Rabbi answers TOUGH questions from Evangelical Christians
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- A group of evangelical Christians sat down with Rabbi Friedman and examined the idea of God, Holiness, and what our part is in all of it. This chat was part of a tour of the Hassidic community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn with @HangingWithHasidics
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I'm roman-catholic and I love the teachings of the Rabbi too.
May the Almighty G'd bless him and his family!
I'm a Christians and I love the Rabbi perspective about The Word of God
Show anywhere in OT that the Messiah is described as the word of God!
It's actually the Jewish perspective. Moreso, the G-dly perspective, from Hashem Himself praised be He. That's what Divine truth is appealing to you. As though G-d Himself was speaking to each of us as He did to Moshe. As admittedly wonderful as Rabbi Friedman is, he didn't develop these teachings himself.
Me too!!!
He's great Rebbe
@@matin1211everywhere bro
Baruch Hashem for giving us Rabbi Manis Friedman to learn from.
Moses saw God with physical eyes?!
@@matin1211No actually he didn't. He saw the back of G-d, whch was so incredibly holy it required him to put a cloth over his face.
@@613YY God has front and back?! 😂
@@matin1211 if it says He does in His Torah He does. Do I know better than the Divine? Do you?
Thank you, Rabbi Freidman, for bringing Torah truth to the nations.
Baruch Hashem!
Am Israel chai ❤
Always love to listen you Rabbi @Manis Friedman, Hashem blessed you long life (Ameen) ♥♥♥♥
God Bless the Jewish people 🙏I’m an evangelical Christian and I love and honor the Jews. I know we don’t all agree on the Messiah but we have much in common! I’m thankful for the Jews as I wouldn’t know God.
Much love 🙏❤️
We don't have things 'in common'. Xians took Judaism and changed it. That's a huge deep chasm of difference. You have things sort of similar yet aren't at all. The biggest issues deal with the basic, G-d is One and the Torah. We have not changed one letter. Don't know if you've even kept one. And I'm.not being facetious either.
From our long history with non Jews assimilation and forced, or repeated attenpts at, conversions are the norm. Total acceptance of us as we are with no eye at all towards either practice is a relatively new concept. Personally I'm leery of those who say they will leave us be. Time will tell.
In another comment someone said they didn't see a difference between Judaism and xianit. I came up with ten or so ways we're not close at all. I was just getting started. Could have gone on and on.
Are our differences important? Depends. End goal. Yours heaven. Us here. Light years of difference. We're not adapting, compromising or changing. Now what?
God doesn’t want to be seen, He wants to be known (first),
then seen.
We will "see" possibly after the coming of Moshiach and the Redemption of souls when we'll be united with Hashem's Essence here on the perfected earth.
Moses saw God with physical eyes?!
@@matin1211 no, actually he didn't.
First time I've heard someone say God's needs us more than we need him
Thank you Rabbi Friedman and Team!! A Positive and Proactive Day for you and all here!!💪✡️🙏❤️🔥🎶
Awesome teaching Rabbi Manis Friedman
Ricardo Authenticity Rating is 10 out of 10 on The Ricardo Authenticity Rating scale. There is so much wisdom to unpack from this conversation that it's mind boggling.
Baruch Hashem.
Yes there is, told in an easy to understand way. .
Thank you Rabbi
May you be blessed to give generously with an open hand.
Thank you yet AGAIN! You'fe generosity means so much to us!
Thanks!
May you be blessed to continue giving with an open hand.
Amen!
I enjoyed this teaching very much, thank you rabbi 😊
Thank you Rabbi. I love you. You're a True Chassid.
As opposed to a fake one? No such thing.
@613YY actually there are plenty of fake Chasids. And no, not as opposed to a real one. That didn't even cross my mind. It's a saying, a figure of speech if you will. Have you really never heard someone say that? "You're a true gentleman..." for instance. And no, not opposed to a fake gentleman. Or a gentlewoman. Please, enlighten us
@@KingAztek Personally I think those qualifiers were somehow introduced into language to confuse and trivialize words having the meaning they're meant to have. That creates confusion, dissension, polarization, and ultimately lack of trust. That's where evil gets its foot in the door to trust them.
A chassid is a chassid, if you're talking about a specific type of Jewish observance. Someone's level of afherence or seeming lack of it is not the definer We're not to judge anyone's possible internal struggles with doing mitzvahs. Ever heard "judge your neighbor fairly"? We are taught to be more critical of ourselves than of others.
