Careful, vulnarability and neediness is not a charector befitting the Majesty of Allah! believing this even supporting or liking this could be considered Kufr!
@@shinemalin1853the point was astonishment, previously blinded by their prejudices, Christian’s and Muslims have been deprived of the truth of Judaism they both have been flying over for 2000, 1400 years.
I can't understand why people come to watch a video on a Jewish channel...and then as members of other faiths, write critical, nasty, or preaching comments. Makes no sense to me. Am I going to go on a Christian channel and then write anti Christian comments or argue theology? No. Why do they waste their time here if they don't like this or accept this?
This is an open forum, ddd. As long as we have freedom of speech, we have the right to disagree and express our opinion. I do agree though, that we should not be disagreeable in our disagreement. But we are perfectly right to disagree in a civil manner.
Manis Friedman is totally amazing. I became religious because of him, and other wonderful people, and G-d led me to this, 40 years ago. Listening to him now, I realize why he made an impact on me.
you are so nice 👍Sir. Thanks I m from India🇮🇳 I m a Muslim and I love Jews and Judaism Because Jews Are my brothers I love Hebrew Language coz It's God's Spoking language I love ❤it soo much. Thanks😊
No one mentions that God feels hurt. Where the Bible states Gods anger, his wrath, his long-suffering. Where he puts up with things until he can not take anymore. Where obviously he is hurt. Hurt often manifests as anger. But because so many are simply ignorant, looking at things as literal, they miss everything. Where God feels pain obviously. Then to be turned on when he's otherwise so good where people does things for their pleasure and gratification but causes God so much grief. God says live clean, be kind, but selfish self gratification is emphasized, as no one ever taught people God desires everyone to regard him, but instead only think of themselves. Good job Rebbe! Which pointing out God has our same feelings which is constantly neglected through time, but presented as this authoritarian dictator which he is not. Where you need to point out that God feels pain and anguish, caused by people doing their own thing.
We are made in his image. Why would he not have the same emotions even though he is God and beyond what we mere humans can imagine. He wants his children to live good, clean, wholesome,humble and charitable lives. He wants us to return to him. He created us.
A person has to KEEP doing the commandments/mitzvot. Adversities will come. They are necessary for growth. We must keep trying. We want to keep trying. There's nothing else. Love leaves no other choice. I love this video.
If so be son then please watch Zac poonen on TH-cam and google Christian fellowship centre Bangalore for free Holy Bible study and free Holy Bible messages.. All resources are free to download and watch. Zac ponnen is one of the greatest servants of God alive on planet Earth..they also have free app on the play store.... God bless
Red pill because God leads hearts...we are all under ONE God... You do not have a monopoly on Him. This phone is His everything was given by Him..to do His will. God Bless you Red Pill Brooklyn
It’s 23 and me and they’re actually not the most accurate. It seems I’m 12% Sephardic Jew . My family has been Christian for centuries. While I love the bits of wisdom from these old rabbis, I would not ever consider leaving my Christian faith. It is who I am. Us non-Catholics do see God as vulnerable and wants all of his children to return to him one day. We love him and he shows us his love every day.
The Rabbi has some very insightful points. And I’d also like to point out for my fellow Christians, that he’s very careful not to directly disparage the Christian faith - just listen to his words. He never says, “not like what the Christians teach.” He’s just relaying the story of his interaction with a fellow Jew. Now, with that said, I do think what he says about God being vulnerable is by far more fulfilled in the Christian Gospel than anything else. Where else does God become a child? Where else is His life threatened as a baby requiring his family to flee? What other Gospel imagines a God who lives in poverty and under the occupation of a foreign army? Who else teaches that God needed to work for His bread as a carpenter? Where else is the blood of God shed in a public execution out of His infinite love for man? I realize that’s all blasphemy for some and I can appreciate that. But despite our disagreements about the Incarnation, it’d be very unfair to characterize the Christian God as not being vulnerable - anything but. However, the Rabbi uses the word need, which I feel is misplaced. It’s not quite accurate to say that God “needs” man, as if He could not be God without us. Perhaps the word desire is best. God desires us, despite the fact that He doesn’t need us. And in that desiring, He makes Himself vulnerable, humbling Himself - even to death on a cross (Philippians 2:5-8). God bless all of you.
agreed. Way More fulfilling than my usual weeknights spent with my Wicca sisters outside a forest, standing in a circle for hours, chanting and slicing our palms with a curved knife. Those cuts sting! I'm switching to this guys diety who sounds way more chill.
