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The Rabbi Daniel Lapin Podcast
Episode: How Candace Owens Defames The Talmud — And Now: The Truth
Date: 01/23/2026 Length: 00:51:31
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Greetings Happy Warriors, and thank you so much for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show. And thank you for all that you've done to help promote the show. Thank you for being a subscriber and for becoming a member of the happy warrior community. Much appreciated, because this is the show where I devote myself, solemnly and single mindedly to revealing how the world really works. And a wonderful example of how the world really works is a woman who is a sensation on the Internet called Candace Owens, and I don't know her at all, but what I do know is that she has been making some extraordinarily anti Jewish statements over the last little while, and I, from what I can understand, she's been in controversies with various people on the internet. She's had arguments with a notably Jewish guy called Ben Shapiro, and she now does her own thing and how the world really works is that, although she is wrong on so much, she still has the attention of many people. Let me explain to you exactly what I mean. So Candace Owens launches into anti Jewish diatribes on a regular basis and and so to give you an example, she spoke in extremely frantic terms about how Israel only lets Arabs in Jerusalem live in the Arab Quarter of the Old City. Now this is, is really you only have to research this for five minutes, or you only have to have to have been in Jerusalem to know that this is like saying that San Francisco prohibits anybody who's not Chinese from going into Chinatown. It's, it's ridiculous, completely ridiculous. And in Israel, yeah, in Jerusalem, because of the history of the Old City, there is a section of the Old City which is called the Arab Quarter, or the Muslim Quarter. And many, many Muslim business people live there and work there, and then you've got the Jewish Quarter, and then you got the Christian Quarter again. These are historic designations, but I have walked happily through the Muslim Quarter. I've been in the Christian Quarter. I've been most everywhere in the Old City, and so can anybody else. And people can live wherever they like. As a matter of fact, I really don't know of many places. I can't think of anywhere in Israel that Arab citizens are not allowed to go or not allowed to live. I can think of some places where Jews are not allowed to go in Israel, there are times where the Israeli authorities prohibit Jews from going to the Temple Mount, although it is where Solomon's temple stood and it's part of Jerusalem. But be that as it may, Candace Owens tried to drum up considerable fury against Israel for keeping the Arabs confined to the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. Now, come along, Candace Owens, if you want to be an anti Semite, I think it's a free country. I mean, you can pretty much say what you like in the United States of America. But why would you not take the trouble to sound a little more credible? That's the peculiar thing. It is such an abysmally ignorant statement that you would have thought it would turn her into a laughing stock, but it didn't, and she continued and spoke about the all kinds of negative things about Jews. And the funny thing is, there's plenty negative to say if you want to talk about George Soros, the Hungarian Jew who has done so much damage to America you could do that you could talk about the fact that there was a large amount of Jewish support for the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, which essentially. He pretty much brought immigration of European Christians to America to a halt and replaced that with immigration from the Middle East and North Africa and and Central Africa, other parts of the world, to the United States. Why did why was there Jewish support for that? And that's another discussion. It wasn't all Jews. It was a certain group of progressive minded Jews who felt that Christianity was bad for society and we need to reduce and dilute the effect of religion by having a lot of people with different religions or no religions. Look, I didn't support it, and no one I'm friendly with supported it, but there were Jewish organizations that did so, and and you could, you could criticize Jews legitimately for that, I suppose, although the fact is that there's about about 4 million Jews in America, tough to count, because what do you do about people who are not Jewish, who think they are and want to be Jewish. What do you do about people who are Jewish but don't want to be Jewish and don't want to be considered Jewish? There's plenty people in both categories, and I've met many of them. So really tough to say how many Jews, exactly, but, but say three to 4 million people who would stand up and say, Yes, I am Jewish. And what's that about one or 1.3% of the population. It's a tiny part of the population. But were you to gather all the Jews in America into one great big stadium, and you would have a conference to try and decide, is there one thing that all American Jews would agree on, I can tell you, without any doubt