True. Paul was a Hellene, he was the first to come up with the term "Christian" and taught the nonsense about vicarious atonement. He had no connection with Jesus and if Judas was a traitor, he was the hypocrite infiltrating the followers of Jesus. He deceived people about Jesus's Gospel and borrowed pagan beliefs to create a Hellenistic religion that is Christianity. You should listen to Bart Erhman, a scholar of the New Testament...he explains how many early Christians believed in two and over thirty gods and that the Ebionites, who taught that Jesus was not some god or son of god but rather the Jewish Messiah, a human who came to confirm the Law of Moses and asked his people to adhere to it, and James the brother of Jesus who was a strict Jew, actually followed the true message of Jesus but were denied and misrepresented by later Christians who followed Paul's teachings.
Rabbi Singer how can you say that the Dead Sea Scrolls are identical to the masoretic text? There are important differences, like the inclusion of a nun-passage in psalm 145 or the addition of an unnumbered 151st psalm. There are many more such examples. And interestingly in cases were they differ the Dead Sea Scrolls tend to agree with the Septuagint and the Syrian Peshitta rather than the Masoretic text. The nun-passage was not a scribal interpolation because we have it in 3 independend sources (the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls and the Peshitta), about 500 years apart and from entirely different geographical areas and textual traditions. Your repetition argument is entirely unconvincing, the Hebrew bible is full of such repetitions. There is no serious scholar who argues that the hebrew bible is unchanged from the time it was written, because we know for a fact that that is not the case. We just have less evidence for it because unlike the New Testament, where we have historical sources from a few decades after Jesus' death and over a hundred manuscripts from the first centuries, we don't have ANY sources for the Hebrew bible until about 800 years AFTER the first books were written. By the time we have ANY textual witness for the Hebrew bible it was already floating around for centuries in complete form, as a defined canon of works that were considered holy. That manuscripts by that time have become really uniform is not surprising at all. Christian manuscripts from the 9th century are also very uniform because by then they had become holy scripture. But that doesn't mean they were unchanged from the time of writing. We know many mistakes crept in in earlier times. the same most likely holds true for the hebrew bible. We just don't know most of those mistakes because we have no sources from the earlier periods.
Good post. One thing I can say about Christians is at least they are more aware of the fragility of their sacred text. It would also be very cool to hear him talk about the documentary hypothesis
Great answer, good focusing William… The rabbi has a wealth of knowledge. With all his travels I wonder if he's ever look at the Torahs at the places he has been to
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing. The fact that these words have been untouched and preserved to this day should be enough to turn anyone towards the right path. Unfortunately there are people who say these scrolls are not real or forged or part of some conspiracy. It's very sad to see some people looking in the eyes of Truth but turning away and choosing not to see it.
Dear Rabbi Singer, show us the Tablets containing the Ten Commandments, which were personally written by God. Or, if you don't have them or even the pieces of the smashed tablets; then, show us the second set which was given to Moses. Wouldn't God have been careful to protect and defend such a key and crucial set of tablets? Otherwise, I learn much from your work.
As a Muslim I love this Jewish Rabbai Tovia Singer. May ALLAH bless Rabbai Tovia Singer. New Testament as a whole truely contradict the Old Testament . All TRUE Jewish & TRUE Muslims must come together to establish pure Monotheism on this Earth. Xtianity is NOT or never was any part of the Ibrahimic / Abrahamic faith (( Worshiping the Creator alone who has NO image / No shape / No inheritence / No partner & No created thing can be compare with the Creator )).
I think you are forgetting what God said “Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai . “For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai : “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai ’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.” Yirmeyahu (Jer) 31:30-33 The problem with Israel is that out of arrogance he thinks that he didn't violate the covenant.
@@oritondaphalanndwa1624 im not forgetting anything God detest human sacrifices so for God to sacrifice a human or a son according to the New teatament is an abomination to God if God accepted human sacrifices he would of accepted Abraham's son Isaac as an atonement for sins but guess what he didn't it was ALL A TEST an a lamb was sacrificed instead of Isaac
@@oritondaphalanndwa1624 ezekiel 37:25,26 David will be our shepherd forever and Gods covenant will be an ETERNAL COVENANT. David will be ressurected again and the New covenant is just a fresh new start this Jesus is made up Plagiarized by the romans
could the animal sacrifices that where performed at the temple, could those be considered vicarious atonements? if not, how would they be characterized?
Yahfllr * No, they are not vicarious atonement. Vicarious atonement sacrifices used innocent humans to cover the sins of (guilty) humans. That is not Biblical and is of pagan origin. The sacrifices in the ancient Jewish Temple were quite different. They were done to cover inadvertantly committed sins and iniquities. Only adult animals which are considered perfect were used.
Rabbi, I agree that the preservation of the Torah is an amazing feat and that it’s a true privilege to read such a text (I’m learning Hebrew so I can read and understand it in its most authentic form) but I think it would be a better argument to say that it doesn’t matter if the Torah is true because it is not itself divine and never claimed itself to be. It is of divine origin (and I can prove that for anyone who’s interested) but like consciousness (us) the one that God (Logic) wrote the scriptures through, the Torah could contain falsehoods, and doesn’t need to be 100% rational/true in order to serve their purpose. Where things are false it gives one knowledge of evil, just as where it is true it gives knowledge of good. The way one gets closer to Logic, the one true God, is through logical reasoning and study. If you can find and formally prove that a certain detail of the scriptures are nonsense then you will have “reckoned faithfully with the one true God” and it would be “the source of knowledge” that is telling you its flawed if it indeed is. Even if the Torah makes you reason with Logic to prove something that was said is nonsense then the scripture will still have served its purpose of making students eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and will have brought them closer to enlightenment and knowledge of the one true God. Know Hashem through Hashem. Know the source of knowledge through the source of knowledge. Prove the self evident source of logical proof through the self evident source of logical proof. Know Logic through Logic.
Rabbi Singer, since your shomer Torah, I have some questions for you. Do you keep your diet 100% animal fat free, as in accordance with Leviticus 3:17 ? - Do you stone your children if they curse you, as in accordance with Leviticus 20:9 ? - Do you never shave your facial hair, as in accordance with Leviticus 19:27 ? - Do you support the killing of gays and lesbians, as in accordance with Leviticus 20:13 ? - During the Shabbat, do you not drive or BBQ? (and if you lived before the nineteenth century, will you not turn on lights nor start the heating in the winter if you are cold?), as in accordance with Exodus 35:3 ? - Do you always wear only one kind of fabric on your body so not to mix between linen and wool, as in accordance with Deuteronomy 22:11 ? - Do you never buy fruit in the supermarket as their producers do not wait until the 5th year to start selling them? (not to mention the fact that the majority of today’s supermarket food products includes corn or soy), as in accordance with Leviticus 19:23-25?
The question about "riding two donkeys" is a provoking idea. NO ONE PERSON can do that, right? It is a statement which can perhaps only be understood as teasing about Christianity's predicament--- Greater is "HE" within you than 'he' who is in the world= TWO JESUSes. Subsequently, and pivoting on that point, comes 2 Faiths, 2 Hopes, 2 Loves, 2kingdoms, 2powers, 2opinions' DIVISION in all things you may even consider!
I understand that Tovia Singer will defend the Torah no matter what because that’s his religious book 📖 and him being a Rabbi! When Tovia Singer said the Dead Sea scrolls matched the Torah (Masoratic text) either he’s ignorant or he being emotional! The Dead Sea scrolls matches more to the Torah (Samaritan text) rather than the Masoratic text. There are about 6000 differences between the two Torah’s. In the Mesoratic text Prophet Ishmael has been mentioned in a very rude way! Vs the Samaritan text completely opposite! So tell me one this Rabbi! Why would God talk about Prophet Abraham’s eldest son that way? In the Torah (Masoratic text) When we are completely aware what Prophet Abraham went through to have the child!
When the scriptures have been modified n not preserved, what you do? Go to the scriptures which claim to be preserved. Look n observe is it good teaching? If the teaching are good n preserved, then it is true. If later, then it is not true.
Is there an english torah and all the other writings that where found in that cave that the jews or any native hebrew speaking and greek speaker has translated for the other nations properly? I know hashems (his) not our, instructions are easy for us , he said. He knows we are simple humans and doent make it to hard for us.
How was the Hebrew Bible copied- who and when? The oldest copies of the Masoretic Text only date back to the 10th century, nearly 1000 years after the time of Christ. 1. The Masoretes added vowel points which did not exist in the original. 2. The Masoretic Text excluded several books from the Old Testament scriptures. 3. The Masoretic Text includes changes to prophecy and doctrine. In the early 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves near Qumran. They revealed an ancient Hebrew textual tradition which differed from the tradition preserved by the Masoretes. Written in Hebrew, copies of Psalm 145 were found which include missing verses: Below first from Septuagint next the Masoretic text CHANGED AND EDITED Septuagint 250 BC Isaiah 7:14 Behold the Virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel Masoretic text 400 AD behold the young woman is with child and she shall bear a son and she shall call his name Emmanuel Septuagint 250 BC they pierced my hands and my feet Psalm 22 the Masoretic text like a lion my hands and my feet
It is simple!!!how is it going to change so drastically de idea of God been one to a trinity?for thousands of years Jews believe God was one and all of the sudden the idea changed to God been 3 ?hello!!!
He didn't use it since it's forbidden to practice. But being the Judge of a Jewish court, it was a positive commandment to study the ways and usage of all diff types of witchcraft in order to know how to rule in court cases against those who practiced the diff modes of witchcraft.
The explanation for the missing nun in Psalm 145, which is found in the DSS, is not satisfying at all. The explanation makes it sound like the Essenes were completely unfamiliar with the Hebrew TaNaK--even though they were preserving a copy in the desert. When you first studied that Psalm, I'm sure someone explained to you that the "nun verse" had always been missing; were you, then, compelled to make up a verse and insert it into the text? So, why do you assume some Essene scribe was? If it had always been missing, surely someone would have quickly noticed the addition. Is there some reason to believe that the Ketuvim are dictated by God? I'm sorry to say that this explanation is what we would expect from Christians.