The father will send you to hell forever unless you accept his son, from what I hear. No way Rabbi Friedman could have been talking about that (as premised by the story he told right at the start). Still though, I am glad you found inspiration because Rabbi Friedman is certainly talking deep truth here about God
Rabbi Friedman, OTCHA...ani ohev. Thank you for inspiring me and teaching me to better meet the needs of Hashem, And helping me to grow in closer intimacy with our glorious G-D, as you reveal who He truly is. You gave me the very best gift and life! Todah rabah. 💖
You rabbi is amazing! I love your peaceful speech ; your smile and laughter at these silly things we call problems... you make us look at them as shtouyots....😱😱😱🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌👌💐💐💐💐thank you ...I am grateful to HASHEM and to you
@@amirkhaldi5307 Yes I was filled with trash of Secular society and all the garbages Christianity and Islam and Philosophy like to value Torah cleansed my perspective and my soul
this is interesting. I grew up Catholic, and recently I wondered while praying if there was anything I could do for God. It made sense since I'm at the age where I can support my mother instead of depending on her like when I was a child. so I asked a priest if there was anything I could do to help God instead of just asking for stuff, and the response he gave me made no sense. I was told that asking if God needs anything is a selfish thought and we are humanizing the divine if we think like this. that response never sat right with me. I'm glad I got to listen to this video.
I must add this Rabbi, as an orthodox Jew for those who are not Jewish or Jewish but didn't hear this(with your kind permission and approval) : All human feelings that we do use (and only those descriptions whom the Torah and our ancient Rabbis used themselves and approved to used as to describe Hashem) in order to describe what Hashem "thinks" or "feels" is just for our minds to grasp. But even thinking or feeling is something hard to say about Hashem, because since he is infinite and lacks nothing and he is the reason to all reasons he does not really need anything from us. With that written, as described in Torah and all its books Hashem wants us(Jews to go by the Torah, and none Jews 7 mitzvot sons of Noah ) close to him so it's hard to understand how he can want and in same time not need /want anything since he is whole and infinite. So our mind cannot settle this seemingly contradiction (which is not, but only Hashem can explain how it is not a contradiction). So what should we do about this question? Nothing, we just need to understand that our brain/understanding is limited and finite and from that point we should use our Emuna(faith), through our "big brains, minds" and just believe in Hashem and that we don't need to understand everything. It's not our job and purpose to understand everything. Maybe in the next world(olam Haba) Hashem will explain to us, not now. We, Jews, just need to be simple without many "big philosophy minds/wisdoms" just to get closer to Hashem by the Torah he gave us. And nine Jews- to fulfill 7 mitzvot of sons of Noah
This is a great message. Really speaks to me. I do have to notice that this message is not only jewish. Through Christianity we learn that God makes himself so vulnerable for the sake of his love for us that he is incarnate and dies for us. Another reason to believe that the Church is the fulfillment of the promise to the Jewish people.
Hello Pat Yes it is a mitzvah You shall love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) Thats a mitzvah like any other to love and treat your friend like you would treat yourself . Additionally there is an extra mitzvah to love an orphan ,widow,,convert. God asks us to love them and take care of them since they do not have a father I will be their father. Same thing applies to a sin its worse to sin against an orphan.widow/convert because god says he will personally watch over them in place of their lost Parent ,Husband,Family
rabbi, i didn't know there was a mitzva to love your fellow jew?....i knew about the mitzva, know there is a g-d, don't believe in any other power, know g-d is one, love g-d, fear g-d, don't go after the desires of your heart & mind.....those are the only ones i know, except for this new one!....thank you!
He throws the word Infinite around a lot, I think it is irrelevant. He tries to manipulate the meaning of words to validate his own worldview or belief, he is good and such a nice man (which is probably true). This is one of the big things I have noticed with this gentleman. At least he makes you think.
Possible, but it makes sense. Something that so limitless, and is everything, means it's no-thing at the same time. We are what the thing we call god lacks, limit, the opposite of infinite. We try to live as meaningfully as we can before our limit, death. This is freedom. Limits & rules are our freedoms, without it, there's nothing but chaos in many meanings. Each of us walks on different path, yet, we're the same fundamentally, the limits that have splited our minds in young age, which is what differentiate us from any other being, are our power. We're oriented to fix problems & overcome tragedies of life as we seek meaning
It’s true ! Also they already said that God is poor …attributing weaknesses to God have always been in Judaism and Christianity. Allah says in the Quran: لَقَد سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَولَ الَّذينَ قالوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَقيرٌ وَنَحنُ أَغنِياءُ سَنَكتُبُ ما قالوا وَقَتلَهُمُ الأَنبِياءَ بِغَيرِ حَقٍّ وَنَقولُ ذوقوا عَذابَ الحَريقِ Allah has heard the saying of those who said: 'Allah is poor, but we are rich. ' We will write down what they have said, and their slaying of the Prophets without right. And We shall say: 'Taste the punishment of the burning. ' (181)
Getting to know god personally is beautiful! The whole Christian message or any organised religion as a 'whole' is hard to just accept... As a whole I mean! Wonderful message, feel like I understand god little bit more everytime I listen... Porks discusting you can taste the animal.... Thankyou Mr Friedman... Glory to god!
Not only Judaism tells us this: The whole point of Christianity is that G-d became the most vulnerable thing of all -- a mortal human. In Christianity, too, we serve G-d; only false Christians merely "obey" in order not to go to hell. The rabbi's message that G-d needs us is universal.
How can a creator simultaneously need us yet not notice the wrongdoings that would anger our creator? Our actions apparently have little value that are barely noticeable yet we are needed in a grand display of contradiction? How can we judge a creator on psychological principles that are established for humans, not all-powerful beings? Strength supposedly comes from vulnerability (according to psychologists and occasionally psychiatrists) yet an all-powerful being can be judged all-the-same? To be infinite in regards to power does not necessarily mean that said creator is also infinitely vulnerable. Vulnerability in such a position would be a choice, and likely an unwise one. To *assume* that the creator of all beings is more vulnerable than their creation is pride. How can one say that their creator lies in a more vulnerable state than their own self? Infinite vulnerability doesn't equate to an infinite potential to love; that would also be a far-fetched assumption. And not to be pointlessly bitter, but digressing for the use of love is purely subjective. Love with a partner is obviously different than love from a parent. Yet here, the feeling of love is disregarded in some spiteful little aside about how needing love itself apparently derives from not getting enough from a mother. You can need love from a *specific* person while also wanting love itself. Saying that only one can exist in priority over the other is self-righteous, regardless of your views on relational loyalty.
That is not the authentic Christian message. Loving G-d with all our mind body and soul and loving our neighbor as we love ourselves are the two most important commandments. Being a servant of all is essential in the Christian message.
I do not think God needs vulnerability. As rabbi gave example of parents. I wanna give the same example Parents needs not be vulnerable to be loved by the children. Love emerges from bonding of act. How we act with each other. At the same time children need not be fearful to love the parents. So we must act good with each other to get love of each other. Overall love of God. God loves us infinitely and we must love God infinitely. The end.
In Christianity, God IS love, He is not merely "loved" by us, and does not merely "love us". When we love God, as well as our neighbor, we participate in His nature (this is what we are called to do, the very meaning of life) - and His love for us is free and unconditional, because He IS love. There is no requirement of vulnerability for God to love us, because love is not a "sentiment" of God, but His very nature. Psychiatry is not theology. God is not a man.
Rabbi....ONLY you can tell us this.....Toda Roba....And Judaism makes nothing but complete and total sense....Serbians are with Israel always......Yes I'm Serbian
I think i was wrong with my previous comment. What Rabbi Friedman says is 100% correct and i made a wrong assumption about some things. Thanks for that video!
If you love your neighbour, and they love thiers, and they love thiers ... No more war. No more hatred. No more loneliness, hunger etc etc. So yep. Love is the only way.
I don't know what you mean by vulnerable. Able to be wounded? Open to be hurt? He might be open to it, we all need to be, but where is the wound but in our heads? (sure there is physical harm, torn flesh, cuts, breaks in bones, even organic damages). Last time I checked, the creator was not physical. So he isn't gonna get hurt. This does not mean he doesn't experience joy and pleasure as he watches us do mitzvahs, I don't reckon. After all, he can feel quite satisfied when his creations act in beneficial ways to themselves each other, and to the universe. Perhaps he is somewhere on a continuum of bliss to extreme bliss? I hardly think he suffers for anything.
