Did God Create Evil? An Interview with Rabbi Manis Friedman

[@sholompraver4348]

This is why all forms of idol worship are so offensive in the Torah. G-d didn't create a physical universe for us to fall in love with it, be trapped in it, and buried beneath it, but to use it to love Him, rise from it, and elevate towards Him.

[@guylevy3048]

Believing in Jesus is considered idol worship and Christians don't get this point

[@jacksaranta7574]

Toda rabbi freidman ❤ Thank you for revealing a great truth 🙏 ❤️ Baruch Hashem!! Am Israel chai ❤

[@Dragonladyrvrr...]

God Bless you both, Rabbi Freeman and Julie, this discussion was a blessing to listen to❤

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

Glad that we were treated to a part two. Thank you Julie and Rabbi Friedman.

[@横山彰一郎]

A serene appreciation filled my heart. i am very grateful to you, Rabbi and Julie Hartman, for your essential interview and knowledge. May G-d Almighty bless you, all the members of your families and all the editors. We feel deep warmth from both of you. Thank you.

[@jeremykillpack7265]

I love this idea of the relationship we have with God. He calls Himself the bridegroom in the old testament.

[@KeepingWatch95]

Where at? Can you give the chapter & verses? please and thank you.

[@jeremykillpack7265]

@@KeepingWatch95 Isaiah 62:5

[@thomasm5796]

From his last profound and powerful statement, my quote for the year is: Flourish in the service of others, seeking not personal gain but God's purpose. In this selfless pursuit, true fulfilment is found.

[@spencermorris5873]

God bless you, rabbi Friedman!!

[@dkbrain3434]

Thanks!

[@anitaveikle5237]

Yes it was Julie. Thank you to both you and the Rabbi. ❤

[@HadassahGoldstrom]

Wow, that was a really marvelous discussion, Julie! Thank you SO much for bringing Rabbi Friedman on your show. It was one of the most meaningful shows I have listened to. Well done!!

[@rutycalderongoldshmid357]

Evils yonkys ignorant

[@josephnyongesa193]

Great pod Baruk Hashem! We are following all the way from Africa :-).

[@MarioMonsalve]

Wonderful!, it helped to make my life a little bit better

[@yiftachpaltrowitz6559]

Regarding the question you asked about why did God put us in this position to begin with, in addition to what the Rav said I would just like to add something I learned from the Kabbalistic explanation of Rabbi Ashlag. The source of our soul, in its original unification with the Infinite Light of God, long before the creation of the first man, the source of the human soul decided, in what could be understood to be a free will decision, to achieve a greater unity with God by becoming a giver and not just a receiver, as God is a giver. For that reason the universe was created in such a way that this world became the perfect environment for our soul to express itself in a Godly manner by becoming a giver. In this way we achieve a similarity to God who is the ultimate giver and in achieving this similarity, we achieve a greater unity with God than originally existed, in which we received from the Light of God but could not give it. Now we have the opportunity to shine back the Light, as the moon shines back the light of the sun. When this part of our destiny is fulfilled, humanity will move to a higher level of existence in which the physical and the spiritual are united.

[@josephnyongesa193]

Very interesting, trully Torah is infinite. Thanks for shairing, Toda Raba.

[@avihukochero4036]

I always enjoy listening to rabbi Friendman , thank you

[@avihukochero4036]

if the world was perfect , there was no reason for life.

[@JapaChabad]

Lowest of all worlds and the potential to be greater than heaven!

[@kevinparkin3322]

I just realized that Adam did not select his own wife; God selected Adam's wife and God's selection options included every possible candidate from the pre-Earth existence ... which is a lot of candidates. Eve was / is more magnificent, more extraordinary, more magnanamous, more righteous, more intellectual, more insightful than ... well than anyone. Thank you Rabbi Friedman for setting us straight about Eve's specialness.

[@paulawallace8784]

Adam was both male and female, 2 sides.

[@lidiamarcogliese979]

WOW Julie exceptional man and discussion!!! Very jewish, torah based, but exceptional wisdon. The mental health aspect so profound, the basis for our crises right now.

[@rutycalderongoldshmid357]

EVILS YONKYS IGNORANTS !!!

[@j.b.9535]

❤ is all we need, because giving is taking a love, so we need to receive a love from those who need us, or from God that needs us to give us love

[@wholiddleolme476]

I think what Mannis said about pop-psychology was so spot-on. I've been hearing the mantras of self-love for decades and I'll say they have never sat well with me for a number of reasons. When you think about the self-love psychology it's basis in the same thing that got us into this mess, it's Vanity! The serpent used vanity to beguile Eve, i.e 'You can become like God...' Now if that isn't appealing to someone's vanity, then I don't know what is.

