Abraham’s Blessing

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Abraham’s Blessing Ron Peri

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God’s Promise to Abraham

“I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing

I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."

Genesis 12:2-3

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All People’s on Earth Will be Blessed

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Those Who Bless You I Will Bless

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God Promised to Bless Both of Abraham’s Sons

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God Has Blessed the Jews and Blessed the World Through the Jews

• The greatest genius in modern time, Albert Einstein, was Jewish

• IQ:• “Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jews have

a massive superiority over all other genetically identifiable groups”

• “The Jewish mean intelligence quotient is 110, ten points over the norm.”

• “The outlying region of the curve is massively Jewish.”

• A 1954 study of IQs in the New York public school system showed Jews with 85% of the IQs over 170 (24 out of 28)

(Murray and Herrnstein, The Bell Curve)

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High IQ Leads to Unique Accomplishments

• “The key indicator for predicting exceptional accomplishment (like winning a Nobel Prize) is the incidence of exceptional intelligence. . .The proportion of Jews with IQs of 140 or higher is somewhere around six times the proportion of everyone else. . .” This proportion rises at higher IQs.

George Gilder, The Israel Test

• There are 14 million Jews in the world, which is three-tenths of one percent of the world’s population.

www.spertus.edu

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Jews Have Used Their Above Average IQs To Benefit Humanity

Jews were responsible for creating lifesaving medical and scientific advances that have saved the lives of between 2.8 and 4.6 billion people.

Scienceheroes.com

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Some Jewish Medical Discoveries• Discovery of ABO, Rh, Blood transfusions: Karl Landsteiner, Richard Lewisohn

• Breaking the Genetic Code: Marshall Nirenberg

• Invention of Chemotherapy: Louis Goodman

• Invention of Gene Splicing: Stanley N. Cohen, Herbert Boyer

• Chlorination of drinking water: Abel Wolman

• Measles Vaccine: Samuel Katz

• Penicillin: Sir Ernst Chain with Alexander Fleming

• Diphtheria and Tetanus Antitoxin: Paul Ehrlich

• Hepatitus B Vaccine: Baruch Blumberg, Irving Millman

• Polio Vaccines: Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin

• Heimlich Maneuver: Henry Heimlich

• The invention of local anesthesia: Carl Koller

• Discovery of Novocaine: Alfred Einhorn.

• Invention of mRNA Vaccines: Drew Weissman, Jon Wolff, Robert Langer, et. al.

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Jews Have Received More Awards in Medicine

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (26% of recipients)

• Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research (32% of recipients)

• Gairdner Foundation Awards (26% of recipients)

• Wolf Prize in Medicine (40% of recipients)

• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (42% of recipients)

• Albany Medical Center Prize (44% of recipients)

• GM Cancer Research Foundation Sloan Prize (38% of recipients)

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More Jews Have Won the Nobel Prize than Any Other Ethnic Group

• Established by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, the Nobel Prize is bestowed in six categories – Literature, Chemistry, Economics, Physics, World Peace, and Medicine.

• Between 1901 and 2020, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to more than 900 individuals and organizations. At least 23% (208) of them have been Jewish. Jewishvirtuallibrary.org.

• 12 Muslims have received the Nobel Prize, of which seven were for the World Peace Prize.

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Jews Earn More Awards in Mathematics

• Abel Prize (33% of recipients)

• Wolf Prize in Mathematics (38% of recipients)

• Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (54% of recipients)

• Bôcher Memorial Prize (42% of recipients)

• Frank Nelson Cole Prizes - Algebra and Number Theory (40% of recipients)

• Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (38% of recipients)

• Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (37% of recipients)

• George David Birkhoff Prize - Applied Mathematics (37% of recipients)

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Jews Are Consistently Better at Chess

• 44% of World Chess Champions have been Jewish

• Chess players of Jewish descent listed below held the world chess championship approximately 54% of the time since its inception in 1886:

• Wilhelm Steinitz (1886-1894)

• Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921)

• Mikhail Botvinnik (1948-1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963)

• Vasily Smyslov 1 (1957-1958)

• Mikhail Tal (1960-1961)

• Robert (Bobby) Fischer 2 (1972-1975)

• Garry Kasparov 3 (1985-1993)

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Jews Also Dominate in These Other Fields

• ANTHROPOLOGY

• BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE

• JEWS IN CHEMISTRY

• CHESS

• COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• ECONOMICS

• LINGUISTICS

• MUSIC

• PHILOSOPHY

• PHYSICS

• PSYCHOLOGY

• SOCIOLOGY

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Those Who Curse You I Will Curse

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Pharoah

“At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.”

Exodus 12:29-30

The Jews still celebrate Passover and Feast of Tabernacles to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt

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Haman

“King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up. Now write another decree in the king’s name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king’s signet ring —for no document written in the king’s name and sealed with his ring can be revoked.””

Esther 8:7-8

The Jews still celebrate Purim to commemorate escaping from Haman’s plot to destroy the Jews.

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Antiochus Epiphanes

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I Will Make You Into A Great Nation

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The Nation of Israel Reborn After 1,878 Years

• 1948 - For first time since 70 AD, Jews had their own state.

• Ezek 37:11-14 - Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore, prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord. ’”

• Dry bones live again!

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Israel Is Now A Great Nation

Economy of Israel:

• The economy of Israel is a developed free-market economy.

• Israel ranks 35th on the World Bank's ease of doing business index.

• It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the United States, and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel

Military Power:

• Israel’s military was ranked 8th most powerful in the world.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ranked-8th-most-powerful-country-in-the-world/

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God Keeps His Promises

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