Noach. NY Election. One Tower For All: When The Goal Outweighs Life.

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

Shalom everybody. I want to read you something that I wrote this week on my column on the different websites and newsp papers that are publishing. Uh and it's concerning the election upcoming in New York and I'm reading you it has to do with parashat this week. The title of the article that I wrote, I named one tower for all when the goal overweights life itself. And it the goal overweights life itself. And it reads like this. This week's Torah portion takes us to the first communist regime in history, revealing how much how such systems gradually and with great cunning take shape. The story unfolds sometimes after the flood as the world begins to rebuild itself. As in any society, social classes soon emerge. Rich and poor, strong and weak, successful and struggling. Humanity has successful and struggling. Humanity has learned a lesson from the past generation of the flood. Not to be selfish and not to be corrupt, not to steal from one another or act violently. Yet now a new regime and a new uh religion arises a seemingly noble and positive faith. The religion of social equality. Now you have to understand religion doesn't necessarily mean that religion doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be connected to a god. Religion is any idealism that one wakes up for and fights for and has it in his heart. This new faith was founded by a man who rose to greatness. His name was Nimrod. Nimrod began to rule over Bavl as a pasuk says and the beginning of his kingdom was Bavlashto like every charismatic leader Nimod was

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1. 0:00Shalom everybody. I want to read you something that I wrote this week on my column…
2. 1:04successful and struggling. Humanity has learned a lesson from the past generation of the flood. Not…
3. 2:38him? What could he offer? He understood early on that the best way to win the…
4. 4:14built around an idea, a lofty ideal that captures the hearts of the masses. But every…
5. 5:14Like every movement or religion they had to become an enemy. Someone or something that one…
6. 6:48what happened here. Leaders can channel now the crowd's resentment towards that which means every person…
7. 8:21in No's time. And Rashi brings this down that he blamed Bhu that once every uh…
8. 9:24Hashem. Everyone had contributed equally, giving up all they own for the greater greater good. People…
9. 10:57a sacrifice upon the altar of the ideology. The religion of equality repeats itself throughout history.…
10. 12:32riches directing his arrows at? The Jewish community. The villain today in his eyes is Israel.…

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