and with no fear of contradiction, that the only thing you might get agreement from from all American Jews is Hitler was a really bad man. That's about as far as you could go. Do you think you could get all Jews to I'm not going to go there. There's nothing else that you all Jews would agree on. So the notion that there is such thing called Jews makes as much sense as talking of the black community, there isn't really such a thing. Really. There's different African Americans in different fields and in different socio economic groups. And if would all African Americans agree on much? I don't think so. And so it's no different with American Jews. It so happens that what is undeniable is that the more committed Jews are to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the more supportive they are of conservative thinking in politics and so in general, Jewish Democrats are people who've long ago said farewell to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a large part of their progressive and socialistic stance has to do with rejecting Judeo Christian tradition, so Many of the people who are the most ardent foes of Judeo Christian tradition are Jewish. You know, you want to be anti semitic about that, okay, I hear it, but the point is that Candace Owens talks about things that are so easy to debunk. Why does she do that? And why do people listen to her? And you want to attack Jews for George Soros or for or for the Jews that yeah, are there Jewish people who are engaged in the pornography industry? Yeah, they are and this, there's probably a lot of other people as well, but if you want to get rid of those Jews, you kind of also have to get rid of David Sarnoff, who brought television to your home in the middle of the 20th century. You'd have to get rid of Jonas Salk who solved polio with the polio vaccine in the 20th century. And you'd have to get rid of a whole lot of other Jews, including me, by the way, which I don't doubt that there are many people who would like to do still, the idea is that Candace owns, continued, and you can perhaps see where I'm going with this in that she then proceeded to attack Jews for the Talmud. The Talmud, the Talmud is a collection of more than 2700
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100 densely packed pages. And let me just say this, in general, I think it is a really bad idea to judge a religious group by their writings. The reason I say that is because those writings speak to the heart and the soul of the devotees of that particular faith, and they're not always understandable, comprehensible, even legible to people from the outside, because very often there is an entire culture that a translation just doesn't do it. I'll give you an example of what I mean. Here I have a copy of a book called thermodynamics by a great German scientist by the name of Max Planck. I think it was written in the 1930s if I'm not mistaken, and it's thermodynamics. Now the volume I'm holding in my hand is a translation into English by a terrific scholar from Cape Town, South Africa, many, many years ago and and he did this translation a long time ago. His name was Alexander Ogg, O, G, G, but at any rate, if I were to say to you, could you understand Max Planck's exposition of three fundamental principles of thermodynamics? And I would read to you the beginning. The beginning region. Those of you speak German far more fluently than I do, please forgive the pronunciation. It's bad, not awful, but it's bad. The end. The Internet, energy eines systems musglic There are by design, the system ausgef ausgefert wird plus oder meines der Varma die in das System, Heine oder aus dem sistem heraus flick. Did you get it? Probably not. Even if you understood German, you might not have but I could well imagine somebody saying, Well, wait a second, I don't speak German, so of course, I don't know what you're talking about. No problem. I have a good translation, right here. Are you ready? Here's the translation of what I just said in German. The internal energy of a system has to be equal to the work that is being done on the system plus or minus the heat that flows in or out of the system. Please tell me what that means. What did I just say? And unless you are well versed in physics, you don't have a clue. But wait, I gave you a translation. Why don't you have a clue? Because you're not immersed in that system. And so if you look at an English translation of a text in another language, that doesn't mean you're going to get the meaning of the text. And so it is also with all religious texts. Look, by the reason that I'm an Islamophobe, islamophobe means I'm scared of Muslims. The reason has nothing to do with anything written in the Quran, and there's plenty written in the Quran, and there's plenty written in the Hadith and and much to be nervous about, but I exceed that. I don't understand it. It's within a culture. And when I read about jihad in the Quran and a Muslim scholar says to me, that doesn't mean killing anybody that has to do with an internal struggle, what do I know could well be and so I don't find myself scared of Muslims because of the writing of the Quran. I'm scared of Muslims because of the behavior of Muslims. So