I wonder if I asked the good rabbi the same question about Moses, Abraham, Noah, Jacob, etc. If there is any proof of their existence other than the Torah? Does he believe he wasted his life studying Caspar the ghost? There's a huge difference between history and religion. History in most instances needs to be verified or at least deduced in order to be believed. Religion is a matter of faith and requires no proof in order to be believed.

One of the biggest problems with Christianity is that there is no one that verifiably claims to have been around at the time of Jesus and witnessed any of the events surrounding him. Meaning the entire New Testament is all based on hear-say.

Rip jesus in the mind of fantasized christians🙂

This guy's argument can be used against his beliefs too. Can he provide a historical evidence that Moses existed?

A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away. matthew 16:4 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” john 20:29

I get it. Moses was real, you can trust the Torah. But Jesus wasn’t real because you can’t trust the New Testament.

_Roman empire creation as they create zeus came down to earth from heaven to impregnate mortal woman and have a son name hercules this hercules was half man and half god with miracles power than any other man mmm does it seem familiar?_

Isaiah 43:25 So let’s get this clear: (it’s for My own sake that I save you). God said Not for the sake of my son! Isaiah 44:24 I am the Eternal, Creator of all there is and will be. (I alone stretched out the heavens and spread out the blue earth). He didn't said I and my son! Isaiah 46:5 Does anyone compare to Me? Can you find any likeness? Who or what might be My equal or even close to Me? Jesus said that he was like God! Isaiah 46:9 Remember the old days. For I am God; there is no other. I am God; there are no other gods like Me.

There is no evidence for Moses excist or splitting the sea. Or the exodus from Egypt.

If Jesus never existed; why does your un-abridged Talmud say all those horrible things about him?? Plus Jesus didn't speak Hebrew, he spoke Aramaic. Please know that replies from anyone other than Tovia Singer will be ignored. I don't want his little acolytes answering for him!

If Jesus never existed, then I would like to know how his name is still the strongest name to repel demonic forces.............and cure and heal.

There is even less historical “evidence” for biblical figures like Elijah, Moses, and especially Abraham. Does that mean they never existed because external written works don’t exist supporting their existence or the facts surrounding their accomplishments? I think that is a foolish position to take knowing there is even less to support the preceding biblical figures.

Even though I am only 7 minutes in, and agreeing with the rabbi, I would hope that he applies the same kind of logic to the existence of Moses as a historical figure, when the very same lack of evidence for anything related to him just isn't there.

Like always I'm more than pleased with your teachings, blessed be Hashem !!!

Singer claims that Matthew says Joseph and Mary lived in Bethlehem, but it’s not true. Matthew does not state this. Read for yourselves, don’t accept Singer’s straw men.

Rabbi Tovia Singer is speaking the truth don't be hurt or surprise. Is the fact he is telling you

many many many Torah blessings to you Rabbi keep on going with the good work.. i have a huge bloodlust (figuratively) )) for more lectures like this.. truth above believe.. Shalom

At one point in his letter, Pliny relates some of the information he has learned about these Christians: They were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food - but food of an ordinary and innocent kind.[10 There are several accounts by NON Christian authors who validated Christ so for you to say there is no acknowledgement of Christ outside of the New Testament is a lie but I'm sure you know this.

Matthew 23 1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 "The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. 3 So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. 5 "Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries [1] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.' 8 "But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ. [2] 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [3] 15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are. 16 "Woe to you, blind guides! You say, `If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.' 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, `If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.' 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it. 23 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. 27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. 29 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, `If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! 33 "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation. 37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.' [4] " [5] That is, boxes containing Scripture verses, worn on forehead and arm [10] Or Messiah [13] Some manuscripts to. [14] Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Therefore you will be punished more severely. [39] Psalm 118:26

I love your views Tovia and the compassionate way you address Christian fallacies and myths but what about the Jewish ones😅

Baruk Hashem! May he continue to grant you good health so that you may continue to be a light to the nations. Its mind bogling how I did not notice these plot devices for so long. Love the song at the end.

