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If you take this entire region as far as
you could you could you could box it in.
Everything is red. Red would represent
and this the map I looked at could make
it green. Could make it red green and
black. Islam. The whole map is Islam.
And there's this tiny dot that literally
you got to zoom in to even see which is
this blue c blue dot. That's Israel. And
they got the whole world believing that
we're colonists and we're aparttheite
state and and we stole everybody's land.
It's a tiny dot that you don't see until
you zoom in 50 times surrounded by a
worlds
of of Islam states. So what's so what's
so righteous about an Islamic Islamic
country, an Islamic state, and what's so
evil about a Jewish state? Where do you
think this comes from? Because it seems
like there's almost like this funhouse
effect that some people have when they
look at Judaism. It's like everything
that they see when they look at us, it's
like warped. You mean why does the world
view the what we would call the basic
reality in such an absurd way, such a
like insane way? It's it's switched.
Call us an apartheid state when many
Muslim countries they're actually
apartheid states. when the funny thing
is within Israel itself there is a
parttheid but it's in the West Bank you
know it's because they want their own
country
they say well we tried to give them a
version of their own country because we
gave them their space but that's not a
part so but where does where does this
where does this disconnect within some
people because it seems like almost like
an illness so I think there's a few
things behind it if if we want to get
like more like educational
I would say like this people in general
favor themselves.
Okay? So, and that's that's that's just
that you can't help that. I favor myself
and if a person is going to identify
with his family, his family will he'll
favor his family over strangers and I
will favor my country over the country
that's across the street from me that
has their rockets aimed at me. Of
course, that's that's a given. So since
we favor ourselves, we always look at
the stranger, the foreigner, more
critically, more distrusting.
And so the since the Jews are the chosen
people and we have singled ourselves out
because God created it that way. So
we're always the other guy. We're never
he we're never one of them. Just like in
a sense that when we talk about
individual peoples, so one of us is the
Jew Jews are one of us. We we have a
with with charity, we give charity to
our fellow Jews before we give charity
to others, which is normal. But so so
since we're we're us and they're them.
And in the in the global historical for
6,000 years, there's the us, which is
the Jews, and then them, that's every
other country. So the world then looks
at us as who who do they think they are
because we're not one of them. But they
would fa if they would identify us as
one of them, then they would favor us
more. So part of I think where this
whole idea of of of we're criticized and
they're and we're dealing with a lot of
criticism and they're overly critical of
us and they point out everything we do
wrong is because that's what we do to
others just like I do that to the guy
that I don't like so they do it to the
people that they don't like the country
that they don't like. That's one of the
the areas I guess where this gets
started. And then there are other things
involved. I think another thing is
uh if we want to get a little bit more
mystical cabbalistic I think there's a a
deeper issue is really the fact that
we claim that we're different we claim
that we're we're unique a unique nation
chosen by God and we really if you study
the the books that we have and the the
truth that we that we explain it's
really even exists on a soul level so
what we're essentially saying is we're
absolutely different from everybody else
in the world. Do you believe that we're
different from everybody else in the
world? Yes, I believe we're different. I
believe we have a unique relationship
with with God each other and with
Hashem, but different doesn't
necessarily mean better. I just was
writing a comment about that today
because there's a video that that's out
that discussing this. Different doesn't
mean better if we create a a relative
better meaning perspective is important.
We were singled out and that we can't
deny. saying that we're not Jews and
we're not unique in in our role central
to spreading godly wisdom in the world
would be lying to ourselves and and and
and that wouldn't be fair to anybody,
not to ourselves and not to the world.
Lying is not going to get us anywhere.
Saying we're better than everybody else.
So that's relative. Because I say I was
chosen for a divine mission that I
believe God gave me. Does that mean I'm
saying I'm better than you? I mean, in
the end of the day, we're all just here
doing what Hashem wants. So it doesn't
necessarily mean I'm better than you. It
means I have what I have and I have to
be proud of it. And of course, rel
relatively speaking, you have what God
created you for. Because if God's
omnipotent and God created all of us and
he created all of us with forethought,
then whoever you are, whatever you are,
God created you with that direct
connection to him, the creator. And so
really, you got to answer to him in the
end. It's not about who's better, me or
you. It's about am I doing what God
created me to do? And are you doing what
God created you to do? We we have to
learn how to tolerate each other and not
get upset with what I don't have or what
I think someone else has that I want.
