Rabbi, i love your tecahing and message. I wish you a blessing, God Blessed 🙏 Btw, i would like to have a talk with you in real life. You have wisdom 👍
I was an atheist most of my life but about 7-8 years ago I became a believer. I won't tell the crazy details of how this happened. I do not have a religion and when I have prayed for guidance (regarding religion and which one to follow) the only answer I've received is to "look within". My problem is that I often get angry at God. Even at the height of my anger I am afraid that I may be punished for it and afterwards (once my anger subsides) I always feel guilty. I know that I'm not what I would consider to be a "good person" and my anger comes from things happening that I think are bad... recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey, for instance. I realize that as humans we can't hope to have an all-encompassing understanding...but I still can't help feeling like God could just tell us, "I know that this seems terrible, and you are NOT capable of understanding, but trust me... it's for the best."
We don't get punished for being 'angry' with G-d. You're developing a relationship with Him, so that's what happens. We want G-d to "do better" with our world. Guilt is corrosive. It doesn't serve a purpose. Maybe instead of being angry though talk to G-d. That might make you feel better. Enjoy your journey.
God revealed himself to the Jewish people. God delivered them, redeem them from slavery. God gave them a nation so God calls all people whom he has the power to deliver out of any slavery freedom, here and hereafter. So what a joy it is to serve your creator who is your deliverer.
We would serve G-d even if He didn't do all of those things for us, as we agreed to. He asked "will you" and we said "yes" before knowing what G-d wanted.
You can't love or appreciate God without actually knowing God....actually perceiving that infinite Being in yourself (your deepest nature is that absolute Being). Then devotion to God is real and not some superficial intellectual pursuit or mood making. Then the service to God is spontaneous without effort; a natural impulse of feeling from a real connection to God. Personally, I have been practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) regularly since 1972 and have grown in awareness of that absolute Being with some moments of exceptional recognition of it in meditation and outside of meditation in activity. I don't know of other techniques that work as well. I think the Jewish tradition had them at sometime, but I don't know of any effective ones currently. I will say that my experience of that absolute Being through the practice of TM has given me a much greater appreciation for the knowledge contained in Jewish teachings which does reflect a profound understanding of the absolute level of life.
I'm Jewish!! "BELIEVE" means that u don't see it & can't proof it. one's u can see it or proof it it's not called believe. If you ask someone if it's raining? if u ask him proof or you want to see means you not believe him. Same u can't believe in God if you need proof or if you wanted to see. then it's not called believe! We BELIEVE that everything happens is from GOD with out any questions
You don't have to 'love Him enough to serve Him'. Start with serving. Do for others. When you start thinking about yourself, think about someone else. Make a phone call. Go talk with a neighbor to see how they're doing. When you realize you're needed you'll be happy. That can translate to gratitude. You're on your way to 'loving G-d'.
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary traces the word back to an old Latin word religio meaning "taboo, restraint." A deeper study discovers the word comes from the two words re and ligare. Re is a prefix meaning "return," and ligare means "to bind;" in other words, "return to bondage." Do you still want some of that "old-time religion"? Rabbi, I thought the above might help you get a better sense of the origins of the word religion. Now Issac had a real purpose for being born according to the story but for many of us non jew or jew we don't have that grand of a purpose or reason for existing so it gets kind of boring unless we tap into that innate feeling within us that provides us with our own reasoning and sense of purpose for living. Thanx for sharing Rabbi Manis this was helpful. Later lol
You're amusing. If you listen to Rabbi Friedman, he doesn't advocate for 'religion'. He advocates for serving G-d, for having a relationship with Him. Nothing else. It doesn't need to be accomplished by being a Jew, meaning no conversion needed. Though it is the essential part of being a Jew.
