Rambam On Islam - It's Not A Mitzvah To Be Stupid

ad the closenberg rebi he p a k or at least it looked like a k that Islam is idol worship Islam is idol worship now everyone is familiar with the Pak of the rambam that Christianity and Catholicism is idol worship but Islam is not idol worship so when they people saw at the first time what the closenberg rebi said and he was an extraordinary we're not talking about just a uh talking about one of the one of the Giants one of the literally the the forefathers of of of our tah in the world today in the last generation despite having his entire family murdered 11 kids murdered in the Holocaust he built an Empire of tah after after the Holocaust despite literally surviving each day in the concentration camp by pure Miracle this did not discourage him or slow him down from building an empire of Torah over the next several decades so we're talking about an extraordinary that kept kosher even in the Holocaust he says that Islam is idol worship some people look at well you know okay it's a big but the says otherwise interestingly enough the Rog who preceded the adans slightly he also says that Islam is idol worship but since he was a expert beyond the norm of the rambam cuz all he studied was the rambam and they asked them how can you pin against your Rabbi how can you pin against the rambam the rambam says that the uh Islam is not uh idol worship the Rog gives a genius response that's applicable to everything we're saying he says no no you're not understanding of course the rambam is not going to say that Islam is actually idol worship he lives in their country if he would have said that they would have killed them so what benefit is it to him or to the Jewish world for him to die because he proved the point that they're Idol worshippers so he's not say they're not Idol worshippers but really they're Idol worshippers they pray to all types of things that are in from the perspective of Judaism considered idolatry but he's not going to write it same thing like 400 years after him where in this literally life or death hearing he said no no no the the idol worship of the akum it's not it's not Christianity it's somebody else it's these other people that lived thousands of years ago so sometimes you have certain things in the Torah censored not because of a uh this is the uh the the bottom line but rather because there was life risk there was life risk so they had to say say certain things in order to not disclose the truth to the Gentiles this is also one of the reasons why did not have the oral toah given to us in written form on day one it was thousands of years later before it became into written form and even after it became into written form it still requires an enormous amount of study and mas and tradition that's passed from generation to generation to actually understand the oral tah why because there are many details Within the oral tah that the non-jewish world will simply not understand because they are only looking at things from their perspective not from the Jewish perspective the Torah perspective God's perspective they're looking at things from their perspective it's like when people look at the you know the gar and they look at certain statements in the gar and they immediately say oh look this uh how are they allowing something like this or how are they forbidding something like this all types of obviously VI ly ways that people like to make Judaism look bad they usually highlight one specific statement that's obviously they don't have the ability and the tools to understand but the point being is is that we see from here that just one you know example of how something like a par that we have right now that seems like it's not relevant literally save the life of the save the life of on the other hand we also see of how another giant told us yes this is the reason why this G why the rambam said this it wasn't because that was really the bottom line he depended on our wisdom to know what's the truth but he had to say something in order to save his life