Parashat Shemini | Kosher Truth

And that's why he says in parashat shmini Moshe says to the nation This is the thing that Hashem has commanded you to do. Then the glory of Hashem will appear to you. This and not that. This Torah and not their Torah. This kedusha and not their tumah. This emet and not their sheker. Rule number one of Jewish ideology, there is only one emet. There is no two emets. There's no three emets. And for those that say, "Well, what about the 70 faces of the Torah?" Yes, it's 70 different facets of the same exact emet. Just like a diamond, my father, God bless him, he's been a a diamond dealer for as long 50 60 years. God bless him. He He is the expert in the industry. When I remember I used to live in New York, I would come visit him on 47th Street. And some people would be in his office. They tell me, "Your father, God bless him, is the only person in the world that we know that you can show him a diamond in the middle of the night, 2:00 in the morning, wake him up, he could tell you exactly what's wrong with it with the naked eye." This dot? What do you mean? You look at a diamond. To me, a a diamond, I can't see nothing. I can see a piece of glass. I don't see nothing. Well, I don't have that eye. I don't have the skill. But someone who's been doing it for six decades can tell you the different facets of the diamond, whether it's a real diamond, whether it's some somebody made it in the lab, whether it's a CZ, which is completely glass, worth nothing, and so on and so forth. And even the diamond, you could see the aspects of it. You could see the different parts of the diamond. One part is beautiful, one part not so much. And there's different ways that you can look at the same exact diamond. That's our emet. There's no 70 different emets. There's one emet. And a Jew must get themselves to the understanding that there is no other emet. If you are hearing anything contrary to the things that we are quoting from the Torah, you are listening to shekel. No matter where it's coming from. Guy with a beard or without a beard. A guy with glasses or without glasses. With longer hair than me or shorter hair than me. Won't make a difference. Why? Cuz we quote you the Torah. Now, Hashem unlike some kufriem that used to be head rabbis of of England that wrote in a book that Judaism does not have a monopoly on the emet. That's what he wrote in the book, this Lord Sachs. He wrote that Judaism does not have a monopoly on the emet. Christianity has emet, Islam has emet. That's why big rabbonim in that time, when he wrote this kfirah, went against him, but unfortunately not strong enough. So, he still gets the podium, he still gets a lot of kavod with organizations to be a keynote speaker $50,000 just to come. Bush v'cherpah. The truth is, rabotai, Judaism does have a monopoly on the emet. It does. Even if another religion may represent emet you'll see that that emet stems from Judaism. It's not their own unique emet. They did not invent that emet. It did not stem from them. They just stole it from us. We have it. Anything that's any good in this world must have a source in the Torah. This too is one of the principles of the Jewish ideology. If a person thinks that they can find a myth elsewhere that's absent from the Torah that is a s- a type of kfirah. That's heresy. Why? Because you are saying that a Kadosh Baruch Hu shortchanges people, shortchanges Torah which he created before his people. As the Gemara tells us in Maseches Chagigah, a Kadosh Baruch Hu wrote the Torah 974 generations before he created the world, meaning before he created Am Yisrael. The Torah kadma l'Am Yisrael, kadma l'olam. Came before Am Yisrael, came before the world. And he looked, as the Zohar Kadosh says, he looked at the Torah uvara alma. He looked at the Torah as the blueprint and he created the world based on it. Meaning, he saw in the Torah, "Oh, there are rules here about kashrut. So, I have to make kosher animals and non-kosher animals." Which Parshas Shmini tells you what's a kosher animal. It has to have two signs. Chews its cud, splits its hooves. Oh, there's kosher fish, non-kosher fish. Oh, so I have to make different types of fish. There are tens of thousands of different species inside the ocean. But a Kadosh Baruch Hu says they have to have both signs. They have to have the fins and they have to have the kaskeses, the um the uh what is it? Scales. Fins and scales. If they only have the fins, not kosher. What if they only have the kaskese, they only have the the scales? The Gemara says no such thing. If it has scales, it must have fins. It must have fins. So, what if you see a fish that's half cut off, half cut off, and you don't you see the part that has a just the scales? Says you could be assured that that's a kosher fish that the other half had this had the fins on it. But then some smart people came and said, "Yeah, yeah, but there's some fish in Africa that has only scales." Look, there's a mistake in the Torah. But then Rabotenu Hakdoshim, Rabotenu Hakdoshim, what they do? So, let's show us this fish. Show us this fish. They show us the fish. No, no, no. Show us this fish when he's alive, not when he's dead. He's alive. Okay, it's in this ocean over here. They looked under the water. Oh, look at that. The fish has fins. And when you take him out of the water, his defense mechanism his defense mechanism, just like a snake has the venom, just like the scorpion has the venom, just like the porcupine has the the the little things that he shoots out, the little arrows that he shoots out, and the different animals have different defense mechanisms. Even the animals like the the dog have certain amount of poison in their teeth. This fish, his defense mechanism is that he releases his fins. And that's why when you took it out, it looks like it had no fins. This means Rabotai that for 3,300 plus years people have been toiling really, really hard to disprove the Torah and failing consistently. It's time that we accept it. Forget about them. They want to accept it, let them accept it. They don't want to accept it, let them not accept it. They have eyes but they don't see. They have noses but they don't smell. They have arms but they can't touch. Their creators will be like them. That's what who says about the idols. They have eyes but they can't see. They have noses but they can't smell. They have arms they can't touch. And their creators will be like them. The idol worshipers will be like the idol. They can't see even though they have eyes. Why come we can't see? Why come we fight so much against the emet? We have eyes. We choose not to see sometimes. We are meant to be a light unto the nations. Not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It says disrespect to the Torah and could lead to chillul Hashem, desecration of God's name. Stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays. That's the path of a true Jew.