@@nomorecensoringme So sorry to inform you but Judaism has direct ties to christianity which is a religion. The Torah is attached to a religious book known to the christians as the bible are you aware of that? Guilt by associations. Just like the christians and musilims, judaism professes itself to not be a religion but a way of life that just so happend to be part of a religiously based social construct. Jewish laws can be found in the christian courts for instance, the ten commandments can be found carved on any US State court house in the USA and abroad. Jews like the cjristians like to lie about how they are not part of the system but as I pointed out that isn't the case. Jews are a part of the westernized social construct from religion to business and this has been going on since after the Spanish Inquistition. Judaism is a westernized religion with the same exact god as christianity which is a religion. Now if jews do not want to be associate with religion then you may need to cut ties with the christian, one by having them remove the torah from their bible. Lets see how that works out. 🤣🤣
@@nomorecensoringme Oh and Judaism is a conversion religion or I wouldn't have been invited to convert to it. It is not based on tribalism as is the case with American Indians whom need dna to confirm their backgrounds. Judaism doen't offer that because no such a people known as Israelites ever existed and that is according to The University of Tel Aviv as of now. Your god is also the same god of the christians and muslims which are part of conversion religions. How different is judaism compared to the other two other than the jews having a longer conversion process. I like the Rabbi, he says interesting stuff to me plus his heart to me is in the right place and knowledge wisdom and the like can come from anywhere at anytime from anyone including religious advocates even if they lie about their position on religion. If your god made all men and women on the earth then why the separation and political division?
God..the absolute, eternal Being is pure consciousness/knowingness. At that transcendental level of existence there is nothing but that Oneness (The Shema says, "....The Lord is One), nondual without qualities. However, as consciousness it must, by it's nature, be conscious of something. The only thing it can be conscious of, if you were to arbitrarily pick a point in a timeless sphere of Being, is itself. In that process of knowing itself it creates a notion of three: a knower, a known and a process of knowing. Each of those notions are also conscious, so they are aware of each other...and, so on in a infinitely spontaneous manner, an infinite rigamarole of notions or perspectives are created and exist as infinite dynamic principles within that the Oneness of Being (God). So.....God is, at the same time, infinitely silent and infinitely dynamic. Those infinite dynamic perspectives, ultimately, manifest as vibration/sound (in the beginning was the word...or as some translations say..."..in the beginning of creating was the word) which are the seeds of all the laws of nature that create, maintain and destroy all that exists in manifest creation. To the point of why are we born? God created the human nervous system as the means for something in manifest creation to be conscious of God. That is the potential of the human nervous system...to be conscious of God. We are born, die, born again and again until we refine the nervous system to be a spontaneous reflector of the infinite intelligence and creativity of that absolute Being (God). Not that we become God. There is a metaphor from maybe the Zohar...I'm not sure...that it's like we are a spark of that flame of God. The spark isn't the flame...but it's nature reflects the nature of the flame. It's our purpose to realize the God's intention to know itself from the field of the manifest.
Interesting sharing. The only thing I'd say though is that you've put some limitations on G-d that aren't valid. He is what He is, all that He is, not contained in any way that adapts to our realization of Him. And yet in order for us to know Him, not to be overwhelmed by Him, we do it.
@@nomorecensoringme In trying to describe the experience of God which is a state of Being beyond relative existence and therefore something that can't be grasped by the intellect and put into words accurately, one can only attribute qualities to that which has no qualities as it is absolute Oneness. I want to emphasize that it is a vain pursuit to try and know, as in experience God through intellectual understanding. This can only give an imagining of the experience of God, not the actual experience. That absolute reality cannot be grasped by the mind and intellect; it can be experienced as an innocent state of consciousness just as innocently we experience waking, dreaming and sleeping. natural states of consciousness are spontaneously experienced due to the functioning of the nervous system. When we have purified our nervous system to function fully as God designed it to function then we innocently experience God as a 24/7 reality in our awareness.
Interesting question. I would ask why a soul would need "free will" after leaving the body? What would "free will" accomplish in heaven? Now when we all return to earth after the Redemption, would we have "free will" is even more interesting.
