Thank you Rabbi Ari for answering my two previous questions. To answer your questions, he is only someone who I know from my community college days. Since my job is caring for my little special needs sister and my uncle while my mother is at work, I have no contact with him except for D&D on Mondays. He tries to portray himself as rational as a sort of Buddhist-Christian, but he gives off an arrogant and self-centered mindset. He even goes on to take "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" out of context to try to one-up me when the war is brought up? I guess my follow-up question to the follow-up question is this: "Why do people often hate on Jews for no reason?"

Yes, it's hard to believe that even in the modern world, there is still baseless anti-Semitism! Anyone with even a minimal knowledge of Judaism knows that we will throw a way an egg which has even a drop of chicken's blood, so how can one be so ignorant as to suggest that we "use their blood for matzoh"?!! This just shows that you can't look for logic when it comes to anti-Semitism. Even in a modern world, at least one nation in every generation, calls to eradicate Am Yisrael. Just when we thought that mankind had “grown-up”, and that there never could be another Pharoh, Haman, Antiochus or Hitler, ימח שמם, Iran comes around and threatens to “nuke” us, or Hamas barbarically does unspeakable attrocities. BH, we know that they won’t succeed, but nevertheless, it would be nice to know the cause of age-old anti-Semitism and the eventual solution. Socialogists claim that it's simply: the dislike of the unlike! On the other hand, my father-in-law, a Holocaust survivor, answered me that the gentiles in Eurpe were jealous oof the Jews' success. Rav Kook suggests that the cause of hatred for Am Yisrael, is in the double meaning of "מלמד חובות". First of all, we taught obligations and brought morality and conscience to the world, commanding barbaric man not to steal or kill- something that the nations of the world did not want to hear. That’s why the French philosopher Blaise Pasquale called the Jewish people the "conscience" of mankind, and most people don’t like their conscience (even when they eventually listen to it!). Secondly, we showed the world that morality is do-able, something which showed them in a negative light (the opposite of ללמד זכות). This is the deeper understanding of what our sages teach us that Sinai was named that way because it brought hate (Sina) of Israel to the nations. Does that mean there’s no hope this will ever change? We can manage without the love of the hypocritical world, but at least let them stop threatening to kill us! Rav Kook explains that people not only enjoy gifts but even harbor a positive association with the “giver” of that pleasure. Many people go so far as to value the autograph of entertainers for that reason, that they bring us pleasure. The more the world will understand the benefits of morality and monotheism, the more they will eventually appreciate the nation who brought those ideals to the world. Just as a child often hates going to his dentist, despite the fact that everything done there is for the child's own good, yet only when he matures will he eventually recognize and thank his dentist. Although the morality of the Torah which we brought to the world, often make the nations feel guilty, as the world gradually matures, they will eventually thank us for these truths and values, the greatest treasures of modern society, When mankind matures, inevitably they will harbor a positive association with Am Yisrael, the nation that civilized and brought more bracha and true pleasure to mankind than any entertainer or nation. Until that time, we can’t be naïve, and must continue, in addition to fulfilling our role of being that moral and shining Or LaGoyim, also continue defending ourselves, deterring our enemies, and davening and thanking Hashem for persistently saving us. “והקב"ה מצילנו מידם!"