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What Is Tzitzit: Deeper Meaning & Purpose
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What is the deeper meaning behind tzitzit? When it comes to tzitzit, it’s so easy to fall into the trap of just doing it by rote. How can we see this mitzvah as a deeply meaningful spiritual practice, as a way to get closer to God? This video offers an answer that will change the way you think about tzitzit. Discover videos on similar topics including other mitzvot at www.alephbeta.org/laws-and-mitzvoth
What is the deeper meaning behind tzitzit? When it comes to tzitzit, it’s so easy to fall into the trap of just doing it by rote. How can we see this mitzvah as a deeply meaningful spiritual practice, as a way to get closer to God? This video offers an answer that will change the way you think about tzitzit. Discover videos on similar topics including other mitzvot at www.alephbeta.org/laws-and-mitzvoth
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What's Meaningful About Niddah? | Why do Jewish Husbands and Wives Separate?
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What is the meaning behind the ‘niddah’ law? Why would God want to keep husbands and wives apart from one another? Find out in this new video from Meaningful Judaism. The laws of Niddah can feel uncomfortable or strange for some of us. And the reasons we give ourselves as to why we keep these laws can often feel like apologetics, or just ‘absence makes the heart feel stronger’ fluff, with no re...
Tekhelet: Reflecting On The Blue String Of Our Tzitzit
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Understand the blue tekhelet string of our tzitzit with Meaningful Judaism. Learn more now at: www.alephbeta.org In the Torah’s description of Tzitzit, the reason behind the mitzvah is to see the techelet- the single string of blue- and be reminded to do God’s commandments. But how does this blue string remind us to do mitzvoth? What is it about the color blue that is supposed to make someone s...
Kashrut: The Torah’s Views On Eating Meat
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Meaningful Judaism teaches you about Kashrut today, diving into the odd laws of eating animals in Judaism. Learn more today at: www.alephbeta.org Eating Kosher seems to be one of the most tricky, but relevant, laws that we find in the Torah. It seems to affect not just what we eat, but how we eat it, how we cook it, and even how we design our kitchens. But why? What is the the deeper meaning be...
Shabbat: Why did God rest after Creation?
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In this video, Meaningful Judaism teaches you about Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. Learn more today at: www.alephbeta.org Shabbat is the day God rested - but what exactly does that mean? Today, we ask some basic questions about Shabbat - the one celebrated today, and the original one at the end of creation - and take a hard look at the evidence to find out just what that first day of rest rea...
Introducing Meaningful Judaism: Discovering the Meaning Behind Mitzvot
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Introducing Meaningful Judaism: Discovering the Meaning Behind Mitzvot
Rav Tzvi Ryzman says blue represents incremental spiritual growth!
Its methylene blue,
Lots of loving care ❤❤❤❤❤
Hahaha such bullshit is incredible
When you were talking about the clues you got regarding the color blue, I couldn’t help but wonder if you had encountered Blue’s Clues? 😂
As a gentile, don’t even think this is a negative thing. What is not ok is the forbidding part. It certainly smacks of women being reviled just for being women. Somehow, they are unclean and might contaminate the man. Not exactly a celebration of her womanhood.
Sanitation as well, and DNA corruption/problems and probabilities via Incest, also. As children, we don't always understand the 'why' parents (or our Creator!) forbid things, and they even seem uneeded at the time, but we may learn more and eventually understand it later on... Wonderfully done for the emotional concepts and relationship aspects, and more. very nicely explained. Thank you
A brilliant video that asks the right question and gives a better answer than I have heard from most so-called biblical scholars. At the 4:50 timestamp, the video creator asks, "What if God HAD to rest in order to finnish creation?" I mostly agree with this. However, Exodus 20:11 says, "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:11 tells us specifically that no creative work was done on the seventh day. Yet Genesis 2:2 tells us specifically that God ended his work on the seventh day. Since no creative work was being done on the seventh day, the question remains WHAT OTHER WORK WAS CONTINUING THAT COULD NOT BE ENDED ON THE SIXTH DAY? Note that at this point CREATION IS FINNISHED. We are in the seventh day!!! This unfortunately throws out the working theory of the video that " God had to rest to finnish creation ". The rest God does IS NOT TO FINNISH CREATION. I repeat, creation was finished on the sixth day. This video comes very close to what I actually believe, i.e. God has to rest for creation to UNFOLD. Unfortunately, this video conflates "creation UNFOLDING", and "creation being created". Creation unfolding means God STEPPING BACK, and allowing creation to chart its course. How does God "step back"? The answer is HE RESTS!!!. This rest is NOT PHYSICAL. It is MENTAL. To allow creation the FREEDOM to chart its own course, and to endow creation with free will, God limits his ability to foreknow everything about his creation.