@@janishart5128 It doesn't make any difference whether or not the NT is scripture or if it's just a human document: it's still true in either case that the NT (along with the OT) are well-preserved documents.
@@DavidVonR: What you're choosing to ignore is that there is no NAME attached to the word "redeemer" - therefore, NO "Jesus" character to "save" anyone! This is NOT what God said to us! You're extrapolating what you WANT the verses to mean! NOWHERE do those verses mention anyone named "Jesus" - not ONCE! In fact, God PURPOSELY didn't mention the name of the Jewish Messiah to us, since it has been possible for him to appear in ANY time period, depending on the spiritual condition of the Jewish people. You can't just shove the "Jesus" character into the Bible wherever it suits YOU!! God NEVER said ONE word of what you stated - in fact, NOWHERE did God EVER mention the "Jesus" character to us - NOWHERE!! If God DIDN'T say it to us in the Hebrew scriptures, given to Moses at Mt. Sinai, it DIDN'T happen!! You need to realize, research, and accept, that NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES were given to mankind by God AFTER Mt. Sinai, since, when God gave us His words there, He specifically told us that those words are ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!), and that we are NOT to follow ANY OTHER teaching than what is in those Hebrew scriptures. Christianity IS another teaching, therefore we are NOT to follow what it says - God's orders! God specifically told us that the words He gave to us at Mt. Sinai, are ETERNAL, meaning that He has PRESERVED His words right up to the PRESENT DAY! To say that God allowed His ETERNAL words to become corrupt, or "done away with", is to blasphemously call him a LIAR (God forbid!!!)!! LISTEN to what the Rabbis, such as Rabbi Singer, teach, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. PLEASE buy a Hebrew Bible (says "Stone Edition TANACH" on the cover) and Rabbi Singer's books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?", to help you understand why Christianity absolutely did NOT come from God. I too used to believe what Christianity preached (born-again, baptized, Evangelical Baptist Christian, and then a 'Messianic' Christian, for a total of 40+ YEARS!) until I actually LISTENED very closely to what the Rabbis had to say about the words God gave to Moses at Mt. Sinai.
The basis for the lack of differences in the Torah lies primarily in the fact that the Torah is about one God for one people, who spent most of their time under a form of Theocracy. Christianity was created and formatted in a form to appeal to and attract varied groups and populations. A lot of revisions and fine-tuning have been done to the New Testament and those processes are continuing to this day. To somewhat employ an expression of Paul, in Christianity and the New Testament are found levels of freedom that Judaism does not offer. You know, there is one thing that no one talks about when it comes to discussions about the future Jewish Messiah. That is the fact that he is going to be a dictator/king/individual. Today Israel has a form of Democracy. The Jews of today have never lived under a dictator king. Accordingly, the idea that such a person is going to come along and be readily accepted by the Jews of today is a far stretch in my view. That is like saying great-great-great grand children of former slaves will one day voluntarily return to slavery. It is my sense that whenever and if that Messiah ever shows up, he will be rejected as was Jesus, prophecies to the contrary notwithstanding.
Here's a major contradiction for Tovia: Tovia says Numbers 23:19 says God is not a man. Yet, he believes Moses wrote Torah (Gen.-Deut.) Well, Exodus 15:3 says God is a man, an el-bower. Did Moses write Ex 15:3 and Numbers 23:19?
And you've spoken to HOW MANY Rabbis or observant Jewish people, to learn this outright LIE???!!! NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES were given to mankind by God AFTER Mt. Sinai, since when God gave us His words there, He specifically told us that those words are ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!), and that we are NOT to follow ANY OTHER teaching than what is in those Hebrew scriptures. Christianity IS another teaching, therefore we are NOT to follow what it says - God's orders! God specifically told us that the words He gave to us at Mt. Sinai, are ETERNAL, meaning that He has PRESERVED His words right up to the PRESENT DAY! To say that God allowed His ETERNAL words to become corrupt, or "done away with", is to blasphemously call him a LIAR (God forbid!!!)!! LISTEN to what the Rabbis, such as Rabbi Singer, teach, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11.
Tovia, when man (Adam and Eve) sinned in the garden, sinned entered the world including the flesh of Adam and Eve - thus they died, according the flesh and according to the spirit. And sin in the flesh has been passed down generation to generation through the seed of the man - making everyone is dead in the flesh and in the spirit. The redemption is God's plan for a new spirit - born of Him and not of humans. Which is the Christian term of born again in Christ by the Holy Spirit, to take care of the spiritual death due to our sins. So for the Christian, the spiritual redemption has already taken place. The new man (of the Christian) is always struggling with the old man - that is, the sin residing in the flesh. But upon the redemption of the body, which dies and sin in it, with it, which is the resurrection (or translation of the living) God gives us (the Christian) a new eternal life body free from sin. Completing the redemption. Still forthcoming. Tovia, if you took all the Tanachs and New Testaments and stacked them a million miles high - you are going to die in your state of being spiritually dead - unless you receive Jesus as God's way to take care of your condition. You cannot "reason" your salvation from the power of sin, which is what you are essentially doing in all your videos.
"Original Sin" is a poisonous lie. Millions of people reject Christian missionary dogma because it's NOT supported by the Tanach. Your tiny screed is an exercise of fulility!
The "preservation" of the Quran has nothing to do with God. We know both from historical sources and from Islamic tradition that the Quran circulated orally for years before it was compiled by Abu Bakr and then codified during the reign of Uthman around 650. We have no way of knowing whether the text that was codified is the same as Mohammed claimed to have received. If we compare to other oral traditions it is quite likely that in those decades between the alledged revelation of Muhammad and the codification of the text in 650 significant changes crept into the text. But since a "definitive" text was codified around 650 all existing manuscripts adhere to that "definitive" version, regardless of whether it is accurate or not. This is unlike the Christian or jewish sciptures where it took hundreds of years before something like a definitive canon emerged. So we have Uthman to thank for the fact that the Quran manuscripts are all so similar, not divine intervention.
Jesus was the only one who could die for the sins of the world. No other man could qualify. The only one who could have done so, would have been Adam dying for Eve. But, only if he had refused to fall. Why? The sacrificial lamb had to be with defect. Because the penalty for being a sinner by nature was to be forsaken by God. Forsaken.. Not physical death. Physical death was only the result of the spiritual death of Adam and the woman. When they ate from the forbidden tree? It says...on the day they shall eat? (Hebrew) *"In dying, they shall die."* It speaks of two kinds of death. One death, causing another. The first death when they ate was spiritual death. For they were still running around physically after having eaten. They fell. Spiritual death took place. The result of their sin ended with Adam finally physically dying around 900 years later. Since Adam, we are all born spiritually dead. Because, by nature we inherit from Adam, we all sin and God can not impute spiritual life. (that is why we need to be born again!) Man is only born with soul life. Not soul and human spirit as Adam had before his fall. Jesus was to be the only one to die as our substitute, because he was the only one who could endure being cut off from God for our sins, yet be restored after the last sin of man kind cut him off from the Father. For, Jesus never sinned. He only took upon himself our sins. If any other man tried to pay the penalty for our own sins? God would forsake him for he would not stop being a sinner and throw throw us into a trash heap to be forever forsaken and forgotten. "My God! My God! Why have you FORSAKEN me?" That is why Jesus HAD TO die in our sins (to be forsaken by God), Yet, because he himself never sinned? He was be able to be restored to God's fellowship after the very last sin of mankind was imputed to him to have him die spiritually! He later voluntarily breathed his last for he no longer needed to remain as a man to die in our place. As Jesus is now? He is no longer as the mere humanity he had to become to stand in for us to die spiritually and be forsaken in our place..... Safely, be forsaken. If it were us bearing the penalty? We would have ceased to exist.
@The NIFB Jesus The people of Nineveh believed Jonah's opinion and lived. The Jews who were warned by Jeremiah refused to listen to Jeremiah's opinion and many were raped, slaughtered, and taken into captivity as slaves. Opinions count. I am a Jew who has experienced regeneration. The opinion I accepted has done, and still does me much good.
@The NIFB Jesus Projection.. projection..projection. You only assume to know me according to how you know yourself in its limitations to know..You have no point of reference to go with. OK.. Jesus performed miracles? Yes. The Lord God parted the Red Sea? Yes, again... Did that make everyone into a believer? No! You do not understand evil. Evil is not the same thing as sin. Evil will reject evidence that you demand, which you know can not be provided at this time. Its hypocritical. You would not believe anyway if I could provide. Invisible God works in men's hearts all the time. Those who accept God's working are led into finding Christ. In the OT men were led into believing in the Lord God. Both dumb and intelligent become regenerate this way. God is not a respecter of persons. And, he will humiliate those who think they are wise in this fashion. Such evil rejection is on record in the Torah and NT by means of seeing all those accounts of those who rejected the Lord in spite of fantastic evidence. After all.. Pharaoh rode head-first to his suicide in defiance of immense and overwhelming evidence. How much evidence do you need? "Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed (happy) are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” .
@The NIFB Jesus You have faith. You believe God did not provide salvation via atonement. You also believe there is no Lake of Fire. Keep the faith, brother!
"Only 400 NT variants materially alter the sense. Among these, no more than about 50 have real importance for any reason whatever; and even in the case of these 50, not one touches on any article of faith or any moral commandment not forcibly supported by other entirely clear passages, or by the teaching of the Bible as a whole." Rene Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture (Chicago: Moody Press, 1969)
Compared with exactly one variance in the Torah. One letter, out of more than 300,000, in a text nearly twice the age. This includes dozens of special cases, including large, small, or inverted letters and missing, extra, or changed letters (where the word is not read as written). There may be more variation of verse or paragraph breaks, but even those are only a fraction of a percent (and none that I can think of right now). Hence Rabbi Singer's point about God's word not having changed in 3300 years.
One variant? You should have a look into a copy of BHS (which is far from exhaustive). The larger number of variants in the NT is a natural result of having more manuscripts. (Let it be said that I am not a Christian nor am I a believer in the New Testament.)