It's taught that the greater the struggles, the more Hashem shows His love by testing them. Instead of looking at them critically, we could instead help them, praying for their success with their challenges.
@613YY If you're trying to show how smart you are, you're doing a great job. If you're trying to seem wise, you're not doing a great job. Why invest so much energy into such a trivial comment on UA-cam? Literally, I said that the rabbi is a chasid, and you go off on a tangent to show how many words you know. You should put your money where your mouth in regards to judging your neighbors fairly
@613YY My Father used to say to me; "Son, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all".
Whoops, "there goes our entire Theology". R.I.P. "Great Commission".
Well, there goes Judaism too, since the Shma is "Hear O Israel... You shall love the LORD your God..." so love defined by God is the foundation of Judaism.
Love defined as an emotion or cultural wishy washy feeling is of course what the Rabbi is discussing here.
@@godandsarah1306 Huh ? Do you even know where the Shema is located in Tanakh off the top of your head? Rabbi Singer's channel is almost at 100,000. The Noahide Movement is growing and is packed to the rafters with Ex-Pastors and Ex-Christians like me.
@@godandsarah1306 "cultural wishy washy feeling"... Define that. I'm not following your insight.
@@godandsarah1306 The only "love" that Evangelicals know and EXPECT is that "God loved the world so much that He gave his only son to us". That's not love and it's NOT TRUE. The Gospels in black and white, say that "JC" the Rabbi died for The Nation (Judaism). Christian Apologetics is all about being needy for God's love. Christianity isn't "the fulfillment" of Judaism.
@@godandsarah1306No, Judaism is alive, well, thriving, totally intact, for G-d, thanks.
I notice that non Jews, and Jews influenced by the tenants of non Jewish religions, learning with you have a hard time letting go of the words "faith", "holiness", etc, that keep them from embracing G-d as shared in the Torah.
As an evangelical (& messianic) Christian, I appreciate your perspective and I agree with your definition of love being just an Emotion as being not enough.
I presume you speak about love within the cultural context as it is often misused.
However God commands us to "hear o Israel... You shall love the Lord your God with your heart, soul, strength" so in Judaism, the definition of "love" is different than an emotion. And in fact, this definition of love is very basis for the commands of Moses.
Likewise Christianity defines love the way God defines it, NOT as a cultural western emotion.
Love from the Christian standpoint is obedience to God first and foremost.
"if you love me, you will keep my commandments".
What is it with non Jews telling us what the Shema is? Especially when you're inaccurately sharing.
"Hear, O Israel" --- not non Jews --- "the L-rd, our G-d, the L-rd is One". We don't skip the most important part of the Shema. A part you actually don't embrace.
Love is not G-d's focus, nor ours, though it is an important part of our relationship with Hashem praised be He. That's what Judaism is. A relationship. One on one. No intermediaries. No mouthpieces. Personal and intimate. Beyond defintions and limitations, as Hashem is.
We Jews also don't need to know what your definitions of anything are. It's yours alone. From our perspective, none of it is tied to us. Separate.
G-d said for all non Jews to keep the 7 Noahide Laws with all of their intricacies, not Ten of our 613 mitzvahs. Commandments is not the best translation. We know what it means, as we should.
You articulated this so well
Exactly Teacher
He is alive, he hasn't revealed himself to many. Only when he is revealed many will fall to their knees. Find him to be truly forgiven
Jews won't.
Christian translation of Kadosh is Holy : Blameless... which is difficult hence the J man to solve the math.
While actual meaning of Kadosh is : Separate, if we have "separate" life, meaning life according to HIS Instruction (Torah), then we have connection / relationship, A TRUE RELATIONSHIP with The Creator
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❤ awesome perspective ❤
Loving the Love? But God is Divine Love so it seems close to me.
כי לא יראני האדם וחי
Because Man will not see me and live
It is not that Man cannot see Him. It is that Man cannot see Him and live.
There is too much to be said here especially after some of the … comments, so I will talk about what wasn’t said. What about feeling GOD. There was talk of seeing his back, front, face and even hearing him but nothing about feeling him. I find that to be one of the most remarkable things here. Staying on that theme, I am surprised that the Christians didn’t mention that if you have seen the son you have seen the father. Omission that I hope was said and I just missed it.
