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I used to work in nonprofit, raising money for homeless teens and women.We went door to door and yes jewish neighborhoods were the most Charitable.

As a fellow jew, I was scared to click on this video. 15 minutes in, and you two are bringing me so much hope and Jewish pride. AM ISRAEL CHAI!

9 minutes in and as a Christian I’m so excited to keep watching this 😂 wish I could come and chat to you guys! You seem like such nice company :)

Love my Jewish brothers and sisters! ❤

That first gentleman was a real Mensch. An interesting kaleidoscope of people came your way! Love from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

Um, you should have corrected the young black guy with the ice cream about white people never have been slaves. I'm African living in Europe and even I know about the Slavic people who were enslaved in Europe. The term Slave originates from the Slavic slaves in Eastern Europe.

These two men are so disproportionately likeable and I'm surprised this video has not been a lot more popular. Thanks, guys. I really enjoyed this.

Great work, guys. By the way, slavery isn't far in the past in Jewish history. My dad was a slave at Dachau during the Shoah.

A guy asked about Jews being slaves, and you said "a long time ago". Fyi, my dad z"l and many others were conscripted slaves in fascist Hungary in WWII.

Wow. A lot of respect for the first guy who asked questions. Intelligent.

You really live up to your channel name, Zevi This is some of my favourite unity seeking yet! Would love to see more like this 💕🙏

You can tell me that I am not Jewish ✡️ because I am Jewish on my father's side, but you can NEVER ERASE my JEWISH PRIDE!! AM YISRAEL CHAI 🇮🇱

"Shabbos is literally my mental health day" 38:16 YESS!! couldn't relate more! I ❤ shabbos so much

I'm furious at my algorithm for not giving me this video sooner!!! This is amazing I love the thoughtfulness and the beautiful open hearts and minds in this world. It's easy these days especially to think everyone is just cold and rigid but this brings me hope. Love to all❤

Guess who's back, back again 🎉 Great job, thank you Zevi🙏❣️

sorry but guy on the left got it wrong. ultra orthodox does not keep more laws then orthodox, the both keep all of them, its just a different way of serving god that happens to be more strict.

Beautiful video. So many interesting questions and answers. This is what the world needs right now. Coming together to have conversations and understand each other better. I bet the psychonaut guy with the merkabah question is a very interesting human with a very interesting story to tell. Thank you for the content. It always makes me so happy to see a notification from this channel pop up. Good for the soul type content. Thank you.

I could listen to Zevi all day long… absolutely love Seekers of Unity!

Guy in the white shirt is a straight gem. Eved hashem, walking kiddush hashem.

This video was too short! 😆 Real people talking with other real people is always a treat. Thank you!❤

As a member of Egypts native Coptic community, which in Egypt is an ethnoreligious group, I can relate to the Jewish idea of building strong community ties. For us our church communities in Egypt are our little safe bubble from the outside world and don’t just have a rooms for prayer or studying but rooms for almost every aspect of community life and recreation

This is awesome, it seems so simple but in order to understand each other we need to listen to each other. What great inspiration to get people to start connecting. Making me proud to be a Jew Zevi!

Great, great idea. Thank you so much for this. This should be done more often. Thank you guys!!!

Only 15 minutes in, but the conversation is already bringing me so much peace. Thank you for this!

Jewish are not only helping each other out but all in the world, no matter which country or religion coming from ( without trying to drow into judaism).

I'm an Israeli jew, I loved watching this and these types of conversations need to happen more. I encourage you to have a conversation with someone who really knows about the war going on here right now. As you've also mentioned, you need to educate yourself about the subject.. please do, and I'm sure you'll be more proud of how the idf is operating. (Btw, war is messy and I'm not pro-violence, but when you hear about us bombing refugee camps, hospitals and schools, you have to understand the way Hamas is operating and how the idf does whatever it can not to harm innocent people, but fighting a terror organization that uses civilians to protect itself , it's an impossible situation and bottom line- we need to protect our people first. It's actually a mitzvah too)

Great video, would love to see more of this! Thank you for putting this out there.