***** Sure thing, Menachem! :-) I can give you thousands of examples. But since I don't know from the top of my head, which are the best examples to give, I will simply open my BHS to a random page: Lev 4:5 -- the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Hebrew vorlage of the Septuagint add the words: אשר מלא את ידו). In v. 7 The Samaritan Pentateuch and manuscripts found at the Cairo Geniza read הדם ratrher than דם at v. 7, etc. Let's take another random page: Joshua 23:19. Here we have several medieval manuscripts (with possible support in the LXX, and more) read השלשים rather than השלשה and the next word הכי is omitted by various witnesses. These are super-duper random examples. They are not the worst examples I could find. If anything, these are pretty minor.. Granted, most of the variants do not affect the meaning of the text, but the same goes for the New Testament. Equal scales must be applied. I would recommend having a look at a critical text such as Biblia Hebreica Stuttgartensia (BHS), which list various variants both within the Masoretic textual stream but also from other textual traditions (e.g. the LXX, the Samaritan Pentateuch, texts from Qumran and the Cairo Geniza). Tovia Singer makes mention of the Isaiah scroll, which indeed closely corresponds with the text as found in the Leningrad Codex, but he does not mention that there are other texts of Isaiah which represents a different textual stream. Heck, the text of Jeremiah as found within the Qumran findings is a nearly 1/3 shorter than what is found within the Masoretic text. The same goes for the Septuagint's version of Jeremiah (whose Hebrew vorlage would be in line with the Hebrew manuscripts in Qumran). Other major difficulties are found when one looks at the textual traditions of 1 Samuel, comparing the Septuagint-tradition to that of the Masoretic-tradition. Furthermore, even within the Masoretic tradition, there are reasons to believe that the Ketiv and Qere readings reflect variants within the texts transmissional history, If one ignores the witness of non-Masoretic manuscripts, one is doing the same thing as Christians that ignore anything but variants within the Byzantine stream. I believe fully in the Masoretic tradition, not because there are no problematic variants, but because this is the text that has been accepted by the Jewish people and has thus been made canonical.
Torah skip codes are amazing...Rabbi Ripps in Hebrew university is an orthodox rabbi and a PhD Mathematician . Rabbi Weissmandel kind of started this.To much data exact on each page of Torah is found to be a coincidence . The journal of statistics a peer reviewed source actually published an article on this. The first time a true scientific journal published a paper on a religious subject. Another amazing thing is Dr Alvin Radkowsky (who designed US Navy's nuclear power who studied Talmud every day and taught at B'nai Brak) and Dr Wigner also a famous nuclear physicist did a mathematical analysis of the probability of DNA arranging itself by pure chance...its like 10exp7000 to one against such an occurance....The paper is called "miracles" and can be found. שלום
Some Jewish tribes were occultic. Separate from the myths added to the bible. Use this when opposing the sacrifice story. There are more verses showing that God hated sacrifice--it was witchcraft. GOD HATED SACRIFICES, IT IS WITCHCRAFT. GOD WOULD NOT DO WITCHCRAFT. GOD DID NOT SACRIFICE HIS SON OR HIMSELF. PAY ATTENTION TO THE VERSES THAT SHOWS THIS. “No where in Scripture will you see that God condoned human sacrifices. You will see however, how much He hated this abominable practice. Human sacrifices was how the pagan nations worshiped their false gods and as you will see below it was clearly forbidden.” Amos 5:21, Isaiah 1:11-15 What is your sacrifices to me? I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. The following verses came from a website that believed Jesus is God so only God could sacrifice himself but that is a lie. God would not partake in something that God condemned and said was an evil practice. The Romans believe the sacrifice lie. God hates sacrifice. 1. Deuteronomy 12:30-32 do not fall into the trap of following their customs and worshiping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.’ You must not worship the Lord your God the way the other nations worship their gods, for they perform for their gods every detestable act that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods. “So be careful to obey all the commands I give you. You must not add anything to them or subtract anything from them. 2. Leviticus 20:1-2 The Lord said to Moses, “Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel. “If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death. The people of the community must stone them to death.” 3. 2 Kings 16:1-4 Ahaz son of Jotham began to rule over Judah in the seventeenth year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had done. Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even sacrificing his own son in the fire. In this way, he followed the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree. 4. Psalm 106:34-41 Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the Lord had commanded them. Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs. They worshiped their idols, which led to their downfall. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight. That is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession. He handed them over to pagan nations, and they were ruled by those who hated them. 5. Leviticus 20:3-6 I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech. And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them, I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech. “I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community. Divination 6. 2 Kings 21:3-8 “He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. He constructed altars for Baal and set up an Asherah pole, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped them. He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord, the place where the Lord had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” He built these altars for all the powers of the heavens in both courtyards of the Lord’s Temple. Manasseh also sacrificed his own son in the fire. He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the Lord’s sight, arousing his anger. Manasseh even made a carved image of Asherah and set it up in the Temple, the very place where the Lord had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem-the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel. If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands-all the laws my servant Moses gave them-I will not send them into exile from this land that I gave their ancestors.” 7. Deuteronomy 18:9-12 When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don’t take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don’t you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don’t practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It’s because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you.
@James Gray this made up Jesus didn't lay his life down he was murdered in an open field high on a stick instead of laying down on the altar of sacrifice so your not listening to the part where it mentions God doesn't accept human sacrifice as payment.
It’s a logical certainty that God is Logic…people will catch up one of these days when they are less ignorant and look to the source of knowledge for their information rather than each other, the news, and other flawed sources. Reckon faithfully (reason properly and honestly) with the one true God (Logic: the true source of true knowledge) and the truth will be known to you.
How come god only felt it necessary to speak to folks in the middle east? He could have at least made the Jews more wide spread. What chance did the people of the Americas have to not fall into idolatry and other stuff?
That first caller hit it right on the nail he doesn't even know he hit it on the nail but if all the curses in Deuteronomy haven't happened to the people who say they are Israel today that would make God a liar and you wouldn't be a nation right now because God hasn't brought you back and Elijah hasn't risen on the scene and David hasn't become king again descendant of David fine but that hasn't happened so why is Israel state oh that was man's will
What about Deuteronomy 32:8, where the Dead Sea Scrolls have "When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Elohim; Yahweh's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share." but the Masoretic Text has "...according to the number of the sons of Israel." That's a really massive difference, because the older DSS reading seems to imply that the Canaanite god El Elyon divided up the nations and gave Yahweh the territory of Israel, while the Masoretic text doesn't really make any sense. It looks like a scribe changed the older reading, which gives clear evidence of early Israelite polytheism, to a more "orthodox" reading.
Not even a letter can be out of place or missing in the Torah, since we have the metadata of the Torah too. Metadata is information about the information. We know that in the Ashkenazi Torah (the most popular tradition), there are exactly 304,805 letters in the Torah. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet and the number of the letter Pei in this Torah is exactly 4,805. This tradition is well-known to scribes who write the Torah down. If there was one more letter or one less, the count of the letters would differ and there would be no match between the letters above 300,000 and the letters Pei. This is one of the hundreds of pieces of metadata that were transmitted along with the Torah in order to tell immediately if a given Torah scroll was manipulated. In summary, not only was the Torah handed down in its exact form, but a compilation of facts about it - the peculiarities, numbers of each word and letter, how many words spelled in full and spelled deficient, the exact count of letters from one letter to another letter, the exact count of words from one word to another word, etc, were also handed down. The Torah is a super compressed document full of facts about itself (metadata). It explicitly references the numbers about itself. It includes 613 commandments and then it describes the construction of the Tabernacle with 613 parts. It describes a menorah containing 22 ornaments, exactly the same at the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It describes the extra part of the beka (half-shekel) as being 1,775 shekels, the same value as the entire Hebrew alphabet (according to gematria) including the final forms of the letters. These are just a few examples of how the Torah preserves itself through information about itself.
That's absolute truth. But people have problem with reading the English text. See Matthew's 21:4 was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet (?) for the daughter of Zion. I have footnote in the NKJV for Zechariah 9.9, but it reads "the daughter of Zion rejoice greatly " ( wtf for ?) Beside the daughter of Jerusalem shout of Luke 12:52 from now on for division, because of Isaiah' 28:16 translation. Now I am convinced that the Virgin daughter of Zion' rejoicement will be turn into sorrow if they read 11th surah 14+24 verses, for It is hallerious
here's a question Rabbi. what are the dates that the books in tanach are written in comparison to the events in it. i.e. what year were books like Isaiah or Ezekiel for example vs the events that happen in them. because obviously the torah is written after many of the events have already happened?
the mrddages sre indpite by the truth via messages grim Rabbi Tovia the truth wr are really grasp bevomes our portion of strenth of Life we experience makes us to desire more to hear truths lying behind the Torah trying to express to humanity by which Our breath longs to stay alert to listen more attentively, I am grateful to God and thankful for Rabbi Tovia Singet for educating all who wish to hear the facts snd truth of Hebrew Torah.
Thank you Rabbai Tovia. However, I think you still didn’t provide any evidence that the Jewish Bible was preserved or was not corrupted. Your only evidence is that the god must have protected it since it is was inspired by the god. There is no original Jewish Bible text available dating back to mosses or other prophets time and there is no evidence that the changes were not made by people to fit their needs or motives. On the contrary due the presence of countless contradictions in Jewish Bible the case can be made easily that it was not preserved and numerous people have made changes to it over time.
The Apocrypha was never part of the canon of scripture, so they're not spiritually significant, but may have some small historical meaning to some. Look up the definition for yourself.
Of course the New Testament does not compare to the previous 2000 years of scriptural integrity: Christians were not able to settle in Israel; were they? Could they comfortably buy Parchment, ink, and employ Scribes? I'm sure Jesus had some kind of recorder of the words he spoke, although it is sad how few, have been retained for posterity. What is not sad, or surprising, is how Christianity, emphasizing the father-son relationship, became the preeminent religion, from such a seemingly defeated start. Jesus became the atonement for sin. Also Jesus broadened the foundation, previously reserved for the prophet, priest, and King, regarding the anointing; which is what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit does, for all who would believe in him.
