The Jews and the Non Jews (Ep. 287)

Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome to the Robert Alowski show. We'll try that again because I had a practice. I haven't had an audience in a long time. Hi, this is Dowski and welcome to the Rabbi Alowski Show. Thank you very much. You too can be a part of the studio audience if you uh just send us an email, let us know when you're going to be uh around and come and join us. And whether you're watching with our friends over at Toron Time, who are of course our new uh uh producers, or wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, as always, it's wonderful to have you along for the experience. And um we're starting with a uh sponsorship. Hi Rabbi, thank you for your fresh and very practical perspective on Torah and Yiddishkite. In particular, your reframing of the Auna crisis into a choice between marriage versus pelagish was excellent. Thank you. That is my own kadesh, by the way. It's a great example of how the world uses inflammatory positioning to get us to lose sight of the issue. Keep up the great work, Canada, Rosens. Thank you all the way from Canada. That's uh wonderful. Hashem, welcome. Welcome along for the show. And uh I uh I don't know what my following is up in Canada to tell you the truth, but uh good to know there are some people there who who uh who are part of the experience. Um, I uh I want to talk about something this week that was uh sparked by a comment and uh I try to read all the comments and all the emails and things that I get. I don't always respond to them because the general rule is um when I get an email like, you know, thank you so much, I enjoy the show, it's very easy for me to respond to it. Thank you for listening or something or write back. Sometimes I get more involved questions and sometimes I can deal with them in the uh question and answer section of the show. Sometimes it's uh something that I feel is important enough to um uh to actually spend an episode on. So there was a comment uh posted uh on YouTube which is one of the places that uh that the show goes up on. Um there are many people who of course watch and listen at to any time. I was uh in America and I've met a number of people who do not have internet but to any time has a call up uh option and they listen uh on the phone and uh they listen that way. So there's a lot of different places and forums. Um I'm hard for me to keep track frankly of how many people are there. It it's somewhere around 25,000 uh viewers that I can tell now. um that I'm able to piece together. Uh it was so interesting when I had uh um my uh episode um when I interviewed Tuvish Singer and I had told him we had at the time about 20,000 people and somebody commented I got a lot of unpleasant comments but somebody uh commented uh oh there's no way this guy has 20,000 viewers and that video has over 24,000 views. So, uh, okay. What can I tell you? You know, uh, I hope somebody else makes a comment like that so people people have no choice but to push up the the count. But, um, uh, so, you know, whenever I can can, I I try to see the the comments that people make and uh, and I take them to heart. Uh, sometimes more than I should. There are some people who are just, you know, negative for the sake of being negative and uh there's some people who are positive for the sake of being positive. I like to think and uh you know, but every now and then somebody makes a comment that uh that gives me pause. And uh that was on uh my last uh podcast, the one that I did on the situation. I've done two actually on the situation recently and somebody wrote me as I shouldn't say wrote me but commented on the video as follows. Uh he puts himself as Jacob Solless 177. I was an Orthodox religious Jew for 13 years. Judaism teaches that non-Jews including converts have a nephesh and a ruach like animals but only Jews have an so now he brings a quote from the Jerusalem Post October 18th 2010 the sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews why are Gentiles needed they will work they will plow they will reap we will sit like an offendee and eat. That is why Gentiles were created. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world. Only to serve the people of Israel. Rabbi Yoseph, a tap rabbi of Israel. The Jews are waiting for the Messiah who will be even more brutal than Natanyahu. So, uh, at first glance, you uh you hear a lot of negativity in this. At second blush, I hear a lot of pain. That's that's what I see in this comment. And uh, Jacob, I I first of all want to say to you uh, Yashikoyak for listening to the podcast. There's there's no trick to listening to something that you agree with and that you enjoy and that you like, but something that causes you so much pain. Um, I would hope that my podcast per se does not do that because this is your first uh comment that I'm I'm that I'm aware of anyway. And um uh I hope I hope that I don't usually give over that impression that I give across negative concepts of Judaism. And uh what can I tell you? There is a certain uh amount of uh you know Weineberg from Asia Torah once said, "We have the best product. We just have the worst um packaging and marketing." You know, needless to say that if this was the type of Judaism that I had learned from my rebellium, I would also feel uh somewhat uncomfortable with that position. Um I have heard from Jews say many things that sound outrageous and that I disagree with and that I look into. Um, and I've heard things from even big rabbis that I um um what can I say? It it does not sit well with me. Yeah. So, uh so the the topic first of all deserves some discussion. At the end you bring in Netanyahu which is of course the uh the present situation and I hope we have enough time at the end to actually go and deal with that topic as well. But let's uh let's get down to the heart of the matter. Um the role of Jews and non-Jews there's a a phenomena that uh Christians are angry at Jews because we claim we're the chosen people. And uh I remember