What Judaism REALLY says about transgenderism

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[@nmrowdy4605]

I'm not Jewish, but I enjoy Rabbi Friedman. I have learned so much from in.

[@RabbitWatchShop]

Kudos! I’m Jewish, but learn from Hindus, Buddhists, and others.

[@Anthony-fs7xo]

Yes very true I feel the same way

[@Y1836Y]

Wonderful. The teaching is not meant for only Jews.

[@Anthony-fs7xo]

@@Y1836Y so very true...i feel like i cant get enough of it.. Very interested and like what im learning...

[@michellenicoledelgado1021]

Me too

[@mweinstein1542]

This shiur is a 'must watch'. It really answers the big questions so many people are asking. It's a breath of fresh air! Thank you so much, Rabbi Friedman!

[@snowwhitecupcakes272]

Does it address transgender individuals? Is it pro or against? I have a trans daughter and I’m afraid to watch. My daughter didn’t choose her body, and you can tell she is a woman. My heart hurts for her.

[@Y1836Y]

​@@snowwhitecupcakes272 if you want it to be pro, it's not. It discusses what G-d did in creating each of us. Maybe it could help you, your child and your family. I will say that I wanted to do more since it's an incomplete teaching. Blessings for your family.

[@johnny12022]

​​​@@Y1836Y i was waiting for the Rabbi to mention the Jewish idea of gender roles: masculinity is giving out infinite abstract potential. Femininity is choosing one option and realizing it. Everything that exists in Creation has a male and a female component, even something as basic as a line, which begins with an intangible point with the infinite potential to go anywhere, but only gains dimensions by being extended into a line. But a line is only one possible reality that the initial point could have formed. Action is binary (do or do not, there is no try), like Halacha must be binary, and since the body concerns acting out the relative missions, I suspect any soul leaning masculine in purpose gets schlepped into a male body, and likewise any soul leaning feminine gets a female body. Thus souls ranging from 100% masculine to 51% masculine get a male body, and vise versa, which preserves the reality of both binary sex and also the reality that each person has a slightly different purpose.

[@williamschlass6371]

@@snowwhitecupcakes272why fear the truth? You have to do your job as a mother, may kadosh baroch hu grant you strength and resolve to see it through.

[@fedraa3967]

Hi, I am a transgender, although a rather religious type of one. I am male, born male, but I am ok with it. I'm just a feminine one at that, I like doing things that women usually do, and i am a care taker in my family. I never wished to have a uterus or get pregnant or anything biologically female... but the typical feminine things, I've always been drawn to them, and I'm happy doing them (like getting my nails done, my hair, dancing, being free spirit, joyful...), i feel in my best. I have gone through cosmetic procedures to have a more feminine face, to look like a woman, so people do not mistreat me, and I have better chances of finding a job, etc, but non invasive ones, nothing extreme. So i'm not the classic transexual type, i'm more of just a transvestite.. I have found peace in my self accepting both my male body and my feminine personality and self expression. None of my problems have to do with being this way, I don't experience existencial suffering because of my gender situation ... just perhaps with the loneliness of being different but I've found in spirituality a way to cope with this...in general, my life is peaceful and i'm very grateful. anyway, just my perspective as someone who is transgender but do my best to be close to God and to live in peace...perhaps a perspective that is not very known in the public perception.

[@mariuspessah2991]

Dear Rabbi Friedman I am a physician and this was one of the most brilliant and intellectual discussion on this topic that I have heard . Your ability to make difficult topics comprehensible is so clear headed and erudite . Fabulous perspective ! Thank you !

[@siriusfun]

This was well presented and makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, those who are so confused about this issue deny the existence of a soul to begin with.

[@Y1836Y]

Thank you Rabbi Friedman and Ana.

[@akai.christo]

Thank you Rabbi Friedman qnd Ana!! ✡️🙏❤️🔥 Wish you and everyone here a blessed and positive day!! 💪🙂👍🎶

[@Y1836Y]

Very interesting . You've left me wanting to hear more. Much more.

[@martina4928]

Mr. Rabbi Manis Friedman, hope you like honesty. You are very modern mensch. I am proud of you to be so actual regarding your topics you talk about. תודה רבה.

[@REwing]

A brilliant delivery of wisdom, thank you. 😊.

