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  • @manisfriedman
    @manisfriedman  4 года назад +137

    What do you think?

    • @idaloup6721
      @idaloup6721 4 года назад +2

      Sometimes I think that I'm only here to make a five senses experience and that's all. Sometimes I think that my presence in the world is a big sham. Sometimes I hope I'm going to wake up from my own nightmare but that goes on unabated. I feel that God tells me about love but I'm still single and frustrated. It wasn't in my destiny to be a mother. Why ? Why wouldn't I ever know what It is to be called Mum ? Does God need me for this ? Solitude? Not knowing what It is to be called Mum ? Has it something to do with past lives experiences? I've been wondering since I started my self inquiry 2 years ago. God is mute sometimes. Does he feel ashamed sometimes? Perhaps he should. It's what I say. He should.
      But I contradict myself sometimes or perhaps God answers me through this question. Would have you been able to take care of a child ? Isn't It rather a societal matter that you wanted to follow like a sheep but deeply inside you , you've got the truth. It's all about truth and the rest is a cry for an help. Yes maybe. I give him the benefit of the doubt. It's what he says me. You are not a sheep and I didn't want you to mingle with a societal project. Not yours. Yes maybe God. Maybe.
      Hope he has predestined for me a specific person to love. Hope is meaningless. The word in itself inspires me pity. But It helps still to pursue my destiny out of curiosity.
      I think God himself hasn't got a specific plan. He is himself his own guinea pig through us in his big laboratory he struggles to manage. He is not more than me. It's me who feeds him and he'd better feed me well too in return. We feed one another until the end of this stupid game in the physical body.
      I don't believe in evil. The evil is not a person like God. It's the diabolos that God has created to make our existences more complicated and at the same time interesting in self inquiry. We humans have got lots of psychological problems to fix and therefore God has also lots of psychological problems too. Maybe like we do he should take an appointment with a good psychiatrist. Need help God? Don't be shy to ask for an help. When you want. I'm available to listen to you.
      Does my guardian angel speak to me? Sometimes he pops up snippets of information and It is manifested. Sometimes I feel that he pushes me to behave in a way I couldn't imagine. Weird. Everything is weird anyway. I'm Jewish ( not having been raised in a religious family ) and I would like to say that as a Jew, I feel very very very difficult to identify God as a good someone because when I remind the Hitler's purpose, namely as Jewish everyday, It is and will remain impossible.
      Thank you.

    • @rossanderson5243
      @rossanderson5243 4 года назад +6

      @@idaloup6721 Shalom I’m Christian but I hope I can help you. If there is one great thing that God can help us with is that we mature in our being. With that in mind, a mature person becomes mature by forgiveness. With forgiveness we get a better grasp of reality and are able to deal with our weakness better than was otherwise the case. When we tell ourselves something without the competence of understanding it’s reality, then we have gone too far, beyond that reality. Competence is skill and knowledge and is something we learn throughout our life and to be an adult without competency means it is harder to deal with the reality’s around us. There is no human who is wiser than God. So look to Him for the wisdom of life and not our own wisdom. Peace to you.

    • @mohdlubiskhan7713
      @mohdlubiskhan7713 4 года назад

      Salam rabbi Manis
      God ... Indefinite form of noun
      In the form of idea . Not specified, root word,
      From Qur'an grammar.
      When we talk to atheist . They will ask . Which God ? Meaning tooo many gods.
      Kalimah syahadah
      No gods only Allah.
      Meaning gods does not exist at all. Only Allah is the lord and the servant to HI's slaves.
      Laa Haulawa.... Billah
      Allah HU Robbi
      Allah is a name to HU
      HU is the divine essence ( beyond our logic)
      Robbi is the attribute to HU.