I am not on this sight by accident..two of God's holy angels...told me about rabbi Mandis....at the time...few years ago...i knew no rabbi...but they said ...to me...not now...but you will at the allotted time. [ I had my doubts I confess...God's angels are tricky.../now I smile..//few years later here I am. [ So yes I share the company of God's holy angels...they are filled with surprises and mystery./ I am always left...bone chilled and mizramized. ...some are tall../some not so tall....they can even write. I think..don't blame me..//not my blame angels are very real.//happyness and ignorance was mind...when they just lived in books and flew about with wings../ they don't. It was a harsh lesson for me to learn. [ I am not perfect./I am not rich ../nope. [ Why me ? Not sure. ] Moses the ark of the convenant....it haunts me. [ At first glance one would be forgiven, it wasn't build by human craftsmen....the olive branchs...the twisted branch's../all interwine.../the olive leaves in perfect detail...near the lid...which over laps like a heavy stone slab....don't open the box...don't lift the lid...for your sake and for mine../least we die. [ Then I hear water dripping...first a few drops...then more...and my feet are in the cool water...washing my feet. [ This spiritual ] not actual...understand. then I think there are millions of others more deserving, then me. [ God's holy angels know loads about the many commandments../the angels said to me...there where more then 10 and I must learn them. [ And they pick rabbi Mandis...and I am a keen student. ] Perhaps some commandments are secret...so I cannot ask. Indeed God is perfect...and he moves in the most mysterious ways. [ When I get lazy...the angels give me a prog...waky waky.[ Various methods...some amusing....I can be a lazy baby sometimes../one time they argue...she can be such a lazy baby...give her a gentle shake.../hurt not the earth...nor the sea...nor the beast of the fields...until we have sealed the servants of God on the gentiles foreheads...the angels taught me that...isn't that nice. [ It was very long...some too difficult to comprehend for me. It's been a few months since my last experience with God's angels...less is more...they are very tricky. [ Like a naughty child...I can have some fun...to persue my other interests...which is ok. My IQ is 295...but I value my emotional intelligence and moral compass../and empathy much more...without these my IQ would be a curse. That all aside....everyone God bless.
I like how did you breakdown the purpose of life however I disagree with your understanding that God/Lord needs created creature. The rule that the creature needs the creator. Another concept that God/lord couldn’t be perfect if God needs anything!
You don't like it, since it doesn't conform to what you previously learned, so it's not true? What's the point of learning advanced concepts if you hold on to the simple ones?
Your are right Rabbi,. All i know is Judaism, is like a Citizen of JUDAH one of a Tribes of ISRAEL(JACOB) and JEWS is the People,. JUDAISM is not a Religion. its a Tribe.. ISRAEL(JACOB) had a 12 TRIBES..
(seen as a father) let’s say she’s a daughter… “why does my dad [g*d in her context] have needs because I am the daughter I have needs…?” • Hmm, but doesn’t her dad need… to eat (as rabbi said) rest and go to work? maybe even have quality time and talk with his kids and wife? these scale up and down yes’ 🥰
so i have a buddy, and he’s really good at hiking. And the other day, he climbed up to the top of a local mountain in record time and loved the whole experience… but the thing is, he climbed up… looked around… and there was no one there with him to enjoy the perfect peak. • so he took pictures and showed me, it was beautiful, but i only saw beautiful: earth, sky, land, and water.
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I'm a Christian and love you Rabbi, your teachings are thought provoking
Me too. I love the way he talks too. Very humble and calm yet full of wisdom.
Thank you Rabbi for your kindness
Thank you Rabbi, I always like your videos as you help me to be a better person........... from Australia.
Thank you Rabbi for your wonderful logic and humor.
Good Morning RABBI. Hope your having a wonderful week !
Rabbi, i love your tecahing and message. I wish you a blessing, God Blessed 🙏
Btw, i would like to have a talk with you in real life. You have wisdom 👍
Thankyou immensely for a great lesson I needed to hear your wisdom today.
Thank you.
B"H! Thank you, HaShem wants to be with us!!
So deep insight. I enjoy you very much dear rabbi. You deepen my Jewish life.
Thank you for being a light of nations!
Rabbi I love your teaching,Thank you very much
AMEN.
Thank you
Listened to this one with my parents (by accident). 🤦
Still amazing, Rabbi!
You are really smart and good i hope you make more videos
Great teaching Rabbi Friedman.
❤
Blessed are you Hashem. May Hashem bless you Rabbi.
I was an atheist most of my life but about 7-8 years ago I became a believer. I won't tell the crazy details of how this happened.
I do not have a religion and when I have prayed for guidance (regarding religion and which one to follow) the only answer I've received is to "look within".
My problem is that I often get angry at God. Even at the height of my anger I am afraid that I may be punished for it and afterwards (once my anger subsides) I always feel guilty.
