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In recounting the horrors, our ancestors endured the Midsraim
The Balagoda says,
The Egyptians were able to us. They treated us badly.
They inflicted us. They forced us to do backbreaking labor.
How do we know they were bad to us?
Says the Balagoda. The Apostle says,
Hoven is Khakmaloy. Because if a war breaks out, they will join up with the enemy and fight against us.
And the question is, how do we see from here that they were bad to us?
And furthermore, the Apostle says,
They made us bad. What does it mean they made us bad?
So here, the Agadhas are reeling to us.
One of the deepest sawdusts in understanding anti-Semitism.
The Egyptians didn't just suppress the Jewish people physically.
They re-awaisano. They redefined us. They reshaped the narrative.
They didn't just hurt Jews. They turned Jews into a problem.
They told the world, these people are dangerous.
These people are threat. These people cannot be trusted.
And suddenly oppression becomes justified.
In the 1930s, Hitler and Marx and Marx did not begin with gas chambers.
He began with words, with messaging, with propaganda.
He convinced an entire civilized nation that Jews are not human.
Jews are vermin. Jews are like rats. They must be exterminated.
And once that narrative takes hold, everything changes.
Because now you're not murdering people. You're saving society.
And this is exactly what the Balagoda is telling us.
They re-awaisano, they made us into the villains.
They said, they're disloyal. They're traitors.
They will join the enemy.
Once the Jew is painted as dangerous, hatred becomes morality.
And this is what's happening today.
How's it possible that on college campuses,
students who are educated and privileged, living in freedom,
are screaming death to Jews, death to the idea of free Palestine,
slogans they don't even understand.
How's it possible that they defend people who have given the chance
would destroy them without hesitation?
And the answer is, the same as it was in its rhyme.
Vare-awaisano, the narrative has been rewritten.
The media and the influence are constantly saying,
Jews are oppressors, the colonizers, Jews are baby killers,
the committing genocide.
And once that message seeps in, reality no longer matters.
Those who murder civilians that are called freedom fighters,
and those who defend innocent life are called criminals.
The question we have to ask ourselves,
why does this keep happening, generation after generation?
Why in every generation does the world turn against us?
So the path to the end of part of the Bukhakausah
gives us the use of it that is both frightening and comforting.
The path to the end of the path to the end of the path
to the end of the path to the end of the path to the end of the path
even when Jews will live amongst their enemies,
loyme astam loyge altam.
This can be interpreted that the Jews will not be rejected
or despised.
This seems like a bracha.
They're not being despised by their enemies.
But Shlima Kluger explains, in the era of emancipation,
when Jews were finally accepted into society,
when barriers fell and doors opened,
Jews celebrated.
But he writes, that the night to be who they said,
this is actually a great curse.
This is also part of the Taikhaka,
because when Jews live among their enemies,
and there's no hatred, there's no distance,
that is not necessarily a sign of success.
It may be a sign of great spiritual danger,
because without that natural separation,
without that boundary,
assimilation begins, reliance on Hashem weekends.
Sometimes the very thing that we fear anti-Semitism
is also our greatest form of protection.
So like a thermostat,
Hashem turns off the temperature of anti-Semitism
far on good.
We are living in such a time.
Anti-Semitism is no longer hidden.
It is loud.
It is public.
It is unapologetic.
Even conservative voices, the talkers of the world,
who are always pro-Israel,
are now turning up the volume and anti-Semitism.
From the streets to the campuses,
from social media to respected institutions,
the mask has fallen.
Because when the Jew forgets who he is,
the world will remind them.
And perhaps this is what we say at the say there.
The Hisha Amdala was Saynu Valano.
The Balagada asks,
how is it possible that after all these years,
this small nation,
less than two tenths of one percent
of the world's population is still in existence?
Why don't we assimilate and disappear among the nations?
It is because Shlueh Echel-Bawad
armored the Laneu-Lakhala Saynu.
Because in every generation,
there were those who sought the destroyers.
There was always anti-Semitism
throughout the generations.
And that is what kept us from assimilating.
So in a certain sense, anti-Semitism was a bracha.
It kept us distinct.
It prevented us from fully blending in and losing who we are.
That is what happened on October 7th.
Those living near the border believed
the Palestinians love us.
We do so much for them.
We drive over the border every day.
We pick up their children for therapy.
We give them foods.
We give them jobs.
We are friendly with them.
They will never harm us.
So what did Hashem do?
He showed them that given the opportunity,
they would torture them and slaughter them and their children.
And commit the most horrific atrocities.
So in a way, anti-Semitism is a great blessing.
Because paradoxically,
the very force that tries to destroy us
also keeps us alive as a nation.
It forces us to remain distinct.
It is part of the mechanism of Jewish survival.
When we re-zeuge to a day
when all of our enemies will be eradicated
with the coming of Mashiach,
the mahera remain you, Amen.
And now we know.
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