94: People of Peace

hi this is daughter loves Kim welcome to the rabbi LF ski show and ready watch again to or anytime or whatever you watch or listen to your podcast we're so happy to have you along for the experience you know we do an online share and deaf yeoman and there's a Kumari Shabbos but we did not long ago and it says what was the name of the mountain where the Torah was given so it's my focus is the name of the mountain Hanukkah rave or is the name of the mountain hardest scene I well it's really examining two separate principles one possible principle is that it's called hello ray because the first time you see the mountain mentioned in regard to Moshe or Boehner was called - race so the first time that something appears we assume that that's the definition you'll find this very often in the Torah that the first time something comes up that's the definition that you'll find it useful in every other context the first description of a war in the Torah is the war of Abraham against the 4 kings what was the purpose of that war to rescue load why because from load would come Devin would come Messiah so says with Sonic every war is a war from a ship to membership any war that takes place and you can play with this historically to see how it works that the first time anything appears it's always there for that purpose to to give a definition and so therefore was called a hierarchal right and is that really her see alternatively maybe the name of the map was heresy night why because most of the time that the mountain is mentioned it's called her Cena so do you want to go by the majority what do you want to go by the first that's what the argument is about now if it's called hircine I why is it called her raised the Gemara says because it brought a been to the nations of the world now the nation's the world sort of suspected this because they come to bilham while the tour is being given and they say hold on the mob guys bring you another model to the world he's assuring the world and bilham reassures them Hashem our MOU Tang he's giving bam at the Torah to which they responded that shame you beret good luck to them so they sense there was a marble it was coming to destroy the world and there was an extent it is a corporate because well I have my opinion and you have your opinion and we can argue back and forth when a Kurdish borough who comes down and says this is absolute truth capital a capital T and whatever you think is essentially irrelevant because the Quran who said this is the truth so that completely destroys every other philosophy on the face of the earth and that of course is the koozai he's famous argument when he says I didn't know Matt entire his true he says where would anybody even make the claim that an entire nation heard God speak from the heavens it doesn't make any sense unless it actually happened so so it basically destroys whatever anybody else's things saying that's not until you I may have mentioned this but I heard Mary silver speak once he had the fussin voracious and he says why does the concentrations make the kiddush question Terry shrank the kiddush the present I was the one who finished third so he brought this idea of her of her her a being a Corbin and he says it's an ongoing process because every time you learn something again you destroy your earlier shot obviously you read the story of yo saving his brothers when you're a little kid and he get a pretty coated brothers are jealous of him and they throw him in a pit and yeah okay then you start learning it with them a first room and you see this punch deeper ideas then you take it further then you take it further and each time you do your earlier shot looks ridiculous to you a guy told me when he first started Norris man then we're doing average saw him yeah and it talks about whether or not you can eat your face off and what time you have to stop so one of you says you can eat minimun Philomela [Music] local minimum close to Chaves kitchen table the review do yes you are mayor always a cheater chef but that really means is Oklahoma's architecture you can eat and keep going to a good start but he translated it as oh hell you can eat as long as then your whole Akagi tech shop you work until it gets dark so this way you build up an appetite and could convince him he was wrong eventually obviously you know at some point before he got sniffing I guess he figured out what the real shot was but you know it's a you you look at what you thought originally and you wonder how could that a big what was I even thinking yeah but 20 years ago I was gonna put out a safe route my feelings from that I said on the Commission and I particular Tomica from talked me out of it now that's not too hard cuz I don't like to do anything anyway yeah Lahab deal the hosel Volvo said he wasn't gonna write this safer but he was afraid it was because of Iceland so he wrote it anyway but he says to me you'll write it now and you're looking at 20 years later and you'll be embarrassed by what you run so wait till old it's so interesting because the oshu a Hartman who of course wrote and many sperm of my around he said to me around the same time why don't you put out something so I said because I'm afraid it won't be so good it's just so what if I was to read through the girl I hate my pairs in the grade today yeah we're doing much better but you have to write you have to put out you have to publish yeah so I love my access to be my Frieda yeah yeah I haven't forgot anything so I asked him will you ever write your own book and I said I might put on something posthumously so they said oh good I hope it's soon in any event so that's why it would be called the harmful rays but if