We Are All Addicts Now - The Roots of Our Discontent

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[@manisfriedman]

What do you think?

[@balurmoshiyakgova2261]

Wow

[@Btp210]

I'm here to serve God. Loved the video!

[@Nicole-ed1qi]

Do you want marijuana NO I knew I had a purpose in 2014 my God open my eyes I just didn't know how to tap into it before I thought it was no good people on this Earth until I started listening to you Rabbi If we put out a hashtag Marijuana Make You low people would not want to use it they will want to be high so they won't pick up Drugs. It's just a thought💜🙏💙🔯🕎🎁👍

[@Aubrey-ph6bx]

After beginning to have an existential crisis I began studying different denominations of Christianity which lead to studying outside of Christianity and God lead me to you 😊 After listening to you and continuing my other researchfor about a month I now believe I'm half Jewish and half Christian lol. I don't have a name for that 😂. You have kept me grounded during this journey. When I wanted to give up and just claim a denomination cause it's easier but I don't want to lie. I believe in God. I don't know his name but when I cried out from the depths of despair He found me there in the dark. I now know that, at least for me, I'm saved, I'm good I'm his book because he told me so 👍. My relationship with God is mine, no one else has had my experience with Him. Doesn't make me right or wrong and I don't feel the need to label my faith whatever it may be. Thank you so very much for your wisdom and helping me dig out of the darkness I fell into. You sir are blessed and very gifted! May you continue to reach more humans around the world! Cause after all no matter the labels we claim we are all human and pink in the middle once you remove the outside. Thank you again Rabbi❣️

[@marksingleton7199]

We are indeed trapped in a thought system. On a very deep level we have two lives overlapping each other at the same time. We have the physical body that has needs to be in equilibrium and feel safe and a spiritual mind or soul that feels distant because it sits quietly in our higher mind giving advice but the animal mind drowns it out. Gods energy descends to its lowest point and joins to make subsance. That substance evolves and we get plants, animals etc. They fulfill their function because they dont have a choice. God took man and trained his mind. He said learn from all these thought systems and enjoy playing together but do not look at THE THOUGHT OF GOOD AND EVIL. Because if you do, you will get lost in self thought. You will feel alone and seperated and take energy to build a world that is of your creation and not mine. So we created animal bodies in our world that God supports out of love for our free choice. God delivers a soul to the bodies. God sees through our eyes and so sees what is outwardly false and connects inwardly to give us truth. Like Babylon, we create a world out of the desert that is full of wonders but expensive. We sell our souls to buy icons that give little real joy. But we get trapped because we feel like individuals fighting to make the body happy. We fail because we are looking for loving connection. Drugs and sex give us a warm connection or feeling that is transient. God created his people to connect to each other in a safe loving inviroment where they could learn over many generations to reconnect to God. As God is equally connected in all ways, so God wants us to be connected in love but different in our thought makeup. This allows freedom to think on a large scale. God asks us to come from his energy and to accept life. Living in ones own thoughts unconnected to God is living in darkness.

[@catvonderahe1836]

I enjoy and appreciate these videos very much….lots of common sense and logic that penetrates my soul. Has helped very much. I was raised a Christian and but no sermon in church ever reached me like your teachings. Many thanks, I am very grateful.

[@alanaronoff9476]

Rabbi, I have a new addiction and you're it because I can't stop listening to you. You're making me feel better about myself and my life.

[@vivianwhitney6866]

Shalom Rabbi..toda raba…you enlighten my soul…I thank Hashem for putting you in my path…many blessings be bestowed upon you..Amén

[@nomiyounas7739]

May Hashem bless you more !thank you love from pakistan

[@sospita_]

NOTE! Narcissus did not fall in love with HIMSELF he fell in love with HIS REFLECTION. This is a very important discernment of Narcissism.

[@yohannar.meister6013]

Even worse he went crazy on an inanimate object and died. How about that for insanity?

[@ta_93]

thank you for this gem sospita

[@margaretneanover3385]

Which one? There are more than one reflection. True is one not smothering

[@carolalexander1429]

Oh, my. This is horrible. I believe narcissism is an evil spirit.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

Mm hmm.

