I really like how he addressed the believers and non believers, and that is really important that he RESPECTS different beliefs, yet shares his wisdom.
we dont need to respect beliefs You sound like an idiot with your own opinion and nonsense All we need is the truth and you need to prove it Beliefs do not exist in the physical realm and holding beliefs will lead one to con-fusion
As a Muslim I loved this old man. I really wanted to have a chat with him. He has some kind of power in his words, which helps me to relax from my bad thoughts.
What you are describing is what I call "genuine kindness" which you can clearly see and hear through his voice. It's that kind of kindness that is so much needed in today's turbulent times.
@@charlesbovalis6591 today's turbulent time!😅😅😅 try the great plague in the medieval times where folk were lucky to live to 40,women were owned and wars where constant,more than now.
There is no such thing as a Muslim Islam is not real either. It too comes from Jewdayism , like the Christian Fables Zoroastrianism also Pre-dates Islam and Sufism is their mystery school
@@dougyohooglefrogtownrovers9017That was one part of the world. In many others, people were living past age 100 and living what we'd call modest or even poor by some people's 'today's standards'.
The bottomline as I understand is that if you believe in God, then rest in his love that even when you face suffering he still loves you and that all the pain will still work out good for you. We have to trust the character of God...
I am not Jewish either but every video I see from this man is yet another "blessing" ... When someone is speaking with such peacefulness, serenity, and genuine kindness from within, it's worth every minute of your time to watch him. God Bless you rabbi Dr. Abraham for the wonderful perspectives you share with the world. And it's that genuine kindness and care you convey with each of your messages to all of us that make me say you are a Blessing from God. As a Christian myself, we have a phrase in our prayers which summarizes exactly the point you make in this video: "Let Thy Word Be" ... God Bless you again rabbi Dr. Abraham.
First you get angry that all those bad things happen to you, then you desparated and depressed. Next stage is when you start to accept things. You realize the only way to numb the pain is to face it and feel it untill it goes away. At the last stage of suffering, you finally get over it but you know it's a part inside of you that make you the person you become today.
I’m a practicing Roman Catholic, but I love listening to Rabbi Twerski. My take on suffering is that it brings us closer to God by increasing our dependence on Him, thus abandoning ourselves to His divine and inscrutable perfect will so that we can become co-participants with Him in bringing forth a greater good from this suffering. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insights and wisdom with us! 🙏🏻
I just feel really grateful for encountering the Rabbi Twerski on youtube. I like to listen to him talk. Insightful, humorous, human. Bless you Rabbi 🙏❤️ Sjalom
Interesting. I went through a hellish 30 or so years dealing with anxiety and depression and feeling like i am useless and unlovable. Yet when i look back on those 30 years i feel like it has made me a deeper person i am more real and less fake and i think i am stronger having been through all that. therefore the suffering itself is not a bad thing.. it can be good for us. maybe!
@@MichaelDBiggs Try to understand that those that govern over you, need you to comply. So they con you into it with religion. Religion is not real. They need you, to be a believer. For your own Confusion. A gospel is a godspell. Movies are gospels on the silver screen. They are also not real. They control your ego with godspels and scripture and movies and they give you ure script to control your actions. All you need to do is comply and believe in them. As above, so below explains this to you. What ever happens in the heavans or the Meta or the Belief World, will be mirrored on Earth. So they control the belief world, with religion, and we all accept them as masters. MonArchy is OneMaster and the church has always been part of the Monarchy. They use religion to steal your own authority and make you accept government slavery , as normal . You are being conned by your religious cult, called Government
@@je-freenorman7787 oh, son, I am the free one! Neither Religion, nor the media, nor the government, nor "they", have control over me. May you see the Light and enter into the Eternal. The Time is drawing nigh. may you not be found wanting.
In my oppinion there is suffering with a sense behind it but also senseless suffering. In the first case suffering can help us to grow. But some suffering is so hard that it can never justify its sense if it has one. So we have to accept suffering as a part of our lives and we have to avoid it whereit doen't make sense at all and is completeley unnecessary.
I'm just beginning to explore Judaism after years of being disillusioned with the confusing doctrine of Christianity. Plus, if the person Jesus practiced judaism why aren't christians practicing Judaism? I've experienced huge losses especially the loss of my daughter to cancer when she was 18 years old. This explanation of suffering is the only one that has given me any comfort. I wish I had found this sooner. It would have alleviated 15 years of emotional torment and anger with God.
Suffering, as far I can realize, exists for those who do not suffer to alleviate it for others, if they have the will and capacity to do so. It's also simply part of the human condition; If there wasn't suffering, where'd you put your faith if you never needed help? Most likely, you'd be your own 'God', and not give a shit about anything or anyone.
I like that meaningful answer to suffering, dear rabbi, said it wisely, I don't understand suffering, but in faith in God I accept that. May God bless you and give you long life with heath lyrics body and sound mind.
