Discussion on Religious Invocation and Idolatry

Ali. Ali. Ali. Ali Scream Allah. Why do you scream Ali? He made a mistake between Allah and

Ali. Why do you scream now Muhammad and Ali? If I have a problem, God forbid, on a plane, what will I scream? Moses. David. Jacob. No,

I scream Hashem. Help me, Hashem. Hashem help me. You see that some of them are idol worshipers. They don't scream to God. Entire five minutes video, Ali, Ali. Muhammad. One time he say Muhammad,

after he saw Ali didn't help. He started with Muha- You fool, scream God. Some Jews will also scream the name of their Rebbe. Yeah, yeah, they're nothing better than this fool.

Yeah, you're laughing, but believe me, believe me, there are people that if they'll be in that situation, they will call their Rebbe, not to God. I've saw people like this. They refuse to mention God. One time, 28 years ago,

two people came all the way from Crown Heights to Lower East Side in the coldest day in the history of New York. I don't remember such a cold day, maybe, what? 30 below zero on Shabbat. I lived

across the street from the synagogue. "Where you came from?" They say, "We came from Crown Heights." "You walked from Crown Heights to here? In this freezing weather?"

They say, "Yes." I said, "Come on, it cannot be. I cross the street, I almost died. It's 30 below zero and winds. It's a life risk. It's Pikuach nefesh." They said, "No, it's not. The Rebbe is walking with us."

Oh, no. "He promised us that he will always be walking with us. He's watching us." "You mean Hashem is with you?" "The Rebbe is with us." "Hashem is with you." "The Rebbe is with us." Getting angry now. "But why don't you say Hashem?" "Also the

Rebbe." "But why not Hashem?" Refused to say Hashem. They didn't say Hashem. 10 times I scream, "But Hashem is with you." Now you tell me what is the difference between them and the Persian fool that scream Ali, Ali, Muhammad? What is the difference?

They both of them in a life risk, and instead of screaming to Hashem, they're screaming the name of a person. I don't know, there's some kind of yetzer hara for people to worship other people.

By the way, it's not only in religion. In the secular world, people admire rock 'n' roll stars, soccer players. Michael Jordan, they used to call him God.