Our family are faithful and strong Christians and my husband and I raised our children in our faith.
One year our son's violin teacher invited us to her family's Passover seder. We were extremely honored to attend and my husband and I spent many days preparing our children, researching, and reading the stories to them from the bible concerning Moses and the great and wonderful Exodus from Egypt.
As it turns out, our son's teacher was married to non-Jew who was likely an atheist or ( at best) a secularist. This father's attitude was, “We do this to humor my wife.” ( Wink wink!) While the mother was doing her best to teach the story of the Passover, the father was sitting with one leg thrown over the arm of his chair, rolling his eyes, and emitting bored sighs on occasion. Their two girls ( taking their cue from their father) slumped in their chairs. If strongly prompted by their mother, they answered in grunts and monosyllables.
In contrast, our children eagerly participated, and I was so proud of them as they knew many of the answers and asked relevant questions.
This Passover became and important teaching example for our family. When we wanted to stress how important it was to marry within our faith, all we had to say was, “Do you remember the father with his leg thrown over his chair? Is this what you want in a husband or wife?”
Honestly, as a Christian, this was a painful video to watch. I attended professional school in Philadelphia and earned a doctorate in one of the most competitive health professions. My school was predominantly Jewish, and sadly, nearly all of my many Jewish friends had as much allegiance to their Jewish faith as the character in this video. I dated a Jewish man whose commitment to his Jewish faith was a millimeter deep, and he, too, could have been reading the video script.
Again,...It is my prayer that the Jews in this nation will rediscover their faith. Everyone in this nation ( especially the Jews) would reap great blessings if this were to happen.
Couldn’t have said it better.
It is happening! Remember with the jews it is always a Holy Remnant. It has been estimated that 80% of Jews stayed in Babylon. So, it will most likely be with the USA.
But right now, there is more Torah learning going on in Israel than possibly ever! Within a generation, religious Jewish in Israel will be the majority and a majority in the IDF!
Liberal reform Jews or secular Jews are JINO's....Jews in name only and unless some tragedy befalls US Jewry....which it may!...it is unlikely to change. This is life in the galut (exile). Jews have always gotten to comfy in the galut.
The guy in the video is Elyokim Cohen. He is a person who has websites trying to convince nominal Jews to be baal teshuvas or returnees to the faith. He uses Absurdity a lot to make his points. Which in this case was effective!