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You know, I bet you were wondering what is an Israeli poop knife, as we all do. And I bet you were further wondering, how do these poop knives relate to the countless indiscriminate war crimes committed by the illegal genocidal apartheid state of Israel? Well, today we're going to find out. This is your cultural enrichment video for the day.
So, there I was minding my own goddamn business when a very good friend of mine sent me this video clip.
>> So, can we use the actual TOILET ON CHAVEZ? WELL, of course we can. We're human. By the way, this is just for looks. But after we finish our business, we don't rip the toilet paper because ripping is not allowed on the holy s. This is going to be weird, but before Shabas, we actually take a full complete toilet paper roll and we do the quick one. This is like a toilet paper half. And voila, you have beautiful shabis kosher toilet paper. >>
Yes, that is a grown ass man cutting a roll of toilet paper in half with a kitchen knife because he believes that God will be upset with him if he just wipes his ass like a regular human being. When I first watched this video, it filled me with an inexplicable, untethered rage. [laughter] And then my ADHD fixation kicked in and I knew I wasn't going to be able to focus on anything else until I made a video about this specific topic. So my first thought was, man, maybe this is just rage bait. You know, I know that Orthodox Jewish people get up to some freaky [ __ ] like ironing their countertops and zip tying their kitchen cabinets, but no, this isn't rage bait. This is Moses of Moses and Sapora. They are a very successful Orthodox Jewish influencer power couple. And they have an entire Instagram page dedicated to making fun, quirky videos just like this one where they explain why they do all of the goofy [ __ ] that they think God wants them to do. Also lending to their credibility, they attended the White House Hanukkah banquet last year. [music] So they're definitely at least tangentially connected to the Israeli intelligence community. Uh, which means that somebody in the MSAD thinks that showcasing how fundamentalist Jewish people somehow got a knife involved in the asswiping process is a is a good look just for the Jewish community in general. Good PR move, guys. I'm sure that'll help with the whole uh genocide thing.
Now, to be clear, the libertarian in me firmly believes that as long as you're not hurting anybody, you should be allowed to worship God in whatever weird way you want to. Okay? Just because I personally believe that you should never bring a knife to a poop fight with God, [music] you still have a right to do that. You know, now the reason I'm bringing this up is that I think it highlights a very key feature of Orthodox Judaism and fundamentalist Jewish culture more generally, which is vitally important to understanding the nature of Israel and why they so frequently violate international law and commit so many egregious war crimes. Yes, [music] by the end of this video, I am going to directly connect the poop knife to the ongoing Israeli genocide. So just buckle up, okay? We're going full Pepe Sylvia on this [ __ ].
So there's a term that I'd like for you to keep in mind, and that term is malicious compliance, which is defined as the act of abiding by the letter of the law or following a rule or policy while completely and deliberately ignoring the underlying spirit or intent of that rule. And in the case of fundamentalist Judaism, which is an unbelievably complicated network of strange, arbitrary, nitpicky rules, malicious compliance manifests itself in the form of finding loopholes that allow practitioners to technically follow the law while completely ignoring the intent of the law and with as little inconvenience to themselves as they can get away with. Let me give you a few other quick examples so that you can see what I mean.
>> Are we allowed to make coffee on Chabus? Great question. No, there's no cooking on Chabas. >> So, how do we drink coffee in the morning? >> So, basically, we make sure that it's not cooking. Then I fill this cup with boiling water, which we heated up before chabas. Okay, >> the ern. And from here, this is what we call a cleeny, a second vessel. And from there, I pour it into the cleishi. >> So, it has to go from this cup to that cup. We cannot pour straight into this cup. This allows us to have coffee without cooking. It's not about fooling. It's about within the law of Shabas, not cooking, not boiling, and not transgressing the law. >>
So basically, the idea is this. The Sabbath is a holy day. It commemorates the seventh day when God rested after creating the world. So, in order to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy, you're not really supposed to do much of anything on the Sabbath. You're not supposed to cook anything. You're not supposed to do any work. You're not supposed to, you know, use electricity. Allegedly, the spirit of this law to honor the Sabbath, the intent behind it is to give you and your family one day out of seven where you can rest and focus on quiet reflection and meditation and prayer. And much like other religions that practice fasting like Islam or Lent like Catholicism, the idea is to give up something something small. You know, deny yourself some worldly pleasure of the flesh like a hot cup of coffee so that you can demonstrate your faithfulness to God.