[@calmchill7583]

I think that people who want to change their gender are searching for their own authenticity. Two-component paint is like a marriage - two parts that mix and never agree on who is really responsible for the mess in the garage. One part of the color always says, "This is my chance to shine!" The other part quickly replies, "You can't shine without me!" And so, their comical battle for attention begins. Some say that when two-component paint is mixed, magic is created. It's true, but sometimes that "magic" ends up being a vague shade that no one is happy with. Two-component paint on the wall often behaves like two people trying to tango without a practiced step. In the end, the wall ends up with a few unexpected patterns that weren't part of the plan. The joke is that, while these pieces of paint fight and compete with each other, the walls become like a canvas on which artists tirelessly create their unconventional masterpieces. In short, two-component paint is like a sitcom where two characters keep getting into funny situations, and the result is always something unexpected and incredibly funny! 🎨😄

[@user-bg5im5kl7b]

Thanks Rabbi for sending the message of Ha Shem ❤ you remind me of my rabbi

[@markwilliams626]

Thanks for the wisdom.

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Thanks for the answers. We need them.

[@PatriciaAnne-jl8sv]

Thank you Rabbi 🙏🏽✅ for sharing your wisdom with us.

[@frankk.777]

The final statement was really profound.

[@lovelearnandgrow2853]

Exellent Discussion! Thank you!

[@sylvia7000]

Great class thank you

[@tembisamkunqwana7497]

I am a Christian and so blessed by this high-level wisdom. I got it clearly, Rabbi Friedman. Blessings to you and your family, Rabbi. 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@danieleprince1200]

I wish the subtitles would be available in spanish, it's easy to set up.

[@Y1836Y]

What about other languages? If they do it fior you they should do it for everyone. That's where the issue lies.

[@zaydeshaddox7015]

With all due respect to the Rabbi, I disagree here. I can think of people who think they are trans coming up with arguments that counter everything he's said. If I may be so bold, what people are missing here is that male and female are biological synergies, meaning, you can't reduce it to just one thing like a uterus. A woman is defined, first of all, by the fact that she is human (as opposed to any other animal) and has reached fertility or has aged beyond it (as opposed to a little girl), and then the female aspect is a whole bunch of stuff: XX chromosomes, all or at least most of the reproductive organs, containing eggs, wider hips, narrower shoulders, certain combination of hormones (lots of estrogen and comparatively little testosterone), a thin layer of fat under the skin that softens her contours and makes the skin feel softer, a different tone of voice, shorter than most men, smaller hands and feet, and then a variety of behavioral characteristics. A woman isn't every single one of these things put together, but at least a majority of them put together, the most critical being the XX chomosomes, which determine the rest of it. Any given woman may have a deeper voice, as Shorah Agdashloo does, or narrower hips, or she may be infertile, or she may have big hands and feet or a more manly face or she may be 6'2", but the rest of the characteristics are there. The same could be said for a man. I won't go down a list because I think everyone gets the gist. There is a multitude of biological and behavioral characteristics that all combine together to determine a person's sex. A single or perhaps a small number of characteristics may be missing from that person, but the remaining majority still shows what sex that person is. And "gender" has become a somewhat ambiguous word that is thrown around very carelessly, but then regarded with an undeserving precision. Depending on context, it can be synonymous with the biological sex, but it can also refer to each of those individual characteristics associated with the sex. OR it could have little to no biological reference at all, as is the case with gendered languages, since some inanimate objects are given masculine or feminine pronouns for no ostensible reason.

[@rosairisjimenez9672]

EXCELLENT

[@mrhudah]

how can any human speak on something thousands of years old with clarity and certainty but can't tell you what it was like to be 6 months old? And if they can miraculously recall being 6 months old, then I'll have to ask what it was like in their mothers womb.

[@ipell5280]

Rabbi Friedman should be consulted by Congress before making any decisions. Thank you so much Rabbi, for your dedication to God and love for us all.

[@snaubdca7yebf]

Congress of which country?

[@michellesunday1033]

Thank you Rabbi

[@iamannyrosario]

Thank you so much, excellent talk! Wish the conversation had veered towards the subtle as well: for example, a person in a man’s body who clearly has ‘female’ sensitivities that are not ascribed to males- undoubtedly, the conversation would’ve also gone to discuss what it means to have, like you said, a man’s temperament, a man’s personality, etc. which might have lead us right back at the beginning to: what does it mean to be male or female! Great dialogue opportunity. I used to babysat a little boy who was soooooo butterfly gentle and empathetic, such strong feminine energy. ♥️

[@Y1836Y]

The rabbi does talk about qualities some people say aren't male or female in other videos.