I know that I'm not what I would consider to be a "good person" and my anger comes from things happening that I think are bad... recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey, for instance.
I realize that as humans we can't hope to have an all-encompassing understanding...but I still can't help feeling like God could just tell us, "I know that this seems terrible, and you are NOT capable of understanding, but trust me... it's for the best."
Consider looking into Shame work . For me toxic shame hid G-d from me
We don't get punished for being 'angry' with G-d. You're developing a relationship with Him, so that's what happens. We want G-d to "do better" with our world. Guilt is corrosive. It doesn't serve a purpose.
Maybe instead of being angry though talk to G-d. That might make you feel better.
Enjoy your journey.
God revealed himself to the Jewish people. God delivered them, redeem them from slavery. God gave them a nation so God calls all people whom he has the power to deliver out of any slavery freedom, here and hereafter. So what a joy it is to serve your creator who is your deliverer.
We would serve G-d even if He didn't do all of those things for us, as we agreed to. He asked "will you" and we said "yes" before knowing what G-d wanted.
Thank you. Amien 💕💕🥰🥰
I can bet we all ask ourselves that question, and can’t never give ourselves a clear answer. What am I going to do in heaven?
Thank you rabbi
Thanks rabbi 🙏
Rabbi i am Itzayana your so smart
😀✡️ ❤ I love Rabbi Friedman : his wisdom and his humor 😂
Can someone please tell me how to love God enough to serve Him? I believe, I want to serve but for some reason I always go back to serving myself.
You can't love or appreciate God without actually knowing God....actually perceiving that infinite Being in yourself (your deepest nature is that absolute Being). Then devotion to God is real and not some superficial intellectual pursuit or mood making. Then the service to God is spontaneous without effort; a natural impulse of feeling from a real connection to God. Personally, I have been practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) regularly since 1972 and have grown in awareness of that absolute Being with some moments of exceptional recognition of it in meditation and outside of meditation in activity. I don't know of other techniques that work as well. I think the Jewish tradition had them at sometime, but I don't know of any effective ones currently. I will say that my experience of that absolute Being through the practice of TM has given me a much greater appreciation for the knowledge contained in Jewish teachings which does reflect a profound understanding of the absolute level of life.
I'm Jewish!! "BELIEVE" means that u don't see it & can't proof it. one's u can see it or proof it it's not called believe. If you ask someone if it's raining? if u ask him proof or you want to see means you not believe him. Same u can't believe in God if you need proof or if you wanted to see. then it's not called believe! We BELIEVE that everything happens is from GOD with out any questions
God created the world for good's doesn't created to touching just have to "BELIEVE"
We suppose to do his commands n use his secret name father and son n shabba
You don't have to 'love Him enough to serve Him'. Start with serving. Do for others. When you start thinking about yourself, think about someone else. Make a phone call. Go talk with a neighbor to see how they're doing. When you realize you're needed you'll be happy. That can translate to gratitude. You're on your way to 'loving G-d'.
Your favorite singer must be Billy joel
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary traces the word back to an old Latin word religio meaning "taboo, restraint."
A deeper study discovers the word comes from the two words re and ligare. Re is a prefix meaning "return,"
and ligare means "to bind;" in other words, "return to bondage." Do you still want some of that "old-time religion"?
Rabbi, I thought the above might help you get a better sense of the origins of the word religion. Now Issac had
a real purpose for being born according to the story but for many of us non jew or jew we don't have that grand
of a purpose or reason for existing so it gets kind of boring unless we tap into that innate feeling within us that
provides us with our own reasoning and sense of purpose for living. Thanx for sharing Rabbi Manis this was
helpful. Later lol
You're amusing. If you listen to Rabbi Friedman, he doesn't advocate for 'religion'. He advocates for serving G-d, for having a relationship with Him. Nothing else. It doesn't need to be accomplished by being a Jew, meaning no conversion needed. Though it is the essential part of being a Jew.
