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Is There A Stigma Of Being A Dark Skinned Jew?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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oh yeah prison is run by by racial politics and gang politics for sure and it wasn't until I got to the other prison the lower level when I I remember my first time putting on a yamaka right and I'm like okay this is going to cause this is going to cause a stir say you present as white you have to run with the white car that is ran by the nais right the skin heads right me since I'm black I didn't have racial people didn't even understand what it meant to be a Jew like oh yeah the real you know yeah are black and this this and that so they didn't care they didn't give me any pressure right and I'm looking at it uh uh so I didn't have the pressure as that but they still thought as I got more into it like oh you're trying to be white or you're trying to be this or you're trying to be that so I got a lot of push back and they also told me when I got out of prison they wouldn't accept me right that's that's the sort of push back I got it wasn't like it it was casual anti-Semitism as opposed to we're trying to get you because you're uh you're identifying as Jewish is there a stigma of being dark skinned or African does it come from the past life or needs tun for certain sins absolutely not a uh there's many righteous people that are dark skinned light-skinned and there's plenty of uh Wicked people that are dark skinned and light- skin in Judaism we don't care about your skin color we care we care about how your n looks like if your N is a pure n your uh you know a uh a modest person a righteous person an honest person a person that's following the tah that's as good as it gets that's as good as it gets as far as what your skin complexion is it's irrelevant Jews look like everything Jews the zad says that the Jewish people are the only people that get affected by the air of where they live unlike everyone else for example if you take a bunch of Chinese people from China and you put them in America for three generations four generations five generations they're still always going to look Chinese they're never going to look American they're always going to look Chinese if you took a a bunch of people from Sweden and you put them in Africa three four five six Generations they're always going to be looking like that unless they into marry unless they into marry but Jews on the other hand you put us in Morocco over a few Generations we start looking like the Moroccans you put us in China over a few Generations start looking like the Chinese you put us in India over a few Generations start looking like the uh the Hindu people without into Maring just simply you see the people change why this is divine uh so Jews come in all shapes and sizes I believe I have a video a couple of videos about this topic and I've even showed pictures of Jews from all walks of life Jews that look exactly like the Hindus that are Idol worshippers but the righteous Jews look exactly like them only difference is Jews are going to heaven Hindus are going to G home Jews that look Chinese exactly like the Chinese people Jews are going to heaven Chinese people going to Gom why one is go following God one is following nonsense uh so so you see you see that there is a uh s similarity in complexion and in in in skin color and complexion and so on but it's a uh it's all matters of what the soul does there's black people that are enemies of the tah such as the Hebrew Israelites and then there's black people that are there's actually one guy I just recently found out about I saw his story I was so impressed by the story I I want to hug the guy you know he's such a sweet n it's a guy that literally grew up as a gangster to the highest degree ended up going to prison with a 24e sentence uh discovered Judaism in prison H eventually uh got out of prison after 16 years converted to Judaism and you see this guy right now how he speaks and and things he says such a soft beautiful n right convert and the before picture scary scared just from the picture you're not even sure if the picture is going to come and like choke you to death you're not even sure but the real life now s cute you like delicious just such a beautiful precious again before after before T after T before T after T I believe his name is uh Dr Price something price I forget the uh what was it a uh H Dr Yehuda price I saw an interview uh that they did on him uh and he does some good interviews over there uh that I've seen I haven't seen obviously everything but I saw this with take on I like turnaround stories I like you know people that turnaround their lives it's it's very whether it's my student or not is irrelevant to me I like people that turn their lives around and and become better people uh so a story like this was very very beautiful uh and um you know so something like that you see you liter see the hand of hem in a person's in in that person's life you see what the before picture is you see what the before life was you see like literally he was in Gom his life in this world was Gom and you see is is just how he changed physically smile on his face you see the Kusha on a person and is not just a person that converted because of some girl or he converted because of money or he converted because he's board is a person to converted Because He Lives the Tor he wants to he wants to follow hasem so people like that I've had the privilege of meeting and being part of the life of many of those types of people that are my students that I've uh met over the years that I've helped them convert and uh you see how they change I love seeing what they were before they converted and what they are after they converted and and you see how they progress even you know the same thing you see with balet ch I see my my students when I first meet them you know they come you know all broken even if they're rich even if they're poor if they're male if they're female they're young they're old when they come they're broken they're miserable they're they're looking for hope they feel hopeless and then they start learning the shim they start changing they start learning T they start protecting their bre they start becoming modest they start becoming honest they start you know contributing to the K and you start seeing how their life changes and they don't even realize it themselves but literally they start not only changing as a human being they start changing physically physically they start changing their complexion if you see for example me you see my my my movie Hashem took back his millions look at the picture of my face before convers before I did Chua before I did cha just look at the face forget about the fact that I gained about a million pounds forget that it's a face you look at that you look at today it's a it's a world of difference world of difference and this is about everyone that does Chua seriously that makes AEM their critical part of their life it's a beautiful thing you see it in all B in all converts so it's very exciting to see how hem proves the words of the Torah in actual life that we can see proving your point that skin color complexion where you came from irrelevant what matters what you do now what you do now do you follow hasem and his Torah or you follow and his friends you follow Idol worshippers who you follow you follow hem you will see your life improve you will see a a heaven in this world even through the difficulty you'll see heaven in this world and certainly you'll see heaven in the world where there's no pain which is for me no the Orthodox Community has like like very much embraced me I I haven't had any problems uh uh if anything right social media cuz I you know I have a social media presence I get I I get more anti-Semitism thrown at me from that way from you know from people who aren't Jewish uh uh and from different sort of communities especially now with everything going on uh uh uh with these Scoundrels over there uh Hamas and all that you got different sort of people uh uh a lot of anti-Semitism my pages I get so much hate stuff uh uh like every day I got I got it it's on my phone right now right so that's where I get it from but not from Jews Jews I'm a Torah I'm a Torah observant Jew I i' I've been a braced everywhere I go so you know Brook andm