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Judaism & Podcasts: Is It Kiruv or Ego?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Somebody came to me during the holiday asking me what do I think about them going on some podcast with a bunch of foolish people in order to represent Judaism because this podcast is very famous. It gets millions of views and even though it makes fun of everything, it makes fun of religion. It makes fun of Torah, makes fun of anything that it possibly can, they say, "Well, listen, there's still a lot of Jews that are secular that watch it. So maybe I can give them the right version of Judaism." I did it one time and there was a million views. And a lot of people called me and said, "Listen, wow, I saw you on that show." So, isn't that Kiru? I don't The only reason I'm ask I'm I'm answering you is because you asked me. If you didn't ask me, I wouldn't comment. But since you're asking me, this is not kuf. This is called gava ego. You don't care about getting people to do chuva on this place. you care about a million views, more people knowing that you're out there in the world. And of course, it was very hard for the person to accept that. They gave all types of reasons why they don't think that way. But I promise you, you ask any real tell me to analyze the situation, they'll arrive at the same exact conclusion. Why? Because again, we have a mass of how to help people do chuva. We have a mass of who we're allowed to debate, who we're allowed to discuss things with, who we're allowed to teach, who we're not allowed to teach. Even teaching is not for everyone. You're not allowed to teach everyone just because they want to learn. There's something called aun an unfair student person that has certain qualities where you're forbidden from teaching them. So people that do not know these things they just assume listen if more people view you saying therefore it's good. Not necessarily because you may be saying, but it's simply a platform for people to make fun of it and instead of it being it's and you're doing it not really because of the you're doing it because you think that uh going on all types of platforms by non-Jews, heretics, idol worshippers and all of the above is somehow a Way farming started to