Rabi what was missing in your explanation if I humbly suggest was the inner Kabbalistic approach regarding “ seeing” “ hearing” the bible is not a book of history or a moral tales it is a manual how to improve the connection with the creator,right?! It is confusing and so the Zohar and Ari and of corse Baal Asulam explains:To attain the creator to see it is all with in our consciousness.and Mozes attained Panim. Keep on doing your great work and I wish all Jewish people for a start, learn Kabbalah and start exercising and practicing real Judaism ✡️ ואהבת לרעך כמוך אמן
Rabbi I have a question, I may be lucky I don't even know what lucky means.... Q/ in the Bible it's says don't remove or add ... People keep saying they removed this book they removed this who are they??
Tankyou Rabbi 💫 ✡️ 🩷
God did not "make something out of nothing"...
Because out of nothing nothing comes.
God, being an omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being, made EVERYTHING from HIMSELF.
In The Torah, Vayikra 19:1-2 or "Leviticus" 19:1-2 : 'And Hashem spoke unto Moses, saying 'Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, ye shall be HOLY, for I Hashem your G-D am holy.' Any comments about this?
What comment are you looking for?
@@613YY From Friedman, about Hashem saying "you shall be Holy, for I'm Holy"
@@Albert_Riseal you want what you won't get. We Jews learn and we teach. I'm offering to share what I've learned. Your choice to reject.
Not an exact quote. More accurately "You shall be holy for I your G-d am holy". What is fuzzy about that? Though there is a lot to learn from it. Hours worth.
@@613YY So it is correct to say that G-d wants people to procure holiness
He doesn't want his creation to worship anything that's in the world. Therefore, there are no images of GOD available to worship on the earth.
Imteresting.
Hello Rabbi. I've heard that Gods desire can be summed up very simply with two words: Beit Hamikdash. Would like to hear others' perspective as well, as to what God wants.
That is not G-d's only desire. Nothing about Hashem is that simple.
The Third Temple is an indication that we have succeeded in perfecting the world as G-d praised be He needs and wants it to happen. Also an indication that Moshiach has come to put the final touches on the perfection and to teach us how to live in this perfected world. Also that the Redemption of souls will be soon here on earth, all being united with the Essence of G-d.
This is what I'm looking for...teach the children well. And the Children say to you we are the temple of God's Holy Spirit. Allow the Children to teach you also and we can share in Gods glory!
No "HS", a non Jewish concept G-d praised be He has a "spirit" that is holy, since everything that is Him is holy. It's Him, not separate from Him.
@@613YY It's Him, not separate from Him. Correct and Him is in us not with us.
@@wep363 G-d is in us, with us, no limitations. Yes, us Jews. We're G-d's Children as it says in the Torah. Hashem never changed that idea to include others though they want to believe they are or He did. Non Jews are treasured creations, just not the same relationship.
@@613YY Spiritual Pride is a toxic condition and G-d is no respector of Men! Of course, I have the same relationship with G-d once told me I have the birthright of David! None of us can go back 2500 years!
@@613YY Spiritual Pride in toxic. G-d once told me I have King David's birthright! No one can trace back their genealogy 2500 years but I believed HIM. I am an adopted son of G-d 'small s' not a child of G-d so you are right. It is NOT the same relationship.
I define God as the only omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being.
And? Where do you go from there? Why are you here on earth?
The universe is a thought-form projected from the mind of God.
@@613YY I’m not sure to be honest, but as a rule, I deal with each day as it goes by.
@@zubairskazi not enough for Jews. We have to do our mission. Yours, as well as our other mission, is to stop thinking of ourselves, to find, really to be open to, who needs you, and help them. Not necessarily in a big way. Being a friend, doing a job that serves people, which is really every job that we do as it's meant to he done. No being a slouch taking a psmaycheck for doing nothing.
Basically to be needed not needy.
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad."
It wasn't that clear. a general concept or idea...
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Here are my questions for you and your audience Rabbi Friedman: 1. Can you ever authentically and genuinely love anyone who (before you even know them) commands you to love them, and threatens you with harm if you do not love them? Why or why not? 2. Why do you believe God created you? 3. Do you dispute the fact that by the plain logic of the situation, not a single person (even God) can feel genuine love from anyone else if the first thing they command in the relationship is for the other person to love them or face punishment? Why or why not?
Did your parents make you clean your room?
If you raised children, you wouldn't ask this question.
One of the strongest loves a human has is toward their parents, especially the mother.
And the mother that is usually the most loved ALWAYS THREATENED PUNISHMENT.
I see mother's today that let their kids do whatever, and not only do they despise their children, but their children will despise them too.
That's an amusing first question. G-d praised be He "commanded" Jews after we had begun a relationship with Him. Love is something G-d wants us to achieve with Him. He doesn't threaten us Jews in the literal way you're saying. As RMF says about that misconception, 'that's nasty'.
