{"id":1066708,"date":"2021-11-29T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066708"},"modified":"2021-11-29T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:44:10","slug":"exclusive-shmuley-boteach-on-hanukkah-longevity-of-the-jewish-people-is-itself-a-testament-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-shmuley-boteach-on-hanukkah-longevity-of-the-jewish-people-is-itself-a-testament-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u2014 Shmuley Boteach on Hanukkah: &#039;Longevity of the Jewish People Is Itself a Testament to God&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-shmuley-boteach-on-hanukkah-longevity-of-the-jewish-people-is-itself-a-testament-to-god%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1066708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Shmuley Boteach, rabbi and author of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kosher-Hate-Jew-Hatred-Racism-Bigotry\/dp\/1642939684?tag=breitbart035-20\"><\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>described the continuity of Jewish people as proof of the divine hand in an interview on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Sunday<\/em> with host Joel Pollak.<\/p>\n<p><span>Pollak remarked, \u201cThere\u2019s something about the mystery of Jewish survival in this Hanukkah holiday. What can we learn about that? How is it that Jews were celebrating this miraculous survival thousands of years ago \u2014 and we\u2019re still celebrating it today \u2014 w<\/span><span>hen many other civilizations [and] empires have come and gone, and there\u2019s almost no trace of them except what we find in archaeological records or what was preserved by other civilizations?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Boteach replied, \u201cT<\/span><span>he survival [and] continuity of the Jewish people against all odds, for many people, is proof positive t<\/span><span>hat there is a God. The longevity of the Jewish people is itself a testament to God because we are the most persecuted of all nations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boteach linked Adolf Hitler\u2019s genocidal pursuit against Jews to Roman emperors Hadrian, Titus, and Vespasian.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re still here, and Rome is a footnote in history,\u201d he said. \u201cGreece, Athens, and Sparta are footnotes in history, and the Jewish people remain the most influential nation of all time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Influential Jews had bent history\u2019s arc in both moral and immoral dimensions, Boteach observed. Perfection of the human condition can only come to pass through providence, he held.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2517003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-07-at-14.01.24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2517003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-07-at-14.01.24.png\" alt=\"Yoav Lemmer-Pool\/Getty\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon takes part in the lighting of the second Hanukkah candle at his Jerusalem offices December 26, 2005, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Lemmer-Pool\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>He considered, \u201cLook at the influence we\u2019ve had, from Christianity to Islam and through all the isms \u2014 whether it\u2019s some good, some bad political ideologies that were birthed by this Jewish reach for a utopia. Now, we believe that the only utopia can happen in the Messianic era guided by God. Whenever human beings have tried to bring about utopia through communism, etcetera, a perfect workers\u2019 paradise, it\u2019s led to tyranny. It has to be done through God\u2019s grace and not just by human striving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added, \u201cT<\/span><span>he Jewish people are an immensely influential nation, and we gave the world the Ten Commandments, we gave the world the belief in ethical monotheism, that laws be rooted in the absolute morality that comes from biblical authority.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"6\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shmuley Boteach, rabbi and author of\u00a0,\u00a0described the continuity of Jewish people as proof of the divine hand in an interview on SiriusXM\u2019s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak. 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