I LOVE this initiative; great for breaking down barriers and promoting understanding. You guys are creating a wonderdul "gesher". Could you maybe do an online live version as well so that those of us living far from NYC can meet you for these awesome chats! Love and admire the Jews so much! Am Israel Chai! Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.

Great conversation , great people ! sending love to all ❤ Just subscribed !

You gotta do this in my town , youd spend the first 5 min trying to convince people your not Amish 😅

Guys I have to admit I am black egyptian Muslim from germany and loved the intro through the roof. Shout out ❤ 1 Love

I'm an Orthodox Jew that goes to pray 3 times a day and been through the Yeshiva system and still there where many things said that i just learned from this video! ( tuition well spent no?) but what had me really laughing was at the end: Passerby: "It's been a lot the past few months"- "It's been a lot the past few thousand years" 😂😂 got me laughing so true and so well said

Hello from a Ninevite. I am from Alqosh, a village mentioned in the Old Testament. The village of Alqosh is 3500 years old. Nahum was buried in Alqosh.

Hope you guys had fun out there!

Jews are a light unto the nations. That manifests in this video by the two Jews bringing some wisdom and nuance into the lives of some very needy people😇

I was with you til you started talking about the conflict. This is very East Coast of you to say that the conflict is "not Israel defending itself." I lived there (E Coast) 14 years and have seen my friends say the same. You need to learn the reality of the situation. How original that this is the common New York and Boston attitude. The "we all should live in peace" stuff is great until hundreds of rockets are flying from humanitarian zones and you're forced to act - it's commanded to do so. I believe in peace, but the more immediate objective is to put an end to the violence and prevent deaths. You're "As a Jews".

I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I have great respect for the first guy. He's a pure soul, and I wish him a healthy and meaningful life. / From a Jew

I think that perhaps the biggest difference I see between Judaism and Christianity is that Judaism says that no man can die for another mans sins and that people will be forgiven if they make their amends with people and God. Christianity says that you can only be 'saved' by believing in jesus and that otherwise you're 'lost'.

I wish Zevi did more of the talking

I love these guys. Im a Lebanese Christian and believe in the jewish religion. I have best mates who are jewish and muslim and we all love each other. ❤

So happy to see you back! Happy travels!

I'm a born catholic and i like what u guys are doing because it's basicly fun and education combined

I love those ppl who stopped theirs day and asked things 😂🔥❤️

You should invite the first guy to a Shabbos dinner or YomTov dinner/celebration ^-^ Get him to a Chabbad house if anything, just see he can see, talk and discuss

I also thought peyot was from "Do not round of the sidecurls of your beard." From Vayikra 19 : 27 (?) I like the Leket explanation though.

"Ultra Orthodox" is a misnomer. There is no difference in observance of Jewish law between so-called ultra Orthodox and Orthodox. The differences lie in minhag, not halacha, meaning customs

I think this was very nice. It is important to remember the world needs light. Many things Judaism offers the Jewish ppl are things the world desperately needs.

This is a great idea, I had alot of misconceptions due to negative media attention from the middle east about Israel. I was travelling through South America and has some negative interactions with some rude blokes when I was sick in bed. Once I recovered i ended up on a week long sailing trip (colombia to san blas) with 5 Israelis and was dreading the experience. I ended up asking them to explain whats going on, what they believed, why they always so maligned in the media. They were honest and open and we became best of friends, spent 3-4 weeks together. The town we ended up in had a Palestinian cafe owner and neither of the groups had sat down and spoken, both had horror stories about their directly fanilial history. We all sat down and healed alot of trauma and broke down barriers that day.

As a Jew, stating that what Israel is doing right now is not considered defending itself is nuts man. You coud’ve say that you understand why some people think that way, but actually stating it yourself as a Jew is completely nuts

Even though some of the things you said made me want to cry, and I wish I was there to add to the conversation (mostly in part two), I loved this! Please do more of these! Super interesting

31:08 don't judge a book by its cover. this man a sharp thinker, respectful and agentic. good luck to him and his loved ones in life

I am Catholic, but I have a lot respect for Judaism, love you guys!

