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WHAT IS ANTI-SEMITISM?
[Just re major events of 2020].
Inagine if… or rather preferably imagine not!
What if:
The Covid19 had not originated in China but in a small country, one particular country in the middle east…. the one where its neighbours float “theories,” even still ancient debunked blood libels… and incitement is a on the daily menue.What if:
The owner of the Cup Food where the 911 call to police on George Floyd was originated from over a fake $20 bill had not been Arab Muslim but of a particular group…
Moreover, if he hadn’t been a Palestinian-Arab immigrant, but rather from another entity, from a small democracy in the middle east, the one often demonized in media…What If:
Derek Chauvin had not been Christian of French ancestry but of one particular background…________________
מה זאת אנטישמיות?
[דוגמאות מאירועים בולטים בשנת 2020 למס’]
לדמיין אם … או יותר נכון, עדיף לדמיין שלא!
מה אם:
נגיף הקורונה לא היה מקורו בסין אלא במדינה קטנה, מדינה מסוימת במזרח התיכון …. זו בה שכנותיה מרחפות “תיאוריות”, אפילו עדעין עלילות דם עתיקות … וההסתה היא דבר יומיומי בתפריט.מה אם:
הבעלים של ה- חנות ממנו באה הקריאה למשטרה על ג’ורג ‘פלויד אודות שטר של 20 דולר מזויף לא היה ערבי מוסלמי אלא של קבוצה מסוימת …
יתרה מזאת, אם הוא לא היה מהגר פלסטיני-ערבי, אלא מישות אחרת, מדמוקרטיה קטנה במזרח התיכון, זו שלעתים קרובות דמוניזציה בתקשורת …מה אם:
השוטר, מר דרק שובין לא היה נוצרי ממוצא צרפתי אלא מרקע אחד מסוים…SInce this is not the case what is the point?
Couldn’t agree more.
Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of antisemitism: gentile antisemitism and Jewish antisemitism.
The first type is the more common type that most people refer to when discussing this issue. It often, but far from always, involves violence or worse. More often it involves verbal violence without physical violence. And even more frequently is a simple old-fashioned hatred of Jews, simply because of jealousy or just because they’re Jewish.
Eisav Sonah L’Yaakov.
The second type, and what many of us Yidden run into more often than the first (simply because of our disengagement with Goyim as much as possible), is Jewish antisemitism. Some of these people even wear a Yarmulka and call themselves Orthodox. It can broadly be defined as hating those frummer (for lack of a better term) than oneself. Also out of jealousy, though they’ll never admit that reason and will attribute their hatred to a variety of other pretexts.
It’ll often play out in these Jewish antisemites denying the hated Yidden various benefits, privileges or rights. As well as deriding them amongst themselves and, even more prominently, to the outside/greater world. They’ll often derogatorily refer to them as “ultra” or “sects”.
This is found within Orthodoxy as well as outside of Orthodoxy, where very commonly non-Orthodox Jews engage in such behavior towards the Orthodox. Ironically, the left-wing in the Orthodox often try to convince these non-Orthodox Jews that they aren’t so ultra, and as such should be considered good, modern, with it, Americanized Jews just as the non-Orthodox. And will denigrate the hated “Ultras” in order to ingratiate themselves to these other Jewish antisemites.
agreed
There’s a missing post.
The absolute worst anti-Semites are Jews who dedicate their sad lives to dividing, criticizing and stigmatizing other Jews, focusing on meaningless differences instead of on the Torah observance that unites us. Whether due to their own deep-seated feelings of worthlessness or out of baseless hatred, they will have to account for every nasty word they express and every bit of hurt they inflict. Such cruel behavior caused the Beis Hamikdash to be destroyed and is preventing it from being rebuilt.
Anti-semitism is a word used by many Jews today to deflect a lack of socialization and as a cover for poor behavior.