Why can’t you believe me that I had an experience with God at 7 yrs. I knew it was God because the experience was felt and came from the third heaven. After my life went on, I encounter Jesus Christ more and more. I didn’t know Him when He looked me from His throne at 7rs old. However, now I can say it’s was Yeshua Hamashiaj who has been with me and has reveal to me all this time after many years on earth. Rabí I know that deep in your heart you know that Jesus has called you but you have refused to answer Him.

I disagree with the concept that professors or those who have devoted a lifetime of study to Jesus and/or his existence are absolute and otherwise undeniable without reducing that life of study to meaning nothing.

Slaughter of Innocents In Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 2, verses 13-18, part of the Christmas Story is called ""the Slaughter of the Innocents" At verse 8, King Herod tells the Magi..... "Go and search carefully for the Child; and when you have found Him, report to me, so that I too may come and worship Him." But the Magi find Jesus, don't tell King Herod, and go home. When Herod realizes he has been duped, he is furious and gives the order to kill all the boys, two years old and under, who live in Bethlehem and its vicinity. But an angel appears to Joseph tells him to take Jesus to Egypt. """And [Jesus] was there [In Egypt] until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son"""(Matthew 2:15) The words spoken by the prophet, which Matthew claims were fulfilled at Matthew 2:15 are found at Hosea 11:1....... """When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.""" As you can clearly see, Matthew's supposed fulfillment is totally bogus. The complete verse Matthew quotes is not about Jesus or the Messiah, but is a verse about Israel being called out of Egypt during the time of Pharaoh. So King Herod slaughters all the innocent children under two years of age, and Matthew again quotes the OT to supposedly show that Scripture has been fulfilled. (Matthew 2:17-18) Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, """In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.""" The first problem with this supposed fulfillment is that Ramah is a town located about 5 miles North of Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is a town located about 5 miles South of Jerusalem. This quote isn't even about Bethlehem. I purposely mention Jerusalem, in case a Christian thinks that 10 miles from Bethlehem is still in the "vicinity." If all the innocents in Jerusalem, a city, were slaughtered it certainly would have made the news. As it was, there is absolutely no mention of this event by any Historian, not even the famous Jewish Historian, Josephus, who very carefully and completely wrote about King Herod. The next problem with this supposed fulfillment is that the woman weeping is Rachel, one of the wives of Jacob, the father of the 12 tribes of Israel. Bethlehem is in the tribal land allocated to the tribe of Judah. King David, was from the tribe of Judah, and had been born in Bethlehem. The problem is that Rachel was not the mother of Judah. Leah was the mother of Judah. If symbolically a woman was weeping for her children it should have been Leah, weeping for the dead children of Judah, and not Rachel. But there is an even GREATER problem with Matthew's supposed Scripture fulfillment. I will quote the Scripture, Jeremiah 31:15-17, in its entirety.....See if you can spot this GREAT problem? Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. This Scripture isn't even about dead children. This Scripture is about children who were taken into captivity, and would be restored to their homeland. Matthew totally misquotes Scripture.

"Bugs bunny" is not a correct analogy. Millions of people died because the name of Christ Yahshuah during the dark ages.

So by this valuation how do we know the Torah is corect ANd not also myth

Every argument you made could be made about just about every single person in the Tanakh. It’s stupid, and calling it bugs bunny is arrogant when you’re in your position. I’m sure many call Moses and him parting the Red Sea a fairy tale

I'm not an expert but I think the criterion of embarrassment can also be used to indicate Jesus existed. For example, at one point, when John the Baptist was in jail, he sent out his disciples to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah or if they should look for someone else. That's highly embarrassing since supposedly John the Baptist baptized Jesus earlier in some sort of spectacular fashion. So if the writer wrote that John had doubts later, it's probably true, and therefore Jesus probably existed. Also, Paul clearly had problems with the original apostles of Jesus according to his letters, especially when Paul writes that he called Peter (Cephas) a hypocrite. It's an embarrassing episode in Christian literature, so probably both Jesus and Peter existed, in my opinion. I could cite other examples.

Wonderfully informative, as usual. Thanks, Rabbi.

The problem with this world is summarized thusly. Kardashians get millions of views and Tovia doesn't. People should care more about the reality of existence over reality tv. TY Tovia, you freed my mind from Rome's church's dogma and theology, the greatest gift anyone could ever give another mind: liberty.