Great teaching. But that guy probably didnt knew the christian message because what the Rabbi is saying is what we learn in (catholic) catechism since we are babies. Thats why i can listen to the Rabbi’s teaching as if i was listening to a priest.(except maybe for i love God thing at the end).
G-D Bless Israel!!! Jews were chosen, they are chosen and will be chosen! I'm converting to the Chabad and marry a super beautiful ashkenazi jewish wife, have kids, circumcised, bat/bar mitzvah!
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Our God is a consuming fire and we're made in his image so we are in the image of a consuming fire. We aren't sufficient to handle this. Without being joined together with God as one spirit, the fire in us will never be quenched.
I am Muslim , but I like what am hearing ...thank you Rabbi ❤️🙏🇦🇺
As a muslim do you believe do good needs his creation come on god does not need us we need god
Salaam
hug
Careful, vulnarability and neediness is not a charector befitting the Majesty of Allah! believing this even supporting or liking this could be considered Kufr!
@@shinemalin1853the point was astonishment, previously blinded by their prejudices, Christian’s and Muslims have been deprived of the truth of Judaism they both have been flying over for 2000, 1400 years.
I can't understand why people come to watch a video on a Jewish channel...and then as members of other faiths, write critical, nasty, or preaching comments. Makes no sense to me. Am I going to go on a Christian channel and then write anti Christian comments or argue theology? No. Why do they waste their time here if they don't like this or accept this?
ddd Yes!! It's pure arrogance and ignorance that makes them do so!
This is an open forum, ddd. As long as we have freedom of speech, we have the right to disagree and express our opinion. I do agree though, that we should not be disagreeable in our disagreement. But we are perfectly right to disagree in a civil manner.
It happens all the time.
Thank you. I am a Christian and find such comfort ,wisdom and truth from this holy man. Christians can be so arrogant!
Good comment !
Manis Friedman is totally amazing. I became religious because of him, and other wonderful people, and G-d led me to this, 40 years ago. Listening to him now, I realize why he made an impact on me.
He's wonderful at giving over the Rebbe's teachings. 😊
Why do you spell G_d?
@@jimijames7703 Jews spell HaShem's name like that out of vain.
hug
I am a Christian who is seeking and I have found. Peace, Love and Joy. Blessings
you are so nice 👍Sir. Thanks I m from India🇮🇳 I m a Muslim and I love Jews and Judaism Because Jews Are my brothers I love Hebrew Language coz It's God's Spoking language I love ❤it soo much. Thanks😊
No one mentions that God feels hurt. Where the Bible states Gods anger, his wrath, his long-suffering. Where he puts up with things until he can not take anymore. Where obviously he is hurt. Hurt often manifests as anger. But because so many are simply ignorant, looking at things as literal, they miss everything.
Where God feels pain obviously. Then to be turned on when he's otherwise so good where people does things for their pleasure and gratification but causes God so much grief. God says live clean, be kind, but selfish self gratification is emphasized, as no one ever taught people God desires everyone to regard him, but instead only think of themselves.
Good job Rebbe! Which pointing out God has our same feelings which is constantly neglected through time, but presented as this authoritarian dictator which he is not. Where you need to point out that God feels pain and anguish, caused by people doing their own thing.
We are made in his image. Why would he not have the same emotions even though he is God and beyond what we mere humans can imagine. He wants his children to live good, clean, wholesome,humble and charitable lives. He wants us to return to him. He created us.
Listening to you Rebbe is becoming most pleasant part of the day. Thank you 😊
I'm Stephen Udeme philip from Nigeria, I stumbled on your video less than a week ago and I am pleased with what I am hear.
I'm a Christian and everything you say makes perfect sense to me. You've taught me so much.
A person has to KEEP doing the commandments/mitzvot. Adversities will come. They are necessary for growth. We must keep trying. We want to keep trying. There's nothing else. Love leaves no other choice. I love this video.
Thank you rabbi. You gave some balm to a soul who is yearning to reclaim the goodness it once had.