I was on a panel in uh Cape Town, South Africa. It was me. It was a particular school. It was me, a Muslim teacher, a Catholic teacher, and a secular Jewish teacher. We were all answering different questions on Judaism. And there were a few girls there who um I credit them for their involvement. you know, that's the uh people who who might, you know, say things that are a little inappropriate to me is always better than people who don't care, you know, and that's why the fact that Jacob is watching my show and making comments to me is one of the signs that uh he's an honest searching person in spite of whatever hurt or or pain he may have experienced. So, um, uh, so these girls were were more involved. Anyway, they were Hassley, the Catholic teacher. You know this from watching my show that subtlety is not one of my, um, not one of my best traits. Uh and um I I had students one time they said, "I see sometimes when there's something a little controversial that you're thinking of saying, you stop and think about it first, but then you say it anyway." So I don't even know why you take out those few seconds to even think about it like what what's the point, you know? Um, there's somebody who is a character in recent uh recent Jewish history who in my opinion has done a tremendous amount of damage to Toyre, but you know, I I wouldn't really refer to him, but I made an oblique reference to him once uh in a podcast. It was really oblique. You had to really be um as self-centered as he is to even spot it. And most people had no idea that I was even making an oblique reference. And he wrote me up and threatened he was going to destroy me. He was going to, you know, so uh so I wrote him back and I said, "Listen, you know, I don't have any jobs. I don't have anything going on anymore. All I have is this podcast and everybody who watches it knows that I say outrageous things. So, there's really nothing you can do to me. I I don't I don't really have anything. It's not like you're going to put up something outrageous that I said in the past and people who watch the show will be like, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe he said something so outrageous." He says, "My gosh, he says it every week." Sometimes when I'm giving a share, people say, "Um, uh, you know, uh, you be careful, Rabbi. This is being recorded." I said, "If anyone wants to take me down, there's enough stuff out there already to to take me down." But my people know who already who I am and and uh and the things that I say. So I'm not really worried that's going to happen. But um um to uh to take the time and point out things, I'm I'm not afraid to walk away from it. So I have this I don't have a gift of subtlety. So these girls were hassling the Catholic teacher and I was giving them you know my look. I get this look from my mother. My my my wife always says that stop it. Will you stop it? You know, now I forget that when I do this, everybody can see it, you know. And um uh so anyway, so after they finished with her, they they raised their hand again and they said, "Rabbi, you seemed a little upset to, you know, the fact that we were hassling the Catholic teacher about Catholicism, but didn't you tell us in the class that the Jews are the chosen people?" So I said, "Yeah, of course the Jews think we're the chosen people." I said, "And I would dare say that, you know, Mrs. So and so would agree that the Catholics are the chosen people." And she said, "Absolutely." Of course, the Catholics think they're the the chosen people. Uh Weinberg said once, "In America, there's freedom of religion. You can be a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim as long as you don't take it seriously." Once you take it seriously, you're a fanatic. So you can say, "Oh yeah, I believe in this, but not that it's real." I uh I was accosted once by a reformed student when I was speaking and and he said at one point, "So you think you're the only one? So So the Orthodox think they're the only ones who think that they're right?" I said, "Well, of course. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think I was right. Jews didn't give up their lives throughout history if we didn't think it was right. Of course we believe in it. because we think that we're right. And so when um when uh the Jews think that we're the chosen people, I mean, my gosh, the the Christians certainly think they call themselves the new Israel and that God has uh rejected the Jews and that uh all the Jews who have not accepted Jesus are going to be cast into the pit of hell for eternity. And in fact, there's a giant mural, you know, by the Vatican showing, you know, Jesus throwing all the sinners into into hell, you know. So, so of course we believe that we're right. You know, it's it's a silly thing to assume that someone believes in it. And you know, people say, "Well, then you believe in absolute truth." Of course, I believe in absolute truth. You don't you don't give up your life as Jews had throughout history for a maybe. Uh what's the point? Of course, we believe in it. Of course, we think that it's true. Of course, we think we're right. Nobody nobody's going to be doing this and dedicating their lives to something that we don't think is right. So, um, so, so if that's the case, what's the reason that people get upset at us when we claim we're the chosen people, which by the way, the Muslims believe and the and the Christians believe and and uh, and by the Christians, the Muslim, the Protestants think the Catholics are going to go to hell and the Catholics think the Protestants are going to go to hell. And then inside of certain Protestant sects, they they think that they're going to go to hell, you know, um and the Mormons think everyone's going to go to hell. And uh you know, you got to get it right. In the 1300s, there were two popes. There was a French pope and there was a Italian pope. And each one put the other followers of the other pope into excommunication. Now when we put someone into they translated