Responding to Hate - Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits

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

it's not like anti-Semitism disappeared and has suddenly reappeared it's always been around but it was nuanced now it's out in the open and let's not kid ourselves this is not about the Middle ourselves this is not about the Middle East conflict any level-headed human being understands that if there's a terrorist state next door to you that has tens of thousands of trained terrorist terrorists thousands of missiles all underground system they don't pass up an opportunity to kill sending missiles not only now but over the years certainly after the atrocities of a month ago everyone understands you can't let them just stay there the underlying issue is anti-Semitism face it we have to stop kidding ourselves there was always an excuse and historically the excuses were even contradictory we were accused of absolutely everything back in the days of The Strife in South Africa over entering aarth or not there was only one thing both sides agreed on they both hated the Jews and that's the way it has always been but now it's out in the open again how are we supposed to respond to again how are we supposed to respond to it how do you find it there's no question that the most important the most important aspect of fighting anti-Semitism is understanding what is so special about being a Jew what is it that Humanity has a problem with what's it all about yeah there's ethnic hatred there xenophobia nothing nothing of the proportions of anti-Semitism nothing that's been around so long what is it what is it the rabbis have taught us the sages say Mount Si why is it called

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1. 0:09it's not like anti-Semitism disappeared and has suddenly reappeared it's always been around but it was…
2. 1:13system they don't pass up an opportunity to kill sending missiles not only now but over…
3. 2:53again how are we supposed to respond to it how do you find it there's no…
4. 4:31world to teach absolute morality to teach real values to be a light unto the nations…
5. 6:07anything we as Jews unless we appreciate our mission as a light unto the Nations unless…
6. 7:49it I think I think it is so so important for every Jew to stop and…
7. 9:25shine when we radiate to the world the Val vales that the Jew is supposed to…
8. 10:57different cultures what is the underlying meaning of a Jew it's those values we got to…
9. 12:27why nothing superficial the internal values I think is incumbent upon anyone that understands this to…
10. 14:04we're not a Nazi Germany it is scary but we bother them every one of us…

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