Who is A Jew? The Sad State of Jewish Education In Israel

The level of education today literally is like cancerous. I have no idea why parents pay for schools. You're literally sending your kids to places that will destroy them. Higher level education in America is the bottom of the barrel today. It is better to simply watch YouTube videos and get courses on the internet than go to the colleges of today. Complete disgrace to anything good that could happen and it has happened in this country. You ask the average American how many how many Arab countries are in the world? Your major is geography. How many Arab countries in the world? They'll tell you three, four. How many Jewish countries are in the world? 15, 20, 35, how many people in the world? They have no idea. They don't know basic things. Who is the president? Who is the founding fathers? They don't know nothing. So to ask them, what is a Jew? Is a waste of time. But you would expect people that live in the Jewish state to know the answer. In one of the independence days, Yomat in Israel, they had a somebody go out there and to the party and ask people, "What is a Jew?" And of course, they put this on the news. And they asked these young kids, secular kids, don't really know much about Torah, unfortunately. But you ask them, "What is a Jew?" They were excited to answer, "What's it do to you?" The first guy says, "Somebody that eats falafil now, even though falafil is delicious, you do realize that came from the Arabs, right?" No, no, no, but we make it better. Okay. Second guy says, "Nah, it's not falafu. Somebody that eats humus, for sure he's a Jew. That's a Jew. Somebody eats humus." By the way, that also came from the Arabs. And yeah, you can say we make it better, but that's what makes you a Jew. Third kid. What makes you a Jew? Somebody that lives in Israel. That's a Jew. What? So you're telling me that the 6 million Jews that live in America? Hundreds of thousands of Jews living in England. All goim. Everybody else go only live in Israel. It's all Jews. The fourth guy said the most common answer. Who's a Jew? Says somebody that serves in the Israeli Defense Force, the army tal. Somebody's in the uh IDF, that's a Jew. No mit, no traditions, no clue what is a Jew, nothing. But what can you say when that's the education that they got? It's not their fault. That's what what was crying about even before the founding of the country of the state. Even before, he says, "Look, even before 1948, even before the founding of the state already, the Zionists put schools there that were teaching the kids heresy, that were teaching the kids to be like Greeks, to be like atheists, to be like communist. What can you possibly expect? They'll teach you everything except the Torah." In one of the live shim that Ra Ephraim did, he did something unusual. He has a shure for some time, 10, 15, 20 minutes depending on his shor sometimes longer. And then he takes questions from people similar to the stump the rabbi. And uh but the questions from the Israeli crowd is very different. I must say some are very clever, some are very foolish, but nonetheless they're just very different crowd, very different mentality. And one of these shim that he asked uh the questions, he actually allowed these couple of guys, these group of guys to come online and speak to him at this like they were on the feed. And uh they said to listen Rabenu, we respect you. We're not trying to disrespect you, but we are all educated in Tanakh. We got a degree in Tanakh in school. We went to school. You had to pick a major. We all took Tanakh. So we know Tanakh. And what you're saying is not in Tanakh. He said, "Which part is not in a Tanakh?" He said, "You said that it says in that some that a Jew that violates Shabbat intentionally is death penalty. It's not in a has endless patience for these kids." And he says to them, "Come, my dear children. Go get a go get a Tanakh. Go get a Tanakh. No, we're all outside. We'll wait for you. Go inside. Get a Tanakh." They went and this is all live. They went inside. They got Tanakh. Okay, Raenu, we don't want to embarrass you right now, but listen, we have to say something. He says, "No problem. Open in the book of Exodus. Read after me." He gives him the verse. Wow, it's here. The kids live on the thing. Like these are all kids that got education of Tanakh but in a secular school, which means Torah without God. Torah treated like a history book. Torah that does not have certain verses in it because it obligates you. But these young guys were saying, "I don't understand. Why didn't they teach this to us in school? They realized they've been fed a lie. Ben, one of the giants in his generation for decades already before I was even a thought in this world. and has fruits we can only admire of what he's done over these decades. He has information that it's literally unbelievable. He says Benguon was a smart guy, clever, but he was a heretic and ash. And he knew that the leaders at the United Nations, most of them were Catholics, Christians, and they believed in the Tanakh. So he prepared himself and when these leaders at the UN asked him, why should we give you the land? I mean there are many Arabs there that have lived there for many years. Benguon raised up the Tanakh and says, "We have a proof that this land is ours." And what are the Christian and Catholic UN delegates going to say? No, they believe in that too. And therefore, they agreed. After this happened, one of the rabbis in Israel wanted to verify the story and he came up to Bengu and he asked him, "Is this true?" And he said, "Yes, that's what happened." So the rabbi said, "But this Tanakh that you showed them, it also says the Jews have to keep Shabbat. It also says stay away from immorality. It also says kosher food. Why don't you preach that too? To to that Bengu was not clever enough to respond to. So he turned around and left without responding. Unfortunately, Abu Tai, a Jewish state could only be in Israel. But to be Jewish and follow God, you don't need the state. So whether you live in Israel or you don't live in Israel, you could still be a follower of Hashem and follow his Torah and be the ultimate Jew. That's when people ask, "Should I make aliyah to Israel?" That depends. What will you do when you get there? Are you going to get closer to Hashem as a result and learn more Torah and do more mitzvot? or are you gonna send your kids to secular schools or what they call a uh half a religious school and end up having kids that marry non-Jews or desecrate Shabbat? What are you going to do there once you get there? If you're going to go there and learn more Torah and do more mitzvot and get closer to Hashem, then certainly it's a good option. But if you're already doing good where you are and you have more to lose by going there than than to stay, why would you do it? That's not da. You see many people, especially those unfortunately that made aliyah get this chip on their shoulder thinking that now that they've made aliyah, they made the mitzvah of going up to land of Israel, they can in so many words insult anyone in a very snobby way that hasn't made aliyah. Oh, how come you don't make aliyah? It's much better. It's holier here. How could you be over there among this? Hey, first of all, don't forget where you you you lived here, too. Second of all, how are you doing as far as your Judaism? Because based on your attitude, you're probably better off staying in America, and London, and uh Kuwait, or wherever you came from. Many times people think that just making aliyah makes them more religious. It's not necessarily the case. Now certainly some people grow and prosper and it's the best thing for them but some not necessarily. I've seen stories where people literally make a move to Israel religious when they get there the religion gets thrown in the garbage. People don't understand that you can't just take pieces and make a puzzle the way you like with the Torah. 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 ail disrespect to the Torah.