excommunication. That's not excommunication. We just say that you're persona and we don't want anything to do with you because you know um it's uh you're going against community norms and until you want to be part of the community then the community wants nothing to do with you. That's all that that is. It's certainly not excommunication. Excom excommunication is a uniquely Catholic um uh process wherein the pope says, "You don't get to go to heaven." Yeah. So, one of the popes put all of England into excommunication and the king had to come in the snow in a penance robe and bow down at the pope's feet, you know, to do penance because he says the whole country doesn't get to go to heaven. It's like this. If you were a Catholic, no matter which pope you followed, the other one said you're not going to heaven. So, I don't know. That's a that's a pretty serious um so we don't have that. We don't know if anybody can come along and say you can't go to heaven because you did this or I'll decide if you go to heaven or not. We don't have such a concept. But um um uh the the concept of putting them into excommunication, we don't have that. So when we say we're the chosen people, which means that we're right, what does that mean? So I want to show you two things that should give people pause. The Christian calendar begins in day one, I should say year one, anod doino. Yeah. Um uh from the birth of Jesus. That's it. That's the beginning of time when Christianity comes onto the scene. Before that, it's BC, you know, cavemen and uh, you know, and and and Neanderthalss and Ug and nothing. Time does not count until Christianity came along. The Muslim calendar begins from the the first vision Muhammad got from Allah during his night flight from Mecca to Medina when God appeared to him. That's the beginning of time. And anything happened before then is before time. When do we count the calendar? We count our calendar from the beginning of creation. when God created the first human, not the first Jew, the first human. That's how our calendar works. And when Abrau came onto the scene and began the people known as the Hebrews, we didn't start a new calendar. And at Hari, when God gave us the Torah, we didn't start with a new calendar. We didn't start over. We tell time from the creation of the first human. And uh that's because Judaism is a religion that recognizes the role of all people in the world. Everybody is here for the same purpose to have a recognition of God. And the day will come when all the nations of the world will recognize God. Not the Jewish people will recognize God and will be fulfilled and everybody else will be destroyed. No, everybody is supposed to recognize that God exists and is the rule of the world. And that's why when we receive the Torah, we were told we were going to become uh a mle kohanim. When God chose our own to become the first cohain, it was not to the exclusion of all the other Jews. It means that he is there to be mishar, the Jewish people, to serve the Jewish people. The kohanim and levim have a job in the Jewish people to serve the Jewish people and they don't get any land in the land of Israel because of that. So the kohanim get Truman and a few other random gifts. The levim get 10% and that's it. They get the the Levian get 48 cities to live in. The Kohan don't even get that. They're there to serve the Jewish people. That's their job. They're they're a Shalia between us and messenger between us and God for us to be able to reach him through their service. That's all. They're not there to to um they're there to teach us Torah. They're there to uh be free to be able to focus on the kures bar, but not to the exclusion of the Jewish people. And so they have a role to play. So too, the Jewish people have a role to play to the nations of the world. Um, Arafat, I don't suppose he came up with this on his own. And I'm sure there were Jews who gave him this line because there are Jews who uh favor the Arab cause over the Jewish cause. Um what can I tell you? I've seen too many Jews killed and attacks and things like that uh to treat that lightly. But okay, they feel more of an allegiance to uh to Arab terrorists. And so he said once he says we are not we are not the Okay that's a term that in modern parlance uh somehow is seen as a derogatory term for uh non-Jews. Yeah. A just means nation. And so the Jewish people are called a kadosh. We're also a nation. Yeah, [Music] we're a nation. just means a nation. Yeah. So, our job is to be there to minister to the world. Okay. Well, let's let's examine this. Now, Abraham is told by Hashem I'm going to make you into a special nation. I'm going to give you wealth. I'm going to give you fame. I'm going to give you children. You're going to, you know, be uh this this great nation among the people. Yeah. And so he travels to the land of Israel where immediately there's a famine. So this covenant is working out real good. So he's got to leave. He goes down to Egypt. Egypt. They kidnap his wife. Okay. His wife is holy because of her. Pharaoh gets smitten with plagues, which is what pharaohs do best. And they release him and he comes back to Israel. He comes back to Israel and he ends up having a fight with his one remaining relative uh his nephew and brother-in-law Alamus Lot. He says, "Lo, let's not fight. Let's separate." So Lo chooses to go over to Saddam. And while he's there, the Saddam gets involved in a war and Lo gets captured. Okay. So um Abraham promised he would be there for him, take care of him and help him out. So Abraham goes to war against the four world powers at that time. How powerful were these guys? Og the giant, his people got wiped out from these four armies. Og survived and ran for his life. Og the big giant who we later confront in the desert. And uh they wipe out these people. So Abraham goes to battle against the four world powers to save Lot. And uh um he either goes with a small army or he only goes with Eleazar. Yeah. And the two of them go and they fight and they defeat the four world powers and they rescue Lot and they bring him back who then decides to go back to stop and then uh at the end oh and then of course after 10 years he's childless so he has to take another wife and he takes another wife and his two wives don't get along together. Those of you who have two no have two wives, you know how awkward that can be. Yeah. So they end up fighting. So, uh, so he ends up having to send his wife, one of his wives away and she does chuva and she comes back and she has a son and uh, and now this has gone on for he was 75. Now he's 99. And says, "So, how do you like my covenant? How's it going for you? I got one last surprise for you. Brisma circumcision. I was saving that for last. Now, if I was Abraham, I might have said, "Listen, I got to tell you the truth. You told me you're going to make a covenant with me and make me the Jewish people, and I'm going to be this very special nation." And I tell you the truth, things have not been going so great with this arrangement. I I really pictured this going differently. That's not what Abraham says because God through all of paras from the beginning to the end is sending a message to Abraham. What do I need a chosen people for? To get reward. I'm the God of the whole world. I want everybody in the world to get a reward, not just the Jewish people. you're here to be my representative on earth. That's the goal of the Jewish people. So, I wanted you to get a little feeling. Um, I was in in 1977. The whole yeshiva came. Now until that point the kitchen was basically serving about 25 people and so the kitchen was serving 200 people and they did not have the infrastructure for 200 people and um uh the um executive director Rabbi Kramer Shalom he was in charge of the whole the whole yeshiva but he was spending most of his time in the kitchen. His wife who was secretary was spending a lot of her day in the kitchen. There were two cooks and two oz wrote an assistant cooks. They were spending most of the day in the kitchen. There was a man a mitbah somebody who was in charge manager just of the kitchen. Um there was a group of work study guys who was supposed to be working in the kitchen. Um there were a number of workers who were there just for the kitchen and it was a disaster. Things were were they were totally unprepared for this. You would walk in in the morning. There weren't enough plates. There was enough silverware. They would dump 20 loaves of bread on the table with a knife for breakfast. They would put out a giant uh can of jam. They would put out, you know, 10 uh 10 or 20 sticks of margarine. And it was just a disaster there. There was no way that things could run this way. And so the Rashiva asked me if I would take it over. Um I had done a little bit in high school organizational work. I had a little bit of a gift for organizational work, but certainly this was not my area of expertise. So I agreed Kramer brings me into the kitchen. And he says, "Okay, here's the potato peeling machine. I didn't even know there was such a thing. Here's the mixer, giant mixers. Here's this. Here's that. Here's this. I'll introduce you to the cooks. Introduce you to the uh wrote." They let the kitchen manager go. I was going to take that role. Um uh you know, here here are the uh the the workers. Here are the um uh you know, these are the names of the work study guys. And he leaves. And I said, "One second, what am I supposed to do?" And he said, "It's a position of responsibility. If anything goes wrong, you're responsible." Well, right after Yam Kipper is bay manim and everybody's coming in at different times and different things and I'm just uh problem solving, you know, I'm running here, I'm going here, this and that. Uh I remember they had schnitle one night and guys were yelling at me, look at this, I get this one tiny piece of schnitle. This isn't enough. This and that. You know, I'm doing this and that. I'm just running trying to put out fires and the cooks are saying to me, nobody did the potatoes. I'm sitting there peeling 50 kilo of potatoes and nobody did this, no one did that. I'm running around dealing with a hundred different things. And the last three days before the newsman started, they went on a teal. They went away on a trip. And Mary Kramer sat down with me and said, "Okay, um uh what do we do?" I said, "Okay, we don't have enough silverware." He says, "Well, I have it. We just haven't toyed it yet." I said, "Let's go to it." He says, "I'll put it in my van. We'll go down. We'll tell you there'll be enough silverware. I said the work study guys who are busy doing Mr. Bura have to come down before the meal and so one of them is going to be in charge of slicing bread. We need baskets and we'll put sliced bread on each table. I said someone else we need like dessert cups. Someone's going to fill up the jelly and fill up the margarine and they have to be on the tables before the people come and we have to do this and we have to do that. We have to change around the menu because you you serve like roast chicken like five nights in a row, you know, and then suddenly you schnitle and no one gets any, you know. So, so we have to change around the the menus. We have to this, we have to that. And he says, "Fine, we got three days. Let's do it." After that, I worked myself out of a job. Things ran so smoothly. I had nothing to do. So, um, so I, uh, I said to him as we were setting things up, "Why didn't you tell me what to do?" And he said, "Because whatever I was doing wasn't working." So, there's no point of me telling you what's not working. I figure you'll come in with a fresh pair of eyes. You'll see the problems for yourself. You'll come with solutions. I didn't think of any of this stuff. And that was it. And everything ran smoothly after that. We had everything running like clockwork. So the oh I I changed around the menu. I came up with different things. We we we managed to uh to vary things in different ways and uh I was able to solve the problem but that first throw you into a situation. Kosha says listen the world's a mess and I want you to see Abraham that the world is a mess. There's hunger and there's kidnapping and there's family strife and there's childlessness and there's wars and there's and there's friction and there's all kinds of problems going on in the world. That's the deal I'm offering you. I sit around and get reward. I want everyone to get reward. I'm the god of all the peoples of the world. I want someone to be my representative in this world. A goes a group of people who are going to serve mankind. And that's what you're supposed to be an orim, a light to the nations that they're going to see you and be inspired. And let me be perfectly clear here. If you do not live up to that responsibility and inspire the world through good example, you will inspire the world by being the object of the punishment I'm going to put upon you for not serving the world the way you are supposed to. And so as it says at the end of Dvarim, and people will come to this land from far away and see the destruction like stone in Amora and said, "What did these people do to get God so upset at them?" Eloi says to God, "The Jewish people have sinned. There's no more hope for them." So God says, "Then you can't be the leader of the Jewish people. You don't believe in them. Take the next fiery chariot up to heaven. You know, I'll keep you I'll keep you around to do certain things, but you can't lead the people if you don't believe in them." When the Jews sinned by the golden calf and said, "I'm going to destroy the Jewish people." He says to Moshe, "I'm going to destroy the Jewish people. Hold me back." Moshe is like, "Um, you're God." "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to destroy them. Hold me back. Hold me back." He says, "All right, God. I'm not going to let you." Oh, all right. Because the job of a leader is to fight for those people. And so, just like the leaders of the Jewish people have to be there to stand up for the Jewish people, the Jewish people have to be there for the nations of the world. And therefore one of the 10 tests of Abraham was God comes to Abraham right after he has the brisma after they seal it in the flesh for generations and it's on the place where future generations will come out and he makes this covenant with him for all generations you and your children forever. He says, "You know, Abraham, you have spent your life bringing God awareness into the world, which is the reason that I chose you." Yeah. The pathy way of saying it is why did God choose the Jews? Because the Jews chose God. So Abraham chose God. At the age of 52, the Gomorrah says he already had a yeshiva going in tens of thousands of students teaching everybody about God. He had never had a vision, never had a prophecy, never had anything. He was doing it out of pure logic. There has to be a God. This has to be what he's what he wants. And he was doing it to bring it into the world. And he did it by doing says if there's an all powerful infinite God, he doesn't need anything. So he created the world as an act of kindness. and I'm going to bring the awareness of God to people through acts of kindness. And that's what he did. He brought kindness into the world. So God says, "Listen, you've had um uh starting from the age of 52 about a half a century career of bringing God awareness and um and uh kindness into the world. You know there is an anti-force in this world and that's called stone. They kill you if you do is punishable by death. That's how bad they they hate acts of kindness and they're very wicked and they're evil. And if I destroy them, that will remove an obstacle to your ministry in this world. And it'll help you be able to bring God awareness that much stronger because this powerful evil force working against your concept of kindness and God awareness will be removed from the world. And Abraham says there's got to be some way we can save these people. What about like this? What about like that? Could we try this? Could we try that? And you see from the way Abraham is saying that he understands he's pushing his luck. Please God, don't be angry at me. Please give me the opportunity one more time. Let me let me try this. Let me try that. Because he's willing to risk his life to save the most wicked people. Yeah. The the the nations of the world. And that's why Abraham's name was a contraction of a hamim. Aram Rashi says meant he was only the father of Aram. So he took care of only one people. Now when he agreed to become the chosen people, he was abon he's responsible for the welfare of the entire world. and he felt a keen obligation to have to look after everybody. Yoseph goes down to Egypt and he stay he manages to save the whole world from starvation. He's worried about everybody. He's concerned for them too. He wants to see the entire world prosper. The Gmorrah says if the nations of the world knew what they lost by destroying the base of Mikdash, they would have rushed to build it. On sukis we bring 70 offerings for the 70 nations of the world that they should get forgiveness. When Schlommoik dedicated the B mikdash the temple in Jerusaleam he said and there's this is the book of kings you can read it where he says if a Jew prays and asks for something and he deserves it grant it to him but if a non-Jew asks give it to him no matter what so that he can see that God is true he can see your greatness and So the nations of the world are important to the Jewish people. And I think the best way to watch to see this is to Christians. If you are not a Christian, you are going to be cast into hell. I told you that's a that's a mural in the 16th 16th chapel that um the sinners will be cast into the pit of hell. If you don't accept Jesus into your life, you will burn in hell. That's why Christians care so much about you that they'll do anything to get you to accept Christianity. Even if it means torturing you on the rack or burning you, you know, uh, by rubbing oil on your feet and holding a torch to it or any of the