Rashi on Antisemitism: Hating Jews as Hatred of God

Sh'nemar as it says in a pasuk. So Rashi makes a very astonishing, astounding statement, that if someone hates the Jewish people, they're hating God, and that's what the pasuk means.

That let those who hate you run away, means those that hate Israel, 'cause hating the Jewish people is hating Hashem.

Those who hate the Jewish people are considered God haters.

That is the comment of Rashi. That the hatred to the Jewish people means that you hate God. Hating Israel, fighting Israel is fighting Hashem directly. It's not as if, it's not as serious as if, it means that. Because when you're hating the, the Jew, the, the truth of it is what

you're not saying, what you're hiding, what you're concealing, maybe you're embarrassed to say it or uncomfortable to say it, or maybe you yourself don't even know that that's really what's motivating you, is that it is a war against God. It's a hatred against Hashem.

That's what Rashi is saying.

Because the Jewish people are connected to Hashem. They are...

And meaning in other words something like this: hating the Jewish people has no other basis but for hating them because we belong to Hashem. 'Cause the Jewish people are a pretty good people.

So really there is no other explanation why Jews are hated.

And, and it has puzzled people throughout history. Why antisemitism?

What is it-- They hate the Jew when the Jew is rich, they hate the Jew when the Jew is poor. Every time there is another reason why the Jew is hated.

Why? The leftists hate the Jewish people and those that were on the right hate the Jewish people. The socialists hated them. The fascists hated them.

They-- Everybody hated the Jewish people all the time. Why?

And that is because we are God's people, and it's a hatred to God.

So consciously, they can't hate God. So consciously, you hate Jews because Jews are God's representative.

Jews are God's people in the world. So Rashi's defining something.

Rashi's saying you should know that if you get into the psychology of it, a hatred of the Jewish people because they're Jews means hating God. That's literally what it means.

So the-- and, and, and here comes an amazing thing, sad thing. There is no other way of this level called Sonecha, people that hate God, only in hating Jews.

'Cause either you, you deny God's existence, or if you admit that God exists, you can't hate Him. Yes, you can. You hate Jews, you're hating God.

If every time you see a Jew, you mutter under your breath, if every time you see-- if every-- if, if, if, if, if every Jew annoys you, what is that a sign? You hate the company. Who is the company?

This is God's company. Jews are God's representatives in this world, antisemitism. And even though the person himself will not admit that he hates God, he or she are hating God, and that's what they're hating the Jewish people. That's the true definition of antisemitism, the deeper antisemitism.

Messing with the Jewish people is an outright assault against God. That if they're Chas ve'Shalom planning to attack, to, to, to, to assault the Jewish people, it is an outright direct waging war against Hashem himself. May we merit to see the rising of Hashem's honor as a result of the, of the, of the rising of the, of the,

of the Jewish people in the world. May those who hate the Jewish people be nullified, destroyed, eradicated instantly, even before they can even think of attacking the Jewish people.

May they be shattered to pieces. May the revelation of Hashem's glory and the glory of the Jewish people be revealed in the world, and may it happen right now.