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The false gods of modern men and women, and that's exactly what I'm going to speak about.

Let me tell you why it's so important and why it's so Jewish.

We are the idol-smashing people.

Any of you who have gone to Hebrew school, let alone to anything more intense

like a yeshiva as I did, must be familiar with the old legends of Judaism of Abraham,

the first Jew. And what did Abraham's father do for a living? Anybody recall? Of all things,

right, he was an idol maker, right? it's a it's a brilliant idea of the

rabbis to make the first Jew the son of an idol maker and what do you learn that he

became disenchanted with his father's mode of living it struck him as a rather

bizarre thing.

It just didn't work.

After all, they were man-made, and it didn't work.

And so the legend goes, he finally figured out that there was something higher and then something higher than even the sun and the moon and so on and came to the realization that

there is a god.

What is important about that are two things.

One, that our origins are to smash idols to smash all god false gods the

second interesting part though that is not usually noted but i i note because

that is my own attitude is that abraham came to the one God by first ruling out the other ones.

That is how this Jew comes to God.

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