Who is God? What's he like?

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[@OrthodoxChristianTeaching]

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

[@phyulaysusuannemgmg5063]

GOD HAS GIVE US ALL AND WE NEED TO GIVE THANKS TODAY. SHABBAT SHALLOM EVERYONE.

[@interwebtubes]

Peace and prayers go out to everyone;

[@jmacomstec5512]

This is great especially the way Rabbi approach the concept from the true perspective, with thoroughly thought provoking analysis and makes everything vivid, understanding and unquestionable.

[@eIicit]

Agreed!

[@gabesantora4116]

Baruch Hashem Thank you Rabbi Friedman again for the way you teach 🕎

[@phyulaysusuannemgmg5063]

God is a father who see my situation and will solve all my problem.

[@maryroark2131]

You have taught me so much and still hungry for more. May God Bless you and keep you safe.

[@tedclemens4093]

Excellent reasoning! Faith in God really means, "familiarity." And, "God needs us more than we need him." These are exactly the conclusions this Christian has come to over the years. And I wholeheartedly agree that having to "appease Him,.. pray to Him," or "fawn on Him" are all horrible. But biblical history is filled with God doing things for people. This "familiarity" involves a mutually beneficial exchange-as with any friendship.

[@avstraliskizivot]

Thank you

[@ernest73]

Many blessings to all. I love learning about the commentary of Torah.

[@phyulaysusuannemgmg5063]

We are hear to give glory and Power to our big Almighty God. Who love us.

[@massimosaccomando2223]

Great teachings Rabbi I love listening to you!

[@pastor-tom-sims]

Thank you Rabbi. Here are my notes of what struck me most and that I will use as I share this video with my theological friends who, like me, are mostly Christians. I got a lot of propelling from you talk as I always do: Faith is about "making God familiar," according to Rabbi Manis Friedman. At Sinai, according to the Rabbi, G_d is telling us what he must have. He suggests the idea of a needy G_d. We ask the question, "What does G_d want?" Interesting thoughts to ponder from a Jewish perspective. "How can I serve you?" is a big question. Otherwise, we are using religion as a whip. "Are we here to get from G_d what we need?" This is a call to service to a G_d who is loveable and a great relief to those who are told they must go through life needy and downtrodden.

[@lionheartbloodline]

Wow great teaching dear Rav

[@Nesherhakatan]

תודה הקב״ה,!

[@oluwafemidurojaiye8430]

Rabbi you are a blessing

[@davidyerushalmi512]

Thank you!

[@ladyhawthorne1]

This does bring the Lord closer, it is also a great comfort. I now have such a different view of Him that means so much more than it did. And the guilt is leaving. Thank you Rabbi.

[@rav1303]

Shalom Rabbi Boker tov toda rabbah

[@jeffreyrwilliams9345]

thank you

[@cns180784]

I think you have a point that God is needy, he created us because he wants a relationship with us. Once the world's populace is connected to him in a relationship, he knows and can provide the needs of his people...if it's necessary for them to need anything. The needs that people have now are what God created.

[@patrickbly4170]

There is a Rabbi ! HalluJah. I have a good teacher even if I can't shake his hand or give him a hug . 🤗 But I can see His Image and the sound of his Words.

[@patrickbly4170]

Letters are the sound of His word.

[@patriciaribaric3409]

Thank you Alex Hajibay for sponsering this video; it is much appreciated.

[@drroyce1]

This Rabbi makes sense. And I’m a Christian.

[@jjharvathh]

A God that I can do something for. Very interesting spiritual point of view.

[@3instudio65]

I committed your entire theories, wanted share with as your mind about “God” and why and how we were chosen for earth…….GBU more for us righteous direction to God.

[@3instudio65]

While nothing but, he didn't like aloneness as well , so he done all in his oneness to break aloneness so there is start of his trinity, so afterward he split his soul as flashed (Adam) other one from his spirit called female flashl as (eve). So my point is these demanded necessities for us humanity in his Sprit having other means to us, we humans couldn’t control us our objective bodies as he is in his Sprit. therefore he fulfilled “Tora” by his third Devine Sprit to become “Christ” for us. He showed as well how “Jewish” should complete their un completeness to reach his “Father”. GBU

[@andrewwhite6]

WOW!

[@carolalexander1429]

The smile is unerase-ably in existence at this moment.