This Rabbi is full of knowledge wow I would love to sit at his feet and listen to him all day Simple Yod He Vav He Bless you all you all know who that is
I would have to strongly agree with this man and I am not Jewish. His example echoes a lot of other things in life. Experiences, science, technology, human behaviour, emotions. Sometimes we have to accept the fact we really don’t know anything or never will know the answer to everything and that’s ok. Faith is all we have sometimes.
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Dr. Abraham Twersky - Thank you for posting this video. I have read a few of the books written by you and like all of them a lot. I hope more of your videos can be posted on youtube to spread the wisdom.
Honestly, I'm Jewish, believe in God, but the best answer to account for suffering comes from Buddhism, not Judaism. It's organically related to desire; let go of desire, and you let go of suffering. That has always made the most sense to me.
It's in Judaism as well. There's a Kabbalah book, very well known among ppl who study Kabbalah that says that all our sufferings come from a lack of things that we wish we had and it's so deep that your head might explode trying to understand it. Anyway, it's not that simple, after all, there's a reason why we want things. Also, in Judaism, there's a thing about reincarnation, which can give another point of view.
Look at the people of the nations that listen to the words of the holy Rav and express their admiration for his wise practical teachings of fundamental Torah concepts. If only they knew that Rav Twersky is but a drop in the spiritual bucket as to the number of great Rabbanim and Sages that have and continue to come out of Am Yisroel. A true blessing to the world. The farther we go into our past the greater our teachers were. It brings me much joy to see this sanctification of G-D holy name.
I hope this rabbi is still around and doing well. What a treasure and pleasure to listen to him speak. The kindness on his face speaks as much as his words..
@@johnjacobs7426 Wow thank you I wasn't aware. Dr Twerski should have had a television show and maybe this country wouldn't be half as screwed as it is right now. RIP to a national treasure.
God made you to be the light of his words. The way you describe things so simple with profound meaning and trust in God, makes us more to trust in God. In quran kareem God said if believers don,t trust him completely and they don't, t have any hope in him, they are not real believers. Trust in God as dr twerski mentioned is first sign of faith.god bless you and have a long live with healthy body and sound mind.
Ironically, am going through a period of intense suffering and pain that the doctors don't understand. It's physical pain and it's very real. Higher level of pain than most would like to tolerate. I don't understand it because I've had it on and off for too long of a time. It may through the grace of God go away. And it seems it might for good. As a Christian there is certainly value in suffering. Some people say, if you get to a certain and age and don't have some kind of pain somethings wrong. Either way, not to heighten the previous sentence one can embrace the suffering for a greater a gentler good. Perhaps the pain was a good thing for a good purpose. I know I embraced it wit the help of the doctors (as I believe a prudent person should). How ironic I found this video.
Physical pain is something else! I've had my heavy share of mental/emotional pain that's for sure!! Do you believe in karma? If not fine but I believe in karma and believe your pain might have been to purify your karma. That's just my idea you may believe different. I like to believe in karma because then there is a justice going on.
All things good and bad work together for the good of those who love, fear and worship the Most High. We may not be shown for days months or years but if we dont grow bitter, remember all of humanity are brothers and sisters and share in the circle of life, we will have a blessing that wouldnt have been possible without that "thing" that caused our suffering. Have to be prrsent to realize it when it comes. Suffering causes many people to have mental problems which makes things worse and lose perspective on the bigger picture. Cannot be too selfish in wondering why a thing we call bad happened. Most Highs ways and thoughts are far beyond our comprehensions as is the true Bigger Picture which we cannot see obviously
@hpyrkh3 I think most people are misunderstanding what he is saying. He is saying that when God puts us under trials there is a wisdom behind it, even behind the pain and we not wanting the pain. Even if we, the slaves of God don't know the reason behind the pain, ther eis a wisdom behind it but patience is key.
I'm a Muslim and I just wanted to say we believe in pretty much the same thing there. Sources do offer a few possible reasons for suffering (atonement, to bring one to God, or raise one before Him, to give man the opportunity to achieve something which he might not have were it not for suffering, etc.)...
God did not make people suffer people make people suffer because of power. That's what i experience. The more powerful people think they have . God can deal with people better than we can Thank you for that message💜🙏🇺🇸
I like Rabbi twerski views but on this one I refer to Rabbi Harold Kushner, his answer is we get into trouble when we promote a all powerful God. God is not pulling our strings in other words we are not puppets ! His book When Bad Things Happen To Good People is the best answer to this question !
The truth is, we don’t want to know the reasons behind people’s suffering. If we’d know the reasons, we wouldn’t try to alleviate suffering or stop evil. The very reason we try to stop evil and do whatever we can to ease suffering is because we are not ok with it, because we don’t know the reasons. What kind of people would we be - and what kind of world would it be - if we knew the reasons…?