If so be son then please watch Zac poonen on TH-cam and google Christian fellowship centre Bangalore for free Holy Bible study and free Holy Bible messages.. All resources are free to download and watch. Zac ponnen is one of the greatest servants of God alive on planet Earth..they also have free app on the play store.... God bless
@@thomasranjit7781 dude why are do you guys always come to a Jewish Chanel and try to convert people not nice at all
Red pill because God leads hearts...we are all under ONE God...
You do not have a monopoly on Him.
This phone is His everything was given by Him..to do His will.
God Bless you Red Pill Brooklyn
Despite the fact I am not Jewish I do feel a strong connection with the Jews. It could be because I have Jewish ançestry.
Have you check your roots with 21andme?
It’s 23 and me and they’re actually not the most accurate. It seems I’m 12% Sephardic Jew . My family has been Christian for centuries. While I love the bits of wisdom from these old rabbis, I would not ever consider leaving my Christian faith. It is who I am. Us non-Catholics do see God as vulnerable and wants all of his children to return to him one day. We love him and he shows us his love every day.
Such a fresh perspective to look at vulnerability and love.
Thanks a lot for sharing Rabbi
The Rabbi has some very insightful points. And I’d also like to point out for my fellow Christians, that he’s very careful not to directly disparage the Christian faith - just listen to his words. He never says, “not like what the Christians teach.” He’s just relaying the story of his interaction with a fellow Jew.
Now, with that said, I do think what he says about God being vulnerable is by far more fulfilled in the Christian Gospel than anything else. Where else does God become a child? Where else is His life threatened as a baby requiring his family to flee? What other Gospel imagines a God who lives in poverty and under the occupation of a foreign army? Who else teaches that God needed to work for His bread as a carpenter? Where else is the blood of God shed in a public execution out of His infinite love for man?
I realize that’s all blasphemy for some and I can appreciate that. But despite our disagreements about the Incarnation, it’d be very unfair to characterize the Christian God as not being vulnerable - anything but.
However, the Rabbi uses the word need, which I feel is misplaced. It’s not quite accurate to say that God “needs” man, as if He could not be God without us. Perhaps the word desire is best. God desires us, despite the fact that He doesn’t need us. And in that desiring, He makes Himself vulnerable, humbling Himself - even to death on a cross (Philippians 2:5-8).
God bless all of you.
I don't know you, but this was a most incredible, reasonable, practical, loving description of a sincere relationship with the Father. Thank you.
agreed. Way More fulfilling than my usual weeknights spent with my Wicca sisters outside a forest, standing in a circle for hours, chanting and slicing our palms with a curved knife. Those cuts sting! I'm switching to this guys diety who sounds way more chill.
The father will send you to hell forever unless you accept his son, from what I hear. No way Rabbi Friedman could have been talking about that (as premised by the story he told right at the start). Still though, I am glad you found inspiration because Rabbi Friedman is certainly talking deep truth here about God
Rabbi Friedman, OTCHA...ani ohev.
Thank you for inspiring me and teaching me to better meet the needs of Hashem, And helping me to grow in closer intimacy with our glorious G-D, as you reveal who He truly is. You gave me the very best gift and life! Todah rabah. 💖
Gosh, these are so many of my sentiments! I have left Christinity but not converted. Thank you for all you speak of. Always a blessing.
He asks us to be faithful, He asks us to love Him. And He shows us how to love Him. By following His commands.
You rabbi is amazing! I love your peaceful speech ; your smile and laughter at these silly things we call problems... you make us look at them as shtouyots....😱😱😱🤔🤔🤔👌👌👌👌💐💐💐💐thank you ...I am grateful to HASHEM and to you
Everything is so differently explained, from what we grew up with. I recently learnt that my mother who is no more was of Jewish origin.
Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman for your best lessons share with me and us
Love the way you think... You open my mind up to new ways of thinking... Praise God... Thankyou Mr Friedman 💜
He is a polite man not everyone is like him he is good rabbi
So I e been a Christian my entire life, but the message of vulnerability of God sounds like what I grew up with.
i was thinking that, haha ---this stuff can be applied to many religious beliefs. pretty profound tho the bit about the infinitude of God...
