The Charlie Kirk Show - January 02, 2023


Charlie Speaks to the Young Jewish Leadership Summit


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. President Charlie Kirk delivers a keynote address at the Young Jewish Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. on the importance of the Ten Commandments and why they should be taught in every child s education.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:01:21.000 Hello, everybody.
00:01:22.000 Great to be here at, I think this is our second or third Young Jewish Leadership Summit.
00:01:27.000 I want to try to get you guys more involved in this first.
00:01:31.000 The staff really worked hard to put this together, so give it up for them.
00:01:34.000 They worked really hard to put all this together.
00:01:38.000 I want to save a lot of time for questions, and you can also, you have Dennis Prager after me, so he's the real special one.
00:01:47.000 I have a very special place in my heart for the Jewish people.
00:01:52.000 As a Christian, obviously, my favorite person ever to live was a Jew. 1.00
00:01:55.000 So it's okay.
00:01:57.000 You could laugh at that.
00:01:58.000 It's okay, all right?
00:01:59.000 I always tell Dennis Prager, he's my second favorite Jew.
00:02:03.000 And 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.
00:02:20.000 And this is a very serious problem.
00:02:23.000 The American nation was founded on Judeo-Christian ideas.
00:02:29.000 In fact, Thomas Jefferson wanted the American seal to be a picture of the Jews leaving Egypt.
00:02:37.000 That's what he thought was the best example of kind of the American story.
00:02:43.000 John Adams spoke fluent Hebrew.
00:02:46.000 The founding fathers, the most book that they quoted, as Dennis will tell you, is the book of Deuteronomy, of any book, period.
00:02:54.000 The founding fathers put Leviticus on the liberty bell.
00:02:57.000 Not exactly the easiest book to comprehend or to understand.
00:03:02.000 And 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. 0.95
00:03:14.000 And 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.
00:03:24.000 And I'm going to point out a couple of them.
00:03:26.000 And every single one are being questioned or under attack by the American left.
00:03:32.000 Every single one.
00:03:33.000 Thou shalt not murder.
00:03:35.000 Well, a million abortions every single year. 0.99
00:03:37.000 That's not tough.
00:03:37.000 How about honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in?
00:03:42.000 Well, 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.
00:03:57.000 We 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.
00:04:07.000 Do not covet.
00:04:08.000 There's entire industries built on coveting what your neighbor has.
00:04:12.000 And 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.
00:04:28.000 This is not even a religious argument.
00:04:30.000 They say separation of church and state.
00:04:33.000 First of all, that's not in the U.S. Constitution.
00:04:35.000 It's nonsense.
00:04:36.000 It's a big lie, okay?
00:04:38.000 It was a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention that gets just terribly misquoted.
00:04:46.000 Every child in America should be taught the Ten Commandments, period.
00:04:50.000 And this is something that if anyone considers it to be controversial, then you should say, then what values do you want to teach children?
00:04:57.000 And we know what values they want to teach children.
00:05:00.000 And 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.
00:05:13.000 One of the things that you learn immediately when you read the Bible is that God created a world full of distinctions.
00:05:20.000 And distinctions bring order in a very chaotic and confusing world.
00:05:25.000 Let's take one that is under attack every single day.
00:05:28.000 The distinction between man and woman.
00:05:30.000 Every single day, where they say men and women are basically the same.
00:05:34.000 Now, many of you are in college and you're paying a lot of money for this.
00:05:38.000 But 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.
00:05:47.000 Destroying the distinction of parent and child, that parents do not have a right to parent their children, destroying the distinction of God and man.
00:05:57.000 We 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.
00:06:13.000 You see, the Bible, when it is best understood, allows human beings to flourish.
00:06:18.000 Now, 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.
00:06:28.000 And, 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.
00:06:39.000 You want to think about it because there's so much suffering in this world, it's not exactly always easy.
00:06:44.000 It takes effort.
00:06:46.000 If it was easy, there would not have to be a law or a commandment for it.
