Welcome nice to see you let me see a big huge smile it’s good for you it speaks to your inner inner being if you put a smile on your face hi perfect excellent sounds good can I get um just a little bit more guitar on this
Monitor you got what you need Lance a little bit more base than little more Basse in the guitar all right here we go so listen what holiday P do It what holiday are we celebrating my friends Hanukkah which means you have to be subjected to the Hanukkah Shabbat worship service it’s not really worship it’s mostly celebratory but thank God Irvin is here cuz I can’t do Hanukkah without Irvin for the music one Song I this isn’t even a song I just I’ve got so much energy in My Now if you clap and you have a smile I mean I can’t even tell you what that’s going to open up for You All right now you’re ready and I’m ready too so here we go this is a song called oh Hanukah I’m going to skip alhim how’s that but let me read you this because it’s important Al we give thanks for the Miracles for the salvations for the mighty acts and for
The victories and for the battles you waged for our ancestors in those days and at this time that’s a real prayer and I wanted to say something of significance before I started singing songs about spinning tops and fried potatoes because that’s what most of the songs are about okay this one is oh
Hanukah Oh hanuk hanuk light the man let’s have a party we all Dan a hor gather around the table we’ll give you a treat give it on the play Within Lot C to we and while we are playing the candles are burning low one for each night they shed a sweet
Light to remind us of days long ago one for each night they shed a sweet light to remind us of days long Ago hanuka hanuka light the let’s have a party will all dance a hor gather around the table we’ll give you a treat s b to play with the light goes to we and while we are playing the candles are burning low one for night they shed us sweet
Light to remind us of days long ago one for night they Shar us we like to remind us of days long ago oh H go go go go go light go light go light go light come light the the Lord Not a lot of words in this one it’s in Hebrew but I need you to try it Nonetheless What’s a seiv it’s a drle Right So I can’t even do it how can you do it if I can’t do it We’ll stop [Applause] There oh we have to do that one lance for the kiddos for the Kiddos I have a little Dr I made it out of clay when it’s dry and ready then Dr I shall play Dr Dr Dr I made you out of clay when it’s dry ready then Dr I shall play that’s the chorus okay it has a lovely
Body with legs so short and then when my dr’s tired it drops it then I wear oh d d d I made you out of play when it’s dry and Ready Dr Dr Dr I made you out of clay when it’s dry ready the Dr I shall play my dr’s always playful it loves to dance and spend the happy game of Dr come play now let’s begin oh Dr Dr Dr I made you out of clay when it’s dry and ready Then what you got man nothing nothing okay I thought Lance was about to make up a verse he was giving me that look so instead let’s in with the chorus ready d d d I made you out of when it’s dry ready the Dr I Shall T AR Latino you know the language combination of some languages Spanish and Hebrew I believe or something similar French and some French and so this is the one ladino song we do every year I hope you’ll enjoy it with us we certainly [Applause] Do candas me Ohas cand candas candas [Applause] Much [Applause] Fest much Fest C Of me oh A [Applause] Candas hey candles beautiful Candles love it all right that’s that one for a Year this is our this is our Hanukkah hymn also a prayer but it’s been turned into a it’s turned into a Psalm a song in addition to the traditional version we’re going to sing you the traditional version in Hebrew you sing along and then also sing in the English with
Us I like it better than on the FL His Be this one in English is the one we used to sing at the kids Hanukkah program at uh Temple Beth Israel Little Rock Arkansas Rock of Ages let us song Praise Your saving power you amid the Raging FS were our Sheltering Tower Furious they saers but th of us and your word broke their s when our own strength fil us and your word broke this s when our all strength f Raise your hand if you were alive in the80s raise your hand if you were listening to the radio and understanding what was being sung in the80s raise your hand if you know who Sister Christian is good modin was a town in Israel was actually a Savage attack that
Took place in Modine under the leadership of antioch’s epiphanies and his armies there’s a Band of Brothers from modin by the name of the macbes well that was their nickname so here’s a little song that combines all the questions I just asked you and the story I told you over the
Last minute and a Half this tradition all the time has come and you know that it is always fun to play all day did you know just what this tros for you know these toys we got portray the war on Jews it’s true I’m going to need all those 80s people with me on this now okay
Ready molding watch that priest file you’re fighting for what is Right there’ll be all right Tonight Bab know you’ve only got one flask and Mama’s worrying that oil won’t last for a all days these Traditions help so much in life don’t you give them up before your time is due it’s true it’s True yeah Ming what that priest defile they put him in their D and drove them all fight Ming watch the priest defile and finding him and a light there’ll be a light tonight M watch their priest Defile put happen that be therey one more everybody sing with me m watch their priest defile and finding hidden light there’ll be a light Tonight this tradition all the time time has come and you know that it is so much fun to play all Day More oh Thank you guys for being born in the80s or a part of the80s that’s a song by my friend Aaron eie he wrote another one this year to um gosh I can’t remember Billy Squire not everybody wants you but the other song that Billy Squire is famous for
Can’t remember it anyway Billy Squire SS like this so I couldn’t do it so we went back with Sister Christian this tradition let’s stand together as we’ve had fun celebrating this season it is a joyful season let’s Center into the courts for a little bit
