Is Religion The Cause Of War?

Religion is the root of wars and evil deeds. Wrong. Uh people desecrating the Torah is the root of evil and wars. Uh because the Torah teaches morality. The Torah teaches ethics. The Torah teaches how to be good. Without the Torah, there's only evil. If you look at the world before the Torah, what did they have? Did they have ethics? Did they have morality? No. They had wars. They had people killing each other just to gain more land, just to gain uh more women, just to gain more money, just to gain more stuff. And unfortunately, the atheistic anti-Torah idolatrous world has continued to do that throughout all of history until today. Why does Why does America go to war with uh with Iraq even though they're on the other side of the world? Why do they go to war with Afghanistan even though they're on the other side of the world? Why do they go to war with Japan even though they're on the other side of the world? It was all about land, power, and you know, immorality, uh and all types of uh uh desires for things that don't belong to somebody, but a lust to take it. That's what all of the wars are. It had nothing to do with religion. Japan did not attack uh America because of religion. America did not bomb Japan because of religion. Had nothing to do with religion. So, if you look at what the Torah teaches, it tells the Jewish people we're not allowed to go to war just for the sake of conquering land. There were a lot There was wars that God told us to go take over Israel and the wars to defend ourself. If somebody comes to attack us. But even if at the time of David Amalech, we weren't allowed to just go to wars just to go beat up somebody and conquer their land for no reason. We weren't allowed to go and take over the world even though David Amalech's King David's army was very powerful. In fact, at the time of his son, Amalech, the whole world the whole world followed what Amalech said. Now, Amalech didn't go fight with anybody. He never had a single war. He could have easily had domination of anybody he wanted and take whatever he wanted, but he didn't. Why? Because the Torah doesn't teach us to go to war just to take stuff that doesn't belong to us. Torah teaches us the opposite. Teaches us that Hashem gave us something, that's what belongs to us. Everything else, other people can have. Other people, it's theirs. It's not our business. What our business is to follow God. He gave us our small little piece of land. The rest of the world has the rest of the world. But interestingly enough, you'll see that the greatest civilizations, not greatest in goodness, greatest in size and power, and impact on the world throughout all of history, whether it's the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Turks, the Spaniards, the Greeks, the Romans, you know, the rest of the barbarian nations of Germany for the last couple of thousand years that started from the Roman Empire all the way until Nazi Germany. These are all barbarian nations, over 300 nations that combined. All of these great powers, no matter what they had, they had, you know, in the time of Babylonians, they literally had world domination. Time of the Greeks, Alexander the Great, he had world domination. He was so powerful that when he died, which was at a very young age because apparently his boyfriend killed him. He was married to a man or he was dating a man. He was one of these LGBT supporters. Anyway, Alexander the Great died at a young age. I think he was like 35, 36. But his power was so massive that his empire had to be divided into four, four different kings. But interestingly enough, no matter how much the Greeks had, no matter how much the Romans had, no matter how much the Babylonians had, or all of the others had, they always made the Jewish people an enemy. And they always went to go fight them in Israel. Why? What do you care about the Jews? We've always been few. We've always been distant, secluded, but always against. Why? Because it's not religion that rules the world. It's not religion that ruins the world. It's when people go against the Torah, that's what creates all the animosity. That's what creates all the hatred. When people see the what the Torah says, they realize that if the Torah is right, that means that they are wrong. That means that their immorality, their adultery, their betrayal, their theft, their murders, their, you know, endless crimes, and complete uh lack of mercy and care for anybody else other than themselves is wrong. So, what do they do? They fight against those people that are promoting the Torah. Who's promoting the Torah? Only the Jewish people. So, that's why even though Israel was a small piece of land, or the Jewish people were always a small community in different parts of the world, in Morocco, in Libya, in Egypt, in Poland, in Ukraine, in in different places around the world, the enemies, as great as they were, even if they literally had world control, they did everything in order to destroy this little Jewish community. Why? Because that little Jewish community reminded them that it cannot be that we are right and they are right. Either we are right and they are wrong, which means they're like animals, or we are wrong and they're right. And if we're wrong and they're right, why were we allowed to exist? And they've always attacked us, and they've