Abraham's Gift to the World - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

[Music] who is Abraham anyone else who is he Jewish a man plus he was a forefather of the Jews but it wasn't Jewish okay what Abram do what and Abram did for the world right that's the story but what did he do I wanted to share with you how our world is so different because Abram existed Clint okay let's speak about what Sarah said and explain why what Abram did changed reality now do Jewish history you don't need to you don't need to know all you need to know is this one thing you have a question started coming with God the first person to create a relation it is true that's a hundred percent tree was that first person let me ask you the olden days people worshiped many gods why why is it that in the olden days people were submitters there's an intellectual reason why buddy Josh why do people were so many gods because the world made no sense when you looked around the world you would see goodness and beauty and apples and tomatoes and rainbows and kittens and dogs q1 you would see delicious food and you said who made all this and what did people say it must be somebody who really cares loves us but one second ancient man also looked around and they saw destruction and death and tsunamis and hurricanes and pestilence and plague so you know an ancient man said I don't understand the world on one am whoever made this is good are the other hands whoever made this is bad because he does so many good things but so many bad things how do you explain a schizo friend who just gets on from the Creator ah does it make sense it's brilliant ancient man had the biggest question and there's so much couldn't so much bad it must not be the same big who does both there must be good beings who give us rain who give it a say that make sense and then evil beings who give us plague and pestilence in death so there are many many gods so we call we say the many god-fearing many gods if there are many gods here's question number two where do they live where the gods live right high above the clouds they live in God country on earth because you know there's gone country do you know that gone country has 7-eleven because we all need for peace right you know that God do you know that God could be jealous of each other take him in adultery as a man in fact in ancient times gods were also superpowers that's what a god was ancient man believed in many gods they lived in God City God City metropolis and they did everything that we did except for they were super beings that's how ancient man explained the world that make sense it makes so much sense it's not a ninja man was stupid they came up with a good solution to a troubling question many many powers some good form evil must be many gods where they live in God city they fight each other they love each other they team up they make wars now here's my question for you if gods live in god city and they're just like us that in that worldview who are we what i've done where the who are we but but we're god convert what kind of creations we're like lesser beam creation were like weasels with bigger brains we are nothing we are we are weevils with bigger brains compared to God's with superpowers human beings are just sophisticated animals and here's the yearsing issue if we are are you guys following me if we are just sophisticated animals does it really make a difference if we kill each other doesn't really make a difference if we feel for each other anyone I know here when you were young ever see an anthill or no or Creole little ant city a lot of ants scurrying about chera see a lot of ants so I used to have this weird question because I was a weird kid so here was my question I used to look at ant I found in front of my house there's this big ant colony and I used to wonder is there one and that's stronger than all the other ants like an Arnold Schwarzenegger ant what do you think if they're in the ants and stronger than the other hands there must be one anti stronger right he's like super super strong he worked on the gym every day you know he's power Power Bars super and and then as a little kid with a lot of Glee in my face lot of joy I would go and step on them and I would say well Schwarzenegger and you may be strong amongst the ants but compared to me my six-year-old self you're nothing right to me a Schwarzenegger ant and a regular ant are the same thing that is what aids in the world look like and there are many gods that we are in and what we do doesn't matter think about this anyone here to ever see the spider-man movie spider-man anyone Tobey Maguire spider-man my friend and Barry Weiss won the Academy Award for special effects from spider-man 2 and we didn't know we didn't invent it in house right before the Oscars and he had a spray from that issue in and he won because of his skill well because of our prayer so if you've ever seen a Superman or spider-man movie how does it end I don't tell me the last 10 minutes remnants of every one of these movies very cliche what happened last time that's true that's true that's a good point but what's the final confrontation what it'll look like you piece of villain right there is like this I guess you know there's this huge here there's this huge battle at the very end huge battle maybe it's a cop metropolis maybe it's the Green Goblin against spider-man you know right that's who it is right and they're fighting each other and watch what happens first but every movies were same way spider-man's winning said he thinks he's winning then Green Goblin comes esra goblin punches him destroys a toe looks like he's about to be defeated and then usually some mortal comes and saves a day you know from you know that's a Green Goblin didn't see spider-man's gone you know but Superman's got kryptonite on and his powers gun comes onto the mortal and saves you take okay that's how it works now in that panel of the skyscrapers of Metropolis they're punching each other into these skyscrapers and big chunks of those skyscrapers fall 80 stories down and you know that they hit the ground because sometimes you'll hear the car alarm like in the movie here the car lock here's the question did anyone ever get smushed by those chunks of building any little babies and baby tears get smushed anyway how is it possible that in every movie nobody ever got smushed from the debris of the buildings that Spiderman was fighting on format' slides across right think about it and falling down it should of course a few people you know the answer is the answers it actually could have squished a few people but we don't care we don't give all we care about is spider-man all we care about is that the hero she would is a few people die on doing all we care of us because in a world of superheroes more those are expendable you know remember that scene you remember that scene where spider-man did there's a train and it swaps go over bridge and the bridge is broken and spider-man has to take his web and pull the train back from the brink of falling into Dodson and then as you see his fault muscles are bulging he's got the same costume as being all torn up and he's going like this who are you hoping for spider-man or the people on the train I thought oh I'm on spider-man because in a place for their many gods people don't matter my friends this is why before monotheism the world was so barbaric because in a world of many gods our actions mean nothing if it's there many gods that they are the reason of existence they are the power they are the key and we are like cows and levels and and we are not significant comes along Abraham and states the following you are wrong there's no God city there's one God he creates good and evil and you human beings are the very purpose of creation you are why creation is created what Abram actually did it is the elevated mankind to being the purpose of creation and by doing that all of the side of our actions take on new meaning and what we do is significant I'm always saying you're the board and even what we think in our minds even what we think makes a difference National Geographic magazine about 25 years ago their cover story read who was Abraham of Earth father of many nations because Christians they go back to Abram Muslims doing so to just who is Abram ever an account on National Geographic to get it wrong which they did they they speak a lot of geography as travel it's not about that it's about the fact that he taught the world that mankind has significance at what we do and say and think are important that was a gift of Abraham even today in African countries that believe in many gods they are patently more barbaric they are more bloodthirsty many gods means that we are absolutely we're sniveling weasels we're sniveling being one God means for the purpose of creation and what we do and say and think make a difference you guys follow that it's huge huge sparing dance with Abraham's all that so all that is really cool at the Cole monotheism which is what Sarah pointed out right away as a commodity as it means that the causes one God and everything that we do makes a difference okay any questions about anything [Music]