May 6, 2026

The American Rabbi Daniel Lapin Leader for Alliance & Unity

Season 20, Episode 47 of The Adventures of Pipeman. It’s the Pipeman – The Wandering Jew, spinoff of The Adventures of Pipeman. In our fight against Antisemitism and giving real life stories of real heroes in support of Israel and Jews everywhere...

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Season 20

Season 20, Episode 47 of The Adventures of Pipeman.

It’s the Pipeman – The Wandering Jew, spinoff of The Adventures of Pipeman.

In our fight against Antisemitism and giving real life stories of real heroes in support of Israel and Jews everywhere this week we bring on Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Rabbi Lapin used to have a show on our network and now he is back as a guest as not only a Rabbi, but also

  • Author of his newest book The Holistic You see it here: https://tinyurl.com/2e86rssx
  • Host of the RDL Podcast
  • Leader of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians www.aajc.org.
Rabbi Lapin was one of the first people I thought of to fairly discuss anti-Semitism, Israel and other topics that relate to Pipeman’s Jewish Movement of Love & Unity For All of Humanity.

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Wake Up America.

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It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four CYD.

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I'm conference Pond Beach's number one Internet radio station. Here's

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your host, the light Man. Yo. It's the Adventures of

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pipe Man. But this is our special new podcast and

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this is gonna be a great show. So we're you're

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here on pipe Man the Wandering Jew on W four

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cy Radio, and I am the Wandering Jew. That was

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a nickname of mine by my family when I was younger,

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before I ever got married, because I always moved where

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I vacationed. So I'm bringing it back now because I

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think it's very important that we have this show to

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spread love and unity around the world and squash hate

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and anti Semitism. And we're gonna have some great guests.

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But today's guests I'm very excited about because I love

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this next guest you used to have a show on

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our station, still has a podcast now that we're going

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to talk about. And man, this is He's a rabbi,

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but he's my favorite kind of rabbi because he's a

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rabbi that is also inclusive of all people, which we're

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going to talk about it, and especially the organization that

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he leads, which is called the American Alliance of Jews

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and Christians. So that's why Rabbi Lappin is so important

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to this show. So let's bring them on. Rabbi Lapin,

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how are you?

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Couldn't be better? Pipe man?

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How you?

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Oh? I'm doing great. I'm so happy to have you here.

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Thank you, minore. You you were my first introduction. You

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opened the doors to the wonderful world of internet radio.

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I knew nothing about until I make you look.

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At that and now you're all over the place, right yeah,

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right there you go. And so I gotta tell you

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this show I just started recently because I was in

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Costa Rica hanging out, and like, Costa Rica is a

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good place to go to brainstorm and stuff because only

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outside chatter is not there usually, Okay, like even my

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brother will call me up, I'll go did you see

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the news? I'm like no, and I don't care. I'm

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going surfing. Like the whole world is inflames, but I'm

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in Costa Rica in the jungle and don't even know

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it's happening. I think the rest of us in the

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world kind of have to think that way, you know.

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And so so what happened to me was dumbly. I

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was looking through social media while I'm in Costa Rica.

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come as social media. And oh my god, I was

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getting attacked for being Jewish. Oh yeah, it was bad,

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Like people were saying stuff and I'm somebody that listen,

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I'm not shy. I'm from New York in New Jersey.

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I will open my mouth, okay, you know. And so

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basically what I was noticing though, is I wasn't really

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going by how people were being hateful to me. I

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was going by what they know and what they don't know.

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And that's when I came up with the concept of

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doing this podcast because people are so uninformed nowadays. People

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don't read history, they don't know history. They just jump

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on the next trend. They don't, you know, check you know,

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whether it's legit or not. They don't. They don't fact

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check anything, they don't cite anything. You'll laugh at this, Rabbi,

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but I want somebody said something I said, is that

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peer reviewed? And they said, yeah, all my friends agree

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with me. And that is exactly the issue nowadays. So

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I don't want to come at this like anti Semitism

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is spreading so rampantly, but I want to go out

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from a hate perspective. We do want to squatch out

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anti Semitism, but the way to squash it out, in

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my opinion, is through love and unity. We're falling for

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the oldest trick in the book, divide and conquer, and

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this is history repeating itself. So I gotta tell you

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you to me, I say that Pipeman wandering Jew is

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an avenger for Jews and humanity everywhere. Rabbi Lapin, you

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are that avenger. Because let's first talk about you lead

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an organization called the American Alliance of Jews and Christians.

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Not many rabbis would do that. That's what I love

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about you. So tell me a little bit about how

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that came to be and what you do with that organization.

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Well, I think the founding moment was a blinding insight

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that struck me a while back, which was, why is

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it that thousands of people every year and I'm looking

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back at twenty nineteen, thousands of people are drowning in

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the Mediterranean every year, all of them are trying to

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get from Africa to Europe in tiny little boats. How

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come there are no people drowning in little boats trying

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to get from Europe to Africa.