Most of the errors/mistakes etc., in the NT, are explainable and of no consequence EXCEPT that the Christians make it a major issue by saying that the NT is 1,000% the inerrant word of God. Since a sixth grader can prove this wrong with a little unbiased study, they begin their exposition of the Gospel with a lie. It's their own moronic fault.
Please, Rabbi -understand I am not trying to contradict you on this. What you say is good sense. But can you explain the difference when the people's sins were placed upon the scape goat and it was sent out into the dessert. I may have put this comment under the wrong video - but I hope you will understand what I mean. thank you.
All those eyes on all those texts and nobody realized there was no "nune" (my own phonetic spelling) between the mem and the Sa mekh???! I don't believe this. And somehow and suddenly a "nune" text appears in the DSS?!
What makes the Apostles write the gospel when Jesus never existed. What is the real story of Jesus, was he ordinary man, was he a prophet, was he a son of God.
Was the scapegoat sacrificed or sent to the wilderness? Read Leviticus 16:10 -- "But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness."
Tovia Singer I thought the old testament was all about taking an un blemished animal to make sacrifice for sins the. Jesus did away with that system....that's why we no longer do it...am I confused?
I'll try to help since I had this question myself. Thankfully, someone pointed to some scriptures I needed to read for myself instead of just going off what I was taught. G-d talks in the Hebrew Scriptures about 2 different kinds of sin. Sin we do on accident and sin we do on purpose. Unintentional sin is the one in which offerings are involved in. For the poor who can not afford an offering of a lamb or goat, doves can be used. For the poorer, a grain offering is used. The stipulations when the animal offering is involve, the animal must be unblemished AND the blood of the animal must be splashed on the Alter in the Temple. For a Jew, this can not be done without the Alter in the Temple. Since Rome destroyed the last Temple, offerings are no longer made. JC was not an animal and no alter was involved. G-d abhors human sacrifice as stated in the Hebrew Scriptures. Animal sacrifice is not required for the atonement of sin since the poor can use a grain offering. You can read in the Greek scriptures, the followers of JC still made offerings in the Temple. As for intentional sin, there is no sacrifice that can be made. Repentance is the only way to turn back to G-d for sins you commit on purpose.
If there is no sacrifice for intentional sin then what about the sacrifice of the goats in Leviticus 16? “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16 In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelite's, whatever their sins have been." God clearly says that Israel had to sacrifice because of their uncleanness and rebellion, that's intentional sin. I'm positive you knew about Leviticus 16 so its extremely dishonest to say that animal sacrifice was ONLY for unintentional sin. I'm surprised how often this argument is used as its so easily debunked from the Old Testament.
bauer stop the man worship... This man talks in circles and fools baby believers in Christ..but ANYONE with 5 years or more of study in Torah and NT can prove him wrong..
@@brotherj1405: What Rabbi Singer is teaching you is God's ETERNAL Torah, as given to Moses on Mt. Sinai This you will NOT learn from the false, pagan, man-made, anti-God, anti-Jewish, hate-filled, replacement theology "New Testament", which is NOT scripture that was given to man by God. LISTEN to what the rabbis teach!
@@brotherj1405 I spent more than 5 years in torah as a Christian... now I'm convinced judaism is the truth. The NT is a false collection, largely influenced by Paul, who openly admits his gospel is different from that of Jesus own apostles. It takes a real origami expert to try and consolidate both Hebrew tanach and NT writings.
Jesus himself should have been less cryptic in his answers to laymen. Everytime he opened his mouth he said things which could be interpreted in many ways. A preacher is not supposed to confuse ppl.about his identity. In the Koran we are told that on the day of judgement Jesus will be in the dack and he will answer for the confusion he caused. We do not blame the Christians for it. leave alone getting their sins forgiven he has yet to answer for himself.
All the prophets have been simple and straightforward about God. The Jews and the Muslims are allergic to this Trinity nonsense. Jesus will have to answer for it. The best and most logical criticism of Christianity in it perverted form was given by Nietsche who was the son of a pastor.
Lol 1 variant in the hebrew bible? Either Tovia has no idea what he's talking about or is being very very dishonest. When he brought up the dead sea scrolls I was expecting him to atleast mention some of the most obvious and well known variants but nope..not a word wow.
BORN AGAIN “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God" We are born with the indwelling Spirit of God. But, to reach the ultimate conclusion of sin, we all have been given an ungrateful conviction that we deserve more. And so, the first time a baby feels hunger, it sins against the mother by being so ungrateful as to cry, the Spirit of God departs the baby and dead of a sprit is the baby. Therefore, if we want the indwelling Spirit of God to bring our spirit back to life, so that we may again have eternal life, we must first receive the free gift of repentance from God as evidenced by a burning desire to undue all the damage we have done. Now if you think that you are better than others, that your freewill had an inner goodness to at your pleasure achieve repentance and that somehow qualifies you for salvation above others, surely it is your absolute assurance that you have not been saved.
my brother iwant to comment on what you said to be truthfull and accept gods will beleiving and working not aliar aback staber you be to god and hes your destination idont know about the spirit of god and the baby example and and dying maintaing keeping his commandments sumbission to his will we say it in arabic istislam or islam and aquestion if you may what about the cross jesus dying for your sins you didnt mention that
but my brother there is things you have to have in this life nessecarities god created this to let us be creative not to just shund every thing in it we have to go up work our world but this what your talking about in general its called makamulihsan in islam regarding the spirit of god thing maybe you mean aspirit acase were your meaning in away aspirit wich god provides to abeliever to not like real real spirit of god god there is nothing like him and surely not the holly spirit surely you dont mean that am iright ihope your not atrenitarian
As 95% of humans never gained salvation, it is self-evident that planet earth is not about getting the maximum number of sinners up to heaven, but to show why there will never be another Satan or sinner in heaven. Christ died not for our sins, as God designed for sin to happen and our sins were never held against us. For Christ died to remove the guilt, fear, remorse and vengeance in our mind, character and personality.
Christ owned no more wealth then the poor, he was a pacifist and so must we. For global warming was caused by over production and consumption, Israel has 400 nukes aimed at Iran, Russia and Empire USA have 8,000 nukes aimed at each other and surely, if we think this world has some good in it, surely we are just more fuel for the fire.
so if i dont believe that christ is my lord and savior am i saved its like your saying god played aphsicological game to improve humanity so if iwatch amovie about christs life idont believe christ lord and savior but some how affected phsicologically but not believed am isaved to you
I accept the inegrity of the OT. But comparing it to the reliability of the NT is a joke. There's no comparison. For every supposed discrepancy Tovia points out in the NT, I could point out 5x in the OT.
Nice story. Where's your evidence? Please don't quote to me what scholars talk about Textual Criticism. In fact, the New Testament isn't independent of Church tradition recorded by the Early Church Fathers. The Early Church Leaders or Fathers were disciples of the Apostles themselves and confirmed the teachings of the Apostles. They confirm the New Testament's teaching as a whole, in contrast to what you are saying. You are lying to your audience and you will be answerable to God. Don't forget what God did to the Jews who rejected the Messiah. He will come again just as Daniel prophesied, and you will hide your head because of your lies.
Clayton Menezes Verify all we say...Compare Koine Greek NT Papyrus from 125ce and Dead sea scrolls to your Christian Bible. Go ahead...easy to do.. Then call us liars...
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This is amazing! Thank you dear rabbi!!
As a muslim I believe that this man Saul/ Paul completely destroyed the mission of Jesus.
The message of jesus p.b.u.h was never meant to be retained in the first place.
Lol you believe that because you're a Muslim.
As a Christian I believe that this man Muhammad/False Prophet completely destroyed the mission of Jesus.
True. Paul was a Hellene, he was the first to come up with the term "Christian" and taught the nonsense about vicarious atonement. He had no connection with Jesus and if Judas was a traitor, he was the hypocrite infiltrating the followers of Jesus. He deceived people about Jesus's Gospel and borrowed pagan beliefs to create a Hellenistic religion that is Christianity. You should listen to Bart Erhman, a scholar of the New Testament...he explains how many early Christians believed in two and over thirty gods and that the Ebionites, who taught that Jesus was not some god or son of god but rather the Jewish Messiah, a human who came to confirm the Law of Moses and asked his people to adhere to it, and James the brother of Jesus who was a strict Jew, actually followed the true message of Jesus but were denied and misrepresented by later Christians who followed Paul's teachings.
@@tippiebear6532 You God died. End of story. Move on.
Genesis 27 gave it away. But the Psalm of David, like sound of music. May Allah bless him and his righteous off-spring
How does the Gen 27 gave it away? Thanks .
Rabbi Singer how can you say that the Dead Sea Scrolls are identical to the masoretic text? There are important differences, like the inclusion of a nun-passage in psalm 145 or the addition of an unnumbered 151st psalm. There are many more such examples. And interestingly in cases were they differ the Dead Sea Scrolls tend to agree with the Septuagint and the Syrian Peshitta rather than the Masoretic text. The nun-passage was not a scribal interpolation because we have it in 3 independend sources (the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls and the Peshitta), about 500 years apart and from entirely different geographical areas and textual traditions. Your repetition argument is entirely unconvincing, the Hebrew bible is full of such repetitions.
There is no serious scholar who argues that the hebrew bible is unchanged from the time it was written, because we know for a fact that that is not the case. We just have less evidence for it because unlike the New Testament, where we have historical sources from a few decades after Jesus' death and over a hundred manuscripts from the first centuries, we don't have ANY sources for the Hebrew bible until about 800 years AFTER the first books were written. By the time we have ANY textual witness for the Hebrew bible it was already floating around for centuries in complete form, as a defined canon of works that were considered holy. That manuscripts by that time have become really uniform is not surprising at all. Christian manuscripts from the 9th century are also very uniform because by then they had become holy scripture. But that doesn't mean they were unchanged from the time of writing. We know many mistakes crept in in earlier times. the same most likely holds true for the hebrew bible. We just don't know most of those mistakes because we have no sources from the earlier periods.
