What the Pope said about Jews is HUGE

[@andreasgigmai7707]

Dear Rabbi Manis Friedman. Thank you for your teachings. non Jew, and from the ends of the earth we listen to you. we try our very best to elevate our selves based on your teachings. we fail many times, but we are determined to keep going just like Jacob. b.H😊

[@dannyd4339]

they don't want your kind. they think of you as beneath human, an animal.

[@puppets.and.muppets]

here is where peace is found.

[@ShawnaGunn]

I am christian, and i have always heard Jacob wrestled with an angel. In Christianity, Jacob said i will not let go until you bless me.""

[@gedshep663]

what does the text say?

[@terryulmer969]

What she just said.

[@Rasmajnoon]

Plenty so called angels,eating,drinking with mortals in the old testament,,annunaki,simple

[@ShawnaGunn]

@Rasmajnoon we Know that is not true bc demons do not have the ability to bless and better your life. The word is very clear Jacob was God's chosen, and his life was blessed.

[@Rasmajnoon]

@ShawnaGunn ammunaki cloned early humans,fact

[@antonius3745]

Excuse me but the birthplace of Christianity is not Rome. That is a typical western view. Christianity has emerged from Temple Judaism even as the Rabbinic Judaism. These are historical facts.

[@jstantongood5474]

exactly

[@peterharpas5877]

As a Greek I agree ❤

[@FlaneurCreatif]

Deep down they know Orthodoxy is Christ's church.

[@antonius3745]

@@FlaneurCreatif That was not my intention, and I disagree completely. My answer to the Rabbi was not to get into one or the other side and espc not in evangelic christian polarization and intolerance.

[@antonius3745]

@@peterharpas5877 Christianity has many faces and traditions. But they all originate from the basis that was founded after the year 70. Even rabbinic Judaism is based on that event. The destruction of Jerusalem was something, that changed the course of history.

[@dougr6269]

Even without the oral law, the man gave Jacob the message “From now on, you will no longer be called Ya‘akov, but Isra’el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed.”. Angel means "messenger".

[@dougr6269]

@@nickgoldring1446 I meant even without the oral law in the Talmud to say that the man was an angel/messenger, you can just read Torah (5 Books of Moses) and see that the guy gave Jacob a message from Creator/"God" and therefore the man is a messenger/angel.

[@dougr6269]

@@nickgoldring1446 Don't know why my comment did not post but I will repeat it Even without the ORAL (not "moral") law telling us (see 1:40-about 2 of this video), it is obvious that the man wrestling with Jacob was an angel because "angel" means "messenger" and the man gave Jacob a message.

[@dougr6269]

@@nickgoldring1446 Every time I look here my post is gone. It's "ORAL" law, not moral. (see minute 1:34 - 2:12) We don't need the oral law in the talmud to see the man is an angel/messenger because from the text in the Torah alone we can see that he gave Jacob/Israel a message.

[@nickgoldring1446]

@dougr6269 I didn't see the typo, you deserve the benefit of any doubt.

[@nickgoldring1446]

@@dougr6269 My bad, SMH.

[@gaifawcett9760]

The man who wrestled with Jacob was the man who walked in the garden with the first man and woman. We are still wrestling with that man.

[@seanramdeholl3469]

Ahhh! The Tree of Life with feet. cf:- "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Man". Ezekiel: a Man sitting on the throne. David: shall not lack a Man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel. Shalom

[@gaifawcett9760]

The tree of life, nailed to the tree of death. God shine his face upon you, Israel. His inheritance

[@Y1836Y]

Nope. Not close to true.

[@Y1836Y]

​@@gaifawcett9760 darkness in your comment.

[@seanramdeholl3469]

@Y1836Y Why such a vague reply (nope/true), a suggestion of right or wrong, good or evil, likely the fruit of the tree of knowledge, of which if we continue to eat, ...shall surely die, no? Choose life (the tree in middle of God’s garden), so you and your seed may live, for He (or that) is your life. Hence: His 1st command - EAT!!! (that tree). cf. Deut. 30:18-20; Gen. 2:16-17. Shalom

[@gwedielwch]

14:40 "we can't have people saying "Murder is OK sometimes, when I think so, when I say so it's OK" - On Dec 16, 2023 a sniper shot and killed two women in the grounds of the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Gaza - Nahida Boulos Anton and her daughter Samar Antoun. They were Christians and Palestinians. The mother was elderly. The sniper shot her first. The daughter was middle aged. The sniper shot her as she she went to help her mother. Did the sniper murder these two women ?

[@amandablevins6809]

I’ve always noticed after someone beats the odds by coming home after war, Alive to their families. They always die a tragic death. Just because you’re in the army in a war, killing people, is still a sin. But is a lie and a murder the same sin? Is sin all the same? Asking for… forgiveness, all the same way. Being forgiven, all feels, the same.

[@Tiuut78]

You almost like my grandpa's brother😊I felt this for long time ago when I was young😊and thank you.but am Christian and nor your enemy😊am glad that you exist😊

[@joejackson6205]

In The Book of Roman's, I forget the chapter and verse, but Paul explicitly states that The Jews are our elder brothers in The Family of God. Though it may seem they were cut off at The Crucifixion, but be not confused they will be grafted back in before the last day. Therefore it is our duty as Christians to love all the children of Israel as our elder siblings.

[@helencheung2537]

It is we Christians who are grafted in to His chosen.

[@marisamartin3664]

Pau; says Christians are the ones grafted into the tree of Israel, not the other way around.

[@tooxtreme55]

​@@helencheung2537He said grafted BACK in.

[@tooxtreme55]

​@@marisamartin3664he said grafted BACK in

[@tammyfitzgerald5336]

My great grandfather was a Rabbi it’s amazing what I am learning ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@John_13_35]

Praise The Maker !

[@joeviking61]

Rabbi, I am a devout Catholic, and I find your Videos fascinating and enlightening. Thank you for what you do.

[@Y1836Y]

Why would your religious devotion matter to a rabbi? Think the rabbi will convert for you then teach where you are? We don't want your conversion.

