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  • @Kalibobo-w2o
    @Kalibobo-w2o 11 дней назад +65

    I'm from a South Pacific island country. I humbly stand with the Jewish people forever. You people are uniquely intelligent and a blessing. Shalom. This message is powerful and educational. I learnt a lot. Thank you.

  • @thinadlamini4671
    @thinadlamini4671 12 дней назад +257

    I'm South African and I admire Jewish people.

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 12 дней назад +10

      Gentiles need to keep the 7 Noahide laws. Good luck.

    • @xp8969
      @xp8969 12 дней назад +8

      ​@@hrvatskinoahid1048 what weird religion do you practice? It certainly isn't Judaism

    • @SHope-rq1hc
      @SHope-rq1hc 12 дней назад +1

      @@hrvatskinoahid1048 huh? as a jewish person what are you talking about? maybe if you want to know about judaism ask a jew...

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +1

      @@xp8969 the Noahide laws are laws supposed to be the basic laws all humans must follow after the flood (Noah ide). It is detailed in the Talmud. There are people who follow them, but it's not super common.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +1

      @@thinadlamini4671 thanks, but remember we are not monolith. There are so few of us here in South Africa, you probably won't meet many in the wild. And you might not know if someone is Jewish, even if you do.

  • @magenta.indigena
    @magenta.indigena 12 дней назад +51

    i’m not jewish but i can see your collective has evolved in so admirable ways. it’s amazing how much you have accomplished despite thousands of years of persecution

    • @annonimiss6422
      @annonimiss6422 11 дней назад +2

      Our continued existence couldn't possibly happen naturally. I don't know if you believe in G-d, but the fact that we're still around is a proof that He exists.

  • @Hadassah-q4z
    @Hadassah-q4z 12 дней назад +177

    I am a Jew from both paternal and maternal lineage. And I am also a Taiwanese Chinese.

    • @yuvalkoren4070
      @yuvalkoren4070 12 дней назад +16

      וואלה נדיר, רק פעם אחת פגשתי יהודי סיני והוא יהודי רק מהצד של האמא.

    • @joshuaedwards-nelson6348
      @joshuaedwards-nelson6348 12 дней назад +1

      No one cares

    • @danakruger
      @danakruger 12 дней назад

      ​@@joshuaedwards-nelson6348 For your opinion. For jews it's always cool to hear about jews from distant diaspora.

    • @brynawaldman5790
      @brynawaldman5790 12 дней назад +33

      ​@@joshuaedwards-nelson6348You don't care. This reflects you & not us. It's your problem.

    • @brynawaldman5790
      @brynawaldman5790 12 дней назад +10

      There were active Jewish communities in China till the 1880s. Henry Abrahamson does Jewish history lessons on RUclips. He has the theory that fluency in Hebrew to be able to read Torah is key to the survival of the culture. He noted that the last Hebrew speaker in China died, & the Jewish community assimilated after that. My Hebrew is far from fluent, but I know enough to know it's a real different way of thinking from thinking in English. It cannot really be translated . . . .

  • @144Donn
    @144Donn 10 дней назад +34

    "Our strength is not in numbers, but in our deep connection to each other."

  • @ashextraordinaire
    @ashextraordinaire 11 дней назад +60

    Still blows my mind that there are people who've never met a Jewish person. I've always had Jewish friends, classmates, and neighbors. I love Shabbat dinners and Purim services and every night of Chanukah. Can't imagine a life without Jewish people and culture!

    • @batya7
      @batya7 11 дней назад +6

      I worked in upstate New York and was the first Jew some people had met. New York! of all places.

    • @ashextraordinaire
      @ashextraordinaire 10 дней назад +1

      @@batya7 That's bizarre! There's a relatively large Jewish population where I live, even a small Orthodox community. But I bet there are still people here who have no idea.

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      Can you imagine a life without Europeans?

  • @jjohnson-stoker
    @jjohnson-stoker 12 дней назад +119

    I'm not Jewish, but I will stand with them and Israel forever.

  • @saeedmozaffari8091
    @saeedmozaffari8091 11 дней назад +119

    I admire the Jewish nation and civilization from Iran.

    • @Kira亗
      @Kira亗 10 дней назад +7

      We love you too! שלום

    • @Nitzpitz
      @Nitzpitz 9 дней назад +10

      And we admire the age old Persians for their wonderful culture and history. Stay strong!

    • @lande24
      @lande24 9 дней назад +7

      I admire the great and rich history of Persia.
      Cyrus the Great the ruler of the Persia was a great friend of the Jews and he allowed them to return to their homeland after they were expelled by the Babylonians.

    • @user-cm2kk2br1t
      @user-cm2kk2br1t 8 дней назад +1

      Amazing. That's rare.

    • @FeruzaJamoldinova-y8r
      @FeruzaJamoldinova-y8r 8 дней назад

      The real face of Iranians😂😂😂

  • @sherrycohen1824
    @sherrycohen1824 12 дней назад +36

    Being Jewish is being part of a global support group. We do celebrate together, mourn together, pray together, and disagree together. I wouldn't want it any other way. Love your videos and IG posts.

    • @rigelb9025
      @rigelb9025 11 дней назад

      Funny thing is, based on this, you actually sound like a Jew. For the record - I'm not, nor would I ever pretend to be. I am, however, in complete moral support of the Jews, as of recent times. But I doubt the same could be said about all those phony Jews & Pro-Israel Christians out there, some of whom are in the comments.

    • @julianzukmann2110
      @julianzukmann2110 11 дней назад

      No, we are Individual humans, not part of your reductive children's
      fantasy collective.

  • @bradleypierce1561
    @bradleypierce1561 12 дней назад +90

    My paternal grandmother was a Holocaust survivor. She was German Jewish, and fled Nazi Germany in 1938. Although I am a Christian, Judaism, and the Jewish people will always have a special place in my heart. ❤🇮🇱

    • @hroman5
      @hroman5 12 дней назад +5

      Ours is a special bond that transcends time.

    • @jshipps7599
      @jshipps7599 12 дней назад +5

      Same here…my grandpa was Jewish and we never knew I think he was trying to protect us but it makes me sad that we didn’t know anything about our connection to our people because of fear…ironic thing is I was raised in a Jewish neighborhood lol

    • @elyjane8316
      @elyjane8316 11 дней назад +4

      My parents were survivors. You are one of us...

    • @bradleypierce1561
      @bradleypierce1561 11 дней назад +2

      @@elyjane8316 Thank you.

    • @bradleypierce1561
      @bradleypierce1561 11 дней назад +3

      @@jshipps7599 I am sorry that was your situation. God bless you.

  • @douwe9813
    @douwe9813 12 дней назад +25

    I had discovered in march that I have a Jewish ethnicity ( and more of course ) so it’s kinda nice to know more about my Jewish background☝🏻

  • @situmaderrick2854
    @situmaderrick2854 12 дней назад +100

    As a Christian this channel has helped learn so much about Jews. And I’ll be the first to admit that Judaism is not for every one. Nonetheless, my respect for practicing Jews has trippled.

    • @xp8969
      @xp8969 12 дней назад

      Judaism is for Jewish people
      No fascist forced conversions like Islam

    • @lindsayball5080
      @lindsayball5080 11 дней назад

      Read jesus in the talmud. The jews are liars

    • @xking4498
      @xking4498 11 дней назад +2

      Im a jew and ill like to learn a bit about what is cristianity, do you maybe have a channel like that you can recommend me to learn from?

    • @adb012
      @adb012 11 дней назад

      What about your respect for non-practicing Jews?

    • @lindsayball5080
      @lindsayball5080 11 дней назад

      @adb012 how can one be a non practising jew? The jews are jews because they follow judaism. They aren't the jews of the bible. Jesus came to fulfill their covenant. They were judged in 66-73ad and the real israelites are living in peace in the actual holy land

  • @chriskarimi-vb1ep
    @chriskarimi-vb1ep 12 дней назад +101

    I love Israel. From Kenya

  • @TonyEl-hayek-x5r
    @TonyEl-hayek-x5r 11 дней назад +55

    As a Christian Lebanese myself, unfortunately what we hear about our Jewish brothers and sisters is mainly from Islamic sources which is the opposite of what they really are...God's chosen people..God bless Jerusalem

    • @BRGyt
      @BRGyt 10 дней назад +4

      Hey fellow Christian :D

    • @FeruzaJamoldinova-y8r
      @FeruzaJamoldinova-y8r 8 дней назад

      What you have read from these sources are all true

    • @jeanattali4005
      @jeanattali4005 4 дня назад

    • @ashercohen5034
      @ashercohen5034 3 дня назад +4

      The most successful population in Israel are Arabic speaking Christians. They are the most educated, higher socio- economic level, stable families and more.
      Israel is the only place in the middle east where Christian population increase, not persecuted and free to practice Christianity.

  • @Baruch-Hashem
    @Baruch-Hashem 12 дней назад +30

    Well done video, I am an Ashkenaz, Yeshivah Orthodox, Texan Jew, So I wear a Yarmulke under a Stetson (cowboy hat) was raised with working cattle ranch, and follow the laws very carefully with fear of heaven. My good friend is from Mexico, appears to be Mexican ethnically, is is observant as well. At my Schul we have a American Jew of African heritage, as well as one of Japanese heritage. My mother is Reform, she thinks us Observant Orthodox are a little over the top. But like all Jews, we are commanded to love one another and treat all humanity as HaShem (God's) Children. Even radicals whom attack us. What other army drops flyers upon the "enemy" saying flee before dropping a bomb to stop the attacks on Israel. Jusdaism comes from the Hebrew of being grateful to God, not just the tribe of Judah. Well, great video and I encourage everyone to get a closer to HaShem by following the commandments, but love you even if you dont.

    • @prismaingenieros8235
      @prismaingenieros8235 12 дней назад +1

      It's not true that you must love your enemies. Nowhere does it say that. It just says that you shouldnt be happy when your enemy goes down the drain 😂

    • @TheDoctorC-147
      @TheDoctorC-147 11 дней назад +2

      Shalom, Brother! 😊

    • @entropy2002
      @entropy2002 11 дней назад +1

      Does it give you a sense of pride that the 5 red heifers now in Israel came from Texas? I think that maybe 1 or 2 of them are disqualified now, but several are still qualified.

    • @chayalazar9982
      @chayalazar9982 День назад +1

      That's amazing! Keep strong. We are from Baltimore Orthodox Askanzik Jews. Don't know anyone who wears a cowboy hat and kippah. My husband is a mechanic and wears super thick tziuzus and kippah under his Chevy hat. So proud of him. Our family comes from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Spain, and Israel.

  • @markwatters6875
    @markwatters6875 12 дней назад +50

    Stay strong my friends 👍🇦🇺

  • @1234-y2v
    @1234-y2v 11 дней назад +21

    I'm central european non jewish, speaking german, hungarian and some russian. I got shock when I realised, that i actually understand yiddish kinda good.

    • @zb3495
      @zb3495 10 дней назад +1

      Yiddish is a German dialect

    • @1234-y2v
      @1234-y2v 10 дней назад

      @@zb3495 that's why I understand it

    • @mariascheu817
      @mariascheu817 8 дней назад +1

      ​@@zb3495It is not a dialect, but counted as an own language. But it is founded in Aschkenas, in the Schum cities of Mainz, Worms and Speyer in Germany.
      Therefore it sounds like a German dialect, but has taken words from Hebrew and a lot of languages where they later lived.

    • @mariascheu817
      @mariascheu817 8 дней назад

      ​@@zb3495It is not a dialect, but counted as an own language. But it is founded in Aschkenas, in the Schum cities of Mainz, Worms and Speyer in Germany.
      Therefore it sounds like a German dialect, but has taken words from Hebrew and a lot of languages where they later lived.

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 4 дня назад +1

      @@zb3495 Yiddish is NOT just a dialect but a distinct Germanic language based on Medieval High German. Yiddish is a West Germanic language infused with Aramaic, Hebrew and Slavic loan words. It was around for 1000 years before modern Hochdaych was even born but modern German does have the same roots.
      Blaybn gezunt, un shtark ;)

  • @PrinAnie
    @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +37

    The number of Jews (including me) who asked my wife 'Why?!' during her conversion process were countless. Some to see if she was Jewish in her soul (there's a story about this) but lots because we just couldn't understand why anyone would go through all that work, struggling and dedication for years, where they might just be told 'no' at the final moment. And even if told yes, they would face hatred just for being.
    I'm not sure if I had not been born Jewish I would have the strength, chutzpah, to go through the process.

    • @barneydenstad2148
      @barneydenstad2148 12 дней назад +1

      Chutzpah MAY be seen as strengh, but usually its used in an negative connection. Say, somebody begging social security help although he does has good money.

    • @barneydenstad2148
      @barneydenstad2148 12 дней назад +4

      Yes. Nothing wrong with a conversion if that is your decision and firmly belief. but its true, its not necessary for most. Because, being "salved" = go to Paradise, you do by being a good person... and have a reasonable understanding of God. Monoteists are preferred. :) And thus, as long being a good person doesnt mean you are supposed to kill Jews - practically every good christian, muslim and I presume, buddist, and atheist - will go to Paradise. thus, that is one of the chief reasons Jews are seldom actively spreading their Faith. Its good and helps much, but seldom necessary for non Jews to be a Jew. AND often means, you take burdens on you: you ARE supposed to be a good example for your neigbours, be useful to your community, help others...

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +2

      @@barneydenstad2148 true, but I think putting that level of work into something, not knowing where you'll end up is a bit of tongue in cheek strength. A bit f*** it, I'm going all in.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +2

      @@barneydenstad2148 what happens after we die is such a non-issue. Live a good life, that's all we know we must do. It's fun to debate (soul washing machine or reincarnation?), but it doesn't make a difference to how we are supposed to live right now.
      And by we, I mean all of humanity. Atheist to Zoroastrian (jk).

    • @Thenoobestgirl
      @Thenoobestgirl 12 дней назад

      ​@@PrinAnie I agree 💯%
      Also, it's both soul washing machine AND reincarnation. I've been doing a research about the afterlife recently, listening to hundreds of accounts of near death experiencers and people who remember their previous lives (and can prove it) and there are definitely consistent themes that repeat and that indicate of both options being included in the afterlife. In fact, our whole existence on this earth is just a simulation in order for our soul to learn lessons it couldn otherwise (how can you learn about the importance of love if you've never experienced hate because you've lived only in heaven which is MADE of love?) and we can reincarnate again and again and again. We also choose who to become and what life path to experience and there are spirit guides (just other souls who've already gone through these lessons and want to help others) who set you up with an appropriate life and look over you as you go about it.
      If you're interested in the subject I recommend starting out with the Next Level Soul Podcast. It's fascinating!

  • @Gannicus-USA
    @Gannicus-USA 12 дней назад +18

    You always speak so nicely. You’re a great ambassador for our community!

  • @bbenezra1169
    @bbenezra1169 7 дней назад +4

    Thank you for your video. As a Mizrachi Jew with roots in a Yemenite family, I used to feel a sense of inferiority, especially living in Western society in the United States. However, understanding and embracing who I am has given me the strength to hold on to my identity.

  • @Libby_Jana
    @Libby_Jana 11 дней назад +22

    I never met a jew until I started to study Torah and found a Rabbi to.started my conversion process. It's wild!
    I was raised roman catholic and we study a lot the "old testament" but I never felt it, somehow, but I knew it, and the first time I read the Torah everything fits super nicely, zero question, clear as day❤
    Thank H' I found an amazing Rabbi and his wife is the best, they are super humble kind and they are so full of knowedge and patience❤

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      They will never accept you. Notice how you have no comments and only 2 likes. You aren’t one of them.

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 4 дня назад +2

      Not easy to convert so I give you a lot of credit. My brother's wife was Catholic and converted before there kids were born so they would be Jewish. Interesting that their kids are Jews by virtue of their convert mother and not due to their Ashkenazi father! That's how Jews roll. And what makes it even more interesting is that my sister in law is not just a convert to Judaism and now part of the tribe, she is also native American (so part of another trine too).

  • @Gannicus-USA
    @Gannicus-USA 12 дней назад +40

    People who aren’t Jewish can never understand what it’s like. I travel the world and we play “Jewish Geography.” We’re bound to know someone in common. I was in China at a Jewish meet up and a man knew my cousin!

    • @mspaint93
      @mspaint93 11 дней назад +3

      Totally different context, but reminds me of the phrase "two degrees". In NZ you can technically know anyone through two degrees of separation in a close-knit population of five million, while globally it's seven. I'd imagine it's the same for you :) x

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      And you can never understand what it’s like to be a gentile.

    • @JM.5387
      @JM.5387 8 дней назад

      @@TickleMeChelmno converts can understand both.

    • @charleyergazi2567
      @charleyergazi2567 8 дней назад +1

      כל כך נכון

  • @esther_18
    @esther_18 12 дней назад +20

    Love the facts. Informative. Thanks for blessing the world, be it as Israelites or Jews. ❤

  • @SuperFredAZ
    @SuperFredAZ 12 дней назад +32

    I am ethnically Jewish, but choose not to practice, but I DO identify as Jewish!

    • @Gannicus-USA
      @Gannicus-USA 12 дней назад +11

      Guess what, I have family more religious and less religious! Most ended up in Auschwitz as ashes. People who hate us don’t discriminate

    • @SuperFredAZ
      @SuperFredAZ 11 дней назад +7

      @@Gannicus-USA so sorry for your loss, my family was from Russia and came to North America in the 30s, so we were lucky to miss the Nazis. My family served in WW2 to help defeat them.

    • @Gannicus-USA
      @Gannicus-USA 11 дней назад +3

      @@SuperFredAZ It’s a lot about timing. Some older relatives were able to leave to Israel, the States and S. America, but my grandma was young, so she ended up in Auschwitz and another one ended up in Slave labor camps. I grew up with the mindset that it can happen again!!

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      But I thought jevvish was a religion? You guys play an interesting game with identity while denying it to your enemies (Palestinians, Europeans).

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 4 дня назад

      Born a Jew you will always be a Jew regardless of religiosity. You would be "secular", but ya know what .... Judaism is way more of a way of life and culture than it is a religion. True.

  • @iminavegetativestatestudio1730
    @iminavegetativestatestudio1730 11 дней назад +10

    I'm not Jewish (ancestry wise, I'm British and Irish), and was raised Christian (no longer, however). However, my grandfather (RIP), though not at all a perfect man, apparently raised my father rather old testament. They didnt celebrate Christmas, but celebrated Passover. They also followed kosher laws like abstaining from pork, and would apparently sing Hebrew hymns. Very interesting. My grandfather once made latkes before (they were pretty good).

    • @barbaracohen9944
      @barbaracohen9944 11 дней назад +1

      Very interesting. He could've been Jewish and never said anything about it.

    • @iminavegetativestatestudio1730
      @iminavegetativestatestudio1730 10 дней назад +2

      @@barbaracohen9944 I highly doubt it. My dad was raised by my grandpa in what was virtually some apocalyptic Christian cult. My grandpa eventually decided that the church they were part of was full of too many zealotic people, and he started his own church in the basement (which is the basement of the very house I grew up in).
      Genetically, I got a DNA test on Ancestry and 23andme and I am primarily British and Irish, with some Scandinavian and a bit of French. If I had Jewish ancestry, I probably would have heard about it, as I was told since I was a kid about my French Acadian ancestry (which makes up only 3% of my DNA).
      Honestly, I may not be Jewish, but my family history is pretty interesting nonetheless!

    • @barbaracohen9944
      @barbaracohen9944 10 дней назад

      It certainly is​@@iminavegetativestatestudio1730

    • @Historian212
      @Historian212 9 дней назад

      It’s fascinating how many Christians take it upon themselves to observe some aspects of Jewish tradition, but because they don’t study with knowledgeable Jews, they don’t really understand what they’re doing. Some decide they’re doing what Jesus did - except they don’t understand that the Jewish tradition has evolved a lot since those times, after the Second Temple was destroyed. What we know as the Passover seder didn’t exist in Jesus’ time, although one or two prayers and traditions may be that old. It’s all very entangled with the history of the church and the synagogue, which almost no one studies. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @iminavegetativestatestudio1730
      @iminavegetativestatestudio1730 9 дней назад

      @@Historian212 Yeah, I'm not religious anymore. However, I was never part of my grandpa's little cult or whatever it was. I just remember my dad telling me that my grandpa was very observant of solely what the Bible "objectively" says, including the old Testament.

  • @BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance
    @BarbaraGail_drum_song_dance 12 дней назад +12

    This video is a Mitzvah!!! Thank you 😊

  • @Johndavidd4133
    @Johndavidd4133 12 дней назад +18

    I believed Jews exist in every corner of the world and I simply Identified myself as one. God bless Israel.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад

      @@Johndavidd4133 what do you mean by simply?

    • @judeancupcake7553
      @judeancupcake7553 11 дней назад

      That's not how it works.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 11 дней назад

      @@Johndavidd4133 first it's a fact that we exist. Second someone can't just decide that they belong to a nation.

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      They’ll never accept you

  • @miryanboles5356
    @miryanboles5356 10 дней назад +9

    I respect, admire and love Jewish people.

  • @Lolas93
    @Lolas93 7 дней назад +2

    I’m going through conversation and I have to say it is not easy but I’m loving every second of it ❤

    • @Lolas93
      @Lolas93 7 дней назад

      Conversion NOT conversation (sorry typo 😅)

  • @thomasbarca9297
    @thomasbarca9297 11 дней назад +10

    I have Jewish heritage from both of my paternal and maternal lines my father has Sephardi my mother has azkardhi

  • @Michael-Martell
    @Michael-Martell 11 дней назад +3

    This is such an awesome video! I’m going through the Ger process now. More than likely I’ll subscribe to your channel!

  • @mpd8633
    @mpd8633 12 дней назад +5

    As a non-Jewish person, there are a few facts I know about the Jewish people, as revealed in the Bible. Firstly, they are a people God chose by His sovereign will as His own special people, to whom He gave a special revelation of Himself and of His ways, and who would in turn demonstrate this to the rest of the world. They were not supposed to have a human king. God Himself is their King. Secondly, there is a piece of real estate, a plot of land, which God designated as His own personal property, and which He gave to the Jewish people to inhabit. But He warned them explicity, that they were TENANTS in the land, and if they did not abide by His laws, He would evict them off the land, but when His anger cooled, He would bring them back to the land. Thirdly, the city of Jerusalem is God's special city, His designated capital, from which He Himself would govern all nations at the appointed time. And fourthly, the Temple in Jerusalem is God's special dwelling place among the nations. When you know these facts about the Jewish nation, it's easy to understand why Jews are an exceptionally prosperous race, and yet are the most persecuted in history. It also becomes evident why the land of Palestine is hotly contested, ownership of Jerusalem is hotly contested, and the Temple site is disputed. It goes beyond mere politics. It's a spiritual confrontation and contest between God's kingdom of light and the evil forces of the kingdom of darkness.

    • @lonewolf77771
      @lonewolf77771 10 дней назад +1

      Well said.

    • @aeh3253
      @aeh3253 6 дней назад

      Please don't use the word "Palestine". It's not biblical.

  • @leekwock2795
    @leekwock2795 12 дней назад +5

    Thankyou so much for this MY friend ❤️

  • @loveinaction2772
    @loveinaction2772 5 дней назад +3

    I’m Canadian and respect the Jewish people and from my ancestry I have 11% Jewish in me a great grand mother many generations back from Ireland. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

    • @Lagolop
      @Lagolop 4 дня назад

      11% is actually quite significant genetically speaking.

    • @user-ss6pt6ix3e
      @user-ss6pt6ix3e 14 часов назад

      ביהדות
      היהדות עוברת דרך האמא אז אם יש לך סבתא רבתה יהודייה הילדים שלה 100 אחוז יהודים ולא חצי
      וכן הילדים של הבנות הן 100 אחוז יהודיות (אצל הבנים שלה זה תלוי אם הם התחתנו עם יהודייה או לא אם הם התחתנו עם יהודיות אז גם הילדים שלהם 100 אחוז יהודים ואם הם התחתנו עם גויות אז הילדים שלהם 100 אחוז לא יהודים...
      אז אם הסבתא רבתה שלך היתה יהודיה ואתה צאצא ישיר של בנות שלה ושל הבנות שלהן (הבנת את הרעיון...) אז אתה 100 אחוז יהודי ולא רק 11 אחוז😊

  • @ThisIsMbr
    @ThisIsMbr 11 дней назад +3

    Bro your way of explanation is very good
    I love knowledgeable facts about history religion and all keep it up 😁

  • @reandruzzi
    @reandruzzi 11 дней назад +2

    The comment about us checking the "Early Life" section of the Wikipedia pages of public figures for signs of Judaism is so accurate and I'm glad I'm not the only one who does this 😂

  • @PrinAnie
    @PrinAnie 12 дней назад +12

    People in the West especially forget that we arent monolith. I'm Ashkinazi but don't 'look' it. In fact people feel comfortable being antisemitic around me because they have an image of dark curly hair, and I'm pale with mousey hair and green eyes.
    My son is Black and had to take his bar mitzvah certificate to school to prove it!

    • @annemurphy9339
      @annemurphy9339 12 дней назад

      Esau and Jacob were redheads, so ….

    • @Joseph-ql9ox
      @Joseph-ql9ox 9 дней назад

      being anti semetic is hating on someone from the levant region, if you are jewish but not from the levant region, you are not a semetic person, religion doesn;t matter, race does

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 9 дней назад +1

      @@Joseph-ql9ox Antisemitism was coined as a more scientific term to replace Judenhass. It wasn't about the semetic language group. I was first used in 1860 as a distinct hatred of Jews.
      On another note, are you saying that Ethiopian Jews (Beta Ysrael) don't face antisemitism. What about the Cochinis, the Bene Israel and the Baghdadis of India. Things get tricky in a diaspora.
      You know, when people are forced out of their homes to become slaves to the Romans and forced into Spain or even Germany.

    • @TickleMeChelmno
      @TickleMeChelmno 9 дней назад

      Why would your blk son have to prove it? You tried to pin racism on whytes and then excused it for your own kind against your own son!

    • @annemurphy9339
      @annemurphy9339 9 дней назад

      @@Joseph-ql9ox True, but those enclaves of Jewish people that were established in the USA or Europe for instance, during the long diaspora, remained in their groups and still carry the Semitic/Levant DNA of their origins. Genetic studies prove the genetic kinship between these groups. Converts to the faith like the Igbo & some Ethiopians aren’t Semitic, I agree.

  • @ishamkader2696
    @ishamkader2696 9 дней назад +3

    Not in NUMBERS but deep in CONNECTION of one another ❤🇮🇱🕍😇🕯️✡️🕎

  • @sainta2667
    @sainta2667 11 дней назад +3

    Beautifully told and explained. This channel was needed.

  • @BinyaminShkedi-rr2bl
    @BinyaminShkedi-rr2bl 5 дней назад +1

    I am an Orthodox jew and i admire your work keep doing what your doing♥️

  • @kaschwitkis
    @kaschwitkis 11 дней назад +3

    I really like your videos, particularly your upbeat nature. Thank you.

  • @micmars67
    @micmars67 2 дня назад

    I was raised Roman Catholic 12 years of school, became a nondenominational bible believing Christian and left after studying the Torah to connect myself to the Jewish faith and Hashem. Rabbi Tovia Singer was a big part of my crossing over, keeping Sabbath and my Journey.

  • @סתםאחת-ל8י
    @סתםאחת-ל8י 8 дней назад +3

    אני יהודייה מישראל מאד נהניתי לראות את הסרטון תודה רבה🇮🇱😍

  • @user2008Y
    @user2008Y День назад +1

    I am a Jew from Israel, and it was a beautiful thank you!❤✡

  • @Rani-xx5cm
    @Rani-xx5cm 12 дней назад +32

    Its an Obligation for Christians to support Jews. 🇮🇱 ✝️ 🕎

    • @rigelb9025
      @rigelb9025 11 дней назад

      How do you support them?

    • @baonguyen-ct6nj
      @baonguyen-ct6nj 11 дней назад +5

      Yet they spit on your crosses and pilgrims

    • @sainta2667
      @sainta2667 11 дней назад

      @@baonguyen-ct6nj Spit your crap somewhere else.

    • @Rani-xx5cm
      @Rani-xx5cm 11 дней назад +7

      @@rigelb9025 Because They are Good People.

    • @Rani-xx5cm
      @Rani-xx5cm 11 дней назад +9

      @@baonguyen-ct6nj I have lot of Jewish friends, They never insulted my Religion, They used to support me for whatever I am, I used to talk, Drink, sleep & Hangover with them, Their parents treat me like their children. If some people do bad things. Only they should be punished, not an entire Religion

  • @victoriafranco6859
    @victoriafranco6859 12 дней назад +5

    Beautiful episode 🤍

  • @lonewolf77771
    @lonewolf77771 10 дней назад +1

    I think that he has glossed over the most important component of Judaism: G-d, “HaShem,” the Name that is so holy that we’re not even supposed to pronounce it. Judaism would never have lasted this long without a very deep connection and relationship to G-d and His Torah (teachings).

  • @waisinglee1509
    @waisinglee1509 12 дней назад +9

    At 3:40, totally agree that Jews are the best lawyers.

    • @Amro-elbosaty
      @Amro-elbosaty 12 дней назад

      Will be good if the Jewish lawyers continue to advocate for justice and stand up against the brutal oppressive racist regime known as the state of Israel, its allies the USA and the war criminals.

    • @Katcornell
      @Katcornell 11 дней назад +3

      It’s wrong to make such stereotypical assumptions. As with lawyers of all backgrounds, some Jewish lawyers are dishonorable, and some exhibit great integrity. It applies to all people of any profession.

  • @noaverner
    @noaverner 6 дней назад +1

    you are the best jewish representative ❤️. I learn so much from your videos on my own heritage , as a non religious jew i am quite distant from parts of it so thanks!

  • @danamiles2071
    @danamiles2071 11 дней назад +5

    I like the part about going into the ritual bath a Gentile and coming out, a Jew.

  • @pietdeboer1948
    @pietdeboer1948 6 дней назад +1

    I am a Frisian born in Amsterdam, not religious but a Jew.