always murdered us, and they've always tortured us. But guess what? Hakadosh Baruch Hu Yitbarach Shmo La'ad, he protects us. Now, while he allows us to get hurt, to get killed, he'll never allow anyone to annihilate us. But those that go against us, eventually he annihilates them. And that's why all of those nations that I mentioned, and even the ones that I haven't mentioned that were great powers, where are they? In history books. You don't see them in the world today. There's no survivors with descendants and lineage from the Greek Empire. There's no survivors with descendants from the lineage from the Babylonian Empire or any of the other empires. All of them are gone. Who's left? The Jewish people. And the Jewish people will always be here, whether you like it or you don't like it. Now, if a person finds themself hating the Jews without really having a substantial reason, like no Jew actually did anything wrong to you. So, that means that your hate is no different than all of these other empires, all of these other evil monsters that murdered their own people, raped their own people, stole from their own people, did horrible things to their own people. It's not like these great empires were good to their own people. They were horrible to everybody else, including their own people. They killed their own kids. They killed their own wives. They stole people's stuff, their family member. They did everything horrible to everybody. They were horrible to everyone. So, when you see that you find yourself in line with a common hatred towards the Jewish people, and that common hatred is with somebody that was evil to everybody else, the only thing that you should be questioning is yourself. What's your motivation? What's your motivation? Are you ethical like the Torah teaches? Are you righteous like the Torah teaches? Are you honest like the Torah teaches? No. But the tzaddikim, the righteous among our nation are. And there's no gentile on planet Earth that can compete with the righteous Jewish people. No gentile on planet Earth. Now, of course, there are some people that are Jewish, but they themselves go against the Torah. That's not who I'm talking about. People that are Jewish that are going against the Torah sometimes are worse than other people, worse than even some of the worst gentiles. And I've spoken about this extensively over the years. I have many lectures about it. But if you compare yourself to those that follow the Torah, to the righteous Jewish people that follow against to the Torah, literally, when you look at their life, their behavior, what they do for the sake of helping people, for the sake of respecting people, for the sake of simply contributing to society, no one can compete. Not even the best among the gentiles can compete against even the a single Torah scholar that is following what he learns. Cannot compete. Why? That's what Hakadosh Baruch Hu That's what Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us. He gave us a rule book of how to be good. Without that rule book, no gentile in the world would know how to be good. You understand? So, even even if a person doesn't understand and doesn't want to agree to the things that I'm saying, test it. Test it. Go take a trip to a religious Jewish community. Go to Bnei Brak. Go to Jerusalem. To the religious community. Just walk around. You'll see things that you will never see in any other country. Example. Somebody has a store. Let's say you have a store. Let's say you sell in your store, whatever you sell. You sell games, you sell food, you sell whatever it is that you sell. What is the number one most important thing about the store and you managing the store, even more than making money? What is it? Not losing money. Right? Because even if you're making money, but if you're losing more than you're making, the store goes out of business. So, what is the number one thing that a person invests in before he even buys the products that he sells? Before he buys the food, before he buys the toys or whatever he's selling in the store. What's the first thing that he does? That he invests into the store before anything else? Security. He makes sure that he has a good door, a good lock, a good camera system, maybe even a security guard. Right? In America, that almost doesn't matter anymore because over here in America, there there's a new law where you're allowed to steal up to $1,000. They go to the stores, they bash all the windows in front of the employees in the middle of the day without even a mask. They bash everything, they take everything, they leave. In America, it's pretty much allowed. If you're a one of these hoodlums that wants to destroy and still claim yourself to be a victim, you're allowed to do it in America. But in the rest of the world, this is usually not allowed. Either way, I can tell you for sure that the store owners did not plan on having such a law before they opened the store. Had they known that such a law would be, not a single store in America would have been opened. You're in a point where now stores have to reinvent themselves in order to fight this new legal crime where people walk into the store without a mask, without guns, just take stuff off the shelves and walk out without doing anything. But in normal society, the number one thing that a person does is they get themselves a good