The Bigger Picture: God, History, and Our Response to Hate - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

Don't look at the stories like it's random history. The stories are God's [music] stories. God is behind in between the lines. He's there really doing everything. And sometimes doing everything means giving us our space so that we can do our part [music] and become partners with him in creation. Sometimes it means giving us space because he's punishing us and saying you don't deserve my protection. And unfortunately we see what could happen. October 7th, Hitler and Nazi Germany, the Romans, the Greeks, [music] the Russians, they're not such saints either. You know, the people from Ukraine generations ago, the pgrams, anytime they got angry because they weren't uh happy with their lives, so they take it who take it out on who? Take it out on the Jew. So, so we're not dealing with saints around the world. You know, it's funny. The world is very conveniently trying to define and label us as the devil. Does this look like the devil to you? We're not the devil. It's the the same anti-semitism hate for something in someone that's different from you and that's maybe sometimes more successful than you that is why the entire world is turning against a little dot. You know how many times you have to blow up the the screen, have to zoom in till you can even see Israel beyond all that green. It's a it's it's sick and it's sad that these people call themselves people that that that are that think that they're using their head. I told you you can get angry. You can start also to hate. That's what they want. Hate breeds hate. But that's not our way. We've always chosen life and that's why we're living. And that's that's also another answer what we can do. We have to do the only thing we really can do is pick ourselves up if we're able to when we're able to and continue living. Because everyone else out there that's choosing to to kill and to hate, they're not living anymore. They're stealing away their own life and their own blessing. And that and we see what what where that leads to. Every society and every people that have ever come to try to kill us or destroy us are not here anymore. So, what do you think is going to happen this round in this boxing match, round 12? What do you think is going to happen? Who's going to be standing at the end of this final round of this boxing match of hate and love, of goodness and evil? Who do you think is going to be standing at the end? Iran. That's who's going to be standing at the end? Hamas. They're going to get the gold medal. No, we're going to be standing at the end because as we stood from the beginning and again, everything that's happening is between us and our God. It's an internal thing. They think that they're better than us because God gave us a slap in the gave us a slap, gave us a wakeup call. They're not any better than us. They're guilty in every country of raping, murdering, kidnapping, human trafficking. Just look at the news. They don't make it doesn't make the papers like Israel does, but for simply it's for defending ourselves against annihilation. We're the devil. And again, that's not the main point of our discussion, but it's hard to escape the the emotions and and the unfairness. But that's dropping to a lower level. Let's read the Bible of today, not the headlines of today.