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We want to invite this rabbi to speak here. Nah, it's one of our, it's not one of our community. So what? So what? But he has a different Torah. He wants to come give Divrei Torah. If he's a cultural rabbi, a kosher person, so what if it's not in your community? What is the problem? This is an old age club. It's a membership over here. No, there's one. No, it's not one of us. We have our own rabbi. So what? What's the problem that a guest will come and speak every once in a while from a different community? What is this election here? Lefty, Democrats, Republicans? What is it? People wants to come teach Torah. There's another one over Hasidut from a different Hasidut. So what? Is not Hasid? Is it Litvish? It's not a Litvish. It's Sephardi. It's not, it's, it's not. So what if it's not? Torah is only, no, it's not one of Breslov. We have our way. Maybe you should open another home. Let him speak.
Some places they are like this. Every time is welcome. One yeshiva in Israel, without saying names, invited one of the important Sefardi rabbis to speak, Rabbi Yaakov Eliyahu, a very big mekubal. This yeshiva usually don't invite, ever invited a Sephardi speaker, never, never ever. Everyone was shocked. What happened? Maybe they changed their agenda, whatever. Everyone was shocked. That was the talking town. What happened? What happened? Such a shame for us that people have to be surprised that they invite a Jew that is a little bit different, or maybe has a different accent, even though he's a victor mekhameh, according to all opinions. A week later, they published in a newspaper, a religious newspaper, if there is such a thing, that one billionaire from America told them, "Come here from Flatbush, I will give you a million dollars." Excuse me, I will give you 250, quarter million dollars if you invite this rabbi to speak in your place. Quarter million dollars in one check. And that's what they did. Meaning, if you wouldn't give them the money, in another 500 years they wouldn't invite him. But for the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, they agreed to invite him. If he wasn't, he doesn't know what he's speaking about, doesn't matter. Someone who doesn't know how to speak, don't invite him at all.
Don't get me wrong, it's not always like this. Sample, I spoke in the heart of Satmar, Williamsburg. I'm the last person in the world that you should have agreed that I speak there. From Israel, speaking Hebrew, Baal, no long beard, and people don't speak English, and a suspect in Zionism, according to their opinion, the most untight, only. But in their mind, possibly, is it Sioni, which is the end of the world? And I spoke inside the big shul in Satmar, in Williamsburg, in front of more than two hundred Hasidim. I also spoke in Belz in Jerusalem, one of the biggest, nicest shuls in the world, massive beds inside, and some other places, and many other places. They invite Sephardi, invite us. That's the way it should be.
When you become a politician, that's the end of us. That's the end of us. When you put X on people because of where they came from, or they have different customs, or they eat different food, that's the, that's literally the sinat chinam Torah is talking about. Because really, there's no false hatred. There's no baseless hatred besides racism. If you think about it, because every hatred has a reason. Someone hurt you. It's, it's not sinat chinam. There's a reason for the sinat. If someone is a goy, there's a reason for the sinat. Everything that you're gonna say, I will show you that this, the hatred is based on something. It's not, it doesn't come from the world. The only hatred that is totally baseless is racism. You hate someone because he's black. You hate someone because he's white. You ask someone that he came from that country because he has an accent, or cause he's maybe eating different food than you, or dressed different. That's it. That's baseless hatred. Sinat chinam? No. Show me something else that is sinat chinam. And that's what destroyed by the Mikdash. And that's the reason we don't have a Bet Mikdash for two thousand years. Sinat chinam. All the sinat in the world are not hinam. Someone stole your money, there's a reason why you hate him. Justified or not, we can argue, but at least something triggered the hatred. Your neighbor is dancing on your head every night until 1 AM, the reason for the hate. Someone makes shish kebab under your terrace and your entire house goes on flame, there's a reason for the hate. Someone's children scratch your car, here you go, there's a reason for the hate. Some of the reasons are stupid, but there's still reasons. The only thing that is totally off is racism. And that's what we have the most in our communities.