other tortures and slaughters that the Christians have done to Jews, deny them uh uh uh the most basic humanity in the hope that they will accept the religion of love. But that's only because they love us so much that they want to torture us to death in order for us to become Christians. Muslims by fire and sword they will spread the word of Allah. And history has shown that they will do anything to get you to accept Islam because they worry about you having to be cast into the pit of hell. And therefore, they'll do anything they can to get you to convert. And when a non-Jew comes to a Jew, as a rule, we don't proitize. We're not out there recruiting. And if a non-Jew comes and says, "I want to be a Jew." We say, "What do you want to do that for? What are you new to this? You ever hear of anti-semitism? You know, a lot of people don't like us. You know, you want to be a Jew. You know how many mitzvah there are? How many laws there are? And the nine Jews says, "But I want to go to heaven." And we say, "No trouble. Do the seven. Go to heaven." God gave Noah the seven Noahhided laws. Follow those laws and you have a place in the world to come. There is a movement called the Noahidis movement of non-Jews who say, "We believe that Judaism is right. We're not ready to take on the strictctures of Judaism. We like to go golfing on Saturday. We like our cheeseburgers. You know, we we uh um not ready for this restrictive lifestyle that you Jews live, but we want to go to heaven. So, the Mits Noak, and you're guaranteed a place in the world to come. So uh so they say one second your religion says you don't have to be part of your religion to go to heaven and we say yeah. So what kind of religion is it? It's a religion for everybody because God is the is the god of the entire world. And Jews have 613 mitzvos, commandments, not suggestions. And non-Jews have seven commandments, not suggestions, cuz God wants to have a relationship with them. So very often somebody will ask me, "So does a Jew get greater reward in the world to come than a non-Jew?" And I say,"I hope so. I'm doing 613, he's doing seven, and we're both supposed to get the same reward. How in the world is that fair?" He says, "Yeah, but uh but then the Jews are special." Goes, "Right." However, unlike uh the Aryan race which is seen as superior by virtue of birth, anyone can become a uh member of the Jewish people because executives as a rule make more money than guys on the assembly line because the guys on the assembly line just have to work from 9 to5 and their union gives them certain rights and certain things and then they go home and the executive is there if he's a good executive working day and night to be able to take care of everything and do everything that has to be done and he's responsible like Rabbi Kramer said to me it's a position of responsibility anything goes wrong you're responsible so it's your job to take care of everything and not just to um uh to say well I punched the clock and I'm going home and I should get the uh I should get the same treatment as a as a uh you know work on the assembly line but I want to get paid a lot more money. No, of course not. You work harder. But anyone can take a test to become part of the executive group. We don't limit it on the basis of religion or race or gender. Anybody can join. And in fact, some of the worst characters in Jewish history, their descendants became part of the Jewish people. Some of the worst enemies of our people. Every wine tells the story of uh he sees these uh blond, blue-eyed, you know, little kids and their father. So he says, "You know what's the story?" Because uh my father was an SS officer and when I found out after the war what he did, I decided I'm giving it up and I'm joining and becoming part of the Jewish people. Well, Sanv had descendants. Hmon had descendants. You could be the worst person in the world and a person says, "I want to join the Jewish people." You have that opportunity. General Zarin converted to Judaism. Anyone can join. Do you don't want to join? Okay, you don't have to, but that doesn't mean you can't go to heaven. That doesn't mean you can't have something to do, but you're not going to have the same relationship. So, I could have a good friend, doesn't call me all the time. Yeah. Not always there for me. Okay, I can have friendships like that. When I see them, we're happy to see each other. We talk, we smoo, we have a nice time. But that's not a wife or a husband. A wife or a husband is 24/7. It's not when you feel like it. One of my daughters, uh, I have two divorced daughters. one of them her husband would just disappear for days at a time just go off places you know just disappear go awall it's not really a successful marriage and I said you you got to be there years ago when we were first married you know my wife said to me I feel like you take me for granted I said of course I do I take it for granted you're going to be here in the morning and you're going to be here at night otherwise what an unhappy marriage this would be if I wonder every day, are you going to be here or not? Of course, I take it for granted. That of course was the wrong answer because, you know, um uh women have a different conception of relationships than guys do. You know, like uh someone told me recently, you know, my wife keeps asking me, "Do I do you love me?" And finally, I said, "I told you already." Yeah. Let's let's let's do this. I love you. If anything changes, I'll let you know. Yeah. that it's it's a it's a a a total commitment. So if a nu says I don't want that total commitment mitzvah obligations. Obviously a friend has less obligations than a than a spouse does. I don't want to be a spouse. I want to be a friend with God. No problem. But then you're going to be in the friend zone and you're not going to be in the in the spouse zone. And so if my friend says to me, "You're choosing your wife over me?" Yeah, you choose my spouse. That's 24/7. That's a total commitment. So of course, my wife comes before