The World Must Choose a Side | Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

One of my favorite days in the last 3 years was October 8th. What happened on October 8th was really something bizarre and like no one was really expecting. And that was the anti-Semites coming out of the cracks, coming out of all the holes in the ground. On the day where they should have been horrified and, you know, sending messages of poor Israel of what they went through, the exact opposite happened. "Gas the Jews" was being yelled in front of the opera house by the throngs. And it's only gotten worse and worse. Well, you might ask why was that my favorite day? Well, if you know me a little bit, you know I transformed my life in 1991 when I was 23 years old. And one of the things that really made me have that shift into becoming an observant Jew was anti-Semitism. You know, the longest hatred. Cuz it just makes no sense. I mean, the people who have done more for humanity in this in the history of the world. I mean, just go go online and look at the Nobel Prizes that you enjoy, you know, those discoveries and those developments. You go online and see how many of them were Jews. In fact, extract the Jews from the Russians and from the Americans and from the Europeans and and even from Israel. Just make a list of Jews and you'll see it's longer than any country. So, why would everyone hate them? And the answer is because the Torah said they would. And in fact, the Mount Sinai experience where the Jewish people had their prophecy as a nation, you know, the THX Surround Sound Omnimax 3D experience, that was the foundation of the Jewish people, but the word Sinai Sinai also is the word hatred. And the Torah teaches us that they're going to hate us forever. Well, I grew up in a world after the Holocaust and so everyone was so nice to the Jews the whole time. Everyone had to apologize like just saying, you know, just using Hitler in a sentence was like enough to get censured by like all of Hollywood or the news stations or whatever. It would be like a big deal. Um that doesn't exist anymore. So anyway, having come to Judaism, like for example, one of the biggest things that affected me in coming to live a Jewish life, to be fully observant, was the Purim story from 2,500 years ago where Haman, the you know, arch enemy of the Jews, he's he was the the Hitler of those days. He and his sons were killed. But after they were killed, the Queen Esther asks the king of Persia to hang them. She says, "May be done tomorrow as was done today and may they be hung on the gallows." Well, what's tomorrow when a prophetess says tomorrow? Means the future. Well, it turns out that when the Torah lists the names of those 10 dead men that got hung, when it lists their names, it actually has encoded in it a small tough, a small letter shin and a small zion in the last name. What is tough shin zion? What is that year? The year tough shin zion is the year 19 46. And the year 1946 is when the 10 Nazis were hung in Nuremberg. And in fact, the last Nazi makes a reference to Purim right before he's hung, the holiday of Purim where that story of Esther and the Jews in Persia shows up. Meaning it was anti-Semitism that really brought me to Judaism to because it was like finally understanding the whole thing. And [snorts] and Hitler himself said that he came to eradicate conscience, a Jewish invention. Because think what really nags on a person more than anything else besides his mother, is his conscience. So, he thought if he could get rid of the Jews, I don't know what he was thinking, but if he could get rid of the Jews, he could get rid of conscience. Well, conscience isn't built-in thing. God created conscience in order that we would have a compass for our lives. And the fact is that coming into a world that's being so nice and apologetic to the Jews wasn't at all the world that I had been taught from the Torah. Comes October 8th and all of a sudden the Gentiles are like actually showing their true colors. They're showing their hatred. Now, do I really want Gentiles hating the Jews? Of course not. I don't want that. Everyone has free will. We have free will whether to do the right thing or the wrong thing. And we know from the Torah those who bless the Jews will be blessed and those who curse the Jews will be cursed. So, they're really digging their own graves. I don't want that. But also because I grew up basically like a Gentile. I grew up without Judaism. So, these are my brothers and sisters. The people I grew up with in Los Angeles, the people I see on the trains in New York, these are my brothers and sisters. Like I I grew up with you. You know, I grew up with the Gentiles. And I've always wanted the good of mankind. And I know a lot of Jews, you know, want to think they're on the winning team. It's not about that. It's about God and it's about God awareness. And that the whole globe will somehow see through the veil of physicality and realize that God's behind everything. We're all going to get there. A lot of things are going to happen in history before that happens. And there will always be those who just want to destroy the place. And those are the anti-Semites. And who are the Jews? The Jews are the ones who want to better the place. And they just can't stand us. You know, I'm I'm already featured on anti-Semitic websites and social media because I guess, you know, someone who looks so clearly Jewish as I do, but without the thick Yiddish accent, so it was a perfect way to use clips, which I was I was quoting prophets, you know, I was quoting Jewish sources that are just talking about the whole world coming to their knees before God. And they, of course, posted it as coming to their knees before Israel. The bottom line is we are in an amazing part of history. And the choice is coming. If you're watching this video, make the right choice. Make the right choice. Be on the side of light. Be on the side of goodness. Be on the side of the brotherhood of mankind. Be on the side of realizing that this world's a matrix and that this whole illusion is really just a loving expression of God who's right behind the entire thing. Yeah, the world has problems and that's your opportunity to make this world a better place. The time of choosing is coming. It's really already here. Choose to be on the right side of history. Choose goodness.