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WHOA Well, the.

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Answer is simple, and that's because there's more money in

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Europe than Africa and people are drawn to economic vitality.

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So that explains. But then I realized that it explains

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nothing at all, because it's still left the big question,

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which is why in this day and age where capital

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knows no boundaries, capital flows anywhere. With the Internet and

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everything else, in the proliferation of publishing and books, knowledge

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knows no boundaries. So why is it that North Africa

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is poverty stricken and Europe is wealthy, which makes it

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perfectly natural and perfectly normal that people will find any

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way to cross the Mediterranean going northbound, even in leaky

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little boats. And that question preoccupied me and was the

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reason I ended up writing a book about this, because

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there have been numerous attempts. Everybody is struck by this phenomenon.

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You know, it's been at least one hundred years that

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the world has become transparent. It's at least one hundred years, right,

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we're talking at nineteen twenty five. It's the aftermath of

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World War II. World War One soldiers traveled everywhere, you know, India, Africa, Australia,

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New Zealand, the Far East, the Near East. People got around.

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And so in spite of one hundred years of don't

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forget a commercial air travel started in nineteen oh four,

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a year after the Right Brothers. People have been flying

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around for well over one hundred years. There's been knowledge

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percolating for well over one hundred years capital travel. So

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why is Africa poor and France and Sweden and Norway

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and Germany and United Kingdom are rich. It's a really

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important question, and there have been all kinds of attempts

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to resolve this one of them, I mean none of

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them work. I mean one of them. For instance, is

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that Europe has more navigable rivers. African rivers are not navigable.

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And that's true, but so what you know, Not every

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European country has navigable rivers, and what's that going to

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do with anything? After all? It's also true to say

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that Portugal and Germany and France and England traveled in

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boats to Africa and set up colonies there. But where

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are all the African colonies in Italy and Norway and Russia. Why?

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And if one is not going to adopt a feeble

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minded and stupid racial explanation, and there are some very

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good reasons that those can be knocked out of the ballpark,

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You're left with only one explanation, pipe Man, and it's

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a really, really crazy one, and that is that countries

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whose culture was rooted in the Bible prospered. It's as

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simple as that, And that is why ninety eight percent

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of every scientific, medical, and technological discovery for the thousand

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years up to World War one, ninety eight percent of

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them came from Christian countries. And in my book I

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explain why it is that the Bible had this impact.

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Why it is that it is unique among all ancient

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texts in encouraging scientific development, economic development, and the people

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that inherited the cultures and lands that grew out of

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the Bible prospered and succeeded. And once I saw that,

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then I realized that this Bible thing is much more

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important than most of us realize. And we're living in

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a time when the majority of Americans truly do not

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know if Leviticus is the name of a book or

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a man's after shaveloation. It's true too, And so I

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realized that Jews and Christians have a common commitment to

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this mad, majestic, mysterious volume that hit the world three

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thousand years ago and left the places that hit changed

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for all of history. And so that's why there is

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the Alliance of American Alliance of Jews and Christians precisely

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in order to promote the civilizing impact of the Bible

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and to overcome some of the barbaric influence that radical

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Islam has been spreading for the last fifty years.

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Yeah, I think it's important to night and team up

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against evil, to be honest, to use evil like loosely.

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But you know. To me, evil has nothing to do

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with a hell or a devil. It has to do

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with just being a bad human. That's me. It's what

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I think of evil. And you know, you're so right.

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People need to be educated. I'll tell you a story

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that will be so fascinating to you. There was a

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part of the time in my life that I was

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I had to work with a neo Nazi, okay, And

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instead of having hate towards that neo Nazi, I decided

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to have a conversation and instead of judging, because listen,

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hate breeds more hate. You need to find, in my opinion,

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need to find out what somebody's out and what makes

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them think the way they do before you attack them

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for thinking the way they do, because if you attack them,

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you're not going to change their mind, okay. And so

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I think that this person was very shocked of how

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I handled things because I just sat there. I'm like, so,

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let me ask you a question. Why do you believe

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what you do and why do you believe about this

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about Jews? About Jews. He was one of those that was,

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you know, in a sheltered life and you know, believed

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we had devil horns coming out and stuff like that.

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I even looked at him, I'm like, do you see

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any horns? They're not coming out, you know, And I listened.

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I didn't speak. I just listened at first, because in listening,

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then you know what to say. Okay, I think that's

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what people. People speak too quickly. Maybe you don't know

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their reasons. Everybody's got their reasons for things. And so

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what I found out listening to this young person is

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that they never met a Jew in their life. They

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were nowhere around Jews, and they were basically in their

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neo Nazi bubble where they were brainwashed from a very

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young age of how evil the Jews are and blah

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blah blah blah blah. And then he noticed from talking

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to me that I was not acting the way that

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everybody told him to. And that's the difference. When when

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you start attacking gain mad and stuff like that, then

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all you're doing is confirming everything that they were taught.