As an Orthodox Jew, I would answer the first two questions with completely different answers than the answers they gave. I didn't keep watching, so I don't know about the rest of the answers they gave. This is probably how every religious person, of any religion, feels about answers that others give about him religion, which he believe are wrong.

Way overboard? Which part, exactly, is 'way overboard'? Destroying terrorist weapons & infrastructure? Carrying out hostage rescues? Having the lowest civilian casualty rate in the world, despite so-called 'civilian' involvement and Hamas actively trying to get civilians on its own side killed? Please be specific "Doesn't have to be this messy" - if by that you mean, because Hamas and co shouldn't be fighting so dirty, then yes, I'm with you. If you're talking about from Israel's perspective, please do share how you would deal with terror tunnels leading from schools and children's bedrooms.

As a Muslim I appreciated and learned alot about your culture and laws and spirit of those laws and appreciated and agreed with your stance towards ending a conflict that's gone overboard

Good to see you back Zevi after a little hiatus from RU-vid. As ever another informative, entertaining and well made video that was also off the cuff.

Thank you for educating about this religion! I’m heavily thinking about converting to Judaism and it’s nice to hear these questions answered like this. If you guys or any other Jew has any suggestions about converting and how it works and anything that would make it easier, that would be great. Have a great day!

The world needs more content like this

The conversation is so beautiful ❤

Sephardic jew here, i was concerned what i was going to see when i first clicked. I was pleasantly impressed. Im glad to see there are people spreading knowledge, its the only way to stop the hate.

I'm a russian jew. I've always felt more russian than jewish. I taught english at a jewish school once and got fired on the second day for translating rap lyrics to the kids there (no profanity in the rap). I think that affected me a lot, as I, unfortunately, saw the shitty part of my own culture. It's only now that I'm starting to not just "be" but to feel jewish. Your channel and Esoterica have both been instrumental to that change. Thank you. The wisdom of the religion, the beauty of the traditions and the community of our people grew on me with time. I just got my Israeli citizenship last month and it feels like the pride you talked about with Sean is starting to grow. Although, I must say, it's pretty hard feeling proud of your nation when you have two of them and both aren't currently on their best behaviour. Good luck and thanks for seeking unity!

I wish I could come by and ask a question! What a great thing you are doing. Fun to watch.

The difference between Christianity and Judaism they belive Jesus was the messiah and we Jews do not. There’s certain things that need to happen when the messiah comes. One of them is world peace which we clearly don’t have

Hipster Hasidic! 😂

35:22 Wait until homeboy learns about the Slavic people, the entire European slave trade in west Africa, serfdom throughout the western world, the Arabic and Asian slavers who took Europeans, and the Gaelic people

I'm a born again Christian, I love Jews and I stand with Jews.

Absolutely fascinating. The misconceptions a lot of people hold about Jewish people are very interesting to me. I have recently been reading up on Biblical and Ancient Israelite history and reading parts of the Bible to better understand what it is all about. I try to approach it with fresh eyes and throw away the presuppositions ingrained in me from my upbringing. But it is always ten times more illuminating to hear from the actual people and I realize that I look up to your guys' culture and would like to apply some of those principles in my own life. I appreciate what you guys are doing.

I'm jewish too I live in Israel, loved your dialoges antill the one on Israel state of war we live in. On one hand I love it that you'r not Netanyaho fricks ... but you take it to far and with to little knowladge about what happend in 7/10 attactes more heinous then the natzim. girls were rapet brotaly, babies are still held hostage, entire families were murdered with insane brutality, corpses were dragged behind a moving cars to the sound of crowds cheering. People whose only sin was being Jewish, entire communities were slaughtered. We are not talking about soldiers who fought and were captured, we are talking about old people, babies, women, the most barbaric killing and slaughter known to mankind, no diffrent then the worst of the worst. It's not a war on freedom, it's a war bettwin light and dark. On Simchat Torah they massacred us and still are trying. and now the attacts from hizballa made 30 % of the country unlivable. You talk about Gmilot Hasadim it feels like Arvut Hadadit is needed and you should do your home work before talkin about insenaty. It's Milchemet Kodash.Yes the government now is radical in base, hopefully it will cange. The big irony here, the ortodax jews are the backbone of Netanyahu regime. If for you both our life preserving war is to much, we for sure as a culture, lost our minds. Come live here before you cast judgment with one hend this regime and back up our worst goverment ever, with the other hend. lol isn't it ironic