And then we would outgrow this all about
I'm better, you're better. That
choseness doesn't equal better. You're
right. Now, does that mean I would trade
my choseness for someone else's chosen?
Absolutely not. I mean, but I could see
somebody who like who who would come up
to a a Jew or member of Ben Israel and
be like, "What do you mean you're
chosen? Why weren't wh why why were you
chosen? Why weren't we chosen?" They
were in fact chosen first. They they
were chosen to serve God through what we
call the seven commands of Ben Noah of
of of Noah. And we were chosen from that
group. We also come our roots are the
same roots that they have from Noah. But
we were chosen to be a specific uh part
with a new specific mission that that
Abraham really merited. And we inherit
it through his his excellence in in his
devotion to Hashem. He was a beloved to
Hashem and he loved Hashem and he
brought Hashem to the world. And in in
response to that, Hashem said, "I'm
choosing you and your descendants to
receive my Torah and and be that light
onto the onto the nations." It's his
light, not ours in the end of the day.
So, the fact that he gave it to us to
spread to the world just means it's for
everybody. We just happen to be the
first ones that are receiving it, but
it's really to receive and share and and
everyone could complain. Moses got it
before me. So, should I be upset at
Moses and think he thinks he's better
than me? There's no end to this. It's
normal to happen, but but we have to
outro. We have to get over that. That's
what that's what Msiah means. Messiah
really means all of us getting over
these these issues because what the
prophets tell us that the goal is is
world peace. Not just peace for the
Muslims, not just peace for the Jews,
but world peace, which means all of us
finding our place in Hashem's world. And
if our place is in the middle, which is
that blue tiny dot that might get blown
up a little bit when Hashem decides how
much is ours, that means us being proud
of that and accepting that and and being
that, not being be buying into their
their their narrative and saying, "Oh,
how dare us have this blue dot on the
map." No, that's our that's ours from
Hashem. Saying it and being honest with
ourselves and saying to the world,
that's ours. It says it in the Bible.
You cannot erase that. You want to say
that that God replaced us for you. So we
don't we're not buying into that story
and then anyway if they want to claim
that we're they they're replacing us. So
then they're just have this new chosen
claim. I have my my own theory on this
like people right Christians and the
Muslims like to say that we're not the
chosen people anymore because we kind of
we didn't do our duty and now the
Christians are the chosen people or
Muslims are the chosen people. If all of
a sudden he was taking his covenant away
from us, wouldn't it be appropriate if
he told us? Well, he would because that
God would do things in the best possible
way. But the problem is he wouldn't
because he wouldn't ever replace us.
Because that's in fact what it says in
the Bible that I will not replace you
ever for another people. I love you
forever. My love for you is
unconditional. And no matter how rotten
you become, that's an external issue.
that's that's a result of environment
and and and your the challenges that
he's himself giving us. But he a child a
father never gets rid of a child and so
he says I'll never get rid of you. So
the the whole claim that we're being
replaced has no basis. It's all just
based on emotion and belief and outright
lies especially by the Muslims. It's
outright lies that that's all it is. But
if they say but
but they go off of the Bible also. Yeah.
So if it says this, if it says this
stuff, how is it possible then that
they're able to make these claims and
people believe it? Okay. So
unfortunately, you would assume that
people do their due diligence. In
reality, that's not so because let's
let's just let's just quickly I did put
a lot of thought and there actually are
videos on there out there on these
topics.
Christians worship our brother, turned
him into a god, believe that he was born
out of some immaculate conception and
all that's beautiful and perfect. And
then but not not all Christians. Some
just believe he's the Messiah. Some
believe just in general in general
there's they believe that he's the
trinity. So he's like a god incarnate.