many attacks on innocent people are committed by Muslims. I just saw an interview with a young person in Germany who explained why it's perfectly appropriate for Muslims to hurt Germans, because he said, We are superior. And he explained that in German, there was a kid who grew up in Germany speaks German fluently, and explained to a reporter why it's okay. That's why I'm scared of the behavior, not of the writings the Book of Mormon. I've got dear, dear friends in the latter day, Saints Church, and I know full well I have. Copy of the Book of Mormon in my library, and there are some strange things written there. So what by and large, Mormons are the most law abiding, gentle, productive, creative, charming people in the United States of America and elsewhere. It's just how it is you land up in trouble in Utah and knock on a Mormon household, you'll be taken care of. Can't be said for every part of the United States, we don't go on the writings, the Old Testament of the Tanakh. There's some pretty hard to explain things there, but I don't have to explain them to you outside the system. If you want to have them explain you've got to devote yourself to a fairly rigorous study that will bring you within the structure, the New Testament. There's some strange things written in the New Testament, so what Christians today have to be judged on behavior, and look at the support that Christians in America provide to Israel and all kinds of other things, and the friendships that Susan and I have with many Christians that as far as We're concerned, that says it all. We aren't that interested in what the texts say. And so similarly, I'm already somewhat suspicious. Is, is is an inadequate word for Candace Owens launching into an attack on Jews because of what's written in the Talmud. But it gets even better. It gets even better because she doesn't know what's written in the Talmud. She actually hasn't even looked at a translation of the Talmud. And yes, there are translations. They are as impenetrable as the translation of the beginning of Max Planck's book on thermodynamics is in English. You don't get it any more clearly in English than you do in German, unless you are a devotee of advanced physics. But if you are not a devotee of the Talmud, then reading a translation of it is utterly meaningless, nonetheless, had Candace Owens read a translation of it, I would, at least I'd give her points for effort. But she didn't. She got all her information from a book that was written, I'm going to say around about 1818, 8018, 90, somewhere towards the end of the 19th century, by a guy called August Rowling. And it was called the Talmudic Jew, written in German. He was a German professor of theology, and the book is the most distorted and false and lurid depiction of Jews based on the Talmud, and it includes things that are completely nonsensical, that anybody who knows the first thing about Jewish practice knows don't make any sense. The book has been thoroughly discredited, no serious scholar, no knowledgeable person, as a matter of fact, nobody with access to the internet would pay the slightest attention to the late 19th century book, the Talmudic Jew by August Rowling. As a matter of fact, at the time it came out, it was so bad that even then, people thought, not, this is crazy, but it was a period of a great deal of anti semitism. So a really interesting rabbi in Vienna. He was a rabbi on the outskirts of Vienna. His name was Samuel Joseph Samuel block, and he sued. He said that August Rowling, the author of the Talmudic Jew, cannot read Hebrew or Aramaic, and he challenged him to translate one page at random, any page out of the 2711
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pages of the Talmud, said Rabbi block to Professor Rowling, the author of the Talmud he drew, please go ahead and just tell me what this page means. And August Rowling tried to laugh it off and to ignore it, but he was the professor at a university, and His credibility was at stake and and finally, there was a lawsuit, and Professor Rowling eventually conceded that he can't read the Talmud. He has absolutely no idea what's written in there, and he had to pay costs. And it was he lost his job at the university. August Rowling was thoroughly discredited. He was a stupid man for launching into that attack without having any authentic basis of knowledge on which to base it all. And so August Rowling is erased from serious history Rabbi Joseph Samuel block was a hero of that particular story, and the book the Talmudic Jew was thoroughly discredited. Anybody who finds that nonetheless, Candace Owens actually held up a copy of the book. And I mean, the only place you can even buy the book is in the marketplaces of Cairo or or, you know, in Iraq, or maybe Iran. It's just it's not found in any serious place at all. The book is discredited. It's rubbish. And she uses that as the basis of her anti semitic assault. It doesn't make any sense. Like I said, you want to attack Jews in America. You know what? There's some bad things that some bad Jews have done. No question about it. Use those and try and suggest that that indicts all Jews. As difficult as that might be as a case to make, at least it would