[@mikerozic7225]

Brilliant Rabbi Thank You!

[@Swissbluemountain]

Brilliant man . Amazing mind . ❤

[@lapassion24]

What he is trying to say is, if there something wrong find out the reason why.. he is right if you are hurt find out the reason why whether Jewish method , Islam etc..

[@4thoughtsandponders]

So good info. Thank you

[@yvettevandorp5508]

If you are a Christian and want to study the Jewish bible to understand it better, go to Thorha Class. It is all in English. I have been so blessed to learn more about the Old Testament.

[@Y1836Y]

Thank G-d it's Tuesday! Rabbi Friedman and Ana time!

[@user-fl2bm2hi8u]

The most amazing Rabbi Friedman After the election in Biden came into office as president and everything started to become dismal your videos found me missing my mom and missing my grandmother's I'm missing a sense of family unity and a sense of belonging You blessed me each and every time I listen to your lectures every time I find your videos you speak to my heart and soul and remind me of all that I was raised to be in even though every woman all my role models have passed away now I still have to be an example to my family to my children and to my very small grandchildren of what a grandmother's to be taught to me by my grandmother's and talk to them by their grandmothers I will be teaching them how to make recipes from scratch I will be teaching them about music and art and math and literature I will be teaching the most of all about God and God's love for Israel always and forever never forgetting his promise to the Israelites God bless us all Jewish people around the world and God bless us all the Jewish women

[@1g1d1w]

Trans argument for men being a woman was lost a long time ago. Everything today is being by done by force, because they lost. If you don't go by our policies you lose your job or your off the team.

[@Y1836Y]

Unfortunately, very true. A campaign of confusion in order to better control.

[@tagr7269]

Trans are Born

[@Zebra66]

My jewish teachers taught me that our bodies are a gift from God so we must look after them. Self harm is a sin. It's why we don't even allow tattoos. Trans surgeries and drugs mutilate and sterilize these kids. It's clear. Some think it's hateful to not support these "transitions". I think it's far kinder to teach these kids that they are perfect just the way they are. I.e. they don't need to take a knife to their body to fit in this world.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Then stop doing circumcision of all Jewish boys, simple.

[@marthacohen4837]

As a psychotherapist, I had a client who transitioned from female to male. I was not treating him for a gender transition. When I first met her, she was in a lesbian relationship, and I was doing couple’s therapy. They moved to Seattle. In Seattle, my client, let’s call her/him X, discovered the trans community, and decided that being a “butch” lesbian was the best she could do, but that her soul (she didn’t use that word) was masculine. So she began the process of transitioning from she to he. His female partner accepted it. Tragically, she died of illness, while still in her thirties. X decided to move back to Minnesota. He was well on the way to transitioning, dressing in male clothes, using hormones, had changed his name. Over the next few years he had major surgeries to remake his body. The hardest part of working with him, on other issues, was changing his pronouns. When his voice changed, it was easier. He believes he was always a man, somehow trapped in a woman’s body. Although I am very empathic, I could never really understand what it was like to be him. In his sixties now, he is having serious health problems, which I believe are due to the drastic surgeries he went through to change his body. So the question that occurs to me is, is it possible that he was a male soul in a female body.

[@PinchasEidelman-to1ut]

Telling someone that they were born in the wrong body is not only wrong but very dangerous.

[@stevens8490]

If Adam was both male and female at first then God separated the two spirit it's possible that some people still have the two spirits inside them.

[@avalerie4467]

​@@stevens8490yes, we each habe a féminin and a masculin nature. All of us, spiritually, work on these character traits; Ameliorating the good and possibly, eliminating the bad My masculin side is very analytical and i tend to want justice. It doesn't mean i should lob off my breasts and have a penis shaped out of my thigh flesh to become a man sewed on. Humans have been doing this life thing since the dawn of time. For some reason, in our days, we mutitate healthy bodies rather than heal sick minds.

[@jordanforbes2557]

​@@stevens8490 no it's not, stop rewriting religion to fit your own narrative. Adam was not two souls. The biblical account tells us that the physical body of Eve was created from Adam's rib or side but it doesn't say where her soul came from.

[@stevens8490]

@@jordanforbes2557 your the one rewriting the scriptures not me. Get it straight..