G-d is not a person, heaven forbid He is beyond limitations of corporeal life. G-d is One, which means much more than a sole entity.
Have a better question for you:
How can we love something that we can't see, hear, talk to or touch? Yet Jews do, or try to or aspire to, in our limited human way. Maybe you don't. Nor want to. That's your personal business. We won't ask you to explain it. Nor will we.
Intimate, personal relationships can't - aren't meant - to be defined for others to understand and approve or disapprove of. The relationship between Jews, individually and together, is deeply personal. As such it is not open for debate or defending. We know who we are, who Hashem is and what we are doing for Him.
Love was a word Hollywood created to capitalize on ignorance.🤑
Holy. Holy? Whats that? Its certainly the only characteristic of God I cant define. And yet we are to be holy as God is holy. (Leviticus/Kedoshim) Hmm. I guess I am forced to be literal: Holiness means doing the mitsvot.
I guess that's not a characteristic of God, so maybe its (holiness/kedusha) an absence of characteristics. So maybe when I do them (the mitsvas) I'm in an absence of characteristics too.
The first time this word appears in the Tora (describing / announcing God's shabbat) very much appears to me to fit the 'characteristic' of a ceasing of characteristics, as it were. And, so, finally, what's the characteristic of no characteristic?
I am a Christian Hear O Israel God Is One
Xian and 'G-d is One' don't belong together . You have three not one. Israel (Jews) not non Jews until you realize G-d is One. Realization of truth. Not Judausm. No xianity G-d being Truth.
Proceeding to saying that his face would not be seen, and he will show him his back is the face-to-face conversation so obviously, the conversation is what makes the change from talking face-to-face, and then, for the rest of the conversation, the face has to be concealed, and only the back revealed
Got lost in your comment
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Maybe in Hebrew it would’ve been more understandable, but my point is you should open up the script and study the chapter instead of just reading through it quickly without paying attention
@@Yosaif-Israel How do you know how it's being studied? Non Jews don't study Torah the way Jews do. Yes, the Hebrew is a bit different, richer with meaning, making exploration of the words deeper, which the rabbi is sharing. In addition to sharing how we study the text as opposed to reading it. They accept what RMF shows has to have layers of meaning since most, really all, of the stories don't make sense without taking them apart and looking for more, which we're not afraid to do. Our sages and rabbis and rebbes were given more layers which rabbis share for those who wish to listen and learn.
@@613YY
The Rabbi said he didn’t have an answer for this therefore I recommend he studied better if he like he could contact me and I’ll teach him what my Rabbi have told me about this matter of speaking, face-to-face, and G-D references to Moses about his name
@@Yosaif-Israel an interesting offer to be sure. You've studied more than the rabbi in his 78 years? Fascinating. RMF studied with the Rebbe, of righteous memory. Did you? Are you a kohen also as he is? Or perhaps a kohen gadol?
Rabbi said he can't explain it though goes on to do just that.
EMUNAH Faith To Stand
Or to sit. lol
ב"ה עד מתי? its not a rhetorical question
We love GOD because he first loved us with unconditional love that he gave his son for the sins of the world.
His son, Israel, us Jews, not jsus, now look at who you have pierced. Isaiah 53, Isaiah 49:3-8, 42:8, Leviticus 25:55. Jeremiah 31:9-10, exodus 4:22, psalms 146:3
@jtprobst1 That's where you go wrong in translation of the scriptures. Yes, Jews and Christians are both GOD'S children. Jews are the older brothers of Christians. The Bible isn't just about Jews. It's about the unconditional love of our creator, GOD, almighty bringing his children back to him when we were lost. You're still lost, and it is now the mission and duty of the Christian to guide you back to your first love.
@@shaunl3757 no we're not. Non Jews went off on their own. Why insist on clinging to our coattails in a disingenuous way? Our relationship, thousands of years, is ours. Can't simply attach to it. You have your own relationship. Noone scores points with G-d being "related" to anyone else. We're all responsible for oor own unique - yes unique - individual - relationship with G-d. We all do our own work Our own G-d given personal mission. Just like I don't get brownie points with G-d by knowing Rabbi Friedman, the Rebbe, or any of our sages all the way back to Avraham I have to use their teachings for G-d's purposes. Just as we're not actually guilty by association, were not G-dly by association No riding on coattails. Thought, words, actions. Our own.