I think suffering is connected to purpose. Without purpose we often feel we are the victims "oh the world is happening to me and I must suffer through this", however, when we have a purpose we do not suffer. we often move through difficult times or struggles. Think about having a broken leg. Now you know this leg will heal. You may experience pain during the healing process but you also know there is a time frame to the pain, and the goal at the end will be walking with a healthy leg again. Now without that knowledge that there is indeed a goal, or purpose to be fulfilled, if we are to accept that our leg is destroyed and not understand why or when things can get better, that is when we suffer. We introduce fear and uncertainty into the mix. We become the victim of reality instead of the creator of reality. I think Dr. Twerski kind of understands this as he finds his comfort as God. He understands that there may be a portion of time when things are more difficult than others but at the end there is a reward. I believe he is more correct at the beggining that there is no God and that suffering just happens. I believe suffering is the choice to play the victim instead of being proactive and taking a hold of life and doing purposeful things. All things are temporary, unless you make a routine of it. Suffering is a behavioural routine of a temporary emotion.
...and that ultimately the good and the bad of this world is a token of God's mercy because the believer receives for both much more in return if he can respond to it by moving closer to God, like the child who clings onto mum :)
What i think is the most important takeaway from this, is that one must have a basis of love and trust like the child i n his mother and then he will be able to trust his mother when she puts him thru something. But what about someone that never trusted anyone in his formative years?
Hey there, Abraham Twerski and many other Jewish scholars say that trusting in someone or something else is a natural act of our mind and soul. While we might say that we have never deposited our faith and trust in anyone, the reality is that we are actually trusting on something and/or someone everyday. Like for instance, if you take your car to the mechanic for any mechanic failure, once you're given your car back you feel at ease, thinking that your car has been repaired. However, we don't know if that's actually true. What if, by human error, there's some tiny screw that wasn't tighten properly? We don't think about that. We just take our car to drive it as if nothing has happened. That's trust. You trust your mechanic. You trust that your car won't give up on you anymore. Another example would be, every time that we take a step, we don't think about our bones breaking due to osteoporosis or something else. You trust your body. If you're going to sit on a chair, you trust that it won't break. There are a lot of people that we put our trust on. Even if it's for vain things, we're still trusting them. The funny thing, at least to me, is that sometimes we trust people that we have only met a few minutes ago.
🤨 Suffering is the natural consequence of free will and learning. Suffering occurs because of the choices we and others make and what those choices set into motion. We cannot remove these choices or opportunities for learning, or we take away free will. Therefore suffering is a consequence of learning and free will.
God is beyond man's understanding of Good and Evil! God is beyond human comprehension and cannot be defined by the average man! God blesses...God curses! The fairest of all and it/he indeed knows what its/he's doing! God works in mysterious ways. I think humans should accept the fate they have been given by the supreme
The physical world generates itself without any input minus the starting conditions. I don't know why dualism or pluralism is so hard to come across, it seems so obvious to someone like me who has a good grasp on evolution but feels spiritual
I began to look at it like this several years ago: G-d IS the "doctor with the needle who gets all stabbity on the children" The mom goes into the exam room, the doctor looks the kid over... listens to his chest, knocks the funny little hammer on his knees... kid's fine with it, no instruments of torture are as of yet on display.... Doc winks at mama and steps out of the room... mom grabs the little stuffed toy or whatever to soothe the kid's nerves.... doc comes back in through that un-noticed back door (do they still have these? swear I remember them but I'm kinda old...) and sneaks up to the kid, jabs the needle in his arm and the kid squawks for a second until he realizes it's all over, goes back to playing with the toy.... NOW, I KNOW suffering isn't this cut-and-dried.... the gist of it is that G-d does whatever He can to soften the blow....
Is there a dark truck being played when we stumble across a viral video of a human mistreating a dog and a puppy? How am I supposed to feel towards it? Sounds silly, but I find myself fighting between logic and feelings.
Lolita Mike Just because we don't have the capacity to understand what benefit it will have in the end doesn't mean there wasn't one. That is why he chooses faith
If there is a God perhaps, like in the movie "Oh God", God doesn't know how to make an up without a down, an inside without an outside, joy without pain. It seems to me that that is about the best explaination I have ever heard. Of course, there really is no God and road kill and infants with cancer is simply part of the natural world.
is there not a contradiction here? the first 2 minutes of this video explain why there is suffering in this world, and the last 17 seconds say that we cannot understand suffering. this is something that's always driven me nuts when i hear things like this. what am i missing?
Tauriel: Why does it hurt so much? Thranduil: Because it was real. I wasn't expecting Twerski talking about physical pain, but about emotional pain. The one that makes more damage. We suffer emotional pain because we value the things we lose; somebody we love, our freedom, or a never realized plan. Psychology provides a more realistic answer than religion to this question, but in this case Twerski provided basically nothing. Not even a question.
God doesn't cause our suffering. We human beings keep being cruel to each other and to God's creatures, that's what causes suffering. Not God at all. He doesn't interfere with us in any way. But he makes it easier to bare. You can't implicitly trust humans but when you have a great raport with God, you do see a change for the better. In yourself, and in others.