[@alisonrenfrew-thomson6422]

I believe Rabbi Friednan is a wonderful gift from Hashem a very wise man. Love hearing his views on everything. G-D bless him

[@julianegillan6994]

Hey guys, I'm looking for a channel that teaches non-Jews about Judaism. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance 😊

[@RabbitWatchShop]

Shalom. Try jewish learning institute.

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[@yeshevishman]

It depends what exactly you want to learn? Do you want to learn about the culture? The religious laws? The beliefs? Let me know, and I can help point you to some.

[@Y1836Y]

Besides this channel which has quite a few years worth of videos, Rabbi Friedman started the Bnei Noach Academy. There's a website also. Rabbi Avraham Brashevitzky provides the teaching. You're welcome.

[@user-fl2bm2hi8u]

Thank You Rabbi Friedman

[@danmac1871]

Beautiful.

[@Tonibolognaaintnophony]

Even being good looking can be hard to live with, but to try to be ugly is definitely not of HaShem! We are blessed the second we breathe, no matter what we look like. Changing one's gender has got to be the hardest thing to do to try to feel "normal" in a messed up world. May we all see ourselves how our Creator designed us to be while knitting us in our mother's womb, believing He didn't make a mistake.

[@miguelsesma5778]

Saludos desde estados unidos Tucson Arizona

[@Georgia-Vic]

I am not Jewish either but i believe us-Christians and Jews will be grafted together one day soon!🙄 I have been watching Rabbi for two years now.I have learned alot and had confirmation about things that i have been pondering for the last few years.This video is Incredible, Thank you Sir! 🇮🇱

[@avalerie4467]

Grafting is not kosher. Not sure if you knew that. No amalgams. However, i do believe more and more people will be hanging to the hem of Yehudims shirts corners as we come closer to the Final Rédemption. Sorry, my xtian is limited, but i love that part of your belief ❤ Shalom

[@Georgia-Vic]

@@avalerie4467 it's impossible to "love" a belief that you don't share. When our Judgement Day comes we will see each other as equals and you will realize that you are not better than me. Shalom Hava!

[@dhtsoaedsdhtnadi9575]

4:05 i agree debating two equal opinions goes nowhere, but that a president has veto power "otherwise nothing will ever get accomplished"... that's not how it works. something must happen for veto to be exercised. sometimes congress actually does make a decision. veto is an override of this decision, preventing it from happening. there are times though when congress is deadlocked and nothing happens. the american president cannot force a decision.

[@dhtsoaedsdhtnadi9575]

if male and female are missions, then what are the missions? i didn't hear them stated. did i miss something?

[@Awtsmoos]

B"H he said at bed to look at the Jewish modern for it, I think he was hinting to looking what the Torah says those missions are. 😊

[@dhtsoaedsdhtnadi9575]

@@Awtsmoos B"H i suppose you mean "be fruitful and multiply" among other things. my point is, does everyone know and ACCEPT this when told? by extension, the prohibition of putting on that which pertains to the opposite sex is also linked to our respective missions. the fly on a man's pants allows HIM to procreate, but does not allow HER to be delivered of her child. yet fashion is full of legged lowers made of newer fibers to allow a woman to pursue an active lifestyle. as if a scotsman in a tunic and great kilt was too restricted by his clothing to ride horseback and defeat the english time after time.

[@Timblisi]

Thank you for this video. For my part, I've been considering this and other LGBTQ subjects for a long, long time, trying to decide what to make of them. I'm coming to the conclusion that the destination I will arrive at eventually is to honestly look up to these souls as people who carry some of the heaviest burdens of all and wrestle with some of the biggest battles life has to offer, while not agreeing with the easy answers most seem to come to. I think it's hard to do both at the same time, our current culture seems to discourage that, and many don't seem to feel respected if you disagree with their conclusions. But yet it certainly seems to me to be the highest and best place to be and the place the road I'm on seems to be leading to.

[@avalerie4467]

Wow. You are so kind. I have such a différent take on the subject. I think these people were never taught self control and they put their sexual desires over everything else. I think they are sick individuals ( we all have something to fix and eliminate) who have been given the gift of fixing their sexual perversions and returning to a pious life. Or, to keep sinning in sexual immorality. We all have free will.