I have come to the same conclusion as you. For this reason I have long thought that both the opinion that he existed and the opposite, that he did not, are correct. What I have found mysterious is: what happened to turn this individual's teachings/beliefs into a cult? As you say, there were various individuals at that time claiming to be messiah and gaining followers. Only one other claim to messiah-ship seems to have made any impact, or is even remembered. What I often ponder on is: what happened that made this sect last and eventually grow into a major religion? There must have been something quite unique about this one individual, his actions or the beliefs. That is the one thing that I cannot get around. History may have turned him into something other than what he actually was! - but was something about him so different that he did not pass into historic oblivion like all the other self-acclaimed messiahs. Even before Constantine made it the state religion, Christianity was one of those followed in Rome and seems to have been already established - but possibly in its original form, whatever that was. Thank you for very interesting talk.

God bless you and the Jewish people Rabbi, believe me when I say every knee will bow and every mouth will proclaim that he is the living saviour. The peace of Jesus the Christ be with you.

You are not truthful, like Bruno in the 19 century. Even the atheist Bart Ehrman believes in the reality of the parson and the crucifixion of Jesus. On the other hand outside your TANAK can you prove that Moses existed,

It is interesting to consider that Jacobs sons kept the truth hidden from their father from the time they first deceived him saying till us is this your son's coat? They must have withheld the truth from their wives and children for fear that their father would find out.

This is a very interesting and compelling talk. However, the text that Google has added at the bottom is absolutely nuts. It is only vaguely similar to what is being said a lot of the time. For instance, at one point, the phrase "Jesus of Nazareth" is shown as "oh geez at Mazars" and "King David was born in Bethlehem" gets turned into "Ching name was born meant bomb". If you want to be able to concentrate on what Rabbi Singer is saying, I would suggest turning off the Closed Captioning.

I wish my mom would listen to you! This was absolutely amazing! She's not talking to me over my decision to follow Jewish Orthodox Judaism beliefs and become a Noahide! It saddens me deeply that she refuses to hear the truth about Christianity lies! We were really close! When i first started listening to you my heart just knew mind body and soul spirit its to much familiar this is home for me thats the only way i can explain it! Bless you rabbi tovia! 🥹😢

Tovia needs the same experience that Paul had on the road to Damascus, or with the 120 in the upperoom, your intellectual learning can never bring the revealation of God to you,tovia needs to be born again,that's all that's lacking, then God can use you, talk all you want,that's all intellectual learning,moses had that to till he met God in the burning bush

That Jesus died so soon was likely due to the scourging. The scourging alone was able to kill somebody - loss of blood, internal organs exposed and torn, etc. (If not at that moment, from later infections.) What is amazing is that Jesus survived the scourging and carrying of the cross to be alive at Calvary where he was then crucified on top of the scourging. It was like a double death sentence. He lost a lot of blood. A crucifixion alone would not have resulted in the quick loss of blood that Jesus experienced, for the spear to go into his side only a few hours later and to get the recorded result.

The interesting question is not the existence of Jesus.... it's how can Christianity not get a handle on who the real Jesus is. Christanity is splintered into upwards of 30000 different denominations, each with its own peculiar theology and different Jesus! The Mormon Jesus is not the same as the Episcopalian Jesus. The Seventh day Adventist Jesus is different than the Jehovah's witnesses one. The Christian Scientist Jesus is different than the Russian orthodox Jesus. Yet.... all the adherents of these different denominations claim that they have personal relationship with Jesus. Something doesn't add up.

If Jesus didn't exist then neither does God or man

You know it's a pretty interesting vantage point, you actually hit on something that needs be touched on over and over again by many other Rabbis

This explanation with disagreements in the New Testament only goes to confirm that the people who wrote those books were not contemporary witnesses to Christ and the books where written from verbal tradition. The fact that the books disagree is not evidence of the positive. Neither book can be trusted to stand on its own to support the story of Christ.

Praying for God to give you a fuller revelation of who He is, Rabbi Singer. May you meet your Messiah soon.

