Berel Solomon | How to Respond to Current Events & Our Role as Jews | CHAZAQ

[Music] thank you everyone for joining us tonight it's very special event be presented by the kazak organization we want to thank of course the the Sho youngen seers Shri Trump give Round of Applause for the amaz [Applause] community I think to to set the the mindset for the event I uh heard a story recently from Harry Rothenberg mentioned kazaka event he said he said um a rabbi once at recently a few weeks ago asked his sh and he said he he asked the sh three questions the members of the sh he said does anybody here um raise your hands have have any me have any have any relatives who who who were who were killed in in the attack the attacks on October 7th and and no one raised their hands the second question he said does anyone here have a relatives who who were who who who who who are were taken hostage and no one raised their hands third question he asked was was does anybody does um does anybody have any any relatives who who are in the IDF who are maybe on the Gaza Strip or whatever it is and only a few people raised their hands and he said he said the issue with that we have right now is that is that every single person in the room should have raised their hands because if we realize that that that that our fellow brothers and sisters they're our relatives then we're going to then we would DAV differently we would act differently we do Mitzvah so I think that's the mindset of course that we should all have and of course tonight it's going to strengthen us um with the unity and and the the the things that we can take upon ourselves for our fellow brothers and sisters in in the land of Israel and just a quick word about the kazak organization um organizes events like tonight different shoes different communities to inspire Jewish community and it's on the Forefront of after school programs for public school students um in 15 different locations it has a special division to help transfer them from public school Yesa since 2017 has transferred over, 1400 children from public school yiva ra and and um to carry on that mission we have a tremendous tremendous powerful speaker tonight B Solomon who needs no introduction um um a person who uses social media the technology to to um to to to to use it for for a positive thing to spread positive messages and meaningful messages and with um without no further Ado we're going to hear on a special topic tonight on Israel and Round of Applause [Music] for all right Make Some Noise what's going on Rabbi thank you what a nice introduction what a sweetheart what a beautiful Community such an honor such a pleasure to be here thank you to khazak beautiful work do you guys do round of applause, 1400 students saved from the public school system today we need that public school system what the heck is going on all right let's jump in yeah Israel has made a singular critical error for many many many years and in my speech I'm going to allude to it and I hope that by the end it's extremely clear and we have a Clarity of exactly where we're going with it and you'll probably pick up on it around the middle if you pay attention we live in a very unique time all the eyes of the entire world right now is on the Jewish people if you open up your Twitter feed every single trend has something to do with the Jews and this mistake that we've made has led to so much violence from the Arab world from the Muslim world and has led to so much condemnation from the nations of the global Community you see Israel Prides itself in being a democracy it Prides itself as in its technology in its open-mindedness when Israel presents herself in front of the United Nations she often discusses the past 75 years I saw a clip this morning from GG Hadid and she said that Hamas has the right to do what it did because of the Decades of Oppression that the Palestinians have suffered and I laughed to myself decades what an immature way to measure time by the way Gaza looked pretty good before Kamas poked the lion on October 6th the problem that Israel makes and that most Jews make even Orthodox Jews is that we've been meas measuring time with the same measuring stick that g Hadid uses and all of the other anti-semites use you see the average person that's walking in the street today or the average person on social media has virtually no personal or communal history they were dropped in this world they live out there 70 or 80 years and that's their context it's like watching a movie 10 minutes of a movie and drawing conclusions based on that very limited snippet that you saw the Jewish people on the other hand have a vantage point of 3,300 years to put that into perspective America is roughly 350 years that's like the us being a 10-year-old child and the Jewish people being a 100-year-old wise Sage so I do these lives on Instagram where I welcome people to debate me and whenever I get a hostile Pro Palestinian person come on to the live and they start ranting about 1967 and this Accord and that agreement I usually dismiss the conversation immediately I also see a lot of Jews missing the mark and making claims that Palestine is not a real State because they never really had a prime minister or a true president or they show a penny from a hundred years ago that has a Hebrew letter on it again that's measuring with G Hadid measuring stick and this is exactly why the world doesn't respect us because we are playing by their rules if you study the Torah you'll see that Jews never followed the Crooked rules of the world Abraham was one man against the world he was thrown into a furnace for his radical beliefs about one God Sarah she made her husband kick out from her house Ishmael even though that was not a politically correct move yit kept on digging Wells even though the world tried to cover them up Yakov bought his family inheritance because he could not bear to watch it go into the hands of his evil brother asov at the behest of his mother Yakov dressed himself up like asov and he deceived his own father because his mother wanted to make sure that the blessing should go to the child that will properly guard the Covenant after being tricked and abused by love one a hundred times Yakov picked up his wives his sheep his cattle everything he owned like a thief in the night and ran away from loven's house because he knew that if he played loven's sick twisted game that he never would have seen the light of freedom I could go on and on the lessons