have more credibility than hauling out a dusty old volume of the Talmudic Jew by August rolling from the late 1800s makes. And that's what she does. It just made absolutely no sense at all. And so I thought what I would do is, in case you don't know, in case, in case you don't, I sort of give you a little bit of a background of what the Talmud is and and it's, it's, it's worthwhile looking at many Jews don't know this, I'd say probably out of the three or 4 million Jews in America, more than half could, well over half could not tell you what I'm about to describe. So here it is. I'm letting you into the secret headquarters of the International Jewish secret organization. Yeah, right. Okay, so you'll forgive my, my drawing and so on is amateurish. This is a mountain that's the sun rising behind the mountain. It's Mount Sinai, 3300 odd, 3300 3300 and some number of over 3300 years ago and out of Sinai Moses comes with the Five Books of Moses. See my five books there. And because Hebrew goes right to left, will go right to left, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, there they are. And those five books had to be understood because there are a lot of things in there that are difficult to understand. For instance, when Abraham sends His servant, Eliezer, to go off to find a wife for his son, Isaac, and Eliezer finds Rebecca and brings her back. One of the things that happens is Abraham sits down with I with Eliezer and says, put your hand under my thigh. We'll overlook for a moment the bizarreness of that request and go ahead. And I don't want you to take a wife from for my son, from the people among whom I live. And I want you to go back to my family and go back to the house of of betuel and there see if you can find a woman who will come back and marry my son Isaac. As the chapter moves on and Eliezer arrives at the home of betuel, the text in the book of Genesis actually records how Eliezer told his his hosts. My master sat me down, and he said, Don't go tell why, from my from the Canaanites in whose land I live. And you must find go to this, to my family. This is like, really, really, really, really bad idea, because in ordinary literature, we don't do that, do we? We don't repeat something. In other words, in any normal book, the book would have read and Eliezer told his hosts all that had transpired between him and Abraham, or Eliezer repeated to his host everything Abraham had said to him. So. Why does it go and tell the whole thing? Is it just primitive form of writing? No, not at all, because there are explanations. There's a whole oral tradition, and this is why Moses stayed on the mountain 40 days or 49 and 40 nights. It doesn't take 40 days to transcribe about 80,000 words. 80,000 words is the size of an average short novel. That's the total of the words here. Doesn't take 40 days and 40 nights, but it took 40 days and 40 nights to have explained to him by the Almighty everything that all of that means and and that was continued and kept in mind orally from father to son, from parent to child, from teacher to student, and that's how it went for for quite a long time. And among these explanations, among the the details, are explanations for why the story is repeated. And if you're interested, go and take a look at this in Genesis. One of the things that is was orally transmitted was that Abraham said when he actually says to His servant, don't take a wife for my son from the Canaanites, among whom I live, when Eliezer retold the story to his hosts. He said, My My boss said to me, don't take a wife from my for my son from the Canaanites in whose land I live, among whom I live, in whose land I live. Why did Abraham say among whom I live? Because God had already promised him the land to him and his children. In Abraham's mind, there was a done deal. He's not living in the Canaanite land. They're living in his land. He is living among them. Eliezer was a person with less faith, less ability to see clearly, and so to him, he thought he heard Abraham say, in whose land I live? No, it's not the Canaanites land. It's already Abraham's land. But Eliezer couldn't fathom that, and that's why he was the servant, not the boss. One of the differences, you probably want to know why Abraham said, put your hand under my thigh. Well, thigh in Hebrew nomenclature is a euphemism for the male reproductive organs. What's that got to do with anything? Well, have you ever thought of the similarity in English between testify and testicle? What's that got to do with anything? And ever wondered why to this day, people giving evidence often have to put their hand on a Bible, and that's because, going back to biblical days, in order to make a an oath, to make a vow, you can't just make it to the other person, because maybe you'll break a word, but you've got to make it in the presence of God, and now We'll take it seriously. In order for that to happen, you have to put your hand onto something that serves as a link between you and God. These days, we simply do it on the Bible because that connects us with God. But in Abraham's day, there wasn't a Bible, yet, what was the only thing? What was the only tangible object that linked him to God? The answer is circumcision.