Okay. He's our brother. He was a Jew. He
was born a Jew. He died a Jew. And he
goes where Jews go to when they got to
fix their mistakes. and and we
ultimately he's he's a Jew and he's you
can't erase him from being part of the
Jewish people but look at the Christians
or and whatever denomination Catholic
I'm not getting into the details they
worship him turn him into a god some of
them maybe more most of them and then
they hated his brothers and sisters for
millennia and murdered them and abused
them and raped them and them so what
make so don't expect them to make sense
their whole life and their practice
doesn't make any sense they worship our
brother and then they hate us and kill
us and treat us like worse than animals
So they they don't know they they now
know where to base on. Now what about
the Islam? Islam also it it claims that
they're basing their religion on the
true prophets of Judaism because
otherwise it's a non-starter. They have
to borrow something to get started. Then
they claim that we are of course evil by
nature. We come from the monkeys and we
we lie by nature. We steal by nature. So
of course we corrupted our own Bible.
That's their claim, which is in the time
of I've heard this. Yeah. In the time
that Islam already, it's like 2,000
years into historically the the game.
So, you have a 2,000-y old Bible that
we've corrupted because what and what do
we do? We we replace the name of Isaac.
I'm sorry. We replace the name of of of
Ishmael of Isma with Isaac. That that's
their one of their claims. And you know,
I only found this out as a 38-year-old
man on on in in an Uber on the way to
the Toronto International Airport to do
my aliyah trip to Israel. So, I'm 38
years old with my wife and two kids
driving to do aliyah. We're moving to
Israel. We're becoming Israeli. Don't
tell everybody. Anyways, and uh and I
got my brother driving me or my cousin,
you know, Muhammad, and he's we're
talking, which I I was always very
friendly with with people with Muslims
in general. I had many Muslim friends
growing up. And so we're talking and he
tells me Anna, we're brothers, you know,
I Abraham, my father Abraham is and of
course Abraham, he took uh Ismael on the
mountain to sacrifice. And then it
dawned on me. Of course, there'll never
be peace. They're stealing our story.
They're stealing a, you know, famous
case of identity theft, you know, like
you you they want to be they want to be
us. So, how are we going to have peace?
Yeah, they'll have peace when we don't
exist. That's peace through destruction.
Peace through annihilation, not peace.
Peace. So, that's that's what
unfortunately that's what they're about.
Even though there's good, I don't want
to be misconstrued. There's good in the
Muslim people because people have good
in them. But their religion is flawed
because it's based on of course true
prophecies from the Jewish people, but
it's it's it's also based on human human
creation and human ideas and they favor
themselves and they lie in their favor
and they convince everybody of these
lies. And so they've convinced the world
that we corrupted our own Bible. Think
about it. How how absurd is that? Well,
I I I I want to be careful, at least for
myself, of saying that they're lying. I
mean, we know from our perspective,
right, that Yeetszak was the one who was
brought to to
uh to be sacrificed for Malam. We we and
we know this from a Msara that was
passed down from generation to
generation.
Misora, you mean the Bible? Not the
Bible. I'm sorry.
C give me the
the difference between Msara and where
where did I go wrong there? It's written
in the actual Bible that they have in
their in their Quran and the Christians
have in their uh New Testament whatever
you want to call it. So it's it's
written black and white. Nobody can deny
that the Christians can't don't and they
they would just the the Muslims the Arab
Muslims in the beginning were were had
the audacity to to then throw out that
claim of of that we corrupted our own
our own scriptures. Right. But but e
even though we we
know that they're lying, maybe they
don't because they're
through generation through generation,
they've been told the same thing. So
they actually believe this is true. They
actually believe it's truth. Especially
if they don't learn, right, if the Quran
is is the main Muslim text and they
don't actually get to I I'm just making
some sort of assumption here. They don't
actually get their hands on the Torah
and they only believe the Quran, but
they know that all the prophets from the
Ben Benny Israel, I think they call us,
which is another topic I want to get to.
Um,
they don't believe they believe that
what they're talking about is truth.
Okay, so here's the thing. You can't you
can't excuse people for not knowing the
his history. I mean, this is a history
that's accepted by the world for
millennia. So, you you can't come and
rewrite history millennia after the fact
and then say, "Well, of course," or,
"Well, Islam doesn't lie, so it has to
be true." You people have to do their
own research and people have to answer
for themselves. The every human being,
every individual cannot just excuse
himself when he gets to heaven and say,
"I was just following the leader." You
know, in the end of the day, you're
going to be asked also, "Well, what were
you doing?" Because if you were
following Yeah. But we trust our
leaders. We trust our leaders, right?
