Jewish History: Key To Surviving the Exile in Parashat Toldot

Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. [singing] Whe of sun [chant] >> [chant] [chant] >> When Solomon's temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, the Jews were exiled, dispersed in all directions. We never forgot what was written in the Torah. [music] We kept on praying to return. We have no written history, but our forefathers say we came to Ethiopia through Egypt and the Sudan to the Gand region. The point is we came to Ethiopia and our forefathers fought to remain Jewish [music] and they passed down their tradition to us. If a person allows themselves enough time to learn Torah from the Jewish people, from the sages that have toiled and toiled over every single verse and have support and evidence for every single thing that's in the Torah, you will find an answer for every question humanly possible. But if you go out there and you go listen to Asav or Ishmael, then what you're going to end up with are people that are looking to deceive you because they have an agenda. Just like Asab had an agenda, just like Ishmael had an agenda. But they're not going to tell you they have an agenda because to you they're going to sound like Yakov. And that's why our weekly par says the voice is the voice of but the hands are the hands of. If you learn to from even if he sounds good and he's a good speaker and he's exciting and he's a this and he's a that, remember he's still Asav. It's forbidden to learn Torah from him. It's forbidden to believe anything they