I love Jewish bestt people love you rabbi
Thank you for my tears you just changed my life too
I enjoy watching your videos every week , you have a wonderful perspective - more people should see them :))
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You have just changed my life.
ditto
I finally bought that book, too. Should have had it years ago.
Really ? Few minutes changed ur life how empty were u
@@amirkhaldi5307 Yes I was filled with trash of Secular society and all the garbages Christianity and Islam and Philosophy like to value
Torah cleansed my perspective and my soul
@@NoRushpk likewise, i do feel the same. Torah cleanse my thought
this is interesting. I grew up Catholic, and recently I wondered while praying if there was anything I could do for God. It made sense since I'm at the age where I can support my mother instead of depending on her like when I was a child. so I asked a priest if there was anything I could do to help God instead of just asking for stuff, and the response he gave me made no sense. I was told that asking if God needs anything is a selfish thought and we are humanizing the divine if we think like this. that response never sat right with me. I'm glad I got to listen to this video.
Truer words were never spoken
I must add this Rabbi, as an orthodox Jew for those who are not Jewish or Jewish but didn't hear this(with your kind permission and approval) :
All human feelings that we do use (and only those descriptions whom the Torah and our ancient Rabbis used themselves and approved to used as to describe Hashem) in order to describe what Hashem "thinks" or "feels" is just for our minds to grasp. But even thinking or feeling is something hard to say about Hashem, because since he is infinite and lacks nothing and he is the reason to all reasons he does not really need anything from us. With that written, as described in Torah and all its books Hashem wants us(Jews to go by the Torah, and none Jews 7 mitzvot sons of Noah ) close to him so it's hard to understand how he can want and in same time not need /want anything since he is whole and infinite.
So our mind cannot settle this seemingly contradiction (which is not, but only Hashem can explain how it is not a contradiction). So what should we do about this question? Nothing, we just need to understand that our brain/understanding is limited and finite and from that point we should use our Emuna(faith), through our "big brains, minds" and just believe in Hashem and that we don't need to understand everything. It's not our job and purpose to understand everything.
Maybe in the next world(olam Haba) Hashem will explain to us, not now.
We, Jews, just need to be simple without many "big philosophy minds/wisdoms" just to get closer to Hashem by the Torah he gave us. And nine Jews- to fulfill 7 mitzvot of sons of Noah
Wow. What a great message of wisdom. Thank you.
I'am learning so much from your knowledge of The Torah.
I like the rabbi's old videos without all the ads... and yet I'd be lying if I didn't mention how much I miss hadas saying shalom at the beginning
I have a brand new feeling....He talks so much sense and real...I am a Christian...but he gives me a better picture of GOD
I love that you can fix a kid with sarcasm.
Your shiurim are down to earth and easily to accept and comprehend !
Im a Christian. Rabbi speaks the wisdom ty
This is a great message. Really speaks to me. I do have to notice that this message is not only jewish. Through Christianity we learn that God makes himself so vulnerable for the sake of his love for us that he is incarnate and dies for us. Another reason to believe that the Church is the fulfillment of the promise to the Jewish people.
My mind has just blown!! Thanks again, Rabbi. Listening to you is helping me out way more than I could possibly imagined.
The brother you hate is more important than the dog you love. That is good.
I am not a believer but this guy is something, very wise and deep thoughts
Hello Pat Yes it is a mitzvah You shall love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18) Thats a mitzvah like any other to love and treat your friend like you would treat yourself . Additionally there is an extra mitzvah to love an orphan ,widow,,convert. God asks us to love them and take care of them since they do not have a father I will be their father. Same thing applies to a sin its worse to sin against an orphan.widow/convert because god says he will personally watch over them in place of their lost Parent ,Husband,Family
Esoteric enclosure
I’m not a religious man but this guy is amazing-! I feel weight lifted off my shoulders
Agreed ! I have been thinking the same.
That's what love does. 😉
BECAUSE HE LOVES US - HE WANTS A RELATIONSHIP WITH US. HE SHOWS YOU THAT HE LOVES YOU EVERY DAY.
rabbi, i didn't know there was a mitzva to love your fellow jew?....i knew about the mitzva, know there is a g-d, don't believe in any other power, know g-d is one, love g-d, fear g-d, don't go after the desires of your heart & mind.....those are the only ones i know, except for this new one!....thank you!
