I'm so glad that you enjoy the lectures!

Enjoy in good health!

people this man is not the standard of historical truth this is his viewpoint, He doesn't have to agree with what you agree with. But remember facts will be facts. do not get angry Henry has every right to be wrong and so do you.

A Christian listener also. Great historical analysis here. Irish Catholic background - but there is a family legend of a Spanish Jewess (Rebecca) marrying into the family and we have a very old photo of Great Uncle Josh wearing a skull cap. If you ever have a spare moment an episode on the Jewish community in Ireland would be interesting. Thanks again for your fantastic uploads.

@@jackson76724 sounds fascinating would love to see that too

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Were also brought up to love Muslims ?

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@stroncal We do know hes real everyone does. Jewish and Roman historians from Jesus time wrote about him. I would like to know what/who do you worship as a pagan and why? How/why did you become a pagan and do you know other pagans? Is there like a pagan temple? What do you do for worship as a pagan? Im very curious about that because i didnt realize people are out there like you. I know there are witches and warlocks is that what you mean when you say your pagan? Please explain.

@stroncal As an Orthodox student of truth, I'd recommend that you don't let the facts get in the way of your opinions!

As a secular Jew here in Beit Shemesh Israel, I appreciate a really Jewish approach to this subject. I live in an orthodox community (Ramat Beit Shemesh [A]) where Jesus is never discussed or when the subject does arise he is dismissed out of hand. This Jew, who changed the world with his death, deserves better, and fairer scrutiny by orthodox scholars. Thank you.

Wow, thank you for your very kind words Dr. Tanas! I appreciate your feedback and I'm very glad that you enjoyed the class.

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@@natanecohen8847thanks

​@@natanecohen8847 lol... Mostly ignorant

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Same to you! Thank you.

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It's gonna be painful

​@Mahatmajenkins What you mean and how painful

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@@HenryAbramsonPhD as well your absolutely right about the theology behind Christ’s crucifixion. It’s absolutely horrific what people have done to the Jews throughout history based on corrupting the Christian texts. An authentic Christian looks more like corrie ten boom.

You are welcome. I'm not a Rabbi, just a regular guy.

Hey, thanks very much for these kind words! I wish you the same.

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Here I help Dr.Abramson with the opening joke: Moses comes down the mountain, the excited crowd ask him about the achievements. - I have two news, a good and a bad one - so Moses. - tell us the good one first! - negociated down to ten.. - and the bad one? - 'don't commit adultery' is still in...

Thanks, Peter K! Market research indicates the jokes work great on a live audience, not so much with the internet viewers. So, not so many jokes. Especially not in this lecture!

@@alexanderhuzau6850 lol

I'm a fan of the jokes also. I get why they aren't in some videos. I like them mostly because Dr. Abramson seems to get a kick out of them.

Wow, what a comparison! I am flattered. Big fan of Rabbi Sacks זצ׳׳ל.

Thank you for the kind words; glad you enjoyed the video!

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Glad you like them! You are also the first person I've ever encountered with the name חפצי-בה, how nice!

☺ Thank you Dr.@@HenryAbramsonPhD!

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My sincere condolences on the loss of your dear husband, Elinore. May God bless and guide you as you continue the mourning process. .

@@janishart5128 Thank you so much. One thing I've learned during this time--I never expected the heartfelt sympathy from strangers, and help from neighbors I barely knew. A well of kindness exists. 🙂

@@elkiness: Yes, kindness is out there, although in today's world, it's not as apparent as it used to be! Hang in there Elinore, and just take things one day at a time! 🤗

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Christianity is fine with Jews. We only have a problem when you try to convert us. That’s where we draw the line.

@@HenryAbramsonPhD You are welcome! I am loving your videos.

@@topcopy98 They don't actively try to convert anybody. In fact they wholly discourage people from converting.

@@TheMJT515 That's idiotic. Or you don't understand English. Take your pick

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The best way to describe this discourse as there are so many hidden reefs. Navigating a topic in an objective way, with many insights worth pondering on. So much in so short a time, dwelling on the essentials. I would certainly like to watch the other videos.