00:06:50.000 And 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.
00:07:03.000 The solution is the word of God.
00:07:05.000 The solution is what has already been given to us.
00:07:07.000 And we see in at least American Judaism, I mean, obviously there's three different communities.
00:07:16.000 There's liberal, there's conservative and Orthodox, but the vast majority are more kind of reform.
00:07:21.000 I 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.
00:07:33.000 And they say, well, it might be allegorical or metaphorical.
00:07:37.000 And, you know, the idea that Jews are the chosen people, which you are the chosen people. 0.75
00:07:42.000 But a rational question is, then what are you chosen to do?
00:07:46.000 And I believe you're chosen to bring the word of God to as many people as possible.
00:07:51.000 That's a very simple commandment.
00:07:53.000 You'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.
00:08:09.000 One 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.
00:08:23.000 If you were to make it up, why would you make the nation of Israel look so just forgetful, self-interested? 0.64
00:08:31.000 No, 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.
00:08:41.000 If 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.
00:08:52.000 It would be, okay, you know, he acted morally and ethically.
00:08:56.000 It's like, you have to believe that story.
00:08:58.000 It's an honest introspection of humanity.
00:09:02.000 And 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.
00:09:10.000 So 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.
00:09:20.000 It'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.
00:09:39.000 And 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.
00:09:59.000 That should not be tolerated.
00:10:01.000 In fact, I believe it's evil.
00:10:03.000 And one of my favorite verses is Psalm 97, 10.
00:10:06.000 If you love God, you must hate evil.
00:10:09.000 It's very simple.
00:10:11.000 And there's a lot of evil to hate right now, by the way, a lot of evil.
00:10:15.000 And so we're at a crossroads in our country.
00:10:21.000 And 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.
00:10:32.000 But 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.
00:10:44.000 I encourage you to challenge that wherever possible.
00:10:47.000 And 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.
00:10:58.000 I mean, I get these emails where someone says, Charlie, God is pro-abortion.
00:11:04.000 I said, that's so, and they gave some ridiculous example of in the book of Exodus.
00:11:11.000 You might be familiar with it, of kind of like a pseudo-abortifatient that was taken.
00:11:16.000 And a perfect response is in Jeremiah, it says, I knew you before you were in the womb.
00:11:20.000 This is not overly complicated, right?
00:11:22.000 It'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.
00:11:39.000 And 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.
00:11:46.000 Would you say 80% of American Jews are pro-abortion?
00:11:46.000 What would you say?
00:11:48.000 Would you say it's probably right?
00:11:50.000 90%?
00:11:52.000 Is that about right?
00:11:54.000 And that comes, in my personal opinion, of an incorrect approach to theology.
00:11:59.000 It really is.
00:12:02.000 But you guys could debate that amongst yourselves.
00:12:04.000 So I want to get to some questions.
00:12:05.000 Let 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.
00:12:23.000 To bring the values, let's just say the Ten Commandments.
00:12:26.000 I'll give you an example.
00:12:28.000 I'm as a Bible-believing Christian.
00:12:30.000 I observe the Sabbath.
00:12:31.000 And I mean, I really observe it.
00:12:34.000 And what a gift to mankind to be able to observe.
00:12:39.000 I call it Shabbos, and my whole team laughs when I say that. 0.66
00:12:43.000 But you think about it.
00:12:46.000 I could do a whole speech.
00:12:47.000 I'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.
00:13:00.000 But the counter argument is God observed it.
00:13:02.000 Pretty important, right?
00:13:04.000 If God rested, maybe we should too.
00:13:07.000 And my working theory on the Sabbath is it makes the other nine commandments easier.
00:13:16.000 Is that it is the metaphorical, that's the wrong way to think about it.
00:13:21.000 Let me think about it this way.
00:13:22.000 It is the commandment that is the prerequisite to the other.
00:13:26.000 If you rest for a day, no technology, no trap, whatever it might be.
