jews are raised on the principle of tsedaka, which is rudely translated as charity (actually it comes from the word justice but thats a subject per se). Giving 10%, NOT TO PRIESTS, but to families nearby who are needing help to buy food, clothes, etc

@@gabrieljardineI’ve always known tzadakh to mean righteous, not justice, but that’s interesting

@@croonie17 AI answered it (but I knew it also): "Tzedek is a Hebrew word that translates to "justice" in English. It's a fundamental value in Jewish thought that goes beyond fair treatment and equal opportunities, and also encompasses morality and righteousness. In the Hebrew Bible, tzedek is closely related to the words mishpat and din, which indicate righteousness, judgment, and abiding by the law. These concepts are similar to a society's guidelines for achieving fairness and obedience to the legal system. My Jewish Learning Tzedek: The Jewish Value of Justice | My Jewish Learning Colel Chabad The Meaning of Tzedek In Judaism - Colel Chabad Tzedek is a Hebrew word that translates to “justice” in English. But the concept goes far ... Tzedek is also closely related to the word tzedakah, which means "charity". The Jewish concept of tzedakah is based on justice, and is outlined in the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 25. It includes the justice, honor, and care that must be given to help lift the poor and their children from poverty, as well as giving alms to beggars. According to the great Jewish sage Maimonides, the highest form of tzedakah is helping a person become self-sufficient. Generative AI is experimental."

@@croonie17 in a few words, the idea of Tzedek has nothing to do with the concept of charity because it does not involve one superior giving to one that is inferior, or even incapable, that's not the core of Tzedek. The core of it is, that G-d gives everything to men, and whether it stays with you or should be passed to someone who needs it, is G-d will, not yours. However, you should still fulfill this commandment of giving what you can to someone, but only if you do not hurt his dignity. By doing so, you elevate something material, which is money, into something with spiritual value. That is simply our goal in life, according to Kabbalah: to sanctify matter, to turn this material world into a sanctified world. I believe all religions have something related to that, i think the beauty of Judaism is that they do so in a communal way, instead of a solitary way.

@@croonie17It’s derived from the same root. Tzedeq means justice. Tsadiq means righteous one, tsduqa means righteousness, tzedaqa means charity.

For what exactly? Looking at the last 100 years they were involved World War 1/2! WW 2 alone Resulted 90M death mainly Christians. Then they moved on to the holy land where the bloodshed continued - hundreds and thousands ethnic cleansing & massacred indigenous Palestinians. And ever since there has been No peace in the middle east. Iraq Syria Libya were attacked by the West for Israel, planned and funded by American zionists including Bibi Netanyahu who actually predicted 9/11😮 Zionist Europeans were the first to commit terrorism in the Middle East against the British BUT its never their fault so tell what's so loveable about them?

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Wonderful!!! Reformed Judaism, for example, would warmly embrace you!! (If you are looking for a movement, that is!) Otherwise, you be you, Boo!!

You’re a traitor to the people on your mother’s side.

@@antithesespistopheles8112 No s/he is NOT!! And NO Jewish religious group would say that! Quite the opposite!!

@@skontheroad then you don’t understand Jews.

@@antithesespistopheles8112 I have 1/2 sisters but I would never think of them as less or 1/2. They are my sisters. Being Jewish is not in conflict with being my mother's child and embracing my family on that side as well.

Yea lol I don’t know how they missed that. I’d argue Nazi slavery was more severe than Babylonian, Egyptian, or Roman slavery

Agree. Customs like dress and diet are more about traditions from sects that came from Europe and even the boots from muddy village will be kept in NY. Nothing biblical about those customs. Basically different isolated or specific groups in Orthodox will keep additional customs (minhogim) in addition to basic biblical and rabbinic ones. These are only external issues.

The hebrew term "charedi" sums it up better then the term "ultra Orthodox". Charedi means "one who fears". Presumably they fear G-d but in practice they seem to fear the secular world and being influenced by its ideas. That's why they cling to old customs and are more closed minded. They don't want to mix with non-jews because they fear being influenced. Looks like Tzvi (tall bearded one) is from the Chabad sect which is an outlier among the charedim. Because they focus on outreach they practically cannot be as closed off from the secular world. This is why many of the youth dress more modern. Their parents may have mixed feelings about this but it is mainstream enough that most will not come down hard on their kids.

