I went to a Palestinian protest !

This Torah class is brought to [music] you by tora anytime.com. Behind [music] me is the apartment that I used to do outreach here in Princeton University directly on top of Small World Coffee. Arguably the best coffee you'll have in the world. And I [music] want to tell you a story that tells you everything you need to know about a Yiddesha. One Friday, I pull up to my apartment to get ready to spend Chabus with the students here [music] in Princeton. And as I'm pulling up, I notice all over the campus there are tons of cops everywhere. And there are barricades [music] and canines and state troopers holding AK-47s. And I'm thinking like, what in the world is going on? So, I bump into one of the Jewish students and he tells me that there was a major anti-Israel protest [music] planned for that day right in this square right over here in front of this [music] uh historic building. And because Princeton has a $30 billion endowment, they wisely invest the money in Israeli companies, [music] almost all of whom are owned by Jews. And the pro Palestinian students here didn't [music] like that. So they planned a major protest to stop Princeton from investing billions [music] of its dollars into Jewish companies. They were going to all come out. [music] They were going to have people bust in. It was going to be a huge massive protest. But I looked around and I noticed it. [music] There were maybe like 10 protesters standing out there. It was pathetic. [music] So I turned to the students and I said, "So what happened? Where is everybody? Like where are all the protesters?" [music] And he said, "I'll tell you." The Jewish students on the campus weren't sure exactly what to do. It's not so many of them to begin with [music] and they feel like, you know, they couldn't counterprotest because they were far outnumbered. But they [music] couldn't just stand by. So, they had to think of something to do. This is what they did. They approached a Jewish alumnest of Princeton, an extremely [music] wealthy man and a big supporter of Jewishowned businesses. And they asked him, they said, "Can we film you saying into a camera that for every protester [music] that shows up at the rally, he is going to invest $10,000 into an Israeli Jewishowned [music] company. And for each time someone shouts the slogan from the river to the sea, he'll donate another$1,000." Studits [music] took the video that he made and they posted it all over the university social media platforms. [music] And lo and behold, it worked. only 10 people showed up. Now, that is a yakab. [music] If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the Jewish people, then I don't know what will. You see, from the moment that Yakov outthought [music] and outmaneuvered Asov, this has been our story for thousands of years. We've lived [music] among empires built on brute strength and impulse and force. They had the armies, they had the weapons, [music] the numbers, and one by one, they disappeared. But we didn't. Not because we [music] were stronger. We survived because we learned Hashem's wisdom. And that [music] rewired how we think. The Tyra doesn't just give us information. It trains the [music] mind. It teaches you how to slow down and analyze and question and argue and respond instead of react. [music] And that's the point. History doesn't belong to the loudest. It doesn't belong to the strongest. And it definitely doesn't belong to the most violent. It belongs to the [music] people whose minds were shaped by wisdom. Tyu doesn't [music] just tell us what to think. It teaches us how to think. It slows [music] us down when the world panics. It gives us clarity when others lash out. It trains us to [music] respond, not just to react, to outlast instead of burn out. [music] Empires run on impulse. They rise fast and they collapse just as fast. [music] We run on wisdom, and wisdom plays the long game. That's why they're all footnotes in history books. And we're [music] still here teaching our children, opening a safer and thinking circles around a world that still hasn't learned how to stop [music] and think. That's not survival. That's dominance. The quiet [music] kind that never dies. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by to anytime.com.