Torah Judaism

And he was ready to leave Yiddishkeit over what happened.

And they tuned him in to my Sheyurim and he remained a Torah Jew.

And later in life, he became of tremendous help to me in Volume 3 of Rekhafer Aron.

He's the one who transcribed my two years' worth of shayurim on Mamzei Riknaguna.

You're gaining and I'm not losing.

And the Torah always mandates to rise above the average because the normal Torah Jew is predicated from the legacy of Avraham.

It's not an average thing for me to be able to give to you and not expect anything in return.

If I go to an average person in Montreal, an average person in Canada, an average person in Western society, an average person in the world and say, hey, can I borrow 20 bucks? That person who doesn't know me would say, sure, but you have to pay me back interest, not interest.

It was known as a bit of the hippies, the green, hence they were interested in environmentalism.

And they had a lot of Jews that were interested in it as well.

But at recent times, it's had an influx of membership from cousins.

And they've recently adopted a resolution.

As a human being, we are all created in the tselem elokim, and thereby to look at the Jewish people and say, you are uniquely evil.

Your aspirations and your desire to move back to your homeland, you are uniquely evil.

This becomes anti-Semitic because you're saying that only the Jews have their vision of history, have their religious hope is racist.

And I think that obviously then everyone jumped on the bandwagon, called it anti-Semitic, et cetera, et cetera.

Who doesn't want? Of course, I want to be a Shulchan Aruch Jew.

I want to be a Torah Jew.

I want to do anything and everything.

Am I going to do anything and everything? Probably not.

You know, we've been living lately in a lifetime, uh, period where that has become somewhat of a discussion.

That is to say, we are often worried, why is it that it seems like Torah and Ch- Torah Judaism is, uh, under attack? Why is it that our way of life, we're Jews seem under attack in the whole world? And then in the same breath, we attack our fellow Jews.

They're not exactly like us.

That's a big challenge to us.

That was the first time I shook lulav and esrog." Then he says, "But it didn't spark, spark anything.

I went to Israel on a secular kibbutz, and the people on the kibbutz were so anti-Torah Judaism." I said, "I gotta find out what's, what's going on.

Like, what is it?" He said, "I had no Jewish education.

But when I saw these people were so against it, I said I have to find out what, what the story is." And he said, "I became fully observant, got married," da, da, da, whatever.

They started by worshipping things that might have been holy, or might have made sense, and before you know it, it turned out to full-blown idol worship.

We as a Torah Jew, we worship Hashem, nothing else.

Everyone else has things to learn from, but there's no one to worship.

So it's obviously therefore no surprise that we find ourselves in, in rather a pickle.

In other words, those of us who are Torah Jews aspire to one thing.

The people who established the state of Israel as it exists today aspire to something very different.

That is what has been tearing Israeli society apart now for many years, in fact, in fact for decades, but particularly over the last few years, as we all know.

If we're talking about the past fifteen hundred years, well, it's been more than that.

It's been- Well over 2,000 years since the Jews had their own sovereign independent nation where, where the J- where there was a Jewish government.

And then you could ask the question, how much influence did the Torah Jews have in that sovereign Jewish state?

Didn't have that many then either, right? Didn't have that much either when Herod was walking around.

So you see that th- th- there, there, there, th- even today's days, there are many, um, what am I gonna call it? Trends.

I, I say within observant Orthodox J- Judaism, Torah Judaism, that place tremendous emphasis on the world to come.

And there's a certain sense that the physical world that we live in is just a...

And, and, and again, I wanna emphasize, there is a lot of teachings, serious teachings amongst the sages that support that view.