Rabbi Zev Leff - The Metaphysics of Antisemitism

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

since this is the thang rabbi in Robertson Goldstein chief rabbi for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to address you I also want to thank our hosts here Varian Petro to thank our hosts here Varian Petro welcher who were very very excellent McNeese a auric him and we hope to reciprocate and have them in our home in Israel and even more so want to thank the South African community for welcoming myself and my wife so warmly I think this is about the eighth time that I'm here and you still let me Ken coming back I appreciate that I tell you the back I appreciate that I tell you the truth if I didn't live in Eretz Israel and had to choose another place in the world to live aside from the fact that I have children in America and in London my wife will forgive me I would consider living in South Africa the Sinai Indaba living in South Africa the Sinai Indaba is very relevant to the topic that I'm going to address anti-semitism let me tell you why the mountain upon which the Torah was given had many names and the rabbi's tell us that one of the reasons it was called har Sinai Sinai Shammi charm your the seen all that almost all them them on that mountain the hatred of the Jewish people descended on the nations of the world that is very depressing the time we got the Torah the nations of the world is supposed to hate us tell you something more depressing so don't leave until I explained it I didn't come here to depress you a local emotion be seen I say serves

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