it was really cold the fire at Horeb why was it called heresy night the gemara concludes because that's when the sinner for the Jews came down to the world that was the beginning of anti-semitism jump why should that be exactly so the answer is people don't like people who are better than them and sometimes people say me you think you're better than me and this person has done a lot of terrible things and I say yes my fact I do who are you to judge me I'm not judging you I'm just saying that you know if you're gonna rob you're gonna cheat you're gonna steal I'm gonna lie you know terrible things that you do I don't do those things so okay he'll always say don't fight with somebody unless you walk a mile in their shoes that's where if he still wants to fight with you you a mile away and you gotta shoes but um yeah you know I understand okay you have to put everybody in the context etcetera but you know when you do the right thing and somebody else isn't but the birdie tells the story so the secular businessman he says whenever I see one of your religious Jews I always hear the same voice saying Harry you're no good Harry you're no good so what he said to me hear that voice now says yeah he says well there's only me and you hear and I'm not talking the noise is coming from you there's something about the Jews trying to make the world a better place that infuriates some people but I say infuriate you know I'm thinking like pogroms Holocaust Inquisition you know why can't you just ignore us remember kind of fly boys or she refer to anyone said cuz I'll say that by ephod says by the door flogger he says they had to make fun of I'm wrong to cancel now this is white he's one person against the entire world over my every he was ever effort he was on one side the entire rows on the other side who cares he some nut the voice of truth eats away at you it's a Jew so big boys love to come up with stories about Jews who aren't acting correctly why because there's a rule in journalism dog bites man it's not news man bites dog beds news you don't find lots of stories without identify the religion or the ethnic group of the person to Christian men were caught today breaking into a liquor store yeah why because when a Jew does it that's news because the world looks at us under a microscope and they just keep looking looking for things that they can catch us on hearing aired show that that sinner is aimed towards the religious community as the Gomorrah Sock'em says more than non-jews hate Jews i Marat some hate Tommy there cuff under vicious hate and it was an unbelievable story just recently there's a major music store here in Israel it was Ian and he was giving a concert Korona whatever however was big film and he gave a shout-out to the people of Bnei Brak no this guy's had nothing nice to say but religious Jews in his whole life but he I don't know what you don't even know why it moved him the whole city's on lockdown he gives a shout-out to the neighborhood when he finishes his show he looks at his phone and he's gotten hundreds and hundreds of texts this is how he tells the story he says he sat down started scrolling for them and he's not crying because there were hundreds and hundreds of texts from people from abroad who said thank you for thinking of us and he said by the whole life I was brought up to think that those crazy Jews are them you know to make fun of them in to attack them at all I had to do and say one nice word and look look how everybody turned to him and the headaches finish them where people or it's a Shakespeare when you prick us do we not bleed we're not people yep but the the concept but people just don't like us and it's universal not just some places this story is thirty years old but thirty years ago I remember reading that the protocols of the Elders of Zion was a best-seller in Japan there aren't even any Jews there there is a there's a I need need to hate Jews I rented it in the pears that I have a soft spot for Broadway musicals so of course I haven't been keeping up you know most of the ones I know her from the 50s and the 60s but and when I was on a plane and they had like show music I put it on and there's this it was his play on Broadway called Spamalot which was basically take off on the Monty Python and the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights you know so they changed it for the Broadway show and the Knights who say me originally made them get a shrubbery it's nice as they have to put on a Broadway show I said well never gonna do it to Isis you don't have any Jews how you gonna do without any Jews there is a small percentile who enjoys advancing Gentile I'm dying I was listening this on the plane I haven't holding the comb over my face cuz I was laughing so hard but it's looking at me I just it was so funny so [Music] so tony was a line waiter on where hang on to square towards the end of the of the play he says what are we gonna do we still haven't found many Jews he says well I am a Jew he says why didn't you say something earlier he says it's not the kind of thing you mentioned two heavily armed Christians yeah yeah we've been pretty poor experience the past year the majority of of attacks minorities have been against Jews they shot a patrol here they shut up the shoulder there and we don't know what the response was all the Jews went out in the street demanding justice breaking windows looting stores setting fires to places oh no wait that better no there was a black man who got killed by a white cop and then the black community decided to loot and burn and destroy it they have been two incidents of black men who were killed by police unless they were pulling a gun on the police so