As a frum jew I don't think they answer very well, but it was ok

How’d you get your audio so quiet? No wind sound at all even with it blowing in the back?

I was like "This is a bad idea" when i saw he title, but this was a cool video...

Someone please tell that young man that white people didnt incent slavery. The word slave comea from slav. And the slavs were white Europeans that were enslaved by the Muslims for over 1000 years. Plus, its hard to look at a white person, and read their culture background. In other words, Jews we know your culture. How about someone with a german background, or english. Irish or Scottish. Australian?? We may have the same skin color but we have different cultures.

Brilliant idea. Thoughtful answers. What's not to love?

Which was your fave interaction?

The African American gentleman's claim that "White people have never been enslaved" is wrong even in an American context. Barbary pirates used to raid as far north as Iceland and enslaved the people they captured in said raids. American sailors who undoubtedly were "White" were famously captured by Barbary pirates once the British gave them the green light post the Revolution. Going back farther in time and you had the Turkic Khagans capturing and selling Slavs to the Bazaars of the Middle East and Central Asia. The Vikings sold Slavs, Scots, Irishmen and likely anyone they got their hands on as slaves to the Bulgars who would later sell them to mostly Islamic empires. Then you had the most famous Slavers the Romans....

I feel so bad for the kid whose dad was Jewish and not his mom. Listen my dad is Jewish too. My mom isn't. I'm teaching my 3 children Hebrew. I've taken my kids to the holy land twice (so far). We attend sabbath service and we keep mitzvah. We are Jewish. Period.

I think we need a AMA for Zac haha… w a sign “im from Lakewood ask me anything” so you can see they too are just normal ppl. That women liked the ppl in Lakewood cuz she has no bias and actually gets to interact with them. And im not from there and have cultural differences to them but man- some of the best of the best!! And they’re doing Gods work- the work I and many others aren’t ready to do! Loved that lady! She was awesome!

God bless you My Jewish brother I blessed My brother's Jewish people I bleesed Isreal shalom 🙏🇮🇳🤝🇮🇱👮‍♂🙌👏👮‍♀🙏🇮🇳🇮🇱🙏

Some of us look white, like me, but I’m a Greek Jew and I have never felt that I am a white person. I’m also Sephardi, and I identify as Hispanic. I mean, my family did come from Spain originally.

Correction, the "curls" are a direct command in the Bible, Leviticus 19:27, "you shall not remove the corners of your head". Seems to be commonly mixed up with the similar sounding command about not harvesting the corners of a field, but they are entirely unrelated.

Interesting video. I think you were very generous to allow and invite people to ask you questions. 😊

It's nice to sit in America and say that Israel is exaggerating in Gaza... Maybe instead you should come and help protect the country, protect your brothers... Very disappointing... עם ישראל לא מפחד מדרך ארוכה🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

You guys really missed the mark with the Israel/Palestine conflict. Don't appease the public and act like Israel is at fault. That's one thing I'm tired of other Jews doing, which is acting as if we're wrong with people and feeling like we have to justify our existence or our right to self-defense. Israel has gone above and beyond to spare civilian casualties, even at the expense of its own soldiers. It has an astonishing 1.7:1 civilian-to-combatant death ratio, which is literally the best urban conflict numbers in recent history across the world. They send flyers to evacuate, give phone calls, and clear areas out for Gazans, as well as knock bombs on the roof to warn of incoming attacks, while Hamas restricts their own citizens from LEAVING the battlefield. Anyways, be truthful.

I would have answered everything quite differently.

This is such an amazing concept and you all are great patient teachers.