    • @idaloup6721
      @idaloup6721 4 года назад

      @@rossanderson5243 Thank you 🙏
      I don't make any difference between the wisdom of life and my own wisdom. I fail to see how It is possible to separate both. There's no life outside mine. I am the life and the world I navigate in is my own daily manifestation in my reality. "The" reality doesn't exist without the meaning I give it and to me there's no meaning. A story eclipses another one without a specific meaning. The only wisdom I can have is in the letting go, the non resistance, the acceptance of what is. I believe that the Jews before being killed by the nazis were in the acceptance to die in the atrocity.
      The wisdom to me is a form of weakness, an apathy that the analytical consciousness builds over time to make one's experience of the matter more acceptable. But if we are not in a cotton candy spirituality we can all observe that the maturity of the being in the forgiveness of I don't what because of course I can't forgive someone who didn't apologize , is helpless in the unfoldment of our own destiny.
      And if someone can tell me how we gain in maturity in undergoing an amputation for example or end up in a hospital bed in a vegetative state, hatsoff to this person.
      I don't buy into a cotton candy spirituality with a wise God. As long as we live with the veil of forgetfulness we'll all be living in the low vibration of this dimension of predation with suffering.
      Thank you. Have a nice day. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists. We are all in the same boat, that of ignorance of our destiny because of course nobody builds one's destiny. Everybody lives a destiny that is already done. A big thought for the refugees in Paris who are treated less than a dog. Thank you God for your wisdom 😉

    • @rossanderson5243
      @rossanderson5243 4 года назад +1

      @@idaloup6721 I’m sorry but I am unable to see how your forgiveness relies on someone else to apologise? Bad things happen; unfair things happen, and if we can’t forgive these situations, they dominate us. What you focus on is where you put your energy. Your direct environment is where your energy probably needs to be, that you can have an effect on that in a positive way.

  • @angelaboswell6292
    @angelaboswell6292 4 года назад +207

    I am not Jewish, but I love your teachings. You give me wonderful things to contemplate, to research, and study. Thank you for putting your teachings on RUclips, because I wouldn’t have the opportunity to see them otherwise. I am absolutely grateful to hear your messages. Thank you.

    • @hegagi839
      @hegagi839 3 года назад +5

      He concentrated on preaching unlike Rabbi Tovia Singer who was obsessed with stopping Christianity.

    • @MrToontuber
      @MrToontuber 3 года назад

      Hitches said anething in that context? dont think so..

    • @trevorgwelch7412
      @trevorgwelch7412 2 года назад

      Shalom 🌹

    • @lavernelesznik6750
      @lavernelesznik6750 2 года назад +1

      Rabbi. I am not Jewish, but am looking for an answer, why I lost my grandchildren thru a horrible divorce. The father turned our grandchildren against the family, including their Mother. God needs me? I need him. Any answer why? Thank you, Rabbi

    • @martinmonneh8842
      @martinmonneh8842 2 года назад

      Blessed are you precious lovely Father I am lining more from you 🙏

  • @brozki-my
    @brozki-my 5 лет назад +85

    I’m a muslim who looking for God. Thanks for this amazing explaination video. May the creator will always bless us. Ameen.

    • @yeshazion4098
      @yeshazion4098 4 года назад +4

      Look WITH IN
      SAID Christ..

    • @resetmodeon5254
      @resetmodeon5254 2 года назад +9

      @@yeshazion4098 yes look within 🙏 am a muslim too am lookng for GOD meaning the Real GOD not the one religiously sold 🙄 am trying to understand my creator. 🙏

    • @IaKhanic
      @IaKhanic 2 года назад +1

      Same im a muslim as well

    • @alextrezvy6889
      @alextrezvy6889 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@resetmodeon5254 my suggestion is to learn russian and then to listen to the lectures of "Гейдар Джемаль". He knew Quran better than anyone else and he could explain it in a way similar to modern philosophers do. One of his key points is the definition of consciousness. Consciousness is the point that is not equal to anything else. This concept is derived from Ibrahim's monolog when he tested if God is a star, a sun or a moon. Then Ibrahim said: "My God doesn't change". But to be something or someone who doesn't change He has to be different from anything that ever existed or will exist in the future.

    • @Sabrina-zl1tw
      @Sabrina-zl1tw 6 месяцев назад

      You have it in the Quran sura 112 if you are a Muslim and his 99 name to describe Him

  • @catk5996
    @catk5996 4 года назад +40

    I'm a Greek Orthodox Christian and love this man. I learn so much from him.

    • @cristinacastro6133
      @cristinacastro6133 3 года назад +3

      Many thanks for enriching my life with such relevant teachings everyday...

  • @reneecrotty6910
    @reneecrotty6910 Год назад +9

    Im a Christian and I love love love your wisdom. You really calm my soul and make me think. God bless you ❤

  • @EE_GEEK_369
    @EE_GEEK_369 2 года назад +29

    As a Muslim, I find this very informative, entertaining, yet very easy to digest. All my respect to you, Rabbi.

  • @BrentStrathdeePehi
    @BrentStrathdeePehi 5 лет назад +343

    Alhamdulilah for this Rabbi and his wisdom. I’m a Muslim and find his views fascinating and interesting.

    • @Roman.Yuhaev
      @Roman.Yuhaev 5 лет назад +60

      Asalam Aleykum, from a jewish friend.

    • @bahookee
      @bahookee 5 лет назад +5

      The problem is it’s not allah who he is discussing. the God he is discussing has a Spirit engages with his creation an d enters it repeatedly

    • @BrentStrathdeePehi
      @BrentStrathdeePehi 5 лет назад +41

      Pugley Bahookee no problem- there’s only one God (with many names and descriptions) 😁

    • @BrentStrathdeePehi
      @BrentStrathdeePehi 5 лет назад +11

      Roman Y Shalom my friend 😁🙏

    • @jenniferlatifa1314
      @jenniferlatifa1314 5 лет назад +29

      Asaalam alikom! I’m a revert to Islam and I also love this! Allah is 1!

  • @thelist5677
    @thelist5677 Год назад +11

    Possibley the Best Teacher I've ever heard! I can listen to Rabbi Manis Friedman for 365 days.....24/7. Thank You for doing this Rabbi

  • @ryanporter1819
    @ryanporter1819 5 лет назад +54

    Rabbi Friedman has such a great way of explaining things in a clever, funny, insightful, inspirational way.

  • @Frankierios22
    @Frankierios22 2 года назад +16

    This man is special may god grant him longevity and good health

  • @kjeldhesselmann
    @kjeldhesselmann 4 года назад +33

    Rabbi Friedman is awesome-and his lectures full of humor and compassion.

  • @nickmooney776
    @nickmooney776 4 года назад +16

    I am new to Judaism and Chabad. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to hear Rabbi Friedman and his wise words that always fit into that place where it is needed the most, the soul where i really exist and meet with G-d. I really can't find the words to express how it feels to be where i am .

  • @NoobianBruh
    @NoobianBruh 5 лет назад +49

    This was such a profound teaching. Thank you Rabbi Friedman for sharing this awesome revelation. WOW!!!

  • @janetbeebe5126
    @janetbeebe5126 4 года назад +25

    Rabbi Friedman, these lectures have helped me tremendously heal after a devastating loss. Thank-you so much.

    • @aaronhelms1311
      @aaronhelms1311 4 года назад +1

      I agree. I feel so much better about life.

  • @jehovashalompracious3714
    @jehovashalompracious3714 10 месяцев назад +1

    Woooow great sermon God created us because he needed us. ❤❤❤

  • @colinlyne
    @colinlyne 4 года назад +79

    I am a Christian, but this man is excellent, thank you

    • @TheYoungprince01
      @TheYoungprince01 2 года назад +2

      More in-depth revelation to understand what God means that he’s spirt and truth

    • @jdonnabarnett456
      @jdonnabarnett456 2 года назад +3

      I am Donna Barnett from Texas. I am a
      Christian, but l do
      LOVE and believe
      He has the Ear of
      The One True God.
      I try to never miss
      One of his humorous,
      Loving, wise talks. So
      Many answers for all
      Of us. Thanks Rabbi.
      Thanks be to God.
      What does he want?
      WOW

    • @slcoly1
      @slcoly1 2 года назад +2

      @@jdonnabarnett456
      Drop the label. Drop the label. Drop the label.
      You are in understanding now.
      The label is a mark.
      Drop the label.
      Head the Father’s voice.
      You are one with all.
      Drop the label.
      I am the WAY the TRUTH the LIFE.
      Learn truth and own it, as it is life.

  • @williamtait7808
    @williamtait7808 5 лет назад +113

    I love this guy, he has such a beautiful sense of humour and has given me so much peace within me heart, thank you for your ideas.

    • @sultanmahmood6396
      @sultanmahmood6396 3 года назад

      I take a view of the secular scholar Mr. Rabbi Manis some of his incorrect teachings of [Allah] God, it will be necessary to say something of the two sciences by which all disputed questions among intelligence are determined their Scholastic and Practical Divinity. The scholastic view of Mr. Manis made up of a mongrel science, consisting of logical metaphysical, theological, and philosophical disquisitions, and built on principles and methods of reasoning very different from what is used by those who pass among the orthodox Jews, or Muslims for the sounder divines and, therefore, in the partition of the sciences the secular scholastic view is generally left out, as unworthy a place among Believers. The traditionists have labored to expose the principles and systems of the secular scholastic view, as frequently repugnant to the nature of the world and the order of the creation, and intolerably absurd.
      Quran 2;96 And you will surely find them [Jews] the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with [God] Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.