If we dont understand suffering, then it's pointless. It's only like kicking a dog that doesnt understand what it did to deserve being kicked. However, if we could understand WHY we got this suffering, what we DID do to deserve it, we could actually LEARN something from it specifically and grow from it. Yes, we can still grow from it but in a much more difficult way, most of the time directionless trying to grasp at any reason it might be happening but we dont know. Really ridiculous and cruel.
@naavaleh He is saying that he doesn't understand why there is suffering in the world, but he believes that God does. He doesn't explain why there is suffering in the world.
He actually did explain it .. listern to the analogy of the doctors office ... And lam sure he'd have plenty others .. In my life lam glad l didn't understand it at the time it enabled me to cling onto God . If ld known what lay ahead of me without that security l would have gone mentally and emotionally insane
Redemption,!? but why? The horrible test And suffering are so polarising !! Simply horror boiled down to extreme situations of unalloyed cruelty ..what is an eternal being playing at?
The problem of his argument is this: an all powerful god is not equal to a human being(a mother), so why can't an all powerful god explain to me why there is so much suffering in the world? Either god is not all powerful or god is not all good (so the god created so much suffering). I'm actually scared if an all powerful god exists, it represents god is not all good, I would much prefer an all good god with limited power. The rabbi is a very wise person, and I think he knows his argument is weak too, since in the end he basically stated he just believes God in faith. Then I point out that faith is not a reliable pathway to truth, I could have faith in blowing up a plane so I could go to heaven. If I say killing people is good, and I believe it because of faith, how could anyone change my mind? Faith is therefore very dangerous.
Suffering also can be caused by beeing Not really the best Version of yourself and one can See it as a call to Progress in live. If i just say Suffering comes from god and i wont understand it anyway i probably wont get to that thought and become a better Person.
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I really like how he addressed the believers and non believers, and that is really important that he RESPECTS different beliefs, yet shares his wisdom.
Believers are an easy target for their dark magic
Religion is all satanic
Knowledge is the key
we dont need to respect beliefs
You sound like an idiot with your own opinion and nonsense
All we need is the truth and you need to prove it
Beliefs do not exist in the physical realm
and holding beliefs will lead one to con-fusion
Very true. That's how to earn true respect
I am not Jewish but this man calms me and speaks to my soul
There is no such thing as A Jew
We are all Humans
Religion is a curse to us all
I'm hooked, can't stop watching 'em
Much love from Pakistan
I really love you Dr. Abraham. May God bless you immensely
As a Muslim I loved this old man. I really wanted to have a chat with him. He has some kind of power in his words, which helps me to relax from my bad thoughts.
What you are describing is what I call "genuine kindness" which you can clearly see and hear through his voice. It's that kind of kindness that is so much needed in today's turbulent times.
@@charlesbovalis6591 It's not just kindness. He has religious wisdom and was a psychologist.
@@charlesbovalis6591 today's turbulent time!😅😅😅 try the great plague in the medieval times where folk were lucky to live to 40,women were owned and wars where constant,more than now.
There is no such thing as a Muslim
Islam is not real either. It too comes from Jewdayism , like the Christian Fables
Zoroastrianism also Pre-dates Islam
and Sufism is their mystery school
@@dougyohooglefrogtownrovers9017That was one part of the world. In many others, people were living past age 100 and living what we'd call modest or even poor by some people's 'today's standards'.
The bottomline as I understand is that if you believe in God, then rest in his love that even when you face suffering he still loves you and that all the pain will still work out good for you. We have to trust the character of God...
I am not Jewish either but every video I see from this man is yet another "blessing" ... When someone is speaking with such peacefulness, serenity, and genuine kindness from within, it's worth every minute of your time to watch him. God Bless you rabbi Dr. Abraham for the wonderful perspectives you share with the world. And it's that genuine kindness and care you convey with each of your messages to all of us that make me say you are a Blessing from God. As a Christian myself, we have a phrase in our prayers which summarizes exactly the point you make in this video: "Let Thy Word Be" ... God Bless you again rabbi Dr. Abraham.
First you get angry that all those bad things happen to you, then you desparated and depressed. Next stage is when you start to accept things. You realize the only way to numb the pain is to face it and feel it untill it goes away. At the last stage of suffering, you finally get over it but you know it's a part inside of you that make you the person you become today.
I am a Muslim And I love the believers of all religion, his words are precious
Let me ask you but do you married with a none musulim man? A Cristian for example who believes in Jesus Christ the son of God?
