Jewish Interfaith Events For The Sake Of Peace

[Music] you see if you're as excited about Thanksgiving as you are about any average day that you go to synagogue that's a problem because in a Jewish World Thanksgiving is every day you wanted to be next to the green you wanted to be like the green so what did you do you went said Justified it listen we live in America we live in England we live in Australia we live in Israel we live in different places and certainly they're going everywhere why can't we just be friends peace so you Justified your argument by saying listen we already live next to them it's not like the m has already arrived that we have the bet mikdash we have to live with them at least let's live in peace and everybody says you know what he's right let's live in peace why should we be enemies no one says in should be enemies but nonetheless okay let's be in peace and listen since we're already in peace we have to make sure that they know we're in peace okay just send them an email send him a letter send him a I don't know snail mail sell them something just tell them we're in peace no no we need to do something more well what do we need to do maybe we should go and have a Interfaith event let's invite the priest and the monks and the the the shaks and all of these other foreign religions of idolatry let's invite them to our synagogue in fact let them speak in front of the synagogue let's invite missionaries let's invite everybody and say listen we all have one God and yeah we have to respect each other maybe we'll even go visit them yeah but you're forbidden from going into a church no but it's for the sake of Peace remember we all agreed that peace is good and peace is necessary even though we live among go we still have to have peace with them and you Justified it and Justified it and said for the sake of peace for the sake of Peace you forsook my law you disregarded you disregarded the sages and for the sake of peace and you rationalize it to other people to follow you just like the head Rabbi of London does on a of England does on a regular bases and many others unfortunately do where for the sake of peace let's invite the Christians and the Catholics and the Arabs and the you know Nazis and whoever else let for the sake of peace for the sake of Peace says you said you're going to for peace right you said you're going to do it you said you're going to live with the laws of the Nations but the reality is like the laws of the Nations that surround you you you have not done and like the laws of the Nations that surround you you have done says R what did you do really you went and you Justified we should have peace and you know what you said there's some good people among them there's some good Idol worshippers among them there's some good uh Arabs among them there's so good Christians among them there's some good uh neutral people among them there's some good people among them so let's have peace but instead of attaining Peace what did you do you didn't learn from those good ones that you said we should have peace with you learned from the bad ones you didn't follow the good things that they do where nearly 100% of church members give 10% of their income to their Church on a regular basis with no questions asked you didn't learn that you didn't learn the unity for the sake of growth you didn't learn their commitment even if it's to falsehood you didn't learn you didn't become zealous for your religion like they are for theirs you didn't do kiru like they do missionizing da like uh like they do you didn't do it you didn't do it what did you do you took on Halloween you took on Thanksgiving you took on Independence Day you took on the World Cup you took on all of their special days some of which are directly connected to idolatry massacres of millions of people and all types of under wonderful things that are forbidden in our Torah but needless to say instead of going and learning from the best of them because for the sake of unity for the sake of Peace what did you do you had a little ghost and some guy hanging from your roof to you know to give the kids from the neighborhood a place to go and collect candy from because you want to contribute to their Halloween basket did you contribute as much effort to your Suka on sukot just a month ago did you invest as much time did you invest as much of yourself in your Suka in your R in your Y kipur in your kanuka in your puim in your shaba in your sh like you did on Halloween on Halloween you macked out the whole house everybody thought your house is a ghost house ghost must live there perhaps there will be soon with all the tomb you created 4th of July you celebrated Independence Day did you celebrate R like that were you as happy on R like you were on Independence Day the World Cup the Super Bowl you are jumping for joy like it was the greatest thing in the world did you jump the same when you complet the sh did you complete the sh even did you complete a did you have as much joy when you finished a single Duff of gar as you did when some idiot ran with a ball into an end zone or kicked it into some goal did you have as much celebration because surely those skeletons those ghosts those those creatures you put on your house and the candy you gave to all those kids made you happy and you feel like it attained Unity like it attained peace but with who you see many times people do all types of things for the sake of unity for the sake of peace without much thought about who him is is this peace with is this peace with God is this peace with the Creator because surely the Creator didn't say so in fact is said to be angrier on this than he is on other things and that's in essence what happened here and that's what the prophet told you went and befriended theim you acted like them you said that it's for the sake of Peace you thought that this will improve everything in fact it got so bad you emulating theim and their misbehaviors got so bad that you destroyed your relationship with the Creator and even your relationship with those same go where they themselves even noticed these are the people of the Lord no way that's what those verses mean you see if you are as excited about Thanksgiving as you are about any average day that you go to synagogue that's a problem because in a Jewish World Thanksgiving is every day in fact so long as it's kosher you're allowed to eat turkey every day too if you want but if you only eat turkey once a year and it happens to be on Thanksgiving and you've already done it once in your life and in fact you've made it into a sh where every year you eat turkey on Thanksgiving you might friend are fulfilling a sin against by going going with the laws of the Gentiles which is forbidden according to the Torah so even Moshe finstein that was lenient by saying that if you do this once in a blue moon you want to have turkey and happens to be on that day by all means go do it but if you turn it into a sh where every year you do this you have a very serious problem if you've got to the point where every year you make sure to gather enough candy to give to the neighborhood kids and you even put a few ghosts and a few ugly creatures on your lawn on your house to decorate the house for the occasion of idolatry of Halloween you have a problem if your kids have cost for Halloween but when it comes to puim they barely even want to go to the synagogue to hear the Milla you have a problem if you're very excited about the next World Cup or Super Bowl or some movie that's coming out but you're not excited about another Torah book that's coming out or a Torah lecture that's live every Tuesday night you have a problem you see what is telling us here is that yeah okay so you said you want to be my servant and not only that you want to be my servant and you want to glorify my name and you believe that you could do it in a way that I didn't say you can do it by what peace with theim befriending them having Interfaith events having all types of shabbatons in the in the in the in the new king of England's house that's what you're going to do that's not going to lead anywhere good how do we know we have a history of it we have a history of it and this leads to the profaning of a whose name says the ran and lastly the ran in this section says the reason for all of this is what our ancient sages said and that we imitate Hashem in our ways the sanctifying or the desecration of His holy name the name of our Lord God depends upon our acts here we see the ran giving us an extraordinary responsibility but also making us aware of the extraordinary power each and every Jew has the ran says that a person has the ability with their actions to either sanctify aem's name glorify his name give a purpose to the world with says for a says a person that does not glorify sanctify hashem's name it was better that wasn't born and it's not talking about glorify or sanctify his name once in their life it's talking about daily daily if you don't find a way to sanctify aem's name it's better off you weren't born that's how extraordinary it is but that's why because that sanctification of hashem's name that's the purpose of life and if you're not fulfilling the purpose then there's no purpose so the ran says that that is actually in your hands it's in your hands your action your behavior the way you conduct business the way you behave in your house the way you behave behind closed doors needless to say the way you behave in intimacy the way you behave even in the bathroom the way you behave with your customers the way you behave in the streets in traffic under pressure under stress when you're sick when you're in pain when you're having a good time or a bad time when you got fired or when you got hired when you got promoted or demoted regardless of what you're doing each and every opportunity this is the opportunity to either sanctify aem's name or Shalom desecrate aem's name meaning that literally the purpose of creation is in each and every one of our hands that's how much power that Nish has we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Torah and could lead to chil Hashem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew