Al Tirah! Fear Not!

[ThePatriceo]

Thank you, Rabbi Sharon. We will share this powerful message with the Not In Our Town community.(NIOT.org) Thanks also to Karyn at Project Kesher for sending this video.

[omnicronvegas]

I'd like to change the topic of discussion slightly and ask what do people think about president Obama's stance on the creation of a mosque "near" the 911 site. my opinion is that since it is legal and constitutional it should be built. America used to be and still should be a place of religious tolerance. what are people's thoughts? I'd like to add I am not an American

[omnicronvegas]

I'd like to change the topic of discussion slightly and ask what do people think about president Obama's stance on the creation of a mosque "near" the 911 site. my opinion is that since it is legal and constitutional it should be built. America used to be and still should be a place of religious tolerance. what are people's thoughts?

[19chiefs57]

The Nazis secured much of their dominance by illegal means; there was no legal authorization before or after for killing of Brownshirt leaders in the Night of the Long Knives. An infant of course simply has no legal responsibility. I don't see much else to discuss, but wish you the best.

[conuropsis]

@19chiefs57 So in your first post, when you referred to “illegal aliens,” you were excluding children. Good. But that puts you at odds w/US law, which calls them "illegal" & deports them.

And the Nazis did use illegal means to gain power. As did many governments, including ours (revolutions are illegal, no?). But once in power, a government’s laws (theirs against Jews, ours permitting slavery) are still the law. "Legal" can be evil, especially when used against people and not people's actions.

[19chiefs57]

Bizarre. "No human being is illegal" is a liberal rally point, many human beings are illegal; illegal aliens, illegal murderers, illegal lawbreakers and the list of frightening illegals goes on and on. Compassion is not a blanket unconditional commodity, one using their brain knows that. Comedy, cleverness and "compassion" do not negate REALITY.

[conuropsis]

@19chiefs57 The point is, it's only people's actions that can be illegal, not people themselves. To collapse that distinction (especially as applied toward whole groups of people) is the first, fearful step toward hate and ultimately genocide — whether the groups are branded by class under Communism, by religion or ethnicity under the Nazis, or by race (in many countries, including, historically, the US). This isn't a liberal vs. conservative issue.

Oh, and compassion is NOT a "commodity."

[19chiefs57]

@conuropsis Separating people's actions from the people themselves logic is simple gobbledygook. People are their actions. I'm not collapsing anything thing other than liberal doublespeak and nonsense. People's illegal actions constitute illegal people, seeing it any other way, defies logic, a liberal specialty. You beg for an example, here's the extreme and obvious. Hitler is NOT illegal as a person, so you say, then you need your head dissected, examined and a compulsory lobotomy. Finito.

[conuropsis]

@19chiefs57 Sadly, the law isn't always a great measure of what's right or moral, as anyone who's seen Nazi German law knows. Hitler & the Nazis were evil to the core, but not "illegal" until they lost the War and were judged so by outsiders who invented new crimes with which to charge them. On the other hand, an infant brought into the US illegally by her parents becomes an “illegal person” without commiting a single voluntary, evil act. If people are their actions (your words), is that moral?

[hackerb9]

I love the message of this, but I'm embarrassed to share it with anyone because it uses the word "concretize".

[dilgil]

This Irish American boy in Hartford loves your message. Keep it up. Shalom.

[SmartCai]

I cant understang what you say....Jason mraz brought me here too ..

[SaltnPepper72]

Jason Mraz brought me here...

[seekerFLA]

@Garykelleher123 bigot

[Mackaframmalamma]

Even in this video with an inclusive message the bad guy is black. Just sayin'.

[GuyLieberman]

Very on point! Well received down here in South Africa. Just what the world would like to hear coming out of America. Fear not indeed!

[mooserocker12]

Sarah Silverman brought me here

[craZgirl1091]

"kol haolam kulo gesher tsar meod v'haikar lo lephachad klall"

"the world is a thin bridge but the main thing is not to fear at all"

[shilohwillcome]

An empathy neuron? Well it had a good role.

[NISHIRU]

Can somebody give me a YouTube-Link to the guy at the beginning?? I NEED TO INSULT HIM!! or else his name, please!