[@lepgadio86lol]

@@Y1836Y Instead, why do you vomit bile on people? Maybe you could do an examination of conscience, right?

[@CatETru]

You certainly are not devout if you buy what this dude is selling.

[@IntelligentAtheism]

Devout catholic? Have you read the whole bible?

[@Larry96165]

​@@Y1836YBe nice. The devout Catholic is being open to Torah. That's all he is saying. Most gentiles listen to him because they are unsatisfied with what they are told in their places of worship. Others just curious.

[@danielbazan09]

As a Bnei Anusim with a unbroken matrilineal lineage to a well known crypto-jewish town in Mexico, I have recently begun to practiced the mitzvot, learning kashrut, thank to haShem my family still has the tradition of brit milah, altough secular. So I think that all these circunstances that permitted me to practice judaism feels like I'm part of this prophecy of the scattered jews returning to Israel. Spain nor the Inquisition couldn't stop my family, and being the first in 500 years to be able to return to full-fledged judaism is a tremendous Honour. Baruch HaShem

[@emiliofahr504]

Rabbi, why is there no mention of the oral Torah in the written Torah or elsewhere in the Tanakh?

[@rutbrea8796]

Try to find out yourself!! Don't be such a fool to criticize because of your ignorance!!

[@emiliofahr504]

@rutbrea8796 You can't find something that doesn't exist. My question was not a criticism. You are being very defensive.

[@chatisawasteoftime]

Because it's oral. That's why.

[@samjiva]

It’s in Deuteronomy 17:11. In english it says, According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee. In the hebrew it says, Al pi haTorah asher yorucha: lit. according mouth (pi) the Torah who/which they instruct you. The full passage which details creation of new oral Torah, Deut 17:8-13 Deut 16:18-22 gives rules for the judges who would then be able to execute 17:8-13

[@samjiva]

There’s also several passages prior to the Mt Sinai covenant (Exodus 20) which can easily go unnoticed. But a careful study reveals that things such as Shabbat keeping and knowledge of clean and unclean animals had been established long before Israel.

[@lilitheden748]

As a former Roman Catholic turned atheist I have to say that I find the Rabbi a very interesting and wise man. The things he explains about the Jewish and Christian beliefs I never heard about during my time in the Church. Although this will not make me believe again it gives me the background of my former beliefs that were not explained. He addresses the people in a very down to earth way and makes it simple to understand. It’s a gift to do this.

[@carmellaangel5435]

What a mumbo jumbo this story is, God and angels wrestle with humans? Remember, the name Israel means the saul reaper, not an angel. Go to an Arab and ask, they will tell you that this is an arabic word which translate to one of the fallen angels names israeele.

[@lilitheden748]

@ look, I do not believe in any god. I don’t care if what he says is true to the Christian Bible, the Jewish Torah, or the Islamic Quran . These books differ in many things. Here I just wanted to point out that this Rabbi is an amiable person and that I like to listen to him telling his stories and explaining how he interprets them. If more priest would be like him and speak to their congregation as equals I think that less people would leave the Church. (In Europe that is) you see it’s because the Catholic priests and Bishops think themselves to be more than their flock and act accordingly the believers get disillusioned and leave.

[@susansawyer9695]

Hi. I am sorry to hear that you no longer believe in the almighty power who created everything you see. The reason you can go to sleep without fear of not waking up is because you have enough faith. The reason you can go out in your car without terror is because you have enough faith. Well, why do you have faith in everyday things but not in the power who gives you life, who keeps your heart beating, who provides the very ground you stand on,, the sun to warm you, the breeze to cool you, the water to quench your thirst, the plants that provide food for the body given you as a vessel in which to experience all the majesty made by the creator? Forget the religious doctrines and get into the Word. Study it for yourself. Love God with everything in you, and love others, and start praying and wrestling with God so that you can come to a better understanding. We are the children of God, and we are living out the Prodigal Son parable, in one way or another. Your turn to turn back.

[@RickSautner-rk8wq]

@@lilitheden748 come back home brother to the one Holy Catholic Apostolic Church....

[@lilitheden748]

@@susansawyer9695 I just cannot believe in what is said in an ancient book of stories put together by the council of Nicea. The Bible certainly is a valuable literary work but it’s not more than that. Believing in God isn’t something you have to try very hard and it will come. It doesn’t work that way. As I a child I loved going to mass. As a teen I didn’t go anymore. Except for my grandfather there weren’t really religious people in my family. You see religion is more a nice warm memory. Sitting with my grandfather while he tells stories from the Bible. Setting the crib together at Christmas… When I got older things changed. I learned a lot at an early age. God just doesn’t fit. Anyway I am a content person and I do my best to help out others and live a good life. Thanks for being so nice.

[@GolgothaBridge]

While I don't pay any regard to what the Pope says, I love what you have to say Rabbi. As you say, It's good to know.

[@dt6822]

Right, because yours is the truer, more authentic Christianity, invented by semi literate preachers in suspenders screaming in English, God's true language.

[@larryd_0793]

At 1:16 you didn't finish reading the next few versus that mentions that Jacob said he has seen God face to face. He was referring to the one he was wrestling with. If this is not so please explain. God, not an angel.

[@victorblack6995]

I believe he said Jacob was wrestling with Esau's Angel. So even though Jacob, Esau and Isaac had an arrangement on earth, that Jacob would be the inheritor of Esau's birthright, the matter still had to be sorted out in heaven, with Esau's guardian angel, the Angel over the would be nation of Israel. So Jacob wrestled and won, but he dislodged his hip in the process. Then somehow It got conflated with a descendant of Esau founding Rome? and the Pope calling the Jews the "older brothers" of the Christians. This is meant to say that the Christians are in fact the faith of the older brother Esau, and the Jews the faith of the younger brother Jacob, and that he wants both faiths to merge into one sometime in the future.

[@mangaranwow2543]

I hold no anger or hate against this Rabbi, since i truly believe he wants to better the world. Yet it is quite frequent i find him omitting parts of a story. An example would be his view on the garden of eden.

