University Students Challenge Rabbi on Belief In God

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6 ай бұрын

This was filmed with ‪@manisfriedman‬ at JLI's 17th annual National Jewish Retreat. The questions were presented by Steven Mendelsohn, Keira Weiss. For more information, and to register for the next retreat, visit: jretreat.com.
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@keinoir 6 ай бұрын

I am atheist, never believed in God all my life and I am 40 years old. I always believed in science. However, listening to this man is so fascinating and it's opening my mind a little. Between all religions, I am starting to feel that Judaism is the only one that is worth investing time, effort and curiosity...it does make sense to me...

@josephgerard5473 6 ай бұрын

The same here!

@keinoir 6 ай бұрын

@@josephgerard5473 it's nice to know I am not alone 😊

@morganmom194 6 ай бұрын

If yall get tired of religions, check into Jesus as Savior. It’s relationship with a win/win outcome. Need info, check out Jack Hibbs at Real Life. Knowing God as your Dad is a phenomenal way to live. And that’s just the beginning…

@morganmom194 6 ай бұрын

Thought you might find this interesting. A little note I wrote to myself one day after spending some time with Papa. Papa saving me was always part of His eternal truth. He caught me long before I fell, no matter how many times I fall. Ours is an eternal, living relationship. I truly hope you will seek Him. He said if we did, we will find Him. He will make Himself known to us. I wish I hadn’t wasted time not knowing Him.🤗

@shanewoody4232 6 ай бұрын

I notice that a lot of Jewish prophecies have come true after studying their books. For an instance in Jeremiah chapter 13 claims that 2/3 of the Jews will be cut down and the rest will be molded into silver. 2/3 of the European Hebrews were slain by the Germans in WW2 and afterwards became a nation and hosea 3:4-5 prophesize the Jewish exiled and their eventual return to isreal as well

@philipabraham4613 5 ай бұрын

I am an a serious Christian and i am profoundly thankful for the witness of Rabbi Manis Friedmann. Baruch haShem😊

@rachelabraham5488 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Rabbi

@yosefwolf704 5 ай бұрын

Great video! I am sharing it with some of my students!

@NaProbablyNot 6 ай бұрын

Great conversation

@judithabrams2016 6 ай бұрын

Amazing. Thank you Judy Abrams

@chantalevictorguiteau7779 6 ай бұрын

I believe ! Glory to God, my Creator so Marvelous ! Alleluia and thanks a lot, Good God!

@Mimi-ok8bj 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Rabbi! And thank the interviewer for the good questions! My belief in God came to me as a result of studying science. I can understand God only through science. Otherwise I can not explain how 0 became 1.

@aaynalnasr7987 6 ай бұрын

If science for you means logic so yes

@DrKaii 6 ай бұрын

How does science teach that 0 became 1?

@graceespiritu5400 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Rabbi Friedman. God Bless You More...🙏❤ It doesn't have to be too complicated also. Any sensible and thinking individual will get it right away. That is why the Torah began with Creation--Creator. Someone very intelligent created and deisgned every beautiful things we see around. The sky, the sun, moon and stars, the mountains, trees are not manmade. God brearhed life into his nostrils... Try not to breathe for 4-6 minutes... Who designed that humans cannot live beyond 6 minutes without oxygen. That is God...Creator...Designer...

@LifeTAX 5 ай бұрын

correct Judaism is the only religion that can be affirmed For example, I was one of the two million people who heard God Can you deny? of course not Apocalypse logic

@elizabethbooth5446 24 күн бұрын

Thank you rabbi

@JeanMarcelino-qr9ju 4 ай бұрын

Some questions are insulting some questions just to get what they wanted but a question with earning knowledge is the best of all

@cathyontong5324 5 ай бұрын

“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:15

@arabnyc 5 ай бұрын

“On the Day when their tongues and their hands and their feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do. ”the light:24] Surah: Al-Nour - An-Nūr

@russbianchi8120 5 ай бұрын

Consider the online TED TALK by Rupert Shedrake "THE SCIENCE DELUSION"

@JamesEdwards-td7bi 6 ай бұрын

I always wonder why no one ever discusses the relationship between the money changers and the crucifixion, robbers and thieves cannot steal from that which is freely given perpetually. Even I have to concede the causal effect to be beyond the scope of mental prepositions and into the realm of divine understanding. Take your faith for it is yours, and the grace of God will account it as much.

