The Truth About Our Freedom Of Choice
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the Rabbi is solid, thank you Rabbi i need to hear more from you! i got lost with work and forgot about being a good jewish man , it happens i made a poor choice.
Free choice is instinctive - an ability of judgment - a gift from God - A pleasure to listen to you - thank you and God bless 🙏 😊
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Thank you. At the end, when you said God is saying “ let me get things out of the way for you so that you will be who you are.” Is beautiful and profound. I love this.
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I am not Jewish but to be honest Rabbi Manis gives me a lot to think about!
ISAIAH 43:6 WHO IS THE NORTH?...... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHOICE TO BE TAKEN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE YOUR CHOICE AWAY. ..... FEAR OF DEATH IS NO EXCUSE.
Wow!!!! Thank you!!
I want to thank you for helping me to understand what I need to do to make my life better forever
Blessed are You HaShem LORD Our ABBA Who by His power has given us intelligence. There is Your perfect way and then there is the way that hurts. I don't want the other way because it hurts. Thank You HaShem for Your manifestation and protection and above all Yours Way. I Love You ABBA
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Thank you so much, . God bless you,.
Shalom Shalom…Rabbi…how merciful is Hashem…bestowing humanity with the capacity to co-create along side with him..Amen
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I am thanksful for be able to listen to your talks
I love being able to listen to your Wisdom at work, Rabbi! I try to listen to you on speaker when I am inputting data on the computer so others might hear. I am a Jewish Accountant, and people are always so curious about us LoL 😆 -Shalom
So jews do not belive god orders our steps?
@@jwoldner3926 i am a little confused by your question using 'order.' yes, HaShem instructs us, that is the point of studying Torah and the Talmud. HaShem wants us to want His Will, "to become what He says. and therefore, leaving room for us not to do it." 23:35.
watch the entirety of the whole video. i feel Rabbi Friedman answers your question much more satisfactory. if not, i hope somebody is able to come along and explain it differently.
the question i believe you are asking is much deeper than a few words response. and i've never felt 'ordered' to follow HaShem's Will. i have been 'instructed/taught/continually study' to aim this short existence to doing His Will and not mine because i choose to. i don't feel 'ordered...' never felt 'ordered.'
in addition, english is very limited in expression compared to Hebrew. there is an actual Power in words. anywho, hope the video in its entirety helps out because i believe Rabbi Friedman explains this very well in his talking points.
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Same
God told me, when you don't know what to do, wait. I will guide you..thru squalls, storms, mornings and nights..
Yes. I received the same message, no jumping the gun. When unsure, wait
In everything there is a lesson. We only have to listen.
PAY ATTENTION at 1:10:02
Deformed writings or mistranslations in subtitles can cause unnecessary trouble in our tense world.
The system of SUBTITLES often DEFORM WORDS. At 1:10:02 it's written "so you are a murderer and a little muslim".
This is NOT what Rabbi Friedman says. He says the following: " So you are a murderer and a 'shlimazel' ", which is a word in Yiddish. It means a person without luck.
Amen Amen and Amen.
Brilliant!
If this guy is true 🙏 please continue with your teaching.
That is why it is a constant relationship with God. His I Am is my choice.
I love your videos
Best one ever,really got me in the room.Brah Hashem thanks Rabbai and lady in the room.I hope everyone felt like o did.All my heart was in it❤
English is not my mother languace but I understand every meaning of the words and explanations he chose to help me understand. I dont understand those womens questions, they cant even put in words what they think. Lot of respect for rabbi that has tremendous calmness to decoded what they are saying. God bless you and thank you for bringing light into the darkness❤
I once attended a Zen Buddhist weekend Meditation retreat…
There were rules about every tiny thing…
From the color of clothing, to which foot to enter a room, how to walk, sit, eat, and clean our individual food bowls…
There was no talking. And everything was highly controlled and uniform… there was no “freedom”… at least not in the way we normally think of freedom…
About halfway through the weekend, I noticed that I was starting to recognize my peers by the sound of their foot steps… or by the way they breathe…
It got to the point that I could identify someone by the quality of their presence without looking at them
I also began to notice myself more…. independent of the usual labels, identities, and layers of “mental stuff” that I had been attached to…
A certain kind of freedom began to emerge that seemed much more pure and truly independent than just the “do whatever I want” sense of freedom…
The restrictions, the uniformity, and severely limited options actually resulted in more freedom and revealed everyone’s undeniable uniqueness
It was one of the most amazing experiences in my life…
Everyone should do Zen meditation at some point in their lives…
It’s an experience that has the potential to bring people to their senses…. Literally
OK But meditation isn't s mitzvah, you have to go beyond thinking or perceiving. Mitzvahs affect in this world. it's not a command of Gd in this world. it's a physical world that requires physical activity like moving of the lips at least. what good is our perception when it comes to giving G-d pleasure? this you cannot perceive in this world...