[@Phillip-n3g]

The angle of the Lord GOD.

[@Larry96165]

​@@mangaranwow2543How can he omit part of his view? He conveys the relevant part of the story that is needed to express his point . If you want to discuss the Garden of Eden it could take hours , if not days or even months depending how deep one explores the text and commentaries.

[@mangaranwow2543]

@@Larry96165 You can´t omit part of the story to make it fit your view. Also, just watch his study on Gan Eden and read the story before, during and after the study to check for omissions. No need for months of discussions.

[@dorriepruvenok8598]

Birthplace of Christianity would be jerusalem, rabbi.❤

[@marisamartin3664]

The church was only in Israel at first.

[@anneriordan3222]

The Apostles were given the gift of tongues at Pentecost by the one who would come after Our Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the comforter......Each Apostle given instructions to spread the word throughout Judea then to the outer world. The Gospels according to their testimonies.

[@joshuastavos4376]

I know you mean well but to be accurate, it is Bethlehem ( Bayit Lechem meaning house of bread).

[@anneriordan3222]

The Maji....Three wise men....Why did they travel so far to follow a star?...Did they know each other?....Or did they have visions?, most probably they high intelligence of Astronomy. ..So, what made them aware of a special event about to take place in Bethlehem and why did they carry gifts of Gold, Frankincense and myrrh if not to a person worthy of a king?......Once Herod heard the news of the new baby king he wished to kill him.......The Holy Family fled into Egypt to escape, only returning when it was safe.

[@joshuastavos4376]

@ great questions!

[@dianah3204]

Thank you Rabbi Friedman 🙏

[@Yehōnatan_Yōnatan_Jonathan_JSW]

Thanks!

[@Y1836Y]

May you be blessed to continue giving with an open hand.

[@StMyles]

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[@KianAtmore]

Extremely interesting share thanks rabbi ❤

[@ehhep123]

I believe the change in attitude towards the Jews came from Pope John II--a Polish Christian who lived through the holocaust. We need a way that will include ALL of us. You said it well, Rabbi. Thank you.

[@dt6822]

Yeah, we shall see what calamity this will bring on everyone.

[@ianworcester4640]

​@@dt6822 Islam creates calamity , not the Jews.

[@Y1836Y]

Torah is the way. All there. Nothing else needed.

[@dt6822]

@Y1836Y Sure. Is it the slavery or the extermination that's so inspiring about the Torah

[@Y1836Y]

​@@dt6822 our history is our history. By G-d's plan. Everything had and has a reason. We may or may not ever know, even after Moshiach, what the reasons were. G-ds choice to share or not. The bible is idolotry incorporated and more atrocities. No thanks. G-d's Torah of truth needs no revisions at all. An example of chutzpah to change His words to suit.

[@kathleenmolo4520]

Perhaps it is my feminine soul,but I have hope of all Abraham’s descendants coming together as a family,to solve problems together,through peaceful means.That means we each must continue working on our responses to negative emotions and actions caused by persons who deliberately gaslight us with unpleasant behaviours or unpleasant situations.

[@Y1836Y]

Abraham's rightful descendents are Jews. There are no others. Once G-d decreed it it was so. No revisions.

[@tempelhoferfeld7727]

​@@Y1836Yso the other tribes have no rights???Where they come from???

[@Y1836Y]

​@@tempelhoferfeld7727 rights to what? For what? Argue with G-d. How do you think relation to the "tribes" would be accurately gauged? Who would do it? For what purpose? What do you think is gained by being somehow attached to us? Closer seat to G-d? Trip to heaven, though that's not our goal? What rights do you want more than what you think you have? Spoiler alert, Jews don't talk about having rights like that. If you listen to Rabbi Friedman you'd have heard many times that noone is entitled to anything. Noone has rights. They're an illusion. Still want to get closer to our way? Maybe try something else for your all important rights. No rights spohen about in Torah. The idea is that at the end of days, after the coming of Moshiach, as part of the Redemption of souls, all Jewish who for whatever reason were distanced from being Jews, will be as G-d made them. Some Jews who people thought lost their life as related in Torah for reasons of punishment will in fact be elevated as their actions were meant to do.

[@DD0DD2631]

Jews were chosen to herald unto this day a Child is given, and the government shall sit on his shoulder, his name shall be Counselor, the Prince of Peace, Emmanuel the King of Kings, The Mighty God, and He shall reign forever. Job is finished, it was over after 33 years in Natural Law, 70 AD prophesy of the cornerstone unrecognized, it is impossible to even have a perfect temple. The modern Jew is nothing more than special than anybody else. All fall short of (one) God’s Glory.

[@sfertonoc]

Well, the gaslight is Rome playing empire when it is a nation acting behind mask of empire. The book of Esther is about that, correcting an emperor into his role as emperor instead of making preferences for his own nation/ethny over others. Esther and Jews single handedly not only prevented genocide of jews but genocide of all other kinds of nations that would have fallen victim of this Roman like preference. The Pope is a hypocrite in pretense of universalims when it is all about his own private schizo universe. He not only is an antisemite but hates his own catholics not psrt of his little minded world. This is the wrath to come in his anguish for being "annoyed" and unmasked as having a position of inherent evil. This is essentially Essau's beef, ie being caught for his little local needs of being fed like a brat. He did not give a rats of his birthright but his pure material prowess as a hunter, since hunters were often confided as Kings to any tribe out there willing to offer women water in exchange for meat.

[@SandAngels73]

I am a Torah Observant Christian and I think a lot has been lost in the Greek translations of the New Testament. I came to Torah through diligently reading and researching the New Testament (and then the Old Testament or Tanakh). I was shocked to find that many Christian practices in the Bible were not something new at all, but were very Jewish things, such as a baptism being a mikvah. John wasn't baptizing people in the Jordan River as something new, he was performing mikvahs in the Jordan River. The word bapt-ism comes from the root word 'bapt', which, in Greek, means to dip. Since the NT was written in Greek, instead of Hebrew, much gets lost in translation, especially considering that the NT was written by Hebrew speaking Jews, in the Greek language, and the Greek was then translated into English. The OT was translated directly from Hebrew to English. Jesus (Yeshua) was walking in the temple on the feast of dedication, which means that he was observing Hanukkah. The Bible carries so much more meaning when you look at it through the Jewish perspective. The Old Testament was not done away with. Yeshua fulfilled the spring feasts on his first coming and will fulfill the fall feasts on his second coming. Eyes on Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah), Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Hanukkah).

