Should We Teach Our Kids About the Hatred for Jews? Ask the Rabbi Live with Rabbi Mintz

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professor jeffrey windergaard of bangor uh maine i guess has a uh asks um after learning of the tragedy today i couldn't bring myself to explain to my children ages 11 and 12 what had happened how do you explain address with children hatred of this sort in the world well i think the best way to explain to them is what i said before to tell them what a great uh to tell them what a great uh place there is for them the world and the world and hereafter i think that uh children should should not look at this only as tragedy but realizing that these people who went through this horrific experience but they the shama is now resting in a very wonderful place and they are receiving the reward appropriate for their life and what they went through just now and and what they went through just now and we shouldn't uh feel bad for them because they are in a wonderful place looking down on us and saying never to us we're the ones in the nether that they're not in the book the question is different this question is um you have a nation you have people who are you have two guys who walked into a shul murdered innocent civilians in a sacred place who were dominant and there and that act was celebrated by

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1. 0:00professor jeffrey windergaard of bangor uh maine i guess has a uh asks um after learning…
2. 0:32to tell them what a great uh place there is for them the world and the…
3. 1:02and what they went through just now and we shouldn't uh feel bad for them because…
4. 1:33and there and that act was celebrated by by thousands of people how do you explain…
5. 2:06hatred of this sort well i think every child knows the story of purim so it's…
6. 2:36happy ending this didn't have a happy ending but we know that there was evil in…
7. 3:06ideas people are under the influence of the izahara they know about the etso iran this…
8. 3:36people stand up to to destroy us so it's not new to a child they know…
9. 4:06happening but they were taking him away separating their family and they took the father away…
10. 4:36down to do the worst things because we have such evil in the world and evil…

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