Additionally, to be tied to us, relationally, it's all about G-d, not us. You need to accept G-d as One. Much more than singularity. The Only. The everything. And nothing. All. No "separate" parts. No trinity. Nothing but G-d. Everything in G-d.
Do you espuse atheists, non Jews besides yourselves - a vast group to be sure, as part of your "family"? Or are they not "members" until they believe as you do about being saved? Not a trite or simple question. Maybe best to look at your non Jewish family before our Jewish one.
If this comment is removed, as too many of mine are, it is still the truth which can't be so easily deleted.
Phooey on non Jews being G-d's Children. Being G-ds chosen is not a club you can just join by saying so. G-d chose. We didn't. Do your neighbor's kids or strangers get to choose to be in your family? Or do you choose?
Being G-d's Children is a responsibility. Complicated. Joyous. Frustrating. Joyous Confusing. Difficult. Joyous. Joyous. Joyous in service without looking to "get". The "perks" are not what you think either. The perks are service. Selfless, G-d praised be He focused, G-d purposed service. As stated in the Torah. 613 mitzvahs The entire world of non Jews hating, despising, jealous of, trying to change and covert us --- more than accept us - as we are. Not as you've been taught we are. As G-d told us to be. For Him. Only for Him.
If non Jews would focus on doing their mission to bring earth to heaven, observing the 7 Noahide Laws with their intricacies, as G-d needs them to do, we would all benefit. Yes, learn about G-d. Absolutely. Learning about Jews being Jews? Not so important. We've been this way for thousands of years, with our own internal struggles we don't have to discuss or rationalize or defend, since we're human like everyone else. Family business is personal though ours is more exposed. Lot of history to cover in a single lifetime of learning.
@@613YY Are you as many as the stars all on your own?
How can the student be the teacher if the point is to know God?
Students become teachers when we share what we have learned. Specifically G-d praised be He taught us about Himself. We are to take that knowledge and wisdom and share it, as G-d directed us "to be a light unto the nations".
In Judaism the saying is "if you know alef (the first Hebrew letter), teach alef". We are not meant to hold on to learning for our own purposes or self agrandizement in G-d's eye.
ITS NOT HARD TO HEAR THE LORD SEEING HIM COMES WITH FULLY KNOWING THAT HE. IS
You missed that G-d doesn't want to be seen. Therefore, He isn't
6:17 he doesn’t want to be just worshipped, Isaiah 65:1-2, he wants relationship
We know that. It's not only in Isaiah. It's in the entire Torah, cover to cover. Directly from G-d praised be He to Jews And anyone else wanting to know Him.
Jacob never walked the same after that and his Identity was changed from Yacov to Yisrael
Also Jeshurun G-d delighted in Jacob.
He seems to go off subject and on tangents but I’m trying to pick bits
That's Jewish learning. It's not a straight line.
“In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with G-d, and the Word was G-d. He was with G-d from the beginning. Through Him all things were made. Then the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” John 1
“Though worms destroy this body. Yet in my flesh shall I see G-d.” Job 19:26-27
“So G-d created mankind in His own image, in the image of G-d He created them; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27
“Abram BELIEVED the Lord and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Genesis 15:6
I see God every day.
I have seen God and I know him, not in the flesh but in the spirit.
Is that seeing except metaphorically? Are we talking metaphors? G-d isn't flesh so that won't happen ever Where do we go from there?
Abraham not only seen Him but spoke with Him face to face, He told moses you can’t see my front parts but see my hinder parts that’s when Moses wrote the history
Actually, it was Moses who spoke with G-d face to face. Moses didn't write history. He wrote the Torah as per G-d's instruction.
The בני נח are אסור to eat שרצי עוֶף ארץ ומים?
No
@@MONI-bj1ms i thought so i don’t understand why rabbi Friedman said that g-d gets nauseous by humans eating bugs as a blanket statement?
@@ytsi7505probably because he didn't want to get into eating clean and unclean food? I wish we could have seen the whole conversation.
Those questions really weren't so tough, lol
Who said that? Kosher laws, though that's not one, are not meant for anyone except Jews.
@@ytsi7505 Rabbi Friedman was talking about one of our 613 mitzvahs which deal with what Jews can and can't eat.
Anything linked to govt or military and religion, run from it. Any women's movement and religion, run from it. Your chances of it being a pagan movement are high. Run from islam!
Understanding the bible requires understanding hebrew...translation loses the essential meaning..each hebrew letter has an essential meaning, let alone the words...