  • @manyalevine1017
    @manyalevine1017 8 дней назад +3

    Being Jewish is being part of a family

  • @fc-neriya12-israel
    @fc-neriya12-israel 6 дней назад +1

    I am Jewish, and yes, Judaism is tough and not suitable for everyone. But if you grow into it, you are 100% suitable for it, God's blessing (apart from specific cases of those who repeat the question - that is, they change from religious to secular, of course still Jewish. And, God's blessing, there are also the opposite cases, where a secular becomes religious.).

  • @StarvrosMitchell
    @StarvrosMitchell 12 дней назад +1

    I absolutely love this episode!!!! The content was well explained and very interesting. There is always something new to learn with Unpacked. My take aways are: (1) we are united although our views are different and (2) learning doesn't stop, thanks Chabad and Unpacked for making info easily accessible.

  • @mariascheu817
    @mariascheu817 4 дня назад +1

    You are right. I sometimes in my life, I heard poeple saying jews are like this or that - sometimes stereotypes.
    When I hear that, I ask: Do you know one?
    Than they look astonished and answer "no".
    I think this question is the best way to break stereotypes by poeple starting to think.
    There is not "the jew", like there is not "the french", "the spain". Of course we have our culture, but we are also individuals.

  • @MorBonnyMusic
    @MorBonnyMusic 12 дней назад +3

    Always so informative ❤

  • @TNTGAME12
    @TNTGAME12 12 дней назад +1

    Could you make a video about military conscription in Israel, and about how the lifestyle in Israel is very different between religious and secular people, and about education in Israel? I wrote down a few topics that I think would be nice to see a video about.

  • @KOSHERBLAK
    @KOSHERBLAK 11 дней назад +2

    Jerusalem I want to see you at peace with all your children home God bless us all on earth 🌎 🙏🏾 Shalom&Blessings

  • @hamiltonsarain9608
    @hamiltonsarain9608 12 дней назад +3

    I'm not Jewish, and my last name שראין is not my biological father's surname. He's a Varner. After all of my independent research, I arrived at the conclusion that, Second Temple period politics aside, the Sadducees (צדוקים) were closer to the true Hebraic worldview of the ancient Israelites, so the rabbis would dismiss me as an Epicurean and a heretic. Even so, I can wholeheartedly say 'barukh hashem', and I know the signs of 'mashiahh' if he does show up, but in my heart of hearts, I believe that human beings of all nations should be working together in order to pass on a better way of life to future generations here on this one planet Earth that nourishes us all. I wish you all success and true prosperity... 'b'shalom'.

    •  11 дней назад +1

      Theres no such thing as heresy in judaism. Its not a specified crime in the Torah. (Yes theres the story of the golden calf, but its not the same thing).
      Yes some crazy Orthodox sects might use the word, but its a Greek word, not a Hebrew one.
      In general saying "theres no god" will still get you a seat at the table for shabbes dinner because Jews are taught to love their children and fellow man whatever happens, not to kick them out because you dont agree with everything they say.

    • @FinnLapp
      @FinnLapp 10 дней назад

      In last weeks parsha, Parshat Reeh; The open versus talk about someone who tries to tell others to serve Idols; Or a city that chose to serve Idols.
      Also a Prophet that even is successful in doing a miracle but says to serve idols.
      A jew who unfortunatly does not serve Hashem and follow his Torah both the Written and Oral law is a jew that is sinning but still a Jew.
      A Jew that serves Idols or has beliefs that are antitetical to the Torahs ideas or the Torahs main fundamentals is also sinning but is still Jewish.
      The proper way to live as a jew is to be Jewish and to practice as a jew in a Orthodox way.
      Why Orthodox? because the orthodox are the only group of Practicing Jews that are seeking to live by the Torah both the Oral and written Torah.
      Wheras every other type of Jewish group that proclaims itself not Orthodox be it conservative, reform or whatever are by their own definition Groups that seek to be free of the full responsability of the obligations mentioned inth Torah and by the RABBI"S of the Talmud.
      This that Jews have lasted 3500 years is a Orthodox phenomenah not any other group phenomenah. Because all the other groups are relativly new or they died out.
      The reform come from Rabbinic Orthodox groups only to break away in attempt to ... Reform.
      Same with Conservative.
      As for Karaites there are practically none left. Regardless of their numbers the Karaites are simply mistaken and wrong.
      But even for all the Karaite strictness for literal practice their a group that at the end ofthe day broke away from a responsability just like all other groups that are not orthodox as mentioned above; How so? by throwing off the yoke of having to listen to the oral tradition of ones parents and Rabbi's.
      The Karaites seeming dedication to the written law exclusivly in its literal raw form seems like righteousness.
      But lets see how this is.
      Lets put asiedebating the merist of the oral tradition; lets assume and agree for a moment that indeed the oral tradition is binding just as much as the written Torah.
      Now both groups lets say agree that every Human being has a Evilinclination to be free of any and all obligation... Right!?
      So now what do you think a person witha inclination to do evil would rather do and be drawn to choose:
      1) A path where all you have to do to be considered good is follow the letter of the law and that it.
      2) To harken to the Letter of the Law but also be alert to the spirit of the law but not only that to be alert to and trust other Human beings inspite of having an ego of ones own as to the meaning translation and spirit of each and evry word; and the need to be constantly dustfull at the dust of the wise ones feet. To haveto live in aworld of not just one book but another 60 books based on Oral tradition. To have to live in a world of having to respect the Great Rabbis of the Generation almost like one would respect G-d Himself but at the same time only praying to G-d and only serving G-d. To live ina world where even after one had a Rabbi in their life but lets say heaven forbid the Rabbi past on the person then would go seek to add another Rabbi into his life because the person is interested in having a Live rabbi not just a past rabbbi.
      So as you can see path one as righteous and pure as it may sound isa path that has a much lighter Yoke than the all encompassing Yoke of the 2nd path.
      This shows the folly of the Karaites or as other similar groups have been calls Tzaddukim.

  • @garytaylor7291
    @garytaylor7291 6 дней назад +1

    Jews have won 20% of all Nobel prizes, 25% of all Nobel science prizes. When it comes to chess champions, 54% have been Jews or people who have some Jewish bloodline. All of that questioning and learning have paid off for them.