[@ziadadwan]

I’m Addicted to you Rabbi! Since I found you! ❤

[@juliandre2007]

Thank u for enlighting my life and excistence.❤️

[@stefanjohansson2395]

Rabbi,you are getting better and better on making me understand.Thank YOU!!!

[@marie-florenceguirand8409]

Understand what?? You’re lost he is lost. Is that what you both understand?

[@davidthehermit7813]

spot on, thank you, I am just one of many of a story that is all to common, so glad to have found your site thank you for what you do

[@artesdalucy9322]

Thank you Rabbi...Lucy from Rio de Janeiro.

[@free-birdrocker8809]

100% Correct. Potheads are self-centered and should follow the Rabbi's teaching. Straighten up and fly right. Many Blessings be upon Rabbi Friedman!

[@mariebarrett7177]

You are the best teacher rabbi ever.. you are such a natural leader! You should be blowing up the internet my friend! Its definitely a growing disease - narcissism I know a few.... they're soooooo dangerous... They don't see you, they just do not see you... Crazy.. but they're adamant that your the one with the problem.. never ending battle.... better give them a wide birth! You can only really pray for them! Praise God!

[@Nicole-ed1qi]

Shalom Rabbi🙏💙🔯💜🕎🎁🎁👍😇

[@levibotnick]

Wow wow wow wow wow that's all I can say! I am 40 yo i grew up in a very frum chasidic (unfortunately not chabbad) home and community hwe been struggling with drug addiction until today as i listen to this. I am I'm:h going to have as many ppl listen to and relisten to so we can do our job and really really do our purpose.

[@J6delta]

thank you for wisdom and truth

[@Btp210]

Thank you 💕

[@yohannar.meister6013]

The opposite of addiction is connection and Conscious Contact with G-d. Balance in all things and a Life on G-d’s terms. Each and every time in which I break any of these three rules, I suffer. Whenever, I make conscious contact and take the next indicated step I feel relieved. “When self becomes everything then life becomes nothing.”

[@marie-florenceguirand8409]

You did not created yourself how can you created a purpose

[@marie-florenceguirand8409]

Rabbi I know you can’t fix the world. This world is lost. Only Heaven stands. Do you happen to know where you’re gonna be ??? You NEVER accept the truth in Christ

[@yohannar.meister6013]

Tzama Lecha Nafshi Tzomo Lecho Nafshi 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 PEACE is beautiful so is everybody’s way of life under G-d. Its beautiful to learn from each other. Side by Side not One above the other WE can make a difference I cant.

[@yohannar.meister6013]

I just had a thought of something I heard from a woman in South Central. She suffered enormously and she taught me: “You are you and I am I You are not here to live up to my expectations and I am not here to live up to yours and the day we meet in the middle life is beautiful. In the end it does not matter. Everybody’s feelings and thoughts are valuable. For me its judaism Others its Christ Others its Mohammad All are amazing when they bring us closer to G-d.

[@theresefournier3269]

@@yohannar.meister6013 It is in-DEED, a very individual, intimate and unique process! from within. Shalom! ♥️🔥💯

[@puresoul1368]

Just described my world but theres hope.

[@VictoriajMull-xh5hc]

Wow THIS I CAN DO. TJANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH. WOW 👏SO TOV. VICTORIA PENNSYLVANIA.

[@asclepiushermestrismegistu7489]

Thank you Rabbi Manis.

[@ingelberg007]

If someone asks to be born or not is something we don’t know, and I can’t trust someone who claims to know.

[@jeffreyrwilliams9345]

thank you

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

thanks rabbi enjoy each day

[@garyfrancis6193]

You are the best Rabbi. Nobody is smarter or more beautiful than you. No appeal to narcissism here. Honest. Can I borrow $20?

[@mariebarrett7177]

Amazing 💜

[@Dani-ELmaninnoboxes]

This is beautiful

[@silverlining6259]

Thanks!

[@StMyles]

interesting thanks for sharing.

[@4424718]

Very good!

[@alexsanchez3635]

Wise man

[@mariebarrett7177]

Very interesting!

