TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson

Why Did Jews Not Become Suicide Bombers?

The Psychology of the Two Kosher Signs: Do You Have Split Hooves? Do You Chew Your Cud?

1 hr 16 min

11Comment
Call-in
Listen to the class on the phone
Call +1 (845) 201-1933
When prompted, dial the ID number below.
5527
MP3
MP4
Copy Embed

Class Summary:

This women's class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Reah, 26 Av, 5778, August 7, 2018, at Ohr Chaim Shul, 20 Forshay Road, Monsey, New York.

The class explains the two kosher signs in one's emotional and spiritual life. We learn how to know the difference between righty and wrong and have the courage to reexamine our lives. The example set by Yehudah, who saw in the Tamar story an invitation to revisit his life.

Categories

Please leave your comment below!

LWW
Louise Watson Watson -1 year ago
What happened with my Mediacom internet connection? I AM not your support person to be disturbed disrespectful or BLM'S black me too BELLIGERENT disrespectful to assume their opinions on my land LORD STATUS environments across all my land LORD WORLD GLOBALLY! No PREGNANCIES no professional progress or the need to be involved with the process of making sure I have what I need STAT I AM!!
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
M
Menachem -6 years ago

I heard your lecture on 'why didn't jews become suicide bombers', and there is one point I hear over and over that I havnt got a coherent answer to, namely 'that maybe the those suicide bombers are just the "bad apples" of the lot, as there are a few billion muslims (I am talking about outside Israel) although your second point that the muslim leaders don't condemn it -at least enough- is well taken.

Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
- SS
  Shloime Shmiel -2 years ago
  Muslim leaders don't condemn suicide bombers for 2 reasons:
  
  1 - they fear retaliation from other suicide bombers and is practically impossible to avoid them, and
  
  2 - if the leaders have the courage to condemn publicaly the bombing and killing of innocent lives, nothing would change at all. Those that decide to inmolate themselves in a suicide will not change their mind and those that consider it a total waste would feel just confirmed that this is a waste of lives for no intrinsic value. The best outcome that may come from a bombing by suicides is that eventually some streets will be named after them.
  Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
- Anonymous -2 years ago
  it is irrelevant how many muslims are out there just look at history
  
  there were billions people out there but that did not stop the holocaust. so using that "statistic"doesnot work.
  Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
O
Odom -6 years ago

כמדומה שכבר שלחתי את זאת אבל כיון שהוא שייך להשיעור על פרשת ראה בענין מעלה גרה אשלח עוד הפעם

אחד מהזכותים הגדולים להגאולה בב"א הוא בכיית רחל אמנו ע"ה וטעניה שהכניס צרתה לביתה

והנה נעיין קצת למה היה עושה סימנים, ועי"ש בהגמ' מגילה שהיא אמרה ליעקב שלבן הוא רמאי, והיא אמרה שצריכין לעשות סימנים. ובשעה זו מה היה בדעתה שיהי' עם לאה. ע"ז לכאורה צ"ל שהיא אמרה שאין עניניה בלאה הלא היא צדקה בענין זה ואינו ביושר שלבן ירמה את בעלה יעקב אע"ה הצדיק ואם לבן תכניס את לאה לחופה והיא אז תבזה מאד עי"ז אין זה ענינה וחייך קודמים וכו' וכו

ומה שהיא נותן הסימנים ללאה היה משום שחזרה בדעתה ממה שחשבה בתחילה

ואחר חשבתי זאת ראיתי במדרש שמוסיף דבר אחד. ונמלך רחל ונתן הסימנים ללאה

הלא כל הזכרות הגדול הזה בא ממי שאמר אפשר איני צדוק במחשבתי

Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
Anonymous -6 years ago
עיין תרגום יונתן פרשת ויחי בראשית מט, ח.

וז"ל (מתורגם בלשון קודש): יהודה אתה הודית על מעשה של תמר בעבור כן יודו שמך ויקראו יהודים על שמך.
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
R
Rivka -6 years ago
You do realize that Muslims mainly eat the same animals we eat (though it seems they do eat shellfish. In one place it says no carnivorous animals, but it some other sites I checked it's anything but pig)?

I guess you also have to go back to the Ramban about Sarah Imeinu and Hagar....

here is the website on Halal:

https://www.icv.org.au/about/about-islam-overview/what-is-halal-a-guide-for-non-muslims/
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
Anonymous -6 years ago
What about halal
Very nice shiur. The only problem with the first half is that the Muslim Halal is very similar to Kosher
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
A
anon -6 years ago
but...
Have not heard of any Christian suicide bombers either...
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
M
moshe -6 years ago
so why meat? and other comments
If eating noncarnivorous animals makes us gentler, the vegetarians would argue that eating only vegetables, grains, etc is yet better. No need to shecht.

"You are what you eat". We all start off as a little drop, nurtured by what our mothers eat until birth, and then literally are composed of what we have ingested. It is very real.

Also: Though USA didn't expel yidden, they didnt always let them in...

The first suicide bombers weren't on Eretz Yisroel. Kamikaze Japanese pilots killed themselves deliberately by flying into American ships in WWII.

We are what we eat in the short run (today and for the course of our personal life) and also in the cumulative long run (3300 years of kosher affects DNA).. But what will be now that about 85% of yidden aren't frum any more?

Also: Not only are there very few jewish terrorists, but no jewish organizations that promote terrorisn (then again Begin and the Irgun, etc before 1948).

Also: Nonj Jws also rethink things.

A question: Couldn't Tamar have been raped so the decision to execute wrong?

We "chew it over" goes the expression.
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
- K
  Kalman -5 years ago
  A few notes:
  1. When Japanese aircraft bombed an American military base, I did not in any way justify anyone, but it was not a terrorist act. Yes, civilians also died there, but this is not what was said during the lecture, when terrorists blew themselves up in public places, so that as many civilians as possible died.
  2. Of course, among non-religious people there are wonderful people and they have wonderful deeds. Just as among religious people there are disgusting people and their actions, but based on the formula - we are what we eat, our motives depend on what we eat and how we eat. if all Jews ate only kosher food, there would be less aggressiveness, controversial and scandalous situations, both on a personal plan and in society as a whole.
  3. Regarding the rape of Tamar, this probability does not work. If she had been raped, she would have had to announce it, and not wait three months for everyone to know that she was pregnant. And even, after three months, she didn’t say at the court that she had been raped, but handed over the docks for identification, saying - whose things are - that I was pregnant from.
  Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
JR
Jason Reville -6 years ago
Toda Rabba
I am grateful to this inspirational lecture.
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
Anonymous -6 years ago
download mp3
why isnt it working?

thanks
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.
Anonymous -6 years ago
15 Av
WOW !!....
Reply to this comment.Flag this comment.