Lehallel
Getting it ready…

Torah · 2:45

Our Passiveness Got Mamdani Elected.

998 views · Jun 27, 2025

Rabbi Shay Tahan

Ask this shiur

Ask in your own words — the answer is the exact moment this shiur speaks to it.

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

got a little bit less than a million votes throughout the entire New York. If the million Jews, not even a million Jews, half of them, a quarter of them would go out and vote, he would be overvoted easily. But people were passive. If you have a danger to your house, you have a danger to your children, you have a danger, even if there's 1% of a danger, if there's 1% there's a danger, you have to fight for it. You have to stand and do everything you can. You can't be passive. If there's 1% that somebody might hurt your kid, you hear something that maybe it's only a fash that maybe somebody is doing something to your kid, you be all out. That's the right way to do. You can't stay quiet. You stay can't stay calm. You can't stay passive. So why did the Jewish people stay passive when there's somebody here that is really trying to shake our existence? Globalized inif means that if Shalom is

Jump to a moment

  1. 0:00got a little bit less than a million votes throughout the entire New York. If the…
  2. 0:32might hurt your kid, you hear something that maybe it's only a fash that maybe somebody…
  3. 1:03elected, we have a serious problem. We have people that going to have a right to…
  4. 1:34not Jewish studies but rather more of uh more of English studies and that is something…
  5. 2:04anti-semite, such a such a wicked person uh is is is on the ballot now. And…
  6. 2:34children. This is a house. This is our livelihood. We have million Jews over here. And…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.

More from Rabbi Shay Tahan

Get the week’s best, by email

One email a week — a handful of shiurim and music. No account needed.

Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.