00:00:01.000Today in the Charlie Kirk Show, my speech to our Young Jewish Leadership Summit.
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00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:59.000I always tell Dennis Prager, he's my second favorite Jew.
00:02:03.000And that's, look, part of what I wanted to communicate is, in my personal opinion, I believe that Old Testament values, Jewish values, the values of the Torah are being routinely obliterated and destroyed by American leftism.
00:02:46.000The founding fathers, the most book that they quoted, as Dennis will tell you, is the book of Deuteronomy, of any book, period.
00:02:54.000The founding fathers put Leviticus on the liberty bell.
00:02:57.000Not exactly the easiest book to comprehend or to understand.
00:03:02.000And the beauty of Torah values or the values of the Old Testament, which I believe to be the word of God and to be inerrant, is that when you apply them to your life, you will flourish.
00:03:14.000And you don't have to look much further than the Ten Commandments or the Decalogue, which you could go through every single one of the Ten Commandments right now.
00:03:24.000And I'm going to point out a couple of them.
00:03:26.000And every single one are being questioned or under attack by the American left.
00:03:37.000How about honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in?
00:03:42.000Well, not only is that the only commandment that involves your nation and involves a promise, but every single day we see the kind of venom, the poison of radical egalitarianism, where there is no difference between a parent or a child.
00:03:57.000We see it happen every single day where we even have a campaign on TikTok or social media where children are told to turn in their parents or turn against their parents.
00:04:08.000There's entire industries built on coveting what your neighbor has.
00:04:12.000And what I think is really important for us together to communicate, both Christians and Jews together, is if you just take the Ten Commandments and you apply them and you teach them to every single child in America and they believe in it, your nation will prosper, period.
00:04:28.000This is not even a religious argument.
00:04:30.000They say separation of church and state.
00:04:33.000First of all, that's not in the U.S. Constitution.
00:04:38.000It was a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention that gets just terribly misquoted.
00:04:46.000Every child in America should be taught the Ten Commandments, period.
00:04:50.000And this is something that if anyone considers it to be controversial, then you should say, then what values do you want to teach children?
00:04:57.000And we know what values they want to teach children.
00:05:00.000And one of the main goals of the American left, of the kind of this poisonous and insidious movement, is to destroy what the Bible does so clearly, which is distinctions.
00:05:13.000One of the things that you learn immediately when you read the Bible is that God created a world full of distinctions.
00:05:20.000And distinctions bring order in a very chaotic and confusing world.
00:05:25.000Let's take one that is under attack every single day.
00:05:28.000The distinction between man and woman.
00:05:30.000Every single day, where they say men and women are basically the same.
00:05:34.000Now, many of you are in college and you're paying a lot of money for this.
00:05:38.000But not just common sense, but it requires five or six years of total indoctrination and brainwashing to believe that men and women are exactly the same.
00:05:47.000Destroying the distinction of parent and child, that parents do not have a right to parent their children, destroying the distinction of God and man.
00:05:57.000We see this happening, unfolding in real time, destroying the distinction of man and nature, that somehow man is not greater than nature, or destroying the distinction between man and animal, saying that somehow man and animal are morally equivalent.
00:06:13.000You see, the Bible, when it is best understood, allows human beings to flourish.
00:06:18.000Now, as a Christian, I believe it's even more than that, but we can all agree that these are laws, these are rules that God gave to us because he loves us.
00:06:28.000And, you know, Dennis Prager will say, and it's very hard to disagree, the hardest of the 613 laws to follow, the most difficult, is love the Lord your God with all of your heart.
00:06:39.000You want to think about it because there's so much suffering in this world, it's not exactly always easy.
00:06:46.000If it was easy, there would not have to be a law or a commandment for it.
00:06:50.000And I truly believe that in this very unprecedented, kind of awful time to be living in culturally, in some ways it's not as awful, but there's so much darkness happening.
00:07:05.000The solution is what has already been given to us.
00:07:07.000And we see in at least American Judaism, I mean, obviously there's three different communities.
00:07:16.000There's liberal, there's conservative and Orthodox, but the vast majority are more kind of reform.
00:07:21.000I think that's more of a fair word to say, reform, which is, I'm told then by reform Jews, whenever I say this, is that the Bible is not the word of God.