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He had circumcised his male member, and that was a direct link to God. And so therefore, what he said to Eliezer was, I want you to take an oath to me by Almighty God, and to do that, put your hand under my thigh. What he what he was saying was, put your hand under my reproductive organ, and that will link you, in your mind and heart and soul to God. Because everybody knows that Abraham was unique in that he didn't have a foreskin. He removed it. And so Eliezer was was placed in a condition of awe and fear of how serious this oath really was and and so as people around saw that Hebrews used to take oaths by holding the male member. They saw it as testicles touching the testicles, and so it became testifying. That's that's the only explanation for that. Very straightforward, Okay, we're done. So time goes by, and a lot of these explanations, such as what I just mentioned, about why the story is retold, and why there are differences, many differences, in the two stories, all of that explained orally. And then we come down to about 2000 years ago, right? And. Around about 2000 years ago, Rabbi Judah HaNasi became concerned that there was a lot of it being lost. People were not any longer remembering all the detailed oral transmission on these 80,000 words are very brief. They are deeply encoded. They are very condensed, and they expand into a huge amount of information. But people weren't remembering at all, so he put it down in 63 volumes. See, do you like my bookcase? That's my bookcase, and that's 63 volumes in there. And by the way, the best translation of the Mishnah is done by a Christian scholar by the name of Danby, D, A, n, b, y, and it's on my shelf. It's it's the one I use now, again, bearing in mind that a translation of a technical text is not much more useful than the translation of Max Planck's thermodynamics into English. You kind of got to know quite a lot before you can make any sense of that at all. The same goes for danby's translation of the Mishnah. But at any rate, about 2000 years ago, we've got that. And what it is is, again, it is a sort of all almost like a menu system or a drop down list on a website where you've got the A way of it. Doesn't give all the details, but it does say, remember, in this verse, in Genesis, chapter, whatever it is, be aware that there is a whole lot of information to explain what's going on there. And and for a long time, the Mishnah worked pretty well. It really In other words, people studied this in conjunction with this and that way they made sure that they didn't miss any of the important in pieces of information with which these books are absolutely packed. And people studied the Mishnah well about 1500 years ago. This worked well for about 500 years, 1500 years ago. Too many people are not remembering what every word in the Mishnah means, because this is also pretty condensed. Even though it's 63 volumes, it's pretty condensed. And although it's 63 volumes, it occupies about this much shelf space. It's six main it's six main volumes with a different number of chapters in each and for a total of 63 sections. And I've sort of depicted this graphically as a whole bookcase, but it doesn't take a whole bookcase. It's because it's tightly packed and it's, again, also condensed. It's more words than here, but not a huge amount more. 500 years go by, and we finally get to the point where this needs to be expanded out, and there's too many people are just not getting what, what everything here means. So this was then expand, expanded into what is called the Talmud. And this is 2711 pages and and this, as I say, then became studied from that time to the present. There are actually people who know the Talmud really, really well by heart. A good deal, a good deal of it. Remember that printing shows up 575 years ago, and so for the first 900 years or so. You know, there's a limited number of volumes. I mean, how many? It's all handwritten, but everybody knew the Talmud. And here the material is laid out in considerably more depth, but again, using technical information, technical nomenclature. And for somebody who's not familiar with that, reading it even in translation, is more confusing and baffling than reading Max Planck's thermodynamics in English translation, and what is a volume of the Talmud look like? Well, let me show you. Let me just move that aside and and here, here we can see 1-234-567-8910, 11 and another, nine. There 20 volumes of the Talmud. And this is what each volume might might look. Like it's pretty sizable. I see I have some post it notes of sections that I needed to go back and look at again. And this is what, when I say 2711 pages. This is a page both sides. So if you only go on one side, it's over 3400 pages. But at 3400 No, it's 2700 5400 so it's 1000s of pages. This, as I say, being a page. And you can see the print and the central column is the Talmud column on the inside is one helper, a more recent helper. Columns on the outside are more in depth analysis of what's going on in the text. We're talking about something that makes Max Planck's thermodynamics look like child's play. Extremely technical, extremely complex, and really the the basis of Hebraic civilization. That's in 20 volumes, just like this one. It's a lot of material. And I thought I would wrap up by giving you an example of of what the kind of thing I mean, I could pick literally 1000 different examples, but I picked one, and here it is in the book of Exodus, chapter 23 it says you mustn't cook a goat in its mother's milk. Okay? Never occurred to me to do that right?