  • @nohandle558
    @nohandle558 12 дней назад +5

    The greatest perversion of the Torah is to translate 'stranger גר' as a convert. That a 'stranger' should be treated with love is one of the most often repeated concepts in the Torah and to misconstrue it as meaning a 'convert' is doing God, Jews, Judaism and the Tanach תנ"ך a great disservice.
    Since the video mentions Ruth who was indeed a convert, please note that in Ruth 2:10 she identifies herself as a 'foreigner נכריה'. My point is simply that no where in the Old Testament does it talk about what should be involved in conversion or what a convert should be called...and the answer as to the latter, a convert should simply be called a Jew.

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 12 дней назад +2

      The Hebrew word "ger" is used in the Five Books of Moses with 3 distinctly different meanings, and in every case, the correct meaning has to be understood from the context and within the basis of Torah Law.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад

      ​@@hrvatskinoahid1048 Many don't understand that Jews can't pull verses or even chapters out to prove a point. Context matters so much. When people tell me to read a verse to prove their point, I tell them to read the book to understand it.

    • @nohandle558
      @nohandle558 12 дней назад

      @@hrvatskinoahid1048 No, ger means stranger in every instance. The rabbanim choose to translate it differently to meet their own agenda, primarily, they didn't like the idea that IAW Deut 10:19 you have to love the stranger because you were strangers in Egypt.' Why? Because the rabbis viewed the stranger as those who conquered them. Are we suppose to love our enemy? The real answer is Yes and No. Yes, when the 'enemy' is your neighbor who you happen to hate but No when your enemy is coming to kill you.

    • @hrvatskinoahid1048
      @hrvatskinoahid1048 12 дней назад

      @@nohandle558 In Torah law, there is a difference between Ger Tzekek and Ger Toshav.

    • @brighthought11
      @brighthought11 11 дней назад

      @@nohandle558just like they can't prove that your only Jewish if your mom is, Torah clearly goes by the male, seed of Yisrael, seed of Avraham Yitzchak and Yakkov, all the genealogies only list men, completely ignoring daughters besides a few particular stories, priestly and tribal designation only by the father (what is a "Jew" with a Jewish mother but not a Jewish father = so no tribe)
      the one example given of a non Jewish father but Jewish mother, was negative, the kid did blasphemy and was stoned

  • @altdeleteil
    @altdeleteil 6 дней назад +1

    אחלה וידאו. תודה .

  • @sammy_trix
    @sammy_trix 5 дней назад +3

    I would wish you could explore the Jewish ancestry in the Philippines and also how they became a safe haven during the World War 2.

    • @UNPACKED
      @UNPACKED  5 дней назад +2

      We’ll explore and see if we can produce a video on this topic! Thanks for suggesting it :)

    • @rakefetgal8383
      @rakefetgal8383 4 дня назад +1

      As an Israeli Jew desendent from Ashcenaz Family tree, I whould really like to Know about it too!
      The majority Israeli jews are either Spheradic or Ashcenazi decendents and there is almost zero knowledge about our relatives from the East.
      I'm very curious to know more about their journy :)

    • @sammy_trix
      @sammy_trix 4 дня назад +1

      @@rakefetgal8383 Yeah, we're Sephardic Jews too. Many of them are actually from Mexico, and then from Spain, or those mixed with Basque.

    • @sammy_trix
      @sammy_trix 4 дня назад +1

      @@UNPACKED Thank you❤️🇮🇱

  • @dbscouten
    @dbscouten 2 дня назад

    In these videos, please say more about how the mission of the Jewish people serves the whole world, the bnai Noach.
    Thank you for holding on to the truth, through good times and hard times, for all this time. 🙏

  • @akkyttue
    @akkyttue 5 дней назад +3

    Will you guys explore the story of the Lemba Jews in southern Africa?

    • @UNPACKED
      @UNPACKED  5 дней назад

      It’s coming out next year!

  • @user-cm2kk2br1t
    @user-cm2kk2br1t 8 дней назад +1

    From what I learned, גר is more like 'immigrant', because the Torah says when it tells us to love the ger, the reason is because we were also gerim in Egypt. This pasuk goes together with immigrant, and not so much with with what you said.

    • @yafitmv7
      @yafitmv7 5 дней назад

      There are two kinds of גר

  • @tomaspushkin1537
    @tomaspushkin1537 4 дня назад +1

    As an israeli jew, I have never heard of asian jews. Still fascinating that there are white and black jews, with a same part in the dna. I am a sephardic jew, so im mostly white, a bit dark.

  • @hamiltonsarain9608
    @hamiltonsarain9608 10 дней назад

    Thank you! I read that in its entirety. I respect the rabbis and learn from them what is appropriate for a nob-Jew. For example, Efraim Palvanov recently uploaded two videos about the 30 laws for the 'b'nei noahh'. I have nothing to do with Karaites. I don't keep Shabbat or celebrate any Jewish holidays. When the 'mashiahh' shows up, then maybe I will leave this continent in order to go up to Jeruslam to give thanks and praises during Sukkot. Barukh Hashem! To you and yours, success and true prosperity!

  • @hagaiziv9540
    @hagaiziv9540 12 дней назад +4

    למה זה כלכך קצר 💪

  • @user-kg3rw8dt7u
    @user-kg3rw8dt7u День назад +1

    As a religious Jew, I think you explained really well, except for hitting individual things that the reformers think are true, but that is a lie

  • @DarcyS369
    @DarcyS369 12 дней назад +3

    I’ve been told I don’t look Jewish 😂

  • @Drnaynay
    @Drnaynay 12 дней назад +2

    Beautiful!!

  • @chezigerin
    @chezigerin 11 дней назад +1

    Great video

  • @BarondeCastro
    @BarondeCastro 11 дней назад

    Thank you! Great video!

  • @batya7
    @batya7 11 дней назад +1

    As always, excellent content. Could have also stated another word for Jews, derived from Judah, is Yehudim יהודים.

  • @noaverner
    @noaverner 6 дней назад

    this video is so heartwarming ❤️❤️❤️

  • @renusingh3930
    @renusingh3930 9 дней назад +1

    It's really interesting because we Hindu's also believe if you are hindu a atheist who is born in hindu family is hindu

  • @sararichman6612
    @sararichman6612 11 дней назад

    Yeah! Onother video of unpacked!🎉

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 11 дней назад +1

    Can you be Jewish through religion but not through ethnicity? For example me as a Hungarian Christian if i convert to Judaism, I don't become an ethnic Jew. But I would still become Jewish by religion

  • @wizzardofpaws2420
    @wizzardofpaws2420 3 дня назад

    The only people group who are hated for no good reason. Stay safe and thank you for the informative video.