00:07:33.000And they say, well, it might be allegorical or metaphorical.
00:07:37.000And, you know, the idea that Jews are the chosen people, which you are the chosen people.
00:07:42.000But a rational question is, then what are you chosen to do?
00:07:46.000And I believe you're chosen to bring the word of God to as many people as possible.
00:07:53.000You're chosen to obey God, to honor God, but you happen to be the messenger, the community, the nation, the people that God saw fit to bring his divine and transcendent commands.
00:08:09.000One of the reason why I believe the Bible is true, and this is, you know, very important, is that there is no way it's false because the Jews are so poorly depicted throughout the Old Testament.
00:08:23.000If you were to make it up, why would you make the nation of Israel look so just forgetful, self-interested?
00:08:31.000No, it has to be true because if you look at the story after story after story, the nation of Israel acts exactly how we act.
00:08:41.000If you were going to fabricate something, it wouldn't be, you know, David saw Bathsheba and wanted her so badly that he sent her husband into war, got him slaughtered, and then, you know, slept with her.
00:08:52.000It would be, okay, you know, he acted morally and ethically.
00:08:56.000It's like, you have to believe that story.
00:08:58.000It's an honest introspection of humanity.
00:09:02.000And in fact, I believe it just goes to show that we all need redemption and that we need grace, which of course is my personal religious perspective.
00:09:10.000So look, this is a very important topic that I really would love to see, you know, more of a, a debate's not even the right word.
00:09:20.000It's far too often American Judaism, what is called American Judaism, in my own personal opinion, as someone who understands, you know, the Old Testament and the Bible, you know, better than most or the Torah, is really leftism masquerading as Judaism is what happens far too often.
00:09:39.000And this is where, and if you share any love of the Torah, you know, I think that's where the counter move needs to happen, where if you have people that are rabbis or you have people in the American Jewish community that are telling you that man and women are basically the same, that it's incompatible with the Torah, period.
00:10:11.000And there's a lot of evil to hate right now, by the way, a lot of evil.
00:10:15.000And so we're at a crossroads in our country.
00:10:21.000And I think that, you know, American Christians, of which I speak to churches all the time, need to continue our support for Israel and the Jewish people.
00:10:32.000But for those of you that are not, you know, that believe that what's happening in so many circles in American Judaism is blatantly insane, then I encourage you to speak out even more.
00:10:44.000I encourage you to challenge that wherever possible.
00:10:47.000And I know that it can be very difficult in a lot of these left-wing synagogues and a lot of these communities, but almost every one of these major issues, I mean, I saw another one the other day that was just extraordinary.
00:10:58.000I mean, I get these emails where someone says, Charlie, God is pro-abortion.
00:11:04.000I said, that's so, and they gave some ridiculous example of in the book of Exodus.
00:11:11.000You might be familiar with it, of kind of like a pseudo-abortifatient that was taken.
00:11:16.000And a perfect response is in Jeremiah, it says, I knew you before you were in the womb.
00:11:20.000This is not overly complicated, right?
00:11:22.000It's that if you believe that human beings are a combination of mind, body, and soul, or mind, body, and spirit, then that human being is necessary and worthy of our protection when that baby or that human being cannot protect themselves.
00:11:39.000And yet I find this to be, you know, I just don't understand the argument at all that is very hotly debated in a lot of stories, not even hotly debated.
00:11:46.000Would you say 80% of American Jews are pro-abortion?
00:12:05.000Let me kind of just also say this, though, which is my charge for you is to be more confident, more proud, and dare I say, even more evangelistic to bring Jewish values to the world.
00:12:23.000To bring the values, let's just say the Ten Commandments.
00:12:47.000I'm actually writing a book on the Christian case for the Sabbath, which I actually, it's the only, for those of you that don't know kind of New Testament theology, it is the only one of the Ten Commandments where Jesus did not say it was a commandment.
00:13:00.000But the counter argument is God observed it.
00:13:47.000You're less likely to commit adultery.
00:13:49.000If you are to take yourself away from the chaotic and the frenetic world and you give a day to God and to your family, you're less likely to sin.
00:14:01.000I've done now the Sabbath religiously for a year and a half.
00:14:05.000And, you know, some people say to Charlie, you know, it's so hard.