[@Unknown-nf1se]

From the moment sin came into the world the body began to decay so u can’t fix something that’s dying , death is unstoppable no one can run from it

[@milivojelancuski2391]

Ima logike u novom uglu gledanja na postojeće što da ne. Hvala Minas na tome.

[@VictoriaTheBoss-dz5wk]

Precious ❤

[@TheHolyBibleKingJamesVersion]

Amen

[@debbieestherperez7115]

Amen!

[@TedBates-cj6jr]

I don't always find life to be all that wonderful. Still I now understand that I am made in God's image. I cannot find my fulfillment outside of God. The great sin is to attempt to be God or god. We are created on the sixth day. We are incomplete whereas God is represented by the number seven. We attempt to play God or god, that life centers around us, when we should orbit around God and our life should center around God and we should serve Him and love one another and enjoy God and one another for eternity. God has no needs. I do have needs. I need God but God does not need me though He loves me and I need that. Without God I am lost. I have the need to be found.

[@deepanshu1078]

Great psychoanalysis. Thank you Rabbi

[@elzbietahadjali6547]

It's really true...why people are now more isolated and concerned about themselves...upto to even destroying their mind ...and causing body distraction with soul in distress ....finally want to take their lives...how to help them...how to bring to light...

[@Unknown-nf1se]

Loving God is been healthy in my opinion

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

10:09 Totally agree, 1000%.

[@joelwateres]

Why do I have to eat ? I’m disabled and my mother wakes me to find out if I ate 25:20 I must be a shmuck I guess I’m not smart enough to know I need to eat . 29:03

[@Ron-rk6iz]

If you do not know who you are in essence, you won't find happiness. The problem is that we confuse pleasantness ( temporary positive experiences ) with happiness ( a durable state of being ). It is not wrong to seek some pleasantness in life, it is wrong if you expect happiness to come from it. Pleasantness is an outward experience, happiness is an inward state of being,

[@francesbeth2077]

Happiness is being content. When you are content you are kind. It goes beyond pleasantness. Pleasantness can be fake and phoney.

[@vincentguthrie2897]

Thanks for helping me understand.

[@elzbietahadjali6547]

How to reduce needs...and how to take light up...and soul open...

[@MrSiah82]

8:39 im glad i came back

[@Moondog13]

god can be the greatest daddy issue....

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

4:48 Yes. Yes.

[@XX-MON9Y]

Очень сильно, спасибо 🙏

[@mariebarrett7177]

secularism is just a bunch of fleeting trends!

[@georgehazzard3149]

Okay! We have our precious sisters, friends and cousins addicted with it's too to connected already to help you and your forever. Have a good time. Okay!

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

14:20 Amen.

[@georgehazzard3149]

Enjoy it, that's why we don't bother other needs because they might tired some day or don't know. But me today, no! I'm expired and old women already. When I was a teenager, I was same no good my feet but now I am oldies rusty my bone to move a lots. Have fun.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

27:33 WOO HOO! (what am I gonna do now; how do I serve G-d; do what I'm needed for, fulfill my need, find it, etc)

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

28:00 HEY!!! SO AM I!

[@contactjohndavis2479]

Rabbi Friedman is a hustling styled salesman & masterful orator. His audaciousTorah citations are manipulatively designed to persuade, convince & indoctrinate that it's gotta be God's way no matter what. Presented with a plausible summation, by a quasi staged Rabbi/Actor, YT performances are generating very substantial revenues-income from ads and subscriber clicks. A Real Smartie !

[@leventerethelyi8461]

Dear Mr. Friedman. The question begs to be asked: but for what purpose? Let's zoom out for a second from the view of the current generation. HaShem has given us a tool with which we can look into ourselves and see what needs be fixed. I totally agree that it can be dangerous just as a sharp knife in the hands of a child, but why not teach them how to use it instead of turning them away from such a wonderful and meaninful creation? Moshiach is here, the time is now. We have to find purpose in everything and uncover everything that has not been uncovered previously. Know that people can benefit from it, as in everything is for the good. Not to feed their narcissism, but to grow in love for Hashem. Much love.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

26:12 It's also tasty. Have you tried a rainbow? Nothing like Skittles

[@suetrublu]

I think you are so correct about everything except the notion that there is something somehow more ok with alcohol than with other drugs. That alcohol gives you a gentle reprieve from reality but any other drug (including and especially cannabis) is an escape from life does not fit my own experience or that of working with addicts and alcoholics for 35 years. I argue that your perception is culturally apologetic, but inaccurate.