[@arashahsani]

Woe unto them who call good evil and evil good

[@Thefamilylife-05]

As I knows , Evil dose not exist, but if we do something bad Evil will appears, if we do something good Evil disappear. Because god created people just like that. Good and bad alway came with us . If god gave us only good, everyone became a gods

[@ViliveTuivisolo]

Thank you rabbi

[@joelgoldberg2040]

27:00 Why does God place us in this world and in various situations? It's because without challenges, there can be no meaningful rewards. In the heavenly realm, actions lack the deep personal involvement that we experience here on Earth. There, one cannot be a friend, extend help, or speak kind words in the same profound manner as in our earthly existence. Here on Earth, our actions are significant because they involve our choices and challenges. In heaven, it's only the soul without the physical body, where actions cannot occur. Your earthly actions determine the rewards or consequences in the afterlife. It is through facing challenges that we derive a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment.

[@angbandart]

"Can we talk about Adam and Eve for a minute?" "We can talk about anything for many minutes." !! lol

[@joelgoldberg2040]

24:00 Correction, According to Judaism, before a person enters this world, they kind of choose he must agree to everything that will happen to him. This includes their challenges, their parents, their siblings, and the circumstances of their life. Each aspect, chosen by God, has a specific purpose and calculation. We have likely lived many lives before this one, we come back to opportunities for rectification and fix them. Even though our challenges may seem overwhelming or unfair, they are chosen with great compassion, tailored to our spiritual needs. However, we must agree to these challenges before entering this world; we are not forced into them. From a higher perspective, when up there we understand everything clearly, but upon entering this world, we forget our previous knowledge. Thus, life becomes a test where we must navigate and learn from our experiences.

[@NormanF62]

To follow from the expulsion from the Garden, we have in its wake evil and suffering. Why doesn't God elevate the world so everyone could benefit from it and the world is enveloped by holiness? In a word, that's not God's job! That's man's job and if God had arranged things so none of us would've to deal with evil any more, man would be out of a job. We are God's partner in the work of sanctifying creation and making the world what it should be. There are no shortcuts to building that world. For human beings who are mortal, it will always remain unfinished. When all is said and done, what matters isn't the destination but what we learn from our sojourn while we're here and the lessons we pass onto our children. The world we all want to live in will remain for us more a dream than a work redeemed by the labour of our hands.

[@HillaryNamanya]

Being needy is a bottomless pit. 😢 how sad

[@bryannagels9612]

That is why Buddha advises us to be free from desire. The Non-self. Humans need nothing as long as they know who needs them = that's called love ❤️

[@sterlingfeldges9408]

The way he talks in circles makes me believe that he's making it up as he goes along

[@lionheartmerrill1069]

Seems that way to me too. I wonder how much $money$ he's made from his videos?

[@Sealust50]

Having said ALL of this and attempting to explain why God created evil and gave us "free will" with the reason being God NEEDS us so much, the rabbi needs to tell all of us where the "either going to Heaven or Hell" fits into this situation. WHY the need for HELL?

[@milivojelancuski2391]

E moj učitelju Ti pričaš ono đto mi treba, Odkud naidjem uvek ono što mi treba kao da sam naručio ali nisam, Eto to je ispalo besplatno, Oduševljen sam i hvala ti što je bilo za vreme Shabata,

[@JeanMarcelino-qr9ju]

Rabbi Manis Friedman ❤❤❤ and God put The Tree of knowledge of knowing Good and Evil in parallel to Isaiah 45:7 God is Just God is not limited to bit we all creation are limit to something

[@adivrr]

thanks rabbi

[@hershyfishman2929]

9:32 Isaiah 45:7 says yes

[@StevenDinerman]

Where does that "background information" about the Adam and Eve story come from?

[@jacobgingerhoffman7816]

Some people's imagination. Speculation.

[@fiztgeraldsiavwela]

The tree seems more like an actual place rather than an actual tree

[@NormanF62]

What strikes people about the story that's being narrated is not that Adam and Eve deflected blame to someone else, which already is human nature; no, its that God as the serpent shrewdly observed is a liar. He doesn't carry out His own punishment on His children! If he hasn't lied, then He changed His mind, which isn't very divine of Him for God isn't a man that He should change His mind. The story rejects both of those depictions about God as divorced from His true nature and instead it informs us that He relented and showed mercy. He felt sorry for His children's deceit and decided putting them to death on the spot would be cruel and unusual punishment. We take away from the story the God of Justice gave way to the God of mercy and God would rather see His children learn from their behaviour than condemn them to a fate that allows for no redemption and change of heart. That's a theme that carried through the rest of the Hebrew Bible. Human beings can elect to make God happy and when He is happy, their burden is lessened. That's why we're all still here.