[@theresefournier3269]

YAHbsolutely YAHsome❤️🔥💯😇

[@nightbookfish2585]

Good luck with your video of the world amazing wonderful beautiful we love you

[@vivianestambouli7996]

I always believed in God and I think that I am the needy one not God.God put us on this earth to obey his commandments.

[@thankyou3998]

✨

[@AdamDylanMajor]

What's beyond our understanding will always be something. God אלקים, even though not a thing, is closer in our understanding to something than someone. The part of God אלקים that equates with someone is rather the Lord יוד קה וו קה. As Tanya states, God אלקים's speech never separated from God, that's how Création, God's most beloved spouse, came to be in a stable fashion. However Torah is a work of the Lord יוד קה וו קה, and it is the revealed aspect of God that is bound in space and time, that can go and return that has feelings and so on.

[@pollar007]

💝

[@swyman10]

Rabbi, I have an off topic question & I would love to know the answer. Why does my Tiffilin have a 4 pronged Shin on one side & a normal 3 pronged Shin on the other? Is there a mystical answer? They are very old, they were my great grandfather’s.

[@CFarnwide]

Look up Rabbi Mendel Kaplan. He takes some deep dives on subjects like that. I do remember him specifically talking about the tassels but sadly I do not remember. I haven’t listened to him in a while. I think now is a good time to download some of his talks.

[@bkktirak]

thank you. you are fantastic! is wonderfull what you say

[@nathankohen2465]

Where from you got this definition of God ?

[@jaspernewcomb5656]

So to know and understand God you have to assign human attributes onto the Creator? Is that something God said i don't remember reading that in the Bible?

[@angelamorrow]

God and Creator are two different things. The creator is all, God is a part of all. The desire of the part is being given by all, that's creation

[@callde-light5902]

In the beginning was "the WORD" (uni-verse) ONE WORD AND BECAME THE WORD AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH HIS SON FOR HIS NAME SAKE....PSALM 115:1

[@tyamada21]

My new understandings of what many call 'God' - resulting from my NDE... Below is a piece from my new eye-opening, thought-provoking and enlightening autobiography titled: Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within... (Amazon Books) Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence - the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future - right down to the minutest particles of dust - each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration. ‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter - I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects - including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars - none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses. To break it down - Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists - including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them - our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant - our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma - and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory - whenever we experience or express our emotions - or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing. The second law - Renge - Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho - these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlies all spiritual and physical existence. The final and third part of the tri-combination - Kyo, is the Law that allows Myoho to integrate with Renge - or vice versa. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter - as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication - perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists. Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us - all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux - constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ - the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation - rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge - and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents. Nam, or Namu - which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives - as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives - even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances - turn them into positive ones - or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are - regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect - the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything. NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result of any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things - such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things conventionally - rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within - including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time - to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life, including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream, already exists within us. For more about Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo please read Tina Turner's new book: Happiness Becomes You. Or Google 'Let go, and let God' by Olivia Newton.

[@callde-light5902]

A god is an idol of worship....

[@2009Wanderer]

It's come to my mind, that He create a family, not flesh family, but spirit family in the flesh, I think, first born is flesh, second born is spirit, flesh passed away, spirit (Human from flesh) with His spirit are eternals. Better with Him, than without Him.

[@Legend-pc3ng]

Hello Rabbi, my granny has the surname Sulman, i belIeve It was translated from Solomon. i also have heard that my mothers ancestry is Jewish. The only thing is i am mixed European so i only got a strong nose not hook. Only god knows and none the wiser. My company is owned by Jewish people, they take care of me, thank god, and the fellow Jewish community too, But there’s many lessons i need to learn about being wise with money and how i use it that they may well be Inadvertently teaching me.

[@Legend-pc3ng]

I don’t know, If I am Chosen. But all i know is there’s something about me that has talents i can’t explain. The suffering i experience Is far greater than others, but the talent makes up for it. I constantly fight to remain faithful In the Judeo christian God - Yahweh, and it appears monetary wise he Is rewarding me, as well as protecting me from disaster. Because i aint pure Jew, i feel like maybe others may be more chosen than me, because i have Jew blood but not completely, so i feel as If i may not belong as chosen, but the faith to God will always be there even if I wasn’t as important as other more higher percentage of blood line Jews. Only god knows god decides.

[@Nats486]

As a jewish person Im no “more” important than you are, we are as equal. We believe you do not have to be jew or pure jewish to have a good relationship with G-d, build it, talk to him.

