Why are Jewish People called as the Chosen People? (3 minutes)
Why are Jewish People called as the Chosen People? - We have a special obligation to make the World a better place. Click below to watch full version of Shiur Torah #17 parashat Tetzaveh, PRIDE, Humility & Science in the Torah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4FBPWt6I8 If you'd like to invite Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324. Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the country to give lectures to different groups. Please join our Facebook group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactul, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:30 The Special Deal with Hashem 00:01:06 Jewish Survival: A Miracle 00:01:34 Protection and Survival Forever 00:02:05 Obligation to Improve the World 00:02:33 Influence the World: Monotheism 00:03:03 Obligation and Higher Standard
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0:30a special deal with Hashem, that we have to do certain things, and in return, He will not only reward us, but He will also protect us. So if we know throughout history, we see that every major civilization has tried to destroy us, whether it's the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, the Ottomans, the Germans, the Spanish, the Arabs—you name them, they've tried to destroy Am Yisrael, and now none of them exist. None of them exist, but the Jews are still here. This small, tiny, little nation comprised of 13-14 million people. If you think about it, the fact that 14 million people make that much of a change in the world by itself is a miracle. That in itself shows that they're a holy nation. Because if you look at the entire world, you have over 7 billion people. Now, when they're calculating 7 billion people, the people that are doing this math are saying that it's either 7 billion or maybe 7 billion 80 million.
1:34So it could be, give or take, 80 million. So the 13 or 14 million Jews out there are not even a statistical mistake or a statistical error in the grand scheme of things. Yet, you hear about the Jews and Israel every day more than any other nation out there. It's amazing. Just being part of that nation by itself is special. The deal that we have with Hashem is that we're going to have protection forever. We're going to survive forever, regardless of what. Nations try to go against us. We have Hashem on our side. The other thing that we have is that we have a special obligation to make the world a better place. Not only amongst ourselves, but also amongst the other nations. So Hashem sent us as part of our exile after they destroyed the Beit HaMikdash about 2,000 years ago. Hashem said that He's going to spread us into the four corners of the world. One of the reasons that Hashem spread us amongst the four corners of the world is because, aside from it being a punishment for not having our own country for a couple of thousand years, everything that Hashem does is for the good. In this aspect, what He intended is that He would spread us around every corner of the world where you will always find a Jew. This is because He wants us to influence the world and bring them closer to Him. So part of our mission in this world is actually to, number one, influence the world, to be monotheistic, meaning believe in one God, and two, even convert some of the people that are not Jewish, get them closer to Hashem and make them part of our nation. So, as Jews, we always have to remember that when we're walking around, unlike somebody that's not Jewish, that could do what they want, and they have, it's between them and Hashem, you know.
3:03to be monotheistic, meaning to believe in one God, and to even convert some of the people who are not Jewish, bringing them closer to Hashem and making them part of our nation. So, as Jews, we always have to remember that when we're walking around, unlike somebody who is not Jewish, we cannot do whatever we want. Our actions are between them and Hashem, you know. We, as observant Jews, have an obligation not only to Hashem but also to everyone around us, because what we do, everyone is watching us. Therefore, we have an obligation to make sure that everything that we do reflects an awareness that we are expected to uphold a higher standard.
