Why Learn Jewish History by Barry Kirzner

Lyla Lubin

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Yakirah

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simone

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Sima

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Naama 🫐🤖

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to preserve the heritage through genertions

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not to lose identity

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We need to know how to defend ourselves against antisemitism.

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To understand our history, and why we should be proud to be jewish.

Need to learn from our mistakes in the past so we don't repeat them

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So we could stay connected to our culture

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We don't want to lose our history and forget what makes the Jewish people THE Jewish people

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Because it is something that connects the jewish people

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To learn from our history - learn from any mistakes we've made and do better next time

so we'll know how to stop bad things in history so they won't repeat

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So our story doesn't get lost, and forgotten

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To understand whatbad things happened so that we can make sure it wont happen again

we would loose what defines us as a people and culture

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To have proof about why Israel is our land

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To sympathize other minorities

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To see how we're all connected to each other

to make sure that we can have a land that ansestreally promised to us

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so we can appreciate unity with manuy different kinds of jews

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To connect us as a nation rather than a religion or ethnicity.

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To bring everybody together and appreciate the diversity and our resilience together

without education ourselves over our past we cant together as a people to the future

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To understand where other people came from and understand what they went through and to appreciate the different kinds of jews.

To teach people who are self hating jews, about our culture

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Everyone should know history from all different cultures - not just Jews. Everyone should learn Jewish history to appreciate everything they've been through

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So we can remeber everything hashem did for us and appreciate what we have

To validate our claim that Israel belongs to us, and has always belonged to us.

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to prove to jews what god did and all his miracles

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Jews around the world are all different we are a religion with high educational values when we learn we bond wtih one another growing out knowledge and purpose

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To be able to be grateful for what we have and be thankful that we survived.

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To see how much life has improved for Jews. This is the best time to be living as a Jew - and it's important to appreciate it!

To recognize that we are in a much better place, than generations before us where

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to show to the world how far we have come as a people and how we advocated for ourselves to have the jewish country we have today

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To connect us to others jews and to understand what they went through and how it was different but were all still the same

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Jewish history connects all different jews around the world. Whether you are Orthodox, Conservative or reform, all jews share the same history; the same story.

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It helps you understand the world better. Jewish history is connected to a lot of major events like in politics, religion, and current conflicts

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Because its the one thing all jews have in common

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To understand where we originally came from, and what was life like back then.

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Teaches universal lessons like about justice and oppression, and rights for minorities and cultural survival

without being together we wont have anything to make us united

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To understand diversity within the jewish people

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To be able to appreciate how good we have it now and how things have changed but in some ways stayed the same

to learn from our ancestors so we can learn our culture and become better jews

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if we hate eachother it makes it ok for others to hate us

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To fight antisemitism, if people are actually educated on Jewish history it will fight against stereotypes and against believing false ideas

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To see the good from the past and know how to replicate it

we have a history so why not celebrate it and commemerate it

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To see not just the bad things and mistakes that have happened, but also the good things that Jews have accomplished in history

all of the miracles god gave us still affect us today

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To appreciate the good things we have been given over time and how we survived all the bad things and that even in bad times we were still able to see the good

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We need to know how to defend ourselves against antisemitism.

we remember how discriminated against we were to appreciate how free we are today

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are history and past builds our future we wouldnt be able to progress without our past

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We need to know how to defend ourselves against antisemitism

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So that we can try and be our best selves because we know that if we can be our best selves we will be rewarded for it

shows other people that we have a history and were educated we have roots

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its shows that no matter what kind of jew, whether youre reform, orthadox, it helps unify us

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helps us all have something in common so we can all relate to our knowledge even if were all different we know our past and we can all relate to it our pasts of jewish histroy are all the same

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hashem would want it

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So no one can say that what we went through isnt real

if we didnt embrace our jewish history our enemies would take advantage if we didnt learn it, it seems like we dont care

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connect others suffering to unify us

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so we know that when things are really bad hashem will help us through it

shows that we have love for ourselves some religions look back at there history with cruelty we look back to reflect and spread love

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So that people who don't know so much about Jewish culture can learn about it

it proves to the other nations that the jews will always persevere

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so we can recognize that every jew has value

helps develop past inventions and military ideas

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it helps connects non religious jews to their judaic roots

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to understand where destiny is leading us to

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so we know what we had, what we lost and what we can get back by learning from that

if were not passionate about our history other nations will disregard

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shows our indurance and helps us keep going with the same resilience

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Because our history explains other parts of religions and nations as well

you see other nations from the past who have had alliances with us and can help us in the future

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