[@itsiktzur]

🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊😊

[@bwoutchannel6356]

Man deposits some 2 - 300 million spermatozoa in the beginning and these all search for the oocytes where only 3 - 500 ably arrive and only one finds its way into creation. Perhaps there is a reason for each of our existence that we , though unaware of in the present, yet know within our personhood. Your work here is fantastic Rabbi.

[@cyberpunkworld]

I do not know what was before the biblical Pharaoh.

[@r.t.aegean3236]

Fascinating ... as "Spock" would say. Sounds like God IS, for people who think - not, for people who avoid thinking.

[@drroyce1]

You have to have a rabbi’s interpretation to understand the scriptures.

[@HanyPhilobs]

Great … but u ended without answering why are we here??

[@kittyhawk7]

I don’t get it, we are born naked and hungry, we do need God-his provision etc, love, communication

[@cns180784]

Hi Rabbi, You mentioned here how creatures know their place, a cow is a cow, they do what they do without question and get on with it..do we know if they know about God? No...does God allow, a cow, to question God on why it's in the place it's in and why it does what it does? No...why? Simply has to be because God doesn't want a relationship with a cow, the cow serves as a means to serve us in some way. "The cattle shall not come to me with questions, for they run on a program to serve people and that's it" So...us, people are the only beings in the world which God created with an intelligence which enables us to think, and therefore ask questions. It's obvious why, because God is hoping we become curious about him and he wants us to find out about him...he wants a relationship with people. The same way as how we have relationships with other people ourselves.

[@jeanninewaken7147]

I have come come to believe that we are here to provide entertainment for God.

[@nygeriunprence]

God seems to disagree, “For so said the Lord, the Creator of heaven, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, He established it; *He did not create it for a waste, He formed it to be inhabited* , "I am the Lord and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:18

[@mclark8857]

The first monotheistic religion was Zoroastrianism wasn't it?

[@gregoryglavinovich9259]

What's he like? There is a book they will discuss at Reform Synagogues = When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone. 4 or 5 thousand years ago.......God was female.

[@wademiller3530]

Thank you, Rabbi Friedman!

[@houseofsgp]

how do you know the 4 forefathers spoke to god they spoke to their own subconscious mind and thats that U DONT KNOW ANYTHING AFTER THAT

[@corbindeleon3228]

I know some porpose why we are hear to expiriance the joy of life and what we can acumplish is like a spiritual e labrotory going on here please don’t ask me no more

[@corbindeleon3228]

Tanks

[@cyberpunkworld]

By the way..... :) ......

[@cyberpunkworld]

You know I am right.

[@garrickhall9957]

Beginnings...ImaHebrew2

[@rogerdodger8415]

The Egyptians were the first to worship ONE God. Just not the Jewish God. In fact, the early Jews CONTINUED to worship multiple Gods even AFTER Moses.

[@tyamada21]

God is not a he or a she - God just IS

[@alejoblanco1867]

Я не это, soy El, I m I.

[@callde-light5902]

Abraham destroyed them all and fled his upbringing to seek His Creators will

[@arnoldusrichard3888]

Crying

[@yeshuagl6282]

Claim based on the bible, the Jewish bible!How can one believe on something that is claimed to be silent, absent, undetectable , undemonstrable, that that supposedly exist in no time, no place and acts in mysterious ways!

[@phyulaysusuannemgmg5063]

God chose the Jewish people .because he want to show the world he is the true God and his promises are real and he is with us all the time.

[@kkkiren599]

For humans God is what they can sensorially perceive God to be within human logic. Their soul also perceives God before human birth and after death but yearns for indulgence even during the purpose they have to perform within a limited and transient challenge of " life" as an image of decisive individuality?

[@kurakuson]

Subatomic Particle.

[@libragemini1389]