Of I guess this is this is truly what Worship Is Right Lay all L all L all love You may be Seated for all those who are traveling uh or with us having traveled from somewhere else good to have you this is the shama southern style in Bon Georgia hero Israel the Lord Is Our God the Lord is one hereo Israel the Lord Is Our God the Lord is one blessed is the name of his glorious King blessed is his name for all eternity blessed is the name of his glorious Kingdom all eternity yes you are he is my Messiah he is Lord of all yes to he is my Messiah he is Lord of all he is the Lord of all he Lord of all yeah let’s Stand Together I don’t know open my eyes and my mouth and declare your praise I open my lips let my mouth we declare your praise oh open my lips oh my my Lips open my Lips open my lips and my mouth May declare your PR declare your your praise declare your praise declare your praise I To The God Who is faithful through all the generations For The God Who is faithful to resurrect the Dead M Amen to the Holy One seated above the Heavens the SE Name Take to the God who gives us this day of Celebration these times of Celebration to the god restoring his presence to Zion to the god whose name is good who’s worthy of all Thanksgiving there’s a special edition for Hanukah you can look it up and read it later I won’t read it
To you right now to The God Who we cry out to for peace and the one who brings it shomen Our Father in heaven Hallowed be your [Applause] Name [Applause] For [Applause] For PR Oh [Applause] For the sake of our Master Yeshua in his Merit and his Virtue May the SS of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be favorable be favorable be favorable to You oh Lord my rock My Redeemer oh Lord my rock and my redeemer oh Lord oh my rock My Redeemer oh Lord my rock and my redeemer Yesu who adore Blessed are you oh Lord Our God the king of the universe who has given us the way of Salvation in Messiah Yeshua amen you may be seated thank you to all who in addition to their regular offerings cuz I never really did say that’s that’s not exactly how a bu a a
Campaign pain works like you don’t say all right I’m giving the same offering but I’m just going to change it and say this is the building that’s not actually how that works you give additionally to it so a word of thanks to all who have and uh thank you
To everyone who Faithfully supports the work of Shalom Megan from us to you shabbat shalom shabbat shalom shabbat shalom Shabbat Shabbat shabat shabbat shalom shabbat shalom shabbat shalom Shabbat Shabbat shat shat Shalom sh sh sh Shalom sh sh shat shat Shalom sh sh shat shat Shalom shat sh Sh shalom shabat Shalom shat shat shat shabat Shom hog Hanukkah s so glad y’all could join us today it’s a delight to uh be standing before you today and thanks Lance for uh filling in for me last week hilarious but no information for giving thanks buddy I won’t be here next week but Jared’s going to fill in next week
So thank y’all so much for being here we have uh all kind of uh visitors here today or extended family from Tennessee from Florida the TR Clan and all 189 children that they have we just thank y’all so much for being here today we’d like to welcome
Magna uh magia Magna Travato from New Jersey which I was in New Jersey last week uh Teresa C and uh tatik uh Wisconsin Edgar mcdonell Donell from sonoya Georgia and Carolyn Hurley from Miller Missouri and we have people joining us from Japan South Africa England Texas Arkansas Arizona California Washington Florida Nebraska
Virginia and North Dakota say hello to my brother there for me will you uh so anyway uh today uh right after Services we’ll be having oegg so please stay and join us for that and then we’ll have tour Club at 1:30 and if you are a member of another tour Club you’re more
Than welcome to join us or if you would just like to check it out and see what tour club’s all about please come join us uh you can join us online or here and that will be at 1:30 and then the kids will be having their Hanukkah practice
In here starting at 1:30 as well today um then tonight we’ll gather back at 6 p.m. for a hav dolla and bonfire and s’mores and hot chocolate and coffee bar so please come back and join us if you can for that um let’s see and then in
The morning at 900 a.m. Lance is going to uh kick off the making men prayer breakfast so if you would like to join us please come and join us and Lance let Lance know today so he knows how much to prepare for and then uh tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock Sabrina are you
In here so roller skating get your ticket you need to get it tonight and Sabrina is going to give us more information on that okay we’re going to get to relive a little 80s remember going skating in in the 80s okay we get to do it together at the
Same time as raising money for Israel our Israel Relief Fund so the tickets are still available um see Miranda if you’ve already purchased your tickets get them today after service go to Miranda Jones and she’ll give you your ticket which is a wristband that’s for
You to skate if you don’t want to skate you just come okay you don’t have to have a ticket to come to to just be there and fellowship um if you’re a family of four or more we capped it at $32 so $8 a person or 32 for a family
The last um available tickets will be tonight after havdala so come tonight if you’re not prepared if you don’t want to purchase them on Shabbat we understand purch them purchase them tonight and get them from Miranda tonight we will not be selling them tomorrow at the skating
Rink okay so get them tonight after havdala and come out at 2:00 it’s in Gray It’s a Great Skate and um you can request a song like whatever you like to skate to so hope to see you tomorrow Great Skate tomorrow at 2 o’clock yeah yep Tonight is the last night to be
Able to purchase tickets though and then uh tomorrow at evening at 6:00 p.m. we’ll gather together for our Ann annual Hanukkah party uh locks white elephant exchange if you are 13 or or years old or older you can participate in that but bring a gift of $10 or under if you