@@Assad_ nope they cant dude xD
@@Assad_ they can Muslims women or men can get married with non Muslims i know a Muslim woman married from a Christian here in Damascus
Me too but there a many false and Mad people in the religion
Same here I am a Muslim and I do love his beautiful mind .. May he Rest In Peace 😞
HIGHLY INTELLIGENT
I’m a practicing Roman Catholic, but I love listening to Rabbi Twerski. My take on suffering is that it brings us closer to God by increasing our dependence on Him, thus abandoning ourselves to His divine and inscrutable perfect will so that we can become co-participants with Him in bringing forth a greater good from this suffering. Thank you for sharing your wonderful insights and wisdom with us! 🙏🏻
Catholicism is definelty satanic
Your government is Roman like all the others
what you describe is horribly depressing
Pure wisdom, thank you Rabbi
Nah, this guy is a bit confused
Religion is not real
and you will never prove it
sorry
I just feel really grateful for encountering the Rabbi Twerski on youtube. I like to listen to him talk. Insightful, humorous, human. Bless you Rabbi 🙏❤️ Sjalom
LIFE IS A SONG .....THAT IS PUT TO REST AT THE END ..YOU WERE ONE SOUND ONE MELODY .
Interesting. I went through a hellish 30 or so years dealing with anxiety and depression and feeling like i am useless and unlovable. Yet when i look back on those 30 years i feel like it has made me a deeper person i am more real and less fake and i think i am stronger having been through all that. therefore the suffering itself is not a bad thing.. it can be good for us. maybe!
So I'm close to 24 now! So I have 6 years of suffering left !!?
I am Christian and this man is a Great man
Christians do not exist
Have you heard of Humans?
@@je-freenorman7787 Have you heard of pod people? They are among us.
@@MichaelDBiggs Try to understand that those that govern over you, need you to comply. So they con you into it with religion. Religion is not real. They need you, to be a believer. For your own Confusion. A gospel is a godspell. Movies are gospels on the silver screen. They are also not real. They control your ego with godspels and scripture and movies and they give you ure script to control your actions. All you need to do is comply and believe in them. As above, so below explains this to you. What ever happens in the heavans or the Meta or the Belief World, will be mirrored on Earth. So they control the belief world, with religion, and we all accept them as masters. MonArchy is OneMaster and the church has always been part of the Monarchy. They use religion to steal your own authority and make you accept government slavery , as normal . You are being conned by your religious cult, called Government
@@je-freenorman7787 oh, son, I am the free one! Neither Religion, nor the media, nor the government, nor "they", have control over me.
May you see the Light and enter into the Eternal.
The Time is drawing nigh. may you not be found wanting.
Rabbi Abraham you are a hero
Thank you, dear Sir, for everything.
Wow, now that’s what you call an explanation 💚
תודה רבה ❤
In my oppinion there is suffering with a sense behind it but also senseless suffering. In the first case suffering can help us to grow. But some suffering is so hard that it can never justify its sense if it has one. So we have to accept suffering as a part of our lives and we have to avoid it whereit doen't make sense at all and is completeley unnecessary.
Holy hell, I've been saying this same analogy for years before I ever saw this! That's so cool!
thanks rabbi. your work continues to help others.
Beautiful! Never saw it this way! Wise man!
Lots of love.. You are a blessing
I love this guy. So wise
I'm just beginning to explore Judaism after years of being disillusioned with the confusing doctrine of Christianity. Plus, if the person Jesus practiced judaism why aren't christians practicing Judaism? I've experienced huge losses especially the loss of my daughter to cancer when she was 18 years old. This explanation of suffering is the only one that has given me any comfort. I wish I had found this sooner. It would have alleviated 15 years of emotional torment and anger with God.
Thank you.
What a blessing this man is. I have such respect for him.
Suffering, as far I can realize, exists for those who do not suffer to alleviate it for others, if they have the will and capacity to do so. It's also simply part of the human condition; If there wasn't suffering, where'd you put your faith if you never needed help? Most likely, you'd be your own 'God', and not give a shit about anything or anyone.
His explanations and comparisons to life are so easy to understand. He is so wise.
I like that meaningful answer to suffering, dear rabbi, said it wisely, I don't understand suffering, but in faith in God I accept that. May God bless you and give you long life with heath lyrics body and sound mind.
So calming. Thank you Rabbi.
Without extreme pain & suffering there could be no intense pleasure & unspeakable joy.
This Rabbi is full of knowledge wow I would love to sit at his feet and listen to him all day Simple Yod He Vav He Bless you all you all know who that is
Hi, One thing that GOD does not allow us is to mention his name like you did. I hope you will be kind enough to remove it. Thank you!
So many things reminds me on the movie "a fiddler on the roof". thank you!
Excellent.
The Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire
Really can't stop watching this Man
Life is suffering. Life is everything. Love is the answer
I would have to strongly agree with this man and I am not Jewish. His example echoes a lot of other things in life. Experiences, science, technology, human behaviour, emotions. Sometimes we have to accept the fact we really don’t know anything or never will know the answer to everything and that’s ok. Faith is all we have sometimes.
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Allah (God) says in Quran
. . "And when they listen to the revelation received by the Messenger (Muhammad SAW), you see their eyes overflowing with tears, for they recognize the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! we believe; write us down among the witnesses." [Quran, 5:83] ........Allah describes the qualities of His pious servants in the Quran that they
have the fear and consciousness of Allah and upon hearing the Quran, their hearts become soft. You are fortunate to be chosen from among such people. We humbly request you to make dua to Allah that He chooses us also among His. . .