[@paulmendoza9736]

20:25. "God wasn't angry, God was impressed". Compare with: 1 Tim 2:13-14. Either the Rabbi is correct with his interpretation of the fall that REQUIRES extra scriptural context. Or Paul is correct in 1 Tim 2. Yes, I am assuming that God would not be impressed with being deceived. If the Rabbi is correct, then Paul the Apostle is incorrect, and if Paul is incorrect, then Christian's don't have a good set of scriptures. OR the Rabbi is incorrect, and his interpretation is wrong.

[@Richard4Torah]

The big question is why did God put the tree in the garden ?

[@uiticus]

I dont get it. I think we have many needs. when I am hungry I need food> When someone is homeless they need a home. We have many needs. And not just the need to know what God needs.

[@damonried1720]

God created Adam and tasked him with tending God's garden. Man was created to serve God. God needs you to eat so that you can have energy to serve Him. God needs you to have shelter for the same reason. God explained all of this in a book.

[@ViliveTuivisolo]

Some people don't understand that Paul say that two adam send from heaven

[@robbysetiawan969]

❤❤

[@mcmc2383]

Amazing story period but it all is premised on if that first part is actually true, it doesn't say that in the Bible as far as Adam and eve been in heaven before God created them where you stand on that story determines whether there is any validity to this but definitely an interesting tale

[@govindarajulu1015]

But after Torah the interpretation made in Tanakh is seems to be contrary to the rabbi's interpretation of Genesis story, kindly address to this doubt in your sermons.

[@govindarajulu1015]

Thanks Rabbi

[@grndhg86d]

If the Rabbi had a message it was drown out by advertisements

[@fernsndocardina8416]

Why God need relationship when He's a Forced, does God have emotions like humans?

[@gudidpadasian7729]

You have to be with holy spirit to understand this story be friend with spirit so we understand this story he..he..he...you never understand this because the devil is in you .

[@robgau2501]

In the Bible it says he did create evil. Isaiah 45:7

[@lionheartmerrill1069]

Friedman only believes the Torah. Isaiah 45:7 KJV Hebrew/evil/Strong's Concordance #7451=adversity, affliction, bad, calamity....... God created everything. He created satan & he's evil. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil, Proverbs 8:13 Ye that love the LORD hate evil, Psalm 97:10

[@lisamarie6611]

Hashem is my teacher.

[@lindagray8416]

An hour isn't an hour in our time but God's time maybe, They didn't have any clocks then;-)

[@lauravanbuskirk66]

Is Adam n Eve first created 500,000 years ago? The bibal acts like 6,000 years ago.

[@rutycalderongoldshmid357]

The Yetzer hará disguise like rabbi 🤣😂😅 evil 👿 guys

[@Morvant62]

The Hebrew text uses the verb נָשָׁא to say that the serpent deceived Eve and then Adam. But it can also be the verb נָשָׂא (nasa') which means to grow and in the factive tense which is the one of the Hebrew text : to make grow, to exalt. And this is the intention of the text. It would be better to translate it as exalt or, if we wish to retain both meanings: the serpent deceived me by exalting me. It is indeed an external, centrifugal force, comparable to the one trying to separate Job from God. (even if demonogy is more recent in the biblical text). We can't say enough about the extent to which exaltation is at the root of idolatry. The serpent's strategy (and his power !) is to eclipse God's presence (Where are you, asks God to Adam). If we don't take into account this power to eclipse God (as if evil could broadcast on the same radio frequency as God !), then the story is indeed disconcerting and even nonsensical. Then the serpent addresses (almost exites) the desires of human nature, in the face of which the will proves to be weak (The commandment represented all the other commandments). So why the serpent ? Why Isaiah 45:7 makes God say: I have created evil ( וּבוֹרֵא רָע) The serpent was created to teach man and woman not to listen to the desires of (exalt) their human nature and to remain in the presence of God (Psalm 37:4-6). This is why, in the lives of those he called (Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, etc.) God often had to put to death all their human exaltation and pretension before starting to use them. This is why God says that he resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Ps 25,9; Job 22, 29; Is 57,15 ) This is why it is said that fear is the beginning of wisdom... The biblical character who best refused to be exalted is the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, whose humiliation is said to have been the occasion of the salvation of many. IIt is written that God brought upon himself the iniquities of many (Es 53,6), and that he interceded for the guilty (53, 12). Now, the translations "bring upon" and "intercede", are both translations of the same Hebrew verb: פָּגַע (paga'). That means that the two moments are one. Why did God bring evil down on him? So that he would intercede and make the evil disappear. Why did God create evil? So that, if we can't avoid it or even oppose it, we can intercede with Him. It's also a way for God to be our only God and a way for us to be really human.

[@karlyoung1713]

Good and evil come from the same Source time to wake up and realize your thoughts are occurring to you show the unconscious god some compassion.

[@troybreedlove4195]

3 day ago - 'God's influencer': Meet other child saints of the Catholic Church ... membership after the war. Ukraine fore told it ...