[@Timblisi]

@@avalerie4467 I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying, though, is imagine if the issue you had to wrestle with was wrapped around your very identity as a person, and not just some relatively peripheral habit. Or if it basically rendered you completely infertile and cut you off entirely from the normal flow of life. This isn't a drinking problem or anger management issue. These cut to the core of a person's existence. This is why I say these are some of the heaviest burdens a person can bear, and why I think I'll end up looking up to those who fight and win the battle. This is heavy stuff.

[@emilym6214]

This is great. You're a classy example

[@emilym6214]

Rabbi this is good we should not be the topic all the time yet when putting people's causes first it's time to be selfish. Selfless didn't get some people far. God first then us and the immediate family

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Ty, rabbi.

[@MichelleSchneidmann-no2gl]

Honestly, it became crazy. Have a wonderful week

[@mariebarrett7177]

Wow the connection yeah!

[@user-nd7dy2kv6x]

2:00 "I am whatever I am the question is how much good can I accomplish" still goes back to self - self absorption - and pride. God is the one who "giveth the increase" - He is the one who produces the fruit. That's why it's called "fruit of the Spirit". "Apart from Me you can do nothing".

[@alejandroguerra9413]

I have to point out, this leaves out advice for people who have male genitalia but a female structured brain with female hormones, or people born with multiple genitals and the doctor chooses at bith which one to remove, ect...

[@russrussel3947]

The problem is High Ego, Low Self Esteem. Thinking that you are Less than other people isn't Humility.

[@Y1836Y]

No it isn't which isn't what the rabbi said anyway. It's knowing there is a Creator who made us all, gave us all. And one who acknowledges other people's greatness.

[@werkzeugmann6224]

Original sin in the garden is "self-awareness". they realized they were naked and became ashamed... Self awareness allows one the relative "knowledge of good and evil"!

[@johnny12022]

Adam already had free will, hence the commandment not to eat from that tree. Free will is the quintessential self-awareness

[@werkzeugmann6224]

Reason & selfishness vs free-will: Animals are free to do what they want without cognitive self-awareness. Yes, they do have Reactive Self preservation traits yet unaware of their reason for it.

[@johnny12022]

@@werkzeugmann6224 animals don't have free will

[@werkzeugmann6224]

Therefore we must begin to define "free-will" in all its relationships. Typically its the obviation of "choice" that begins it. (the results, based on the anticipation of the ramifications of the choice) Meaning the fulfillment of a decision based on choice of stimulus. Is an animal free to roam anywhere and eat what it chooses? Is that free-will, or not will? what's the difference? One could say animals have free will based on this obviating choice. I pose that self-awareness and free-will are not the same neither are they extensions of the other. As you said Adam had free-will before he became self-aware... However He now became aware of his choices within his own conscious, he could "reflect" on the choice more than obviate the choice.. He always had free-will to make choices, therefore free-will has nothing to do with self-awareness!@@johnny12022

[@user-zm1nd8vs6s]

Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman for your continues efforts and your sharing : agree with you a man is a man and a woman is a woman and no one can do the other roles as you mentioned a man can't be pregnant and also can't do much more as a woman do and woman can't accomplish same genetically task as man . about the main subject israël was cited in all holly book torah bible and quran and not all israël population are Jewish ,but jewish can be everywhere ,i leave you response what was the mean of israël in all holly books and what was the mean of jewish also especially in mitzvah; roman and grec and israël population are not all a real christian but a real christian can be everywhere ; arabs are not all muslim but a muslim can be everywhere ; the advises was for everyoned can be everywhere=peaceful-er about gender and transgenderism: an addictive to drugs or alcohol or others things like cheating was born as addicted ,he need psychological trait care it's the same things is like a vice an addiction that devil push a human to do to finally made this earth not proper . GOD said the devil was and is your enemy don't follow his path . is a sign this what is it transgenderism May GOD protect us and guide us .

[@herohero8620]

When humans started playing God with DNA manipulation they became to corrupt . how do they think they can improve on what God crested

[@DrKaii]

Big Christian point that goes against Judaism. God asked us to partner with Him, and improve our life

[@avalerie4467]

Some day, man will be humble enough to remember he is not the Creator.

[@kenanderson2216]

As Popeye used to say...."I am what I am, what I am, what I am." Or something like that.

[@Y1836Y]

I am what I am and that's all that I am.

[@kenanderson2216]

@@Y1836Y Yeah, that one! Thanks!