Would like to participate we also have a donut eating contest woo uh if you would like to participate in the dut eating contest please see Miranda and sign up for that today day so that she can have the proper amount of donuts for y’all to scarf up uh and then we’ll also be
Having the kids and adult uh sweater contest ugly ugly Hanukkah sweater and I got mine already so we are in for a treat so and please sign up to bring food tomorrow evening uh we need Lockes side dishes drinks so please sign up for that and then
Uh next week on the 16th at 700 p.m. we’ll be having Tour on tap men so go ahead and read chapter 10 and 11 now 11 is a long chapter from what we’re used to in these so go ahead and read all that we won’t go all the way through 11
But be uh ready for that for next Saturday at 700 p.m. that will be online and here and and um if y’all can see this little button here I don’t know if y’all can see it but it says # standand up to Jewish hate if you would
Like one of these little buttons please see Miss Jane Eisner she has them and Lord knows we need to stand up against that and I would just uh like to encourage you as Rabbi said earlier let’s be a builder not a b uh bystander do your part to help in what
In any form that you can shabbat shalom and hog Hanukkah seic if you check out these flowers closely you’ll see some obvious things there are some there’s some Hanukkah Dr there are some sevivon in there drel but what’s the what’s the main theme can you see it it’s it’s in
Yellow there’s a manora I mean a a hania right there see you got a little sha shamash there very nice Miranda kids let’s go to shabbat School my goodness this will be this will be an adventure who’s teaching Shabbat School all right start with here may the Lord make you like Ephraim and
Mashe all these young men here wait that’s a young man and Daniel Boon’s here we got a new one all these Wagner kids they look a lot alike Elohim RKA Rael every time it works out that way Vala father a blessing for all of the these Precious Precious young
Ladies and for all of our children father for their parents ask that you would bless them in their role most important role they will have so help to teach them in the way that they should go father thank you for this this is
This is as good as it gets I think in a community to look at the future sitting before you and know that you have an opportunity to speak into to these lives so let us take that opportunity and Excel in it with your help Shalom all right you can go find
Your parents and learn hey man thank you appreciate that well Happy Hanukkah obvious ly we had a we had a great talk last week I would like to think about what it looks like for a glorious future that we’re we’re not you know necessarily there a kingdom as the
Prophet Isaiah speaks about we Nation will beat Nations will beat their swords into plowshares their Spears into pruning hooks Nation will not take up sword against Nation it will be a time of peace they will not train for war but unfortunately as we discussed we’re not there yet
And God still has some work to do to to settle the score and by score I mean removing death and sorrow and pain and injury and all of these things because the world is still pretty messy and as a matter of fact ironically or not it turns out that as we celebrate
Hanukkah in this season of 2023 Israel is currently battling once again an enemy intent on their total Annihilation and considering that one of the most prevalent themes of the story is this maban struggle to overcome an enemy intent on their destruction in other words this is a holiday to a large
Degree though it is not necessarily celebrated often this way that that recalls military Miracles War battle winning a war Against All Odds a people standing up for what is right those in the minority standing up against an Insidious uh enemy and then destroying said enemy with God’s help that’s basically what
Hanukkah is about we have lights we have oil we have lkas we have drel we have all that but that’s the miracle that’s what’s being celebrated so I felt compelled this week to share a little bit more about the Israel conflict now listen listen heavy heavy sigh I know
That last week’s Hanukkah message was not exactly uplifting and this one if this is a holiday also if we’re going to talk about Israel again another thing about Israel can we just celebrate I mean why well apart from the fact that Israel matters to everyone in this room uh and
It’s it’s the apple of God’s eye and it’s the future for every disciple it’s a central component what happens there is important today I actually want to move outside of Israel I want to talk about it but I want to talk about the bigger implications for the entire
World of this conflict this is not going to be a commercial for Judaism I’m not going to give you another mess message about anti-Semitism is on the rise we need you to stand with us you already know that some of those elements are are inescapably in here I won’t talk much
About the barbaric stuff in in the south of Israel this is actually a lot less today about Jews and Israelis and even less about Palestinians and Arabs honestly so if you’re tired of hearing me talk about that good news this is about something though that we all really need to understand it’s about
Religion it’s about God which means it I’m free to talk about it in the synagogue right that’s what we do here but the incredible thing I’ll just point out that about what I am talking about in the synagogue is that much of what I want to share with you in my
Words and some of his is drawn from a guy named Sam Harris in a podcast that he did I doubt if many of you know who Sam Harris is he is a Jewish guy and a devout atheist and so again unavoidably some of the things that he says will be tempered
Uh tined stained by a a total abhorrence of religion but what Sam Harris said in a podcast that I listen to you just absolutely have to know this you just have to to know and so I guess it’s ironic pure kote tells us learn from all men all
Men whether it’s what to do or what not to do but you can learn so the irony I think is this is about God and religion in some sense drawn from content by a hardcore Jewish atheist delivered to you by a Messianic Jewish rabbi so that’s a
