Purim | How to fight ANTISEMITISM

in the holiday of poor Muhammad wanted to eradicate the Jewish people and what does he tells there's a certain Nation the certain Nation gathered among all the other nations and they're kind of doing their own thing they're they have their own Traditions their own Customs right and he starts slanting seeds of anti-Semitism and he then tells I'll pay you but I'd like to be the Hitman for these people ahasvara says don't be ridiculous you don't have to pay I'm in this with you right how did this happen don't we have security with God where did we fall short when tragedies happen calamities happen especially to ourselves not so much to other people we have to ask ourselves where did we fall short how can we do teshuva commentaries point out something fascinating what is yes there's a certain Nation there's a singular Nation the word yes no which means there is can also be read yeshanu there's a nation that's sleeping yes they're spiritual yes they're secure yes they have a connection and yes they're indestructible from a soul level but they're sleeping they're not living consistently with their values they have the values they believe in the valley but on the outside they're sleeping now we can infiltrate and the solution is we gotta wake up realign ourselves connect to the immense recite the Shema affirm that we actually believe this wake ourselves up that's what prayer is all about it's a wake-up call as soon as we woke up as soon as Mordechai gathered all the Jewish children rallied them and said we are strong Jews we are resilient Jews we're going to study Torah no matter what you know what happened at that point the king's sleep was this Disturbed as soon as we woke up the king woke up and had a global impact we want to fight anti-Semitism we got to wake up we got to wake up from the inside tell you a great story we had a Hanukkah party several months ago at the ice skating rink and there's this lady who joined it's her first time joining a Chabad event she was a little nervous so apprehensive somebody pushed her to go okay it's ice skating what's the worst that could happen I've met this lady before and had several interactions very nice person I had the opportunity to meet her children two young teenagers in public school and one of them is wearing a Hanukkah sweater you know the ugly Hanukkah sweater I said I like your sweater the Jewish Pride I love it it's you know it said Hanukkah I had a manure on it the mother looks at me with this big smile in her eyes and she says he even wore it at school today he was willing to demonstrate his Jewish values at school to not hide from them to live with emits live with truth there's another fellow in the community he was going on a cruise several weeks ago I spoke to him before the cruise I'm not even sure how he ended up speaking about this but I said look you're a Jew you're gonna see how the Jews there we're gonna keep on the cruise where you're keeping be proud Rocket Man be proud of who you are can give you opportunity to connect with other Jews it's going to give you opportunity to inspire other Jews you're going to feel great inside you're going to feel that you're living your life more aligned more consistent he actually did it I was in such awe he's telling me the stories of other Jewish people coming up to him and him building meaningful relationships and connections and having the opportunity it was beautiful it's Emmett it's true it contrasts Joseph to his brothers Joseph was in Egypt at this point for for many many years when he got sold and he rose to power he became the Viceroy of Egypt his brothers come for food the brothers don't recognize Joseph he Joseph recognizes the brothers why is that well because when Joseph was sold he was 17 years old at this point he's in his 30s he has facial hair they look pretty much the same he looks completely different they don't recognize him right that's true in our physical reality but everything that's true in a physical reality is true in the medical physical realities as well they didn't recognize Joseph because what Joseph represented truth that was quite foreign to them you mean you can go to Egypt the most spiritually corrupted lands of the time and still maintain your Jewish sacred values they'll be consistent with your Judaism still live truthfully come on I don't believe it they've never left the stettle they've never went to a place where there was no minion they've never left Los Angeles Brooklyn Israel the brothers they stayed in their Jewish state so they were shepherds this was Four Winds of them you could connect and remain true to your Judaism true to your value not because of the environment but because it's who you are you create the environment what they didn't recognize yosa they didn't recognize him back