Good post. One thing I can say about Christians is at least they are more aware of the fragility of their sacred text.
It would also be very cool to hear him talk about the documentary hypothesis
@@stevenv6463lol
That's why their story constantly changes right?
Great answer, good focusing William… The rabbi has a wealth of knowledge. With all his travels I wonder if he's ever look at the Torahs at the places he has been to
Knowledge is true wealth.
Great video. Thanks
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing. The fact that these words have been untouched and preserved to this day should be enough to turn anyone towards the right path. Unfortunately there are people who say these scrolls are not real or forged or part of some conspiracy. It's very sad to see some people looking in the eyes of Truth but turning away and choosing not to see it.
What English translation of the Tanach do you recommend and is there a free read/download link?
Dear Rabbi Singer, show us the Tablets containing the Ten Commandments, which were personally written by God. Or, if you don't have them or even the pieces of the smashed tablets; then, show us the second set which was given to Moses. Wouldn't God have been careful to protect and defend such a key and crucial set of tablets? Otherwise, I learn much from your work.
It is in the Arc of the Covenant that was hidden toward the end of the First Temple period.
@@ToviaSinger1 i heard it was found. Has anyone opened it to see whats inside?
As a Muslim I love this Jewish Rabbai Tovia Singer. May ALLAH bless Rabbai Tovia Singer. New Testament as a whole truely contradict the Old Testament . All TRUE Jewish & TRUE Muslims must come together to establish pure Monotheism on this Earth. Xtianity is NOT or never was any part of the Ibrahimic / Abrahamic faith (( Worshiping the Creator alone who has NO image / No shape / No inheritence / No partner & No created thing can be compare with the Creator )).
There's no 2 true religion the quran believes in a make believe Jesus but in a diffrent way
I think you are forgetting what God said
“Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai . “For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai : “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai ’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.”
Yirmeyahu (Jer) 31:30-33
The problem with Israel is that out of arrogance he thinks that he didn't violate the covenant.
@@oritondaphalanndwa1624 im not forgetting anything
God detest human sacrifices so for God to sacrifice a human or a son according to the New teatament is an abomination to God if God accepted human sacrifices he would of accepted Abraham's son Isaac as an atonement for sins but guess what he didn't it was ALL A TEST an a lamb was sacrificed instead of Isaac
@@oritondaphalanndwa1624ezekiel 18:20-22 no one can die for your own sins only repentance and good works then God will forgive you
@@oritondaphalanndwa1624 ezekiel 37:25,26 David will be our shepherd forever and Gods covenant will be an ETERNAL COVENANT.
David will be ressurected again and the New covenant is just a fresh new start this Jesus is made up Plagiarized by the romans
Question; Torah skip codes, are they important in any way? Id love to see that question asked and answered, Tovia.
***** Often referred to as bible codes. just do a search on youtube for videos on them
Song At the end anyone ?
Adon Olam - Jewish prayer
how can i get a question onto this channel ??
could the animal sacrifices that where performed at the temple, could those be considered vicarious atonements? if not, how would they be characterized?
Samaritans still perform traditional sacrifices.
Yahfllr * No, they are not vicarious atonement. Vicarious atonement sacrifices used innocent humans to cover the sins of (guilty) humans. That is not Biblical and is of pagan origin.
The sacrifices in the ancient Jewish Temple were quite different. They were done to cover inadvertantly committed sins and iniquities. Only adult animals which are considered perfect were used.
Rabbi, I agree that the preservation of the Torah is an amazing feat and that it’s a true privilege to read such a text (I’m learning Hebrew so I can read and understand it in its most authentic form) but I think it would be a better argument to say that it doesn’t matter if the Torah is true because it is not itself divine and never claimed itself to be.
It is of divine origin (and I can prove that for anyone who’s interested) but like consciousness (us) the one that God (Logic) wrote the scriptures through, the Torah could contain falsehoods, and doesn’t need to be 100% rational/true in order to serve their purpose. Where things are false it gives one knowledge of evil, just as where it is true it gives knowledge of good.
The way one gets closer to Logic, the one true God, is through logical reasoning and study.
If you can find and formally prove that a certain detail of the scriptures are nonsense then you will have “reckoned faithfully with the one true God” and it would be “the source of knowledge” that is telling you its flawed if it indeed is.
Even if the Torah makes you reason with Logic to prove something that was said is nonsense then the scripture will still have served its purpose of making students eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and will have brought them closer to enlightenment and knowledge of the one true God.
Know Hashem through Hashem.
Know the source of knowledge through the source of knowledge.
Prove the self evident source of logical proof through the self evident source of logical proof.
Know Logic through Logic.
What books make out the Torah?
What books make up the Psalms of David?
Rabbi Singer, since your shomer Torah, I have some questions for you.
Do you keep your diet 100% animal fat free, as in accordance with Leviticus 3:17 ?
- Do you stone your children if they curse you, as in accordance with Leviticus 20:9 ?
- Do you never shave your facial hair, as in accordance with Leviticus 19:27 ?
- Do you support the killing of gays and lesbians, as in accordance with Leviticus 20:13 ?
- During the Shabbat, do you not drive or BBQ? (and if you lived before the nineteenth century, will you not turn on lights nor start the heating in the winter if you are cold?), as in accordance with Exodus 35:3 ?
- Do you always wear only one kind of fabric on your body so not to mix between linen and wool, as in accordance with Deuteronomy 22:11 ?
- Do you never buy fruit in the supermarket as their producers do not wait until the 5th year to start selling them? (not to mention the fact that the majority of today’s supermarket food products includes corn or soy), as in accordance with Leviticus 19:23-25?
The question about "riding two donkeys" is a provoking idea. NO ONE PERSON can do that, right? It is a statement which can perhaps only be understood as teasing about Christianity's predicament--- Greater is "HE" within you than 'he' who is in the world= TWO JESUSes. Subsequently, and pivoting on that point, comes 2 Faiths, 2 Hopes, 2 Loves, 2kingdoms, 2powers, 2opinions' DIVISION in all things you may even consider!
I understand that Tovia Singer will defend the Torah no matter what because that’s his religious book 📖 and him being a Rabbi!
When Tovia Singer said the Dead Sea scrolls matched the Torah (Masoratic text) either he’s ignorant or he being emotional!
The Dead Sea scrolls matches more to the Torah (Samaritan text) rather than the Masoratic text. There are about 6000 differences between the two Torah’s.
In the Mesoratic text Prophet Ishmael has been mentioned in a very rude way! Vs the Samaritan text completely opposite!
So tell me one this Rabbi! Why would God talk about Prophet Abraham’s eldest son that way? In the Torah (Masoratic text) When we are completely aware what Prophet Abraham went through to have the child!
A goat is not a human being...very different to most people...unless you are from the hills...lol שלום
mitzvah golem Both goats not killed any way.
The bible is written in metaphors. Goats were opposite of sheep but it meant followers of evil and followers of good.
When the scriptures have been modified n not preserved, what you do? Go to the scriptures which claim to be preserved.
Look n observe is it good teaching? If the teaching are good n preserved, then it is true.
If later, then it is not true.
Is there an english torah and all the other writings that where found in that cave that the jews or any native hebrew speaking and greek speaker has translated for the other nations properly? I know hashems (his) not our, instructions are easy for us , he said. He knows we are simple humans and doent make it to hard for us.
The rabbi’s eyes when the guys says he is from Oklahoma!!!
How was the Hebrew Bible copied- who and when?
The oldest copies of the Masoretic Text only date back to the 10th century, nearly 1000 years after the time of Christ.
1. The Masoretes added vowel points which did not exist in the original.
2. The Masoretic Text excluded several books from the Old Testament scriptures.
3. The Masoretic Text includes changes to prophecy and doctrine.
In the early 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves near Qumran. They revealed an ancient Hebrew textual tradition which differed from the tradition preserved by the Masoretes. Written in Hebrew, copies of Psalm 145 were found which include missing verses:
Below first from Septuagint next the Masoretic text CHANGED AND EDITED
Septuagint 250 BC Isaiah 7:14
Behold the Virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel
Masoretic text 400 AD
behold the young woman is with child and she shall bear a son and she shall call his name Emmanuel
Septuagint 250 BC
they pierced my hands and my feet Psalm 22
the Masoretic text
like a lion my hands and my feet
It is simple!!!how is it going to change so drastically de idea of God been one to a trinity?for thousands of years Jews believe God was one and all of the sudden the idea changed to God been 3 ?hello!!!
Why do Jews think Solomon used demonic magic? Magicians commit the worse sin
He didn't use it since it's forbidden to practice. But being the Judge of a Jewish court, it was a positive commandment to study the ways and usage of all diff types of witchcraft in order to know how to rule in court cases against those who practiced the diff modes of witchcraft.
The explanation for the missing nun in Psalm 145, which is found in the DSS, is not satisfying at all. The explanation makes it sound like the Essenes were completely unfamiliar with the Hebrew TaNaK--even though they were preserving a copy in the desert. When you first studied that Psalm, I'm sure someone explained to you that the "nun verse" had always been missing; were you, then, compelled to make up a verse and insert it into the text? So, why do you assume some Essene scribe was? If it had always been missing, surely someone would have quickly noticed the addition. Is there some reason to believe that the Ketuvim are dictated by God? I'm sorry to say that this explanation is what we would expect from Christians.
Deut 32:8
DON'T just plop a scripture reference in a comment section without telling us WHY you're quoting it! This wastes OUR time, and YOURS!
Any fair look at the textual evidence will reveal that both the Torah and the New Testament are extremely well preserved documents.
No the Xtian NT is the opposite of preserved. Disney might as well as buy the rights to the story.
The "NT" is NOT scripture that was given to mankind by God, and is therefore not useful for spiritual learning and growth - DIFFERENCE!
@@janishart5128 It doesn't make any difference whether or not the NT is scripture or if it's just a human document: it's still true in either case that the NT (along with the OT) are well-preserved documents.