​@@Didleeios88 so that's why they shoo goyims? 😊 My mom used to be very social toward everyone she could cross ways. Once she was visiting my brothers in Buenos Aires. They used to live a few blocks from Once, traditionally the most Jewish neighborhood in Buenos Aires. She went for a walk and ended in front of a temple that looked beautiful and asked the people outside if she could visit. They almost freak out and sent her away and all she could hear when going away was goyim this goyim that. 😅

@@Didleeios88 if i recall correctly, they prefer the term *strictly orthodox* as opposed to *ultra-orthodox*

Usually ultra Orthodox will keep more laws, there aren't many Jews who even keep all the laws there are too many, so it's not a competition.

Not to mention slaves currently being held in Gaza. Noa Argamani testified that she and other hostages were forced to work, including cooking while they are not fed

no they weren’t you liar

They are not claiming to speak for Judaism. They simply wrote on a board "I'm Jewish, ask me anything". This is their own understanding and views.

They weren’t even slaves in Egypt. Propaganda from ancient times.

@@kellenwaters9087really? I didn’t ever hear that point of view. Where did you learn that propaganda?

Thank you Kaleb 🙏🏼❤️

Exactly, I was truly inspired as well

Both of them are!

Completely agree.

I think the same Very disappointing...

I agree that Israel has the right to defend itself. Considering tho, that the intensity and the methods used by the STATE of israel to approach the conflict has led to legal condemnations bordering genocide and that the IDF has literally been blacklisted for killing so many children, I don't think its outerwordly to accept the fact that the ISRAELI STATE (theyre very clearly not saying jews are at fault in the video) is misusing their power, in a way that in fact doesnt even coincide with the interest of the majority of israeli jews (as we can see by the massive protests as well as the abuse of power that netanyahu has repeatedly been called out for even pre-war). That being said I realize the fact that jews are unfairly being targeted with hate because of these facts, and i think thats atrocious. However, i dont think neither of these guys are disserving jews or disrespecting judaism by acknowledging the issues with israeli state politics.

@@linda7538 How would the US or any other country react if a terrorist organization invaded it and kil led 1400 people in one day? Israel is fighting against a te rrorist organization and it is doing what it can to protect civilians and respect international law, but in the end it is a war...

​@@linda7538 The fact that Israel receives "legal condemnations bordering genocide," and "mass protests" is not surprising, nor is it persuasive. The Jewish State has always been a disproportionate target of condemnation, not because its actions warrant a disproportionate response, but because of anti-semitism. I am well aware that the Israeli government is not representative of the Jewish people: indeed, the Israeli government has bent over backwards and endangered its own people, to appease the world and to appease the Palestinians. Case in point: they ethnically cleansed the Jewish population of Gaza to create a Palestinian terrorist state that has done nothing but use it's exorbitant aid money to shoot rockets into Israel, use hospitals and schools as terrorist bases, create underground terrorist infrastructure far larger than the NYC subway system, and ultimately commit the atrocity of October 7th. That being said, those who say that Israel is responding "too much" on October 7th are not actually providing any actual alternatives to what Israel should be doing, because they don't in fact know nor do they care. The main point of the condemnations is simply to hinder Israel's ability to defend itself from genocidal terrorists - a point that is much more relevant to Jews (whose lives depend on self-defense), than the "Israeli state." Therefore, agreeing with these baseless talking points, is indeed doing a disservice to Jews.

For what exactly? Looking at the last 100 years they were involved World War 1/2! WW 2 alone Resulted 90M death mainly Christians. Then they moved on to the holy land where the bloodshed continued - hundreds and thousands ethnic cleansing & massacred indigenous Palestinians. And ever since there has been No peace in the middle east. Iraq Syria Libya were attacked by the West for Israel, planned and funded by American zionists including Bibi Netanyahu who actually predicted 9/11😮 Zionist Europeans were the first to commit terrorism in the Middle East against the British BUT its never their fault so tell what's so loveable about them?