00:14:09.000And for those of you that honor the Sabbath, you know exactly what I'm about to say.
00:14:12.000It's one of the coolest things to be able to just say, you know what?
00:14:23.000But more than that, somebody asked, and this is what's so comforting for those of you that are conservative or Orthodox, maybe you're a Reform and you believe this, so I shouldn't, you know, overly generalize because there's lots of different nuances here.
00:14:36.000But somebody said, Charlie, but really why do you do it?
00:14:40.000And I said, it's very simple, because I believe God told me to do it.
00:14:43.000And isn't that comforting to believe that God told you to do something, that you don't have to overly think that?
00:14:48.000And I also believe that if there's one, what's the only non-renewable resource we have here?
00:15:11.000I really believe that this generation, being the most depressed, suicidal, anxious, and medicated generation, if every single one of them honored the Sabbath, those rates would be cut in half, period.
00:15:21.000Turn off the phone and spend some time with real people, your family being first and foremost.
00:15:29.000Which goes to my argument that I believe that the Ten Commandments are actually there if we follow them to bless us.
00:15:37.000That if you obey them and you honor them, which it doesn't say for you to love your parents, for anyone that's, I know we have a couple Christian staffers in the back.
00:15:48.000As Christians, we are actually called to love our parents, but not in the Torah.
00:15:52.000So you don't have to love your parents.
00:15:54.000You have to honor your parents, which is the same Hebrew word actually as heavy, right?
00:15:59.000You must treat your parents with heaviness, which, interestingly enough, the same Hebrew word for a curse is light.
00:16:05.000So if you were to curse your parents, you treat them lightly.
00:16:08.000To honor your parents, you treat them heavily.
00:16:10.000I could do a whole speech on honor your mother and father, which I believe is to be the most butchered of all.
00:16:18.000And that's one of the reasons why the country is falling apart, period.
00:16:30.000But I'll just kind of finish on the Sabbath, which it's my personal belief in a hyper-technological world that is increasingly chaotic and kids being confused.
00:17:59.000The point is, I find too often that there is kind of a hesitation on the behalf of some American Jews to be very proud and bold for the Torah and for, I mean, God Torah Israel, which is, you know, you could call it the Jewish trinity.
00:18:23.000That's Dennis Prager's words, not mine.
00:18:24.000If you find it to be heretical, ask him about that.
00:18:27.000But especially when it comes to how these things could apply to your life, and you have the opposite.
00:18:35.000You should be immensely proud in more ways than one.
00:18:38.000If you look at why it is that we have the separation of powers, checks, and balances that we have in our country, it comes right out of the book of Judges, 1 Kings, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
00:18:52.000The entire system of American government is centered on biblical values.
00:18:58.000And I believe that it is really the question of, you know, the American Jewish community.
00:19:03.000I know we have some international representation, whether or not that is going to continue.
00:19:08.000Final thing I'll say is this: when I go to college campuses and I have to debate Jewish students about Israel, that's really strange because some of the most vocal anti-Israel activists are Jews.
00:21:52.000And I live in California normally, so I've been to a lot of churches in California, and the majority of them are not pro-Israel, just blatantly not pro-Israel.
00:22:09.000So for Christians that aren't pro-Israel, I think their theology is all messed up, but that's just a general liberalism that's infected the American church.
00:22:18.000By the way, I don't mean to pick on American Judaism.
00:22:20.000We have TPUSA faith where we're trying to excommunicate what I consider to be the demonic idea of wokeism from every American church.
00:22:27.000So just so we're clear, you know, we're all fighting right now on this.
00:22:55.000Israel is everything the American left hates, right?
00:22:58.000It has borders, has a shared language, culture.
00:23:02.000It's very clear that it's a Jewish country.
00:23:05.000And that is a direct threat to a lot of the globalists that want to obliterate sovereignty, borders, language, and culture.
00:23:14.000And I'll be honest, you know, as an American conservative, I have to say I have mad respect for the fact that Israel is actually allowed to build a wall and deport people that want to come into their country.
00:23:25.000It's one of the reasons why I love Israel.
00:23:28.000And not to mention for all the other reasons.
00:23:30.000I also think a lot of American Christians, so if I were to speak to an American Christian that's not pro-Israel, that doesn't understand it, I'd say, how do you know your Bible is true?