00:13:30.000 Now, I'll be very honest, I'm going to be violating the Sabbath tomorrow, busy day, okay?
00:13:34.000 Only a couple days a year.
00:13:35.000 I'm sure I could get a rabbi that will approve that somewhere.
00:13:39.000 But you're less likely to obviously murder, to steal, to covet.
00:13:45.000 You're with your family more.
00:13:47.000 You're less likely to commit adultery.
00:13:49.000 If 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.
00:14:01.000 I've done now the Sabbath religiously for a year and a half.
00:14:05.000 And, you know, some people say to Charlie, you know, it's so hard.
00:14:09.000 And for those of you that honor the Sabbath, you know exactly what I'm about to say.
00:14:12.000 It's one of the coolest things to be able to just say, you know what?
00:14:14.000 I'm plugging out.
00:14:16.000 I'm done.
00:14:17.000 And I really think American Christians would be blessed if they followed the Sabbath.
00:14:22.000 I really believe that.
00:14:23.000 But 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.
00:14:36.000 But somebody said, Charlie, but really why do you do it?
00:14:40.000 And I said, it's very simple, because I believe God told me to do it.
00:14:43.000 And isn't that comforting to believe that God told you to do something, that you don't have to overly think that?
00:14:48.000 And I also believe that if there's one, what's the only non-renewable resource we have here?
00:14:53.000 It's time.
00:14:54.000 And so, you know, as Christians, we're pretty good at giving to our church, giving money.
00:14:59.000 But do you give a day to God?
00:15:02.000 That's a big deal if you do that, to give a full day to God.
00:15:06.000 And for me, the hardest thing is turning off the phone.
00:15:09.000 Unbelievably liberating.
00:15:11.000 I 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.
00:15:21.000 Turn off the phone and spend some time with real people, your family being first and foremost.
00:15:27.000 I truly believe that.
00:15:29.000 Which goes to my argument that I believe that the Ten Commandments are actually there if we follow them to bless us.
00:15:37.000 That 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.
00:15:48.000 As Christians, we are actually called to love our parents, but not in the Torah.
00:15:52.000 So you don't have to love your parents.
00:15:54.000 You have to honor your parents, which is the same Hebrew word actually as heavy, right?
00:15:59.000 You must treat your parents with heaviness, which, interestingly enough, the same Hebrew word for a curse is light.
00:16:05.000 So if you were to curse your parents, you treat them lightly.
00:16:08.000 To honor your parents, you treat them heavily.
00:16:10.000 I could do a whole speech on honor your mother and father, which I believe is to be the most butchered of all.
00:16:18.000 And that's one of the reasons why the country is falling apart, period.
00:16:21.000 It's more than politics.
00:16:22.000 It's because kids don't honor their parents anymore.
00:16:24.000 And by the way, parents also don't teach their children that you must honor me.
00:16:28.000 That's a whole different issue, too.
00:16:30.000 But 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.
00:16:41.000 We have a roadmap.
00:16:42.000 We have a gift.
00:16:44.000 And it is the word of God.
00:16:46.000 And, you know, you, the Jewish people, are the chosen people that are the ones to bring the Torah to the world.
00:16:54.000 And look, as a Christian, I want to bring Christianity to the world, which I think, you know, is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:17:02.000 But you know that Jesus quoted the Old Testament more than almost anything else.
00:17:07.000 And the laws of the Torah will bless anybody that follows them, especially the Decalogue. 0.81
00:17:15.000 And what a beautiful message that we can give to an entire generation that is told the exact opposite.
00:17:22.000 They're told to follow their heart.
00:17:23.000 Jeremiah, it says your heart will lead you astray.
00:17:27.000 At every single turn, the truths of the Bible are under attack in every possible way.
00:17:33.000 And so my heart for you guys is to just be more bold and courageous.
00:17:40.000 In Joshua 1:9, it says, be strong and courageous.
00:17:43.000 Do not be afraid and be strong and courageous.