Josephus names a number of Jesuses, but none of them (except for the interpolation) correspond to the New Testament Jesus.

You have the same thought process as Lawrence Krauss. I enjoyed watching you. Thanks

If there is no Tanakh so it will be no new testament. And i think all you guys here should learn start from the core not backwards. Lets say Moses,Jesus etc didn't exist why bother watching this channel Lol

What caused Yeshua to die in the matter of 6 hours was the methods that were used and the extent to which He was beaten,bruised pierced and received stripes...

To categorically claim that "no-one took six hours to die on the cross" is fairly reckless.

YAHUSHUA is real He woke me up in the middle of the night and told me he is Melchisadeck in a vision. I am not a Christian I am a believer in YAHUWAH, YAHUSHUA, and RUACH HAQADESH

Rabbi Tovia ... did you ever had the time to study the new testament in the light of the old testament to really find what the truth is ... remember that you and your students depend very much on that truth for your salvation ... Jesus is the truth ... He is your savior ... with out Him you cannot be saved ... do not stop on the old testimony ... that's only half road there ...

Tovia Singer is spending his entire life talking about and losing his sleep over a person who never existed? 😂

Rabbi, how to contact you? I have a lot of question about the Torah.

Rabbi I love u and what u do in general. but this one is risky - with your method it would be even easier to prove that the stories of the old testament did not exist, that they were Bugs Bunny stories.

For those who want direction on this issue look up Ptolomy Soter. Look up Serapis. These did historically exist. The worshipers of this Serapis image were called Bishops of Christ and Christians way before a Jesus which derived from Zeus. Meaning the son of Zeus or the son of God. Serapis was known as the sun God. Constantine had to intervene because the division would lessen the power of the Roman Catholic Church. These people exist. They're on coins. You ever wonder why Jesus was not put on a coin. And how come nobody else wrote about such a great person at that time?. I'm sure it would have been the story to cover.

He saying is strange that people never mention when Jesus died. People started coming from a grave and walking around just like when Daniel was in the Lions den and didn’t get eaten or was strong in a fiery furnace. it’s amazing things that happen all the time that don’t get documented

This guy literally ends up arguing the case for a historical Jesus. What a bizarre video.

I keep hearing these replies on Jesus prophesied the destruction of the Biet Mikdash (The temple) Let me just say this the Gospel of Matthew makes a elementary mistake by giving a genealogy of Joseph who is Joseph Jesus Mothers Husband is he the Father of Jesus no how do we know this the book says he's not so why would you waste a entire page on a man who is not the Father of your Leader simple the writer had a Limited knowledge of Judaism and the Torah he knew the Moshiach was the son of David however he did not know your tribal lineage passes through your Father not your mom or through adoption for example if My dad is from Benjamin and my mother a Levite I'm a Benjaminite. What's my point my point is if there is a flaw then it is not Kosher and in the first Chapter there are several Flaws. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK RABBI TOVIA BARUCH HASHEM

Tovia Singer, I've been listening to your videos for awhile now. And now I'm studying on my own about Jesus. I'm a Christian, but now having second thoughts. Never could understand how God, s spirit comes down and pregnants virgin Mary. When she was not in line of kingship. Joseph was I'm guessing. More questions but no answer. Love your videos. Keep up with the good work

I don't know what to believe anymore. I hear So many different stories about Jesus. And now Paul. I don't know. I love God so much, I want to be closer to him.

I am an atheist, and have your same conclusion as you as to the historicity of Jesus... but I will only add that Josephus didn't just have that one interpolated reference; people often mention another reference which they see as genuine, mostly because it is just referencing his brother, and doesn't really give importance to Jesus, other than to say James was the brother of 'the so called Christ.' While I certainly think one needs to be more than just a historian to study these matters with the degree of depth that they deserve -- such as the education Prof. Bart Ehrman has -- I do feel that he is perhaps, emotionally tied to he romanticism of a Jesus character... and has called him 'the most influential person in history,' etc. I find this to be obnoxious, personally... The culture of Christianity, perhaps -- but the Biblical Jesus... I really find no persuasive argument that much of the persona portrayed in the book, was based on fact. Just a myth built around some itinerant doomsday preacher persona.