that we learn from all these stories is that Jews cannot play the game according to the world's rules because their game is immoral to begin with it's clear that the world has a twisted view of morality on the extreme left you have wokeism that celebrates castrating children for gender affirmation and on the religious right you have groups that perform genital mutilation on women on young girls and both groups claim righteousness and represent themselves to the world as being righteous the modern Jew of today and for sure the modern state of Israel never had the guts to call out evil for what it is for Millennia we've ascribed too much power to ishma to asav to Lan to Egypt which is our modern day [Applause] Exile when Kanye West rails against the Jews on the internet he claims that we're not the real Jews it's the Black Hebrew Israelites that are the real Jews and the ashkanazi Jews are just power hungry imposters they even want to claim our identity it's not even about stealing land at a certain point they say we're not even Jews when the United Nations looks at us they talk down to us and they treat us like the adopted sibling who just joined the club and here lies the great mistake of the modern day Jews and modern day Israel there is nothing modern about Jews and there is nothing modern about Israel The Jig Is up we have to come clean it's finally time to stop hiding we have to tell the world what they've suspected all along that we are the same Jews that they read about in the Bible we are the same Jews that they read about in the Quran and we are the same Jews that they read about in The Testament and the day that b Netanyahu stands up in front of the United Nations and declares as a proud Jew that the land of Israel belongs to us because the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob gave it to us and he created the entire world and he could give the land of Israel to whoever ever he wants and he chose to give it to the Jewish people on that day BB Israel and the Jewish people will finally be respected on the world stage and by Every Nation on earth when I was becoming religious maybe we'll get into that story a little bit later I asked my boss I used to work in the nightclub business for anybody that had a chance to see my movie anybody have a chance to see Orthodox in the room yeah oh thank you that's so cool thank you guys when I asked my boss when I was becoming more religious I used to work in the nightclub business for those of you who didn't see my movie yet I asked him can I wear my keepa to the nightclub he was an Italian man his name was Giovani Cito still a good friend of mine today he was eating a sandwich with Pudo and cheese you know how Italians do and he looks me with a thick Italian accent and he goes to me you are a Jew and I am a Christian if you don't believe how am I supposed to believe and then you have the Muslims and the Christians and the atheists that will say yes we agree with you you were the chosen people but because of your sins God abandoned you and our answer as Jews has to be simple true we're not perfect but God is and his thoughts are not like your thoughts his thoughts are not like our thoughts and his thoughts don't change and God doesn't change his mind we have to stop measuring ourselves in front of the world with a measuring stick of 75 in and we have to start measuring ourselves with a measuring stick of 3,300 miles and when we start talking the language of Torah the world will respect us because we'll finally be playing the part that God and the rest of the world so desperately wants us to play the world doesn't want us to play by their rules what's the proof anytime that we got comfortable in a society wherever we wherever we were they attacked us and they reminded us that you are not us stop trying to pretend like you're us we don't want you we don't we don't like you you are not like us you are different you are special you are you are something that is separate from us stop trying to be like us it drives them nuts they want us at the front of the class they want us leading and teaching they do not want us mingling and following and trying to fit in until now t we've discussed a shift that has to go on on the global stage on the outward posture that the Jewish people have to make and by the way that outward posture has to happen we have no choice the cameras are on us it used to be we used to be able to hide we used to hide we don't have that luxury today every microphone every camera every social media app every News Channel every station open up your phones right now front page CNN front page Fox front page ABC front page front page CNN CNBC whatever whatever app there is whatever news station there is we're on the front page they're dying to hear from us we have to change our Global posture as Jews the time has come as we approach Messiah if you look at the name of what they called on October 7th if you look at the name that they called their Terror what was their mission called storm ala what's Al AA it's the bikash it's the temple the whole world is talking about that it's all about that and in the coming times of Messiah the world is begging us Jews please show us the way and we can't this we can't make the same mistake anymore and talk about how we're a democracy we have to talk about how we're God's chosen people I get lecture it all the time in my DMs on Instagram how could you do this and how could you do that and calm down you're lecturing Jews on morality we brought morality to the world we have to act like Jews talk like Jews walk like Jews speak like Jews be proud Jews and not just once a year in in Washington with flags which is beautiful don't get me wrong but every day in every interaction in public and in private because the world will not tolerate anything less from us so that's the outward shift that's the outward posture now let's talk about the inward posture because we have some major healing to do as a community we have some major healing to do a little bit of Hope to the resilience of the Jewish people we suffered on October 7th 1,400 people killed 250 people kidnapped it was on one day I'm not minimizing God forbid the pain and the suffering but the Holocaust spend over five or six years and 6 million people were murdered entire towns were wiped out there were no hostages they went straight to the gas Chambers imagine that amount of trauma but October 6th we were all living a nice life things are relatively good because