Spiritual Boxing Match - R. Hillel Eisenberg - TorahAnytime.com

So, I was once in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, and I'm walking in the evening, very crowded area, and I see on a street corner there's this Christian preacher who is standing on a box preaching whatever they preach and scream about the end of the world is coming. He He's not getting a whole crowd because he's not very interesting. He turns and he sees me, a a noticeably religious Jew, and he licks his lips and he says, "Well, well, well, who do we have here? Step right up." So, of course, I'm going to go over to, you know, and people see me coming over. So, of course, they're going to It's like a spiritual boxing match going on. He says, "Get over here, Mr. Jub Boy. You know that you're wrong. Why do you even bother?" I said, "We're not wrong." He said, "Oh, really? What does the word Eloai mean?" I'm like, "God, my God." He's like, "What does the word Elohim mean?" I'm like, "Also God?" Wrong. It's plural cuz there's multiple gods. There's God and there's his son, Yoshka. And the whole crowd goes, "Oh." I'm like, "Are you claiming to know Hebrew? What does the word viab mean? What does the word mean? What does the word So this guy, he like orients himself a little bit. He's like, "Okay, okay. I see how this could be." So then he throws that one a last ditch effort. He says, "If you guys are really the chosen people, then why do so many bad things happen to you?" So I turn to them all and I say, "I got breaking news for you. We are not the chosen people. There's the guy in the back. Larry, this guy just said, "We're not the the Jews. You're going to Larry, get over here." I said 4,000 years ago in a world run a muck by egotistical murderous maniacs in a world bereft of even the tiniest shred of morality in a world cloaked with darkness. In a world with adultery and idolatry and murder everywhere there was one man who chose light. There was one man who chose good. There was one man who chose moral ethical behavior. There was one man who chose God. And because that one man chose God, therefore, God chose him. And it's true, there have been many times throughout Jewish history where the Jews forgot to choose their God. But we've been here long before the Christians, we'll be here long after the Christians. Because in a world that forever chooses money and power and lust and prestige, we are forever choosing God. And I walk away. You see when Abra got a knock on the door one day and it was Hashem, my name is God. How are you? I see that you are choosing light. I see that you're choosing good. I see that you're choosing moral, ethical behavior. I see you're choosing me. Well, congratulations. I am hereby choosing you on condition that you keep on choosing me. I will make you a deal. You promise me that you and your children will forever choose me, choose light, choose harmony, choose morality. I will make you indestructible. I will bless you. Not only that, I will bless those who bless you. I will curse those who curse you. I will fill your lives, your homes with unimaginable light. You will go to heights no other nation will go as long as you choose me. And the extent in which you choose me is the extent that I choose you. That's our deal. Aram says you got to sell. You got yourself a deal.