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We sure did ;)

Plus, jewish Talmud says Prophet Jesus AS will be boiled in excrement for going against the sages Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through necromancy.... Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism for Jesus himself, in the next world? Jesus said to him: He is punished with boiling excrement. As the Master said: Anyone who mocks the words of the Sages will be sentenced to boiling excrement. And this was his sin, as he mocked the words of the Sages." (Gritten 56b)

@@salampakistan3691 ok, and??? 🥱

@@DerGoy2024 That's the big difference...

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Totally agree! Some Charismatic and Messianic communities see the Jewish people as the Royal Priesthood with the burden of carrying Torah to the nations. You're a beacon in how you live out Tikkun Olam, Pikuach Nefesh, and other deep principles of Hashem that Gentiles must learn. You must survive for the sake of the planet!!! My perspective is beyond "pro-Zionist". It's deeper. It has to do with your spiritual mandate on the earth. Period.

No. The Irish are.

If smugness and arrogance was a people.

Copying Hitler for 76 years is being a light to all nations? You should be a comedian.

nope.

That guy is full ideolog. Scary stuff

True. And while I feel the intent behind this video is excellent, the big gaps in the knowledge/education of those sharing their answers is difficult to watch. Opinions can be diverse but facts are facts.

Agreed but to be fair, a full explanation of the differences from scratch would probably take longer than this entire video. When u have insider knowledge, its hard to see from the perspective of those on the outside

@@danielleteitelbaum1054 I explained it in 3 sentences.

​@@womeninjudaism5443 u explained it to someone with inside knowledge. I don't think ur explanation would be enough for a non jew who had no prior interaction with the Jewish community.

Nakhon meod. Also, you're hot. Shalom!

Free Palestine

שחר כותבים Israel

​@hexiiyq u are not very smart

@@danieldiller2597 smarter than you face the truth

@hexiiyq I would love to go with the long version of explaining how things are if you want, but I'm telling you you're wrong

Nothing is entirely unrelated, definitely not in Judaism. Everything is related and sources back to the Lord of Israel is One. All halachot connect to that one source.

One is a pshat answer and his was a kabbalistic answer. He’s chassidish.

@@shoshanawolfe8305 You can say that Kabbalistic teachings connect the mitzvos of peyos of the head and peyos of the field, but the only correct answer to the question "why do Jewish men have side curls" is: it's an explicit instruction in Leviticus

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If you are referring to Israel defending her existence I wouldn't call that misbehaving. ❤

Maybe you are very young. Russian is your nationality, Judaism is your religion and identity. I can be super Mexican or Brazilian, dance like a Venezuelan, be pragmatic like a Finnish, drink mate like an Argentinian but Jew. Congratulations for embracing your traditions and identity. 😊

​​​​@@puranic1please speak for your own people. My Jewish grandfather had under 'nationality' in his Soviet passport stated: "Jewish". My Russian/Ukrainian side had "Russian". Nobody ever had "Muslim" or "Christian" in his passport as nationality. Because long time ago Jews started as a tribe with their own tribe religion, where they'd accept certain people only if they'd be willing to become part of this tribe/nationality (the religion facilitates a certain naturalisation), which for a big part meant carrying out their identity's spiritual mission as well (which means a very strictly observant Jewish lifestyle). That makes for quite a steep entry requirement. Because of that steep entry requirement, Jews have maintained a distinction as a group in their DNA that traces to one another and they became an ethnicity/nationality already 2 thousand years ago... More examples of ethnicities/nationalities that are also religions: Druzim, Zoroastrianists and Yazidis. As you can see, cultures form the Middle East have this sometimes. So please don't say shit if you're not Jewish yourself.

@@E2Dima it was the Soviet Union and probably your grandfather came from another place, many rules for Jews unfortunately.

