Why the Obsession with the Jews? - Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship

and one of their favorite videos is an old Israeli folk song and you know I sang it as a kid when I was growing up it's probably from the 50s I don't know when it's from but it goes like this it goes here tab if you could play [Music] it [Music] [Applause] [Music] I I want it goes on and I want want to cry just Jeremy do you want to cry too watching that video it's just soet I just want translate it for everyone that's there going to you know my my land of Israel is beautiful and Blossoms birds chirping on every rooftop heralding the holiday it doesn't rhyme in English and so we have a house and we have a tree in the land of Israel and it's just so sweet and it's just so pure and that's like all the Jewish people want we just want a tree and a house with a bird that's chirping in the land of Israel and then we're just surrounded [Music] by it's like crazy you know just such sweet Simplicity and Purity and preciousness filled with love and hope and innocence you know and as we were watching it I I just couldn't help but contrast with what at this very moment Hamas are showing their kids not just some of them the entire Society in Gaza every day for Generations here it is [Music] k I think that was actually taken from 12 15 years ago and I wouldn't be surprised if some of those very kids were the ones participating in October 7th and um and you know you also see just like the little baby programming Big Bird you actually see big bird with a knife saying to kill Jews like that I got to get that video I gotta find that video but there's so many there's just no shortage such an abundance because that's all they're interested in that's all they can think about that's all they can focus on nothing else no building no birds chirping no trees no rooftop singing nothing all they want to do is Butcher and murder and hack and kill and so if we just like take this take a a sobering dispassionate step backwards and try to depersonalize it for a second we can ask why right that's not the hatred of a people that want independence and that's not the hatred of a people that are humiliated by the check points that's always that always got me we're in checkpoints all the time you don't see me like ah there's a line at this checkpoint I'm going to go murder a kindergarten right and the humiliation of the checkpoints anyways there's there's a much deeper hatred at play here and I think it's critical that we look at what the sages of Israel teach are among the spiritual Roots because it goes back to Abraham and it goes back to Ishmael and Isaac and the jealousy and the resentment there but it but it also goes you know there there are other roots from which this hatred comes and they teach us that we can find the roots in this week's Torah portion says what is Mount Si this from the T what is Mount Si the mountain that brought enmity Sinai from sin enmity upon the nations of the world and this statement has really profound implications so many people say that this is that this is true because the nations are jealous that Hashem gave us the Torah and not them now now that that never really sat so well with me for a number of reasons particularly considering the teaching that some that on some Transcendent level we we learn that all the nations were offered the Torah but based on one reason or another they refused they didn't want it the bin didn't want to not steal the jihadist didn't want to not murder there was always someone that didn't want there something didn't sit well with them on some Transcendent level this wasn't actually literally offered to them but it was not compatible with them but they were offered it on some spiritual level others say it's because of the implications the Torah brought to the world through us that all of a sudden there was a right and a wrong and a good and a bad and they didn't want that they wanted to be their own Gods and when they received the law through us through us bringing that into the world we became the conscience of the world as Hitler said and so there's truth to that but but I believe that while there's you know truth to all of that stuff the one that speaks to my heart the most post is from this week's Torah portion chapter 19 veres 5 and 6 now therefore if you'll obey my voice indeed and keep my Covenant then you shall be my own treasure among all the peoples for all the Earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words which you shall speak to the people of Israel and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation we are directed not only to receive the Torah but to live it to implement it and when we do then we are to be a kingdom of priests and what's the biblical understanding of the function of a priest at the end of every Fellowship that's what we say what what is it to be an intermediary to be a conduit to be a vessel of light and of blessing that is our role in the cosmos that is our role in the world that is the reason we were created