This is probably the best explanation of suffering that I’ve ever heard.
You dont get out much do you?
Add hear to listen and do both
Religion is all a con job for the rulers to control the masses
Dr. Abraham Twersky - Thank you for posting this video. I have read a few of the books written by you and like all of them a lot. I hope more of your videos can be posted on youtube to spread the wisdom.
Honestly, I'm Jewish, believe in God, but the best answer to account for suffering comes from Buddhism, not Judaism. It's organically related to desire; let go of desire, and you let go of suffering. That has always made the most sense to me.
It's in Judaism as well. There's a Kabbalah book, very well known among ppl who study Kabbalah that says that all our sufferings come from a lack of things that we wish we had and it's so deep that your head might explode trying to understand it. Anyway, it's not that simple, after all, there's a reason why we want things. Also, in Judaism, there's a thing about reincarnation, which can give another point of view.
Look at the people of the nations that listen to the words of the holy Rav and express their admiration for his wise practical teachings of fundamental Torah concepts. If only they knew that Rav Twersky is but a drop in the spiritual bucket as to the number of great Rabbanim and Sages that have and continue to come out of Am Yisroel. A true blessing to the world. The farther we go into our past the greater our teachers were. It brings me much joy to see this sanctification of G-D holy name.
I hope this rabbi is still around and doing well. What a treasure and pleasure to listen to him speak. The kindness on his face speaks as much as his words..
Just passed away this week
@@johnjacobs7426 Wow thank you I wasn't aware. Dr Twerski should have had a television show and maybe this country wouldn't be half as screwed as it is right now. RIP to a national treasure.
Although am not a big believer in god, but I love the way Dr Abraham explains here..thanks
Without suffering there would be no need for love.
G d bless you Rabbi
God made you to be the light of his words. The way you describe things so simple with profound meaning and trust in God, makes us more to trust in God. In quran kareem God said if believers don,t trust him completely and they don't, t have any hope in him, they are not real believers. Trust in God as dr twerski mentioned is first sign of faith.god bless you and have a long live with healthy body and sound mind.
This reminds me exactly of "A Serious Man" when he goes to see the second rabbi.
Bravo!!!
That's deep
Wisdom for all the ages!
Ironically, am going through a period of intense suffering and pain that the doctors don't understand. It's physical pain and it's very real. Higher level of pain than most would like to tolerate. I don't understand it because I've had it on and off for too long of a time. It may through the grace of God go away. And it seems it might for good. As a Christian there is certainly value in suffering. Some people say, if you get to a certain and age and don't have some kind of pain somethings wrong. Either way, not to heighten the previous sentence one can embrace the suffering for a greater a gentler good. Perhaps the pain was a good thing for a good purpose. I know I embraced it wit the help of the doctors (as I believe a prudent person should). How ironic I found this video.
Physical pain is something else! I've had my heavy share of mental/emotional pain that's for sure!!
Do you believe in karma? If not fine but I believe in karma and believe your pain might have been to purify your karma. That's just my idea you may believe different. I like to believe in karma because then there is a justice going on.
This assumes all evil comes for a greater good. I don't know why I should assume this. Many times there seems to be no greater good behind.
All things good and bad work together for the good of those who love, fear and worship the Most High. We may not be shown for days months or years but if we dont grow bitter, remember all of humanity are brothers and sisters and share in the circle of life, we will have a blessing that wouldnt have been possible without that "thing" that caused our suffering. Have to be prrsent to realize it when it comes. Suffering causes many people to have mental problems which makes things worse and lose perspective on the bigger picture. Cannot be too selfish in wondering why a thing we call bad happened. Most Highs ways and thoughts are far beyond our comprehensions as is the true Bigger Picture which we cannot see obviously
@hpyrkh3 I think most people are misunderstanding what he is saying. He is saying that when God puts us under trials there is a wisdom behind it, even behind the pain and we not wanting the pain. Even if we, the slaves of God don't know the reason behind the pain, ther eis a wisdom behind it but patience is key.
I'm a Muslim and I just wanted to say we believe in pretty much the same thing there. Sources do offer a few possible reasons for suffering (atonement, to bring one to God, or raise one before Him, to give man the opportunity to achieve something which he might not have were it not for suffering, etc.)...
Shafi Chowdhury I just left Islam but I agree. Islam had many beautiful teachings.
God did not make people suffer people make people suffer because of power. That's what i experience. The more powerful people think they have . God can deal with people better than we can Thank you for that message💜🙏🇺🇸
So crystal clear explanation.
What would life be without any pain?
Perhaps empty of GOD.