@1g1d1w 5 ай бұрын

I have to know, "we are to fear gd and the tzadik"? 31:29. where does it say that in the torah?

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

I found Joshua 4:14 with a quick search at bluelettterbible, "On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life." You have powerful knowledge at your fingertips but you choose ignorance. Why?

@shannonsmith297 5 ай бұрын

❤

@JeanMarcelino-qr9ju 4 ай бұрын

Rabbi Manis Friedman science is a knowledge of gathering information

@beagleman123456789 5 ай бұрын

B”h ✡️👍

@Rajakumar-td8im 5 ай бұрын

"Yet the Spirit was not in them" Today, 60 years have passed since the nation of Israel was perfected, but the Spirit was not in them. Ezekiel 37:9 "Then he looked at me and said: Prophesy to the spirit. Son of man, prophesy to the spirit and say: This is what the Lord God says: Spirit, come from the four winds and blow on the dead so that they may live." In this verse we see "that they who kill may live." What this means is that slain refers to the condition of the dead i.e. the condition of the world (the dead their dead..) Israel is like the people of the world in death and ignorance. Although Israel had received all kinds of worldly blessings, their ignorance of Jesus Christ meant that the life of God was not in them. When Paul says about this Ephesians 4:18 "They are darkened in understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them because of the hardness of their hearts." And so, when they see what the spirit of waiting to receive life signifies Refers to "God's Holy Spirit". Today this Holy Spirit has given life to the true church and so it is to them. Romans 8:10,11 "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead to sin, and the spirit is alive to righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead.. He will also raise your bodies” It is not yet available to Israel. After receiving the Holy Spirit, the Israelites will fully know the truths of God. How and when the Israelites When they see that they will know. Ezekiel 37:10 "I prophesied what I was taught. Your word is truth Page 11 A prophecy concerning Israel Then the Spirit entered into them, and they became alive, standing, and great "The spirit" stood as a great army. " The "Holy Spirit" spoken of here is four to the nation of Israel The following We see that coming from the winds. What do these four winds represent? It is mentioned in the verse - Revelation 7:1 "After these, four angels stood in the four directions of the earth, either on the earth, or on the sea, or on a tree, or the wind. I held the four winds of the earth so as not to be blown away". Imagine what happens when the four winds blow from the four directions. Together they form a vortex. A tornado destroys everything in its path. Yes here from the "four winds of the earth" or from the four divisions of visible earthly government, political, religious, social, and economic, simultaneously. God is referring here to the tribulation that will arise. This tribulation is a symbol of the tribulation period that will end the present dispensation and the second world. Capricorn And through this great tribulation period and the four winds, Israel will receive the Holy Spirit. Then when the scriptures say about the state of Israel, jeremiah 30 : 3,7, 9 "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. I‬‎

@herohero8620 5 ай бұрын

I discovered a tv program called drive thur history its informative and you can see places you mite never see. The greatest testamony. Comes from saul of tarsus or paul lol he converted to christianity and spread the good news to all the gentiles lol

@juditrotter5176 5 ай бұрын

I never believed in the things Paul was teaching. What he wrote was so different than Jesus. Peter and Jesus’s brother James denied Paul and told him to stop saying inaccurate things from Jesus. You can see the problems Paul caused including by using a Greek Translation instead. If you go to the Hebrew a very different Torah is revealed.

@vinnydidonne9643 2 ай бұрын

Campania no Calabria

@sanathanimis6063 5 ай бұрын

I disagree There was no beginning Existence has always been here and is eternal Try to imagine this

@davidrandell2224 5 ай бұрын

Every Bible scholar knows the ‘Jordan’- in the OT- is not a river. Do you? Why not.

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

Neither Strong's nor Gesenius agrees with you. You said EVERY. You lie.

@davidrandell2224 5 ай бұрын

@@TacShooter Scholars, not wannabes. “The Bible Came from Arabia “, Kamal Salibi,1985, plus his 3 other bible study books. Read first then comment.

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

@@davidrandell2224 Strong's and Gesenius are wannabes. Sure, Pal. XD You just canceled yourself. "James Strong was an American academic, biblical scholar, lexicographer, Methodist theologian and professor, best known for being the creator of Strong's Concordance." "Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic."

@davidrandell2224 5 ай бұрын

@@TacShooter “He - you- who will not read is no better than he who cannot read “, Mark Twain. THM in Gen.1:2 refers to the Tihamah regions- Hijaz, Asir and Yemen- in western Arabia, not the ‘deep.’ Your scholars are so incompetent that the second ‘ verse’ in the OT exceeds their abilities. And countless others( 4 books worth). Sad, but true. Grow up, silly child.