00:17:45.000 I have to get this fact checked, but I think it's basically true because I've heard a big debate, but I'm going to say it's true.
00:17:50.000 Why not?
00:17:51.000 365 times in the Bible, it says, do not be afraid, one for every single day.
00:17:55.000 I had someone tell me, though, it's actually 367.
00:17:57.000 Okay, let's pretend, whatever.
00:17:59.000 The 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.
00:18:23.000 That's Dennis Prager's words, not mine.
00:18:24.000 If you find it to be heretical, ask him about that.
00:18:27.000 But especially when it comes to how these things could apply to your life, and you have the opposite.
00:18:35.000 You should be immensely proud in more ways than one.
00:18:38.000 If 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.
00:18:52.000 The entire system of American government is centered on biblical values.
00:18:58.000 And I believe that it is really the question of, you know, the American Jewish community.
00:19:03.000 I know we have some international representation, whether or not that is going to continue.
00:19:08.000 Final 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.
00:19:27.000 I don't understand it.
00:19:30.000 Having visited Israel a couple times, is Matan here somewhere?
00:19:33.000 Ah, there he is.
00:19:34.000 Best Israel tour ever.
00:19:37.000 And he took me to Hebron and didn't really tell me what I was in store.
00:19:42.000 And one of my favorite stories to tell about Matan, Imturitsu, right? 0.67
00:19:47.000 That's the organization you run.
00:19:48.000 It's terrific.
00:19:49.000 Is we were driving south from Jerusalem down to Hebron.
00:19:56.000 And I remember there's these huge signs, and I couldn't read them.
00:20:00.000 And I said, What does that sign say?
00:20:02.000 And it has a big arrow. 0.68
00:20:04.000 And he says, Oh, yeah, it says that if you go that way, you'll die.
00:20:07.000 I said, Oh, really?
00:20:08.000 By who?
00:20:09.000 And he said, Well, the Palestinian Authority.
00:20:12.000 And that's not a joke, right? 0.98
00:20:13.000 They'll kill a Westerner if you go too far. 1.00
00:20:15.000 I said, and it just all clicked. 0.94
00:20:17.000 I said, Everything I've been told by the Western press about Israel is a lie. 0.99
00:20:21.000 Because there you have, as a Westerner, an American, you go there, they'll jump on your car, they'll cut your head off, they'll kill you. 0.61
00:20:26.000 So then we continue down on the Hebron, and he points, he says, Oh, you know what happened on that sidewalk or that corner? 0.82
00:20:32.000 He said, Oh, yeah, you know, a guy was stabbed to death, you know, a couple weeks ago.
00:20:32.000 I said, What?
00:20:36.000 And it becomes very real what Jews have to experience in Israel every single day.
00:20:41.000 And then actually going to the Hall of the Patriarchs and seeing it for yourself: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah.
00:20:48.000 I mean, that's all of a sudden you realize that the Bible is not a bunch of metaphors like far too many people.
00:20:55.000 It's a story of history.
00:20:57.000 And Israel is the preserver of the word of God.
00:21:00.000 And it makes the Bible come to life in a very special way.
00:21:04.000 And so I don't understand it.
00:21:05.000 I don't understand why I have to debate American liberal Jews about the need for Israel.
00:21:10.000 Maybe you guys can walk that through.
00:21:12.000 It is very strange, but guess what?
00:21:15.000 You have an ally in the fight for Israel with me, proudly and loudly.
00:21:19.000 Okay, let's do some questions.
00:21:24.000 Okay, who wants to do some questions?
00:21:28.000 You guys can line up if you would like to.
00:21:30.000 I don't know the process that we have here.
00:21:32.000 I'll hold the microphone for you to ask the question.
00:21:36.000 Or they can come to you.
00:21:37.000 I don't really care.
00:21:38.000 Don't all ask at once.
00:21:42.000 Or you can raise your hands.
00:21:43.000 There's one right here there.