OK - but "if it's not based on love" why the mitzvah to LOVE Him (with all your hear etc) & its a constant mitzvah. we can think about things that arouse love. But still, He wants you to love him
The other rabbi's dont like him because he's original and really smart.
Other rabbis don't like him? Who they might be is unclear and unimportant. Not necessary to speak "lashon hara" (evil tongue) about other Jews. We are all Jews together, no criticism needed. What Rabbi Manis Friedman shares is Chabad Chassidic teaching. He is not the only one teaching these concepts. Tens of thousands of rabbis do. Maybe hundreds of thousands - we don't keep count. Chabadnik Jews teach it too. What we learn we teach. It's our way.
His will be done as it is in heaven is the will of the LORD. For his children to be obedient and trust and rely solely on him through faith.
Didn't say much there, except non Jewish ideology.
@@613YY The LORD'S prayer is in both the Tanakh and the Brit Hodasha B'lvrit Mathew 6:9-13
@@shaunl3757 what non Jews call the Lo-rd's prayer is not what it is for Jews. I know where our prayers come from thanks.
That non Jewish reference does not apply, which you know and disregard. It's irrelevant and disrespectful to post it with a lack of acceptance of Jews being Jews, as we are, not as you perceive us to be or were mistaught we are. We're not a watered down version of non Jews. We don't need to understand any of your religions. We don't need to convert. No "saving" needed either. No modifications needed.
@613YY GOD is once again proven right. You are a stiffnecked people. Regardless if you think you don't need prayers. I still will be praying for you and all Jews because Jews are my brothers, and the heart of GOD in me through the Holy Spirit doesn't allow for anything other than that.
Ahhhh that is why I can see evidence of Yh but not see him. And that explains why I can hear Shaquina but not Yh.
In other words the Bible is a telephone to God. We can hear Him but can’t see Him.
Interesting analogy.
We describe the Torah (meaning "instructions") as a love letter from G-d.
What the bible (meaning "book") is for those who use it to know what it is. The Torah is a scroll, later in book form for ease of distribution and carrying. The Torah also has no vowels, which is why mistakes in translation occurred when recorded in the bible.
You don't know what telephone means. Scripture is in writing now cause people can't be trusted.
Grace was in the beginning God created Adam and Eva by Grace God is a graceful God God is good
I. SHARED. TEACHER
We cant see each other. Seeing my form is not me it is only my house and address.
Well, your hypothesis may be true only for you.
You can never know who is standing in front of you, what he really sees versus what he tells you he sees. There are things, people and experiences that are revealed to a person only according to his level of mental maturity.
It is possible that they will even give you the feeling that you are walking alone in the desert, while around you a multitude of rabbis watching and examining your every step and every decision you make.
In our lives, there is much more hidden than is visible.
They have the same god but practice different faith? Interesting
When you search for Him. You will see him
No, unless you're speaking Divine Presence in everything G-d created and continues creating.
I'd love to see why other Jews don't call out the anti-White hatred from other Jews.
You are mixing Jews with those who think they are "Jews".
Not everyone who puts on Jewish clothes is a real Jew.
In Judaism there is a concept called: "Go to the craftsman who made me and tell him: what an ugly creature you have created".
In other words, when a person says hateful words towards another person, he is actually deliberately avoiding saying them towards the Creator who created that person with great love.
I don’t see any difference between Judaism and Christianity. The Judaism says the word of God is the God himself and the word of god create the entire reality come to existence because of his word. Christianity says at the beginning was the verb and the verb was god and the verb come to physical reality. The Judaism says through tshuvah the name of god and Him will be one, the Christianity says through death (final stage of the material) and resurrection (change the mundane material to holy material).
So where is the difference between them?
The Jews know God doesn't have a son; God abhors and forbids human sacrifice; you don't need a intercessor to be forgiven by God.
@@MONI-bj1ms so why god is the father ? This is mentioned in Tanya and kabbalistic literature
@@mardankadivar9177As it were, He is like the Father of His creations. Not that there is a biological child. Jews call Him "Our Father our King".
@@yehoshuacirt8645 So you mean it’s a false doctrine of tzimtzum from Ein Sof extending himself to microscopic creature it’s not true ? It’s imposible for God to be a human ? Or a plant or a stone ?