[@user-bl7vu2tx3l]

SHALOM ISRAEL

[@user-fl2bm2hi8u]

What is it to be a man and a woman Who had a father and a grandfather in many uncles and many older cousins what it is to be a man as an observer who was surrounded by men all of her life as role models teachers The men in my family were protectors They were patient and sensitive and answering all Questions and when I was a child I had a million questions how come the flowers are different colors how come we have different fruits how come there's so many different smells how come I would ask my father continuously my father said since the day I started speaking my first words were how come I wanted answers I find myself still asking how come And I find wise men like Rabbi Friedman The magnificent a strong Ethics and moral character high-fiber to look up to to believe in to gain understanding and wisdom from to be able to rest and close your eyes and know that you are safe what is a man a man is Strengths and the house of a home is ability to work and to guide and to love and to devote himself to God putting one foot forward To becoming better version of himself every single day to be the best father the best husband possible to walk away at times of frustration but yet to be soft gentle and understanding to their children when they are little but be wise enough to teach them the meaning of no to teach them discipline so they have guides that will help them out for the rest of their lives so they can be a good student to be the best that they can possibly be to have the best possible life. That is what a man is to me. Not just a joke. But a man to be admired for his daughters to look up to to sons to have a hero to want to be like for their parents to be taken care of by their good sons of a man or the explorers the adventurers the kings of their homes to provide all that is needed for a mother's love cannot proviy the everlasting wisdom of father But you never want to disappoint So discipline is rare The given swiftly when necessary to teach and curved the animal intentions within all children so they can grow up to be a human being separate from the beast and wild

[@clarametzhagopian2665]

We need the holy spirit to guide us רוה אלהימrwah elohim

[@ourlovehowerica]

❤

[@kingrobotnik6950]

Deuteronomy was giving out answers to this question ages ago. God really knew we’d be struggling with stuff like this. He is God though so it’s not surprising. Just safe knowing he already had the answers.

[@Y1836Y]

A book gives? You have some special book.

[@kingrobotnik6950]

@@Y1836Y we some? You wanna try that again chief?

[@Y1836Y]

​@@kingrobotnik6950 edited. Thank you. Have to be very watchful of autoiincorrect. Don't always catch it when I hit post.

[@veronicao.7661]

Identity crisis is traced to what was in the thoughts of the parents during intimacy. Whatever was in the soul of the parents during intimacy, it will be passed down to their child.

[@tagr7269]

Brain and body born different..let ppl be who they are..body parts don't matter

[@Tzippi]

B”H If we don’t have the problem within the orthodox community, I really don’t think it needs to be touched on. What did Judaism really says about transgender ism. It should be what Rabbi menus. Friedman thinks about transgenderism. You certainly are speaking for a bunch of people.

[@patthompson8591]

😁😉That egoism lecture should be directed at the USA, i've never seen such an egotistical nation. Everything is. *I, ME, MYSELF* quite sickening .

[@maryjoelienefisher4750]

I feel you 😢❤

[@yeshevishman]

So true!!! This is something I've been saying for years!

[@Y1836Y]

I'll agree though with a few qualifications. You're hearing a minority, albeit in the public domain, and attributing it to all of us. Some people talk and it's all about I. Not me or myself which are more subordinate references to the self. Have noticed too with much saying "my" in places it's not appropriate. It wasn't like this previously. Part of our devolving towards a country in absolute and utter confusion and chaos. All the easier to control, their ultimate goal. That's why these videos are so important. Get us away from the me monster or more accurately the I monster.

[@patthompson8591]

@@Y1836Y Actually, without exception 😒 - in my opinion. We often make a point & game of counting the I's, my's, Me's - generally - the non-stop use of those pronouns relating to self. Our school teacher always told us to put our *I's* in our pockets 😁.

[@Y1836Y]

​@@patthompson8591what a moral teacher.

[@dorotheosophy]

Interestingly ego can be righteous on a healthy narcissism… but can be evil in hubris authoritarian pride … no self mockery take self too seriously

[@dorotheosophy]

So ego can be evil too

[@dorotheosophy]

Ego is a bridge … between super ego and id… we all need self discernment and self awareness … but what you find in the abyss of examination is still ultimate you - good or evil

[@dorotheosophy]

But snapping bridges or not examining ego… will only cause denial

[@arthurcantrell1954]

I can’t imagine cutting my sons penis off because he feel like a girl,or cutting off my daughters boobs because she thinks she is a boy! Kids don’t even know when bed time is you can’t let them pick gender! That’s something once they grow up can choose to do as adult.