That’s a twisty road to get where we are but it’s also about some of those Hanukkah themes it’s about genocide it’s about war and primarily it’s about apathy because apathy was actually one of the main things that was going on during Hanukkah I told you they went into modin and they did these
Terrible things and and matathias was like no listen we’ve got to stand up and so someone did but this message is about something that moves far beyond the borders of Israel Gaza even the Middle East what is this about what is the buildup here Rabbi what’s the thing about ready for the word
Jihad not again well first of all we as westerners don’t really know exactly what Jihad means Jihad in Islam has more than one meaning there is a greater Jihad are you familiar with this and the Lesser Jihad I know my friend from the United States Army who has been
Deployed and is working in these Arenas I know he knows as he shakes his head do you know what the greater Jihad is in Islam it is struggle against your own internal difficulty your own sinful nature and living out the best version of yourself according to Islam that’s the greater Jihad the
Lesser Jihad is the one we all know so I want to talk about this a little bit because this is the thing Jihad struggle striving that after 2 months of War since Israel two months of Gaza Lebanon all those events from October 7th I don’t know how many articles I’ve
Read how many videos I’ve watched how many hours of listening and reading I’ve been to at least two presentations one at a church one at a college I’ve been to a rally in is in Atlanta I mean I I’ve been immersed but this is the thing what I’m
Telling you today I have come to realize is maybe the most important thing for you to understand for you to get after all of this time that you really need to know it’s not that the other messages that I’ve given you were not incredibly valuable they were you
Need to internalize those things I told you about Israel and all of I’m not moving past it I’m not suggesting that that that what’s happening has lost its important importance but what the animals of Hamas did on that day and what has continued since then with the protests and the hatred toward
Israel directly indirectly toward the Jews we can’t we can’t avoid that and and and the elevation the edification of Hamas reflects a level of ignorance that must be addressed and ignorance that you know that that word has a lot ofan meanings ignorance first of all I’m not
Sure how much of this ignorance is textbook ignorance which literally means I don’t know the facts I am ignorant of the facts or it could be ignorance that is stupidity the kind that you insult people by saying because those are the people who do know the facts and they still act like
Idiots and then there’s just hatred which is almost always informed also by ignorance but I recently had the unpleasurable experience of seeing all three kinds of ignorance on display at a local college campus called Mercer University funded I heard from a few of the Jews who are in attendance there one
Anyway that Mercer was founded on Jewish money Jews were a central part of funding Mercer’s establishment as a Baptist College I think is how started but but this particular evening I attended what was called a conversation on the Israel Palestinian conflict or I don’t remember a a conversation Rabbi Rubenstein a
Friend of mine who is the rabbi at shereé Israel in Mak Georgia was there to represent the Jewish people along with a professor of New Testament studies a white guy we had a Palestinian Professor from Mercer and a Pakistani Professor from Mercer the moderator was also Palestinian so I believed the name a
Conversation I thought wow let’s let’s I I I am not a a a close-minded hardcore right or left Winger I’m not that I I want to hear the stories I want to understand so I went to engage in a conversation to hear we should have some good discussion it should be a civil
Discussion about the conflict so we went from the opening minutes of the event even the New Testament Pastor or the New Testament Professor I knew it was going to be extremely difficult to sit through it from the opening conversations conversations this was the most despicably one-sided Pro Palestinian anti-israel conversation I could have
Witnessed Aaron is as I said a friend of of mine he called me the next day he said wow tough crowd I said tough crowd yeah it was from the dishonest presentation of the facts from the panelist to the disrespectful Palestinian students who verbally accosted Rabbi Aaron but the biggest
Issue I told him was this the Damage Done in that room last night is irreparable they were expecting 30 to 40 people they were in a room half this size 50 plus people arrived most of them students who were also there like me many of them to have a conversation and
To learn and I told Aaron what happened there last night is that those students were irreplaceably indoctrinated against Israel and the Jewish people and in that conversation not one time was the word Jihad used even addressed and yet actually this is the root of all of it we translate it as
I said as holy war that’s a that’s that’s not what it means it means struggle or striving and here we need to be very very clear a number of I don’t have facts and figures a number of Muslims moderate Muslims dismiss the idea of the Lesser Jihad as being absolutely acceptable
That is holy war and subscribe and promote to this idea of Greater Jihad it could be compared I guess if we’re making comparisons to the Jewish idea of the evil and the good inclination that that’s an internal Jihad okay and one of the comments At Mercer
Was actually from one of the Lo a local Imam Shake Adam he was the most peaceful voice in the room actually but there is a Jihad which is holy war and what happened in southern Israel to those men women and children was exactly that Jihad a holy war and it is
A fundamental component of the Islamic belief system now before we go further stop just stop and listen to me if you’re concerned that I’m about to go on a radical right-wing Terror against every Muslim in the world I am not going to do that and stereotype them as the devil
Spawn I am not going to do that I’m not I don’t get to be anyone’s judge am I an islamophobic madman no I’m not but since you mentioned that word I mentioned that word islamophobia let’s start right there Islam is a system of ideas people of every race and ethnicity subscribe to