@@mardankadivar9177 @@mardankadivar9177 Of course He cannot be a stone nor a plant. If you are a Jew, you'd do well to study musar and halacha and put the Kabalah on hold. As to be expected by people who don't know the basics of Jewish learning as well as the Hebrew, Your understanding is totally off. The Tanya urges a Jew to do Mitzvot and in order to do that you got to study basic Halacha to connect to the Ein Sof and find Him within the Tsimtsum/the mundane. Don't go from there to limit Him in any material form. People plants and stones are not God.
oh So Much That Very Well Said Answer God is More Real Than This Table!! Lord Give Tyem Back The Recent Slain, In Your Perfect Plan, And Let This Fellow See You, That Little Child ...To Lead Them, if The ass he rides upon slowand kneel that the child climb, and expect to go forward, And The Wives behind the children, behind the cattle, dehind Like Jacob before becoming Israel, You, And Behind The Only Rearguard, the Same Little Child The Same Our Father, The Same Spirit purely Holy, There is no unholy, The Grpund Holy Beneath Moses' God Formed And Developed Feet, And Those raw material for the shoes he was to take off his feet, for That Ground Was Holy,...The AndvSo Has Not become Less So, Polluted Until Broken Beaty's blood, shed after offering to give living water to a Samaritan Woman...Such Is Life With Sojouners misled, And The fire by night and the cloud by day, That Same Little Child Little Children Of The Kind After Our Lord
1:54 Deuteronomy 4…
This was a "gotcha" question from an Evangelical who doesn't even know his own Bible.
You don't approve? Do you have to?
Why is anyone asking a rabbi with no understanding of the Bible? Every one of his answers are wrong.
I disagree as he is a Torah teacher. He knows the Bible and then some. Some of these higher questions have no right or wrong answer.
First it's the Torah being taught, not the bible. Quite different. The two will never be reconciled together since we will never accept the bible. We don't have to.
Considering the Torah was given to Jews by G-d Himself praised be He, and further explained and elaborated on to us, does it make rational sense that we know what it is and isn't? Our relationship us intimate and personal with G-d. It has only grown deeper and stronger over the years. We have not been replaced.
Do you let people tell you how to understand your wide, husband, childrrn? People offer their opinions and advice, whether solicited or not, which you choose to ignore or not. Same here.
You're being incredibly dismissive. Entitled to it though why share? We're not changing.
You don't like the teaching, which is Chabad Chassidus, though it has validity. You don't have to accept it. It is G-d. People are at different levels of understanding of Hashem. Why is it necessary to demean that which you don't understand as being wrong? And particularly the messengers from G-d like Rabbi Friedman?
@@613YY no disrespect. Part of our Bible is derived from the Torah but yes, it’s not the same thing at all. The Rabbi knows his stuff and teaches with authority bestowed to him from on high. Some non-Jewish people may think why go to Rabbi for answers when we don’t have to. You may be saying why share answers with them when we don’t have to. Well, people like myself, seekers, are grateful for the generous sharing of wisdom. I think it leads to good things.
@@chccooperider1377 I agree. We were told by G-d praised be He to share the knowledge.and wisdom G-d shared with us. It is considered almost sinful to hold onto it. If you see my comments, I share a lot. What we learn we teach. It's our way.
What I won't do is debate. Rabbis, who don't get drawn into trying to be "accepting", aren't allowed to which I think is a good rule to follow for the rest of us Jews as well.
Who runs the country?
Equal rights of humanity must be visually successful at for a limited time formation in womb, still need times to get mature enough to understand humanity, Creator established human with a purpose, human don't enough time to fulfill his purpose only guidelines should be superior to understand the faithful humanity, if we not mature enough to know God's love. God is not business man to advertise, promote Or exhibit to something like joker to expose himself, still stays with responsibility of his promises.
Faith: To believe in something without logical evidence. The Jewish priests use to say god lives in the temple, but when the temple was destroyed, the enemy looked for god in the ruins and realized the Jewish priests had lied and god did not live in the Temple.
Not Jewish priests like non Jews have "priests". They're called kohen, as Rabbi Friedman is one, of which and kohen gadol.
The Jews hadn't lied. They shared what G-d told us. You're saying G-d lied, heaven forbid? G-d's Essence was in the First and Second Temples, as G-d praised be He will be in the Third Temple.
G-d does not have a body as people do. He's not "living" there, eating, drinking etc. A body is limiting. G-d has no limitations.
@@613YY That how much Jews know their history Kohen kat Katz
@@Robert-ty8inWe know our history thanks. Do you?
@@613YY You can read about what is written down as history.
@@Robert-ty8in Our history is Torah. Everyone has access to it.