00:23:41.000And they say, well, it's the word of God.
00:24:03.000And they've done it time and time again.
00:24:05.000When the Arabs come across biblical archaeological evidence that either confirms Judaism or parts of the New Testament or Christianity, they destroy it every single time.
00:24:15.000And so the case for biblical inerrancy is like, wow, there's a country where now I can visit as a Christian and I can actually see where Jesus grew up, where he walked, where he did miracles, where he walked on water, where he turned water to wine, right?
00:24:30.000Where either the garden tomb or, you know, whichever version of events, you know, you prefer, which is still hotly debated, where, you know, Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:24:39.000If you've never been to Israel, changes your life as a Christian.
00:24:41.000All of a sudden, this book that is previously in your head, it puts the Bible in technicolor immediately.
00:24:47.000And so for a Christian that's not pro-Israel, I doubt they actually love their Bible.
00:25:02.000It's hard to follow John, but I'll try my best.
00:25:06.000I think it's interesting because it seems Judaism is really the only religion that's almost been turned into a culture separate from its faith.
00:25:13.000I mean, the show Seinfeld is absolutely hilarious, but half the show is based on tropes and stereotypes, which are great and hilarious.
00:25:20.000But I would say, how do you return faith to a culture that is supposed to be faithful, but has just turned into, I guess, jokes and stereotypes at the end of the day?
00:26:12.000But I just, I think that, at least in my personal perspective, spending a lot of time around people that take their Judaism seriously and don't take their Judaism seriously, it really comes down to do you believe in the inerrancy of the scripture?
00:26:30.000And do you believe that God has a specific way that he wants you to live?
00:26:37.000Or do you think that it's just kind of general suggestions for you?
00:26:40.000I mean, I met somebody the other day and they said, I'm a Jewish atheist.
00:26:47.000Have you ever met one of these people that they say, I'm culturally Jewish and I'm born in a Jewish family, but I'm an atheist.
00:26:54.000And I thought to myself in the days that followed, that's really a danger sign for a religion if you can have people that could proudly proclaim that they're an atheist with the name of the religion before it.
00:27:42.000In order to get a word in edge-wise in a Jewish family dinner, you have to make a good argument or else you're going to be talked over by a relative, right?
00:27:47.000So you learn to talk quicker, make good arguments, you lose dialogue really quickly at a young age, a lot of interrupting.
00:27:53.000If you're not making a good point, all of a sudden you're embarrassed.
00:27:55.000You got to come back to the dinner table next time, make a better argument.
00:28:02.000Education is taken incredibly seriously.
00:28:03.000Number three, mothers that care more than any other mothers, right?
00:28:07.000You want a society and a people to flourish, have mothers that take nonstop pressure on their children to succeed or find a husband, right?
00:28:14.000Whichever one, you know, depending on where you come from.
00:28:24.000You want to know why the black community is failing so much?
00:28:28.000They don't have that nuclear family or those environments where those robust discussions are happening, those long family dinners because the fathers aren't around.
00:29:04.000And everyone's like, hush, hush, you can't speak like that.
00:29:06.000And I think a lot of this comes from past trauma.
00:29:09.000And we see this on the left side a lot of the political spectrum where a lot of trauma leads people to not want to speak up.
00:29:15.000And so I think these Jews may be scared that if they're so unapologetic, it may turn into that all the tropes get more popular and then it becomes Nazi Germany 2.0.
00:29:23.000So what is your advice for these people who throughout history, we have always been the victims turned victors, except when it comes to American Judaism?
00:29:32.000Yeah, I mean, my advice is more you have so much to be proud of, I mean, and so much that has been a contribution to the mod, not just the modern world, but to the world thanks to biblical values.
00:29:50.000I don't want to see anybody that believes in the Torah to be ashamed of that, right?
00:29:55.000I think that's wrong, and I think it's terrible.
00:29:58.000And it's also, look, I understand, and this is why Dennis is amazing.
00:30:02.000If you guys have questions about any of the more obscure laws, you guys can ask him.
00:30:06.000But if you, a question of anybody that might dare challenge you, it's a very simple question.
00:30:12.000If you follow the Ten Commandments, will your life prosper or will your life go in a negative direction?