[@charliea7129]

Much get lost not just in interpretation but in the eyes of the writer. When people write, they usually incorpate their beliefs, culture, experiences, and traditions in their writing. Any good researcher knows in order to focus on interpretation or understanding we must step outside of ourselves. Learn their culture and understanding and leave the writer behind. Greek wrote according to their culture. There way of thought. Rome did as well. Each civilation did this, with their understanding. One of the things, they used to do is gather and debate. Try to gather the truth verses what one believes to be true. I like who Christians try to tell the people who have been with this belief a long than Christians that they are wrong. That is being foolish over wise. For us to understand anything about God, we must first learn it from the eyes of the people who this faith has many more years in. Christians, they always want to be right. Instead of humbling ourselves and listening. What he states here is the research that I have been doing. He is correct, actually. But we are so prideful, we can not listen anymore. We just want to be right, instead of being truthful. We need to stop and listen to people who have lived longer on earth. Most cases they are the wise. We forgot to listen. Stories and beliefs, we handed done by the older people in their clan. Why because they were considered wise.

[@hamishbartholomaeus]

There is a version of the Torah, called the Septuagint, that has its oldest version dated to 300bc, and is written in Ancient Greek. So, something being written in Ancient Greek, at a time where Greek was the cross cultural trading language of the whole region, does not mean it is ‘newer’ or not legitimate.

[@SandAngels73]

@hamishbartholomaeus You misunderstand what I am meaning. It isn't what language it was written in, it's that it has lost meaning through translations. The Old testament was written in Hebrew and therefore uses different words for things than the New testament in the Bible, which was written in Greek. Any document loses meaning through translations. The more translations that it goes through, the more meaning that is lost.

[@hamishbartholomaeus]

@ totally agree with that. Also, there isn’t a Hebrew version found that is older than the Ancient Greek version, so…there is a chance it was recorded originie Ancient Greek. Biblical scholars absolutely HATE that idea, but scholarship of the region and its languages, minus the religious angle, think it is highly likely.

[@jaytoven7]

NT was originally written in Greek. If you are talking about the Old testament, the Greek translation doesn't lose any meaning. Torah observant Christian? No such thing. Jeremiah 31:30-34.

[@ChristineHansen-ly2bz]

Christianity started in Bethlehem…

[@TwodogsK9]

I have listened and learned from the Rabbi's talks ,.. but yeah the original followers of "The Way" started in Bet Lechem... Bethlehem

[@Gavirael]

My mom said it was the secret that we do not speak.

[@kathy-Tsourlakis]

Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman! ❤

[@gloriatucker9796]

I prayed for wisdom, you popped up. ❤

[@corynnixon8547]

This is so interesting. Thank you so much. It is a great explanation.

[@nicolediamond8273]

Esau cannot be a descendant of Rome. Esau was the twin brother of Jacob and was also a descent of Shem. Rome is a descendent of Japheth. Rome vanquished Esau/Edom and the survivors hid in the clefts of the mountains of Sier and were absorbed by the Arabs. Noah blessed Shem and Japheth, saying that Japheth would dwell in the house of Shem. And, Japheth would expand hod territory.

[@timclayton3154]

Rome descends from Esau, at least philosophically

[@nicolediamond8273]

@timclayton3154 , No! Romans are descended from Japheth, not Shem. Esau was from Shem, just like his twin Jacob, and Edom was from Shem and Ham because Esau married Canaanite women. That tribe was vanquished by the Romans. The few survives were absorbed by the Arabs/Ishmael! That's where King Herod came from. Herod extended the second temple beyond the walls of the first temple, just as the Muslims extend the peremiters of God's laws. The Romans/Japhethites occupy, they don't build. They dwell in the house of Shem, just like Noah predicted at Genesis chapter 9. You can't trace the tribes genetically throughout history and then suddenly switch it to philosophically! Genesis chapters 9 and 10 explains the tribes and their migrations.

[@BryanKimakowich]

Thank you for sharing/teaching. תודה על השיתוף/הוראה.

[@dinushblau4247]

Thank you Rabbi Manis for making as finally know God ❤❤❤

[@JoeNaz888]

May he come in our time. May HaShem continue to bless you Rabbi.

[@Y1836Y]

Hashem not what you wrote.

[@mrright1068]

I have never heard this explained in this way. Thank you for posting!

[@tilemccarthy7428]

❤ thank you for clarity Rabbi ❤

[@elizabethtaylor9242]

We don’t need the oral Torah to know that Jacob wrestled with an Angel. And in fact Jacob himself says in the next few sentences that he had seen the face of God. In the time of Abraham, three men came to Abraham and he gave them food, two of them turned out to be angels who went to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. The third stayed with Abraham. He turned out to be God in a human form, telling Abraham he was going to destroy the cities of the plain. Abraham negotiated with him, and God agreed not to destroy Sodom if there were 10 righteous people there. (Unfortunately there weren’t.) Genesis 18:31-33 (KJV) 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake. 32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake. 33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. And Jacob wrestled with who? Genesis 32:29-30 (KJV) 29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. It was God who changed Jacob’s name to Israel, not Esau’s angel.

[@annexton3795]

100% correct.

[@WellFedbyFed]

Amen!!

[@MasRahman-gz2xy]

Your finding is not complete until you cross check your finding with other major religious books.. js

[@elizabethtaylor9242]

@@MasRahman-gz2xy The Bible is uniquely the Word of God ….. there is no other book like it. I checked them out and was disappointed.