Islam in that Christianity is not that much different all Races all ethnicities and both of those unlike traditional Judaism are proing religions they they are designed to make converts they have that in common they are Evangelistic but people criticize the doctrines the ideas of Christianity all
The time and yet that is not considered bigotry or racism there’s no such thing as christophobia you don’t hear that the connection that I’m making is obvious because you criticize Islam and its ideas does not make you a racist or a bigot or an islamophobe that sounds very familiar
Right you’ve heard this it’s not that I dislike Jews I just dislike Israel okay that argument works for them it works here too that’s often times not true and even in what I’m saying if you push this if you push this criticism is Islam or any
Set of beliefs all the way to the people who believe it then you become a bigot and a hater and a racist but the idea of being able to criticize question a system of beliefs does not make you a racist so no I am not an islamophobe we need to put that idea
Actually to death that that that that making a derogatory comment about something that Islam holds to be true is therefore directed at every Muslim human being in the world but an undeniable component of Islam is the idea of jihad holy war most people in the west still don’t understand the
Problem of it or are living in denial of it or both many people believe listen everyone just wants to be happy they they just safety food shelter happy homes good schools a fat bank account and the extension then is that if somehow otherwise normal people would then engage in extraordinarily
Destructive acts suicidal terrorism burning killing non-combatants that they must have been pushed into to this extreme by other people how could otherwise good and balanced humans who just want a good life how could they become suicide bombers and have their neighbors celebrate them in this as as Martyrs how could that
Happen a common answer you’ll hear is well it it could only be that their entire Society is oppressed and humiliated and and and I mean what would you expect them to do right they’re they’re oppressed by some country or agency you’ve heard this argument I’m sure if Israel weren’t so terrible so
Unjust such an apartheid demonic racist Nazi country holding these people down none of this would happen Palestinian terrorism simply indicates the profound horror that Israel has inflicted upon these people let’s be honest Israel is not perfect it is not and I am open always I would sit down and listen to someone
Criticize the actions and behavior of Israel and you know what some of the things I would agree with and we would have a discussion about it because Israel is not perfect by any stretch smart rational people have suggested other ways that Israel might be going about this battle but this is a big
Point Israel’s behavior is not what explains the suicidal and genocidal inclinations of a group like Hamas Hezbollah Al Qaeda Isis Al Shabah baharan the Pakistani Taliban the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and Jihad do there have been nearly 50,000 acts of Islamic terrorism in the last 40 years they are documented by a French
Agency if you want that link I can give it to you 90% of them have occurred in Muslim countries that have nothing to do with Israel or the Jews they these are religious beliefs sincerely held these beliefs are how you get normal people to commit unspeakable acts of violence against innocent men
Women and children intentionally those people did not walk into a mil military battle in the middle of Crossfire and bombs they they sought them out and in the enlightened West Academia and the the deluded idealists not that Academia are all diluted idealists by any stretch but they have it figured out
These experts tell us this you can’t you can’t take the jihadis at their word they they they don’t really mean that none of their declarations about God or Paradise or martyrdom and all the evils of the apostates and all the you don’t worry about that you don’t you
Can’t take that well why do they do what they do you ask well the experts tell us they just want what everyone else wants economic political security they want to be part of a free and productive world society and economy but the West won’t give them a chance dog G it they’re held
Down same argument it’s a weak argument a suicide bomber could record a video before going in and blowing up a bus explaining everything about why he wants to do it or is going to do it and it’s dismissed he didn’t really mean that you don’t you don’t understand well
The problem and it affects Muslims and non-muslims alike is that the doctrines that directly support this kind of behavior jihadist violence are very easy to find in the Quran there are offsetting things in the Quran as well but in the Quran in the Hadith in the biography of Muhammad for Muslims
Muhammad is the greatest person who ever lived unfortunately he did not behave like Jesus or even Buddha it is relevant that Muhammad tortured people cut their heads off and had sex slaves that’s relevant because he is a model for Behavior he’s meant to inspire others there are many many verses in the
Quran that we that that urge Muslims to wage Jihad in the Quran there is no Jesus giving a sermon on the mount about loving your enemies and turning the other cheeks all the decapitations we see being practiced by jihadists are not accidents it’s in the Quran and in the life of the
Prophet one might argue you don’t know how to interpret these texts your your Jewish texts are barbaric as well I mean for goodness sakes I read in your Torah an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth I mean it’s it’s pretty violent well listen to be very clear I
Understand more than most the difficulty of interpreting ancient text from ancient cultures in modern times but listen to me I have searched far and wide and have not found one Rabbi over the last 20 years who has gouged out anyone’s eye or knocked out their teeth