Great idea. It was really fascinating to hear the questions that people asked and also your responses. I must admit that I was super disappointed in your statement that Israel is really going overboard in the response to the Oct 7th attack. I wish that you would take as much time learning about the Israeli reality as your guests are in trying to learn more about Jews.

Be strong and courageous my friends, for HaShem our G-d is with you. 💙🙏💙

i learned so much from this. and i'm jewish.

I have an issue with the answer to the first question. Ive always heard that the curls are in response to the law that a man should not shave the corners of his face. Thus, many Jews 'beautify' this mitzvah (law) by growing their side curls out. Its like going the extra distance!

The guy saying white people have not been enslaved needs to do some history checking 😂. ALL races have been enslaved. It was not about the colour but more your heritage or social standing. Poor people has always been enslaved by powerful people. There have been lots and lots of "white slaves" in every part of the world, you just need to look for wich parts of the world was most powerful at the time. Asia and middle east have been far richer and owned more slaves than europeans until the tide turned and the west got more power and owned more slaves. Today we call it human trafficking but make no mistakes, it is modern slavery in all parts of the world. To make it a skin issue is so stupid. It has always been the stronger eating the weaker, still is. Ask the Uyghurs in China camps. Or the poor in Africa.

My daughters best friend growing up was Jewish (we were Lutheran) and the two of them would go to Temple sometimes. I was saddened to learn that there was hesitation on the other family to let their daughter go to church. The reason was there is a fear that children will be forcibly converted or baptized or given communion. I was shocked to hear that is a fear of modern day. The only thing I could think was that maybe in some of the evangelical Christian’s this could happen? Does this happen in the US for real?

Much love to all from Australia 🇦🇺🤗

Some of the best answers I heard in a long time to some great questions. Keep the good work, Chazak Chazak Chazak.

I love the guy that asked the question why do Americans seem to hate Jews, though I do feel that it's important to point out that the term slave is derived from the reference slav so yes there was one point in history where Slavic people were commonly enslaved and I believe that was in fact the Roman Empire feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

I am a Muslim and I think I find such open discussions/dialogues quite interesting and informative. If I want to know anything about any faith/religion/school of thought, I need to study their authentic books, sit down with their respectable scholars and also visit their places of worship. Still more important is the fact that I need to be open minded. As a Muslim, I would like to ask a Jewish scholar/rabbi some questions, such as:~ 1. From Jewish perspective, what is the need of a religion? If Judaism is the true religion and a path of salvation, wouldn't God Almighty, Most Merciful, All Kind and the Most Loving, like to see the whole mankind follow the same path leading to eternal salvation? Why discrimination? 2. There are lots of people who are not Jewish but live a very decent life. They don't kill, don't worship idols, charitable, etc. God being All Just, is He going to reward and how is He going to reward such people? 3. What does a prophet mean in Jewish faith? 4. Are Jews allowed to study other faiths such as Islam? There are lots of similarities between Islam and Judaism. Wouldn't it be a good idea to explore Islam academically, with an open mind and free of prejudice? People need to look into the biographies of personalities like the holy Prophet Muhammad, his beloved daughter Fatima, her husband Ali and their Hasan and Husain (peace be upon them all). Please visit the following website and find out what Islam is all about. www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/index.html www.al-islam.org/nahjul/index The biography of Imam Ali (a.s.). www.imamali.net/?id=2390 Beautiful lecture by Prof. Chris Hewer on Imam Husain (a.s.), ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V4eVR7N8tPM.html Please listen to the beautiful lectures by Syed Mustafa Qazwini Syed Muhammad Baqir Qazwni Syed Mehdi Moderrissi on you tube.

I read the Zohar with you and Dr sledge.

What a great idea you two! Love this.

enjoyed these conversations very much!

Re the curls, although there is a symbolic connection to the fields, it isn't the main reason. See Leviticus 19:27 לֹא תַקִּפוּ פְּאַת רֹאשְׁכֶם וְלֹא תַשְׁחִית אֵת פְּאַת זְקָנֶךָ. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.