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The First Secular Jews

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Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi

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Good evening, everyone. I will speak today in a two different levels. I'll try to mix it together that even the beginners here and the ones who are more advanced will get something out of this lecture. I will start with a making a statement that you know today in the world of 13.2 million Jews, that's it. From 7 billion people. that's it. From 7 billion people. And everybody in the world is all around the Jews, around Israel, around the Torah, around the religion. The world is understanding that the Jewish nation is not just another nation. Technically, for instance, the American Indians a few millions of them. Nobody cares about them. Nobody speaks about them. There's many other countries, Monte Carlo, this, that. Nobody Nobody hear about them. Once a year you hear about them 1 minute on the news. Nobody really cares about these nations. But this nation of Israel, which is the But this nation of Israel, which is the smallest nation, there's not 1 hour in the history that the were not busy with them. That's very interesting. Also, there's 80,000 religions and cults. But all of them started mainly after Judaism. There used to be some cults before Judaism, people who used to worship idols and animals and stars. But the main religions that came all came after Judaism. Like Islam is less than 1,400 years old, Christianity about 2,000 years old,

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