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A few chapters later, in Exodus, chapter 34 again, the same words, you mustn't cook a goat in its mother's milk. And then in Deuteronomy, chapter 14, again, you mustn't cook a goat in its mother's milk three times, three of the same rule. Don't you think there should have been some editor who came along and corrected that? No, because it's not just a book. It's God's message to mankind. It is a comprehensive theory of the totality of existence, physical and spiritual, and so nobody would dream of editing it. Nobody would say, Oh, this is weird. We don't need to be told three times now to cook a goat in its mother's milk. Maybe we don't even need to be told at once. And it's here in the vastness of the Talmud that that kind of thing is resolved. What is not cooking a goat in its mother's milk? Well, it's explaining that there are two types of food in that we eat. There's dairy food and there's meat food. And what God is saying through these three expressions of you mustn't cook a goat in its mother's milk, is telling us that these two forms of food, meat and milk both excellent food, excellent foods for people, but They should never go together. Why? Because meat is food that involved death. The animal was alive, it's now dead, and it's cooked and it's on my plate. We have to be aware of that. We have to be sensitive not a reason not to eat meat, but a reason to make ourselves worthy of eating meat, because, and again, says the Talmud, we've got four levels of planetary existence, mineral, vegetable, animal and human. Human, animal, vegetable, mineral, and each of these things eats vertically, vegetables are superior to mineral and so vegetables eat nutrients. When you plant them in dirt and they grow, it's vegetables growing as a result of the minerals. Then you've got animals, animals eating vegetables because an animal is a higher form of life. Now, if a human is going to eat animal, it better be a higher form of life. Otherwise it doesn't have the right to eat an animal, and so eating meat is a reminder to us to not be the same as an animal and not to surrender to the seductive message of contemporary thinking, which is that people are just the same as animals. We're not we're touched by the finger of God. We are spiritual as well as physical. We are body and soul. That's not true for chimpanzees. It's not true for camels or crocodiles or cows or or or cats or kangaroo. It just isn't and so that's one thing, we have to know that that meat, if you're going to eat meat, then you have to be worthy of eating meat. Make yourself worthy. Make sure you are a human being, not an animal. Second thing is that you got to realize that dairy is the food of life. It's the first food that a young mammal eats, and meat is the food. It has an aura of death to it, and that's fine. You can eat it, and it's a good source of protein, and a good steak with a plate of French fries is fine, fine food. Make a blessing, a grace on it and enjoy it, but don't eat it together with a milkshake, because dairy and meat mustn't be eaten together, because life and death are two realities of our existence, but they must be kept apart. In other words, it is so easy to become over conscious of the effect of death. Have you ever heard the phrase, eat, drink and be merry? For tomorrow we die if one becomes overly susceptible to death, and that's in my mind, and it's in my awareness, and it's in my subconscious all the time. There's a part of me that says, What's the point? We're going to be dead tomorrow anyway, so why bother to do anything? Why build a family? Why have children? Why raise children? Why start a business? Why create an enterprise? Why build why plant an orchard? Why do anything long term? You may as well just sit at home eating ripe bananas. You wouldn't even buy green bananas. Terrible thing we've got, and the impact of that is mental health and all kinds of things. This is one of the reasons we are prohibited from doing seances and raising the dead. It's not that you can't do it. You could do it, but you're not allowed to, because life and death should be kept apart. It's not good for life to be suffused with an overwhelming subconscious awareness of death. And so a great deal of the patterns of life taught in the Torah, in the Five Books of Moses, a lot of those patterns are designed to banish the subconscious awareness of death, which can become overwhelming and become damaging and impact our tranquility and impact Our mental health, and I don't doubt for a moment that that's a lot of what's going on with the proliferation of mental health throughout the western world at the at the present time, we work very hard on keeping Life and Death separate from one another, and at its most poignant that is the example of meat food and dairy food or not, cooking a goat in its mother's milk, a very sensitive way of depicting the difference between life and death, depicting what the essence of this dietary rule, fundamental dietary rule, you go into any restaurant in there may be a few exceptions, but you go into a restaurant in Israel and you have a steak meal, and you afterwards ask for coffee with cream, the waiter will politely explain to you, this is a meat restaurant. We don't serve any dairy here we have artificial, synthetic cream, which is very good. You probably won't know the difference, and it's telling you the truth. It actually is very good. But similarly, if you, if you go into a Dairy Restaurant and you have a nice meal of cheese blenders, and at the end of it, you say, you know, I'm still hungry, bring me a hot dog, please. Sorry, can't do that. Now, we can give you a meat product which is vegetarian, but it tastes very much like meat developed here in Israel. It's and he's right, it'll taste pretty good, but dairy food and meat food are kept