00:30:52.000And so, but if you believe you have the truth, then, I mean, I would be bold and courageous in your communication of that, especially if, you know, the truth you believe in built the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, of which, you know, the book of Deuteronomy was, as I said, the most cited book in doing that.
00:31:10.000We'll take one or two more, if that's okay, if we have a pressing one.
00:31:26.000In terms of what you said about why a lot of people don't like Israel and don't like Jewish people, is because like, oh, we just want to be the good guys.
00:31:38.000And I think part of the reason that a lot of the conservatives that I know on the right, Christian conservatives, are not fans of Israel is because of how Israel is accepting of LGBTQ people and Muslims and everything like that.
00:31:52.000And I'm wondering what your thoughts are on that, because I personally believe that, yeah, they're accepting.
00:31:57.000And I feel like in the past couple of years, Israel's been a little bit letting people, groups of people, walk over them when their government doesn't align with the religious ideology that founded the country in the first place.
00:32:10.000And I just wonder what your thoughts were on that.
00:32:18.000As far as the over-indulgence and LGBT stuff, my advice to Israelis, and Matan here is a pretty powerful one, if you allow liberalism into your country, it will destroy Israel.
00:32:33.000I think you start to, look, conservatism is the defense of the best, the defense of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
00:32:41.000And you should look at marriage as an institution, but then all of a sudden it becomes trans, right?
00:32:45.000And then it becomes all this other stuff.
00:32:47.000And so, look, I hear that argument, and I understand it.
00:32:50.000But look, you have to understand in Israeli politics, from what I understand, it's very, there's a lot of different parties, a lot of different perspectives.
00:32:58.000If that's a reason, so let me understand.
00:33:57.000I wanted to ask you about the Jewish defense line against kind of new ideologies that are coming out with like Nick Fuentes and like influential figures like Kanye West that are kind of influencing lower educated communities and hating Jews and kind of thinking that Jews run the world and all these crazy conspiracy theories that are,
00:34:22.000which is real misinformation that's being spread to like the world.
00:34:27.000the all of the U.S. Right now, and the effect it's having on the religious Jewish communities and the American perspective on Jews in general.
00:35:05.000And it's a man who moved the embassy to Jerusalem, deported Nazis.
00:35:09.000This is a person who has grandchildren that are Jewish.
00:35:13.000And understanding the facts and circumstances, if Donald Trump understood everything leading up to that dinner, he wouldn't have had that dinner at all.
00:35:21.000So, and I gotten a lot of debates around that.
00:35:23.000So, look, I mean, as far as you ask the question, how do Jews stand up for Jews, right?
00:35:29.000Is that basically the question, right?
00:35:31.000I mean, look, you got to call out evil wherever it is.
00:35:35.000You also have to understand that, you know, in an era that we're living in right now, which things can go viral almost instantaneously, that the best antidote is truth.
00:35:48.000And that's an incredibly important thing.
00:35:51.000I mean, look, to even say something along the lines that, you know, Hitler wasn't that bad, I don't even think the grasp, like, so then you have to, I can't believe I didn't have to do this.
00:36:31.000I don't think it should be even debated that Nazism and Hitler is the bottom of the barrel of what humanity could possibly do and that has no place in decent or respective dialogue or anywhere around here or the conservative movement.
00:36:49.000So I was just wondering, as a Jewish conservative, how can I respond to a lot of Christians I've had tell me that you can't be Jewish and be a conservative at the same time?
00:36:58.000Yeah, I mean, I would respond: you can't be Jewish and be a liberal, but that's just my, I mean, I don't understand it.
00:37:03.000How could you be Jewish and be like pro-LGBT?
00:37:07.000Did God create man and woman and also 30 other genders?
00:37:10.000I mean, by definition, if you are Jewish, you are conservative.
00:37:36.000It passes down from one generation to the next.
00:37:41.000I mean, it's like also saying, how could you be pro-Israel and be liberal?
00:37:44.000You can't, because they're incompatible, right?
00:37:47.000It's conservatism is recognizing what is beautiful, understanding what is good, and then willing to defend what is good and beautiful and best.
00:37:58.000At its best, that is the Jewish people who gave the world the Old Testament, that gave us Israel, and also gave us an incredible tradition that, quite honestly, again, the American founders found so important that helped largely birth the freest, most beautiful country ever to exist in the history of the world.