@@puranic1 my grandfather's family immigrated from Poland, but we're already living few generations in the Belarus' in the Russian Tsardom when the CCCP took over (actually parts of Belarus used to be Polish). After WW2 the Polish got "Polyak" (Поляк) in the Soviet passports, the Belarussian "Belarus" (Белорус) and my family got "Jew" (Еврей). Sometimes some people managed to get "Russian" (Русский) in their passports even though they were not Russian (it was better), but not for my family. Probably because they looked to dark curly haired for Slavic people, spoke Yiddish and their last name was Epstein. It was all too non-Slavic to call them Polish, Belarussian or Russian. People saw that they did not look ethnic German. Nowadays, the darker Jews who are still in Europe, are either dead or moved away to Israel or into very closed orthodox Jewish communities in the west. Most western Jews (who still live here) are ofc lighter than their predecessors. We only usually have only one family member that is still darker, but the rest is lighter (usually brown hair). My nephew still looks like an Arab though whilst he lives in Lithuania😂 so we know, our Jewishness is an ethnicity. My grandfather's family for instance were hardcore Jewish communists, they didn't practise religion at all for at least 2 or 3 generations... My grandfather (his name is Isak/Исак, not a Slavic name) still doesn't know when Yom Kippur is😂 (most important Jewish holiday).

20:41 Jonathan couldn't have got a better answer to his question anywhere else.

How do you feel about Neturei Karta?

The Asian-looking young man whose father was Jewish. Perhaps I'm projecting my own feelings onto him, but I had the impression that by not being raised Jewish, he felt deprived of something -- and this is again my interpretation -- something deeply beautiful and precious. But all interactions were lovely on their own way. Thank you so much.

So many good questions, I love this video.

My least favorite part was when you ripped down on Israel’s response to 20 years of terror.. if you have a better alternative maybe run for office. Other than that, great content 💪🏻

When you’re G.O.D.s chosen people you get these little blessings.❤

feel the same😢 רואים שהוא לא חי בישראל...

Hi! Cool question. Here are my thoughts: this world is meant for struggle, because that is what builds strength of character (strengthens the soul). However, the true struggle is supposed to be internal, against arrogance, cowardice, greed, envy, power, selfishness etc. When we neglect or refuse to engage in these internal struggles, G-d manifests them externally, so that we are forced to confront them.

Thanks Kim. Good to be back :)

Idk about the Romans, I think in that tike anyone could get enslaved in certain circumstances. But the vikings constantly abducted Slavs, made and sold them as slaves.

That is also a reason. He was providing a kabbalistic reason, which tends to be much more baluabke when trying to grasp the reason *for* a mitzvah.

There are often several layers of "reason" for Jewish actions; 1. Halachic/legal 2. Minhag/traditional 3. Kabbala/metaphysical 4. Hashkapha/philosophical

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Thank you Batsheva :) that’s kind of you to say so.

You’re so welcome Eva. Thank you for joining us :)

Tzipporah was a convert. There are sources online if you Google it :)

Wow so well said!!

Thank you brother.

Thanks brother ;)

The average Hasidic family has around 6 kids, to fit them all in together with the parents- you need an 8 passenger vehicle. the Honda Odyssey and the identical- looking Toyota Sienna are economical and comfortable 8 passenger vehicles. I think if you look closer you'll also see a lot of large SUV's, such as the Ford explorer or the occasional Chevrolet Suburban.

Hi friend, If it was never said before, I hope you will accept it as a worthy Chiddush. We have permission and even responsibility to innovate in our rich inheritance, in our beautiful Torah, which we continue to beautify. With love, Zevi

@@SeekersofUnity A novelty is fine- if Torah study is dialogue with the divine, innovation is our lines of that dialogue. I just don't want people to come away from a video called "I'm Jewish, Ask Me Anything" assuming that this is a definitive answer

I’m curious, what is your explanation for what the curls mean? I’m not Jewish and have no preference to any one answer ( loved the one in the vid though 😊)

It's from Chabad Chassidus. It's not the source of the halacha, it's an interpretative insight into the deeper meanings of the mitzvah.

Thanks 🙏🏼 Life happens.

Orthodox Jews (including Hassidim) absolutely and wholeheartedly reject Neturei Karta. They're a tiny break-off group who have allowed their ideology to warp their moral compass, and their actions violate Jewish law and values.

It’s cultural not religious