you. So if a person wants to have that level of relationship with God, you can join in. If you don't want to, then you'll have a lower level. He mentions in the question that non-Jews have a lower level soul than uh than a Jew. To say he has an animal soul is clearly not true because it's only because of the salim that human beings can speak and think. Animals can't speak and think. So obviously if you're a human being Yeah. uh a member of the human race, whether we use the term Ben Odam or Ben or Ben Noak, which is the the choice the Gomorrah often uses. Ben Noah descended from Noah and Noah was a pretty good guy. So, you have uh a level of soul that is a human soul. It's just that a Jew because he's going to have a higher level of relationship with God because he's going to be more committed to it. Now, you have a line in here that I I never heard of in my life that converts don't get a Jewish soul. I mean, the Gammorrah says it's a Gamarra. When a when a non-Jew converts, he gets a new soul. He starts over again and he becomes part of the Jewish people to the point that he can say, the God of Abraov. He becomes part of the Jewish people and part of the of the of the mission of where the Jews are going in this world. It's not a punishment that a non-Jew has a lower level soul. It's because Jews have a certain sense of angst. It's been written about by different authors throughout uh history that Jews always feel this drive. There's something missing in them. Why? Because they have a higher soul. Because they're looking for a deeper level of spirituality. Now, if a non-Jew is not looking for that level and isn't willing to make a total commitment and you give him that higher level of soul that makes him feel empty and searching for a spiritual existence that he doesn't want, that's just mean. Why would you give a soul of that level? What's the point? But uh um but the Gomorrah recognizes great intellectual accomplishments by non-Jews and great uh uh actions by non-Jews and and things that have been done throughout history. Of course, of course we recognize that. And when when a person decides, I want to put my lot with the Jewish people, then we give you a soul that makes it possible for you to have that deeper connection to. But if not, why give you a soul like that that's just going to make you frustrated and unhappy? And the uh I I don't know where where what Avaj said. I never saw the article. I don't know the context but I will tell you the following. Yeah, there is a concept that when um Msiah comes, non-Jews are going to do all of the um physical aspects of the world. Why? I'm going to try to put this in the context. If you appreciate it, you do. If not, not. A guy wrote a book called Baby You Can Write My Car. Baby You Can Drive My Car, which was a Beatles song. Baby, you can drive my car. Right. And it was a biography that he wrote that the Beatles asked him to drive them, the Beatles. Now, I know a lot of my gener a lot of my uh my audience don't even know who the Beatles are, but they were when I was growing up, they were the closest thing to gods. Adak that uh Charles Manson uh saw the four Beatles as the four angels mentioned in the book of Revelations with fiery breastplates which he thought was their electric guitars you know so uh they they were like gods. So he says, you know, would you would you drive us around? And the guy, I heard him in an interview once. He says, what was the question? I quit my job. I left my family for the to be able to drive the Beatles. Rock bands have what are called groupies or roies who follow them around and they're thrilled to be able to carry their equipment or to set up their amps. Why? Because they love these people. They think they're the greatest. They're like on such a pedestal. And so right now in our in this world, the fact that the Jews have a lot of experience in teaching spirituality, that's not so valuable. But when Msiah comes and everyone's going to know that Judaism is correct, people are going to turn to the Jews and say, "Oh my gosh, you knew about this. You've been doing this for thousands of years. teach us Torah, show us how to do it. And we say, "Well, I'd love to, but I got to go uh harvest my field." I'll harvest the field. You sit in the base me and learn and just come and teach us. We'll handle that stuff. I'll pick up your dry cleaning. I don't care. You You teach us this Torah. Teach us spirituality. Back in the 60s and 70s, I knew people came from nice middle class backgrounds who gave up to be to serve these eastern masters. If you remember the uh you know the mooneyies and uh you know and and some of these other movements where these people would sit there and uh um the Hari Krishna and and and uh collect money for their leaders to be able to go and sit and meditate and and reflect on God. Thomas Freriedman from the New York Times uh he once asked Ruby Revson who was running the VU why aren't you a cult? He says because in a cult the sacred master sits in his room and meditates and he sends his little followers out to raise money for him. Here my little followers sit in the ashram and I go out and raise the money. But the point is that it's not because they're going to be enslaved. It's because they're looking for spirituality. Listen, we've been spending thousands of years in that. That's got to be worth something. We we'll pay a doctor a lot of money if he has a lot of experience and knows how to heal us. We'll we'll pay a baseball player a lot of money if you know how to catch a ball or throw it. We'll pay uh um uh you know people who have expertise in different areas a lot of money to be able to give us their expertise. The nations of the world recognize that these are the people who've known about God all this time. When Mashiach comes, everybody's going to recognize that the the God, not the God of the Jews, God is the correct God. And they're going to come to us and say, "Wow, you guys knew this the whole time. Teach it to us." And that's the idea as far as your last