But I have found a lot of decapitations and acts of Terror that have happened those things are happening there’s a difference and the difference is the reward the reward of martyrdom and Paradise martyrdom leads to paradise and listen innocent Muslims I don’t know if you I don’t know if you know this
Innocent Muslims who die as bystanders in terrorist attacks do you know that they’ve done them a favor by doing that for them the terrorists who commit the acts it is it is said that they’ve done them a favor because as Martyrs they immediately enter into Paradise so you wonder why human Shields
Are not a problem they’re doing them a favor and listen if you’re if you’re if you’re not part of it if you’re not a soldout jihadist and you’re an unbeliever and you happen to get killed well guess what that’s good too because you’re going to hell Right Where You Belong so win-win right
However many lives you destroy it’s good in this economy listen in 2014 six jihadis affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar they murdered 145 people 132 of them were children they burned a teacher alive in front of her students and then killed as many kids as they could get
Their hands on when later asked about this one of the pakist Danny Taliban supporter said all children have pure fart farts excuse me all children have pure hearts they have not sinned yet they have not yet been corrupted by their parents we did not end their lives
We gave them new ones in Paradise where they will be loved more than you can ever imagine now we we don’t understand how this Behavior could be possible we don’t understand how someone could think that way only an insane psychopath would think that way right like Antiochus epiphanies who went in killing people
Randomly because they didn’t believe what he wanted them to believe and he wanted to wipe out their way of thinking so he he cut babies out of people’s wombs and hung them by their umbilical cord around their mother’s neck and you know killed read Hannah and Her Seven
Hannah and her sons in the Apocrypha about the brutalities that were occurring during but but he’s a Madman like that’s Antiochus but that’s the hor of it he was a Madman but you don’t have to be a Madman to be a Jihadi you know what you have to be a True
Believer you just have to believe you don’t even have to be a bad person you just have to know for sure that you and all the good people will get everything that’s coming to them and all the bad people will get everything that’s coming to them and God wants nothing more than
For you to go in and kill people cuz it’s good we can’t understand that kill unbelievers those Israelis in the South they were liberals these are the people who would drive Palestinians to the hospital and who believed in a one state or two state or you know Utopia who were
All tripped out on acid at this Con at this concert these were the the friends the people who would do good but from the jihadist point there is no mistake here there’s no basis for remorse please absorb this fact all of this sadism the torture the murder of
Helpless terrified people is an act of worship this is the sacrament this is not some nauseating departure from the path of God or some reckless horrendous sin this is what you do for the glory of God this is what Muhammad himself did and I know for some people hearing
This they’re squirming in their seat and saying gosh he’s talking so badly about these people the Muslims this is inspiring hate this is not our calling of Disciples of Jesus no please please understand the difference between what I’m actually doing I’m talking about a fundamental idea a Doctrine a set of
Beliefs within Islam that informs and approves of of behavior that allows atrocity and barbaric acts of hate they were shouting Allah abbar glory to God as they committed these acts imagine that this recorded conversation I’m sure you heard it of a Hamas terrorist phoning home hi Dad open my WhatsApp now
This is in Israel hi Dad open my what’s up now and you’ll see all those I killed look how many I killed with my own hands your son killed Jews and his dad says may God protect you Dad I’m talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone I killed her and I killed
Her husband I killed 10 with my own hands dad 10 with my own hands dad open WhatsApp see how many I killed dad open the phone Dad I’m calling you on on WhatsApp open the phone Dad I killed 10 10 with my own hands their blood is on their hands put mom
On and the father says oh my son God bless you even if we set the parents aside even even if we set that aside listen to the caller’s words in his mind this is a good thing and I hate to say this you know it but in this world over the last three
Two months these people have been celebrated all over the world and many of them celebrators the college kids other demonstrators they’re just ignorant or just plain stupid I don’t know which one but in parts of the Muslim Community and that includes London Sydney where they were chanting chanting gas the Jews
In Brooklyn the home of kabad Hamas is being celebrated by people who understand exactly what motivates them this is not about hate what I’m telling you this is not about hate we’re intending to fire you up and go out and beat the crap out of a Muslim that’s for
Idiots ignorant idiots who live on the extremes of any spectrum that is not us that will never be us but my goodness friends denial apathy heads in the sand that that is that that if we don’t educate ourselves and others that will be immeasurably destructive if we don’t educate with
Factual information I I understand I approached Jihad with ignorance if I didn’t research it I never would have even known that Jihad doesn’t mean holy war and go kill everybody there’s some positive component of it which I’ve already shared but I’m talking to you about the thing that you really need to know
You’re not Muslim your struggle is not you don’t have an internal personal struggle Jihad but you do have a struggle against this kind of jihad and when when when you see and someone when when you hear something read something and someone says oh well
That’s not true you say oh no it is true and you need to understand why this problem is much bigger than the ongoing crisis between Israel and the Palestinians but but I promise you I I wouldn’t go so far into Israel but I mean even with Christians