[@shyamanissanka4592]

💕 💕 🙏🇸🇪

[@desmondhewitt9683]

I think every child asked to be born otherwise it dies or kill it’s mother but they didn’t ask to conceive. If a mother doesn’t push it out, it gives its mother lots of pain or a Doctor have to cut it out

[@jamielake-boyd3600]

Like alcohol? Could be a disaster? Getting drunk and looting

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

7:49 that's a business, Now.

[@bhingardivetussharbhingard9036]

What does it mean to be born again ?

[@sospita_]

A Narcassist can not see the Merkabah.

[@abdigah5364]

Rabbi nobody goes to a doctor and asks for health. The person only tells him about some problem that is troubling him/her. The doctor only tries to remove that particular problem which does not necessarily mean to the person health

[@benhulme2863]

The bloodshed hasn’t even started.

[@yanamamckenzie994]

👍👍💯💯👌👌

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

17:43 Apparently. G-d bless Him, let that be Him, please don't let it be me.

[@Unknown-nf1se]

Let God be your drug ❤

[@Io-Io-Io]

I knew a 'Tanya'. See was russian

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

11:46 I like that,,....I'm a rock what do you want from me?......OW! Don't throw me at him!!!

[@honeymo585]

If I die in relationship with G-d it is all .

[@chrisbarlow6422]

The sound quality is horrible on this video

[@chrisbarlow6422]

@Devon M Pika?

[@patriciachadwick5658]

Narcissus.

[@marikaliljeroos1135]

Oho,Ishmael remove Jacobs trouble from Palestina oh hoo😅

[@chadashkraniak4701]

Control _ a compiulation to make things go your own way , pride , a cutting off offence that brings a heart turned inward......sorcery.... Y'shua is the way, the truth and the life ...... There is no other name under heaven, by which men saved. Only he gives us a new heart and a new spirit.

[@marie-florenceguirand8409]

A child would NEVER said: I didn’t ask to be born . The child brain hasn’t developed yet to ask such question

[@mjsvloging7397]

My child did.

[@knightofkorbin888]

Might depend on the child. I felt it as far as my memory goes back to (four) without being able to articulate that belief. Frustrated, confused, and hopeless without any way to speak or anyone to speak to. You say never as though it is not possible for children to become tortured and tired of existence. A child brain may not have learned the vocabulary words to verbalize that statement but they have the development to experience despair, disappointment, and disapproval with the reality of an environment they did not choose to exist within.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

12:42 mm hmm, or nature is in you😶

[@edphilipse9938]

Manis Robert niet zovel sgaartjes meer roken., dan hoest U ook minder.

[@Mickmcdonagh28]

One thing that bothers me is you seem to believe that the earth is a ball .if you believe in GOD you know that GOD created the earth flat and immovable

[@rasitoz659]

Rabbi is wrong. Body is essential that God has to be use it for the creation.Human being is everything.

[@ta_93]

Deliberately provocative. communist Buzzwords "rabbi is wrong" "human being is everything"

[@lawrencetendler7747]

Oh the irony ! a Rabbi with dozens of You Tube videos lecturing the rest of us about narcissism.

[@hyacinthevansevans9626]

NYT

[@hyacinthevansevans9626]

@Devon M ⚀

[@hyacinthevansevans9626]

@Devon M 8

[@ta_93]

narcissism in a rabbi? don't you know moses was the most humble man on the face of the earth? he spoke with G-d directly. You deny G-d for a competition of love when G-d is love and love was heard by moses. moses would punch you dead for what you claim about his people don't you know he is praying in his grave for them? you are a liar in envy. do not watch rabbi's video if you wish to contradict yourself in the comments. it is better for you if only you knew that the Masih is here today or tomorrow when the two camps are divided.

[@esabelbrooks2813]

Thanks!

[@manisfriedman]

Thank you, Esabel! You help make this world a better place! :)