I also didnt hear you couldnt sleep together i heard you cant see her nakedness
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Beautiful!!? Read all of Niddah 44b Promotes relations with 3yr olds!!! Disgusting!
I just don’t understand why a loving creator would create a woman’s body to work as it does then call her impure as punishment when she fails to get pregnant. It may possibly strengthens a relationship more, I don’t see how or why but maybe. What is DOES do is make the possibly of a pregnancy significantly higher. There’s no real way this is a blessing or command from God. This is man made.
I've been reading the NRSV DC lately. These are also on it. Great to have an authentic yet up-to-date point of view like this.
This is so the woman can have her time with g-d being purity it should be separate rooms and beds 🛌…and no touching it’s beautiful time for a woman
Wow. Never heard an explanation like this. I'm definitely checking out your website!
Those strings are the heart of fashion
I ordered some Tzitzit with 10, 5, 6, 5 to reflect the Father's name, but they came with 12, 10, 7, 6. Does anyone have any idea what that sequence of wraps means?
There is no logical order, Elohim, YHWH leaves the sequence of wraps up to you.
Amazing and very meaningful! ❤
Wow this was really good....
Beautiful!!!🎉 The woman did was healed by touching Yeshua ✝️Hamashiach may have touched His Tzitzit🤔 🕎Matthew 9:20 “And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:” ✡️Matthew 9:21 “For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.”
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Does anyone know the pantone color for Tekhelet? I'm drawn to the color blue and there are lots of variations. I like the iridescent blue of blue birds. I also like the blue of corn flowers. It turns out in corn flowers there are at least two blues. One is light sky blue #88AAF6 and another is Blue Marguerite #6953B7. It would be great to pin down Tekhelet. Thanks if you can help.
Thank you
Could you do a video on Leviticus 19
Wow... I recognized your voice from your fantastic Aleph-Beta videos. When I began wearing tzitziot my hand would brush against them as I walked. When it did, it reminded me of who I was because of my relationship with Him. It made me walk taller and more humble at the same time.
As I watch this video it has 770 views, lol
No way. Animals don't want to be murdered for your dinner, no animal wants to be killed, nor do any fish. How are you helping to alleviate an animal by killing it? No way. Man is too big headed thinking only of HIS own wants and needs rather than respect and equal right to life for the animals. This is so selfish and big headed of man, and trying to give or make excuse under God's name for murdering animals as if it was right or godly, is cruel and just wrong. God made all of creation, and that includes animals and their right to live their lives too, have babies, be family, and live the life God gave them on earth. It is easy to say what you say about the animals "that they want to be picked" for your dinner meal, as long as it is not YOUR life being threatened, and that kind of speech is just nonsense.
Tekhelet / turquoise blue
Family purity laws aren't just about having sex when she is having her menses, it is about the concept of ritual impurity. What renders someone ritually impure and what that means. It isn't necessarily sin, but it is a law put into place to keep the people from offering sacrifices and other offerings while being ritually impure--basically keeping them on the straight and narrow and not giving into pagan influence. Family purity laws include during niddah thar everything she touches is ritually impure. Handing a glass to her husband cannot be direct no physical touch, anything she sits on is rendered impure. At the close of her time of ritual impurity she goes to the mikvah. This ritually purifies her. Take it a step further, when she is not in the time of her menses, intercourse renders the couple ritually impure and they are so until evening. In the temple, priests would abstain from their wives in preparation to serve....whether they were in niddah or not. These purity laws also account for other situations young men experience at the beginning of puberty. All of this is to keep pagan idolatry and false worship from the Temple. Whether it be from unclean animals, sexual orgies, or other blood rituals. It is all about being properly disposed to be in the Temple. While on Niddah a woman cannot enter or touch anything consecrated to God. Due to there not being a Temple, and jews being more widespread around the world, it is easy to see how new interpretations on these mitzvot have emerged to not be so....anti woman because the Temple context is not present. Everything in the mosaic law was to keep the jews separate and holy from the world. I do not know many people who have sex when there is a flow...but it is even handing a glass directly to the husband that renders him impure, or accidently touching her when he sleeps...thus the separate beds. This mitzvot can truly be a blessing to a couple as it places God's law on their heart and they lovingly choose to honor the Law with their life and love together understanding this time apart is to do the mitzvot and keep watch until the Temple is built again.
@poorbanishedchildrenofEve This is a fascinating insight. Thank you for your clarity as we begin to study Torah.
Wow that was a beautiful and spiritually deep explanation.
Doesn't explain how, from 7 days, it has become at least 12 days. The torah is explaining why men shouldn't be with women at that time - it's because she is then tumeh (impure). You don't have to invent reasons. The problem is that we today don't keep hilchos tumeh today, so the entire thing is still not explained...........