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So take a different route. And what ended up happening

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is long story short. He ended up changing his ideology

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and was no longer an anti semi after talking to me,

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because I gave him some education of what really has

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happened in history and in our people. You know, I

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think stereotypes also, people don't understand stereotypes. You know, there's

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a stereotype, but does it mean what you think it means.

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Like one of the stereotypes I always talk about this

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all the time is that Jews are cheap. Most Jews

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I know have no problem buying something for a lot

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of money if it's good quality. It's not that we're cheap,

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it's that we're not going to spend ten dollars at

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one store when we could walk like a block away

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and buy the same thing for five dollars. But we

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have no problem spending two thousand dollars on something that's

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worth two thousand dollars. And so I think that's also

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another thing we have to do, is we have to

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educate the world to dispel a lot of stereotypes, not

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just for Jews, but for Christians and for all people.

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To be honest. What's your thoughts?

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Well, the Australian philosophy Carl Popper was talking to somebody

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once who who was saying, you know that conversation can

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can bring peace and love, and he said, well, what

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are you going to say to the Nazi on the

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other end of a rifle when he's got that pointed

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at you. And and so I would rephrase that a

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little bit and say, I'm not sure I agree with

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you that there's no room for hate. What do you

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feel towards the the guys who shot up the Jews

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on Bondai Beach in Sydney two months ago?

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There is room for hate, Don't get me wrong.

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I think there is. And and I think that's important now,

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you know, we can we can go biblical and say

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hate the sin, not the sinner. But that's a fine

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distinction when it comes to Islamic terrorists.

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Yes, so we'll see there you're going on the difference

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like there's some people that just can't be converted, no

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matter what of their thought process, not converted to something,

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but of their thought process. And so yes, I think

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he is necessary too, you know, I think we have

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to be smart about how we use our love and

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how we use.

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Our heat, and and and certainly anti Semitism is called

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the oldest hate in the world. And maybe it is.

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I don't I don't really know, but but it's I

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have never found it to be the result of ignorance.

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And and I'm I'm fascinated by your experience. I really am.

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It sounds quite wonderful, and you probably do have persuasive

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powers that I like. But I've never encountered anti Semites

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who who when one talk to them, say oh oh, now.

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Well that's true too, I do it. I don't think

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it's a lot of people. I think I reached that

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one person, you know, and there were probably fifty people

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I punched in the face first. Yeah, you know, And

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I'll tell you too. Like, Okay, so my youngest daughter,

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she was going to college up in the Panhandle, and

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she was, you know, woke, and then she went on birthright.

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Oh that's very interesting.

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The summer before October seventh, she went on birthright.

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Okay, oh, birth Right's very interesting. Please tell me what happened.

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So, first of all, she went there, she loved it.

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She made a lot of friends, and she got a

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lot of you know, enlightenment. You know, because I'm a

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firm believer too. Is like we all live in these bubbles.

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Unless we travel, we don't really know what it's like anywhere.

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Like all these people that are saying stuff, they don't

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even know where Israel is. Some of them don't even

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know where Iran is they don't know where Palestine is,

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and you know, like they're just jumping on the bandwagon.

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That's true of her generation and the people she was

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hanging out with. So what ended up happened. She came

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back and she did find even more Judaism in herself then.

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But October seventh happened shortly after she came back, Yeah,

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and there were protests that were very violent at her school,

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you know.

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And in favor of the Islamic cause, yes, yes, and fascinating.

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They were all her friends protesting. So she got woke

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up to her woke friends, you know. And so what

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she experienced was friends of hers that she met while

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she was in Israel became hostages or died. Her kibbutz

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was bombed that she stayed in, yeah, and many other

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things like that. And she became an avenger for Judaism

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and against anti Semitism. And then you know she's so

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she's very involved now. The Khabbah at her school she

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got involved with for safety reasons. She was going to

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leave school. She was scared for her life to be

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at school. And I think most people don't understand that

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when it comes to Jews and I'm going to add

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to it that when my older two kids were young,

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they were in high school and people there were people

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throwing pennies at them. And I won't mention who, but

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somebody and their family who never experienced this basically said, oh,

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come on, you're exaggerating. Oh will you make a big

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deal like people do, But unless you walk in our shoes,

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you don't understand what, even under normal times, what we

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went through and now what we're going through. Like I'm

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experiencing a lot of it myself. But going back to

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my daughter, you know, she became involved with the Khabad

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and it was like a safety net and stuff, and

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her friends she's not friends with them anymore, not because

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of any other reason, but because of they just do

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share the same ideology. And I'm going to say it

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straight out myself, like I don't know when it happened

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in my lifetime of fifty nine years that anybody that

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was liberal was pro terrorism. Like it's really really strange

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to me that anybody period would be pro terrorism, pro

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the regime, you know, and they don't understand history. The

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part that and I want you to expand on this

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next part, the part that bugs me most is that

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people think that Israel's only been around since nineteen forty eight, right,

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like read a history book, like the Bible. So what's

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your viewpoints on people thinking like that? And what my

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daughter experienced.

