Q: Should Jews Watch The Super Bowl?

but to spend any time watching these Sports absolutely forbidden in fact the STI sty K's father ston says television you watch television news games all that stuff in his days it was much better TV than today even in his day says watching regular news networks right regular TV is it a for Jewish teenagers to follow Sports now the yet is very very smart very clever makes people think that uh eating non kosher cow is better than eating pig no this is not allowed that's not allowed Now Sports where does the word Sports come from Sparta Sparta were a place where you have people where all they cared about is their body their physique the materialism and the anti tah what does it mean to be anti Tor and t means they cannot live in peace so long as the Torah exist so these people these did everything they possibly could to destroy the Jews by enticing them to join Sports to live life to be careful about their physique do all types of EX ex sizes they made the coliseums where they would have they still have these coliseums uh in the old ones in Rome and other places around the world in Greece but then you have giant ones all over the United States they just call them sports stadiums these are coliseums where you have 22 Giant overgrown males trying to kill each other over some pig skin or a bunch of guys trying to fight over a little uh ball uh whatever it is all of these people this is all Sparta this continuation of Sparta now the mentality of following Sports being allowed is one of the tools of Amal one of the tools of that you're allowed to follow Sports why because Sports unlike anything else Sports is very addictive you can't just watch a game that you don't know who's playing like you're not just going to watch some random high school basketball game and everybody else is just an average player or less you you have to watch the NBA and it's not just the NBA you have to watch the team that you like and how you're going to like them you have to follow them you have to follow their players and who they're trading and who they're getting as the Rookie of the Year and who's the best sister and who's the best dist and that and all that and what kind of sneakers is he wearing and what kind of this and what's his salary cap and he's getting paid too much and he's getting paid too little and he signed with Nike but he's with Adidas and what ends up happening you become a fan what's a fan where does fan come from fanatic fan comes from fanatic what that's what a fan is fanatic about sports you know everything about these teams so it's not you're not just watching a 90minut game you're investing your life into it because in order to like the game to like the teams you have to know who's playing and why you like them you don't just like it because he's 6'6 and uh jumps uh you know jumps uh 40 in into the air and he runs a 40 and a 39 no you don't care about that you care about different things so that means you had to invest a lot of time into this and that is a lot more than the 90 minutes of the actual the 60 minutes that the basketball game or the football game or the baseball game is it's a huge investment you're constantly watching it you're constantly looking at it you're constantly arguing about it which means that even when you try to learn you try to learn you're thinking RAB AKA yeah R AKA Kim Jabar alsoa Michael Jackson Michael Jordan Michael this Michael that LeBron J you're not even sure who you're reading about you're start to think maybe and ra maybe his maybe in the cave he had a basketball hoop you start distorting things in your head you can't be focused when you're a fan now are you allowed to play sports is a different question playing sports in order to exercise is allowed you're allowed to play a little bit of basketball as long as it's not on Shabbat because for anyone that's an adult the ball is considered M and it's also something that you do during during the weekday it's not an action that you would do on Shabbat but if it's during the week you want to exercise via playing basketball via exercising running or something like that whatever you want to do that's allowed that's allowed to exercise but to become a fanatic to be become one of these people that watches the games on a regular basis absolutely forbidden not only as a but also as could be even considered AB to some extent why AB when you become a fan and I know quite a few of them you simply start obsessing over these people obsessing over the sport fighting over it crying over it your team lost I can't believe it why is the doing this to me why is he what you're 25 years old you idiot you're crying over a bunch of people that make $50 million a year cuz they lost you idiot do you understand what they're going to do to you in sham for crying over this but not crying over the bet mikash you didn't cry this much when your own father died but you're crying over a basketball game a football game and not only that you're blaming AEM why is hasem doing this to me like he has to change the world so you can continue going against him the demented mentality that we have sometimes really boggles my mind it's that was still alive you see grown men crying over their football team their basketball team or God forbid if they're from Europe or they're they're not area of the world soccer AEM there's been murders over that game literally they kill people people you think this is what says you're a holy nation you think he was referring to those people no he was talking to us that are learning tah that are fanatic about Tor you want to use exercise use for exercise no problem but to spend any time watching these Sports absolutely forbidden in fact stip sttip K's father sttip says television you watch television news games all that stuff in this days it was much better TV than today even this day says watching regular news networks right regular TV he called watching television you're watching shows you watch Netflix you watch movies regular Bas this is your life you watch sports Idol worshiper yeah but he goes to sh Rabbi Okay so so there's a lot of people that idol worship go so a person needs to understand in order to become the Jew that he's supposed to become in order for her to become the Jew that they're supposed to become the most important thing is to not allow the tum to enter your mind because if you allow the tum to enter your mind and enter your heart it doesn't matter how many you do there's always going to be filth on them you can get the best piece of meat in the world but if there's filth on it no one's going to eat it doesn't matter what the cow was it could be a red cow from the bet mikdash there's fil on it no one's going to eat it your Nish cannot get to its full potential if it has filth on it and if you allow this filth to constantly hit your system every day for an hour 2 hours 3 hours every day how are you expecting to arrive TOA how how how exactly do you expect to learn to and understand anything when you go up to shamai what you going to tell hem the uh the uh the annual salary cap of the Knicks for the last 20 years in a row because you remember it by heart who was the best trade over the last 20 years in baseball what are you going to tell them in in sh you go up there you have to say 40 days and 40 nights of sh and some say it's not 40 days wrong it's days 180 days of Torah no jokes no jokes no breaks no bathroom no food 180 days straight of Torah how how are you going to have time to learn that much to say that much if you're watching your you're spending your time watching sports how how never never going to be and you'll also notice that most successful people in the world do not waste their time on this stuff there are few exceptions here and there but generally speaking that's only after they became really really successful and they have nothing to do with their life like this uh Mark cubin that decided that he likes basketball and he bought a basketball team so he goes to every game because he has nothing else to do with his life but generally speaking it's very rare successful people in life do not become fans of sports they'll watch it randomly they'll go once a year to some uh Super Bowl game or whatever it is just for the show and to have something to do but everyday fan no chance in the world why they're too busy being successful if the people that are successful know that you cannot waste your life watching sports and watching TV and they just want to be successful in this world it's even more so if you want to be successful full in the next world as a Jew how much your responsibility is to refrain from watching all of this nonsense and wasting your life next question 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 chem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew