This is the first time ( as a non Jew) that I come across someone talking so openly ( an eloquently!) about Judaism , even about the amulets, and the origin of this movement from the 18th century. I really thank you for this direct and unhesitant talk that mesmerizes a listener
@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt6 жыл бұрын
Although I'm not jewish (i'm Greek) I find these lectures exceptionally interesting.Dr Abramson is a gifted speaker.
4 жыл бұрын
Great series, Rabbi. I m follwing your content from Romania, and I must say, they re delightful. Even the corny jokes! Best wishes!
@burbuqerakovica44497 жыл бұрын
I just love how there are people who don't hesitate on sharing information with others. I am very fascinated with Jewish culture and your videos are a godsend to one like me. thanks to you dear sir!
@billzen8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another enlightening talk that helps me connect to the history of my Jewish ancestors. Although genetics and genealogy have helped illuminate many connections, it is your presentations (and jokes) that I find most rewarding. I have now started to read and purchase all your published works.
@sbklein207 жыл бұрын
I am really enjoying your lectures! With regards to the Besht's knowledge/learning, Isn't it worth taking into consideration, that since as a youngster he was taken into a circle of mystic/rabbis among them some tremendously learned ones, and that was his circle of influence (not-mentioning the legend about achiya hashiloni teaching him) the fact that we don't have evidence of his learning does not mean or imply that the Besht was unlearned. It could likely be that what made him so revolutionary and famous overshadowed his prowess in learning which was already common to the jewish people of the time. Also, consider the fact that many of his followers were tremendous talmudists, some them who had previously been his adversaries. It is unlikely that they would be swayed to him and accept him as their spiritual leader merely by his charisma/miracles/warmth without a serious foundation in talmudic knowledge.
@mitzvahgolem83666 жыл бұрын
I am from Litvak background. Baal ShemTov made all.Yidden feel equally loved by HaShem.
@nilinu11 жыл бұрын
Hugely informative and enjoyable! Am working my way through all the other talks.
@stewland15 жыл бұрын
I like listening to this lecture. Yes, Universal Truth does not vary from one faith to another.. Truth is True.
@deciduoushorn405310 жыл бұрын
May his memory be for a blessing.
@andrewklafter61885 жыл бұрын
Rabbi I'm really enjoying your lectures, really learning a lot. One piece of trivia: at least one other baal shem, Ephraim Reisher was referred to as "Baal Shem Tov" (Rosman 19) and the Besht was sometimes referred to only as baal shem (Rosman 16).
@marshawoods14937 жыл бұрын
Love hearing your lectures Rabbi!!!
@avro549B7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for explaining a puzzling phenomenon (and the herring joke). In return, here are 3 jokes which I hope may be new to you: 1. Q. What's the difference between a poor Jewish tailor and a psychiatrist? A. One generation. 2. Q. When do different religions consider life begins? A. Catholics believe it begins at the moment of conception. Protestants think it begins at live birth. Jews don't consider the fetus viable until it graduates from medical school. 3. Q. What do you call Ultra-Orthodox farmers? A. Hayseedim.
@MaryLopez-bv7ks7 жыл бұрын
avro549B the first one was okay but the last two..m
@JamesToupin9 жыл бұрын
First of all I should tell you that I am a non believer in God, still I love your videos as they teach me so much about Jewish history, theology and philosophy. I love to learn and these subjects are of incredible interest to me. Thank you for sharing such informative lectures!
@mikeappleget4828 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to read your book in the Talmud! I've just started binge watching your lectures and have already blew the minds of family and friends with my knowledge of Jewish history. I should also commend you on your jokes I've borrowed (stole) that everybody enjoyed. Thanks Dr. Abramson! Your a true Mensch! :)
@mikeappleget4828 жыл бұрын
On*
@jurainc6 жыл бұрын
Mike Appleget 9ml
@MartinJames3897 жыл бұрын
The ascription of wisdom to men (only) over 40 was common in plebian culture throughout Europe and probably not anything particularly Jewish. In medieval and later agrarian societies there was always more to be organised and decided collectively than ruling elites could be bothered to dictate and supervise. It mostly concerned what they knew little about anyway. At times, of course, people organised to undermine or revolt against them, but whether revolutionary or -more usually- mundane, the formula that collective decision-making (and, by implication, wisdom) was the province of men over 40 was extremely common, almost ubiquitous. One of the most radical thinkers of the English revolution of the 1640s, Gerrard Winstanley, had the temerity to questions this in his utopian work "The Law of Freedom in a Platform" and suggest that "young wits" should have their say, too. He thought that the brightest of the young often had their spirits crushed and were liable to become negative and merely cynical under the heavy hand or excessive caution of the greybeards. In 1652, that was a way out idea! Conversely, resentment of the aristocracy was frequently heightened if circumstances -sometimes of bloody infighting- meant that the great feudal superior beneath whom people were expected to bow and scrape in obeisance was some callow youth. In the Jewish world -and you may have mentioned this in another lecture, Dr Abramson- didn't Rebbe Nachman of Breslov feel unqualified to pronounce on halakhic matters or deal with certain questions put to him due to his lack of "years", compared with others? He seemed to consider Intellect was not sufficient, without the grey hairs. I get the impression this view has somewhat ossified in contemporary Hasidism, which is a pity. Wisdom is not necessarily accumulated by the passing of years.and young fools often become simply old fools. I say that at 71.
@MaryLopez-bv7ks7 жыл бұрын
Martin James mindblowing! lol
@MichaelDBruce9 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this lecture. I've just started reading about the Baal Shem Tov and this put a lot into perspective :) thank you
@nezabarom18 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and insightful. Thank you kindly!
@yehezqelyisrael38607 жыл бұрын
Todah rabah for the lesson.
@satoshinakadashi9 жыл бұрын
I love your videos. Thank you so much!
@dietlindvonhohenwald4484 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and educational lecture. Which books do you recommend to start studying Hasidic Judaism?
@aakau887 жыл бұрын
Interesting insight into cultural & religious developments within Jewish Semite communities in eastern Europe. Loving & freeing to the uneducated peasantry, then morphing into a pragmatic businesslike sect with a heap of rules & regulations. Fascinating!
@arielyaari45488 жыл бұрын
Dr. Abramson I'd like to correct you. The Besht was very educated, there is actually a story of a. Chacham who thought he paskined wrong and this was because he did not oppose the Besht. The Besht told him he paskined right and that the Totufois in Niddah that was against him actually supported him
@pfed80528 жыл бұрын
this is my first video that I have watched it was very interesting, informative, and enjoyable. I was wondering do you give any public lectures in NY that I can go to?
@magicsufi8 жыл бұрын
Your opinion on the founding of the state of Israel Henry? And Zionism?
@oldgringo20016 жыл бұрын
I'm 67 years old now and I've learned more about the Baal Shem Tov from six minutes and 30 seconds of this lecture. And I want to say, I wish the herring in that joke was real because obviously I need some.
@GoodOne4All10 жыл бұрын
Very nice lecture!! Salam/Shalom!
@pheebsbee12808 жыл бұрын
Thank you. This was interesting and articulate.
@HenryAbramsonPhD2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@BRKO7 жыл бұрын
His rabbi (as the legend goes) was אחיה השילוני
@JamesDavis-kc6kk10 жыл бұрын
A sheynem dank Reb Abramson. Ziet gezunt.
@veeken7778 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@natanyaaberra49845 жыл бұрын
Well done!
@putinjosepy939710 жыл бұрын
Hasidism was created in Ukraine. The Polish section was actually Ukrainian Lemko territory which Poland took over. There were also Ukrainian Jewish Cossacks (Juresylymsky Cossaky). If you check your history there were Ukrainian Cossacks that went to Jerusalym to protect Jews in the Holy Land.
@TheSealOfTheRose8 жыл бұрын
In general however Cossacks raped and murdered Jews more than anybody else.
@bingeltube5 жыл бұрын
Very recommendable
@rosehunnigshtuck73454 жыл бұрын
I believe that the heavenly instructor of the Besht was Ahiah hashilonite
@HenryAbramsonPhD3 жыл бұрын
Yup
@kevinoneil567 жыл бұрын
Thankyou, Dr. A, for three hours of information compressed into an hour, and an enjoyable one at that! It appears to me that Hasidism and the teaching of Jesus appear to have similarities. You suggested an interpretation of the word Hasid to be, going beyond what is required. You may recall that Jesus/Y'shua taught a very similar thing. For instance, "If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away." Y'shua also taught the value of life and joy and defended the poor against the burdensome rituals of the religious authorities whenever he felt that they were becoming intolerable, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Regarding the character of the Besht, there are also similarities there. You stated that the common people were attracted to him because he was a charismatic individual that really cared about them and that he exuded the joy of Judaism. Y'shua was extremely charismatic and, furthermore, he was accused by the authorities of being "a wine-bibber," Perhaps significantly, his first miracle was to turn water into wine, the best wine!
@markjacobi35375 жыл бұрын
Interesting lecture I listened from here in Melbourne Australia. I have to ask please: JUst because The Besht (Baal SHem Tov) didn't author any seforim books how can one say he wasn't fully learnt in Torah? For example how was he able to make his successor THe Maggid of Mehzrich Tzl into a Chosid, THe Maggid TZL was a real scholar a chavrussa study partner of the true Torah scholar THe Pnei Yehoshua?
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Where did you find an HISTORICAL account OR ANYWHERE stated that somone should sleep rather then davening in time
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Was the divrei chaims emphasis on thora inspired by the litvaks?
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Why Is a letter he wrote to the Toldis not part of history? You can choose to think the bal shem was a liar (c"v) , but his account that he learned Thora 10 years straight from age 26 till 36 with Achiyu Hashiloini (and you weren't able to pronounce that) (the same Maggid that learned with the Beis Yossef) is HIS historical account
@csp4057 жыл бұрын
The בעש"ט teacher was הנביא אחיה השילוני that was also the teacher of אליהו הנביא בספר הזוהר כתוב שרבי שמעון בן יוחאי בחר ביום פטירתו להיות בגן עדן אצל הנביא אחיה השילוני, והאר"י הקדוש אמר שרבי שמעון ואחיה השילוני הם מאותו שורש נשמה, וכן אמר האר"י הקדוש על עצמו שהוא משורש הזה, וכן הבעש"ט היה משורש הזה, אז מובן שרבו שלמד איתו היה אחיה השילוני
@mikedingo80479 жыл бұрын
i have a question Dr. Henry Abramson, where have the Jews come from when they enters Europe ?
@mikedingo80479 жыл бұрын
***** Thank you so much. I was wondering because i am Jewish but not religious. My friends were discussing that subject and it ended with that most European Jews are converts
@RafaelRabinovich4 жыл бұрын
He was taught by spiritual visits of Achiya haShiloni.
@HenryAbramsonPhD3 жыл бұрын
Correct
@cakia2010 жыл бұрын
hello....how do u become an hasidic jew?
@cakia2010 жыл бұрын
ok thanks.
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Why do you fail to mention the Meir Neseevim that was a gudil betohra attest to his tzikiss and gadlis, is that a legend too? Isn't that an historical account
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
And you can argue that he didn't write chideeshim on shas, but you can't ignore first hand deciples writing that he was bukke and a guan in toiras HANIGLA Kiachud Mihatinuim! You can take them by thier word as they were well known holy tzadeekim, or you can choose not to believe their accounts, for whatever reason But to not mention their recollections of their rabbi as historical facts is misleading to say the least
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Did the aree hakudish write books on the talmud?
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Does his siddur reb Shabsa represent am uneducated man?
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Is the Hakduma of the Degel not HISTORICAL?
@schnzwilhelm52384 жыл бұрын
I don't believe that a man with so many known torah Giants was illiterate.
@YehudaFreeman8 жыл бұрын
The Besht was born in 1698.
@YehudaFreeman8 жыл бұрын
+Yehuda Freeman PS his teacher was Achiya HaShiloni
@yudimandel8 жыл бұрын
What's your source for his DOB? I've always read 1700
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Why do you ignore the fact of numerous ideological ideas and insights are brought by his deciples in his name, is that what you call uneducated?
@xab3s12 жыл бұрын
Great lecture. Thank you. just one small comment, cell phone must be on silent. even the vibaration was heard in the video, very Annoying .
@MaryLopez-bv7ks7 жыл бұрын
alex xela wasn't meant for the internet.. just for the people at the lecture.. I think
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
What about the letters he wrote to his brother in law and his talmeedim, aren't they an HISTORICAL account? No one needs to believe him , but it's his history which you fail to mention, which brings out what kind of Human he was! If he wasn't lying in those letters (which I doubt today somone would say so) You see him as a Malich Aloikim ! And you call that uneducated?
@markmarkmark94445 жыл бұрын
I'm loving the teachings. I was wondering if there was anything about Jesus Christ.
@VRCM_Skywarn_XUSA9 жыл бұрын
zee abbey smede. Its the See of Dr Smith.
@patriciaazhar88558 жыл бұрын
rambam
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
You should of known about the arguments about the scheeta knives
@360ttv59 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that you start with the thought that you do not believe in G-d. haha
@kennyrose44458 жыл бұрын
why is the non jew a peasant
@blw49677 жыл бұрын
Because he uses improper punctuation.
@patriciaazhar88558 жыл бұрын
draidl
@c.hampton43018 жыл бұрын
He was a Hypocrite. He made up traditions, clothing to be worn and rituals.
@alexarodriguez29257 жыл бұрын
Nobody's making you follow it
@alexarodriguez29257 жыл бұрын
Also, traditions are generally "made up". Hence: "TRADITION". Lol.
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
It's a shame this lecture, as now I lost the trust on your research You should research and familiarise yourself on more HISTORICAL accounts and redo this lecture
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Narish and poor You rely on gossip sources for the hissnagdus , yet you ignore the facts of his immediate disciples, how they praise him, and describe him
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Very very very poor bias stupid lecture, would pass more for a complete bal tzuvah or ger, rather than a true historian
@MyName-tu8mh6 жыл бұрын
Dear Henry Abramson Well Balei Teshuva is something someone i respect, I hope to become a bal teshuva too one day My point was that your lecture on that topic is like an oblivious bal teshuva that doesn't know the facts (It's not an insult when I use an example of somone that wouldn't know this history For example if I would say A Goi, would that be an insult to them?) Yet you have no excuse as you should know the facts Interesting though, that you are so worried about offending balie teshuva, which was not my intention at all (And I don't agree that they would be offended when I say that they don't know the history of the Bal Shem As well) While you have no issue painting the biggest leader of klal yisroel maybe ever, since we were exiled from Israel In a humiliating light! Which other leader besides Moisha Rabinie have an existing religious and holy following hundreds of years later Which is if not the majority , a big part of religious Jewry. Which identify him as their sole founder Calling Him Uneducated Shepherd is insulting! Chutzpah and aziz! Comparing him to Moses and Duvid hamelech and the Uvis that were Shepherds too would be more appropriate He was a Malich Aloikim and no one disputes that today You choose and pick what you call facts and what goes into the realms of history and what not , based on your biased crooked view! It's not just this lecture But in others as well in order to feel impartial you are scared to portray the historical accounts in somewhat a better light , while you will glorify heretics and nidriga menshin Again I apologize if I offended any balie teshuva and if i offended you that was not my point They are great and greater then me My point was something else