00:21:43.000 Mike.
00:21:49.000 Good to see you, Charlie.
00:21:51.000 Glad to have you here.
00:21:52.000 And 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.
00:22:04.000 How would you explain why that is?
00:22:09.000 So 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.
00:22:18.000 By the way, I don't mean to pick on American Judaism.
00:22:20.000 We have TPUSA faith where we're trying to excommunicate what I consider to be the demonic idea of wokeism from every American church.
00:22:27.000 So just so we're clear, you know, we're all fighting right now on this.
00:22:31.000 So I don't mean to pick.
00:22:32.000 I'm just happening to tailor the argument here.
00:22:35.000 But look, there is a temptation.
00:22:42.000 That's not the right word.
00:22:44.000 There is a tendency.
00:22:46.000 That's probably a better word.
00:22:47.000 In American Christianity to want a global government.
00:22:50.000 And it's happening at a rapid pace.
00:22:53.000 And look, Israel is sovereign.
00:22:55.000 Israel is everything the American left hates, right?
00:22:58.000 It has borders, has a shared language, culture.
00:23:02.000 It's very clear that it's a Jewish country.
00:23:05.000 And that is a direct threat to a lot of the globalists that want to obliterate sovereignty, borders, language, and culture.
00:23:14.000 And 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. 0.82
00:23:24.000 We should do that too.
00:23:25.000 It's one of the reasons why I love Israel.
00:23:28.000 And not to mention for all the other reasons.
00:23:30.000 I 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? 0.70
00:23:41.000 And they say, well, it's the word of God.
00:23:42.000 I said, I agree.
00:23:44.000 But let's use some reason.
00:23:46.000 What archaeological evidence do you have?
00:23:49.000 Can you show me Capernaum?
00:23:50.000 Can you show me Nazareth?
00:23:52.000 Can you show me the Mount of the Beatitudes?
00:23:54.000 Can you show me Bethlehem?
00:23:55.000 Can you show me Jerusalem?
00:23:56.000 Like, yeah, of course.
00:23:57.000 I'd say, okay, if the Arabs took over Israel, you wouldn't be able to show me any of that. 0.97
00:24:01.000 They would destroy it all. 0.76
00:24:02.000 That's what they do.
00:24:03.000 And they've done it time and time again.
00:24:05.000 When 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. 1.00
00:24:15.000 And 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?
00:24:30.000 Where 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.
00:24:39.000 If you've never been to Israel, changes your life as a Christian. 0.68
00:24:41.000 All of a sudden, this book that is previously in your head, it puts the Bible in technicolor immediately.
00:24:47.000 And so for a Christian that's not pro-Israel, I doubt they actually love their Bible. 0.75
00:24:52.000 And I will stand by that statement.
00:24:54.000 If you are a Christian that doesn't love Israel, then you take your Bible way, way, way too much for granted.
00:24:59.000 Okay.
00:25:01.000 I guess I'll go next.
00:25:02.000 It's hard to follow John, but I'll try my best.
00:25:06.000 I 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. 0.72
00:25:13.000 I mean, the show Seinfeld is absolutely hilarious, but half the show is based on tropes and stereotypes, which are great and hilarious.
00:25:20.000 But 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?
00:25:31.000 Yeah, I don't know.
00:25:32.000 I'd have to leave that for Dennis.
00:25:33.000 Dennis, I think, would have a much better answer.
00:25:35.000 I love Seinfeld, by the way.
00:25:37.000 I actually played a whole Seinfeld thing on my show today.
00:25:41.000 It's brilliant.
00:25:42.000 It's hilarious.
00:25:43.000 And do you know what makes Seinfeld so great is the self-deprecative nature of it.
00:25:48.000 That's why it's great, okay?
00:25:50.000 It's that you don't take yourself too seriously.
00:25:52.000 One of the problems in America, like top 10 problems, is all of us take each other way too seriously all the time, okay?