[@ChristopherWallbank-eu7to]

I think therefore I am... the age old philosophical phrase that barely anyone understands. Fact is trans and gay exist, we don't know why but if they exist god made it that way, everything that is happening is happening for a reason

[@melvinjefferson2812]

Do you have a bottle of good wine let's take a drink and hope for peace

[@christ.8547]

💙.

[@marcosb5850]

A development of proper self-respect is the answer to 'ego'. One should not be a doormat to others in supposed 'humility', which in reality is an expression of a "lack of self-respect". The Almighty's relationship to creation is that of a "father", not of a "mother".

[@cookiemonster3147]

With all due respect, but the cure for a fragile ego is not having no ego, but having a healthy ego.

[@bwoutchannel6356]

Keep being Jewish & be the best Jewish person that you can be.

[@kazkk2321]

Interesting that a man who talks about no ego begin the video with testimonial about how wise he is. No ego my ass

[@ColtraneTaylor]

😄

[@voiceofreason2405]

If you don't know what your mission is, isn't the solution finding out what it is by praying to GOD WHO GAVE YOU THE MISSION? Maybe the mission becomes unclear becoz of the rebellion of man and his straying from GOD.

[@Artandmeditation-no7uj]

how come no ego and you say that you are the chosen people :D ! .

[@melvinjefferson2812]

Y'all mis calculated this will only end one way people of all kinds are your enemies nobody is standing up for yall nobody in America its time to evacuate

[@jeffpeat6909]

So what does it say? You never answered the question.

[@janetsimpson1205]

❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@miaudottk9080]

Meow, apparently as a self-proclaimed cat I'm in a cat-egory of my own.

[@AdamDylanMajor]

This time happens to fall on the hour in the sixth millennium when Adam and Chavah were defined

[@Arturest]

Sorry Rabbi Friedmann, I have to desagree with you on this one. What makes a woman a woman is not her uterous, since there are instances that some women are born without uterous as a birth anomoly. What makes a woman a woman is her XX chromosomes. There's absolutely no woman that is born with something different than XX chromosomes. Now this is 100% true, something impossible to be otherwise.

[@sylvia7000]

and the biggest transgenderism in ortodox fmilies ...its true... some people are too sensitive for jeshiva school... and thats why trans or high percentage of addications in drugs... thats sad but its true

[@Y1836Y]

Are you're saying acceptance of confusion is preferable?

[@Y1836Y]

They're all Jewish? Wow our community has grown exponentially.

[@genevievefosa6815]

The problem is, a young child does not know what it means to be either a man or a woman in all its ramifications. He is a child and lacks experience. The child may sense, on a very deep level that he is meant to be a man, and she is meant to be a woman. However, because the child is innocent, he is all too easily influenced by teachers and other people in his life, and if he is hearing from them that he should change his sex, he far too often comes to believe it.; That is when public schools - far too often - step in to administer puberty blockers, and convince that child that he, or she, should have sex change surgery. This surgery is not reversible, and the effects of the puberty blockers may not be reversible, either.

[@Y1836Y]

Oh a child thinks that far ahead to being sn adult? I think not. Children are not as confused as adults are who add to their questions by not understanding things ourselves. We can't guide our children I've we don't get it. And if we're willing to let any outsiders direct us as if they know better. Want to know how many people who got reassignment surgery are still uncomfortable in their bodies? Or now they're also mutilated. Surgery doesn't help a psychological.issue, it exascerberates it. We can't guide our children if we're confused. Yes the government is trying to take thise decisions out of our hands. All meant to destroy that which we know to be true. All the better to control totally.

[@Charlotte-990]

Esther 9

[@elijahsdad]

As a proud Jewish man who loves being a man and loves loving women, I am tremendously disappointed in hearing his stance on transgenderism.

[@Y1836Y]

Then you missed it. Also the rabbi wasn't done discussing the topic. Doesn't take 20 minutes to fully explain it.

[@progresstothestars]

does it matter? this newageism was started by your own rabbi. you know it and i know it. scientits got a little carried away. keep the world polarized, dont let it move up. am i right or am i right? yeah, im right.