@@brachashighhopeshomestead226 - A man who was diagnosed with severe depression decided to attend a meditation retreat…
At the retreat he learned how to sit still and observe the inner workings of his mind and his emotions…
During his time at the retreat he was given all the necessary accommodations needed to practice in a safe and peaceful environment… including breakfast and lunch…
There were custodians, cooks, administrators, and of course the Zen teachers who all worked together as a cohesive unit to ensure that every practitioner's needs were met.
After the retreat, the depressed man continued to use the tools he learned and eventually overcame his depression…
Having become better equipped to cope with the stresses of daily life, he went back into the community and began to work again….
He also began to share what he learned about meditation to others… who then began to improve their own lives, etc.
Was the staff at the retreat not performing mitzvahs the whole time they were serving their attendants?
Did the depressed man not do a mitzvah by passing on the practice that allowed him and many others to live happier, more productive lives?
Could he have helped those people had he not done the difficult work and daily practice of meditation?
Maybe G-d is bigger than one religion can manage?
Thank you, for that.
Once God is Chosen…my freedom is in god’s option.
Choice is the thing one takes when arriving at a fork in the road.
your destination demands which way you go..how is this a choice?
by taking the other you will reach some place else.
the rabbi has a strong point here.
What is the meaning of mizav?
@@jkolet It's still a choice because you have the freedom to choose another destination.
I love the apple choice
Had a very low, dark moment in my life just a few years ago. Was doing drugs and had a run in with authorities. Vehicle was impounded and I was arrested. Bailed out and had a voice tell me to run! Now after 5 years have been emailed about a court date by bail bonds company about a mandatory court date. Have basically been threatened to show or have a warrant issued. Lot has happened since then. New family, etc. Praying of what to do. Since that voice back then said to run! I'm sure I'll make the right choice as the moment nears. Just hoping for another voice of what to do? Have had past dealings with this county and they are dangerously evil and corrupt. I'm sure nothing has changed.
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Great teaching
This can only make sense from the perspective that all of time is laid out.. from beginning to end. From a granular perspective - in consideration of a single individual and a specific moment in time - it would be clearer to say, that He knows what choices we will make, because to Him, as being 'in the future' all of the choices have already been made. It can only make sense that as time was 'built', just as we live our part of it, God would need to know 'what you were going to do' in order to respond and construct His planning. One's choices are made first, and God does 'respond' as to route to the ultimate - which is the end of time. Had to watch that part a few times as the ladies were on the attack. 🥰
The concept of time is only made for us. G-d exists outside of those boundaries.
We pray for ourselves. What it does for us.
Love ya bro
Rabbi I listen to your teachings, I find them fruitful and gain a lot of knowledge from them. I have been brought up as a Cristian from my mother Hannah and Father David, to believe in the Ten Commandments from Moses on the mount. I was confused when you said none Jews only have 7 commandments? Can you let me know what the seven are ? If I have picked this up wrongly please forgive me, as I’m only 71 years young. I look forward to listening to more of your teachings. William
7 Noahide Laws:
Not to worship idols.
Not to curse God.
Not to commit murder.
Not to commit adultery or sexual immorality.
Not to steal.
Not to eat flesh torn from a living animal.
To establish courts of justice.
these are the 7 commandments that jews require non-jews to follow, I assume this is what you're asking about.
It is the giving up of my I Am…to Gods I Am.
the control now is yours, two years ago and before that was influenced physically by the other
In Jeremiah 29:11, He says, “I know the plans I have for you…”
FREE CHOICE is essential. Without it is to be a mindless puppet at the whims of fate. Even when something tries to influence you to make a certain choice, you still have the freedom to choose to be or not to be influenced.