door, a good lock, a good camera system, maybe even a security guard. Why? Because no matter what you're selling, you do not want people to steal it. Not during the time that you're not there, where it's at night you're sleeping, and not during the time while you are there. Your number one concern is theft. Somebody stealing your stuff, right? And that doesn't matter what country, whether you are from Uruguay, Brazil, Bangladesh, Russia, whether it's Moscow with the high-price stores or it's some of the other parts of Russia where you can pretty much buy everything for five bucks. Doesn't make a difference. You have protection. Stores, doors, camera system, security guard, somebody with a gun, somebody with a uh you know, that's what you have. But if you go into different parts of the religious community in Jerusalem, in Bnei Brak, in Mea Shearim, and other parts of the religious communities of Israel, what are you going to see? You're going to see that yes, you have some stores like that that are just like everybody else. They have a door, they have a camera system, they have all this. But you're also going to see some actual businesses, real businesses, operating without any of it. Where the guy has a bunch of stuff outside. There is no storefront. There's just a bunch of stuff. Next to it, there is a box where anybody that wants to buy something, it's 100% honor system. There's groceries. There's all types of groceries. There's a price on everything. Anyone that wants to buy whatever they want to buy, they go, they pick whatever grocery they want, they take money out of their pocket, they put into a little box. There's no computers. There's no scanning. There's no weighing. There's no nothing. There's 100% yirat shamayim. You know what yirat shamayim is? Fear of God. The guy that sells it, you know what he does? He studies Torah all day. So, he says, "Listen, I have to study Torah, but I also have to make money. So, what am I going to do? I'm going to trust that Hashem is going to help me." How? "I'm going to put my groceries outside with a sign, the prices for everything, and a little box, and then I'm going to go back to work." Yeah, "What about having a security guard or maybe somebody work for you?" No, no, no, "It's too expensive." So, what if people steal? They steal. Okay, maybe they needed more than I do. Yeah, but you yourself are struggling. Yeah, but you know, it's not Hashem. He goes and learns Torah. People go to his little grocery store without a store, buy, put their money in the box, buy, put their money in the box. That's how he makes his money. This is not one store, not two stores, not three stores, not five stores. You'll see this in every religious community. They're selling books, they're selling uh a uh groceries, all types of things. Now, show me another nation that has such a thing, that dares to do such a thing. People literally are scared to leave their bicycle, bicycle, without putting two or three locks on it while they go check the mail, while they go buy something from the store. They put two or three locks on it. Why? Cuz they all know that they if they leave that bike without somebody, somebody's just going to take it. Even if he doesn't need a bicycle, he sees a bicycle without a lock, he steals it. Why? That's the That's the nature of people that do not have the laws of God to guide them. When you don't have the laws of God to guide you, that means that you are your own God. You are your own lawgiver. And you decide that you deserve somebody else's bicycle more than he does because you got to it first. You deserve somebody else's money because you cheated them out of it. This is why they allow themselves to steal from people without remorse. Look at how many degenerate YouTubers that got famous doing all types of stupid things on the internet, got millions of people to follow them, only to betray all of those people that followed them and supported them and watched their videos by promoting fake Bitcoins and cryptocurrency or other types of scams just so they could get those people to fall for the scam so they could enrich themselves. This is what people without a God do. This is what people without a Torah God do. Cuz they can say they believe in God, but it's not the God of Israel. Why? Cuz the God of Israel gave the Torah. And the Torah is the law. If a person does not follow the law of the God, then he's following somebody else's law. He's following his own law. And that will allow him to steal cuz according to his laws, he's allowed to steal. That will allow him to lie because according to his laws, he's allowed to lie. That will allow him to rape, that will allow him to murder, that will allow him to do whatever he wants. So, you see, it's not religion that caused the wars and hatred in the world, but rather anyone that goes against the laws of the God of Israel is the one that's declaring war against God and the rest of the world. Rabbi Reuben really really wants to help people and he's not like the typical rabbi where he wants to eat he generally wants to make people better people better human being better people as a person that's why I love his musar lectures. It It really There There's tons of lectures on YouTube where you can go find any topic you want. But there's not so many so many rabbis that actually teach people to be better people.