  • @tonialemda2582
    @tonialemda2582 9 дней назад +2

    GOD bless Israel and the Jews, his sons

  • @LaBelleOgram
    @LaBelleOgram 8 дней назад

    orthodox jewish girl here first off you hit alot of the main points very correctly and also im dying why did yutube put this in my feed as if i dont know 5 main points abt myself 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @michaeljaydenanderson537
    @michaeljaydenanderson537 11 дней назад +1

    What is the name of the movie during the aliyah scene 1:45 and shoutout to King Baldwin and Saladin

  • @jimdellavecchia4594
    @jimdellavecchia4594 11 дней назад +1

    I learned this from Rabbi Hyman Krystofsky and his son Herschel

  • @avidteadrinker
    @avidteadrinker 12 дней назад +7

    אני יהודי 🤭

  • @patzan48
    @patzan48 10 дней назад +1

    There’s only one thing to say to this video: Am Israel Chai!

  • @user-wt6ss6bn7r
    @user-wt6ss6bn7r 11 дней назад

    ❤ Absolutely necessary video.

  • @theworldisavampire3346
    @theworldisavampire3346 12 дней назад +5

    I strongly belive that us Christians got some things wrong. I believe that we should be keeping rituals & observances from the old testament. Jesus/Yeshua was a teacher, a rabbi and kept all of the jewish laws & customs. He never directed us christians to give up the observances to God. This matter troubles me greatly.

    • @PrinAnie
      @PrinAnie 12 дней назад

      @@theworldisavampire3346 there are lots of commandments that are only for Jews. Nobody else should be observing them. But I know that Paul pulled away from the Judaism of the time. A while after that the small Jewish-Christian sects mostly died out and European Christianity took over.
      Also, it's the Hebrew Bible, not the old testament.

    • @amberkhashmal
      @amberkhashmal 11 дней назад +2

      This why I left X-ianity. I was one for more than half of my life. There’s a lot of contrary-to-scripture doctrines and deceptions. I choose to adhere to the scriptures and follow Yahusha, not JC.

    • @judeancupcake7553
      @judeancupcake7553 11 дней назад

      Christians should not keep Jewish traditions.

    • @iminavegetativestatestudio1730
      @iminavegetativestatestudio1730 11 дней назад +1

      Well actually if you are a gentile you should only be following the 7 noahide laws, which are mostly similar to the 10 commandments.

    • @annonimiss6422
      @annonimiss6422 11 дней назад

      It sounds like you might have more inner peace if you choose to research why Christians got it all wrong. And why there are Noachides that chose to become Noachides after realizing their whole Christian life was a lie.
      I'm not one to just give unsolicited wake up calls to random people who aren't Jewish, but you're expressing skewed thinking (of course not your own fault), so I feel that my unsolicited suggestion/advice to research why Christian beliefs are just lies is appropriate here.
      Edit: Actually, regarding your inner peace: if you do choose to take my advice and genuinely question Christianity, _if_ you end up realizing that Christianity did get it wrong, that inner peace (or lack thereof) will probably get a whole lot worse before it gets better. It's normal to go through feelings of grief and depression after realizing that all you've dedicated your life to and all your beliefs were built on lies. (I don't know if all ex-Christian turned Noachides go through that grief and depression, but I hear some of them do, so I just wanted to correct myself on that "more inner peace" thing.)

  • @anthonyjaoui2097
    @anthonyjaoui2097 12 дней назад +5

    כששאלתי את אבי אם הוא יוכל לומר ל-ה' דבר אחד מה הוא יומר הוא אמר לי "תודה אשר עשית אותי יהודי"

  • @Shireen52
    @Shireen52 11 дней назад

    מעניין מאוד ❤ תודה😊

  • @elizabethdavis1696
    @elizabethdavis1696 12 дней назад

    Why have two channels ? What’s the other channel called again?

    • @codymiller6172
      @codymiller6172 12 дней назад

      It’s called “Today Unpacked”. It tackles more of the current events of the Jewish world, including the conflict(s) regarding Israel, while this channel delves more into other aspects of the Jewish world, including, it not limited to, Jewish history.

  • @ScenariosOfDrea
    @ScenariosOfDrea 11 дней назад

    in terms of how long a conversion takes it depends on the sect of Judaism, Reform you ctake the course than you say when you are ready similar to Conservative and Orthodox takes a long time.

  • @donia20252
    @donia20252 11 дней назад

    Same with Phoenicians originally from the Levant descendants of Canaanite which also spread globally

  • @Dhulagarh
    @Dhulagarh 12 дней назад +11

    Jewish Girls Are So Beautiful 🤗
    Love From India 🇮🇳🧡🇮🇱

  • @elimak5402
    @elimak5402 10 дней назад

    Very well made video

  • @alphadog3384
    @alphadog3384 7 дней назад +1

    The more l know the less l know, which means the more l need to know.

  • @jaekamei
    @jaekamei 11 дней назад

    9:04 I totally do that! 🤣

  • @AyamanAmusic
    @AyamanAmusic 12 дней назад

    ‏‪6:58‬‏ you misinterpreted the verse.
    The Talmud says clearly that the "גר" (Ger) in the Torah is not a גר צדק (Ger Tzedek = meaning a man the Convert like you know it) but a גר תושב (Ger Toshav = from the world living or settler or citizen, meaning a gentile that live in the land of Israel and keeping the Noahide laws.)
    We do need to treat our converts as you say.
    But don't misinterpret the text just because it's continent to the point.
    People can ruin those points in seconds if you keep it that way.

  • @healer180
    @healer180 4 дня назад

    This guy is a reform jew.
    Orthodox jews don't divide judaism into reform, conservative and orthodox.

  • @ismailjainoodeen9205
    @ismailjainoodeen9205 12 дней назад

    I too read the earlier life section on Wikipedia to see if a famous person is Jewish but I am NOT Jewish!