Rabí you do more harm than good. We can say that Moses never exited because he was even older than Jesus speaking in the sense of science and factual information.

The underlying weakness of this Rabbi’s presentation leaps out at you. The Gospels are treated as reliable when they can be used to create a problem. Higher critics have taken the same approach and it has not worked. Also, the Rabbi assumes that we take for granted a lot of what he says when we do not. I would have to go inch by inch with this rambling presentation but there are so many problems in it I would need a week to deal with all of them. What the Rabbi fails to do is locate Jesus in the Old Testament, a thing which more than one Jew has done. Jesus is the preexistent one who visited Abraham in Genesis 18. You have to shut down reason not to see Jesus in that passage.[Rev. Stephen A. Cakouros Evangelical Presbyterian Church].

Why do you guys teach that man has a soul when your own scripture teaches man is a soul?

I see his point with the bugs bunny analogy, but it leads me to wonder, how would he respond if that analogy was used in reference to him and his jewish scriptures and the existence of God walking with Adam and Eve, or talking to Noah, etc?

Rabbi you are the best

I love the "Bugs Bunny" analogy....cracked me up, I'm going to use that. Casper the Friendly Ghost is fantastic!

Paul wrote before the gospels, he never mentioned Nazareth or Bethlehem, or the virgin birth . Never mentioned Pontius Pilate or judas iscariot, Paul never mentioned Joseph father of Jesus nor he mentioned the disciples. Paul always talk to a celestial Jesus, he never places him on earth. Only in the gospels which came much later the author of the gospel of mark (written in the year 72 CE) bring Jesus down to earth, and mark never called him Jesus of Nazareth but called him Jesus the NAZARENE(offshoot of Judaism). Mathew changed the word Nazarene to Nazareth to create a hometown for this fictional character(Jesus ). If Jesus was a Jewish rabbi preaching religious doctrines; why then invent all these miracles and fictional names and towns in the gospel around a normal religious guy. What was the reason? For me it seems more a fictional story invented by pagan Jews after the destruction of the temple and the raze of Jerusalem as a way of explaining the suffering and catastrophe of the distraught people of jacob(israel). the same method that was used in the Old Testament to describe miracles and Jewish histories is the same method used to describe the life of Jesus. It's all written by Jewish authors . The story of Jesus is as fictional as the story of prophet JONAH and we know Jonah did not exist and he did not live inside a big fish for three days and three nights. Same Jewish narrative: bugs bunny, Spider-Man , super man .

The question is Jesus words changed the world! Here in the Mt. Province Philippines, our forefathers were headhunters; without the use of sword but only through the Love of Jesus, we're now at least called human. Open your eyes and see what Jesus' Words did to civilize the world - in fact, didn' t His word is now saving you? If, his word is crook do you think Israel still exist? I believe satan would have no need for Islam to eliminate the people of G-d. But, we are not here to judge but witness the power of G-d slowly revealing His Love to you. Maybe in 10-20years from now, your rabbis can no longer hide the fact about Yeshua. And I am not surprise you will be singing another lyrics which is praising Jesus as the son of G-d. Bless G-d he gave the gentiles hope of salvation through your blinded eyes.

JESUS and PINOCCHIO IS THE SAME ONE

Jesus being flesh & blood does not matter, the fact remains he failed as the messiah. The Messiah is born of two human parents, But Jesus, according to Christian theology, was born of the union between a human woman and Gd (as were many other pagan deities,) rather than two human parents. The Messiah can trace his lineage through his human biological father, back to King David (Isaiah 11:1,10; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 34:23-24; 37:21-28; Jeremiah 30:7-10; 33:14-16; Hosea 3:4-5). According to Christian theology, Jesus's father was Gd. Therefore, Jesus' lineage does not go through his human 'father' -- Joseph, the husband of Mary. The Messiah gathers to Israel all of the twelve tribes (Ezekiel 36:24). The Messiah rebuilds the Temple (Isaiah 2:2; Ezekiel 37:26-28). After the Messiah comes, there will be no more famine (Ezekiel 36:29-30). After the Messiah comes, death will eventually cease (Isaiah 25:8). The Jews will be sought out for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23). All weapons will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9,12). Even Christians recognize that the changes the real Messiah will make, according to the Bible and Judaism, have not yet happened. This is why Christianity had to invent the idea of a Second Coming. The real Messiah has no need to come a second time to do those things -- he must do them the first time around in order to actually be the Messiah. So again, Jesus being a real man or not does not matter, he was a False Messiah, and if he was real he deserved death.