something like that you know but when a police kills a black person two cases and so they took to the streets you know what they did the faced synagogues they smashed jewish-owned stores and restaurants what do we do slavery slavery most of us came over in the nineteen hundred's a slavery people came up after the holocaust with nothing but the clothes on their back I'm in by a throwable its key remember have youngers will know I parked I said during World War 2 why aren't you people out protesting and he said to me Bokke okay you don't know what you're talking about you grew up in an America with a a Copa to defend the rights of Orthodox Jews you don't know what it was to see buildings that had signs no Jews or dogs allowed everyone knows this the New York Athletic Club wouldn't allow in Jews Groucho Marx hardly a religious icon wanted to join a country club they wouldn't let him join cuz it was Jewish let his famous line when a different club said Groucho you could join us he says I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member there were whole neighborhoods with sides no Jews or dogs allowed one of the number-one radio broadcasts in America was father Conklin who is spouting anti-semitism every single show there were there were corporations law firms universities wouldn't allow Jews in so what we do we broke down everybody's houses we smashed windows and stole things now we worked very hard nobody was there to help us nobody cared what's the result a non Jewish white man kills a black man and they're defacing our shows and burning our stores what do we do we are or Ligurian we have the light until the nation we set a different standard that infuriate the nations of the world so you have the leaders of the women's March who can say anti-semitic things you have the black lives matter' website sang anti-semitic things your Congress men sang anti-semitic things I know it were they saying anti-semitic things when they said just pass a resolution against anti-semitism the Democrats wouldn't do it they control the house we won't even condemn anti-semitism forget about protecting us ridiculous those Matthias the fact that you decide to live a different life that you're going to be the emissaries of occurs borrow from his people as his people in this world we're the Lightning you want rod or his Deborah Lipstadt and the book about Holocaust denial said the Jews are the canary in the coal coal mine in case there was coal dust they used to keep Canaries down there because they were very sensitive and they would die first since the Jew is the canary before somebody comes along to destroy the whole world they start with us where'd the target we've always been the target it's a natural consequence of trying to be better we've always suggest one thing just leave us alone let us do our thing that is not to be three hey geez and so we make condom nations against Israel countries like Syria and Iran but they're wonderful human rights records are condemning us and no one sees that no one sees the irony in it I'm talking in a meta historical sense I don't know talk about specific things that we know and today I just I just find it fascinating then whenever there's a problem somehow it gets traced to us you're upset at police brutality facing synagogues I'm trashing Jewish restaurants what did we do how did we get into this ayah saying you break into a Gucci you want to loot it who's looting a kosher restaurant you know you want to get your hands on some corned beef you know I mean what does that even mean an amazing thing it's an amazing thing and it's something that we Jews have lived with for centuries and for millennia we don't really sometimes we protest 1970s I was in the he became investor County they used to take us the Glencoe the Russian consulate we would chat mr. raju's two four six eight let our people emigrate swaboda one two three four I opened up the I adore the protest but were they scribble graffiti on us they attack us mayor de Blasio didn't have any police offices available to stop all the from Jews who were getting beaten in the street people throwing things at them people have not give him down knocking him unconscious there was nobody to stop them weird videos of these people no I don't nobody stop them but when they come out for for a funeral someone said the reason that we break a glass under the chuppah is so this way he made the Blasio think that we're having a riot instead of a wedding and leave us alone everything going on in New York and who's the problem the religious I found that you Shiva open I found people and that's social distancing in a stroll you never go after the Jews making sense that's how it is that's that is part of the Jewish condition and I'll tell you the sad truth the sad truth is that it's there for us they would maintain our Jewish identity because any time we get too comfortable to get too cozy there's always a counter-reaction I used to meet these people in my father's generation they'd say you know I'd go to school I'd walk to school and I got beaten up by these non-jewish kids they'd look at me saying and I'm a proud Jew I said what are you proud of says everyday they used to beat me up instead but what are you proud of they beat me every day it's really a masochist you proud about the fact that you got a beating does that even mean to be a proud Jew I understand what we have to overcome anti-semitism in order to do something meaningful but for so many people I was speaking to a group of students and he were university who were training to become Hebrew school teachers said when I teach the kids about Jewish history they laugh they giggle they they they doodle when I talk to my Jewish