@@DavidVonR: What you're choosing to ignore is that there is no NAME attached to the word "redeemer" - therefore, NO "Jesus" character to "save" anyone! This is NOT what God said to us! You're extrapolating what you WANT the verses to mean! NOWHERE do those verses mention anyone named "Jesus" - not ONCE! In fact, God PURPOSELY didn't mention the name of the Jewish Messiah to us, since it has been possible for him to appear in ANY time period, depending on the spiritual condition of the Jewish people.
You can't just shove the "Jesus" character into the Bible wherever it suits YOU!! God NEVER said ONE word of what you stated - in fact, NOWHERE did God EVER mention the "Jesus" character to us - NOWHERE!! If God DIDN'T say it to us in the Hebrew scriptures, given to Moses at Mt. Sinai, it DIDN'T happen!!
You need to realize, research, and accept, that NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES were given to mankind by God AFTER Mt. Sinai, since, when God gave us His words there, He specifically told us that those words are ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!), and that we are NOT to follow ANY OTHER teaching than what is in those Hebrew scriptures. Christianity IS another teaching, therefore we are NOT to follow what it says - God's orders!
God specifically told us that the words He gave to us at Mt. Sinai, are ETERNAL, meaning that He has PRESERVED His words right up to the PRESENT DAY! To say that God allowed His ETERNAL words to become corrupt, or "done away with", is to blasphemously call him a LIAR (God forbid!!!)!! LISTEN to what the Rabbis, such as Rabbi Singer, teach, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11.
PLEASE buy a Hebrew Bible (says "Stone Edition TANACH" on the cover) and Rabbi Singer's books "Let's Get Biblical - Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?", to help you understand why Christianity absolutely did NOT come from God. I too used to believe what Christianity preached (born-again, baptized, Evangelical Baptist Christian, and then a 'Messianic' Christian, for a total of 40+ YEARS!) until I actually LISTENED very closely to what the Rabbis had to say about the words God gave to Moses at Mt. Sinai.
@@DavidVonR I don't take advice from Wine Guzzling heretics with a foot fetish for prostitutes but thank you.
What about the sacrificing children to Molech during the Babylonian period?
That pagan practice was ALWAYS FORBIDDEN by God! It's only in the text as an example of how NOT to live!
The basis for the lack of differences in the Torah lies primarily in the fact that the Torah is about one God for one people, who spent most of their time under a form of Theocracy. Christianity was created and formatted in a form to appeal to and attract varied groups and populations. A lot of revisions and fine-tuning have been done to the New Testament and those processes are continuing to this day. To somewhat employ an expression of Paul, in Christianity and the New Testament are found levels of freedom that Judaism does not offer. You know, there is one thing that no one talks about when it comes to discussions about the future Jewish Messiah. That is the fact that he is going to be a dictator/king/individual. Today Israel has a form of Democracy. The Jews of today have never lived under a dictator king. Accordingly, the idea that such a person is going to come along and be readily accepted by the Jews of today is a far stretch in my view. That is like saying great-great-great grand children of former slaves will one day voluntarily return to slavery. It is my sense that whenever and if that Messiah ever shows up, he will be rejected as was Jesus, prophecies to the contrary notwithstanding.
the same errors found also in the new testament are also found in the old testament as well
Here's a major contradiction for Tovia: Tovia says Numbers 23:19 says God is not a man. Yet, he believes Moses wrote Torah (Gen.-Deut.) Well, Exodus 15:3 says God is a man, an el-bower. Did Moses write Ex 15:3 and Numbers 23:19?
You must of got that from the KJV
Judaism has no Heaven.
Life after death is hopeless......
Newtestaments promised us
HEAVEN.
So, which one you choose
Judaism or
Hopeful NT Heaven ?
And you've spoken to HOW MANY Rabbis or observant Jewish people, to learn this outright LIE???!!!
NO FURTHER SCRIPTURES were given to mankind by God AFTER Mt. Sinai, since when God gave us His words there, He specifically told us that those words are ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect and binding TODAY - a LIVING document!), and that we are NOT to follow ANY OTHER teaching than what is in those Hebrew scriptures. Christianity IS another teaching, therefore we are NOT to follow what it says - God's orders!
God specifically told us that the words He gave to us at Mt. Sinai, are ETERNAL, meaning that He has PRESERVED His words right up to the PRESENT DAY! To say that God allowed His ETERNAL words to become corrupt, or "done away with", is to blasphemously call him a LIAR (God forbid!!!)!! LISTEN to what the Rabbis, such as Rabbi Singer, teach, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11.
Tovia, when man (Adam and Eve) sinned in the garden, sinned entered the world including the flesh of Adam and Eve - thus they died, according the flesh and according to the spirit. And sin in the flesh has been passed down generation to generation through the seed of the man - making everyone is dead in the flesh and in the spirit.
The redemption is God's plan for a new spirit - born of Him and not of humans. Which is the Christian term of born again in Christ by the Holy Spirit, to take care of the spiritual death due to our sins. So for the Christian, the spiritual redemption has already taken place.
The new man (of the Christian) is always struggling with the old man - that is, the sin residing in the flesh. But upon the redemption of the body, which dies and sin in it, with it, which is the resurrection (or translation of the living) God gives us (the Christian) a new eternal life body free from sin. Completing the redemption. Still forthcoming.
Tovia, if you took all the Tanachs and New Testaments and stacked them a million miles high - you are going to die in your state of being spiritually dead - unless you receive Jesus as God's way to take care of your condition. You cannot "reason" your salvation from the power of sin, which is what you are essentially doing in all your videos.
"Original Sin" is a poisonous lie. Millions of people reject Christian missionary dogma because it's NOT supported by the Tanach. Your tiny screed is an exercise of fulility!
All this shows how important the quran. Finally something that is from God and preserved.
The naysayers are just poorly educated.
The "preservation" of the Quran has nothing to do with God. We know both from historical sources and from Islamic tradition that the Quran circulated orally for years before it was compiled by Abu Bakr and then codified during the reign of Uthman around 650. We have no way of knowing whether the text that was codified is the same as Mohammed claimed to have received. If we compare to other oral traditions it is quite likely that in those decades between the alledged revelation of Muhammad and the codification of the text in 650 significant changes crept into the text. But since a "definitive" text was codified around 650 all existing manuscripts adhere to that "definitive" version, regardless of whether it is accurate or not. This is unlike the Christian or jewish sciptures where it took hundreds of years before something like a definitive canon emerged. So we have Uthman to thank for the fact that the Quran manuscripts are all so similar, not divine intervention.
@Lidia Magdalina
Not an intelligent response so not worth responding to.
Take care
@@think-islam-channel What was wrong with their response?
@@MrMaxSkorpion
It's disappeared and I can't remember.
Do you have any views on this?
@@MrMaxSkorpion there was nothing wrong with it. Homeboy/girl can’t defend their ideas, so they took the easy way out
Jesus was the only one who could die for the sins of the world. No other man could qualify. The only one who could have done so, would have been Adam dying for Eve. But, only if he had refused to fall. Why? The sacrificial lamb had to be with defect. Because the penalty for being a sinner by nature was to be forsaken by God. Forsaken.. Not physical death. Physical death was only the result of the spiritual death of Adam and the woman. When they ate from the forbidden tree? It says...on the day they shall eat? (Hebrew) *"In dying, they shall die."* It speaks of two kinds of death. One death, causing another. The first death when they ate was spiritual death. For they were still running around physically after having eaten. They fell. Spiritual death took place. The result of their sin ended with Adam finally physically dying around 900 years later. Since Adam, we are all born spiritually dead. Because, by nature we inherit from Adam, we all sin and God can not impute spiritual life. (that is why we need to be born again!) Man is only born with soul life. Not soul and human spirit as Adam had before his fall. Jesus was to be the only one to die as our substitute, because he was the only one who could endure being cut off from God for our sins, yet be restored after the last sin of man kind cut him off from the Father. For, Jesus never sinned. He only took upon himself our sins. If any other man tried to pay the penalty for our own sins? God would forsake him for he would not stop being a sinner and throw throw us into a trash heap to be forever forsaken and forgotten. "My God! My God! Why have you FORSAKEN me?" That is why Jesus HAD TO die in our sins (to be forsaken by God), Yet, because he himself never sinned? He was be able to be restored to God's fellowship after the very last sin of mankind was imputed to him to have him die spiritually! He later voluntarily breathed his last for he no longer needed to remain as a man to die in our place. As Jesus is now? He is no longer as the mere humanity he had to become to stand in for us to die spiritually and be forsaken in our place..... Safely, be forsaken. If it were us bearing the penalty? We would have ceased to exist.
@The NIFB Jesus >>>>>It's all nonsense. All personal opinions.
@The NIFB Jesus >>>>>It's all nonsense. All personal opinions.
@The NIFB Jesus The people of Nineveh believed Jonah's opinion and lived. The Jews who were warned by Jeremiah refused to listen to Jeremiah's opinion and many were raped, slaughtered, and taken into captivity as slaves. Opinions count. I am a Jew who has experienced regeneration. The opinion I accepted has done, and still does me much good.
@The NIFB Jesus Projection.. projection..projection.
You only assume to know me according to how you know yourself in its limitations to know..You have no point of reference to go with.
OK.. Jesus performed miracles? Yes. The Lord God parted the Red Sea? Yes, again...
Did that make everyone into a believer? No!
You do not understand evil. Evil is not the same thing as sin.
Evil will reject evidence that you demand, which you know can not be provided at this time. Its hypocritical. You would not believe anyway if I could provide. Invisible God works in men's hearts all the time. Those who accept God's working are led into finding Christ. In the OT men were led into believing in the Lord God. Both dumb and intelligent become regenerate this way. God is not a respecter of persons. And, he will humiliate those who think they are wise in this fashion.
Such evil rejection is on record in the Torah and NT by means of seeing all those accounts of those who rejected the Lord in spite of fantastic evidence. After all.. Pharaoh rode head-first to his suicide in defiance of immense and overwhelming evidence. How much evidence do you need?
"Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed;
blessed (happy) are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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@The NIFB Jesus You have faith. You believe God did not provide salvation via atonement. You also believe there is no Lake of Fire. Keep the faith, brother!
"Only 400 NT variants materially alter the sense. Among these, no more than about 50 have real importance for any reason whatever; and even in the case of these 50, not one touches on any article of faith or any moral commandment not forcibly supported by other entirely clear passages, or by the teaching of the Bible as a whole." Rene Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture (Chicago: Moody Press, 1969)
Compared with exactly one variance in the Torah. One letter, out of more than 300,000, in a text nearly twice the age. This includes dozens of special cases, including large, small, or inverted letters and missing, extra, or changed letters (where the word is not read as written). There may be more variation of verse or paragraph breaks, but even those are only a fraction of a percent (and none that I can think of right now). Hence Rabbi Singer's point about God's word not having changed in 3300 years.
One variant? You should have a look into a copy of BHS (which is far from exhaustive). The larger number of variants in the NT is a natural result of having more manuscripts.
(Let it be said that I am not a Christian nor am I a believer in the New Testament.)
+Pär Stenberg I'm sorry, can you point to any textual variant in the Torah, besides the one mentioned (a silent letter in Deut. 23:2)?
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia -- a critical edition of the Tanakh.
***** Sure thing, Menachem! :-) I can give you thousands of examples. But since I don't know from the top of my head, which are the best examples to give, I will simply open my BHS to a random page: Lev 4:5 -- the Samaritan Pentateuch and the Hebrew vorlage of the Septuagint add the words: אשר מלא את ידו). In v. 7 The Samaritan Pentateuch and manuscripts found at the Cairo Geniza read הדם ratrher than דם at v. 7, etc. Let's take another random page: Joshua 23:19. Here we have several medieval manuscripts (with possible support in the LXX, and more) read השלשים rather than השלשה and the next word הכי is omitted by various witnesses. These are super-duper random examples. They are not the worst examples I could find. If anything, these are pretty minor.. Granted, most of the variants do not affect the meaning of the text, but the same goes for the New Testament. Equal scales must be applied.
I would recommend having a look at a critical text such as Biblia Hebreica Stuttgartensia (BHS), which list various variants both within the Masoretic textual stream but also from other textual traditions (e.g. the LXX, the Samaritan Pentateuch, texts from Qumran and the Cairo Geniza). Tovia Singer makes mention of the Isaiah scroll, which indeed closely corresponds with the text as found in the Leningrad Codex, but he does not mention that there are other texts of Isaiah which represents a different textual stream. Heck, the text of Jeremiah as found within the Qumran findings is a nearly 1/3 shorter than what is found within the Masoretic text. The same goes for the Septuagint's version of Jeremiah (whose Hebrew vorlage would be in line with the Hebrew manuscripts in Qumran). Other major difficulties are found when one looks at the textual traditions of 1 Samuel, comparing the Septuagint-tradition to that of the Masoretic-tradition.
Furthermore, even within the Masoretic tradition, there are reasons to believe that the Ketiv and Qere readings reflect variants within the texts transmissional history,
If one ignores the witness of non-Masoretic manuscripts, one is doing the same thing as Christians that ignore anything but variants within the Byzantine stream.
I believe fully in the Masoretic tradition, not because there are no problematic variants, but because this is the text that has been accepted by the Jewish people and has thus been made canonical.
Torah skip codes are amazing...Rabbi Ripps in Hebrew university is an orthodox rabbi and a PhD Mathematician . Rabbi Weissmandel kind of started this.To much data exact on each page of Torah is found to be a coincidence . The journal of statistics a peer reviewed source actually published an article on this. The first time a true scientific journal published a paper on a religious subject.
Another amazing thing is Dr Alvin Radkowsky (who designed US Navy's nuclear power who studied Talmud every day and taught at B'nai Brak) and Dr Wigner also a famous nuclear physicist did a mathematical analysis of the probability of DNA arranging itself by pure chance...its like 10exp7000 to one against such an occurance....The paper is called "miracles" and can be found. שלום
Good information.
Some Jewish tribes were occultic. Separate from the myths added to the bible. Use this when opposing the sacrifice story. There are more verses showing that God hated sacrifice--it was witchcraft. GOD HATED SACRIFICES, IT IS WITCHCRAFT. GOD WOULD NOT DO WITCHCRAFT. GOD DID NOT SACRIFICE HIS SON OR HIMSELF. PAY ATTENTION TO THE VERSES THAT SHOWS THIS.
“No where in Scripture will you see that God condoned human sacrifices. You will see however, how much He hated this abominable practice. Human sacrifices was how the pagan nations worshiped their false gods and
as you will see below it was clearly forbidden.”
Amos 5:21, Isaiah 1:11-15 What is your sacrifices to me? I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. The following verses came from a website that believed Jesus is God so only God could sacrifice himself but that is a lie. God would not partake in something that God condemned and said was an evil practice. The Romans believe the sacrifice lie.
God hates sacrifice.
1. Deuteronomy 12:30-32 do not fall into the trap of following their customs and worshiping their gods. Do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations worship their gods? I want to follow their example.’ You must not worship the Lord your God the way the other nations worship their gods, for they perform for their gods every detestable act that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters as sacrifices to their gods. “So be careful to obey all the commands I give you. You must not add anything to them or subtract anything from them.
2. Leviticus 20:1-2 The Lord said to Moses, “Give the people of Israel these instructions, which apply both to native Israelites and to the foreigners living in Israel. “If any of them offer their children as a sacrifice to Molech, they must be put to death. The people of the community must stone them to death.”
3. 2 Kings 16:1-4 Ahaz son of Jotham began to rule over Judah in the seventeenth year of King Pekah’s reign in Israel. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. He did not do what was pleasing in the sight of the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had done. Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even sacrificing his own son in the fire. In this way, he followed the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree.
4. Psalm 106:34-41 Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the Lord had commanded them. Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs. They worshiped their idols, which led to their downfall. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder. They defiled themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of idols was adultery in the Lord’s sight. That is why the Lord’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own special possession. He handed them over to pagan nations, and they were ruled by those who hated them.
5. Leviticus 20:3-6 I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech. And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them, I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech. “I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.
Divination
6. 2 Kings 21:3-8 “He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. He constructed altars for Baal and set up an Asherah pole, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped them. He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord, the place where the Lord had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” He built these altars for all the powers of the heavens in both courtyards of the Lord’s Temple. Manasseh also sacrificed his own son in the fire. He practiced sorcery and divination, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the Lord’s sight, arousing his anger. Manasseh even made a carved image of Asherah and set it up in the Temple, the very place where the Lord had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem-the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel. If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands-all the laws my servant Moses gave them-I will not send them into exile from this land that I gave their ancestors.”
7. Deuteronomy 18:9-12 When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don’t take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don’t you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don’t practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It’s because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you.
@James Gray this made up Jesus didn't lay his life down he was murdered in an open field high on a stick instead of laying down on the altar of sacrifice so your not listening to the part where it mentions God doesn't accept human sacrifice as payment.
@@antoniopadro1760 hey, do you wish to know HOW the Romans murdered people high on a stick? The method in and of itself is an abomination!
It’s a logical certainty that God is Logic…people will catch up one of these days when they are less ignorant and look to the source of knowledge for their information rather than each other, the news, and other flawed sources.
Reckon faithfully (reason properly and honestly) with the one true God (Logic: the true source of true knowledge) and the truth will be known to you.
How come god only felt it necessary to speak to folks in the middle east? He could have at least made the Jews more wide spread. What chance did the people of the Americas have to not fall into idolatry and other stuff?
That first caller hit it right on the nail he doesn't even know he hit it on the nail but if all the curses in Deuteronomy haven't happened to the people who say they are Israel today that would make God a liar and you wouldn't be a nation right now because God hasn't brought you back and Elijah hasn't risen on the scene and David hasn't become king again descendant of David fine but that hasn't happened so why is Israel state oh that was man's will
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What about Deuteronomy 32:8, where the Dead Sea Scrolls have "When the Most High apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of Elohim; Yahweh's own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share." but the Masoretic Text has "...according to the number of the sons of Israel." That's a really massive difference, because the older DSS reading seems to imply that the Canaanite god El Elyon divided up the nations and gave Yahweh the territory of Israel, while the Masoretic text doesn't really make any sense. It looks like a scribe changed the older reading, which gives clear evidence of early Israelite polytheism, to a more "orthodox" reading.
Not even a letter can be out of place or missing in the Torah, since we have the metadata of the Torah too. Metadata is information about the information. We know that in the Ashkenazi Torah (the most popular tradition), there are exactly 304,805 letters in the Torah. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet and the number of the letter Pei in this Torah is exactly 4,805. This tradition is well-known to scribes who write the Torah down. If there was one more letter or one less, the count of the letters would differ and there would be no match between the letters above 300,000 and the letters Pei. This is one of the hundreds of pieces of metadata that were transmitted along with the Torah in order to tell immediately if a given Torah scroll was manipulated. In summary, not only was the Torah handed down in its exact form, but a compilation of facts about it - the peculiarities, numbers of each word and letter, how many words spelled in full and spelled deficient, the exact count of letters from one letter to another letter, the exact count of words from one word to another word, etc, were also handed down. The Torah is a super compressed document full of facts about itself (metadata). It explicitly references the numbers about itself. It includes 613 commandments and then it describes the construction of the Tabernacle with 613 parts. It describes a menorah containing 22 ornaments, exactly the same at the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It describes the extra part of the beka (half-shekel) as being 1,775 shekels, the same value as the entire Hebrew alphabet (according to gematria) including the final forms of the letters. These are just a few examples of how the Torah preserves itself through information about itself.
very interesting. do you have any sources for more information on this topic?
That's absolute truth. But people have problem with reading the English text. See Matthew's 21:4 was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet (?) for the daughter of Zion. I have footnote in the NKJV for Zechariah 9.9, but it reads "the daughter of Zion rejoice greatly " ( wtf for ?)
Beside the daughter of Jerusalem shout of Luke 12:52 from now on for division, because of Isaiah' 28:16 translation.
