WHO IS A JEW?

foreign expects us to give him is our full undivided attention a full undivided heart he doesn't expect our hearts to be anywhere else that's why the first three Commandments out of the Ten Commandments talk about how he's the only God you can't have any other gods you can't use his name in vain and if you look at the in maseket megillah digma asks who's a Yodi who's a Jew who's a Jew why was Mordechai called Mordechai ayodi why was Jewish why is he because if that's the case then why was Batya the daughter of parole also called yudia a father wasn't Jewish her mother wasn't Jewish why was Khalid Khalif also called the OD D both of his parents so the key is is something here what's what's the what's the common denominator here theod came from anyone that fights idolatry anyone that fights a Dollar Tree you have the right to be a Jew you're a Jew obviously there's different being a Jew but nonetheless they got the coin named Jew like being a fighter for Yehuda Yoda is where we get the the name Yodi and they fought against idolatry Mordechai we're going to learn in uh still had a statue on his neck all the time so Hashem despises idolatry he despises think that things that take away our attention from him and this is why there are specific laws in the Torah where you are forbidden to be to give your heart to anything else but Hashem when it says You must you're obligated to love Hashem with all your heart with your life with your money and so on it's not like just a few nice words to say in the morning and you forgot about it for the rest of the day meaning Hashem is expecting our full undivided attention meaning that anything that takes your attention away from Hashem to such an extent that this is where your mind is occupied on all the time is considered potentially to be idolatry so for example the whole issue of how people spend their lives chasing money when people chase money either because they're day trading all day or because they're investing in businesses or because they're buying and selling cars or because they're doing whatever above and beyond the norm above and beyond the normal for survival of course people need to work they need to make a living but if your life is just comprised of work and chasing money you have a serious problem why Hashem says you're so focused on money when you have time for me this is also the issue with the whole week situation that the with the chabadniks and a lot of the other people that are so infatuated with the wigs I mean you see it's really it's you forget about the fact that the wigs come from India and when it's real hair and it's a it has idolatry involved in it and all that stuff the fact that they're literally willing to like die for these wigs but they're not willing to die for a sin for any other reason for the wig they'll die for for the week they'll fight for for the rig they'll they'll they'll curse out people in public things and I want to do it that already shows that something's wrong with it I mean when a rabbi has a whole Kila full of michaelish about he doesn't say a word but yet some other strange Rabbi says you're not allowed to wear a wig because it comes from idolatry and he's awake at three o'clock in the morning hounding me to change my mind to change my opinion to do something else like why don't you use the same energy on your own Kayla to keep Shabbat once you use the same energy to teach your Kayla the truth about Hashem if you have the energy at three o'clock in the morning to yell at me and you don't even know me why don't you the same energy to to do something else this shows that the idolatry is not just something that's foreign it's in a different place it's also here it's also it affects our hearts it affects our hearts [Music] let me know uh what you think and make sure to share it because other people need to learn to