[@MasRahman-gz2xy]

@@elizabethtaylor9242 everyone (99.999999999999999%) says their god is right and rest is myth so im not surprised by your statement. I doubt if you ever completely read bible.... all i can say just read read read your own book not to prove anything to anyone read for yourself...

[@ilightcarmela3552]

Wow Beautiful story Rabbi Friedman. Thank you so much. Shabbat Shalom!❤❤❤

[@danimusdecimus2674]

i appreciated this contribution to my morning reflexions. may your day be a good one sir

[@johnpegues5701]

Just bought your book...I have found that listening to your wisdom challenges my world view and leads me to think. I wish that I had time to study more, but I thank you for your thoughts!

[@britt3313]

He named the place Peniel. He saw the face of God. God has a face. He wrestled with God. Israel is still wrestling with God. In the beginning was the Word, the word was with God, the word WAS God.

[@TacklingTheGiants]

Hosea 12:4... He wrestled with an angel

[@kathy-Tsourlakis]

Those who follow God's ways have the image of God.

[@Musick79]

Rabbi, Thank you for educating on your understanding of scripture!

[@chilenobarrucia]

But the plan of God was not about our older brother but about His son, our King. Our older brother refuses to accept him as king but we the younger brother do. We beg our older brother to submit to his King and join us so we may be together.

[@jackhydrazine1376]

Physically speaking Esav was older. Spiritually speaking Ya'akov was older. It makes B'resheet (Genesis) 25:23 interesting to interpret! And the Lord said unto her, “Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy body; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people, and the elder shall serve the younger.”

[@MrMarbles0Xecution]

I find it interesting that Esau had "broken out" from the womb. as though he was not supposed to be the firstborn in the first place. If he was born second, then he wouldn't have had the birthright that he would lose later anyways.

[@j.lsantos9106]

Incredible message thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman

[@sharonidavidof3864]

תודה, היה מרתק. באהבה מישראל

[@Denise-s7m]

Well said. It has been a long time coming. Thank You!!

[@jeffthomson8635]

Bravo 👏 Rabbi ❤Thank you 😊

[@rebeccacastillo4789]

Thank you Rabbi Friedman ❤

[@Lawh]

The way I see it is, the jws gave us Chrstianity, that Chrstanity evolved the jws, and that jws evolved our Chrstian societies, and now it is again our turn to help in this massively important and beneficial symbiosis of two equally justice and peace seeking peoples.

[@tradeprosper5002]

Bopth are currently involved in ethnic cleansing so not so pure today.

[@Lawh]

@tradeprosper5002 The only ones ethnically cleansing are the Chinese and the Arabs. Stop spreading misinformation.

[@Mer1912]

That’s how I see it. I’m American. Im a Jew. I can’t help but feel love and connection to my fellow Americans who happen to be mostly Christian. Someone in a different comment section thought it was weird that many American Jews “celebrate” Christmas time festivities. As if we haven’t tried to assimilate with the people around us lol

[@Lawh]

@Mer1912 Two peoples who are trying to get everything right can learn a lot from each other for sure. Mutual celebrations are a great way to create a union. If I was living in Isrl I would celebrate every jwish holiday, maybe more than some non-practicing jws would, as it would be an honor to be a guest in that house.

[@KayLeb-dj4mz]

​@@tradeprosper5002so much Hasbara cap on here. And AI generated cap comments. Cap ontop of cap. These ppl are obviously desperate.

[@IsraelRodriguez-dx6pw]

This is amazing wisdon, Im new to the channel and I think I'm becoming addicted to his videos, a gold mine.......

[@Gavirael]

My mother also said that I ruined my angel by turning him grey. Hashem is the origin.

[@dougr6269]

The ancient of days has grey hair.

[@naomicorban8703]

Tzadik Rabbi Manis Friedman As near perfect as is possible an insight into Fathers holy purposes and the playing out of His Master Plan Toda Rabba beloved Rabbi 🙌

[@stefaniecolonius4780]

Truly, thank God for your wisdom. I am very thankful to have been able to hear it.

[@stellaslater2082]

🎉 in awe of what Rabbi reveals. Born for such a time as THIS. EISH is a Rhodesian expression. Lol. Bless You Rabbi, may you see the Lord in the clouds to meet us all soon. I love you

[@Y1836Y]

​@@stellaslater2082blech

[@joniceferguson4863]

Thank you, Rabbi. God bless you always.

[@emetahava]

Prodigal son (church) and older son (Judah)

[@Y1836Y]

Who cares? You don't get that churches don't exist for us? You can enjoy without us. We'll never.

[@georgewagner7787]

There's no evidence that the prodigal son parable referred to the church and the jews. Yshua was teaching listeners about the forgiveness of Goversus hardened religiosity of some "good" people

[@georgewagner7787]

God not governus

[@gedshep663]

First born

[@BrnSandlewood]

I am sure that the learned Rabbi knows that the term 'older brother' in this context has nothing to do with an immediate blood sibling relationship. Whether older or younger, Israel was chosen by G-d for His purposes. The term 'Older Brothers' used by Pope John Paul II and subsequent popes, is a term endearment and respect. In many cultures the older siblings are respected by the younger ones - like in a pecking order. This sentiment is very evident in the Prayer for the Jews on Good Friday, (among other prayers) prayed in every Catholic Church around the world: The Deacon says: "Let us pray also for the Jewish people, to whom the Lord our God spoke first, that He may grant them to advance in love of His name and in faithfulness to His covenant." The Priest continues: "Almighty ever-living God, who bestowed Your promises on Abraham and his descendants, hear graciously the prayers of Your Church, that the people You first made Your own may attain the fullness of redemption." As Pope Pius XI said, in his encyclical confronting the Nazis in 1938: "...As descendants of Abraham, in faith we are all spiritual Semites. No, it is not possible for Christians to take part in antisemitism." The Jewish people are indeed our 'Older Brothers and Sisters in Faith." Together we are all heirs to the Faith of Abraham. We must unite as one family to oppose and fight the deniers of objective Truth and the satanic moral relativism of our times.

[@joshuastavos4376]

YisraEl means he who wrestles with the Almighty. That is how we know Yakov/Israel wrestled with the Almighty.

