Judaism Without Apologizing- Episode 2 Preview- Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

[Music] But we live in an age where any everyone's h has a fancier podcast than the next. Everyone's got a microphone and a megaphone and their abundance sort of are are relegated towards the technological age of the of the 1700s. There are lines that are drawn in sand. There are red lines between MS and Shatter and unfortunately those lines are getting the word. Do you think podcasts or musical albums should lead? You have a guy, he sits in a basement for two decades. He puts out a 12page contress on Bubba and he has 13 huskumas. And you have an influencer who has a podcast with 600,000 followers saying anything they want to about every topic under the sun with and we don't bat an eyelash in consuming it. It's a very very tough question. I mean in many many ways yeah the guy might be an apicorist or a covert but there may be something useful. uh I think a podcaster should have a hashama on his own shai and maybe I shouldn't say that and then there are podcasts who represent themselves as Orthodox who are very very far from the hashkafas of the yeshiva world and here I may get in very very big trouble again I'm not here to condemn anybody but but but simply to note that that type of hashkafa is very very very different than the hashkafas of the yeshiva and the bashako in the 1700s I think historians estimate that around 90% of Jews were either religious or traditional and I think the complete opposite is true now himself said it was easier to be Jewish in Siberia than suburbian why should I be aim and live in poverty I could be a lawyer doctor and make a good living and be respected among the you tell the child you tell a parent they have 10 children who lost eight of their children that well don't feel so bad you have two of your kids left. Well, what about the eight the eight out of 10 that aren't there? And many many many thousands of people would benefit from a 1 hour a week learning on the phone. But the Rabanam and the Rashi Shiva at least in America do not stress that whatsoever. Well, you know, stay in the basement, stay in the Kwell, but find some way, find some in which you can also help a fellow a fellow Jew. Every Jew is a world. Every Jew is a universe. you I think you portray it a little more negatively than I would have portrayed. This is a huge huge huge problem. Dr. R. Schiller used to say that the sign of success for arson topic would be that you wouldn't know he's about children. How is it expected on a man or a woman who's waiting seven years at this point to have a child not to be jealous of their neighbors? that it is much harder to rejoice in somebody else's sin trap than to feel sorry for their pain. What exactly is a habasro? Is that uh dearisa a mitzvah that we just gloss over? Is it an emotion? Is it a lifestyle? Is it a political identity? Well, that's a good question. What does it mean to love Israel? I mean, do I love the land? Again, it has nothing to do in a sense with Zionism. It has nothing to do with the state of Isism. We've lost three things that were stolen from us by the non-religious Jews or they stole Nak because Nak became identified with Tazcala. Uh Chuva was stolen by the Balich Chuva and Zionism which is Abaser Israel was stolen by the Zionists. because the the the the endeavor of settling the land got so identified with a political ideology much of which was against the Torah. So the whole idea became tra should a religious Jew celebrate Yomat's food. Uh should a religious Jew feel uh a certain simka on Yasmat? I believe the answer should be yes. The absence of that is why the between religious and secular never get resolved in Israel. In your own words, things are very rough for me. Can you help me? Can you give me the strength? Can you give me the insight? Life is tough because Hashem wants to bring out goodness in us that otherwise would not come without these challenges.