@@nomorecensoringme So sorry to inform you but Judaism has direct ties to christianity which is a religion. The Torah is attached to a religious book known to the christians as the bible are you aware of that? Guilt by associations. Just like the christians and musilims, judaism professes itself to not be a religion but a way of life that just so happend to be part of a religiously based social construct. Jewish laws can be found in the christian courts for instance, the ten commandments can be found carved on any US State court house in the USA and abroad. Jews like the cjristians like to lie about how they are not part of the system but as I pointed out that isn't the case. Jews are a part of the westernized social construct from religion to business and this has been going on since after the Spanish Inquistition. Judaism is a westernized religion with the same exact god as christianity which is a religion. Now if jews do not want to be associate with religion then you may need to cut ties with the christian, one by having them remove the torah from their bible. Lets see how that works out. 🤣🤣
@@nomorecensoringme Oh and Judaism is a conversion religion or I wouldn't have been invited to convert to it. It is not based on tribalism as is the case with American Indians whom need dna to confirm their backgrounds. Judaism doen't offer that because no such a people known as Israelites ever existed and that is according to The University of Tel Aviv as of now. Your god is also the same god of the christians and muslims which are part of conversion religions. How different is judaism compared to the other two other than the jews having a longer conversion process. I like the Rabbi, he says interesting stuff to me plus his heart to me is in the right place and knowledge wisdom and the like can come from anywhere at anytime from anyone including religious advocates even if they lie about their position on religion. If your god made all men and women on the earth then why the separation and political division?
This rabbi is like Sartre,
And looks like Gandolph
👍🙏
Vitamin is a drug? Why?
God..the absolute, eternal Being is pure consciousness/knowingness. At that transcendental level of existence there is nothing but that Oneness (The Shema says, "....The Lord is One), nondual without qualities. However, as consciousness it must, by it's nature, be conscious of something. The only thing it can be conscious of, if you were to arbitrarily pick a point in a timeless sphere of Being, is itself. In that process of knowing itself it creates a notion of three: a knower, a known and a process of knowing. Each of those notions are also conscious, so they are aware of each other...and, so on in a infinitely spontaneous manner, an infinite rigamarole of notions or perspectives are created and exist as infinite dynamic principles within that the Oneness of Being (God). So.....God is, at the same time, infinitely silent and infinitely dynamic. Those infinite dynamic perspectives, ultimately, manifest as vibration/sound (in the beginning was the word...or as some translations say..."..in the beginning of creating was the word) which are the seeds of all the laws of nature that create, maintain and destroy all that exists in manifest creation. To the point of why are we born? God created the human nervous system as the means for something in manifest creation to be conscious of God. That is the potential of the human nervous system...to be conscious of God. We are born, die, born again and again until we refine the nervous system to be a spontaneous reflector of the infinite intelligence and creativity of that absolute Being (God). Not that we become God. There is a metaphor from maybe the Zohar...I'm not sure...that it's like we are a spark of that flame of God. The spark isn't the flame...but it's nature reflects the nature of the flame. It's our purpose to realize the God's intention to know itself from the field of the manifest.
Interesting sharing. The only thing I'd say though is that you've put some limitations on G-d that aren't valid. He is what He is, all that He is, not contained in any way that adapts to our realization of Him. And yet in order for us to know Him, not to be overwhelmed by Him, we do it.
@@nomorecensoringme In trying to describe the experience of God which is a state of Being beyond relative existence and therefore something that can't be grasped by the intellect and put into words accurately, one can only attribute qualities to that which has no qualities as it is absolute Oneness. I want to emphasize that it is a vain pursuit to try and know, as in experience God through intellectual understanding. This can only give an imagining of the experience of God, not the actual experience. That absolute reality cannot be grasped by the mind and intellect; it can be experienced as an innocent state of consciousness just as innocently we experience waking, dreaming and sleeping. natural states of consciousness are spontaneously experienced due to the functioning of the nervous system. When we have purified our nervous system to function fully as God designed it to function then we innocently experience God as a 24/7 reality in our awareness.
If Africa is full of Judism we would be far.
Spread the massage. Rabbi, I appreciate.
Judaism is everywhere. Not a place on earth that it's not.
It's very unfortunate that in modern society we started killing dinosaurs for fun, it definately had more meaning when we did it for survival.
Do souls have free will after they leave their bodies?
Interesting question. I would ask why a soul would need "free will" after leaving the body? What would "free will" accomplish in heaven? Now when we all return to earth after the Redemption, would we have "free will" is even more interesting.