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And so obviously I've done a lot of thinking and

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a lot of writing on what is driving these these people.

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And it's not only in the United States the United Kingdom,

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It's it's also there and very bad. It's been prevalent

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in France for many years already as well. And I'll

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tell you, I'll tell you what I think it is,

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because how do you explain that self proclaimed progressives are

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actually in favor of tyrannical regimes right that, if it

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had the opportunity, would rapidly execute them and all homosexuals

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by the way, Yeah, it's an interest. They favor those regimes.

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And I do believe it's a little bit like the

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enemy of my enemy is my friend. Yeah, and the

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enemy is not just Jews. And I think this is

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a mistake that we Jews make all the time of

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and I think that you know, we Jews got very

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incensed here in America when over the last five years

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we began to be the targets as particularly as you

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know after October the seventh. But the failure of the

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American university campus has been evident not for five years,

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pipe Man, but for fifty years. And I'm very distressed

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that there were not a lot of Jewish voices many

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many years ago saying cut out this dangerous indoctrination that's

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going on on the campuses.

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And still to this day.

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You're right, even more so today. Yes, absolutely, But it

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didn't just begin five years ago. It wasn't that they

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woke up all of a sudden and said, we hate

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the Jews. They've been hating civilization, they've been hating the West.

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Jesse Jackson led a chant sixty years ago at Stanford,

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Hey Hey, ho ho, Western Civilization's got to go, so

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all of a sudden. I'm so distress that we just

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woke up recently, because we should have been saying to

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all our civilization loving comrades in arms, every piece and

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patriotic American, we should have been saying, stop stop underwriting

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in doctrination anti West, anti civilization indoctrination at the campuses.

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Stopped doing this to our young people. And Roger Kimball

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wrote a great book called Tenured radicals, where he points

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out that all the professors in colleges around America today,

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tens of thousands of them, they were the guys in

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nineteen sixty eight who were riding on the campuses back

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then and promoting communism, promoting socialism. And they were students

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back then, and now they're the professor. And so when

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I say the enemy of my enemy is my friend,

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the reason in my mind that progressives love the Islamic

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world is because the Islamic world hates the West. We

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Jews just happen to be very visible symbols of Western civilization.

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We are in favor of business and money and wealth.

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We're in favor of capitalism, we're in favor of structure,

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we're in favor of religion, we are in favor of family.

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That's a huge one. And again, the assault on the

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Western family has been going on not just five years,

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it's been going on for fifty years. It's fifty years

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since congress Woman Patricia Schroeder try to get women into

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combat in the military. Now, that's a really stupid idea

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for anybody interested in security, that's a dumb idea. But

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if you're interested in social engineering, if you're interested in

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undermining the West, well, then that's a really good idea.

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Or promoting the idea that men and women are interchangeable,

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or the idea that you can mutilate a man and

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turn him into a woman. These are all very, very

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stupid ideas, so stupid that only someone with a graduate

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degree could like them. And so these are ideas that

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belong in the dustbin of history, and they are all

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What they all share in common is they're harmful to

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the West. And when civilization goes, Jews die because we

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only survive in a civilized environment. And that was why

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many many Jews saw what was happening in the nineteen thirties,

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the abolition of civilization. They saw that the Nazis were

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intent on destroying Western thinking and Western civilization and Western

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culture and West not they knew this was not going

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to be good for them. And that's exactly where we

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are today.

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And you know what, I have to say that the

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one big thing that concerns me today is that you

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have something today that makes it even scarier than back

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in the Nazi times is I'm finding anti Semitism to

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be rampant among Jews. Like there's so many Jews I

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know they're anti Semitic, and I'm like, I just want

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to smack them in the head to be honest, Like,

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what's wrong with you against your own people? You know?

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Who would be against their own people no matter who

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you are, you know.

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And because their alignment is not to fellow Jews, their

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cultural and tribal alignment is to progressivism.

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Yeah, yeah, And you know the thing is is that,

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you know, I think that we've lost a lot in

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many years with Judaism being watered down in the respect

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of most Jews nowadays they say they're a Jew, but

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are they really a Jew? You know type of thing?

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You know, they're a Jew?

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What is when you say, really, what is your definition?