+++!Our subconscious is full of experiences and our ancestors experiences comes as a gene to in it . Our freewill is to correct them with listening them what signal they send us through our life specially through our dreams using their wisdom to able swing from our simulation to corrective world that source is existing.
If I understand correctly, the answer is that if get to know yourself, like one of the women who participated points out, then you can choose to heal or work to choose to superspeed your instincts and nature as well as any blocks in your subconscious because now they are conscious. However you still do not have a choice whether or not the outcome fails or succeeds, for example you could choose to give someone Tzeddaka with a smile or not, but if you do not have a coin to give at that particular time, you cannot give the Tzeddaka.
God tells the end from the beginning. He works ALL things after the council of His on will.
The reason I do mitzvas is because I love God which means I love the Children and Creatures of God who are suffering and need my help.
I love the way you explain reality. My question is, sometimes we made a good choice and it turned out to be BAD. Similarly, we choose a bad choice and it becomes GOOD.
It is called ying and yang
"It'll be what It'll be."
All things can be made good to the eye of a man of God
God bless all Kurds Jews
I like your country.
Nice video
Thank you. I like the input of the women. I am a single dad. This is perfect framing of it. Thank you Rabbi Manis…I listen daily.
We only have true free will if choices come with no consequences. As far as death, does the personal quality of your life outweigh the cost and grief of being here.
I am created a MAN in the image of God. I subscribe to Godly teaching, like that of Rabbi Manis Friedman. Nobody was created a Jew, Christian, Buddhist etc
Another perspective, one of the apples is on the right side and one on the left side. Now I can choose the one on the right side. Just like the brain (right hemisphere & left hemisphere) there is a reason for everything. I breath through my left nostril to give oxygen to the right side of the brain and activate its purpose of existence and for being on the right side. Imagination, Intuition, Creativity, The Feeling Of Freedom, Life. There is a reason for everything Im experimenting on myself 😜 getting to know me better, why do we have two ears, does one understand one thing and the other another? Why?
We have two ears
& one mouth,
to listen twice as much as we talk
Free Choice is choosing between two options. The truth is there is quick decision or snap / within seconds you make that the brain don't need a long period of time to process and the other is a long process before making final decision. It is the same thing using your freedom to choose. Whatever the conditon of the body and situation you are in and the 5 senses of the body it affects how you choose. Wether your making rationale decision or making judgement or between life and deathe the brain process everything before making final decision/ what you choose. Everybody have that instinct/intuition/gut .
Even when you do good deeds and don't believe in God. You are of God doing good deeds. Divine Providence is God...Jacqueline Wernett died, July 2015 in Providence, Rhode Island..
Warwick Hospital. We share the se name. My other last name is Reisman
Did you choose your fear. No. Fear chose you. Handle it.
Everyone has choice,eg:fight or flight.
Genetic makeup plays a large part however experiencing more and more things changes these perceptions,people change and evolve constantly and they are far different in the future than the past sometimes
Its bit like saying everyone is wired the same way deep down.
We are a big chemical walking around we are biology no can say what a person will do in a given situation,we can estimate a response based on past they have if we know that.Its all far more complicated than this Speech and i feel the people there felt a similar way.
Its very very complicated and a beautiful thing.
Life is not do x and get y.A bit too much generalization for me.But i do love Rabbai Manis.
Hes really struck a chord with me here so hes doing a wonderful job
Spirit of truth in human form that's me God ask me to come 🙏help mankind desend to heavenly places
ISAIAH 43:6 WHO IS THE NORTH?...... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHOICE TO BE TAKEN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE YOUR CHOICE AWAY. ..... FEAR OF DEATH IS NO EXCUSE.
Rabbi this is so powerful by the way which book you are holding and reading it from?
I will not liable myself as Christian or something else. I am a man of God.
i’ve always been different to the general public regarding both apples being the same I would just take one randomly, not get paralysed and decide not to have an Apple. I find this very interesting that you said people will not be able to make a choice if both apples are equally the same to me. That’s complete nonsense, but mind you I think the general public is mad, they don’t have the intellect and I’m always struggling in society dealing with them
The devils advocate was driving me up the wall
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If we are always serving God, and according to Judaism, there is no devil; so why are we being hurt constantly by diabolical people?
A descisive person can easily make a free choice or at the very least make a choice.I find decisions easy to make based on a black and white yes or no which avoids regret.
