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It’s TIME For Jews To Take Real ACTION Once and For All!

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Rabbi Josh Zebberman

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I'd like to share with you three tips on how to approach anti-Semitism anti-semites Jew haters and these three tips actually come straight from the Torah straight from the Bible it comes actually from the very first Passover seder that we as Jewish people had ever celebrated in Egypt the night before The Exodus the night before The Exodus there was the plague the slaying of the firstborn and the Jewish people were commanded to slaughter a Passover Ram to eat it together as families and there was a commandment to actually stay home they're not allowed to leave that night the slaying of the firstborn of the Egyptians who were enslaving us was going to take place they were given fair warning and our job is to stay home and there's a specific biblical prohibition of leaving the home that evening and the question the commentaries ask is why why can't we witness the miracle of our enemies being overthrown why stay home and I'd like to share with you 3% perspectives and I think these three perspectives are actually three approaches to how we strengthen ourselves as Jews and approach anti-Semitism and Jew haters approach number one is from the abaran why do you need to stay home that evening because what is our job this evening the very first Passover Sater to eat the Passover Lamb in thanks to God to eat the matah to eat the mar the bit herbs to discuss the Passover story at that point they're living the Passover story are our job is not to witness the death of our enemies our job is not to tune into the news and figure out what exactly is going on we don't worship death death is necessary unfortunately because if people are oppressing us and if people are causing us death we have a commandment to do what is necessary but we don't need to make our Religion Center around it we don't worship death shut off the news shut off the phone shut off the computer be at the Passover seder and just be totally present living in the moment because it's at that moment at that night at the Passover seder that we're ingesting the matah we're discussing our story we're internalizing what it means to be a Jew our story our history our faith and as it how it relates to the present we don't need to know what's going on outside there's a Biblical commandment stay home explanation number two I really enjoyed this one it's by thear Omar it's one of the commentaries his name is abam Sabah from Portugal and he explains what's going to happen if you're going to be out that night witnessing the slaying of the firstborn think about it what's going to happen is Pharaoh's going to try to find you and say okay you guys can go free please get out of here no no we're not doing that we're going to stay home Pharaoh is not going to come to you you're going to be in your home and you're not going to be free because Pharaoh says you're free you're going to be free tomorrow in broad daylight When God says you're free we're going to achieve on that night fundamental Freedom rather than permissive freedom from our enemies we're not free when our enemies tell us we're free we're free because God tells us we're free as Jews we don't have a right to exist because Society agrees that we have a right to exist we have an inherent right to exist Israel has a right to exist not because the UN CL claims they have a right to exist there's a fundamental right to exist from God and therefore don't be out of your house stay in your house because you're not free yet until God says you're free and I think for as this relates to us it's so important to understand that our we don't need to justify our existence as Jewish people to haters because it's not them who gives us permission to be it's God who gives us permission to be we need to stay in our homes we need to strengthen the home and that brings me to the third explanation by The Who explains that the Passover offering Passover Ram is actually an anomaly compared to all other sacrifices because all other sacrifices had to have been done on an altar this is the only time in history that a sacrifice is not done on an altar but it's done in the home because this is the start of the Jewish people and the foundation the start of the Jewish people begins at home so the Torah says stay home don't go out to witness the slaying of the firstborn be focused on what's going on on the inside what is happening in your own home focus on doing the Passover Mitzvah of eating the matzah of telling the story of celebrating who we are of learning about who we are because as we become a people The Exodus from Egypt it's at this moment that we have to strengthen the inside we have to strengthen the home and when we do that we become confident as Jewish people we become proud as Jewish people and we simply don't need the validity of Jew haters the validity of the UN the validity of trolls on social media the validity of of brainwashing and desensitized College professors and brainwashed college students and prot we just don't care we're stronger than that because we've strengthened our identity at the home this all starts with having a meaningful Passover later doing the Passover mitzah eating the moah that's my story and I'm sticking to it