[@joevonwolfenstein21]

Thank you Rabbi ! Your knowledge is deep , your exegesis is wise and your deluvery is sublime !

[@williamlehna8072]

Thank you, Rabbi! That was very enlightning AND inspiring!

[@ke11yke11z]

❤ As a catholic i love my jewish brothers 🇻🇦😊

[@Y1836Y]

No familial relationship thanks. Brothers don't do or try to do what's been done to us time andctimd again. Lots of lack of acceptance of us being us here. Even that you and others feel you have to be sure to identify your religion which we could care less about is telling.

[@grannyninja3253]

As an Agnostic...freemasonry is interesting, worship Lucy it seems. So I ask about the Jesuit order in said church...pedo central. And ww2, who Financed...Rothschilds... and others. They didn't loose btw, went Worldwide...

[@ke11yke11z]

@@Y1836Y so You're jewish then??

[@saltymermaid5244]

Your heart and ears have been hardened. We understand. Just please stop hating on us Messianic Jews. We love you but u hate us more than Muslims who are our enemy ​@@Y1836Y

[@saltymermaid5244]

Unfortunately they hate us

[@lizgichora6472]

Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman, Clarity on " Morality," not belief.

[@valandilelfstone]

God bless you

[@marciateperman8811]

So much wisdom, Rabbi Friedman ❤

[@darrellsharrock3859]

Yes , the showdown is comeing. We can feel it comeing. We are seeing it comeing.Thank you Rabbi for your guidance. It is a pleasure listening to your words.

[@dt6822]

The showdown is between the lunatics of Jerusalem and the rational people of Athens.

[@KayLeb-dj4mz]

​@@dt6822sure is, people are waking up. Did you see Dan Bilzerians Piers episode yday? 🔥

[@RandomHuTaoSimp]

coming* If you cant spell correctly, dont comment!

[@KayLeb-dj4mz]

@@darrellsharrock3859 Free USA

[@KayLeb-dj4mz]

Why are the following words banned in this comment section: Fwieee US And them (minus the 'nd them') Tells you something right thurr

[@rachelgeorge6294]

Psalms 144:14-15. Your simple explanations are very interesting that make people to think when many are misinterpreting the Bible stories. “The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible”. Mark Twain .

[@HisMessenger-wf5qd]

Jacob said he wrestled with God. Did Jacob not know who was contending with?

[@judgedayan9934]

Wrong. Mistranslation if written in your English Bible.

[@Lentalil]

The text says that Jacob himself says he Saw G'd... So it is implied...No need for the sages...And Jacob asks the man for is name...And he did not told him is name...Implying that, or it was a messenger of God or it was God himself...So than again the sages only took from the writen Torah, what was already implicitly there. Best regards Rabi. Baruch Ha Shem.

[@marcelomeireles2114]

That's a really good point. I don't know what Oral Torah has to say about it but imho I think that since he asks for his blessing it implies that he does acknowledge so.

[@Stardust475]

Jacob asks the angel " Tell me your name? The angel responds, " Why is it that you ask my name?" If you look up other passages in the Bible of the same question, asked to this angel. The Angel does respond. He is the Angel of the Lord.

[@gs.daniel87]

He said he saw God Face to Face and lived.

[@MLahooti]

THANK YOU RABBI'S TEAM FOR SHARING:)

[@MaingzMamaGroup]

Very amazing religious history. I am a gentile Catholic Christian watching from Papua New Guinea.

[@Y1836Y]

History of our people not religion. Judaism is a relationship with G-d. Religion is about taking, getting from G-d. We're about serving with no reward offered. We do because it's what G-d wants and needs. Totally different mentality.

[@lxportugal9343]

I didn't know there were Catholics in Papua Nova Guiné??? Is it the majoraty of Christians?

[@MaingzMamaGroup]

@@lxportugal9343 yes majority of the Christians here are Catholics

[@MaingzMamaGroup]

@@Y1836Y awesome

[@irbis_rosh]

​@@Y1836YThe Old testament is a retcon of earlier Yahwism. This is as much a "history of [your] people", as Harry Potter is history of British education system.

[@joecipriani2478]

Actually Hosea 12:4-5 tells us Jacob wrestled with an angel.Hos 12:4 Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel And there He spoke with us, - Angel is the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ⁠‎ (malʾāk) -

[@srs-spiritualrevelationser3759]

Exactly. How cool to hear TRUTH. Bless you brother for your obedience.

[@isabelneves501]

Thanks for light me between the real story of the two brothers, amazing 🙏and Roman meaning very interesting 🙏

[@zodjenkins2595]

Thankyou for your most excellent wisdom Rabbi.

[@RichardSeaton-mu1vm]

Thank you for ❤🎉

[@ALesserMagistr8-wq6ej]

Fascinating interpretation I hadn't heard before. Certainly agree, if I understand it rightly, with the sentiment that the fate of Christianity and Israel are bound together as brothers.

[@Y1836Y]

No Israel is meant for Jews, only Jews. Bought a house? Did you purchase with the idea that you wouldn't be the only occupants? Same thing. G-d gave us Israel. He didn't say it's yours my Jews and they want it too so you have to share so they can feel chosen too. You're not.

[@Y1836Y]

No, heaven forbid, our fate is not bound together. They're divergent idoloters. We gave up idolotry and accepted G-d as One, which means considerably more than singularity. They have G-d having three parts, heaven forbid. We're also not brothers of familially related. Does your family try to harm, kill, torture, forcefully convert, you then demand love from you? That's called abuse. I'll take No Family Relations for $200 Alex. (Jeopardy reference)

[@gratefulmessianic]

You’re a phenomenal Rabbi 😇 You’re messages are full of ahava 🤍. Am Yisrael Chai from Knoxville Tennessee to Williamsburg 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸

[@tamaralangford6268]

Only HaShem 🙏

[@Y1836Y]

It's Hashem not what you wrote.

[@marcelomeireles2114]

​@@Y1836YIt doesn't make any difference. The "right way" in the end is in Hebrew letters.