So, [laughter] so this guy rather than honoring the spirit and the intent of the Sabbath and denying himself that worldly pleasure of a hot cup of coffee, decides that [laughter] he's going to solve this problem and get the thing that he actually wants by boiling the water the night before, putting it in a thermos so it stays hot, and then do some weird convoluted cup juggling trick so that you can technically abide by the letter of the law, but still get to have the thing that you want. Like imagine, okay, I know that a lot of my viewers are Catholic, right? Imagine if you as a Catholic decided that you were going to give up red meat for Lent, okay? But then the day before Lent started, you set up this weird contraption on the ceiling that would on a timer periodically drop chunks of red meat into your open mouth. And then you try to say, "Oh, well, you know, technically I'm not feeding myself. This thing is feeding me, so it's okay." It's like, no, that's not the [ __ ] point. You're still getting to do the thing you want to do. The fact that you added extra steps doesn't mean anything. You're just sinning in a more complicated way. And like, I'm not an expert on Ramadan, but uh [laughter] from what little I know from my Muslim brothers and sisters that I've spoken to, I'm pretty sure that something like this also would not fly during, you know, Ramadan fasting. I know I have a lot of folks from the Middle East watching my videos. Like, let me know in the comments, you know, would something like this work? Could you get away with something like this? Anyway, moving on.
So, the next one requires a little bit of context to set up. Okay. Many religions and cultures around the world have rules or guidelines about how you dress yourself. And many of them also have traditional clothing that is specifically designed to abide by those guidelines. Some examples might include the hijab worn by Muslim women, the habit worn by Orthodox or Catholic women, or the traditional male habit as worn by Christian monks of the Franciscan or Eastern Orthodox denominations, among others. Now, obviously, there's a pretty wide range of differences as to why these different pieces of clothing are worn by the different practitioners of these different religions, but they all generally orient around similar ideas, right? like anti-materialism, right? You the clothing is generally very simple and plain so that you're not being showy or flashy or trying to demonstrate your piety by wearing expensive things. And also modesty like usually you're wearing clothing that covers much of your body and isn't especially like sexually attractive so that you're not objectifying yourself or taking pride in your physical appearance or appealing to vanity. You know, that kind of thing. Similarly, in Orthodox Judaism, there are rules surrounding the covering of a woman's hair after she is married. Generally speaking, the hair is considered a sacred and private thing. And once a woman is married, she covers her hair and only reveals it to her husband and her children in the privacy of her own home. You often see this practice in the form of, you know, wearing headscarves in public, at the market, things like that. But, but what if you, as an Orthodox Jewish woman, are still incredibly vain, and you still want to appear physically attractive in public before God and men while still technically abiding by the letter of the law to keep your hair covered?
These are the most common questions people ask me about wearing a wig. Why do I cover my hair with someone else's hair? Doesn't it defeat the whole purpose? No, it doesn't. I'm supposed to cover my hair. It doesn't matter what I cover it with. The idea is not to become less attractive. That's it's just to cover your hair. So, I wear a wig. >>
So, in other words, what if you want to pretend to be modest while not at all being modest? What if you want to be married but appear to the entire world as if you're not married? Right? This is the equivalent of leaving your wedding band at home before you go out clubbing with your friend. Like, the difference between showing your real hair and wearing a wig that looks exactly like your real hair is purely academic. It's purely technical. There is no meaningful or functional difference between those two things. Not in terms of modesty, not in terms of demonstrating yourself sexually in public. By the way, I'm not saying that I think that women generally should do this or should be modest in public. That isn't my belief system. But it is her belief system and she's exercising her beliefs in the most hypocritical way imaginable. But it gets worse somehow. Wait until you hear how much these things cost. And I actually reached out to the owner of the company of this wig to answer some of your questions.
>> How much are these wigs? >> The price point really varies. Our wigs start off at $4,500 and go up um all the way to $10,000 or more sometimes. >>
That's right, folks. For the low low price of5 to $10,000, you too can pretend to abide by the commandments of the almighty infinite creator of the universe while inconveniencing yourself not at all and sacrificing literally nothing except for $10,000 I guess you know to be fair. Or even better, you can take your deeply sacred religious traditions and monetize them by turning them into a native advertisement on Instagram, which is absolutely what this video is. I can tell you that her wigs are amazing. The hair is soft and beautiful. It's light. It feels good and natural. Can you even tell I'm wearing a wig? >> So, we've got pride and we've got lust and we've got greed all in one video. It's amazing. It's a deadly sins trifecta.
And of course, if you go and check the comment sections on these videos, it's just full of people pointing out the obvious hypocrisy and the loophole seeking. And this is how they respond to those accusations.