İkra ./ Allahu Ekber . / Bakara 239 : Bir korku ve endişe duyarsanız yürüyerek veya binit üzerinde kılın. Güvene kavuştuğunuzda bilmediğiniz şeyleri size öğrettiği şekilde Allah'ı zikredin. / 242 Aklınızı işletmeniz ümidiyle Allah, ayetlerini size işte böyle açıklıyor./ Fatiha : 1 Rahman ve Rahîm Allah'ın adıyla... / Oku! Rabbin Ekrem'dir/en büyük cömertliğin sahibidir./ Özgürlüğün gerçek kaynağıdır . / O'dur kalemle öğreten! ALAK 4 / . Yemin olsun incire, zeytine, TÎN 1/ Bunu, eğri büğrüsü olmayan Arapça bir Kur'an olarak indirdik ki, korunup sakınabilsinler. ZUMER 28./ Doğruyu getirene ve onu tasdikleyene gelince, işte böyleleri, korunanların ta kendileridir. ZUMER 33/ Orada ebedî kalırlar. Orası ne güzel bir durak ve ne güzel bir konaktır! Furkân, 76/ De ki: "Duanız/davetiniz yoksa, Rabbim sizi ne yapsın? Yalanladınız; bu yüzden azap kaçınılmaz olacaktır." FURKÂN 77/ Şanı yücedir o kudretin ki; gökte burçlar yarattı, orada bir kandil ve ışık yansıtıcı bir ay oluşturdu. FURKÂN 61/ O hiç ölmeyecek diriye, o Hayy olana dayanıp güven, O'nu överek tespih et. Kullarının günahlarından O'nun haberdar olması yeter.FURKÂN 58./ Biz seni bir müjdeci ve uyarıcı olman dışında bir şey için göndermedik . Furkan 56 / Onlar şöyle yakarırlar: “Rabbimiz , eşlerimizden ve çocuklarımızdan bize göz aydınlığı bağışla ! Bizi takvaya sarılanlarla önder kıl !” Furkan 74 ./ Furkan 59 . / Neml 30,29 . / Lukaman 13,12,16,1,2,4,3 ./ Fatır 1 .Sebe 41 . Mümin 8,9,10,11,13,1,2,3,7 . Araf 26 . Ahkaf 33,21 . Hadid 19,18 . Mülk 1,2,3,4,12 . Tahrim 8,12 . Müddessir 23,33,34,39,1,9 / Tekvir 1,6,12,15 . /

[@danasandlin2435]

Why did God create the world? To save us...we are Noah's Ark...we are hurtling through space from somewhere...we are the Ark...dts/usa

[@FrankNStein-pf9rr]

When all "RELIGIONS" agree on ANY one thing a red flag should appear. Here is a clue re: God. The 3 letter English word God never existed until almost the 4th Century A.D. AND IF my memory is correct, the word God made its first appearance in 379 A. D. AND it applied to an IDOL that a Reiks, Wingurich, transported around on one of his chariots AND WHOEVER refused o worship "God" (the IDOL) was executed, aka, slaughtered. You can do your own research about this, AND if you CARE enough to do so, TRY to understand what the word VERSION means re: everyone of these BOOKS that have the words HOLY BIBLE written on the cover. A VERSION IS NOT HOLY!! IT IS AN OPINION!

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:00 Oh no! Don't be gettin' close to God! Then before ya know it you'll be walkin' around like that crazy non-dual wandering hippy Jew sayin' you are in God and God is in you, and then all hell will break loose and you'll be done for blashphemy! And all your followers for idolatory! BAD IDEA! Or if you get too close and God comes into you, then don't tell anyone. Play dead! You wouldn't believe the things they've doin' to me!

[@aaronseldes767]

you cant know him hes not defined by information energy matter light particles, or anything we can relate to. G-d is to strong for any of this junk. no spiritual or physical relates to him. no thought can understand him. anyone who sas so is doing avodah zarah.

[@apollomergulhao4678]

If Gods appointed teachers are preaching paganism to the general people, u cannot blame the people because they put their faith in the teachers. Teaching has to be precise as to what God commanded and not mix messages.

[@jeremygreen3201]

I think I just got big banged. Don't read into it, just a statement. SPARK

[@Georgeos777]

its the opposite, all you guys talking about a concept, an idea in which you see yourself as subject and this god is the object, the concept, you people create yourself a god in saying there is a being and its like this and that for what you obvious have no proof, in terms of the mindset of the writers from these scriptures you do idol worship, you create god because you cling, you create a idol because you cant simply live and let it be how it is, you do harm with that behaviour. Besides that why did jews now start to say god is a him, thats not in the tanach, is this a christian copy with the father in heaven?

[@Zeroah93762]

By you saying God is the ONLY one to decide what he wants to do and we are fixed and cannot have free will is like saying 'God made me do it' and therefore trying to blame God for stuff??? I think you forget that God wasnt the one whom made eve eat from the tree. It was a very clever yet stupid entity that lied to her.

[@patriciaribaric3409]

To say that there is any force more powerful than G-d is idol worship. To think Eve could change the course of G-d's plan is Eve worship. To believe your free will is your decision is idol worship. Everything that happens to you is to bring you to the point in the heart that recognizes there is None Else Besides Him.