[@Y1836Y]

​@@marcelomeireles2114It makes a difference in meaning if you understood more.

[@What_If_We_Tried]

@@marcelomeireles2114 Like this יְהוָה ?

[@JoeBleaux69]

Thank you, Saruman

[@Ideyzama]

As someone who recently became aware of bearing a second surname of sephardic origin, and having been raised as a Catholic Christian, your explanation makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you so much, Rabbi! If it is not an offence, I would love to know what stream do you belong to in judaism. Just for my orientation in search of some light.

[@Y1836Y]

The rabbi teaches Chabad Chassidic orientation.

[@Y1836Y]

It's possible you have forced conversion in your family. Travesties.

[@Ideyzama]

@ thank you so much!

[@heraclito3114]

If you are a Catholic was this guy is saying is that the guardian angel of the Catholic church is a fallen angel/demon, Samael. Now think what that implies.

[@Ideyzama]

@@heraclito3114 don't worry, I was raised in a Catholic family, but I am not one since many years ago, long story short.

[@saudholt]

I am a protestant (but never thought about religion) You clarify many subjects

[@Y1836Y]

Judaism isn't a religion, it's a relationship with G-d. Serving. Giving, not wanting in return.

[@RMCbreezy]

​@@Y1836Yyou worship God.. its a religion pedantic fool

[@joshloriegable2181]

@@Y1836Ythat’s what they say about Christianity. Those of us on the outside know they’re both just religions who think they’re the best.

[@georgewagner7787]

So interesting! We who follow yshua also make this distinction but ive never heard it anywhere else. Yes serving God because of who He is and what He has done for us instead of trying to earn His favor or some gift

[@ukaszzywczyk2319]

I am speechless. A philosophical and theological (in my opinion) and in several other ways summary of what has been contained in the last 3 generations of the papal message dot our brothers in just 20 min. thank you rebbe Fridman. Greetings from Poland. Hope you stay in this (great) condition. Winter is coming :).

[@dt6822]

Oh please. I'm speechless at your nimwitry. Jacob and Esau are Romulus and Remus, Castor and Pollux. So tired of this astrological nonsense

[@CMain2]

​@@dt6822no, Jacob and Esau have nothing to do with pagan mythology.

[@dt6822]

@CMain2 That's where you're clueless. Nobody is as arrogant and as nimwitted as the American evangelicals. Read Philo of Alexandria, Moses Maimonides, "Guide to the Perplexed." Why do you think Jacob and Esau "wrestled until the morning"? Because in the morning the sun comes out and the stars disappear. The Gemini constellation.

[@Y1836Y]

​​@@dt6822G-d is not astrological nonsense.

[@Y1836Y]

May summarize you, doesn't summarize us. Not your brothers. My brothers don't try to either kill or convert or inflict other attocities on me. Then demand I love them afterwards sayong that's others, not us, so forgetaboutit. Maybe yours do. Not on our part since it's not our way. The Holocaust wasn't so long ago. Nor are other horrific parts of our history playing out now. Kinda nuts. Distant, very distant, relatives at best. Let's see marked improvement in acceptance, which is too often not even apparent here, for some decades before thinking we should think otherwise.

[@cargumdeu]

Most illuminating, thank you. You are a wise man.

[@inaculea9911]

Beautiful!Thank You!❤🙏🇮🇱

[@cynthialea2724]

Amen, thankyou for your knowledge❤

[@مهرانگیزلاری]

درسته احساس آرامش و حقیقت بینی میکنم ،هر آنچه تناقض و یا ابهام هست رفع می‌شود. باشد که توبه کنند مردمان و نور خدا را دریابند .

[@Y1836Y]

Mind your own self. You're not as perfect or as G-dly as you think you are.

[@OLThomas-y9j]

You seem to know more, so I ask , do you know the Kenites ? Is this video sorta an answer to my question did the Levites let God down and fail to teach as God instructed them !

[@CarolinaGirl6919]

Hello my friend. As an independent Baptist, I believe that God never changes, & His Word never changes. Israel is still God's chosen people and still has the same standing among men that it always has had. We believe that, because we believe the Bible. We love Israel and the Jews. To be honest, they're really easy to love, in my experience. What's not to love? Of course, I love everybody; but there's a special place in most Christians' hearts for the Jews. you guys are the whole story of Man, his Fall and God's plan of redemption for him. The Bible - -the whole entire Bible - is the story arc of God redeeming Man and restoring his relationship to us, if we'll only do our part. (Which is to accept the Messiah's free gift of Salvation) To your point, the Lord said that he came to fulfill the law - - not abolish it, and that Heaven and Earth shall not pass away before every single word of Scripture has been fulfilled. (Matt 5:17-18) Amen and amen. Therefore, like you're saying, God's unconditional promises to Israel and the Jews still stand, because God doesn't lie. Of course, the conditional covenants are up to the nation of Israel and how they behave, right? Everyone will give account before God one day on how they behave. We are all praying for Israel and Jews everywhere, as we have been all along. we stand with you

[@judgedayan9934]

The rabbi, INCORRECTLY, said, "there is no mention of an angel." Indeed it says, "he (Jacob) wrestled with a man (Ish)." But then it says, "for you have fought with an angel (elohim)." The word "ELOHIM" in Biblical Hebrew has 4 definitions, 1. God, 2. angel, 3. judge, 4. a powerful person (either good or bad). When a scribe handwrites a Torah, he must sanctify every name of God he is about to write. In this instance he does not sanctify the word "elohim" because it does not refer to God, only to the word angel. We know this, as the rabbi mentioned, from the Oral Torah. Why would Jacob fight with God? Jacob loved God and God loved him!

[@deutschermichel5807]

maybe a friendly match? Like football?

[@KayLeb-dj4mz]

Interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.