@lilianavois4391 5 ай бұрын

Oh, Yes it is :))))))))))

@cathyontong5324 5 ай бұрын

❤❤You can test whether there is a God by believing HIM that if you "ask of ME and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things of which you know nothing." TEST GOD AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.!

@herohero8620 5 ай бұрын

As a child i asked my mother whats the differance beteew judaism and christianity she said judaism lives under. Law but christians live under grace .by law everyone is guilty but grace you are foegiven

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

Chesed V'Emet (Grace/Mercy and Truth) existed in the so-called "Old Testament". Psalms 25:10 is just one occurrence. John 1:17 says "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ," but Psalms 25:10 existed BEFORE John 1:17, so SOMEONE is deceiving you, either knowingly or unknowingly.

@marcroth3059 5 ай бұрын

@@TacShooterSo much of the New Testament is filled with Jew hatred but most of the Jew hatred is in the gospel of John which was written about 90 years after the crucifixion

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

@@marcroth3059 Once you are awakened to the fact that this myth is actually about the Roman Flavian Dynasty the "Jesus Sayings" become so much darker.

@5thdhealth 6 ай бұрын

If Hashem wanted to become physical he would need a Mother to conceive him.

@anikomattison7568 6 ай бұрын

God is not a man, He doesn’t need to be conceived

@chanaselwyn9265 6 ай бұрын

He used something he stole from a Rabbi😂 look it up in jewish history

@reEllity 6 ай бұрын

Interesting and I like his approach on some things. HOWEVER, he is either ignorant or dishonest regarding proof for the Torah. A claim of a whole nation at Sinai is better than one person but we have no way of knowing if it's just a story. It's the Kuzari argument and does not hold water today. Further, he claims we have the same Torah but that ignores the Samaritan, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls etc. The Masoretic is just one of a bunch and none go back to Sinai.

@jordanwartell-composer 6 ай бұрын

I can tell you've researched this issue, but I think there is more to dig into. The Kuzari argument does better than just "hold water" today - no other religion, claims had a national revelation like the Jews, with an unbroken historical chain, generation after generation, going back 3300+ years. Moreover, thousands of years have passed for a similar religious origin story to develop among the thousands of other religions that have sprung up since - never happened. The "comparisons" with Native tribes and Roman/Greek origin myths are not serious challenges. In fact, the other major religions - Christianity, Islam, Baháʼí, etc. accept the Sinai Revelation as true! This is in itself miraculous, a 1-time, unreplicable religious event that the majority of the world believes in. Even if one rejects the story as fact, one cannot reject the unparalleled uniqueness of it. The Torah scroll (Sefer Torah) is another supernatural text in how it's been preserved - France, Yemen, Poland, Spain, Syria, etc. - they are all the same Torah - every word, and even every letter (with a handful of trivial exceptions) has been preserved with thousands of years without contact. G-d has preserved his Torah unlike any other book in human history. The Torah itself even prophecizes no other nation will claim such an experience - incredible! There is far more evidence, as you know, for the miraculous history of the Jewish nation, but this would take too long. It seems to me then that the argument is not Judaism vs. other religions, but whether G-d is real or not ... which is a separate issue. Judaism is by far the most sound religious option for an intellectual thinker.

@gl9088 5 ай бұрын

@@jordanwartell-composerI was about to respond, but you pretty much summed it up.

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

What you fail to grasp is that there were generations immediately following Sinai that could ask this same question and yet accepted it as historical fact. Furthermore, the historical enduring fact of Israel's observance of that same Torah given at Sinai. There are many gentiles who claim to be "TRUE Israel", but none of them have corporately observed even the Sabbath and Circumcision the way the Jewish People have.

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

How many scrolls dating back to Sinai have been found intact by archeologists? The observant Jewish People have become the living Torah. Furthermore, the discovery of "more Bible" and the proof of the general reliability of the existing Bible just as Israel was being reestablished as a nation suggests a Divine Hand, in my mind, given that the text remained hidden since at least the darkness brought upon the Jewish People by the Roman Flavian Dynasty and their miso-Judaic Roman State Cult, Christianity. This is the heavy-handedness of the nations inflicting punishment upon Israel, as described in 1st Enoch.

