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All You Need Is Blood (Ep. 311)

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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underlying Jewish aspect of America. So that when people like Candace Owen says that really everything is done by the Zionists that America does and we control it. It turns out it's true. [laughter] Um, this is from Ken Spiro. The Hebrew Bible played a major role in the creation of the United States and its democracy. It represented a watershed moment in world history under like under countries where democracy evolved over a period of hundreds of years. The United States was the first country to be created from its the first country to be created from its inception as a democracy and the Bible and Jewish values played a major role in this process. This is something that people do not appreciate. The United States was not founded like any other country. When they offered George Washington to be a king, he refused. When they asked him to be president a third time, he refused. He said, "Two times is enough for anybody." King George of England at the time said, "This is probably the the greatest man in history. He gave up power. Nobody gives up power." It was sat down with a gives up power." It was sat down with a keshman to decide how to make this country as opposed to it slowly evolving. Many of its earliest pilgrims, hello pilgrim, who settled the new England of America in the early 17th century were Puritan refugees escaping religious persecutions in Europe. These Puritans view their immigration from England as a virtual reenactment of the Jewish exodus from Egypt. To them, England was Egypt, the king was Pharaoh, the Atlantic Ocean

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  1. 1:02underlying Jewish aspect of America. So that when people like Candace Owen says that really everything
  2. 6:09the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the goodwill
  3. 11:55enjoy listening to the jokes besides the Torah. There's a regular Torah, you know, uh share.
  4. 17:06bottle. So I bought a whole bunch of them. I should have bought more but and
  5. 22:47So I was in for and Morai Kornfeld the of knowing him when he was younger
  6. 28:29Uh what with um the story of Yas Mryam unfolding. There is one aspect of the
  7. 33:41I was once at a family sa and I said, you know, I don't remember what
  8. 39:24time when you get kosher chickens, they're very salty because they put a lot of salt
  9. 44:36It's uh a certain act of cruelty that transforms you. [snorts] The Jewish people slowly became
  10. 50:17until the room was filled with crying children. And Reb Laauo says, "When I knew I

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