>> Is it cheating to set a timer on Shabas? >> Absolutely not. The laws of Shabas are incredibly detailed because none of us want to transgress this biblical commandment. So even causing something that is not allowed to happen is a problem. But you set a timer before Shabas. That's not you causing it. >> That's something that happened during >> it's not a loophole >> the week. It's not a loophole simply because we're applying the laws to today's technology. >>
Guys, that's a [ __ ] loophole. Like, that is literally the textbook definition of what a loophole is. You're getting to do the thing you want to do, like showing your hair in public or having a hot cup of coffee on the Sabbath or wiping your ass like a normal human being while technically kind of sort of not really actually doing those things. I guess that is literally what a loophole is. You are abiding by a law while completely circumventing the purpose of the law. Which means that that clip that we just saw where he explained how technically speaking they're not loopholes is also a loophole. So they even have a loophole for the loopholes. It's a loophole within a loophole disappearing up its own [ __ ]. [clears throat and cough] But let it be known that I don't have any strong feelings on the subject.
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So, why do I care so much about the goofy [ __ ] that fundamentalist Jewish people get up to with their poop knives and their wigs and whatnot? So what if they're just massive hypocrites that spend an absolutely unreasonable amount of time and energy circumventing and bypassing the laws that they imposed upon themselves? Like you know who gives a [ __ ] Well, I care because this attitude of treating laws not as things to be honored or respected or recognizing them as generally being put in place to ensure the the well-being of society at large, but instead seeing them as obstacles to be circumvented or exploited in some incredibly technical hyperspecific way. This attitude, this cultural outlook has very real world consequences when it comes to how fundamentalist Jewish culture interacts with larger cultures and the laws of those cultures that these Jewish communities integrate themselves into. Basically, my thinking on it is this. If fundamentalist Jewish people are prone to playing games and circumventing the laws that were handed to them and imposed on them by the infinite creator of the universe, how much more likely are they to try and circumvent or exploit the laws that are imposed upon them by mortal men from outside of their culture?
I'm reminded of the somewhat controversial video done by Tyler Oliviera where he investigated the Lakewood Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey. Tyler correctly pointed out that this Jewish community, among several others in the general vicinity of New York, have staggeringly high rates of welfare usage. More than half of the 135,000 residents of Lakewood are on Medicaid, and they have more than double the state average in terms of claimed poverty status, child and family benefits, and food stamps. And when these folks were confronted about their very clearly exploitative use of the welfare programs, their responses were generally something like this.
>> Ela Musk has 12 kids. Why can't I have 12 kids? Government. We live in a government that decides that if you have children, we're going to help you. >> It's not welfare addicted. It's this is what it is. Welfare reliance, welfare dependent. What would be a better >> programs don't have it. >> All right. That I have an obligation as a taxpayer to fund you and how many kids you want to have. argument that if the law is set up to have certain criteria for people and it's according to children, then people who qualify for it legally qualify for it with no fraud at all are entitled to get it. Anyways, we have the government makes criteria for getting financial aid and if someone qualifies for that criteria, are you against having children, having a lot of children? >> I'm pro children. That's great. I think you should be able to afford it. >>
So, I struggle to find the words to describe how hideous and odious. This cultural outlook is what we're seeing here is a conflation between that which is technically legally permitted and that which is morally right. In other words, from the perspective of this Orthodox Jewish community, as long as something is technically legally permitted, it is therefore moral. No matter the consequences, no matter the harm that it might do to other people, never mind the fact that these welfare programs are ostensibly put into place to repurpose limited state and federal funding to take care of people who actually need help like the elderly, the sick, orphaned children, the most vulnerable members of society. and that by taking a disproportionate amount of those very limited resources, you're not only harming those vulnerable communities of people, but you're also adding an additional burden to the entire working class of America whose taxes go to fund those programs. And you can see Tyler trying to appeal to their morality in this video and calling it out as exploitative. But it's clear that the parameters of morality for this Orthodox Jewish community is informed by whatever they feel like they can get away with legally. Well, you know, we legally technically qualify, so I guess you'll just have to change the law somehow for us to stop. We're not going to be shamed into stopping. You're just going to have to change the law to prevent us from doing this. which is also terrible because by changing those laws, by changing who is allowed to qualify for these kinds of benefits so as to prevent these communities from exploiting them, you would inevitably end up as a consequence remove the social safety net from many people who actually need it. Again, malicious compliance, abiding by the letter of the law while deliberately ignoring the spirit and intent of the law. So, yeah.