Now who are sort of turning their backs on Israel thank God for places like Rock Springs Church and pastor Benny Tate and all the support all over the world but I want to tell you something there are over 20 countries in which Islam is the official state
Religion and over 50 in which Muslims are the majority there is exactly one Jewish State given the history of genocidal anti-Semitism which persists even now and is growing mostly in the Muslim World given that the Jews have been run out of every other country in the Middle
East and North Africa where they lived for centuries if anyone any people deserve a state of their own organized on any premise they want it’s the Jews even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 Jews were targeted five times more I think is the number than Muslims
According to the FBI Jews are 2% of the population they receive over half the hate in America five times the level that Muslims do that was before all this another major argument and I know I’m I’m going to talk because it’s important another major argument is you
Don’t have a you you don’t have a clue if you don’t understand the historical context if you don’t understand the context of the land and how wrongly the Arabs were treated again same argument Israel brought this on themselves right with their colonization Israel caused this that was
The major theme at the mercery event I attended I don’t feel bad for them Israel did it to themselves okay but the purpose of really understanding this conflict and why it’s so intractable historical context is actually a distraction and every time that enters into the room in any major
Sense the the moral sanity is evaporating from the room at that point the British were colonialists we had 13 American colonies when we started America colonialists have somewhere to go back to where do the Jews get to go nowhere there has been a continuous presence of Jews in what is now Israel
For thousands of years most of the recent immigrants to Israel from Iraq Syria Yemen Libya other Muslim majority countries they were driven from their homes in response to Israel declaring its statehood in 1948 where’s their right of return but only the Palestinians have been turned into a global fetish for
Their right of return we won’t get too political it’s just it’s imbalanced okay let’s just leave it right there such an important point to hear right here if having your land taken away and being managed by an oppressive Force where the grounds for genocidal terrorism where are the Navajo suicide
Bombers where are the Cherokee terrorists well there were massive conflicts back in the in the 18 I know in the 18th century where are they now where where are the Tibetan monk Buddhist suicide bombers do you know how much they have suffered at the hands of the Chinese where are the Palestinian
Christian suicide bombers aware of only one why does Israel control the water the fuel the ports the fences in Gaza and the West Bank one word you might guess it Jihad a commitment to the death of people the Justified killing of innocent human beings for the the glory of God
And the colonization of the global caliphate regardless of historical political economic considerations regarding Israel Palestine it is essential to recognize the tangible threat of jihadism its intentions are not just to me and my family it is to the apostates it is to the infidels and I
Guarantee you you every one of you fall into one of those categories it’s a global issue its intentions are inherently genocidal it is not a minor blip on the screen of Islam it has support across the Muslim world and strikingly unbelievably it is gaining support worldwide from non-muslims imagine
It but you’re stereotyping you said you wouldn’t do that this is not every Muslim of course I know that but guess what one is too many one person who straps a bomb on their back and goes into a bus station or one person who cuts through a fence
And goes and mows down 10 people that is too many we can’t underestimate the level of sympathy that exists for the jihadist project among Muslims who are not actively involved listen when a when a 100,000 people Gather in the C Center of London to support Hamas that’s that’s an issue
That’s a problem now we had a 100,000 people in America supporting Israel and the Jewish people that’s also an issue a good one but you know many seemingly ordinary Gins participated in the torture and murder of innocent Israelis including taking hostages the extent of their involvement we can’t really know it is concerning
Though that the elementary schools funded by the UN in these areas teach Jew ha Jew hatred that’s a problem we can’t know how many among the Muslim Community Support radical Jihad but it is a mistake to assume that only a few do and the challenge lies not in winning
A physical War but winning a war of ideas and that’s very very difficult to do for a Toler tolerable future the majority of Muslims must disavow jihadism and join us and all non-muslims in opposing it it’s not that difficult and yet sadly it’s like probably we will see some other terrible
Act of jihad Terror God forbid and you know what progress will be if you see another terrible Jihad event anywhere in the world you know what progress will look like a 100,000 Muslims gathering in the city streets and shouting no this is wrong this cannot
Happen this is not us this is not our people this is not our belief that is progress that we must see will we I don’t know when millions of Muslim rally Muslims rally against the actions of their own religious extremists we are getting somewhere you believe that civilized people Muslim non-muslim
We have to deal with this issue because the problem is bigger than Israel it’s a worldwide problem for all of us so my message is not a Cry of hate for the destruction of a people or or or even for goodness sakes disliking a person because they’re a
Muslim I received a very like a heart-wrenching email actually from an Arab who watches Shalom Mak and sent me an email asking me questions I I’m so confused by by some of what you’re saying I’m going to meet with them on Zoom next week and talk because I care about them