Actually I think the Islamic narrative that there WAS a Jesus - though not one who rose from the dead or performed miracles - has reinforced popular belief there was a historical Jesus. As missionary religions that assert the historicity of Jesus, both Islam and Christianity have made belief such historicity widespread worldwide

Here is the key to Tovias " magical knowledge " = he knows that a large large majority of proclaiming Christians do not study Torah or alone barely the NT. However ... He still has to deal with Deuteronomy 32:21 .. Why don't you address this one for the class Tovia ? If any baby Christians are watching this . Please run away until you have at least 10 years of faith grounded in Christ .

Any thoughts on how to trust the historicity of the prophets in Judaism? How is the evidence that they actually existed, said everything they said, traveled where they are supposed to have gone?

Even the Talmud recognizes him.

Wheres the historical evidence that moses existed?

In your commentary it's clear that the variations of this character's birth is not consistent, this further strengthens my belief that christianity is a roman inspired idea to absorb the jews into their messianic narrative, which failed...

And you have no bias!

If am eating a banana and you are sitting by,do you know how it tastes? Not until you taste it yourself. There is no way to teach a goat sheep's behaviour, unless there's an inward change wrought in the goat's nature. Rabbi Singer wants to depend on history,which is only manmade,to understand spiritual matters. That won't do,it's the serpent's intellectualism that he introduced to Eve to doubt El's word. Since you don't believe in the New testament, let me quote for you in Habakkuk 2:4 the just shall live by faith. Not intellectualism. Humble yourself and you will be lifted up. Your pride and highmindedness Will only send you miles away from salvation of Elohim revealed in Yeshua May Elohim open your eyes that you may behold the salvation freely given you Yah through His only begotten Yeshua

Let’s ask: Did the patriarchs exist? Did Abraham, Issac and Jacob exist? Did Moses exist? According to practically all historians, and archeologists no, there is zero evidence. Don’t take anything the Rabbis say if they proclaim Moses existed etc, they have everything to lose. If the Rabbis accepted Moses didn’t exist, down goes their religion. Imagine telling the rabbis that they have wasted their lives studying Moses the friendly ghost? 😉 My point is the same methodology Tovia uses backfires on him in the same way.

how do we even know that Moses existed? and what proof do you have?????

It would seem that Jesus had a brother (James) who was important in the Jerusalem church,. I am not a Christian, but generally trust the Judgement of Bart Ehrman... who has significant expertise, and who also has no motive to defend the religion.

4:24 I don't understand Singer's insinuation that it is essential for New Testament scholars for Jesus to be an historical figure (hence their "consensus" Jesus existed). One can study the New Testament w.r.t. to factors that don't depend on the historicity of Jesus: the possible origins of the gospels and other books, the comparison of language styles used, the nature of the many contradictions between different gospels, the commonalities with to other mythologies, etc. But maybe I don't know what a New Testament scholar actually does.

Absolutely all of the statements made in the NT need to looked at in a "NOW" way, because all 'HIS' testimony is clearly stated as BEING THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY. What it entails is both a correction of HIS "MISSION", which was not for Himself, but actually for the ONE, [anointed and led by HOLY SPIRIT] who would FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS, and become the NEW RESURRECTION, with gift of a NEW NAME, a good name. Christians, being generally ignorant of Tanach things, CAN BE JUDGED BY EVERYTHING IN THE NT, because it will be their measure, whether in works, Faith, Truth, Love or Obedience. Give account of your life, NOW !

So you're saying that people who study literature, who study the fictional characters of Shakespeare or of Jane Austin, that they've wasted their life? Because Mr. Darcy didn't exist, the scholars that study Austin have wasted their lives on something meaningless? Because that's basically what you're saying about NT scholars, and it sounds just as silly either way.