@Aln366 Would you be willing to explain it or even expound?
Beautiful and brilliant. Thank you.
Beautiful
Adam was made the head of all flesh in Genesis. He named all the animals. This is a sign of his dominion. God told Adam to be a "keeper" of the corporate body of creation. Those who are"keepers" of a flock...or corporate body...have the job of watching over them to protect and lead them. This was Adam's God given job. If Adam is the corporate head, then the corporate "body" of Adam is the animals...or the "other lives" that walk the earth with him. Noah proves this out when he takes "all that have the breath of life" with him on the Ark. We know that God breathed into Adam and he was given a living soul by God's breath. The scriptures don't say that the animals are living souls, but the story of Noah eludes to that truth, for Noah is instructed to take all that have "the breath of life" in them. If so, then the animals are extension of Noah's family, which he also took with him. After the flood, Noah offers sacrifices to God. For their sake God has just destroyed the whole earth. He has given all that He made over to destruction. Noah in like manner offers to God of his own "body", giving in like manner, a body belonging to him over to destruction. By offering an animal that came with him on the Ark, Noah is in fact giving God of his own "body" and of his own "flesh"...by his sacrifice. Because God is Noah's "head" , for he calls Him "LORD"...and this makes Noah an extension of God upon the earth....and a "body"devoted to God...This is why Noah offer up "his own flesh"...an animal that came with him on the Ark. This is the pattern that I see in Genesis. In the first creation(before the flood), the ideal(perfect) will of God is functioning until it is spoiled by sin. Because of sin, judgment is given dominion over all flesh. Like an army of scrutinizing police, judgment is waiting to take out those who are lawbreakers. God holds this army back because He is patient. Finally, God sees that there is no other way to salvage His creation, but to give it over to judgment. He is sorry that He made it, because now He knows that He must allow it to be destroyed. This second creation(the world after the flood) os made by made by the hand of judgment . This new creation has an additional "father" .... this "father" is destruction(judgment). Noah and those saved on the Ark have a new "heritage"... judgement. They now are to reflect some of the "image" of this "father".... this is why they are given the authorization to destroy and to kill... this is the new "image" after which this new creation is to reflect. God gave the whole world over to judgment and death...ironically ...to a remnant of it that was good.... These will live on past the destruction of the first world, and the scar upon their flesh of its judgment will be that they will now be sons like unto this judgment. Noah and the seed that came with him on the Ark...became "sons" of judgment...for they were "born" of judgment into a new world that was created by judgment. This is God's permissive will...it is one that makes Him sad. I have heard it said that Satan comes to kill, and to steal and to destroy. What then is eating meat? We first have to kill the animal, steal its "house" for our meat, and destroy the memory of it by "covering its blood". This looks a lot like we have become his image by this act to me. I think that all this hurt makes God sad, but He allows it for a season, just like He waited patiently in the days of Noah. He has a plan to judge the world again and bring us back into His perfect will. This will be when the Lion and the Lamb lie down together and there is no more hurt upon His Holy Mountain(Isaiah 11:9).... I can't wait!
Can't wait for more videos
Interesting explanation, I have never heard Hebrew spoken or even asked a Rabbi about this time period in a woman's life. But I wonder if it could also be about the blood as well. The "life is in the blood" has a very special meaning in the scriptures. We are not to drink blood, and the blood was to be held in high regard, it covers/cleanses us from all sin and to have intercourse while a woman is menstruating could be perhaps disrespectful to the blood. Just thinking out loud.
the blood " had the potential to be a life/ human"
I don't think that is it, I believe that God wanted His people to honor the blood and to show them that it held a very special meaning... after all the blood of Christ His Son cleanses us from all Sin.@@mo5ago1
@mikejohansson6711 this is why Jews left the company of Jesus in John 6:66. It was a hard saying because of this law. The life of the creature or the sign of no life in those that were dead were to not be touched because of the ritual worship in the temple was to not be defiled by pagan practices. Because you are a Christian, I will continue, this is why the immaculate conception and perpetual virginity of Mary fulfills these mosaic laws--Jesus came 5o fulfills the Law not abolish it. How can he fulfill these mitzvot? But through his Mother and the man he chose to be his guardian, Joseph. Thus, her body didn't defile him...because it was perfect. We see this in the construction of the ark of the covenant and the laws regarding its transport. And when he was born, her body did not defile Him. Further understanding of these family purity laws, we see the 33 days of purification and the mikvah ritual. For 33 days Mary had to tend to Jesus, she was in her days of ritual purification and to any child this wouldn't be an issue but to God the son incarnate. .his presence made their abode holy ground and yet she did not defile it. Mary and Joseph remained chaste for the same reasons because intercourse would render them ritually impure until evening. Moving to the topic of the Eucharist....life is in the blood...his life is everlasting and it cannot defile us. Thus he body says to drink and eat his blood and body. The offering of Melchisadech was that of bread and wine...and many of the offerings in the temple were bread and wine... and when burned offerings were made, to complete the sacrifice, the meat is eaten. There is much more to say on this topic.