They’re they’re Believers even if they were non Jihadi Muslims and wanted to ask me questions I would get on the zoom and I would hope to God that we would have a friendship that developed out of that because that’s possible but this is a worldwide problem
So my message is not a cry for destruction it’s a cry for Action a stand against apathy that’s what this is and sadly it’s this tragic set of circumstances that aligns perfectly with the story of Hanukkah which is why you’re being subjected to the most depressing Hanukkah message you’ve ever heard in your
Life Antiochus epiphanies was a madman and I’m closing but the purpose of his Madness was the same that drives jihadis eradicate a people destroy this section of the human race and it’s all of us through whatever means necessary the apostates must die and I have no idea actually what reward Antiochus
Thought was waiting for him maybe naked virgins in the field of alysium I don’t I don’t know what he thought was waiting for him but he was committed and no one else was saying a thing were they ignorant were they apathetic deluded blinded stupid no they were probably
Afraid and a lot of Muslims are afraid too because it’s undeniable that they get killed if they stand against which is why this becomes our problem as well a global problem to stand even with Muslims moderate sensible loving people they exist I promise you but they can’t hide in the shadows
And neither can we you see a small group of men and women said to Antiochus and his army this is not happening we will stand up at the cost of Our Lives we believe in the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob we will fight for that we will give our lives if
Needed I went to the Mercer University event because I was open to a conversation ation and from the panel to the student questions which were really just hateful attacks on Israel and the Jews there was no conversation to be had it was as I said an evening of indoctrination and that’s how Jihad
Works not that that was holy war but that’s how Jihad Works indoctrination this is what we must believe at all costs logic Humanity compassion mercy be damned The end justifies the means and the problem my friends is that somehow in in inexplicably this way of thinking has captured the minds of what would
Otherwise be normal people I cannot explain it to you sane and rational people and listen it’s not you it’s probably not your friends or your relatives but I guarantee you if you get out there and you stand up and you start having some conversations you will find them and
That’s why I’m giving you a message like this because I want you to be prepared not spouting out ignorance and hatred about Muslims I want you to be prepared to speak intelligently not ignorantly and make a difference in the world my Hanukkah message to you is this know your
Enemy the enemy is not Muslims or Palestinians it is those who’ve bought into the ideology that rewards mass murder and torture as an act of serving God it is ignorance and adherence to a system of belief that encourages Behavior we cannot comprehend and sadly these ideas are found in
Islam that cannot be wiped away and you need to understand that it’s real and that part isn’t fixable understanding what holy war means and what ends it justifies in combating every excuse about settler colonialism and the like with a return to this and what it means I’m calling on moderate peaceful
Muslims to stand with us because apathy will not fix this inaction will not fix this German are were not bad people and yet 6 million of my people and millions of others died because they did not stand and as the darkness of ignorance and hatred and stupidity and as it
Attempts this Darkness to shroud the Earth and and blind good people you must be prepared as they were against Antiochus to fill your lamps with oil and light them up and Shine the Light happy Hanukkah shabbat shalom Al To El Hold that thought and therefore we will hope in you oh Lord Our God we hope for your Mighty Majesty to appear quickly for you to eliminate idolatry from the earth and for Idols to be demolished we hope for you to repair the world with the kingdom
Of Shai all humankind will call on your name bringing all the Wicked on Earth to repentance all the world’s inhabitants will recognize and know that every knee will bow and every tongue will swear allegiance to you oh Lord Our God they will bend their knees and fall before
You and they will glorify your precious name they will all accept the Yoke of your kingdom and you will reign over them soon forever and ever for yours is the kingdom and for ever ever and ever you will reign with Glory as is written in your Torah the Lord will reign forever and
Ever For the Lord will be king over the whole earth on that day the Lord will be one and his name one all right now listen we got that done we learned we’re going to we’re going to compartmentalize we’re going to put that into a little
Place it’s going to be like a chest a power chest that we can open when we need it but right now we don’t need it what we need right now is to shift our gears back into a celebratory mode because we’re going to have a fantastically wonderful couple of days
Celebrating Hanukkah the Festival of Lights the Feast of dedication but I needed to tell you this today okay let me see the smile that’s what happens no one can last more than 7 seconds it’s a psychological experiment you sit down put two people do it in a room full of
People do it at your next board meeting with your boss hey can I have the floor for a minute everyone in here partner up for the next seven seconds I want you to look at your partner no matter what they do or say I do not want you to respond
Or show any attention at all do it you know how long less than 7even seconds before people are like because a smile has power it’s good right Irvin what do the studies say I know what life says may the Lord bless you and keep you may the Lord lift his
Countenance upon you and give you his peace bem Yeshua H shabbat shalom I’ll see you tonight tomorrow afternoon tomorrow morning for making men tomorrow afternoon for rolls roller skating tomorrow night for the highlight of Shalom M year the white elephant gift exchange just under yum kipor
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