of credit for Elie wizel because he was uh he was somewhat of a Hermit he was a literature type of guy he loved being alone and just traveling and he was like this you know he wanted to be a bachelor and it's really her who uh convinced him to marry her but also she really helped him become the the personality that he became so she deserves a lot a lot of credit for this and the one who pushed the most to get married was theb elel told the Reb and I heard this from him he doesn't want to get married because he does not want to bring children to a world that watched a million and a half children being gazed and didn't say a word the world remain silent so there's an amazing letter from the rebit to ellel 1965 from my own knowledge it's the longest letter I have ever seen from the Reb it's a a seven-page letter the rebba didn't write usually such long letters there are longer letters but this is I think a six or seven page letter in Yiddish it's the most eloquent and beautiful Yiddish real uh beautiful Yiddish I grew up in the home of a a Yiddish journalist I appreciate a good yish so Ukrainian Lithuanian perfect literary Yiddish that the rebbi writes to wiel wiel was also a great Yiddish writer before he was also a French writer but his yish you know was from his home in Sig he came from V and it's a very profound letter one of the points Reb makes to him is you dedicated your life to remember amalik remember what Hitler has done to the Jewish people people and this is a fundamental Mitzvah that we should never forget but there's another Mitzvah that I want to encourage you to do and that Mitzvah is to make sure that Jewish life is flourishing we remember amik we also remember Sinai we remember the Exodus of Egypt we remember shabas we remember our destiny and our trajectory to build the world with Divine holy values with the seven noahide laws with Torah with Mitzvah with morality with you have dedicated your life to the first mitvah now I want you to put in equal energy not more but equal energy in dedicating your life to putting the last nail in Hitler's coffin which is that the weizel dynasty will not be interrupted with you but will continue when you get married and you'll build a family and then he writes to him this is the's vintage classic humor he says I don't care if the boy the child that you raise the child that you you and your wife uh father and mother and the child you raise will be a because or orah or just a regular Jew who celebrates the Torah and the Mitzvah either way either way I'm encouraging you go ahead your kid does not have to be a and then the Reb finishes he says this was two of a long letter perhaps but if it will result in me hearing that you got married it was worth my energy and time and your time and energy in reading my letter this is the Reb's humility wow beautiful it took six years but in 1971 elisel got married and a year later his wife gave birth to their son Alisha who he named after his father who was killed in aitz and Asel told me he said I was also born in 72 and he said I was at your bris and your father gar Jacobson came to my son's bris and the Reb sent a of flowers for the bris oh wow this was Reb's own um sense of the victory of the Jewish people and he named his boy Alicia after his own father and the dynasty continues now that his wife passed away but their son their son you know the the family continues so I think this is really the key we remember aik with every fiber of our being because if we are responsible to hold up the frequency of love we must be aware of the frequency of hate always always not and in our own life as well in our own life as well the moment we become not conscious of both frequencies we are vulnerable to fall prey to that frequency That's the basis of the Tanya you know as worked out as you are always remember what could come up at any giving Mo given moment by your animal Consciousness coping mechanisms and survival skills and it could be ugly just remember that remember that hopefully it won't come up but it may come up but but because it's coming from a paradigm of love and Oneness that's why I'm remembering a Malik it never allows me to become exclusively defined by aik we're not defined by aik we're defined as the people who God has chosen to bring Redemption to an aching World wow beautiful thank you thank you so much R Jacobson for joining us and for your words of wisdom and for shedding light on this very important topic that so many people are really grappling with today than you thank you thank you thank you kak wow that was quite an incredible interview with Rabbi Jacobson so many thoughts so many ideas so much wisdom there about anti-Semitism about us as Jews about hate versus love about the Symphony of truth I loved how he explained that we are the ones who are supposed to be upholding that Symphony Of Truth and how that is really our role and how in order to do that need to know what evil is and that's why we remember we do zah in order to remember Amal so that we can remember what evil is but our main goal is to uphold that Symphony Of Truth and Love and goodness for the world so many different areas how he explained the Jewish perspective on anti-Semitism and why we're here our purpose and our mission to bring greater light and joy and goodness and morality to this world I'd love to hear what you thought of this interview and which part resonated with you if it explained something that you did not know about anti-Semitism or the Jewish people send your comments in the below we'd love to hear it and um if you are not subscribed please make sure you are subscribed to kab.org extraordinary we are on all 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