00:25:59.000 And including American Christians, like there's way too much of that. 1.00
00:26:03.000 So how do you change that?
00:26:05.000 I don't know.
00:26:06.000 I don't know when it changed or how it changed, to be honest.
00:26:09.000 Not as much of an expert in that.
00:26:12.000 But 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?
00:26:30.000 And do you believe that God has a specific way that he wants you to live?
00:26:37.000 Or do you think that it's just kind of general suggestions for you?
00:26:40.000 I mean, I met somebody the other day and they said, I'm a Jewish atheist.
00:26:45.000 And I really thought about it.
00:26:47.000 Have 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.
00:26:54.000 And 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.
00:27:08.000 You were a Jewish atheist. 0.85
00:27:09.000 Okay.
00:27:10.000 Well, praise God, you're not anymore, right? 0.98
00:27:14.000 Your Jewish mother beat you. 1.00
00:27:15.000 Yeah, that sounds like a Jewish mother. 1.00
00:27:17.000 So beat you in an argument. 0.90
00:27:21.000 Got it.
00:27:22.000 Okay.
00:27:24.000 Can I say that without getting in trouble?
00:27:25.000 Is that okay?
00:27:26.000 Someone's going to write it up, I'm sure.
00:27:27.000 It's a joke.
00:27:29.000 No, there's a whole, but by the way, there's a lot of truth to that.
00:27:33.000 You know, there's a lot of nastiness that happens and people say, oh, you know, Jews are so successful.
00:27:38.000 And I always wonder, I said, yeah, of course they're successful.
00:27:40.000 Why do you think they're successful?
00:27:41.000 A couple reasons.
00:27:42.000 In 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? 0.92
00:27:47.000 So you learn to talk quicker, make good arguments, you lose dialogue really quickly at a young age, a lot of interrupting.
00:27:53.000 If you're not making a good point, all of a sudden you're embarrassed.
00:27:55.000 You got to come back to the dinner table next time, make a better argument.
00:27:58.000 That's true.
00:27:58.000 Number two, education is a core value in Jewish culture.
00:28:01.000 It is.
00:28:02.000 Education is taken incredibly seriously.
00:28:03.000 Number three, mothers that care more than any other mothers, right? 1.00
00:28:07.000 You want a society and a people to flourish, have mothers that take nonstop pressure on their children to succeed or find a husband, right? 1.00
00:28:14.000 Whichever one, you know, depending on where you come from.
00:28:17.000 You do those three things.
00:28:19.000 It doesn't matter if you're Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese.
00:28:22.000 That's obeying the laws of nature. 0.95
00:28:24.000 You want to know why the black community is failing so much? 1.00
00:28:28.000 They 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.
00:28:36.000 You don't have to overthink it.
00:28:37.000 Okay, next question.
00:28:40.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:28:41.000 Whoa, that was very loud.
00:28:42.000 I want to say thank you for your speech so far because I know it's not easy to talk to a different religion and be so respectful.
00:28:48.000 Not that hard, actually.
00:28:49.000 For others, it is.
00:28:50.000 For you, it may be a breeze.
00:28:51.000 But as far as your point about being more confident about being Jewish, that's something I take very seriously.
00:28:56.000 On the Turning Point Israel trip, I was unapologetically shouting, we need to take back the Temple Mount.
00:29:01.000 This is our land.
00:29:02.000 Let's go.
00:29:02.000 Where is everybody?
00:29:04.000 And everyone's like, hush, hush, you can't speak like that.
00:29:06.000 And I think a lot of this comes from past trauma.
00:29:09.000 And 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.
00:29:15.000 And 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.
00:29:23.000 So 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? 0.94
00:29:31.000 What's your advice for us?
00:29:32.000 Yeah, 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.
00:29:50.000 I don't want to see anybody that believes in the Torah to be ashamed of that, right?
00:29:55.000 I think that's wrong, and I think it's terrible.
00:29:58.000 And it's also, look, I understand, and this is why Dennis is amazing.