@@mikejohansson6711a woman could be miscarrying and the contents of an early pregnancy could be in that menstrual blood rendering impure.
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The Mitzvas teach discipline, also, It's not enough to just observe we need to study the laws or it can lead to a meaningless religious life. In doing so, studying his laws, you are seeking his reasoning, his meaning basically, in a way, you are seeking him. LIke it says, you will find him, if you seek him with your heart and soul.
I bring out a lot of symbolism with Tzitzit in this recording I did including why at the hip. In addition to my prev comment: The blue thread is to point us to the blue sapphire stones the law was written on by YHWH's own finger which goes along with why we need to see them to remember to keep Torah. ua-cam.com/video/yV80ZsNEBZQ/v-deo.html
6:51 The introspect that the water reflects the sky "כמים לפנים לפנים" דרשו כמו פנימיות שמשקפים את האלוקות הפנימית. מתצרף ל- @StevenRetz שלוחות הברית גם היו מאבן ספיר להזכיר את הקשר של המצוות לשמים.
The blue thread is to point us to the blue sapphire stones the law was written on by YHWH's own finger which goes along with why we need to see them to remember to keep Torah
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Correction: This video is correct that the Torah first addresses eating meat in a Parsha of Noah, but it is BEFORE they step into the arc. Noah is instructed to take two of every kind of animal EXCEPT for the Kosher animals, of which he is to take seven of each. Overall it was a good video though, and I enjoyed the thoughtful conclusion at the end.
Noah is instructed to take Kosher animals onto the ark, that's 100% correct, but not to eat. He brings sacrifices of the Kosher animals to God after the flood is over, and only then does God give him permission to eat meat. So the 'kosher status' of those animals was in reference to the animals able to be brought as sacrifices.
Kosher always confused me
That's because it IS confusing!! There's so much to it!
Abraham and David ate meet and cheese together.
I'm Vegan… I can't, pretty much, NOT cook Kashruth … or Halal. (I'm probably wrong… but we'll see.) I used to work with Miriam Margoyles. She HAD renounced her Judaism BUT she insisted on keeping Kosher… to aggravate Hitler beyond the grave. 😁
Veganism definitely helps make it much easier to keep kosher!
@@MeaningfulJudaism According to rumour, the biggest uptake of Veganism seems to the Israeli military… for that same reason. ☺️
There are numerous laws in Judaism that were given as a concession to the nature of man and eating meat was one of them. Two other examples come to mind but there are many others. First on the list would be the right of a man to have multiple wives. While it is permissible there are no instances that I know of in the Tanach where the outcomes of such relationships were favorable. Sarah and Hagar, Leah and Rachel, David and Shlomo and their multiple wives…. A second example would be the consumption of alcohol. While it is permissible one would be hard pressed to find cases in the Tanach where consumption of alcohol had a favorable outcome. One only needs to look at Noach after the flood when he completely degraded himself. As a rule the Torah generally does not institute laws that mankind is incapable of upholding. That is why some laws and allowances as considered concessions. However, it is mankind’s responsibility to act responsibly.
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Sorry your understanding is very simple and incorrect. God gave us meat as a supplement. We are not to eat meat excessively and out of greed but for our want. The Levites ate the sacrificial offerings and what was left was burnt. The Israelites in the desert ate quails till it was unbearable. Luckily they still had manna to fall back on. There is not one scripture in the Torah, King James version of the 1st 5 books that eating of meat was not permissable. In fact we know Abel sacraficed his sheep and Cain his crops. So Noah was not the first to sacrifice. Abel also told Cain that he should not complain about his duties and that he eats his meat as he eats Cain's vegetable crops.
King James’s Torah?? No wonder you’re getting strange opinions from there.
@@VladSeder what I meant is the king James Bible, and the torah
@@douglascope8136 now go learn
Learn what?
@@douglascope8136 учи матчасть
Rest in the sense that we tend to understand it is not the same as the simple meaning of the word. Rest simply means "stop" - not doing anything else because it is finished. (John 19:30) It's important to people because Jesus finished everything. By believing in what He did and the rest He achieved for us, Jesus fulfilled the prophetical writings and the commands. If we don't received the finished work of Christ, we're doomed to stay in an unrestful state, doomed to labor forever. In trusting what God says and the One on Whom He set His seal, we enter into the seventh day rest.