I like Rabbi twerski views but on this one I refer to Rabbi Harold Kushner, his answer is we get into trouble when we promote a all powerful God. God is not pulling our strings in other words we are not puppets ! His book When Bad Things Happen To Good People is the best answer to this question !
his suffering makes him free
He nails it with securities, believers hang on to god like a scared child hangs on to his mother
Unfortunately Dr Twerski has passed on. He will be missed by many . He has authored dozens of books for those interested .
just wow
The truth is, we don’t want to know the reasons behind people’s suffering. If we’d know the reasons, we wouldn’t try to alleviate suffering or stop evil.
The very reason we try to stop evil and do whatever we can to ease suffering is because we are not ok with it, because we don’t know the reasons.
What kind of people would we be - and what kind of world would it be - if we knew the reasons…?
I think suffering is connected to purpose. Without purpose we often feel we are the victims "oh the world is happening to me and I must suffer through this", however, when we have a purpose we do not suffer. we often move through difficult times or struggles. Think about having a broken leg. Now you know this leg will heal. You may experience pain during the healing process but you also know there is a time frame to the pain, and the goal at the end will be walking with a healthy leg again. Now without that knowledge that there is indeed a goal, or purpose to be fulfilled, if we are to accept that our leg is destroyed and not understand why or when things can get better, that is when we suffer. We introduce fear and uncertainty into the mix. We become the victim of reality instead of the creator of reality. I think Dr. Twerski kind of understands this as he finds his comfort as God. He understands that there may be a portion of time when things are more difficult than others but at the end there is a reward. I believe he is more correct at the beggining that there is no God and that suffering just happens. I believe suffering is the choice to play the victim instead of being proactive and taking a hold of life and doing purposeful things. All things are temporary, unless you make a routine of it. Suffering is a behavioural routine of a temporary emotion.
If I could choose between this Rabbi or Brad Pitt to be my husbabd I choose the Rabbi !
Excellent choice
استغفر الله
You can’t say this
how bout me tho?
...and that ultimately the good and the bad of this world is a token of God's mercy because the believer receives for both much more in return if he can respond to it by moving closer to God, like the child who clings onto mum :)
Wowxxxxxx thankuxxxxxx
What i think is the most important takeaway from this, is that one must have a basis of love and trust like the child i n his mother and then he will be able to trust his mother when she puts him thru something. But what about someone that never trusted anyone in his formative years?
Hey there, Abraham Twerski and many other Jewish scholars say that trusting in someone or something else is a natural act of our mind and soul. While we might say that we have never deposited our faith and trust in anyone, the reality is that we are actually trusting on something and/or someone everyday.
Like for instance, if you take your car to the mechanic for any mechanic failure, once you're given your car back you feel at ease, thinking that your car has been repaired. However, we don't know if that's actually true. What if, by human error, there's some tiny screw that wasn't tighten properly? We don't think about that. We just take our car to drive it as if nothing has happened. That's trust. You trust your mechanic. You trust that your car won't give up on you anymore.
Another example would be, every time that we take a step, we don't think about our bones breaking due to osteoporosis or something else. You trust your body.
If you're going to sit on a chair, you trust that it won't break.
There are a lot of people that we put our trust on. Even if it's for vain things, we're still trusting them. The funny thing, at least to me, is that sometimes we trust people that we have only met a few minutes ago.
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Suffering is the natural consequence of free will and learning.
Suffering occurs because of the choices we and others make and what those choices set into motion.
We cannot remove these choices or opportunities for learning, or we take away free will.
Therefore suffering is a consequence of learning and free will.
Genius you've just smashed up A.Shopenhauer's theory about free will and representation of world...
Humans have agency in remedying suffering
A true tzakid!!
God is beyond man's understanding of Good and Evil!
God is beyond human comprehension and cannot be defined by the average man!
God blesses...God curses!
The fairest of all and it/he indeed knows what its/he's doing!
God works in mysterious ways.
I think humans should accept the fate they have been given by the supreme
The physical world generates itself without any input minus the starting conditions. I don't know why dualism or pluralism is so hard to come across, it seems so obvious to someone like me who has a good grasp on evolution but feels spiritual
I began to look at it like this several years ago: G-d IS the "doctor with the needle who gets all stabbity on the children"
The mom goes into the exam room, the doctor looks the kid over... listens to his chest, knocks the funny little hammer on his knees... kid's fine with it, no instruments of torture are as of yet on display....
Doc winks at mama and steps out of the room... mom grabs the little stuffed toy or whatever to soothe the kid's nerves.... doc comes back in through that un-noticed back door (do they still have these? swear I remember them but I'm kinda old...) and sneaks up to the kid, jabs the needle in his arm and the kid squawks for a second until he realizes it's all over, goes back to playing with the toy....
NOW, I KNOW suffering isn't this cut-and-dried.... the gist of it is that G-d does whatever He can to soften the blow....
i like how he says "right?" all the time 🤭
sarebbe bello poter avere i sottotitoli in italiano 🌷
for some its suffering, for others its a war against chaos. which one are you
Is there a dark truck being played when we stumble across a viral video of a human mistreating a dog and a puppy?