Think then make a decision and live with it.Theres thousands more coming every day or week or month
Everyone gets this choice. All people.
Some people say we are on Earth to be Happy; others say we are here to serve God. Are the two mutually exclusive?
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ISAIAH 43:6 WHO IS THE NORTH?...... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHOICE TO BE TAKEN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE YOUR CHOICE AWAY. ..... FEAR OF DEATH IS NO EXCUSE.
@@rogerindelectnew sorry not understand
Tke big diference is between material ecinomical dependence and emotional dependence right?
Choice is “options of is”.
When Nature wants to keep the balance.
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What's the book Rabbi is holding?
How can we receive a copy of the book you're reading from in the video?
These classes are meant to be group conversations; not so much for individual study.
I learned at Chabad that the trees did not produce the fruit that Hashem asked for. The trees did not want to be eaten and so they bore fruit instead of becoming edible themselves as Hashem commanded. Does this mean that Hashem does not control everything or that He gave free will to other things aside from Man?
ISAIAH 43:6 WHO IS THE NORTH?...... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHOICE TO BE TAKEN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE YOUR CHOICE AWAY. ..... FEAR OF DEATH IS NO EXCUSE.
Yes he iss3
Dear Rabbi what book you are reading?
Adam & Eve choose to disobey God and God told them before they disobey what would happen. Before the world there was no death..because of their choice now we have death. God told them they could have anything in the garden but 1 thing & they chose that 1 that did harm..God wants us to listen to Him..He knows what's best for us that won't hurt us.
Flip it…I can choose options…the options that God likes are promoted once the choice is made by the individual.
eventually everyone will have to poop, no choice....
I had a question about Jewish men because men have an isur of bitul torah so do men have bechira in regards to time management?
What book rabbi is reading from?
This is part of a Jewish Learning Institute course. They are put on at Chabad houses around the globe.
We have to chose when we do not know what we want? 😅
what Book is he reading?
For har
Sometimes G-d protects us from our choices, from the consequences.
I enjoy the knowledge that you impart on all that I watch.
I struggle with the interruptions of your audience. We see only you. Makes an impression of a lecture from a professor. As I listen and follow along with what you are saying, I become agitated every time someone speaks from your audience, causing you to stop and listen. From the point of view of a viewer watching this on TH-cam, it is not beneficial to have your audience speak out interactively with you as if it is a conversation as opposed to an informative lecture. The type of set-up and format that you are recording this, it gives a different impression of what is happening, making the interruptions from the audience seem rude and out of place, regardless of whether they are or not. For the in person audience that you are speaking in front of, it may seem good. From the point of view that I have as a viewer watching a recording on TH-cam, it is not so good. It is disruptive.
I would recommend keeping the two types of speaking separate. Lectures recorded for an online audience without interruptions from others speaking in the background. Just your wonderful self recording and imparting knowledge for all of us who enjoy learning from you. The lectures with the live interactive audience as an addition to your already hard work but labeled as such. So that those that benefit from one or the other can have what is most beneficial to them, having you offer both as options.
Thank you for taking the time to impart knowledge. You are making a positive difference, even if it is only with me.
Why is the “God Factor” aka יראת שמים limited to Jews??
Everything is in the hand of heaven except the fear of heaven
Did Pharaoh have a choice . I don't think he did. God said he was a vessel chosen for this very thing. God harden his heart and would not let the people go. So that God would show His marvelous power to His people. Just saying
Hey :), Pharaoh did have a choice, but was given a certain amount of time and that time passed, and also he had in between every plague the option to do teshuvah
@@raregaming8685 I'm sorry I don't agree, when you read it in context. Peace
I wonder what do you think about Jacob and Esau, they were already fighting inside the womb, and God said, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” Something like that, to me, Esau had no choice but his fate was lay down to him.
@@laurenmay2098 it's very sobering thought. Peace
For the addict, they have to choose to use drugs, gamble, etc. Thieves, murderers, liars, Also make choices; however, people who are not prone to do those things, by obeying G-d’s commands, are free from choosing.
Who, in your opinion, Rabbi, made our Creator?
Are we supposed to be robots following a fictitious God; or people of free choice loving the real God and trying to avoid sin?
choice is like science , it encompasses everything , with divisions ...........