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Where I'm having trouble understanding how we categorize what are

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you saying?

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Well, see what I was saying is not just by blood,

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but by by being part of your people, you know,

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and being How do you do that? I think you

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do that? First of all, Well, I have different opinions

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on that, But first of all, I think education is

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very important. In the education I'm talking about is education

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from Natara, from the Talment, from the Kabbala, from the

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Old Testament, you know, and you know stuff like like

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most of these most of these people, they don't understand Judaism.

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They don't know Judaism. And that's why, even from the

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respect of okay, so, I find a lot of the

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younger generations nowadays turning away from Judaism because they don't

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understand Hebrew. It's I've seen it a lot. I've seen

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it with my own kids.

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You know, we what do we say to a young

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person who's listening to us and says, hey, pipe main,

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I hear what you're saying. Can you give me one

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good reason why I should. I have a very full life.

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I got work, I got friends, I got a social life,

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I got my tech life, I date. Oh can you

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tell me why I should take even five minutes to

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study the Torah?

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Well, I have several reasons for that.

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See, I'm very interested.

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One thing is I'm big in learning, and I we're

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taught as Jews not to believe Torah, but to study Torah.

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And I think that's a big fundamental difference. One of

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the things I like about g Ism that's both a

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born Jew and the chosen Jew it is that, you know,

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I don't have to live by the letter of everything

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because you know, the Torah is so complex, and that's

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why they have the Talmud with the mid rash to

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kind of explain it. And then there's also that you know,

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game of telephone. This is a pretty long game of telephone.

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So you know what's the game telephone for those listening

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that don't know, is when you start with one person

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and tell a story and then get to the last

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person and see how the story change, you know. And

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I think it's some I think it's a heritage to

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be proud of personally. That's me personally, but I think

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it's the I think there's a lot of things like

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the Torah. To me, the difference between the Torah and

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00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:09.279
other you know, religious books or documents is the Torah

451
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:14.640
is kind of like a roadmap to life. You know.

452
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.759
It's such a fantastic definition.

453
00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:21.599
Right, you know, and so like you don't have to

454
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.920
believe everything that's in it. But you also, I'm also

455
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.759
somebody that's like I can see the whole picture, not

456
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.960
the literal picture. So when they're talking about something that

457
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:36.599
happened in history, do we know if it really happened

458
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:41.599
that way? We weren't there. But it's the message you're

459
00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:44.839
getting from it. It's not about the literal words. It's

460
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:48.400
about the message, and the message to me and Judaism

461
00:32:49.039 --> 00:32:52.720
is a few things. It's one, it's a people. It's

462
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.799
more than just a religion. It's not the religions, like

463
00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:58.279
not even the biggest part of my opinions, being part

464
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.359
of a people, being part of a landing and part

465
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:06.039
of a community. You know, Jews are genetically Jews. Okay,

466
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.319
you do it twenty three and meters like I did,

467
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:12.160
it'll tell you you're an Ashkenazi Jew. It doesn't tell

468
00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:13.519
you but Jewish.

469
00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.279
Don't forget. We have many converts to Judaism who that's true,

470
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:19.720
is Jewish, even though there's no genetically.

471
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.519
Well, and I was going to go to that too, okay,

472
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.799
because I've had few experiences of that in life. Okay.

473
00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:31.920
So my mother, twenty years before I was born, converted

474
00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:36.920
to Orthodox Judaism. She went to Catholic school, except she

475
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.240
converted I think for the wrong reason. So for her,

476
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.960
when it was convenient to be Catholic, she was Catholic.

477
00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.960
When it was convenient to be Jewish, she was Jewish. However,

478
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:50.160
her mother was also a convert and one of the

479
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.559
most Jewish people I ever met in my life. My

480
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:58.680
grandmother who was not born Jewish and my kid's mom.

481
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.880
She did convert to Jews. And what happened with her

482
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:04.599
was she was when I met her, she was a

483
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:08.239
born again Christian. We went and did the mcvoo class.

484
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:10.960
And for anybody that knows, it's not just a non

485
00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:12.840
Jew that has to go to that, the Jew had

486
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.760
to go too, you know. So and here's what I

487
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:18.840
learned from that micva class, and I've studied a logiism

488
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.960
is every Jew should go to a Michvah class because

489
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:25.760
it's one of the most educational experiences there is. And

490
00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.639
when they were when we were doing the class one day,

491
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:34.719
my ex turn to me and she goes, Oh, that

492
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.199
makes so much more sense. And that's what I look

493
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.880
at the Tora. To me, the Torah is about things

494
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:47.159
that to me seem factual, you know, they seem real,

495
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:51.519
they're not. As an example, the whole idea of some

496
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:56.079
fictional cartoon character called the Devil, I think is kind

497
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:57.599
of weird, you know, and.

