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Are we supposed to thank them?‎⁨@theegoodamerican@TylerOliveira NO? ‎⁨@PeterSantenello⁩ YES!

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Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg avatar
Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg

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I don't know how many people are going to see this in people who are maybe not Jewish, people who have no no shist, no interaction with Jewish people. But I think it's an important thing to say and I'm going to say it. When people from the outside world see people who look like me, they don't know how to eat it. It's kind of like when you as a meets an Amish person. You might say hello, you might not, but you certainly don't feel that you're like them or that they're like you. When we understand and appreciate the fact that we look different, proudly so. When you meet somebody and you don't say hello or you don't say please or you don't say thank you or frankly speaking you do something that if somebody else who didn't look like me you would do it wouldn't be terrible but somehow when it's us it's I'm not going to get into examples here of things that are done every day of the week by all kinds of people but suddenly someone who looks like me or you does And it becomes a tremendous because people automatically don't think about the fact that these things happen all the time. They just see someone that looked like me, someone that looked like you did it. And okay, it becomes like this anti-Jewish feeling, this anti-Jewish thing. If you're surprised that Lakewood and Kio got visits from people who don't mean well, who mean clicks and they mean themselves. But we have to appreciate the fact that the way we look makes us fascinating. I mean, imagine walking around without ever shaving your beard with these two curly things on the sides of your face like with a big a big beanie skull cap yamaka kapple on your head. If we show people that we're pleasant people, we can have a sense of humor. We know what's going on out there. We may like to live in neighborhoods full of people like ourselves because we have to go to shul and we want kosher food and of Israel milk, but not that we're somehow scary or that were somehow not pleasant. And I think that these viral videos that got millions and millions of views lately, I think that if we want to counteract what people might be thinking, and I know many people come with an agenda, but I think that if we can remember, if these things help us remember to be friendlier and nicer to people we come across, I think it's a good thing.