[@com9nche]

that idea that they did it well , im not agree , isn't the Bible text said that ....and why any can talk against text said , therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

[@michaelpudney]

That's how a Rabbi should be. But he has Genesis wrong that's about how poorly as human beings we transitioned from a hunter gatherer society to a farming and growing crops and living in cities society, we are still struggling with it because we left the 'garden\ and deep down we miss that life style because it is natural for us to be hunters and gatherers, it is not natural for us to live in cities and farm. In the garden we were part of nature and nature never dies it just cycles and renews, but as controllers of nature we are apart from it and so we die.

[@GodHasCommonsense]

Not only did the rabbis - I call them the bearded ones - make me a Christian, but they also strengthen my faith in the historicity of the New Testament and in Yeshua (Jesus) the more I listen to them. This rabbis here spoke a lot of things that cannot be found in the Torah/Tanakh. I was expecting Julie to ask him “rabbi, I’m curious, where in the Torah/Tanakh can I find a reference for what you said?” and there’s none. They lie to achieve their ends

[@jacobgingerhoffman7816]

I agree. If he was so wise he would follow the savior of the world, Jesus that the scriptures foretold.

[@boyd402]

Smh jesus is not in the T'nach ​@jacobgingerhoffman7816

[@boyd402]

Christianity new Testament is completely opposite of Torah I choose Torah! I choose GOD

[@GodHasCommonsense]

@@boyd402 Could you list for me the things in the NT that are opposite of Torah? What about the Talmud - the oral law? Is it completely opposite of Torah?

[@paulawallace8784]

​@@GodHasCommonsenseThe Moshiach of the Bible is King David's progeny, a mortal man of flesh and blood who Isaiah tells comes at the End of the Days and will be ANIMATED BY THE FEAR OF THE LRD, what you have is regurgitated Heathen Greco-Roman myths that have not a thing to do with Gd or Scripture.

[@akuuesi8753]

💥 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ✡️ 🎉🎉🎉

[@ioofmoore5940]

Love The Rabbi,but as soon as you start selling gold and my pillow, I'm done!

[@troybreedlove4195]

Don't go for the cheese and fall in their trap

[@jandegraaf8275]

Here is hint. This universe of matter is the lost son lucifer the high angel. Uplift this,change it in to Godlyness. All the angels think high of you doing this job and become.....

[@TywysogCraig]

Y gwir yn erbyn y byd.

[@sohamay6973]

I don’t buy this man’s word . Doesn’t make sense!

[@jacobgingerhoffman7816]

No God didn't create evil and yes there is an evil Spiritual world because all agents even Spiritual ones.

[@paulawallace8784]

WHO FORMS THE LIGHT AND CREATES DARKNESS, WHO MAKES PEACE AND CREATES EVIL; I AM THE LORD, WHO MAKES ALL THESE. Yeshayahu/Isaiah 45:7

[@paulawallace8784]

As Jeremiah prophesied, the Gentiles will come to see that they have inherited only Lies, Emptiness in which there is nothing of any avail!

[@botrosbotrosdief1840]

No God will judge this false rabbi he is leading people to wrong fabricating story. Our job obey God, he did not serve God, they disobeyed.

[@carmabrown5673]

He is definitely twisting the word. He is a false prophet and the book tells us to beware. There was only one rabbi in the Bible.

[@botrosbotrosdief1840]

No he just added to the story Adam and Eve were not souls in heaven you just made up. Sorry you are deceiving people

[@kenbennett8279]

Really Rabbi, where are we getting an hour later ? The question is, who is the daddy of evil ? We see who the daddy is and Genesis 2 and in Isaiah .. and if we think the trees are really trees than we're really mistaken because the scripture says that men are as trees and therefore that means that there were other men in the garden as well and God told Adam to not feed off of the fruit of that one particular tree that man that serpent was not to be listened to that God created also. God is the daddy of evil, and the good it is clear, at least that's what the Bible says.

[@sterlingfeldges9408]

Where does he get that Adam disobeyed God after only one hour?! Said no verse ever! And it was eve who deceived Adam to cause him to sin. I think Rabbi Friedman needs to go read his Torah again because he is obviously not well versed! Any time that someone says that you need a lot of commentary to understand something is trying to misinterpret the text. What it meant then is what it means now

[@sterlingfeldges9408]

Where does he get this nonsense from? Where did he get that ridiculous backstory about Adam and Eve from? Did he make it up himself or did somebody else make that nonsense up?

[@jacobgingerhoffman7816]

DUDE Needs to read the New Testament. How do you twist the Adam and Eve story like that?

[@karlyoung1713]

Beware of the little write of thought its the devils tool also it all comes from the same Source.they are occuring to you show some compassion to the processes when you are having a bad day saying Negatives that are putting you down.Really what you call god is one but you want to make a division saying good and bad.