Now I am convinced that the Virgin daughter of Zion' rejoicement will be turn into sorrow if they read 11th surah 14+24 verses, for It is hallerious
here's a question Rabbi. what are the dates that the books in tanach are written in comparison to the events in it. i.e. what year were books like Isaiah or Ezekiel for example vs the events that happen in them. because obviously the torah is written after many of the events have already happened?
the mrddages sre indpite by the truth via messages grim Rabbi Tovia the truth wr are really grasp bevomes our portion of strenth of Life we experience makes us to desire more to hear truths lying behind the Torah trying to express to humanity by which Our breath longs to stay alert to listen more attentively, I am grateful to God and thankful for Rabbi Tovia Singet for educating all who wish to hear the facts snd truth of Hebrew Torah.
Our Hebrew Scriptures have been fully preserved. New Testament, not so much.
Thank you Rabbai Tovia. However, I think you still didn’t provide any evidence that the Jewish Bible was preserved or was not corrupted. Your only evidence is that the god must have protected it since it is was inspired by the god. There is no original Jewish Bible text available dating back to mosses or other prophets time and there is no evidence that the changes were not made by people to fit their needs or motives. On the contrary due the presence of countless contradictions in Jewish Bible the case can be made easily that it was not preserved and numerous people have made changes to it over time.
The original text is to this day in all Torah-scrolls.
Wow lots to soak up ty rabbi
The Apocrypha. What about the Apocrypha. Are they significant or not?
The Apocrypha was never part of the canon of scripture, so they're not spiritually significant, but may have some small historical meaning to some. Look up the definition for yourself.
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Of course the New Testament does not compare to the previous 2000 years of scriptural integrity: Christians were not able to settle in Israel; were they? Could they comfortably buy Parchment, ink, and employ Scribes? I'm sure Jesus had some kind of recorder of the words he spoke, although it is sad how few, have been retained for posterity. What is not sad, or surprising, is how Christianity, emphasizing the father-son relationship, became the preeminent religion, from such a seemingly defeated start. Jesus became the atonement for sin. Also Jesus broadened the foundation, previously reserved for the prophet, priest, and King, regarding the anointing; which is what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit does, for all who would believe in him.
Most of the errors/mistakes etc., in the NT, are explainable and of no consequence EXCEPT that the Christians make it a major issue by saying that the NT is 1,000% the inerrant word of God. Since a sixth grader can prove this wrong with a little unbiased study, they begin their exposition of the Gospel with a lie. It's their own moronic fault.
Please, Rabbi -understand I am not trying to contradict you on this. What you say is good sense. But can you explain the difference when the people's sins were placed upon the scape goat and it was sent out into the dessert. I may have put this comment under the wrong video - but I hope you will understand what I mean. thank you.
All those eyes on all those texts and nobody realized there was no "nune" (my own phonetic spelling) between the mem and the Sa mekh???! I don't believe this. And somehow and suddenly a "nune" text appears in the DSS?!
What makes the Apostles write the gospel when Jesus never existed. What is the real story of Jesus, was he ordinary man, was he a prophet, was he a son of God.
No vicarious atonement in TNK? What about the scapegoat in the Law?
Was the scapegoat sacrificed or sent to the wilderness? Read Leviticus 16:10 -- "But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness."
Thanks. I'm enjoying your insights so far.
Tovia Singer I thought the old testament was all about taking an un blemished animal to make sacrifice for sins the. Jesus did away with that system....that's why we no longer do it...am I confused?
I'll try to help since I had this question myself. Thankfully, someone pointed to some scriptures I needed to read for myself instead of just going off what I was taught.
G-d talks in the Hebrew Scriptures about 2 different kinds of sin. Sin we do on accident and sin we do on purpose. Unintentional sin is the one in which offerings are involved in. For the poor who can not afford an offering of a lamb or goat, doves can be used. For the poorer, a grain offering is used. The stipulations when the animal offering is involve, the animal must be unblemished AND the blood of the animal must be splashed on the Alter in the Temple. For a Jew, this can not be done without the Alter in the Temple. Since Rome destroyed the last Temple, offerings are no longer made.
JC was not an animal and no alter was involved. G-d abhors human sacrifice as stated in the Hebrew Scriptures. Animal sacrifice is not required for the atonement of sin since the poor can use a grain offering. You can read in the Greek scriptures, the followers of JC still made offerings in the Temple.
As for intentional sin, there is no sacrifice that can be made. Repentance is the only way to turn back to G-d for sins you commit on purpose.
If there is no sacrifice for intentional sin then what about the sacrifice of the goats in Leviticus 16? “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16 In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelite's, whatever their sins have been." God clearly says that Israel had to sacrifice because of their uncleanness and rebellion, that's intentional sin. I'm positive you knew about Leviticus 16 so its extremely dishonest to say that animal sacrifice was ONLY for unintentional sin. I'm surprised how often this argument is used as its so easily debunked from the Old Testament.
Holy Moly! Tovia is growing a beard....
Rabbi Tovia - a light to the nations!
bauer stop the man worship... This man talks in circles and fools baby believers in Christ..but ANYONE with 5 years or more of study in Torah and NT can prove him wrong..
@@brotherj1405: What Rabbi Singer is teaching you is God's ETERNAL Torah, as given to Moses on Mt. Sinai This you will NOT learn from the false, pagan, man-made, anti-God, anti-Jewish, hate-filled, replacement theology "New Testament", which is NOT scripture that was given to man by God. LISTEN to what the rabbis teach!
@@brotherj1405 I spent more than 5 years in torah as a Christian... now I'm convinced judaism is the truth. The NT is a false collection, largely influenced by Paul, who openly admits his gospel is different from that of Jesus own apostles. It takes a real origami expert to try and consolidate both Hebrew tanach and NT writings.
Brother J thats all you have?
Jesus himself should have been less cryptic in his answers to laymen. Everytime he opened his mouth he said things which could be interpreted in many ways. A preacher is not supposed to confuse ppl.about his identity. In the Koran we are told that on the day of judgement Jesus will be in the dack and he will answer for the confusion he caused. We do not blame the Christians for it. leave alone getting their sins forgiven he has yet to answer for himself.
All the prophets have been simple and straightforward about God. The Jews and the Muslims are allergic to this Trinity nonsense. Jesus will have to answer for it. The best and most logical criticism of Christianity in it perverted form was given by Nietsche who was the son of a pastor.
Where in the Quran is this? I have never found this.
Issam Halabi it is in the quran I believe if memory serves right. You want me to find it for you?
Lol 1 variant in the hebrew bible? Either Tovia has no idea what he's talking about or is being very very dishonest. When he brought up the dead sea scrolls I was expecting him to atleast mention some of the most obvious and well known variants but nope..not a word wow.
BORN AGAIN
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God"
We are born with the indwelling Spirit of God. But, to reach the ultimate conclusion of sin, we all have been given an ungrateful conviction that we deserve more.
And so, the first time a baby feels hunger, it sins against the mother by being so ungrateful as to cry, the Spirit of God departs the baby and dead of a sprit is the baby.
Therefore, if we want the indwelling Spirit of God to bring our spirit back to life, so that we may again have eternal life, we must first receive the free gift of repentance from God as evidenced by a burning desire to undue all the damage we have done.
Now if you think that you are better than others, that your freewill had an inner goodness to at your pleasure achieve repentance and that somehow qualifies you for salvation above others, surely it is your absolute assurance that you have not been saved.
my brother iwant to comment on what you said to be truthfull and accept gods will beleiving and working not aliar aback staber you be to god and hes your destination idont know about the spirit of god and the baby example and and dying maintaing keeping his commandments sumbission to his will we say it in arabic istislam or islam and aquestion if you may what about the cross jesus dying for your sins you didnt mention that
but my brother there is things you have to have in this life nessecarities god created this to let us be creative not to just shund every thing in it we have to go up work our world but this what your talking about in general its called makamulihsan in islam regarding the spirit of god thing maybe you mean aspirit acase were your meaning in away aspirit wich god provides to abeliever to not like real real spirit of god god there is nothing like him and surely not the holly spirit surely you dont mean that am iright ihope your not atrenitarian
As 95% of humans never gained salvation, it is self-evident that planet earth is not about getting the maximum number of sinners up to heaven, but to show why there will never be another Satan or sinner in heaven. Christ died not for our sins, as God designed for sin to happen and our sins were never held against us.
For Christ died to remove the guilt, fear, remorse and vengeance in our mind, character and personality.
Christ owned no more wealth then the poor, he was a pacifist and so must we. For global warming was caused by over production and consumption, Israel has 400 nukes aimed at Iran, Russia and Empire USA have 8,000 nukes aimed at each other and surely, if we think this world has some good in it, surely we are just more fuel for the fire.
so if i dont believe that christ is my lord and savior am i saved its like your saying god played aphsicological game to improve humanity so if iwatch amovie about christs life idont believe christ lord and savior but some how affected phsicologically but not believed am isaved to you
As a Christian Universalist I see nothing but love divine in Jesus' mission of hope for all mankind, love wins :)
Flee universalist Christianity, it doesn't please Jesus. God bless you
I accept the inegrity of the OT. But comparing it to the reliability of the NT is a joke. There's no comparison. For every supposed discrepancy Tovia points out in the NT, I could point out 5x in the OT.
@The NIFB Jesus sure..? what is your issue with this passage sir?
Nice story. Where's your evidence? Please don't quote to me what scholars talk about Textual Criticism. In fact, the New Testament isn't independent of Church tradition recorded by the Early Church Fathers. The Early Church Leaders or Fathers were disciples of the Apostles themselves and confirmed the teachings of the Apostles. They confirm the New Testament's teaching as a whole, in contrast to what you are saying.
You are lying to your audience and you will be answerable to God. Don't forget what God did to the Jews who rejected the Messiah. He will come again just as Daniel prophesied, and you will hide your head because of your lies.
Clayton Menezes Verify all we say...Compare Koine Greek NT Papyrus from 125ce and Dead sea scrolls to your Christian Bible.
Go ahead...easy to do..
Then call us liars...