"No one can see my face and live..." Sh'mot (Exodus) 33:20. With respect, it's not that he doesn't "want us" to see him. Otherwise, why wouldn't he just say so? He's God'; who's going to argue? Moses did not "see" God's "face". His "speaking to God 'face to face' is a metaphor for the the quality of their personal relationship. See Bamidbar (Numbers) 12:6-9 how God reveals himself to ALL prophets vs how he uniquely revealed himself to Moses. God has no "face" or even a "back" since God is "spirit". He is not a man or an angel (i.e. malakh: a messenger of YHVH; be it an angel, donkey or even a finger writing on a wall). Whenever anyone "sees" God or a part of him in a vision or dream or ANY kind of event, they are only seeing what we might call his "avatar" or "agent" or "messenger" (malakh). These can be invested with his power and authority (with limitations). This is under the ancient near eastern "Law of Agency". If 33:20 doesn't mean what it says, then God would have to be a "liar", which we know he isn't. Ergo: no one has ever seen God regardless of what they may have thought or reported... since they did not die (Jacob, Hagar, Abraham, etc.) Shalom.
People usually say that's a very good question when they want time to think about the answer. or when they are about to spew some bull****. I have never heard one honnest straight answer from this rabbi. He just slithers aways with his answers like a snake and connects dots in such a far fetched way lol. He will say anything as long as it sounds good. Really amazing at duping people
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent onto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 😇❤️🔥
What is your point? HaShem has an eternal covenant with His people Israel.
You can't know somebody until you see them can't understand them
That's your limitation, not everyone's. We all have them.
The questions : what is seeing? And what or who do you see?
When you notice an elderly couple walking hand in hand, with a walking stick in their other hand.
When they look at each other, what do they see?
With which eyes do they see? Eyes that are operated by the heart or eyes that are operated by the mind? The eyes are the same eyes, but the resulting image is completely different.
God does want to be seen, but in our current sinful corrupt state, this side of eternity, if we saw God in all his glory, we would be eliminated, because the full glory of God cannot stand in the presence of sin, and despite being redeemed, we are still in corrupted bodies. When even Uzzah touched the corner of the Ark of the Covenant he died, and he didn't even see God.
Read your Torah and Tanakh. See Sinai, the Holy of Holies, even Isaiah had to have coals on his lips and be sanctified first before coming before God in the vision. I wish Christians and Jews would read their Bible/OT etc better. I am sure Manis Friedman is a great fella, brother, father, husband and friend. But if more Christians and Jews would start reading more and relying on pastors and rabbis less, they would know that a lot of what he said in this podcast was false. Be a Berian!
Hosea 4:6
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.....
G-d praised be He created us as we are. Sin and all. He knows what we are doing for Him as well.
He wasn’t that specific about what we should ‘do’ as God’s will. I assume he meant the rules and regulations. But the 5 Books of Moses also shows people who related to God personally. Enoch walked with God and he was not(?). One of the prophets said God does not care for your sacrifices. Your HEART is far from me. The Rabbi is wrong. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, to prevent them from eating of the Tree of Life. That is the setup for the human existence. There is a problem that cannot be solved with doing deeds. It requires someone who satisfies the requirements to enter into the Garden. Someone who satisfies God’s holiness, righteousness and glory. That one will open the way for all to enter. He is called our Forerunner. He not only opens the way to the Tree of Life, he, at the same time IS the Tree of Life.
Rabbi Friedman has hundreds, maybe thousands, of YTs relating Who G-d us, what He wants and needs us to do for Him, what the stories in the Torah mean. It's not a one video concept. It needs time to develop, in stafes of realization.
Thanks for sharing your ideas though they are decidely non Jewish. Not Torah related at all.
Look in the mirror and dequatumize.
in Islam, there is a clearer and clearer answer, Allah Almighty shows himself only to the inhabitants of paradise, and only in paradise, by the will of Allah, he shows himself on a certain day, it will be Friday, no one has seen him before, even angels, angels will only hear the voices of Allah and without a doubt obeys (the order) Allah
there is a reliable hadith: that, among all the creations of Almighty Allah, only the prophet Muhammad, the peace and blessing of Allah, was the best creation of Allah, and communicated with the almighty Lord very close distance it was the day of Miraj, even the Angel Gabriel did not approach or communicate so close distance almighty Allah
What a load of bs
That comment is useful for what purpose?
These rabbi's know God is a hoax.
Sure they do. Just as you are one.
This man who is so profoundly wrong about so much, sells himself
Shamelessly as if he is
Omniscient. Can't stand him for that.
Thanks!
Thank you Rabbi
Thanks!