The Torah Of Hanoi Vietnam

I'm standing right now in the city of Hanoi in the heart of Vietnam and we just finished Shabas. Believe it or not, there is a shul in Hanoi which although small was filled with people and it was filled with light. And I'm and as I was standing there today listening to Curatory, one thing hit me hard and that is that no matter where you go in the world, from Alaska to Brazil, from Moscow to Melbourne, from the peaks of Africa to the neon streets of Tokyo, when a Jew walks into a Shaw and opens a safer Tyra, it's the exact same Tyra, letter for letter, word for word. The scroll here in Vietnam is identical to the one in Argentina and to the one in Brooklyn and to the one in Milan. They are all the same. Isn't that absolutely mind-blowing? The Jewish people are the world's oldest continuously existing religion. And yet, we have the least amount of discrepancy in our foundational text in any religion. We have been exiled to more country than any group of people on earth. And yet, we have the most accurate and wellpreserved heritage. Isn't that amazing? You know how many meaningful differences exist between our Torah scrolls around the globe? Zero. Now compare that to other religions. The Christians in their New Testament, they have around 138,000 words in it. And yet there are over 400,000 textual variants. That means there are more changes in the New Testament than there are words. The Quran, it has hundreds of versions that have existed across centuries with historic efforts by certain groups of Muslims to burn copies that didn't match other copies. The Jews, the same Tyra we read today is the exact Tyra we received over 3,000 years ago at our Senai. That's not just preservation. That's called divine. It tells you everything you need to know about the Jewish people, about our mission, about our God. We may be scattered across the earth, but our soul beats in one rhythm. Our people follow one fire. And no matter how far you go, if you're looking for the truth, you open a safer Tyra. It never changes. It never gets updated. It stays the same. And you want to know why? Because truth never goes out of style.