Isaiah 40:23((N.A.S.B.))🦁
I am not on this sight by accident..two of God's holy angels...told me about rabbi Mandis....at the time...few years ago...i knew no rabbi...but they said ...to me...not now...but you will at the allotted time. [ I had my doubts I confess...God's angels are tricky.../now I smile..//few years later here I am. [ So yes I share the company of God's holy angels...they are filled with surprises and mystery./ I am always left...bone chilled and mizramized. ...some are tall../some not so tall....they can even write. I think..don't blame me..//not my blame angels are very real.//happyness and ignorance was mind...when they just lived in books and flew about with wings../ they don't. It was a harsh lesson for me to learn. [ I am not perfect./I am not rich ../nope. [ Why me ? Not sure. ] Moses the ark of the convenant....it haunts me. [ At first glance one would be forgiven, it wasn't build by human craftsmen....the olive branchs...the twisted branch's../all interwine.../the olive leaves in perfect detail...near the lid...which over laps like a heavy stone slab....don't open the box...don't lift the lid...for your sake and for mine../least we die. [ Then I hear water dripping...first a few drops...then more...and my feet are in the cool water...washing my feet. [ This spiritual ] not actual...understand. then I think there are millions of others more deserving, then me. [ God's holy angels know loads about the many commandments../the angels said to me...there where more then 10 and I must learn them. [ And they pick rabbi Mandis...and I am a keen student. ] Perhaps some commandments are secret...so I cannot ask. Indeed God is perfect...and he moves in the most mysterious ways. [ When I get lazy...the angels give me a prog...waky waky.[ Various methods...some amusing....I can be a lazy baby sometimes../one time they argue...she can be such a lazy baby...give her a gentle shake.../hurt not the earth...nor the sea...nor the beast of the fields...until we have sealed the servants of God on the gentiles foreheads...the angels taught me that...isn't that nice. [ It was very long...some too difficult to comprehend for me. It's been a few months since my last experience with God's angels...less is more...they are very tricky. [ Like a naughty child...I can have some fun...to persue my other interests...which is ok. My IQ is 295...but I value my emotional intelligence and moral compass../and empathy much more...without these my IQ would be a curse. That all aside....everyone God bless.
Ivdu es H' bsimcho ubiro
Nature/ created life to conserve energy, the second law of thermodynamics coserving energy like a battery pack.
Who made nature?
Not everything in nature is about preserving energy
Life increases entropy btw, it creates order only locally
@@yosefgreen3130 your guess is as good as mine, pray its God, I do, Nature is not inconsistent to the Torah which is an explanation in my view.
@@blueartist1000 The Torah is the blue print, and in the first syllable of it is 50% of why
I like how did you breakdown the purpose of life however I disagree with your understanding that God/Lord needs created creature.
The rule that the creature needs the creator. Another concept that God/lord couldn’t be perfect if God needs anything!
You don't like it, since it doesn't conform to what you previously learned, so it's not true? What's the point of learning advanced concepts if you hold on to the simple ones?
@@nomorecensoringme thanks for your reply but my question is what god misses that god needs creatures like us to give it.
Your are right Rabbi,. All i know is Judaism, is like a Citizen of JUDAH one of a Tribes of ISRAEL(JACOB) and JEWS is the People,. JUDAISM is not a Religion. its a Tribe.. ISRAEL(JACOB) had a 12 TRIBES..
Are purpose is to be like God- there’s galaxies that need populated .
😂 people fought the dinosaurs - ha ha ha, thank you!
…🏋🏽…🏋🏽🏋🏽…🏋🏽🏋🏽🏋🏽….😂
(seen as a father) let’s say she’s a daughter… “why does my dad [g*d in her context] have needs because I am the daughter I have needs…?”
•
Hmm, but doesn’t her dad need… to eat (as rabbi said) rest and go to work? maybe even have quality time and talk with his kids and wife? these scale up and down yes’
🥰
so i have a buddy, and he’s really good at hiking. And the other day, he climbed up to the top of a local mountain in record time and loved the whole experience… but the thing is, he climbed up… looked around… and there was no one there with him to enjoy the perfect peak.
• so he took pictures and showed me, it was beautiful, but i only saw beautiful: earth, sky, land, and water.
so we, planned, hiked
❤️