So, while I was editing this, I went to independently confirm and find screenshots of those statistics that Tyler is referencing in this video. And it actually gets a lot worse. Uh, I found a consistent track record of members of the Jewish communities in New Jersey and New York committing actual massive welfare and tax fraud, ranging back as 2014. I think it goes back further than that, but that was just the earliest date that I could find on a on a news article about it. And by the way, this is to the tune of millions and millions and millions of dollars over the years. And these are just the ones that were found out about. So yeah, never mind. They're perfectly fine breaking the law as well, as it turns out. Also, I didn't know this either, but apparently there's also a very large and very rapidly growing ultraorththodox community in Israel, and they're doing basically the same thing there. Apparently, most of the men are unemployed and just spend all day naval gazing and reading the Torah. They're exploiting the welfare system. They refuse to participate in the mandatory military service for which they were given a religious exemption. And apparently, at least according to the articles that I read, a lot of secular Israelis consider these communities to be kind of parasitic. Like, how much of a mooch do you have to be for the Israeli government to look at you and say, "Hey, by the way, you're being too much of a mooch." >> [laughter] >> And this whole thing is especially gross because it means the American taxpayer is subsidizing yet another Orthodox Jewish community elsewhere in the world in another country where we have even less control about the money that goes to them. Anyway, sorry to interrupt. I just uh I just kind of thought that was funny. So, I wanted to [laughter] plug that in here. Let's get back to it.
And it gets even worse when you apply this logic of malicious compliance to Israel and the way that it acts on the international stage. Like I know that there are a lot of Jewish people that are anti-ionist and that Israel doesn't therefore represent every single person who practices Judaism. I understand that. But Israel has put itself in a position to be the single largest manifestation of extremist fundamentalist orthodox Jewish doctrine on the planet. And it constantly flaunts international law. It constantly commits war crimes and violates ceasefires and just just completely disregards the intent behind things like, you know, the Geneva Convention. It has absolutely no regard for the well-being of others. It it has no accountability. It offers no apologies. It doesn't even seem capable of considering that anything it's doing might be morally wrong. And if you'd like examples of that, go back and check out my war crimes video. Again, the common thread running throughout all of the war crimes that they've committed for the past 100 years are that they just they refuse to acknowledge any wrongdoing whatsoever because they're holding themselves to a different moral standard than basically the rest of the civilized world. And from my perspective, this attitude of malicious compliance is the clean line that can be drawn between, well, technically speaking, I can wipe my ass and have a hot cup of coffee on the Sabbath because I cut my toilet paper and boiled my water ahead of time, and well, technically, I didn't violate international law when I detonated white phosphorus over densely populated civilian areas or bombed tens of thousands of children or starved hundreds of thousands more because, I don't know, the Holocaust or something. And yes, I did manage to connect the Israeli poop knife directly to Israeli war crimes. So, um, thank you very much. But this is the whole point I'm getting at. This is why it is seemingly impossible to appeal to the moral character of the average Zionist Israeli fundamentalist because there is no moral character outside of their Judeaic law, their Talmud, their religious orthodoxy, and whatever those things allow them to technically do. Again, to reiterate, if they're willing to play games with and circumvent the laws that were imposed upon them by the creator of the universe himself, why would they not play games with and circumvent the laws that were imposed upon them by the international community?
In conclusion, so look, I'm not saying that Orthodox Judaism is the only religion on the planet with weird nitpicky rules or loopholes or any of that. One of my favorite counterex examples is that one time in the 16th century when the Vatican allowed the capibara to be classified as a fish because a bunch of Catholics really wanted to eat red meat during Lent. Like come on guys, out of all the [ __ ] animals you had to pick the copy, the most friend-shaped animal ever put on this earth. And when it comes to the welfare stuff, like you know, any system that can be exploited will be exploited by somebody, right? and Orthodox Jewish people are hardly the only group exploiting the American taxpayer to commit massive welfare fraud right now. However, they are the only ones that are exploiting the American taxpayer in order to commit a genocide right now. So, I think the uh the moral imperative is a little stronger there. And the more that I come to understand about Jewish culture and certainly fundamentalist Jewish culture, which I think has a disproportionate amount of representation and influence within the ethnostate of Israel, the less that I believe that any appeal to morality or common humanity is going to work in resolving this situation. To me, this is just further confirmation that we have to cut off their funding. Like there's there's just no other way. We have to devest. We have to boycott. We have to We have to cut off their supply. If it weren't for us and our funding of them, they wouldn't be able to do any of the evil stuff that they're doing. We need something in this country at the level of the civil rights movement or the Vietnam War protests, but specifically and explicitly for the purpose of cutting ties with Israel financially, politically, militarily. That is the only thing that is going to have a meaningful impact at this point. I truly believe. And yes, that will be the subject of my next video. I am still working on it. I just when I saw that video clip, it sent me in a bit of a tail spin. I went deep into the rabbi hole. [laughter] So anyway, if you like what we're doing here, please consider signing up for a channel membership or buying a t-shirt or just hit that like and subscribe button. It really does help. I know everyone tells you to do that, but it's only because it actually does help quite a bit. Love all of you very much. Appreciate you. We'll see you in the next video.