498
00:34:57.679 --> 00:34:59.400
Less show up in the Torah, by the.

499
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:03.559
Way, exactly because the word sin is not even in

500
00:35:03.599 --> 00:35:06.079
the Hebrew language. It's missing in the.

501
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:09.760
Market the sin is in the Hebrew language extensively. There's

502
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:11.199
quite a few different words for sin.

503
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:14.320
Okay, well, then I stand.

504
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:16.559
Correct, it shows up right in the beginning of Genesis.

505
00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:18.519
So yeah, no sin, sin definitely show.

506
00:35:18.679 --> 00:35:21.920
I just remember being taught that it really means missing

507
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:22.400
the mark.

508
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:26.480
Well, that is that is the accurate You're exactly right,

509
00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:30.719
that's one of the translations or parallel translations of one

510
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:31.760
of the words for sin.

511
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:36.320
And see. I find that to be more factual because

512
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:39.760
human beings are not expected to be God, They're not

513
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.280
expected to be perfect, so missing the mark makes a

514
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.639
lot of sense to me. I also think a lot

515
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:47.599
of things in the Bible make sense to me because

516
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:50.880
they're historical. Like the holidays that we celebrate are all

517
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:54.719
biblical holidays. Hanuka is not an important holiday because it's

518
00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.599
not biblical. People think that's the important holiday. It's not,

519
00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:01.960
you know. And like there's so many things that just

520
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.800
make sense and make you know, common sense, even like

521
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:11.800
night then day, you know, Saturday, being in the Shabbat

522
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:16.880
the seventh day, doing things on the lunar calendar, like

523
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.480
that makes more sense than the Gregorian calendar to me

524
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:24.800
because it just makes sense. But I also think it's

525
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:30.800
a matter of in the Torah, there's some also order.

526
00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:34.079
I like that. I like that there's order. It's like

527
00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:38.039
you don't go from the first book to the seventh book.

528
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:41.840
You go, you know, as things happen, and it all

529
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:44.760
makes sense. And we know when you go to services

530
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:46.719
throughout the year, you go through the whole Torah, and

531
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:48.880
then the beginning of the year you start over again,

532
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:51.519
you know, so you're constant. And I'm also a believer

533
00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:55.199
in repetition is the mother of skill, So you know,

534
00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:59.519
that's a nerd thing. But bringing the convert thing up,

535
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.519
that is also very important to me because the way

536
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:09.920
to convert to Judaism oppost any other religion is something

537
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:14.039
I like because we don't recruit anybody, and we in

538
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:18.280
fact push them away because we want them to become Jewish,

539
00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:21.840
because they want to become Jewish, not for a spouse,

540
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:24.119
not for a family and them, or not for a friend,

541
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.400
only for themselves and their own personal And that's where

542
00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.760
I kind of believe no matter what somebody believes, if

543
00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.400
they if it makes them a better person, and it

544
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:41.880
makes them somebody that will not intentionally do harm to people,

545
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.639
then I'm okay. With it. It's like I don't believe they

546
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:48.199
have to be Jewish, but I do think they should

547
00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:51.719
be an ally to Jews. And that's where you're alliance.

548
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:57.079
Like I love that because we are a small people

549
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:02.440
throughout the world. We need an alliance, we need allies.

550
00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:07.000
And that's part of why I do this, because I

551
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.400
think the people that really need to be educated or

552
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:13.079
and I say educated, I don't mean in you know,

553
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:18.920
the meaning way, just like given a perspective that maybe

554
00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:22.960
they sit there and say, just like my ex wife did, Wow,

555
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:24.360
that does make sense.

556
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:31.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah, now I think it does and and

557
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:37.320
and indeed many people, many people do convert, and and

558
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:41.199
many people do find meaning in it. There's no question

559
00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:46.880
about it. But but but I think above all, what

560
00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:49.840
it what it does? Do you know, Let's let's not forget.

561
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:55.239
It's the only religious text that begins or even contains

562
00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:57.840
the words in the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

563
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:03.920
Right nowhere else do you find that. And it's hugely

564
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:07.840
important because it helps to explain why it is that

565
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.440
for the last five centuries, all scientifically overwhelming majority of

566
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:20.880
scientific discovery, whether it was Isaac Newton or Boyle or Kepler,

567
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:28.519
or Clark and Maxwell and Lord Calvin, and without exception,

568
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:33.760
all of these guys were devout Bible believing Christians. And

569
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:40.920
we have always come to believe the cultural lie that

570
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.719
religion and science are in conflict, but that was never

571
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:48.920
true for all these great scientists who literally moved the

572
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:55.119
world from scientific illiteracy to the airplane and tomic power.