He didn’t mentioned how God shows his vulnerability on the cross.
He throws the word Infinite around a lot, I think it is irrelevant. He tries to manipulate the meaning of words to validate his own worldview or belief, he is good and such a nice man (which is probably true). This is one of the big things I have noticed with this gentleman. At least he makes you think.
Possible, but it makes sense.
Something that so limitless, and is everything, means it's no-thing at the same time.
We are what the thing we call god lacks, limit, the opposite of infinite.
We try to live as meaningfully as we can before our limit, death. This is freedom. Limits & rules are our freedoms, without it, there's nothing but chaos in many meanings.
Each of us walks on different path, yet, we're the same fundamentally, the limits that have splited our minds in young age, which is what differentiate us from any other being, are our power.
We're oriented to fix problems & overcome tragedies of life as we seek meaning
I'm a Christian. I don't think that God really needs us. I think he created us out of his abundance of love. And he loves us despite our many flaws.
It’s true ! Also they already said that God is poor …attributing weaknesses to God have always been in Judaism and Christianity. Allah says in the Quran:
لَقَد سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَولَ الَّذينَ قالوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ فَقيرٌ وَنَحنُ أَغنِياءُ سَنَكتُبُ ما قالوا وَقَتلَهُمُ الأَنبِياءَ بِغَيرِ حَقٍّ وَنَقولُ ذوقوا عَذابَ الحَريقِ
Allah has heard the saying of those who said: 'Allah is poor, but we are rich. ' We will write down what they have said, and their slaying of the Prophets without right. And We shall say: 'Taste the punishment of the burning. ' (181)
Getting to know god personally is beautiful!
The whole Christian message or any organised religion as a 'whole' is hard to just accept... As a whole I mean!
Wonderful message, feel like I understand god little bit more everytime I listen...
Porks discusting you can taste the animal....
Thankyou Mr Friedman... Glory to god!
i think HaShem would be better described as meek, having hidden strength rather than mighty strength per set.
Mind blowing speech. Manis is really beautiful person.
Not only Judaism tells us this: The whole point of Christianity is that G-d became the most vulnerable thing of all -- a mortal human. In Christianity, too, we serve G-d; only false Christians merely "obey" in order not to go to hell. The rabbi's message that G-d needs us is universal.
How can a creator simultaneously need us yet not notice the wrongdoings that would anger our creator? Our actions apparently have little value that are barely noticeable yet we are needed in a grand display of contradiction?
How can we judge a creator on psychological principles that are established for humans, not all-powerful beings? Strength supposedly comes from vulnerability (according to psychologists and occasionally psychiatrists) yet an all-powerful being can be judged all-the-same?
To be infinite in regards to power does not necessarily mean that said creator is also infinitely vulnerable. Vulnerability in such a position would be a choice, and likely an unwise one.
To *assume* that the creator of all beings is more vulnerable than their creation is pride. How can one say that their creator lies in a more vulnerable state than their own self?
Infinite vulnerability doesn't equate to an infinite potential to love; that would also be a far-fetched assumption.
And not to be pointlessly bitter, but digressing for the use of love is purely subjective. Love with a partner is obviously different than love from a parent. Yet here, the feeling of love is disregarded in some spiteful little aside about how needing love itself apparently derives from not getting enough from a mother. You can need love from a *specific* person while also wanting love itself. Saying that only one can exist in priority over the other is self-righteous, regardless of your views on relational loyalty.
Excellent! Thank you Rabbi Friedman, for the teachings 😁
That is not the authentic Christian message. Loving G-d with all our mind body and soul and loving our neighbor as we love ourselves are the two most important commandments. Being a servant of all is essential in the Christian message.
I do not think God needs vulnerability. As rabbi gave example of parents. I wanna give the same example
Parents needs not be vulnerable to be loved by the children. Love emerges from bonding of act. How we act with each other. At the same time children need not be fearful to love the parents. So we must act good with each other to get love of each other. Overall love of God. God loves us infinitely and we must love God infinitely. The end.
In Christianity, God IS love, He is not merely "loved" by us, and does not merely "love us". When we love God, as well as our neighbor, we participate in His nature (this is what we are called to do, the very meaning of life) - and His love for us is free and unconditional, because He IS love. There is no requirement of vulnerability for God to love us, because love is not a "sentiment" of God, but His very nature. Psychiatry is not theology. God is not a man.