[mkearley49]

@NISHIRU Stephen Colbert, he has a show on the Comedy Channel called The Colbert Report.

[ghettoking1337]

@NISHIRU Stephen Colbert is a comedian....he is making fun of the crazy republican people in america....he isnt serious....

[ladbrady]

For the INFINITYth Time Colbert is NOT JUST A SATIRIST. It's like saying Twain was just a comedian.

[NISHIRU]

Put this on your social networks! spread the word!!!

[toll186]

beautiful

[ndbrandt]

Yes!

Like 2:28, let's work together to overwhelm and drive off the BIG, SCARY BLACK MAN that's infesting our country!

(great vid, just thought that was funny/ironic...)

[findley90]

illegal immigrates are not to be feared just deported !!!!!!

[aprilinheaven]

@findley90

Or "the next big market" to feed the corporate prison system. Sad - and now taking place in AZ. Our tax dollars at work folks. = Speculation of human currency.

[FAYMprod]

fear is the mind killer.

[ShawnRavenfire]

We need to move away from fear, and toward love, and put an X on the line...  Oh shit, I'm having a Donnie Darko flashback.

[PaNDaSNiP3R]

@ShawnRavenfire lmao nice darko reference

[MinorAnnoyance]

Gotta like something that quotes God, Yoda and Steven Colbert. You know, I've never seen them together. Could they be the same guy?

[hoax1r]

The Jews are right!!! Omg it's the end of the world!! But seriously I agree, fuck fox news CNN msnbc and all these candidates running for office I'm writing myself in for office on Tuesdays election. Vote for me bitches

[driftwoodenterprises]

As a Michigander, i am outraged by the drawing of the map at 0:16

[morningwould]

@driftwoodenterprises Outraged? You must be a real dummy to get that upset over the drawing of a map.

[PaNDaSNiP3R]

@driftwoodenterprises lmao they fucked that up huh lol

[kevink07950]

Really? You lump people with legitimate disagreements about the direction of government in with the Fred Phelps wackos?

[atheistveganheathan]

Learn from history. Economic issues in Germany weren't the jews - and aren't the muslims/gays/etc. now. It's all of user. Americans didn't save, and government overspent. Period. Let's just fix it.

[marasu66]

Truth: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and, also, don't touch it because you can get a disease from it." #LOL

[diannika]

Does Colbert actually think that?! or he just said it for the video...?

[aprilinheaven]

@diannika

It's satire. Colbert *pretends* to be an uptight conservative but really he is mocking their extreme positions.

[Amnesiac085]

@diannika Colbert is just a satirist. One with very astute observations.

[papafunk88]

gran trabajo y gran mensaje lo compartire :D

great work and great message, I´ll share it

thanks

[seekerFLA]

In the cacophony and rancor of petty politics and religion gone wrong, Rabbi Brous is an authentic voice of clarity, compassion, and true vision.

[mugsydean]

Congratulations on making another awesome video.

[apratt814]

YES!

[Murphygrif]

Wonderful message that all faiths can agree with; now if only everyone in all faiths would just wake up & realize that fear doesn't unify, it polarizes, & we can't survive divided like that. Thank you, Rabbi, for making this video; have posted it on FB & hope it gets lots of attention, as well as mobilizing voters!

[dauntless1701]

I got goose bumps (as usual). Thanks g-d for people like Sharon Brouse who, have a passionate clear voice in this world.

[MrSashathegreat]

i love this video and i wish people would implement it more into our lives and politics

[RedstateRepublican1]

I can't disagree. We are more alike than they'd like us to believe. Right and Left have to stand up to this exaggerated fear-mongering rhetoric. I don't honestly believe Obama is a Socialist or a Muslim? Do you?  They lie when they say these things. We lie when we vote for them.

[VOTE4CHANGE1]

So important! A call to all of us to get involved in this election before its too late. Go "Ethical Passion!"

[rbjny1]

Bravo to Sharon Brous and Ikar for making this extremely important video! Spread the word, people!

[Hollywoodhillsmom]

Spread the word! Attend the rally this week in D.C. FEAR NOT!  The only thing to be afraid of is apathy.