00:30:02.000 If you guys have questions about any of the more obscure laws, you guys can ask him.
00:30:06.000 But if you, a question of anybody that might dare challenge you, it's a very simple question.
00:30:12.000 If you follow the Ten Commandments, will your life prosper or will your life go in a negative direction?
00:30:18.000 It's not even up for debate.
00:30:20.000 The Ten Commandments are the basis of everything that we call accepted Western morality, period.
00:30:26.000 And it's what we used to teach our children.
00:30:29.000 It used to be in front of our courthouses.
00:30:31.000 And now that we've removed it, I think we start to see the damage of that.
00:30:36.000 So, yeah, I wouldn't, if you believe in something as a religion, I think that you should try to proselytize and evangelize.
00:30:46.000 I mean, I have to give a shout out for Christians.
00:30:48.000 We're pretty good at that.
00:30:50.000 We're really good at it, actually.
00:30:52.000 And 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.
00:31:10.000 We'll take one or two more, if that's okay, if we have a pressing one.
00:31:14.000 Yes, right up here.
00:31:15.000 Cool.
00:31:16.000 Thank you.
00:31:17.000 I know I'm over time.
00:31:18.000 I know.
00:31:19.000 I'll talk to the boss.
00:31:20.000 Maybe he'll allow me to keep going.
00:31:23.000 Hi, Charlie.
00:31:23.000 It's a joke.
00:31:24.000 Yes.
00:31:26.000 In 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.
00:31:35.000 We just want to be nice to everyone.
00:31:36.000 So we let people walk over us.
00:31:38.000 And 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.
00:31:52.000 And I'm wondering what your thoughts are on that, because I personally believe that, yeah, they're accepting.
00:31:57.000 And 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.
00:32:10.000 And I just wonder what your thoughts were on that.
00:32:11.000 That's a smart question.
00:32:12.000 So I don't want to get too deep in Israeli politics.
00:32:15.000 I don't understand it very well.
00:32:16.000 I need someone to always explain it to me.
00:32:18.000 But let me say this.
00:32:18.000 As 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.
00:32:31.000 And it's just very simple.
00:32:32.000 And I think we're seeing that.
00:32:33.000 I think you start to, look, conservatism is the defense of the best, the defense of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
00:32:41.000 And you should look at marriage as an institution, but then all of a sudden it becomes trans, right? 1.00
00:32:45.000 And then it becomes all this other stuff.
00:32:47.000 And so, look, I hear that argument, and I understand it.
00:32:50.000 But 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.
00:32:58.000 If that's a reason, so let me understand.
00:33:00.000 Let me make sure I understand this. 0.81
00:33:02.000 Christians say they don't want to support Israel because they have gay pride parades or whatever. 0.88
00:33:06.000 Yeah, that's from what that's what I hear. 0.88
00:33:07.000 Yeah, so they don't support America either.
00:33:09.000 I mean, like, I don't understand the argument, right?
00:33:11.000 Like, I'm not exactly a fan at all of that nonsense, but do you still support the nation, right?
00:33:15.000 And the history and what they're trying to do, right?
00:33:17.000 That's like saying, you know, I hate America now because we have a million abortions a year.
00:33:22.000 Okay, I hate that we have a million abortions a year, but I also love America.
00:33:26.000 So whoever's administering that argument, I don't think, loves anything, probably, that would be a nation, right?
00:33:33.000 Except maybe like Saudi Arabia or something.
00:33:35.000 I don't know.
00:33:36.000 Maybe they do.
00:33:37.000 Okay, that'll be the last question.
00:33:41.000 Hey.
00:33:42.000 Oh.
00:33:42.000 Charlie, thank you so much for coming here.
00:33:44.000 And we'll get to you as the last question.
00:33:46.000 I'm sorry.
00:33:46.000 Yeah.
00:33:47.000 Where am I looking?
00:33:48.000 Right here, right here.
00:33:49.000 Oh, hi, how are you doing?