separate. And finally, this why three times and again, I'm just summarizing for you, just one of 1000s of pages of the Talmud and all of this. Well, I won't talk about the way data is arranged in I will just tell you it's arranged not according to an encyclopedia model or a filing cabinet model. It is arranged far more in the way the brain arranges information, and there are reasons for that as well. But as far as why does it tell us three times and again? There are added layers of complexity. But the main reason, which I hope you'll enjoy, is that three every number in Hebrew. And biblical nomenclature has a meaning. So, for instance, the number 14 always means hand. Why? Well, because what changes this from a paw, like a bear has into a human hand, is digital dexterity, the fact that I can move my fingers independently. It's not just the thumb, it's fingers, digital dexterity. What makes that possible? Well, obviously the joints, 1-234-567-8910,
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1112, 1314, what makes this a hand are the 14 joints. And so the number 14 stands for hand. By the way, do you know what? 28 stands for full strength, two hands with all your strength. And so every number has a particular meaning. The number three stands for past, present and future, the three parts of time, and this is hugely important. One of the things is that those three parts of time, like in English, we'd say past, present and future, the letters that make up those words in Hebrew for past, present and future are very few letters, three letters arranged in different ways, a hey, vavina Yod, and those are the three letters that make up God's name. So the eternity of God, that God is, was, is and will be, that is hinted at in the fact that his name compresses the idea of past, present and future. And why do we need to have that awareness here, because morality is very difficult to teach because it depends on the past and the future. The trouble is, most of us feel most powerfully in the present. It's in the present that we feel pleasure. It's in the present that we feel pain. But if we're going to present a comprehensive landscape of morality, then we've got to also take into account the past. It's no good to tear down old statues and try to revise the past and redo history. The past is the past, and it's part of who we are and future, you can't go about killing babies. You just can't do that. You're impacting the future. Not allowed to do that, just as we're not allowed to do things that are prohibited in the present. There are things we're not allowed to do that are prohibited with respect to the future, and that is exactly how all of this comes together. And so the idea of of of maintaining a separation between life and death, and we are what we eat, right? And so surely, if we're going to eat we shouldn't mix life and death, or dairy and meat, and so we eat them separately from one another. And why? Because it impacts the past and our understanding of the past, it impacts the future and it impacts the present. And so it's mentioned in Exodus, chapter 23 Exodus, chapter 34 Deuteronomy, chapter 14, in order to present the timelessness of this idea that it impacts the past, impacts the present and it impacts the future. And I'm getting a bit too technical on time. This is supposed to be a podcast show and one that you can enjoy at all times, and I fear I may have taken us too deeply into the complexity of the Talmud. But the main reason I did that is I wanted to at least show you that Candace owns basing her knowledge of the Talmud on a 19th century discredited book by August Rowling. It's just not credible. And the big question here is, why does she still have a following? Why is it that people don't say, you know, Candice, you want to come down on the juice? Hey, there's reasons to do. So let's, let's hear, you know, we're intelligent people. Give us some good reasons to be down on the Jews. And I could write the script for that, not going to, but I could, and she doesn't do that. She talks nonsense things that are just so easily debunked, and yet she has a following. I said I would tell you a little bit about I've told you a lot about how the world really works. I think I've tried to, but one of the ways the world really works is that emotions triumph over realities, feelings Trump facts. And this is a good example if somebody is saying what you want to hear. And by the way, you can apply this to your life in in whatever area it applies. What I'm saying applies to you, and to me, it's all of us. And that is that if. If we feel warmly towards a person and their position, the fact that they don't make a lot of sense isn't going to matter to us, because feelings Trump facts. Feelings impact us more profoundly than facts do. It would be nice to think that we're so rational that we're factually driven, but we're not. We're feeling driven, and that changes everything. So that is what we can learn from the Candace Owens reality nonsensical makes no sense, but she still has the following, because there are people who feel warmly emotional about her subject matter, and so it doesn't really matter whether she's telling the truth or not. People who already have a tendency in that direction will buy it, hook, line and sinker, without thinking about it at all. There's a whole lot more, of course, but God willing, we'll be together with another rabbi, Daniel Lapin, Show episode next week. So until now, until now and as far as we're gonna go today, I wish you a wonderful week of progress in the areas that really matter in your life, your family relationships, your financial relationships, your friends relationships, your faith, your relationship with God and your fitness, your relationship with your own physical being. I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, till next time, God Bless.