573
00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:00.400
I love that, and so there is so much of

574
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:05.519
that rooted in the Bible that these guys were inspired

575
00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:10.559
to study God's work, namely science right because studying the

576
00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:14.000
natural world to them was studying God's work. And the

577
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:17.079
same way as if you know, if I want to

578
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:22.159
get to know the Beatles, you know, there's very little

579
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.320
chance that I'm going to have dinner with Paul McCartney,

580
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:28.360
but I can really get to know their work and

581
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:33.280
through that to know them. These scientists looked at study

582
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:36.519
of natural science and the natural world as a way

583
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:39.000
to get to know the Creator because of that opening

584
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:42.079
verse in the beginning, God created heaven and earth. But

585
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:48.639
it's really important that all these scientific, technological medical breakthroughs

586
00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:54.239
the last five centuries were done by Bible believing Christians.

587
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.159
I love that because I am into science and it

588
00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:01.360
is one of the things I kind of do like

589
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.559
about Judaism that that to me, it's not just faith,

590
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:09.920
it is science too, and which brings me something I

591
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.559
was thinking about earlier because you said something, Remember it

592
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:17.800
was very popular, But what was your opinion about the

593
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:19.239
book the Bible Code.

594
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:25.440
Oh, so it's I've written quite a lot on it.

595
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.719
As a matter of fact, there's a jacket blurb from

596
00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:31.639
me on one of the on one of the codebooks.

597
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:37.840
So anybody who is familiar with the Hebrew, actually, even

598
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:39.599
if you're not, as long as you just look at

599
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:43.480
a Hebrew Bible, you can actually see it yourself. And

600
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:47.360
if you know a little bit of mathematics, you can

601
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:53.920
compute the probabilities of it happening randomly, and there's stupendously

602
00:41:55.199 --> 00:42:00.440
high against So there's no question about it that those there.

603
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.119
And it's it's a mystery because prior to the age

604
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:08.639
of computers, it's how do you write a text by

605
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:12.719
placing a code on It's called the skip of fifty

606
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:18.719
In other words, you read every fiftieth letter and it

607
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:25.119
spells out a subtext, and you know, you can search

608
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:31.039
the works of Shakespeare or or Gui Demo persont In French,

609
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:35.840
or Baalzac or or Dostoevsky. You read any literature and

610
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:39.159
search and you will not see this happening anywhere else.

611
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.280
It only happens in the Bible. That said, I will

612
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.079
tell you that ninety percent of what's been written about

613
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:51.239
the Bible codes is sensationalistic and rubbish. They are real,

614
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.360
they are true, They're there for anybody who wants to

615
00:42:55.400 --> 00:42:57.320
see with eyes in their head. It's not it's not

616
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:01.360
it's not hard to see. But the notion that they

617
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:05.719
can serve a prophetic role is rubbish.

618
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:08.800
And I like you saying that way because there's other

619
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.280
things out there that in this day and age they

620
00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:17.599
have commercialized that kind of takes away the spiritualism of it.

621
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.199
So I'm glad you said that. In the meantime, I

622
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:24.880
want to talk a little bit, because we're close to

623
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:27.079
rain out of time. I want to talk about your

624
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:32.320
newest book, The Holistic You. Yeah, tell me about that book,

625
00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:36.119
because that book, to me, is a must read for everybody.

626
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.039
Thank you very much. Indeed, I hardly agree with you.

627
00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:44.480
But the reason I agree with you is because it's

628
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.679
not that I like selling books. I do love selling books,

629
00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:50.840
but I like it even better when I get letters

630
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.920
from people in whose lives the books made a difference.

631
00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.400
I like it when people come back to buy other

632
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:03.599
books of mine, and because earlier ones played such a

633
00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:07.360
significant role in the transformation of their lives for the better.

634
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.519
And so the holistic you is huge, It really is huge.

635
00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:16.840
And let me explain what that's about. And what I've

636
00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:21.800
done is distilled the essence of a happy, fulfilling life

637
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:28.440
down into five basic principles. Why five has a lot

638
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.840
to do with the five Books of Moses. It has

639
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:33.400
to do with why there are five commandments on each

640
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:36.679
of the two tablets for the ten commandments. Five is

641
00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:42.719
a very important number. And what it does is it

642
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:48.400
it's like having a magic eight ball that can save

643
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.320
you from making bad mistakes. What I mean by bad

644
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:53.599
mistake is that.

645
00:44:54.199 --> 00:45:01.199
Are you talking about this? I'll tell you why I

646
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:03.159
have this handy here, but go ahead.