Look at the Klei Yokor in Parashas Devorim on penu lachem tzafana saying that jealousy causes anti Semitism, hatred towards the Jews.
Look at the Meshech Hachma in Parashas Bechukosai on vaf gam zos and the Chasam Sofer explaining that some anti-semitism is good us. It protects us from assimilation. We say in Haggadah not one alone stood against us to destroy us ch’v but HKB’H saved us from tbere hands. Through their anti-semitism we were saved from assimilation.
Reb Eliezer – a small, but, I think, important adjustment:
I don’t have the Klei Yakar with me at the moment, but if I remember correctly, his point was more about avoiding ostentatious displays of wealth than about the jealousy itself.
For people who do not work on their character (which includes the vast majority of humanity), jealousy is a normal emotion, especially when other people flaunt their riches. We cannot control the natural tendencies of the masses.
What we can control is our own behavior. The Klei Yakar interprets the Pasuk as advice for surviving Galus: Don’t incite the jealousy of the other nations.
The Klei Yakar is not saying, “the other nations persecute us because they’re jealous.” This would be a statement of an irrevocable fate.
He is giving us guidance for how to deal with exile: “If you don’t want the other nations to bother you, make sure not to poke them in the eye.”
Now if only we would listen…
It says עשו שונא ליעקב Aisov hates Yaakov for taking his brachas, so I agree, don’t put gasoline on fire by encouraging it as Yaakov said, I gained oxen and which were not part of the brachas, I heared another pshat.
Yaakov Avinu kept 613 mitzvos even though many don’t apply to him. He did these through his great desire to be mekayem them using his machshova. so when Yitzchok Avinu blessed him, he had Aisov in mind.Look also at the Klei Yokor at the end of Parashas Vayigash that this also contributed to the servitude in Mitzraim. We must remember when living in Ch’l, that we are strangers in a strange land. This is why Moshe Rabbenu called his son Gershon. Also, the Klei Yokor points out in the begining of Parashas Vayechi, for this reason, Yaakov could not reveal the coming of Meshiach.
There is a direct connectiion between the nazis ym’s and mitzraim. They both appointed kapos and had them work to weaken them only that Pharaoh did not directly kill them when they were unable to work.
The Alshich Hakodash says that it does not say vayoreiu lanu hamitzrim but vayoreiu osanu hamitzrim, making us look bad by saying we don’t appreciate anything and we deny the good done to us being kefiya tova.
Look at the Ksav Sofer on Leah above. Didn’t the others before praise Hashem and giving the impression that until this time she did not praise Him? So he learns pshat as he explained that one who says halel hagadol daily, he commits blasphemy. He only recognizes the great miracles and not what happens every day. Leah said this as a wonder. Should I only praise Hashem Yisborach now, when He constantly creates miracles for me?
I found it earlier in the Abarbanel on the Hagadah that the Jews are not trustworthy and loyal but spies.
KotevOni, Did you look at the Meshech Chachma mentioned above which is a big yesod on the topic?
KotevOni -“Derek Chauvin had not been Christian of French ancestry but of one particular background…”
You don’t have to imagine it anymore. The anti-racism protest in France has already become Anti-Jew!
Thank You to all the western countries That promote Liberalism.As a Jew, I wholeheartedly love all Jews, whether they are frummer than me or less frummer than me, whether they have different political opinions than me, if they are a Jew of color, doesn’t matter. We should all love our fellow Jews.
For the past 60 years, antisemitism has been strongest in the political left, universities, minorities groups, etc. While the right also has some elements of antisemitism, it is to a far far lesser degree than found in the left, Democrat Party, Labour and other leftist parties in Europe, such as the Greens, etc.
KotevOni -“NYC protest organizer questioned after threat to take violence to Diamond District: ‘Gasoline .. is awfully cheap.”
The reason I’m posting this line from your last post is because a lot of Jews think -“it can’t happen here”.
They also thought that in Europe in WW2.
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