Like I the people that I trust most in
this world are my parents and
they with whatever wisdom they have or
lack, they will put you into a school.
So I'm trusting that my parents are
doing the best for me and putting me
into the hands of people who also have,
please God, the best for me. And these
are the people that I'm going to listen
to and I'm going to
believe them for the for for the most
part, especially if I'm not somebody who
is um who is super
thirsty for curiosity outside of his own
bubble. And I maybe it comes to the
question of um when does ignorance stop
being an excuse?
You know, that is exactly what we're
getting at. And the truth is, and this
is an important thing to bring bring
out, is that if I would be in their
shoes, what would I do?
Would I overcome the obstacles that they
seem to be facing? And vice versa. Um,
and the answer is going to be often not.
And that's why we're we're we have an
instruction from the sages not to judge
someone until you reach his place.
Meaning, you have to judge him from his
perspective. But there's a limit to
that. You can't excuse murder and
massacre because we we can only we can't
judge you unless we come to your your
place. We have to be practical and
open-minded at the same time. Which
means this, if there's a group of people
out there like ISIS doing what they're
doing. So, we have to protect ourselves
and and get rid of that evil. Uh do we
have to judge them for who that are they
brainwashed? Are they not brainwashed?
Maybe a big part of the members of ISIS
were brainwashed like being in a cult
and and we're not saying that they are
fully responsible and conscious of what
they're doing, but as soon as they start
behaving in a certain way that where
their beliefs and their their what
they've been brainwashed to believe
affects others, so that's more important
is is how it's affecting others and what
you got to do about that. So if Islam h
takes advantage of of naive, ignorant
people and raises them on beliefs that
are false. So yeah, they might be
innocent victims, but Islam itself and
the jihad that's blowing themselves up
all around the world and and destroying
the world. You have to deal with that
reality. Okay, we could excuse them on
some level and say they have some kind
of temporary insanity because they've
been misled. But we still have to
protect ourselves and do what needs to
be done to put the world to set the
world straight. We cannot allow the
world to to go on this destructive
course and everyone live a life of lies
and just because oh everyone's beliefs
are valid or everyone's opinion is
valid. Everyone has an opinion but it
doesn't make it valid. Everyone has
beliefs but it doesn't make it valid. So
truth has to stand at at the end of it
all. It's truth and true purpose that we
have to really we're all in search for.
So the so from the Jewish pers from from
your perspective and from the Jewish
perspective is that we hold the MS is
that Torah is MS. It's truth is the word
of Hashem and that is an objective
reality that just is.
Yes. But to to it needs more explanation
because again people from a different
perspective need need help. What does it
mean that we were meant to be a light
onto the nations? If why don't they have
their own light? If they had their own
light then we don't need to be their
light. So the Bible itself, this is the
Tanakh that everybody has in their
starts with their choice of religion and
and there are parts that mention that we
are meant to be a light onto the nation.
So what does that mean? And if we could
get to what that really means, then we
could we could all benefit from that.
Meaning we could benefit from being able
to be that and the people around us can
benefit from what that is if it's
something godly. Uh the lab thinks it
best in one of his his courses. Uh he
says, "Look, when when we're being
chased by people that want to kill us
with once upon a time knives, once upon
a time sticks, and then now guns and now
missiles and then one day nuclear bombs.
So we have no responsibility to be light
onto the nations because we have to
protect ourselves and survive. But in a
peaceful world where people reach a
point where they put down the weapons
and they're ready to coexist peacefully
exist uni unity with within diversity
then yes we can be be begin to be a
light onto the nations and that's a time
we live in for the most part there's
always going to be some issues there are
some radical things happening but but
but for the most part we live in a much
more docile world the Christians
certainly have put down their aggressive
violent tactics that once existed I was
going to say the Christians seem to want
the base of English to be built more so
than a lot of Jews do, you know. Yes.
That again there's there's positive in
people. I you have to believe in the
overall good of people. Our belief is
not we're the only good people. God
forbid that's not our belief and that's
not true. There are good people
everywhere.