[@richardbranson8117]

it's also mentioned in hosea 12 that it was an angel. 5 So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him; at Beth-el he would find him, and there he would speak with us;

[@dt6822]

@@judgedayan9934 Nope. Elohim means "the gods." Why did he wrestle with the gods? Because Jacob and Esau are the Gemini Constellation oh ye of mental limitations! Look at the Gemini constellation. It looks like two men wrestling. One is bent over and the other one is grappling with him. Castor and Pollux, Romulus and Remus, Ledo and Leda, the Ashwan Twins. Philo of Alexandria: "God is the shroud that connects the 7 gods of old, those shining lights of the heavens." How many names does the Jewish god have? 7. His names are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and he rests on Saturday, ie Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Saturn-day, Sabbath-day, Shabbatai is Saturn in Hebrew. It's all just astrology nimwitted nimwits. Ask the Samaritans. They tell the truth. As above so below. They're allegories about the constellations and the movements of the planets and the stars. The end is neigh. All your stories will crash. Deconstruct. Heidegger sends his love.

[@lordhriley]

But whatbdoes the original Greek seprugant say?

[@menachemporter5367]

We know it was an angel because it says so explicitly in Hosea 12 וָיָּשַׂר אֶל מַלְאָךְ וַיֻּכָל בָּכָה וַיִּתְחַנֶּן לוֹ בֵּית אֵל יִמְצָאֶנּוּ וְשָׁם יְדַבֵּר עִמָּנוּ.

[@lszujo]

yeah,the rabbi should read his Bible more and put aside the Talmud more often....

[@randiwaxman879]

Why are you so sure you know where he gets what? ​@@lszujo

[@Y1836Y]

​@@randiwaxman879they don't understand Jews at all though talk as though they have us figured.

[@Y1836Y]

​​@@lszujoFirst we don't pick up the bible which is only a book We read the Torah scrolls as originally recorded, or conveniently as a sefer. Torah means instruction, from G-d that is. Jews read the Torah cover to cover every year. Maybe you could learn truth about us instead of feeling inappropriately superior while knowing littlle if anything about us.

[@lszujo]

@@Y1836Y what I mean by the Bible I mean the Tanach....first of all,you read most of it but things there are inconvenient you deem it "forbidden" ...by who?this argument that you really the only ones that know the true meaning of the Torah because you read it as it was "originally recorded" it's like saying you don't understand computer science because you didn't study it in English....how silly...I maintain my opinion that the rabbi is not correctly dividing the word of God....

[@janettedavis6627]

I was taught in Roman Church that Jews are Our Ancestors in the faith.

[@leojmullins]

Today's real Jews are called Catholics.

[@simonmungai8924]

This is eye opening well elaborated Rabbi.

[@erichwalrath970]

If someone from the Christian faith talks about elder brothers, there's at least a partial reference to the story of the Prodigal Son in which the elder brother, who has been obedient to his father, resents the return of the son who wasn't. I'm not saying that the Pope feels that Jews are disobedient. The Pope is a smart man. But that's the one instance in the New Testament explicitly presenting an older brother.

[@AaronHitson]

That’s the only context in which Jews being the older brother makes sense

[@TR-zr1rq]

@@AaronHitson was Judaism not before Catholicism?

[@Danny-yx8ut]

Well it’s clearly the opposite, the prodigal son is the youngest.

[@Daniebraids]

​@@TR-zr1rqno today's Judaism is based on synagogue and oral traditions and talmud. No priesthood no temple no arc of the covenant. So Catholicism is older and when the Jews were destroyed by the Romans they lost their religion land and started synagogues which is more like school than the spiritual rituals of the past.

[@IsraelDjian]

​@@Daniebraidsthe Temple shall be rebuilt soon

[@ModeinPDX]

Interesting. Thank you.

[@retro000]

As a Catholic I am open to anything and everything with reference to the Pope. I also prefer to hear this from the Popes mouth. I would also like the full referbce as to what the Pope was saying. Problems arise when bits and pieces are pulled,from the bible,from sermons,from Priests.....its isnt fair in all fairness to give your own and opposing faith based interpretation of the bible using words the Pope used. This man should be wise enough to know and humble enough to not go there!. Fine give your sermon ....its your faith ...tou did not study Catholicism and all use the word God - Jews,Muslims,Christians,Catholics and etc

[@thetroytroycan]

I'm Catholic too. muslims have nothing to do with Christianity or Judaism. Watch Christian Prince and see for yourself. Not a freaking thing in common.

[@milkamilosevic9626]

Good,very good!👍💎

[@lguz386]

This is why left the Roman Catholic church at age 74 I had never read the bible ,I am so glad I left . I read the bible daily old an new .God bless you Rabbi and Israel too ✝🕎❤

[@caroldaebel4481]

I suggest you keep reading. You have made a mistake.

[@talisikid1618]

@@caroldaebel4481actually Catholicism and orthodoxy have many errors that have crept into them. They both need to clean house spiritually and philosophically.

[@patriciajohnson1894]

You Not reading the bible is not the church's fault it was your responsibility, but you want someone else to be accountable for Not reading the bible? Did you want to be spoonfed? Really ⁉️

[@lionheart5078]

im sorry but you knew absolutely nothing about the RC church then. If you would read the bible further and really listen to the church you never would have left it.

[@nancywenner3599]

I am a recovered Roman Catholic and read the Bible daily. I thank God every day for bringing me Home.

[@brynawaldman5790]

I appreciate your work. Rabbi Tovia Singer made a clip about how "eesh" has several meanings in Hebrew, & only "adam" is specific to humanity.

[@Y1836Y]

blech

[@brynawaldman5790]

​@@Y1836Yblech to correct translations of Hebrew? Very strange.

[@buddyvanzutphen5348]

Wonderful! So: in every life, the final battle is in our own mind. Thank you.

[@Y1836Y]

No.

[@Rasmajnoon]

Plenty angels amongst men,eating,drinking etc in the old testament,annunaki

[@sueharwood6681]

Thank you Rabbi.

[@BORI1955]

Thank you!

[@juliecollins4496]

Rabbi, does not the text tell us that Jacob called the place Peniel because he saw God there face to face? Isn't it right there in the Torah?

[@TacklingTheGiants]

Hosea 12:4 it was an angel he wrestled with