This is just beutiful. Thankyou Rebbe.
Rabbi....ONLY you can tell us this.....Toda Roba....And Judaism makes nothing but complete and total sense....Serbians are with Israel always......Yes I'm Serbian
OMG!! What a spectacular spiritual leader😍 I'm in love😍
Amazing speach of him👍
@Juliene Bernardes I hope with the wisdom🤢
I think i was wrong with my previous comment. What Rabbi Friedman says is 100% correct and i made a wrong assumption about some things. Thanks for that video!
Wow!!!! What an awesome message!!! Toda raba!!!!
Is it important to love our neighbors as is so mentioned.
If you love your neighbour, and they love thiers, and they love thiers
... No more war. No more hatred. No more loneliness, hunger etc etc.
So yep. Love is the only way.
Wow!!! This is profound
I don't know what you mean by vulnerable. Able to be wounded? Open to be hurt? He might be open to it, we all need to be, but where is the wound but in our heads? (sure there is physical harm, torn flesh, cuts, breaks in bones, even organic damages). Last time I checked, the creator was not physical. So he isn't gonna get hurt. This does not mean he doesn't experience joy and pleasure as he watches us do mitzvahs, I don't reckon. After all, he can feel quite satisfied when his creations act in beneficial ways to themselves each other, and to the universe. Perhaps he is somewhere on a continuum of bliss to extreme bliss? I hardly think he suffers for anything.
Great teaching. But that guy probably didnt knew the christian message because what the Rabbi is saying is what we learn in (catholic) catechism since we are babies. Thats why i can listen to the Rabbi’s teaching as if i was listening to a priest.(except maybe for i love God thing at the end).
love it, it rings of truth and deeper understanding
Thank you for this - from a Christian.
Cause you feel like that when people's hate on you & you can't stop them, like family!
why would you get impatient with the guy? sounds like he had legitimate concerns and was asking legitimate questions.
G-D Bless Israel!!! Jews were chosen, they are chosen and will be chosen! I'm converting to the Chabad and marry a super beautiful ashkenazi jewish wife, have kids, circumcised, bat/bar mitzvah!
Rab, its needed for you to speak about the Jewish view of love in general (not only spouses or kids)
This is so true. A bit shell shocked, to be fair. Thank you so much Rabbi.
Thank you very much Rabbi!
How very sweet.
God want for you what you want for your children....what you want from your children is what God wants from you.
G-d, you I love! The Teaching is changing the world, more Godly😊
Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Thank you! Beautiful message
Great rabai I always listen you .
It very pleasant as you give answer on any topic . You are great persoon I'm from India
I don't think what he's saying according to tanakh and Torah
“Love thy neighbor as thyself “ is the most important mitzvah in Torah.
Vulnerability can only be strength when injury is possible.
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A few years into my sister's marriage she said 'I feel like a house cat"
So she married the wrong man already!
Our God is a consuming fire and we're made in his image so we are in the image of a consuming fire. We aren't sufficient to handle this. Without being joined together with God as one spirit, the fire in us will never be quenched.
The burning bush was not consumed. El rahume vhanune, arech... 13 qualities
Look up the 13 attributes and mimic them.
This is why G-D gets angry with His people. His love is a product of his mind and not of his heart.
Do you love me ? Tavia sings that song to Golden !!! Fiddler on the Roof is a great movie !!!
Thank you Rabbi Friedman
Add a little corn meal, garlic, onions and deep fry it in peanut oil and that's one good Matzah, in Alabama we call them hushpuppies!
Rabbi Manis Friedman should run for president of the United States !!! I am not joking here !!!! We need him as our leader !!!!
Thank you Rabbi, you bring God closer to us
I find his idea out of context..he should review the tanak.
Your message is so inspiring it's the truth Thank you💜🙏🇺🇸
Thank you!!!
God doesn't get angry? Then why Noah's flood? Why incinerate Sodom & Gomorrah?
The infinite demands the finite.
Listening to you...it shades light my day...thanks to you....
Ahaha that was funny. You make God angry? Thats a compliment ;)
It didn’t bother me so much when I put my left ear phone into my right ear. I guess I’m right eared 🤷🏻♂️
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