Wrestling With Faith: Judaism's Response To Hard Hitting Questions

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[@gbpnz]

"If you don't have anything in your life that you are willing to die for - than you also have nothing in your life worth living for" Rabbi Manis Friedman.

[@MrSakoolig]

You have been putting everything into perspective. You speak of words that I live by without knowing of your ways. Although I was not born Jewish in this life but I know my soul has always been Jewish! Thank you Rabbi

[@birdlynn417]

I wish I could meet with him and talk one on one. Thank you, Rabbi, I love all your teachings, and the funny ones too.

[@robertcummins7739]

Very simple straight forward but hugely profound. Thank you again

[@josephnyongesa193]

Baruk Hashem. These are amazing insights Rabbi. This has elucidated Genesis 1-3 deeply for me. You are truly fulfilling the purpose of being a light to the nations. What a blessing.

[@TeachESL]

My husband watches you for hours every day

[@MariyaLoveyah]

Critical reasoning! That is what people need to learn!

[@ShloimeEhrlich]

Brilliant!!! Thanks rabbi

[@MariyaLoveyah]

I loved every word in this video! Thank you!

[@awkward-stranger]

Nothing you are saying is new to me. This makes me feel good, Reassuring. Thank you

[@westar1234]

Either you are not really hearing or you have not been a listener very long.

[@dudefrombelgium]

he talks about stuff that i sometimes think intuitively as a jewish person. Like making the distinction between knowing and believing.

[@FreckleFoxShow]

Same, though I'm not Jewish. My Jewish fiancee sometimes says I think Jewishly. I don't know if there is anything like a unique intuition or way of thinking that comes from one ethnic group, as I do see that great thinkers of all cultures share a similar nuanced intellect and joyous curiosity. Judaism promotes it, which is great. Anyone or group that does is on the right track.

[@analiachyrnialisnichuk2125]

Thanks Rabi. I grew up in a religion, my questions never got answered, I reached the sad point of stopping asking them. Thanks to your teachings I am becoming the person I used to be before the brainwashing...

[@zenboy863]

Insightful explanations like these given by Rabbi Friedman and other Chabad Rabbis, makes me want to get on a plane to NY to be able to sit with them and learn.

[@denissutherland3653]

Matthew 5 : 17 " Do not think I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."

[@MariyaLoveyah]

Air is always needed for us. G-d is like air because we can't live without it!

[@grandcanyonsound]

thanks rabbi -S.korea student

[@georgehazzard3149]

When we start to loves children and grandchildren, love open to us to Love our own self. Is it easy now to see.

[@Quas1modo2023]

Brillant! Toda

[@zayiith]

Wow!! Great argument!!

[@benbahrami6333]

I feel and understand exactly what you say. Salam album. You are the best

[@GILADI544]

Microwave heat is invisible...as well

[@whowhatwhenwhyhow9265]

Does anybody know if the Rabbi wrote any books on the subject?

[@LawofMoses]

We are all broken until we come to God and repent of breaking his laws and regulations and then as devarim said we take up the commandments and God will heal us and accept our sacrifice which is the life we were leading till we realized we were disobeying in every way. I gave up everything for God and held up my emunah and fought the devil out from within where all the years of sin had allowed him to come and excuse sin with my own voice.

[@marlaoverton6304]

Amen to that!

[@esotericpilgrim548]

There are many different opinions how the condition of the world should be bettered: some think by religious reform, some think by educational reform, and some think by social reform. Every reform made with the idea of doing some good is worthwhile, but the reform most needed today is spiritual reform. Today the hour has come when narrowness should be abandoned, in order to arise above those differences and distinctions which divide human beings. ... The way to spirituality is the expansion and the widening of the heart. In order to accommodate the divine Truth the heart must be expanded. With the expansion of the heart the divine bliss is poured out.

[@MariyaLoveyah]

Wait, so if you compare a size that doesn't matter to eternity and to God, does our righteousness or sinfulness matter to eternity or G-d?

[@RobertHorovitzND]

Fantastic!

[@ez2u1]

please explain to me what you mean by mispat?

[@conceptofeverything8793]

Around 10:00 to 13:30 you can replace belief with having axioms

[@amenaklilu3005]

what's the difference between vanity &meaning less God bless u rubbai

[@paultremblay4353]

amazing

[@MariyaLoveyah]

How can we find out G-d if He is untouchable, comprehensible to our human nature?

[@MariyaLoveyah]

It's easy to say at the present time to find out what the truth is because we can go and investigate, research, be a witness. But what about the past? We cannot go in to the past. We either need to believe the person whom we trust and wrote it down, or there is no way of knowing.... Unless, we just have evidence from that person to prove what the truth is.

[@goldstar9174]

Rabbi, will you please make a video explaining why the God in the old testament was so violent. For example when He disintegrated the guy who tripped and dropped the ark of the covenant..

[@awkward-stranger]

He is love. Love by its own nature desires to share. He creates to share, He then shares of Himself and increases love, increasing Himself and all that He is,Love, What else would do this, could do this? It must have been done with Love.

[@MrArtist1971]

His name is Jealous. He is Justice.

[@originalsue8323]

Check Rabbi Mottel Baleston,he is a Messianic Rabbi. Great teaching! People become more Jewish when accepting Messia.

[@naomiperlman8995]

How do WE PREVENT people from: STARVING in the streets, during THIS 'PANDEMIC' ? NHP

[@jayvolek2584]

As an agnostic it’s refreshing to hear intelligent answers to difficult questions instead of the usual religious rhetoric. I agree with most of his answers except on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. I definitely agree we shouldn’t be so literal and if he had been my teacher at 7 years of age instead of the moron who tried unsuccessfully to convince me that a whale really did swallow Jonah …. well my belief system today could be very different. I’m afraid most organized religions have poor leaders and teachers unlike this intelligent rabbi. I wish I could spend time in his presence to learn from his wisdom and answer my questions.

[@IWH777]

WHAT IS MY ONE WISH??? TO STOP DOUBTING THAT GOD EXIST.... TO KNOW GOD BETTER... TO FEEL GOD IN MY LIFE AN BE SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE IS THERE... Mark 9:23-25 :...(

[@miketsionas8012]

Well. Ask Him directly. That makes sense.

[@Pfinston]

Thank you Rabbi for sweeping away the platitudes we confuse with wisdom. Your teachings elevate us all Peggy

[@conceptofeverything8793]

I got a bad joke for you. It goes like this: 'I hope its alright to suppose.'

[@ricdavid7476]

Wow again i say wow

[@LawofMoses]

3:38 We cannot know our meaning until we seek out God and he then shows us because we sacrificed our life and turn to him alone and not men who think they know something but are just spewing their own ways.

[@amenaklilu3005]

Why king salmon say everything is meaning less

[@amenaklilu3005]

What is vanity God bless u

[@wiseguyst]

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Psalms

[@LawofMoses]

0:18 This question only comes from someone who does not know God at all. I would simply just die if I did not have God in my life now. If I stopped keeping God's sabbath I would die to him and be nothing(ezekiel 18). I love God more than my own self by far and that is not even enough for me. I am the least of God's obedient ones and so what are you who add to God's law and therefore breach it?

[@arulmary603]

In my nothing ness God sees my worthless sadness, with great mercy God adopts me to precious creation as human , along to be a pretty partner, in my position I became very vulnerable destroyer so ends my existence, still memories in God urged to extend my generation to add up in God's history. But I'm happy & thankful for admitting to enter in his creation.

[@MariyaLoveyah]

WHAT IF.... If everybody can do G-d's will, He'll be visible to us? WOW! I just discovered how to see G-d! We do His Will and we can see Him! :)

[@jeramyeswan4014]

So YHWH name means ”he who causes to become” therefore, man has a purpose.

[@hexagramz5115]

Yes. Hashem-"The Name" These are not his name, just words to describe him.

[@TheBeatle49]

Rabbi, I have learned a lot from you. But I can't accept your dismissal of unbelief as "unintelligent. "

[@newnewsbrooklyn1513]

How can the world exist without a creator?

[@choyayahyah]

The Rabbi is correct. You see many atheists militantly denying a creator of the world, a god. And they'll make it sound as if they are a higher level intelligence and those who believe and are religious are stupid and believing in nonsense and fairy tales. Now, that is both arrogant and unintelligent. Obviously, there are many brilliant people and scientists who believe there is a god and a creator of the world. Look at the whole intelligent design theory which is very scientific. Look at the big bang theory. Before the big bang, most scientists believed the world never had a beginning, so the Jews who said there was a beginning at least were right on such a profound scientific truth for thousands of years before the brilliant athiest. So yes, for someone to simply brush of god as nonsense is being unintelligent and arrogant. At least ask and say "I'm not sure".

[@nickvoutsas5144]

Conclusion is that we live our lives fulfilling God’s purpose. What a journey from selfishness to giving. Is God infinite of course yes but God could at the same time be infinitely small. Therefore our purpose is to be limitless in giving ourselves. Why is God infinitely small , because he is one unless you believe in many gods. Love is the ultimate infinite in both its greatness when giving and its humility when been received. Therefore to be a good Jew one has to be infinite in giving and receiving love.

[@LawofMoses]

Know I am not here to hate. I am here merely to convict your hearts so you will turn back to God and teach the whole world to obey God properly as Moses taught is when we came from egypt. That was pure before the Rabbis put their own meanings into it.

[@TheBeatle49]

I am sure you are not. But telling people they are not on the path of the true faith has been the beginning of hatred so many times in history.

[@MariyaLoveyah]

Rabbi, i am very upset that wise people must die. They need to live forever to teach people who need wisdom! Can't we just all live forever and learn and be productive, and honor God , and hear Him too (sometimes, at least?)

[@mariusmihai918]

Wise or not wise its not the criteria of living forever.

[@ShulemFriedman]

What do you mean by saying: in order… it has too.. he has too… There is nothing and nothing he has to do, there is no order what he needs to follow, he is above all these.. he is the one who created the order So you didn’t answer anything 😢

[@MariyaLoveyah]

See, there is another problem: People create their own god that they choose to believe in, even though it is not a real god. Example: Christianity, Buddism...etc.. paganism..

[@richardjohnson6140]

Must be nice to know that "your God" is the right one

[@MariyaLoveyah]

J Hammer , there is no “my G-d”, there is ONE G-D! This G-d is the One I honor! God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Not the imaginative god of Paul.

[@js5072]

God does "bad stuff" so we are reminded on what we are suppose to do and the punishment of what would happen if we don't get the mission accomplished. Dont worry, those who die are safe with God.

[@eliteperekeskus6534]

I love jews and heartly wishing You best! I really enjoy Your lectures and your real and straight manner what is needed today, when talking about faith and merriage- so many pearls I gathered! But these questions I would also like to share - why all world have been believing for centures to Jesus as a Messiah and live now almost peace with each other, but Jews didnt accept Him (as state religion) and have always unpeaceful situation in Israel? So it shows that real Israel is not only geographical region, but are all those who accept Jesus Messiah, because Israel is Gods son and there really lived Gods Son - it was Gods plan!!! I think Gods plan is that Israel is not meant to be only one Gods elite but the place from where His Glory and Light spread to all nations. Also that - who is the last prophet in Israel and why there is no more prophets today in Israel, whose prophesy we could read? Maybe Yes, but I didn't heard of... Why Holy Bible has stopped with Zechariah and it doesn't grow further? Why God don't send His prophets anymore, for example like Elijah?

[@TheBeatle49]

Great that you love Jews. For myself, I just prefer normalcy to being loved for something I had no part in doing.

[@TheBeatle49]

The Christian's eternal question, 'Why do the Jews reject my Lord," is the beginning of Jew-hatred. What Jews want from Christians, IMHO, is - stop asking that question!

[@victoriablicharski8308]

just because you can dose not mean you should

[@saiyanmgtow]

Rabbi, I love ya, but do you believe our history is not full of lies? Just because it's in human history, doesn't mean it's not a complete lie.

[@Piochanel2]

Since we know Moses did never exist - what do we do?, since we know there is no need for a god to create our universe? - Since we know the canaatintes were never wiped out and we use their sories for the jewish gods ( Yahwe , Baal, Asherah )? And about the Tora - yes we can trace it back - 400 bc we invented the Tora - so what do we do now?

[@omg-bh4pg]

Pio chanel 2 I am glad to hear you discovered the truth. However I belive the torah was made up in the year 469 BCE. Can you prove that it was made up 400 bce?

[@trancenationofficial7887]

Oh come on. Almost 3 million jews were with Moshe when he went up the mountan and YHVH spoke with thunder and lightning and the earth shaking. That's a fact.

[@TheBlueyedblond]

what exactly are you trying to say?

[@TheBeatle49]

Point made!

[@mrmechazawa4596]

King Solomon said he who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and disgrace to him

[@user-fi5kc7fr2k]

😄☺😃😂😊😁😀

[@collinrudert97]

Your teaching is in my body I am not Jewish to my knowledge which is the gift I have really you used me that's all you did is use me why why why

[@hexagramz5115]

You have what jews call "the jewish spirit" "Nefesh Yehudi"

[@wiseguyst]

ohn 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

[@wiseguyst]

John 3:16

[@EPA18]

Rabbi Friedman, you first have to believe in the divinity of the Bible, to accept the history recorded in the Bible. You and others make the presumption that everyone assumes the validity of the Torah.

[@TheBeatle49]

Point made!

[@TheBeatle49]

The rabbi, who is highly intelligent, mischaracterizes science.

[@conceptofeverything8793]

You are His Creation. He judges what He's made. Insufficient logic.

[@LawofMoses]

Let me ask all Judaism this. Why do the orthodox say you must descend from a jewish mother to be of judaism/jewish? I will show you that it must be because of Genesis 38 which shows they are actually Judahs Canaanite descendants. Why else would you not want any of us lost sheep to obey God's Royal Law? Why did the Pharisees make up the new testament and use Paul of Tarsus their convert to spread it? Why do the orthodox of judaism teach exactly what the so called apostles taught as shown on the foolish book called acts specifically chapter 15 where the foolish noachide lies are brought forth? Doea this not show they are the synagogue of satan that hates all true Isra'elites like me. Why does Judaism insist on teaching all people not to keep God's LAW PROPERLY? HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS

[@massey904]

Mark 9:23-25 Yeshua said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” When Yeshua saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!”

[@julietrae8665]

YOU LISTEN TO MIKE MURDOCH????