[@israelsattleen]

Isaiah 44:5

[@soundsoflife8008]

I'm very compassionate to transgender I think they're only ones that are really multi gender

[@tarugardiner4287]

This confusion is absurd , why is it only the human that has confusion ? Every other living organism knows their natural role , imagine if the birds , trees and bees were confused , life would not cycle , positive and negative , pollinating the flower is essential how has this become a topic of confusion , natural polarity is key , other wise it's going against the grain , A psychological dysfunction a mutant so to speak , A basis of sexual pleasures and desire that has convinced the pyche of normality , a mind that does not understand true form and being , I am a male and I love my male counterparts , but ! I do not want to have sexual encounters with them for a quick orgasmic fix ! You can hide behind your excuses all you like ! Oh but I love him or her , but the foundations of the natural order are set ! Procreation is what keeps the cycle , with out it life does not exist ! Those who are lost I feel sad and sorry , you have missed the "boat" you have not enlightend yourself on what being and life is , you have not taken notice of your world , you have been blinded .

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Interesting opinions from the same people who prevented women from studying the Kabbalah. The same Kabbalah which incidentally says God is both male and female. Oh you bearded, old rabbi's ....

[@downtown4028]

Regardless, it is a word and belief made up by the Devil and his servants. False, like the source itself. Grasshopper.... how about a hard question?

[@suchen6845]

Torah say: Don't steal, But Jacob scamming & stealing, So Jacob doing no wrong n no sin because he scamming + stealing, it's a combo, the command just say: don't steal.

[@Y1836Y]

The stories in the Torah have multi layered meanings. If you want to you learn more. Or not.

[@Y1836Y]

​​@@lovelearnandgrow2853Jews don't. Didn't know that? A god impregnating a human is found in Greek and Roman mythology.

[@Lydia.LaMar0]

It is an abomination...

[@Commander-Rem]

I think most of the people of this world know who these people are who are full of themselves, and ego has everything to do with it.

[@SunFlower-1221]

Hashem made male and female. No in between.

[@yvonnebarash9373]

I feel not so sure as Hashem also made Xxy and Xyy

[@twosparkle2389]

​@@yvonnebarash9373 xxy? Yyx? What are you talking about?

[@yvonnebarash9373]

@@twosparkle2389 Xxy and yyx are two genetic conditions that involve an extra chromosome.

[@majisher]

My young Jewish niece says “Gender is Whatever” Trans folks exist. ❤✡️🏳️‍⚧️

[@nateedge2]

The male seahorse and other creatures can give birth and change gender, just like the male trans Lion, there's sevral male trans Lion, that has the main of male Lion and the roar of a male Lion but has a uterus and all the lions follow this trans male Lion and his pride, let's not put Hashem and science in a box due to religion and thoughts that are old, knowledge evolves just like anything else.

[@Gpscompass]

How bout’ WHAT DOES The Creator Almighty say! Abomination against Our Creator Father Almighty’s Holy law’s! Your either for The Creator Almighty’s ways, or your against Him. Pretty simple!

[@sarasohaib6765]

when person change herself only if ss/he done wrong i stand with neat and clean person Jacob not easu is curse i hope Jacob through away easu birthday

[@AdamDylanMajor]

What about the sources saying Isaac had a female soul? Please explain how a male body with a female soul cannot take action to live in a female body?

[@yeshevishman]

I'm sorry, what sources are you talking about? I've never heard of these sources. Can you elaborate?

[@AdamDylanMajor]

​@yeshevishman I don't know why my comment is not displayed anymore. Did you get to read it?

[@yeshevishman]

@@AdamDylanMajor your original comment? Yes. If you replied to me, I did not see it.

[@AdamDylanMajor]

@@yeshevishman okay maybe KZbin didn't like quoting... it's Ohr HaChayim on Genesis 21:2 verse 2

[@yeshevishman]

@@AdamDylanMajor ok, so I looked up the Ohr HaChaim you quoted and I don't understand it completely. However, the gist of it does not seem to be saying he had a "female soul". His words are מעלמא דנוקבא which I believe refers to a different spiritual level than his contrasted עולם העליון, which just means the "upper world". The Ohr HaChaim is known for throwing in deep kabalistic concepts as being common knowledge, so much of the time, it's misunderstood what he means. However, I think there is little basis to say he's talking about a "female soul" as the Rabbi here is talking about. Whatever the Ohr HaChaim IS talking about is clearly an exception that ONLY applies to Isaac, as it is a qualification for him being used in the akeidah. In short, context is everything. G-d doesn't put female souls in male bodies, and Isaac was CLEARLY identified as male.