@reEllity 5 ай бұрын

@@TacShooter "there were generations immediately following Sinai that could ask this same question and yet accepted it as historical fact." Of this you have no evidence. There was little to no concept of history, most people were not educated or literate. Traditions developed over time and eventually were understood as the "history" of the Jews. But there is no historical scientifically sound evidence for this transmission. And this is a convenient confusion by many: there was no historical enduring observance of the Torah from the days at Sinai. Not only that, but that is made clear time and time again in the Tanakh itself with the number of times Bnei Israel lost their way. Any unbroken and serious tradition of any sort can not be dated before the days of Shimon Hatzadik around 200 BCE.

@crazywisdom2 5 ай бұрын

And so. GOD exists. Thousands of years. He walkwd with you in thr dessert. Sent prophets. Delievered you the State of Israel. And then went on vacation ? I am a Christian. I believe in JESUS. IF Jesus isn't GOD. Where did he go ? And why havent you heard from him. Thank you.

@ruthgreen2014 5 ай бұрын

HaShem didn't go anywhere. If your Jesus is a god, then HaShem isn't HaShem (check out Is. 44)

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

Why do they need to hear from Him? He already revealed Himself to them at Sinai and gave them His Instruction, His Torah. All of the later Prophets only exhort the Israelites of their time to return to observance of the Torah. This is why the Torah says, "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face," (Deut. 34:10)

@ruthietaylor8756 5 ай бұрын

Idolatry

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

As an ex-Christian who got educated, you should know that the Torah is the Creator's revelation to Israel. If you aren't obeying the Torah you really have no business asking for additional revelations (which you hope will tell you that you don't have to obey the commandments that are incumbent upon non-Jews).

@eliekurtz 5 ай бұрын

You get black boxes from Saturnian religions - the same as the kabbah

@arabnyc 5 ай бұрын

No the kabba was a house built before anything.. and it was covered with different colours. .. this last one is black

@yeshevishman 5 ай бұрын

You literally missed the point of what the Rabbi was saying. Throughout Jewish history, there are debates about the finer points of the law. Debates that at times have become politicized and led to infighting and different "factions" of Judaism. But throughout the entire 3000+ years, there was never anyone who stood up and said "it should be a sign on your hand" means something else! Just because there are other people who do similar things, doesn't mean that's where it came from. Correlation is not causation.

@marcoslapciuc5599 5 ай бұрын

Manis is a hillul Hashem

@Yomi2012 5 ай бұрын

So is Yosef misrahi and yaron Reuven

@hellothere3097 5 ай бұрын

What non sense. His knowledge of Judaism is sprinkled with nitzutzot of kabbalah. It's wonderful.

@Yomi2012 5 ай бұрын

@@hellothere3097 the man who called rabbi manis friedman a hillul hashem is obviously a follower of yosef misrahi who is a very vocal critic of rabbi manis.

@sharontarin1310 6 ай бұрын

It does sound ungodly to me too. God doesn't need DNA to recreate a human body. Jesus didn't use science to perform miracles (and these things can also be proved). Much respect to Rabbi, but I don't agree with that one. ❤❤

@aaynalnasr7987 6 ай бұрын

I dont think thats his point..

@stevens8490 5 ай бұрын

If Jesus was the Messiah why does he have to come a second time to fulfill the prophecies. Sounds to me he wasn't the true messiah.

@lilianavois4391 5 ай бұрын

Jesus did not performed miracles ... the shamans in tibet and India can do even in our days wht Jesus did (If) 2000 years ago. The fact that his deeds were spoken about does not mean that only him could perform the same "miracles"..

@PaulKaufman-dz4de 7 сағат бұрын

😂@@lilianavois4391

@pdalaigh 6 ай бұрын

If God is real why does he allow the genocide of the Palestinians?

@christinaferry9388 5 ай бұрын

God gave humans free will. We choose to do good, or to do evil.

@pdalaigh 5 ай бұрын

Why would a God give humans free will if he knew they would use it for evil? Does that make sense to you? @@christinaferry9388

@hellothere3097 5 ай бұрын

There is no genocide going on in Gaza.

@TacShooter 5 ай бұрын

Why do Palestinians provoke a neighboring nation to war? Mohammed. There's your answer. The Creator has already forbidden the Nations of the world to create new religions unto themselves, but they went ahead and did it anyway. Now look at the harm that foolishness brings upon them.

@ruthietaylor8756 5 ай бұрын

Blame Hamas! God bless Israel