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We will probably touch on this question next semester.

@Betty damota you need help. Please see a professional.

The Gentiles wanted to steal our Messiah and regardless if one accepts His claim to Messiahship we Jews have to reclaim Him and place Him back in His Jewish cultural setting. After all, He is one of our own.

@Eli Parnez You can believe as you wish but I know He is our Messiah.

@Eli Parnez Sir, with all due respect, you are simply regurgitating out what others have said in your presence. Yeshua, Melech Mashiach, didn't fulfil Messianic prophecies according to modern Judaism. Tell me, what makes a prophercy Messianic in nature? The Lubavitch accept their Rebbe as Messiah but me and my people who come to faith in Yeshua we are scorned and rejected by our own. You don't accept Him there is nothing I can do about that but I do please don't project your anger and insecurity onto me.

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Interesting insight!

Yeah that reminds me of the divorce conversation in Mark 10 without knowing Hillel and his followers and their opposition it doesn’t make a lot of sense.

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There is no need for God to take human form (which is illogical to begin with) to make himself known. He can make himself known via Angels and Prophets - which He already done so

Certainly Christianity spread worship of a single creator God worldwide.

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Numbers 23:19, Hosea 11:9 say God is not a man. Ezekiel 28:2, Isaiah 14:12 sternly castigate men who claim to be God. Malachi 3:6 says God will never change. Devarim 4:15 states that he has no image, the representation of any form. Exodus 33:20 brings down that no one can see God and live. Isaiah 40: 18"And to whom do you compare God, and what likeness do you arrange for Him?" Ibid. 44:24 "I am the Lord Who makes everything, Who stretched forth the heavens ALONE, Who spread out the earth from My power." PSALM 146 3Do not trust in princes, in the son of man, who has no salvation.4His spirit leaves, he returns to his soil; on that day, his thoughts are lost.5Praiseworthy is he in whose help is the God of Jacob; his hope is in the Lord his God.6Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, Who keeps truth forever.

@@PawsomeFeeders mankind is already God's image/likeness. One of the faces of the cherubim is a man because mankind represents godlikeness (the other faces being animals and their intrinsic qualities). Mankind is a "little lower" than the angels but God is mindful of us.

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Thank you for the kind words, Mr. Walz!

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Agreed

Enjoy in good health.

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It was certainly complex.

That's very kind of you!

My pleasure! And in fact this week's material will focus on the great revolt.

That’s a great point. The split between Jews and Jewish (and Gentile) Christians wasn’t merely theological in nature: it must be understood in the context of the tumultuous first and second centuries AD/CE. Perhaps more revolutionary-minded Jews saw Christians as a pacifistic Roman “fifth column” in Israel, who, by not fighting, were siding with the enemy.

@@tomsuiteriii9742 I find the 1st century fascinating. James deserves a lot of credit & the Ebonite community in Jerusalem needs more focus. The Gentiles were Paul’s territory yet leadership until the Great revolt, was still very much a Jewish group of elders, who were 100% Torah observant but with an adoptionist Christology. Most interesting is that the church fathers talk about the ebonite having a Gosple of Mathew in Hebrew!

@@HenryAbramsonPhD I must say the dialogue here could be an example of how respect & good will work towards a common goal of knowledge. Thx for making it possible, may peace be with you and yours dear sir.

@@robbielee2148 Agreed. Much of the history of the early Christian movement in the land of Israel and the greater Near East needs much more scholarly focus. I believe the second century is also a fascinating one, as that is when the church and synagogue truly parted ways, as well as the final Jewish uprising against Rome that devastated Jewish life in Judea--even more so than the destruction of Jerusalem. It's unfortunate that there was no Josephus alive in the second century to comprehensively record much of it.

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No, that book is false teaching trying to lead astray. Paul was a Pharisee,but was an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin!

@@jrutt2675 it is the same thing, Jewish = Israelite.

@@CarlosMdz72 No. The Northerner tribes were never Jewish. They are Christian's today! Many of the Pharisees were the descendants of Edom, not Israel!

@@jrutt2675 I am in complete disagreement with you. What you are saying doesn’t have any historical background. It is just pure anti-semitism and I am sad that you come to say those things in a Jewish page.

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@Adam Jesus did not cause the deaths you are attributing to him. People who’ve misappropriated and misrepresented him are guilty, and they will get the judgement they deserve. This misappropriation started in the centuries following his death and hit a tragic milestone when Constantine misappropriated Christianity. That was when a faith that was symbolised by sheep took on the nature of the wolf. Christianity was always meant to be a persecuted faith, not a persecuting power.

@Adam Jesus said if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword. Those who refused to listen to this simple message are the ones who literally cause the loss of life.

@Adam We don't but that's what the early Jewish Christians believed, they were against a violent revolt against Rome knowing it would only bring annihilation and ruin.

@Adam But then if you admit you don't know what he said, you can't be sure him being quiet would have prevented anything. Many early Christians did keep quiet when accused by Rome of blasphemy against the Roman gods and they were led to slaughter for it indeed. Then the Roman state co-opted the growing religious movement and turned it into a state tool of population control. I can't blame Jesus for the sins of others.

Thank you for the reference!

Thanks for pointing this out. I always wondered why Peter wasn't killed or arrested because he attacked one of the guards arresting Jesus. He must have been scared our of his wits worrying that the Romans would do the same to thing to him. A neuroscientist at Stanford explained that the reason the apostles thought they saw Jesus after he died was that they were in such an extreme case of psychosis and emotional distress that the Romans actually went through with the crucifiction that they had "visions" of seeing Jesus still alive. I never really thought about it that way. People who went to see the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ" would sometimes faint just watching a graphic movie about a man being executed this way. Seeing someone, especially their religious leader would have been extremely traumatic. Nowadays anyone in such a state would be hospitalized. Those appostles probably could have benefited from electro shock therapy. Just can imagine how stories would get around that Jesus was alive - the same kinds of things happen even today. It's incredible how people get worked up over fake news.