holidays that for they don't pay attention you mention the Holocaust everybody sits up I can tell you anti-semitism helps to bring people together I think I may have told the story that lisa and says that the mmm emotion occurred radical showed moshe rabbeinu menorah of fire and he showed him what it looked like in his shop it still didn't help not until he took the gold and threw it in the fire and it came out completely made and I said what didn't you understand the place in the old city they made a model of the menorah what was it you can get and one of my students in her smash he says rabbi you already said it I said I did says yeah you said that the menorah had to be made of uh-huh one solid piece and you couldn't add everything on you had to cut it and move it around and bend it said the whole thing was made of one piece and there was a central pole and all the candles had to point into the central pole cuz it represented unity and he said mojo Boehner knew how to make a physical menorah he didn't know how to bring the Jewish people together I said I'm the only way to do that is to take the golden throne in the fire that's when everybody comes together when there's when is crisis when is trouble heresy Nighy i I it's it's where the most of rational things and this is because we hate Jews doesn't matter polite you hate them if the capitalist say before the Communists take my victim of that everything but doesn't everybody else does nations of the world with the worst civil rights violations condemn us now cuz someone said man Pike thug that's news I wrote there's something wrong that's news Iran does something wrong you expected they still stone people to death this video of this little kid who stole something in a you know same color of his hand they got a truck to run it over smashes hand they can dump us because last civil rights violations Oh an offer for AC I saw an upside down world with a good are chastised and insulted and hate it and the evil the looters people burn down people's stores I mean if you open up your business they throw you in jail but if people come to burn down your business that's fine but no one starts to see the contradictions at all Amla Malvolio show the world is turning into a flood everything is becoming crazy not making sense interfacing our shows because somebody could we killed anybody you white people right white people we have more hate crimes than you do more people attacking attacking Jews I hate to break it to you a lot of it works but you're okay with that it's okay to attack Jews nobody cares anyway it's something that that was on my mind when I was reading all these stories of what was going on I think to myself I only hate you cuz you're successful I only hate you because you're right monkey burger one said the Christians say they're the chosen people did you ever see a Jew who hates the Christians because they think that it chosen people no but people hate the Jews because we think we're the chosen people why is that says it's easy because we know they're wrong and they know we're right so really upsets them when we say we're the chosen people because they believe it too they say they have a chosen people and I'm like yeah good good for you Jesus is going to cast all the Jews into the pit of hell and I can't sing because cathedral over there they show neither mural of casting all the sinners and they are all the non-believers okay yeah we're cool the hell so what do you hate us for we're gonna burn hell right guess they having a hard time convincing themselves to that when they stop hitting us that's when you guys sucking those Asaph came with an army of 400 men and then he comes up when he hugs him and then hug and kiss evasion is the most dangerous become a part of us put aside all that Jewish stuff don't worry about it now I'm okay I'm okay thanks that just infuriates them Martin Luther said well it's terrible the way the Catholic Church has treated the Jews so I understand what you guys are upset because of the year the statues and viscera we're gonna bring it back to its original Jewish roots then you can all come and join us so we're like thank you but well no stay Jews and he became the most rabid anti-semite what do you mean no are you suggesting that you're right we're wrong I'm gonna just say anything after you guys do whatever you do and that's fine may God bless and keep the Tsar far away from us oh yeah yeah anyway I just thought when you see people complaining about prejudice the majority of hate crimes are against Jews not just in America but around the world with a one group that everyone feels comfortable attacking the meaning insulting sending out tweets about shooting up in our synagogues but the whole world comes to an end when when somebody comes along and kills a black person but that's racist but you give that Jews that's okay tyrosine ie the sinner comes down to the world trust me it's tough being right but that's just what we have to bear in this world knowing that we're right and because of that somebody be blamed us well that's it for this week I want to find out more about the show go my website but real asking that come you make comments you can sponsor an episode and that's it we'll see you next time this is Deborah Lasky and this is the Reverend hostage it's the rabbi Orlovsky show Turin symptom ready to go the rabbi Orlovsky show language of wisdom will help you grow lots of fun in every episode of we don't have to ride it's the rabbi Orlovsky show a rabbi Orlovsky that car told us anytime two more it's rabbi Orlovsky show tourism while our lab ski show till it's time to be throughout my Orlovsky show its the raviolo ski show it's the rabbi Orlovsky [Music]