Jews know how to endure and grow and to build and to are were resilient and we will get through this and we will digest this and we will do what we have to do as a country we will do what we have to do as a nation we will do what we have to do as Jews and we will get through this because we've experienced so much worse and well we know how to get over these things we don't want to we don't want to have but we've hon that's unfortunately we've honed that skill so inwardly we have to start healing as a community there's been a great shift in the Jewish world since October 7th many liberal and unaffiliated Jews are finding themselves right now in a tremendous identity crisis I did an event last night and a Jewish woman it was a public forum she she stood up and she joined the discussion she's a lesbian and she is notorious for Marching for every liberal cause that has ever existed over the past 30 years there was a cause and it was liberal she was there and she said a funny thing has happened since October 7th she said this in front of hundreds of people she said since October 7th I've been abandoned completely by the lgbtq community to be a M Community the yogis and she said even the vegans don't want me anymore and she was almost in tears and she said to me where do I fit in even the Torah thinks that I'm an Abomination and here lies the difference between judism and other extremist religions if that lady would have been in Gaza and stood up in front of everybody she would have been thrown off a building Judaism says that should stop you from doing a Mitzvah that should stop you from doing a good deed that should stop you from bringing light into this world I told her this Friday night light shab his candles I said every morning when you wake up give a few coins in the Sedaka box in your pushka put put muas up in your house every now and then take a book at the hilum say a little theum you don't know how to read Hebrews do it in English you also have your mission to bring light into this world she's started to choke up in tears her Jewish Soul her Nish that had been repressed for so long that was captured by every letter in the alphabet she choked up and she said I will I'm going to start I'm going to start lighting shabas candles she's just one of millions of stories that has happened since October 7th Jews who hid their Judaism for years anybody here see that video of Mark cubin yeah from Shark Tank yeah you guys saw it yes an amazing thing who knew that Mark Cuban was Jewish all of a sudden Mark makes a lot of sense now that you think about it Mark is giving to the an amazing thing casy N St I mean hundreds of people you never even knew were Jewish all of a sudden they're marching at rallies they're standing up for Jew who are these people they're Jews trying to express themselves it's an amazing Awakening that is coming about it says in the times of Messiah that when the Jews left Egypt only 20% of Jews left 80% stayed if there was a million Jews in Egypt let's just say 200,000 left 800,000 stayed but in the times of Messiah which were on the footsteps you could you could you could hear the footsteps of Messiah coming it's not a joke it says not one Jew will be left in galus in Exile and you see it it's an amazing thing so it's up to us the people that are fortunate enough to be sitting in a synagogue tonight fortunate enough to know Alf bet gimel the once said that somebody said to him who am I to teach I don't know anything the Reb says you know Al he says yes he says so teach Al you know bet yes so teach bet it's up to us to make room for these Jews that are waking up the bmov used to say I hope I get invited back being such AIC speaker here tonight they knew what they were getting themselves into though the B used to say that we have to take a lesson from everything that we see you see something there's a lesson if it came to your eyes it's because God is trying to teach you something right now what are we witnessing what's in every single family's WhatsApp group videos of these beautiful poor Nas coming out of these tunnels these hostages coming out of tunnels and there's something peculiar in their faces it is it's it's it's it's baffling it shuck me on every single video the same thing over and over you see the faces on these kids and they're they're numb they're blank they haven't seen their mother in 50 days and they're their their mother is hugging them and they're they're blank they're numb and some of them are baffled By the Light they haven't seen light in 50 days so what could we learn from this right now there's millions of Jews who are emerging from spiritually dark tunnels some of which have not seen the light of Torah and Hashem for 50 years they were taken hostage by this dark Exile when they were just babies and we have to take them from being baffled and we have to treat these Jews with love and we have to take care of them and we have to create safe spaces for them and welcome them back home so in closing in these moments when the entire world's attention is on us we have two missions number one is we have to look the world straight in the eye we have to stand strong and proud and tell them that we are are the chosen people the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob we are the main characters in The Greatest Story Ever Told so have a little respect why don't you and have a little humility why don't you and if you do we'll be happy to teach you because we could see that you're starving for God they're starving for what we have we have 3,300 years of it and we're ready to share it but we have to be proud and we have The Jig Is up we have to tell the truth that we have it and number two inwardly inwardly as a community we have to be a very warm bright Beacon of light for those Jews who have recently woken up baffled and have climbed out of the tunnels and we have to take them in with love into our houses into our shabas tables and teach them if you who are you to teach if you know Olive there's plenty of Jews that don't know Alf if you know base there's plenty of Jews that don't know base and I'm convinced that with this one two punch we're finally going to tip the scales and bring what we've all been waiting for for 5700 years for messiah to come a time where we could live in peace and prosperity where all nations of the world will put their swords into the ground and stop fighting and godliness will finally be revealed in this world may we Merit to see you [Applause] soon