How am I supposed to feel towards it?
Sounds silly, but I find myself fighting between logic and feelings.
Rabbi I do not understand suffering either and sadly there is no rational explanation that can satisfy broken people.
Mistr rabbi viete prečo Abrahám mál rohy ná hlave
if a little child dies slowly suffering enormously, what is good in suffering for this child ?
Lolita Mike Just because we don't have the capacity to understand what benefit it will have in the end doesn't mean there wasn't one. That is why he chooses faith
There is no god. No one cares about what you are going through. It's just a life cycle
If there is a God perhaps, like in the movie "Oh God", God doesn't know how to make an up without a down, an inside without an outside, joy without pain. It seems to me that that is about the best explaination I have ever heard. Of course, there really is no God and road kill and infants with cancer is simply part of the natural world.
the natural world is a part of god.
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is there not a contradiction here? the first 2 minutes of this video explain why there is suffering in this world, and the last 17 seconds say that we cannot understand suffering. this is something that's always driven me nuts when i hear things like this. what am i missing?
Tauriel: Why does it hurt so much?
Thranduil: Because it was real.
I wasn't expecting Twerski talking about physical pain, but about emotional pain. The one that makes more damage.
We suffer emotional pain because we value the things we lose; somebody we love, our freedom, or a never realized plan.
Psychology provides a more realistic answer than religion to this question, but in this case Twerski provided basically nothing. Not even a question.
Mr. Abraham... With all due respect... Muslims have a better answear to that question. A very beautiful answear.
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25 F*CKING yrs!!! I’m so tired...
God doesn't cause our suffering. We human beings keep being cruel to each other and to God's creatures, that's what causes suffering. Not God at all. He doesn't interfere with us in any way. But he makes it easier to bare. You can't implicitly trust humans but when you have a great raport with God, you do see a change for the better. In yourself, and in others.
If we dont understand suffering, then it's pointless. It's only like kicking a dog that doesnt understand what it did to deserve being kicked. However, if we could understand WHY we got this suffering, what we DID do to deserve it, we could actually LEARN something from it specifically and grow from it. Yes, we can still grow from it but in a much more difficult way, most of the time directionless trying to grasp at any reason it might be happening but we dont know. Really ridiculous and cruel.
@naavaleh He is saying that he doesn't understand why there is suffering in the world, but he believes that God does. He doesn't explain why there is suffering in the world.
He actually did explain it .. listern to the analogy of the doctors office ...
And lam sure he'd have plenty others ..
In my life lam glad l didn't understand it at the time it enabled me to cling onto God . If ld known what lay ahead of me without that security l would have gone mentally and emotionally insane
It’s not about religion, let’s not make it, the only way we could is by saying what religion you are, This is knowledge not religion
Redemption,!? but why? The horrible test
And suffering are so polarising !! Simply horror boiled down to extreme situations of unalloyed cruelty ..what is an eternal being playing at?
The problem of his argument is this:
an all powerful god is not equal to a human being(a mother), so why can't an all powerful god explain to me why there is so much suffering in the world? Either god is not all powerful or god is not all good (so the god created so much suffering). I'm actually scared if an all powerful god exists, it represents god is not all good, I would much prefer an all good god with limited power.
The rabbi is a very wise person, and I think he knows his argument is weak too, since in the end he basically stated he just believes God in faith.
Then I point out that faith is not a reliable pathway to truth, I could have faith in blowing up a plane so I could go to heaven. If I say killing people is good, and I believe it because of faith, how could anyone change my mind? Faith is therefore very dangerous.
Suffering also can be caused by beeing Not really the best Version of yourself and one can See it as a call to Progress in live. If i just say Suffering comes from god and i wont understand it anyway i probably wont get to that thought and become a better Person.
Dissociation
Replace "god" with "the way the universe works", and this lovely and enlightening metaphor becomes applicable to all lay men as well :)
I have a message that I’m sharing where I can, some may not want to hear this, but I ask that we stay polite and seek truth together. 😊
Love is an action. Feed the hungry, house the homeless, father the orphan, and protect the defenseless and vulnerable.
Read the Word for yourself, not only relying on others for guidance. Pray for guidance.Yahushua/Yeshua - His Hebrew name who is usually called (Jesus) taught to keep the whole Word. Including the Law/Torah. Matthew 5:17 “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not [g]the smallest letter or stroke of a letter shall pass from the Law, until all is accomplished! 19 Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches [h]others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever [i]keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Read 1 John. John tells us that sin is lawlessness, and that we must keep the commandments. Trust in the atonement of Yahushua/Yeshua who is usually called Jesus, and keep God (YHWH)'s whole Word/commandments. Revelation 12:17 So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. Go to parableofthevineyard youtube channel for information about the bible and good bible studies. I'm in no way paid or sent by him for advertising. I just have learned a lot from his content. He's just a man who is trying to learn as well. :) Yeshua died so we may be resurrected to eternal life.....