A prominent Chabad rabbi and radio show host called right-wing activist Charlie Kirk “the Abraham of our time,” a day after Kirk was assassinated.
Rabbi Chaim Mentz, the rabbi of the Chabad of Bel Air, California, and host of The Rabbi Mentz Show, compared Kirk to the first of the Biblical Patriarchs on Fox News today (Thursday).
“Charlie Kirk was the Abraham of our times. I know people say Abraham. Yes,” Rabbi Mentz said. “What did Abraham do? He was one individual in a world where they were throwing their children into volcanoes and he challenged everybody. ‘Come to my tent. Let’s talk.’
He explained that “Judaism began on ideas. Judaism began on education. The whole world’s religions and basic religions all came from conversation in a tent. Charlie Kirk never got angry at anybody. Abraham never got angry at anybody. Look what Abraham built.”
The rabbi noted the reaction from Kirk’s supporters. “You just killed their main guy. Do you see rioting in the streets? Do you see anybody going across America saying we’re going to go no justice, no peace? No. You know what they’re all doing? They’re all talking about how can we make America better? How can we become better? And that is the threat to the other side.”