00:33:51.000 Doing good, doing good.
00:33:52.000 Thank you.
00:33:54.000 By the way, thank you so much for the speech.
00:33:55.000 It was really beautiful.
00:33:57.000 I 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,
00:34:22.000 which is real misinformation that's being spread to like the world.
00:34:27.000 the 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.
00:34:38.000 Yeah, that's a great question.
00:34:39.000 So let me say a couple things.
00:34:40.000 Jew hatred has no, has no place in the conservative movement.
00:34:43.000 I don't call it Anti-Semitism, it's Jew hatred, is what it is, period. 0.81
00:34:46.000 And also I'm gonna defend Donald Trump, if that's okay.
00:34:51.000 Donald Trump has been the great friend of the Jewish people and of Israel.
00:34:55.000 And I find this whole non-stop attack on him the last couple weeks to just be mean-spirited and wrong.
00:35:03.000 It's just not, it's not good.
00:35:04.000 I don't like it at all.
00:35:05.000 And it's a man who moved the embassy to Jerusalem, deported Nazis.
00:35:09.000 This is a person who has grandchildren that are Jewish.
00:35:13.000 And understanding the facts and circumstances, if Donald Trump understood everything leading up to that dinner, he wouldn't have had that dinner at all.
00:35:20.000 Okay?
00:35:21.000 So, and I gotten a lot of debates around that.
00:35:23.000 So, look, I mean, as far as you ask the question, how do Jews stand up for Jews, right?
00:35:29.000 Is that basically the question, right?
00:35:31.000 I mean, look, you got to call out evil wherever it is.
00:35:35.000 You 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.
00:35:48.000 And that's an incredibly important thing.
00:35:51.000 I 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. 0.94
00:36:04.000 Like, why was Hitler that bad? 0.95
00:36:06.000 It wasn't just the amount of people that he killed, that wasn't it.
00:36:09.000 No, it was the stated and not just attempted, but executed ideology of the extermination of a people.
00:36:16.000 That's like the most evil thing a human being can do.
00:36:19.000 And praise God, he wasn't totally successful.
00:36:22.000 And so I try to not spend too much time on it because I try not to put oxygen in that kind of nonsense.
00:36:28.000 But I will say something unequivocal.
00:36:31.000 I 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.
00:36:45.000 Thanks for the question.
00:36:46.000 Yes?
00:36:47.000 Hi.
00:36:49.000 So 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?
00:36:58.000 Yeah, 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. 0.96
00:37:03.000 How could you be Jewish and be like pro-LGBT? 0.99
00:37:07.000 Did God create man and woman and also 30 other genders? 0.99
00:37:10.000 I mean, by definition, if you are Jewish, you are conservative.
00:37:13.000 I'll prove it to you.
00:37:15.000 What if you guys change the Torah every 100 years?
00:37:19.000 Seriously?
00:37:21.000 Conservative means things last.
00:37:24.000 By definition, the Jewish people should be the most conservative community. 0.77
00:37:27.000 Oh, we don't like this verse in Deuteronomy.
00:37:30.000 We're going to change it.
00:37:32.000 Or we don't like this verse in Judges.
00:37:35.000 No, it stays the same.
00:37:36.000 It passes down from one generation to the next.
00:37:41.000 I mean, it's like also saying, how could you be pro-Israel and be liberal?
00:37:44.000 You can't, because they're incompatible, right?
00:37:47.000 It's conservatism is recognizing what is beautiful, understanding what is good, and then willing to defend what is good and beautiful and best.
00:37:58.000 At 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.
00:38:19.000 And so I know it's controversial.
00:38:21.000 I do not believe you could be a Bible-believing Christian and/or Bible-believing Jew and be a liberal. 0.99
00:38:28.000 Pick one, because they're incompatible in my theological view.
00:38:32.000 Baroque Kashem, God bless you guys.
00:38:34.000 Thank you so much.
00:38:38.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:38:40.000 Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:44.000 Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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