point um which uh which really deserves a lot more attention. Yeah. That the Messiah will be even more brutal than Natano. That really deserves uh much more of a discussion. It's just when you see these talk show people and I don't want to mention any of them by name who attack the Jewish people and it's not Israel. They attack the Jewish people. It's not Natananyo, it's the Jewish people. What's going on in Gaza? The one question they can never answer is if you had a country and this group of people came in and killed 1,200 of your people and kidnapped 200 of your people and are still keeping them two years later in tunnels and they won't give them up. What would you do? Nobody answers that question. What are we supposed to do? just say, "Oh, well, I guess we'll never see those people again. I guess just have to leave Kamas to continue to shoot rockets at us." Oh, well, I guess we'll just have to wait until uh Iran finishes their nuclear bomb. And they've made no secret of it that they plan on dropping it on us. Oh well, I guess the people in the north will just have to have no place to live because Hisbullah is going to keep dropping bombs on them. Oh well. So what are we supposed to do? Yes, but you can't fight back because that's cruel. So what should we do? What would anyone do? Anybody's going to sit there and let people shoot rockets at them over and over again? kill their people, kidnap them, hold them as hostage, and not do anything about it. Well, they should do it in a different way. What should they do? And nobody has an answer this question. What should they do? Negotiate. Have you ever tried negotiating with Hamas? Negotiate. Ridiculous. And what can I tell you? There are people who just have a different way of looking at life. It's difficult for those of us who are good people to understand it because we don't understand that there are some people Douglas Murray who happens to be a brilliant commentator. He just put out a book and he basically refers to kamas and these movements as a death cult. You know, the the Israelis have at times had to go in and kill people obviously, but they don't call up their parents and say, "Mom, I just killed uh, you know, a bunch of terrorists." They don't dip their hands in their blood and hold it up to a screaming crowd. We We would be more than happy to end this and not have to fight and not have to die. And bunch of soldiers get killed because they walk into a booby trapped house instead of just bombing it. And our people get killed. You think we want that? What can you do? You're dealing with people whose entire existence is dedicated to nothing other than to kill us. So when Mashiah comes as it is described, Yeah. There will be no more war. Everyone will understand that the Jews were correct and that there is one God and he created the world and he's the God of all the peoples of the world and he wants the world to be a peaceful place and we will beat our swords into plowshares and the and the world will become a place where everybody will be working together to take care of each other and to make the world a better place. That's the Msiah that I'm waiting for. That's the day that I'm praying for. Yeah. And if the non-Jews want to help me so that I can be free to instruct the world about spirituality, more power to them. We're not enslaving them. They're volunteering for this in order to be able to experience the spirituality that the Jews received at Mount Si. We have suffered for 2,000 years to keep alive the word of God and to live a better life. And I'll never forget during the first inifada, Newsweek had a an op-ed piece said, "Yes, we hold Israel to a higher standard, but they're supposed to be a light unto the nations." They didn't say that about anybody else. You don't see anybody protesting all the other death and destruction that's going on in the world. Nobody cares. But uh but us, the nations of the world instinctively understand that we're here to be able to be on a higher level and to instruct the world on a higher level. And when we maintain that and we can inspire the world enough then we will usher in the messianic era not mosh not not a dictator or ruler melik rules with the permission of the um of the people in charge the people who appoint him king. He can still run the world now, but when Msiah comes, he'll be the king where everyone will recognize this goal that God is there to bring the spiritual pleasure of being close to him to everybody. And that's what we have are praying for and waiting for. So, I hope that has uh has at least if it if it doesn't convince you, maybe it'll just give you a little uh uh a little solace as you write Jacob's solace. Maybe it'll give you a little solace, a little you know that we Jews ain't so bad after all. And uh hey, as they used to say in Motel 6, we'll leave the lights on for you. So, anytime you want to come back, the door is open and we're always here. We And by the way, I know I have a non-Jewish audience. Anybody who wants to join, we got a position for you. For you, noahitis out there, welcome to the club. Yeah, happy to have you along. And uh and uh Mit Hashem, all of us will be there as an inspiration. And that's it for this episode. If you want to find out more about the podcast and the show, you can go to my website raviolaski.com. You can sponsor an episode. You can submit a question. You can join one of our online shurim. You can leave a comment. And that's it for now. Until next time, I am David Olowski and this has been the Rabbi Olowski show. It's the Rabbi Orloski Show. Torah and Simka. Ready to go. The Rabbi Olavski Show. Knowledge and wisdom will help you grow. Lots of fun in every episode. And we don't have to rhyme, no. It's the Rabbi Orlovski show on Rabbi Orlowski.com. Torah anytime, YouTube, and more. It's the Rabbi Orski show. Torah and ready to go. It's the Rabbi Orlowski show. Till next time till we meet again. It's the Rabbi Orski show. It's the Rabbi orski show. 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