Um and the job is for good people to
come together for goodness.
Unfortunately, people can can can become
selfish and become full of hate because
we're human and that's a human reaction.
When someone has more than me or has
better than me, I can start to become
upset and jealous and feel like how come
I don't have and and even start to hate
Hashem, God forbid. And that leads to a
lot of discourse and and ultimately
violence and wars. What creates all the
wars that we've been experiencing for
thousands of years? Something's causing
that. You can't call that good. That's
not the goodness of people. there is
goodness and there's also the opposite
and uh so we have to distinguish we we
can't just you know we'll lie to
ourselves and say everyone is good and
everything is good that's not true there
is good in this world and we have to
harness it we have to strengthen it and
that's that's that's what we have to be
doing if we're supposed to be a light
unto the nations and we believe that we
do have MS why don't we preach out to
the rest of the world not not to bring
them to to to Judaism but just to
give a a a taste of of the MS. First of
all, I think the first way to be a light
onto anyone or anything including
yourself is to lead by example. We we
would kind of skip the first part of
life and the first part of the mark we
want to make in this world because we
think too global. If you got the wrong
lens and you're thinking too too far
away, then you're missing what's in
front of you. The first step to being a
light onto anything is to Live by
example. Fix yourself. Live by standards
that you believe are correct to the as
much as you're able to and then look
look what to do further. It's not it's
not fix the world and then I'll
eventually get to fixing me. No, it's
fix yourself and and your your immediate
surroundings. What kind of effect are
you having in your immediate
surroundings? You want to send a message
to the world. Okay, you got time for
that. What are you telling yourself
first of all when you start your day?
What are you telling your students if
you have students? What are you how are
you interacting with your co-workers?
That's how Yoseph Joseph became the most
successful man that ever lived by
affecting his immediate surroundings
with this this energy, this goodness,
this blessing, this success in bringing
out the goodness in him and in everyone
around him and unifying everyone to he
he just was a walking success, a miracle
of success because he became a conduit
for it. So in the same way that he went
into a prison and fixed the prison, he
went to the to the Sar Mashkin's place
and he fixed not Sarashkin the um
Potifar. He went to Potifar's place and
he became in he put him in charge and
then the everywhere he went he he was
put in charge of wherever he went. Okay,
so it's a nice story. He was Mr.
Success. But how did he do it? If you
were going to interview Ysephic, if you
were going to actually go down there and
make a documentary of the Ysefic story,
how would it look? So, it would look
like a person that you'd have to film
second by second. I mean, there'd be
scenes. If if we make it the Hollywood
blockbuster, we'd have to film scenes.
We'd have to capture the essence of what
Yoseph was. And what the essence of what
he was was positivity, respect, respect
that he's a visitor in God's world and
respect that he has to respect the other
visitors. And through goodness, and
through being connected to who he was
and to, of course, Hashem and Hashem's
world, he was able to unify. wasn't I
it's something that's a little bit
beyond us in this day and age to really
fully understand. But that's some of
what I understand and what I tried to
meditate on is that he became a conduit
to look for where something was missing.
Look where there was a need. Look how he
could help and he brought so many things
together in in in Mitz. He's an amazing
story to really get into in much more
detail, but I'm not doing any justice.
using him as a as like a prime example
of start with your immediate proximity.
And he did that and every place he went
to from from himself looking outward, he
fixed. I feel like sometimes everybody
has like some sort of Messiah complex.
Like they want to fix the world, but it
has to be my way, you know, like we're
going to fix the we're everything's
going to be green because if
everything's recyclable, all every every
reusable energy, all of it will save the
world. I feel like everybody wants to
save the world, but they want to do it
their way. That that's not so that's not
that's not so bad again. But you got to
be practical. And fixing the world
begins with what's in your reach to fix
God put you in a place. And if you want
to ignore the place you're in and think
that that's how you're going to fix the
world, that's how you do the opposite
because you you skip the person that
really needs you. There's a person in
front of you that needs help. You want
to look past him because you want to fix
everybody. Well, start with the one
person you could fix. That's why the RAM
says, "Help one person, save one person,
you've saved the entire world.