647
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:09.840
And so in the final analysis, there are five areas

648
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:14.519
that produce fulfillment and happiness and a feeling of contentment

649
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:19.440
in life. Number one is family. Now, by the way,

650
00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:21.599
this is not in any order. When I say number one,

651
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:23.679
I'm not saying it's more important than the other four

652
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:27.199
I'm saying all five are equally important, even though you

653
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:31.719
may emphasize one or another at different stages and seasons

654
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:37.920
of your life. But family covers all relationships that are

655
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.840
male female in origin. What I mean by that is

656
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:45.800
that when you have Thanksgiving dinner with your uncles and

657
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:49.599
aunts and your cousins and your nephews and nieces, all

658
00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:55.079
of that glorious conglomeration of family is only there because

659
00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:58.960
many years ago Grandpa and Grandma found joy in one

660
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:05.360
another's arms. That's what family means. And so family is

661
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:09.800
your sex relationship and the relationships with people who are

662
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:13.920
there because of other male female relationships. The second one

663
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:17.719
is finance. Everything having to do with money, the people

664
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.239
you interact with to make money, and your financial possessions,

665
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.760
your bank accounts, your yacht, and your race horse. All

666
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:32.599
of these fall under money. Then comes friendship, your social relationships,

667
00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:36.679
all relationships that have nothing to do with family or finance,

668
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:41.400
political relationships, sporting relationships, and so on and so for.

669
00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:44.960
That's all under the third category of friendship. After that

670
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.239
comes faith, relationship with the world of the spirit and

671
00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.719
the world of the soul and with God. And then

672
00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:56.000
the f of fitness and I call it the five

673
00:46:56.239 --> 00:47:02.559
f's because it's family, finance, friendship, faith, and fitness, your

674
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:08.000
relationship with your own body. And understanding these things and

675
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:12.519
integrating them into your life is a sure way of

676
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:17.239
not suffering deep disappointment. When I say deep disappointment, you

677
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:21.599
know I'm speaking about fifty year old guys who tell me,

678
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:24.840
where were you when I was twenty. I never believed

679
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:27.199
that at the age of fifty, I wouldn't have any money.

680
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:30.199
I'd be having to work in order to still keep going.

681
00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:33.320
I thought i'd have I don't have any money. Well,

682
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:36.760
that's because you blew it when you were twenty, you idiot.

683
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:41.639
And all the other because I fit that more.

684
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:46.840
Or the forty five year old woman who pursued her

685
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:50.760
career and pursued her career, and she's now forty five

686
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.639
years old and all her friends are hanging out with

687
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:56.760
their kids and with their husbands, and she says to me,

688
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:02.039
how could this have happened to me? Okay? In or

689
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:08.639
to address your life purposefully and integrating your family, your finances,

690
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your friendships, your fitness, and your faith, tying that all together.

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None of this is easy. It's complicated, but there are

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methodologies in order to make it successful, in how to

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tackle it now to achieve it successfully. And that's what

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my book They Holistic You is about.

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Nice everybody has to get it and then they get

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Can they get the book off your website in which

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by way, everybody can go to Rabbi Daniel Lapin dot

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com that's d A n I E L l A

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p I N to check out all of his calms.

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Check out his website. Make sure to check out the

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Rabbi Daniel lap In Show. One of the best shows

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we ever had on the network. Here incredible still podcasts

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and a wealth of information. And can they find your

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book on their website or they just search Amazon?

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Well, they certainly can't fight it on the website, but

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it wouldn't be a very Jewish way of buying it

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because it's a lot cheaper on Amazon.

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There you go. I love it and real quick, and

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then we're gonna end here and I could talk to

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you forever. So we're gonna have to have you back

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on the show because you're such a wealth of knowledge

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and you know, somebody that certainly fits into my goal

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and mission to spread love and unity throughout the world

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and squash hate. But when I was a little kid,

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I had some issues with my mother for many years,

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and you know, it was interesting because I wanted to

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leave her to move with my dad. But then I

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was I was scared too, I you know, I was

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scared of repercussions or you know, you have hammered into

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your head. It's your mother, it's your mother, your mother.

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And so finally when I got to a point where

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I really we had too much, I was out with

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my dad on visitation and he knew that I wanted

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to do something, but he wanted to make it my

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decision and I just couldn't decide. My favorite toy at

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that time was the magic eight ball, and he says

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to me, why don't you ask the magic a brill?

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And that's what I did, and that night I moved

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with my father and it changed my life forever. The

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magic April, that's amazing. It might have been a divinely

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inspired magic a brill, but a magic aril nonetheless. Well,

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it's been absolute pleasure, Rabbi to have you on.

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Pipeman together with you again, we must talk some more, Dina.

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It's been a pleasure. And uh and again thank you

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for your pioneering work in internet radio.

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Well, thank you for your pioneering work in everything, including

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your wisdom and your Judaism and and let's together band

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together to be avengers for love and unity throughout the world.

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Thank you, Rabbi, and thanks for being on the Adventures

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of pipe Man.

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Being great to be with you all the best.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.

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I'm w for CUI Radio.