Wow! Rabbi, you make an excellent point!

Dr Bart Ehrman exposes alot of issues with New Testament.

Conclusion is that us Jews do not care about jesus whether he existed or he didn't. We never will

What do you think of the book, "Caesars Messiah" by Joseph Atwill? I think it will relate to this topic. As I understand it, Nazareth didn't exist in 1A.D?

Jewish theologians are the most informative.

Now I'm curious what extra-biblical historical evidence is there for Moshe?

Yet the Rabbi believes in the Talmud, oral law that contradicts the Tanakh. The irony.

I wonder if the Rabbi has read what Paul Maier has written about the testemonium flavianum, also the fact that later in Jusephus Anitquities it mentions James the brother of Jesus the "one called" Christ, obviously NOT a christian interpolation, and obviously assuming that Jesus had been mentioned before. He says everyone agrees the TF is an interpolation, no most everyone agrees that at least part of it is, an interpolation, but a lot of scholars believe that there part of the TF is origional, and they have very good arguments for believing that, including the fact that his brother is mentioned later with the assumption the reader would have known who Jesus the one called Christ is. As far as Jesus not being mentioned outside Christian literature (other than Josephus) until about 130, (also if you ignore other ones that wrote about him in the first century such as Tacitus), What Jewish leader was written about outside of Jewish literature within the 100 years of their living? I mean imagine if he applied the same criteria to Jewish figures, big or small, it's completely rediculous, even all the figures WITHIN Josephus. Also just because a source is Christian doesn't mean the historian throws it out as valuable, or historical. There's a reason NT scholars almost unanmously think the mythesist aurgument is nonsense, and not because their lives would be a waste, they wouldn't, they would stil be studying the sources of the text, the sources of the traditions, infact they'd have a whole lot more work to do, but because it's a rediculous theory that requires one to believe all sorts of other unsubstanciated and uncredible things and also requires a completely diferent historical standard than one used for anyhing else in ancient history.

if there is no proof Jesus existed then there is no proof Moses who came thousands years earlier existed either.

I enjoyed this talk very much. It's been a long time since I've seen anything as measured concerning the historicity of Jesus. I particularly enjoyed your cautionary debunking of the academic consensus on this. However we must remember that it is the historicity of NT Jesus specifically that is at issue here. Josephus alone informs us that there were many people who went by the name of Jesus. The realization that even the name 'Jesus Christ' is Anglicised Greek for something similar to 'Saviour Annointed' and as such could apply to many distinct individuals, simply adds to the confusion. So the idea that the very "fiction of the gospels" indicates a kernel of truth is a possibility, yet a probability only in the most generic sense. Of course another possibility is that Galilean, Samaritan or diaspora Gnostics either witnessing or anticipating the destruction of the 2nd Temple by the Romans ca. 70AD. simply seized the opportunity (it would have to be now or never) to write a scurrilous and fictitious account of how the Pharisees executed their own 'Messiah'. Personally I'm not that persuaded by the adoption v nativity argument since the latter could simply be an embellishment to sell the idea of 'OT prophecy fulfilled'. Why Nazareth; precisely because Nazareth was nothing and because they did not want the Messiah to hail from Judea. Who knows? We may never know whether or not NT Jesus ever existed but what is certain is he left no useful historical trace that could be construed as evidence thereof. On balance I think the mythecist (though I prefer the term fictionalist) view explains what we observe in the NT better.

Why are the european christians abandon christianity? why are they being religious only in attacking Islam than practicing their religion?

Of course Jesus existed, the greeks knew him as Hercules... I'm being ironic. The real story of jesus has unfortunatly been overriden with all these pagan stories of Greece and Rome difficult to find the truth by this point :/

Make the explanation on the basis of prophesy about jesus which are fullfilled. If you do not agree please explain the prophesies word to word, I think that will be fantastic. I will be happy to hear your explanation.

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Now you have lost all credibility Tovia. Too many witnesses. Who laid down their lives for what they saw.

Jesus (PBUH) existed and i am a muslim, we believe his existence as much as we believe our prophet Muhammad existed