I was raised in a strict Catholic family and all-Christian town and have always (at least from the age of 10) taken issue with the teachings of xtianity-especially problematic as my mother brother was a Catholic priest cum Monsignor and my own brother became and is a Catholic priest. I have always maintain that Jesus was by his claims an insurrection it’s and grave danger to all the Jews as The Romans were savage in their quest and took pleasure in slaughtering and brutalizing throughout the lands their seized, and Pontius Pilate was eventually removed as governor for being even too brutal even by Roman standards. So it was but for “divine grace” that not just the followers, but all weren’t slaughtered at that time. But as his followers continued and took his claims even further, the occupiers cracked down more and more until even the mainstream Jews had become unable to “just keep their heads down” and had to protest and just 40 or so years after Jesus, over 2 million were slaughtered In Jerusalem, Masada fell, and 2000 year of diasporas, pogroms and ultimately The Shoah ensued with the aid of the Reichkonkordat Treaty of The Vatican giving legitimacy to the nazis. The Vatican from the onset removed all things Jewish from the identity from the one they claimed to worship. With every question or challenge to the teachings and history I’ve raised throughout my life, it was always either answered with quotes from “the new testament” or not at all and resulted in my being expelled, to my contentment, from “church school/CCD.” Only in the past 8 years now, after abandoning religion altogether, have I pursued trying to learn following a six-month stay in a trauma ICU on life support, multiple resuscitations, a coma, etc. remembering my mother as a teacher who emphasized always going to the actual source documents and pursuing every question raised along the way, premises used, and telling me that when something stands out that seems odd or out of place, it is a sign that you are meant to pay attention and pursue it further. One such oddity was a top suggestion in my internet viewing that was a Lecture by an Israeli Rabbi that has led me along a path that has brought me here thus far. It had also led me to six-day bout of insomnia during which time I finally after decades finally put in writing (for my own and later possibly my daughter’s eyes) my objections, observations, opinions that were nagging and gnawing at me about the xtian church’s teachings, claims, etc. Obviously, brevity has never been my forte, feeling the need to explain bases, etc.! I’m commenting here as both messrs. Ainsworth’s and King’s comments inspired me further, and having (over)addressed the former, on Mr. King’s, the opinion of psychoses by the neuroscientist seems quite likely. Following the accident that put me in the ICU, I was, among other things, in traumatic shock, and as a result “saw” thing happening that at the time were so vivid and real to me that I suffered A-Fib, cardiac arrest, acute hypotension but was unable to speak or move, no less write of these terrors I was “seeing,” not to be confused with going into the light, death or NDEs-the terrors, once finally healed and given time were non-sensical and completely illogical. In the case of Shimon claimed that dead Jesus then declared his name to be “Peter” given the lead role to take his leader’s message on tour to play at the colosseum, heart of the nest of the occupying Romans, and all those not wanting to be left out of the chosen favored also said they were told to keep the “resurrection” to themselves. Way to follow the instruction of the one they claimed “messiah” and by some accounts claimed as G-d himself, but to do so was no in their own interests nor to their benefit. And “Peter” even defied James, the younger brother of Jesus himself who was steadfast that his brother did NOT and would not want his teachings, which were the teachings of The Torah and The Covenant between G-d and His Chosen People, the Jews, going outside of their Promised Land. The ultimate adoption of xtianity stripped of all the Jewish and very identity of Jesus as it was adopted ultimately over 3 centuries later was the very political tool needed by The Roman Empire that for centuries had struggled to maintain the submission of those conquered with the power of the One True G-d over the fealty of their conquered to the mere men who were chieftains and kings with promises of heavenly reward for those who submitted and suffered at their hands and much of what is attributed to Jesus as his teaching are actually his teaching and allegories of the Torah and, such as the story of “The Good Samaritan,” of the laws/commandments (mitzvot/mitzvos) and beliefs of Judaism. At least this is the way I have perceived it. And the translations of translations, exclusions and additions and editing as well as contradictions, claims of dreams no matter how vivid as “visions” or visits has made this no less incredulous to me as many xtians view Mormon or Islamic claims. And it has only been from what I’ve survived and experienced (since the accident I’ve since also had and will continue for life to go through cancer) as well as the lectures and learning from phenomenal Rabbis such as Rabbi Abramson (and the brilliant Grand Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Z”L) that I can no longer deny the very existence of the ONE TRUE Creator and G-d after too long believing that since I believed xtianity fabricated hoax that any belief in Him, too, had to be as an extension. to borrow from what my daughter as a child believed to be a particular hymn’s lyrics, Oi vey, Maria! This is too long, but there it is, and now I have the great fortune of many more of Rabbi Abramson’s videos I need to watch for which I am incredibly thankful, may he be eternally blessed!

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I plan to discuss some of these questions in the text version of these lectures.

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He never taught that he was God or the son of God but he was amongst the Prophets of God from the Israelites

Mike, that's your default setting, I think.

@@ItachiAli1993 If that is true, why did the Jews had him killed?

@S. Langan Speech of Stephen, the First Christian Martyr : Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!7:52Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him--7:53you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it."7:54When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him."

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Devarim 29 28The hidden things belong to the Lord, our God, but the revealed things apply to us and to our children FOREVER: that we must fulfill all the words of this Torah. Yeshayahu 44 24So said the Lord, your Redeemer, and the One Who formed you from the womb, "I am the Lord Who makes everything, Who stretched forth the heavens ALONE, Who spread out the earth from My power.24So said the Lord, your Redeemer, and the One Who formed you from the womb, "I am the Lord Who makes everything, Who stretched forth the heavens ALONE, Who spread out the earth from My power. Devarim 11 1[Therefore] you shall love the Lord, your God, keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments, ALL THE DAYS [Forever] Malachi 3 22Keep in remembrance the TORAH of Moses, My servant-the laws and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel

@@HenryAbramsonPhD your scholarship is enriching. The neutrality that you show in your presentation Allows room to approach this sensitive topic.Your work and courage is very much appreciated.

@@PawsomeFeeders The Torah - of which Jesus is the Fulfilment.