    • @spartanthorn4784
      @spartanthorn4784 3 года назад +3

      @@sultanmahmood6396 bro im Muslim and this kind of mentality is the reason why people are turning away from religion and overall God as a whole

    • @heatherpreiss7369
      @heatherpreiss7369 2 года назад

      I agree, even though some things are hard to ? come to terms with, GOD is infinately creative, you bet I want to know Him better🌻😍 thankyou Rabbi

    • @777logos2
      @777logos2 2 года назад

      @@spartanthorn4784 I would like to have a discussion with you as we are both unto God students in truth, are we not? I’m merely a man yet to understand that there is something greater than us both, we can agree upon I’m sure. Will you take a walk in truth with me unto a higher understanding?

    • @spartanthorn4784
      @spartanthorn4784 2 года назад +1

      777 LOGOS Yes I believe in God I believe he’s the all powerful the all knowing and no one is greater or equal other than God

  • @gracenadeau794
    @gracenadeau794 5 лет назад +20

    I am happy to have found Rabbi Friedman his message is liberating and enlightening. Thank you

  • @escapeartist205
    @escapeartist205 5 лет назад +18

    The kindness and love in your soul shines through your eyes, thank you for what you do.
    May the God of Abraham Issac and Jacob bless Rabbi Manis Friedman!

  • @moamineismoamineiss315
    @moamineismoamineiss315 Год назад +2

    thank you rabai you gave me more belief

  • @Yesmindset
    @Yesmindset 2 года назад +2

    Wow, I am a Christian and watching this videos from this great man answered my long thought questions, like why am I here?

  • @glendagonzalez2469
    @glendagonzalez2469 3 года назад +3

    I appreciate the simplicity of your lessons. No more christian guilt!

  • @samray397
    @samray397 5 лет назад +111

    May He bless Rabbi Manis Friedman & beztow His Holy Spirit upon him, to continue enlightening us. I am a Maronite Christian from Lebanon. Without the Jews, we are incomplete.

    • @mkh5522
      @mkh5522 5 лет назад +1

      God created this universe out of atoms and molecules that are obedient to God in their formation, movement, and interactions and still so.
      Looking to the movement of life without regard for the deeds of God is a mistake that must be corrected.
      I am a muslem from Saudia Arabia if this make sence.
      Good Muslems are looking to man safety in this universe , and to help make paradise the final station of our journey in the universe.

    • @מאירחייםכהן-ב6ב
      @מאירחייםכהן-ב6ב 5 лет назад +4

      GOD bless you sam .

    • @hcharton5722
      @hcharton5722 5 лет назад +1

      without any single soul, every other soul is incomplete.

    • @mkh5522
      @mkh5522 5 лет назад

      @sharp mind
      IT IS UNJUST TO LOOK TO MUSLIMS AND DID NOT LOOK TO ISLAM , READ THE QURAN THE LAST REVELATION FROM ALLAH TO HUMANITY .

    • @YONIFATAL1
      @YONIFATAL1 4 года назад +1

      Nice to see peaple from another religion accept and dont have ego.
      Bravo sam!

  • @saadraees09
    @saadraees09 5 лет назад +19

    This Rabbi is amazing. I’m a Muslim and Rabbi Friedman is one of the few religious leaders that I admire. Wish more of us looked at religion through his perspective

  • @bobbydaniels7263
    @bobbydaniels7263 Год назад +2

    Living as a Christian, I feel like God is my best friend and advisor. I believe he can lead us daily in living in this world and setting as an example for goodness and righteousness.

  • @tezavandhan6912
    @tezavandhan6912 Год назад +2

    Your my inspiration Rabbi . G-D BLESSED YOU LONG LIFE WITH HAPPINESS[ psalms 92:12-15.]

  • @larryhernandez89
    @larryhernandez89 5 лет назад +9

    I became Muslim I love monotheism and love the Quran I love you too brother rabbi praise God

  • @peaceofblues4346
    @peaceofblues4346 5 лет назад +11

    God is my ancestor, the first one, who existed and created all of what I am today...if he didn't exist, I wouldn't exist...

  • @bobbydominguez8754
    @bobbydominguez8754 3 года назад +15

    God is my father and best friend who holds me at the palm of his hands amen 🙏🏼 46:10

    • @Abuobadia0786
      @Abuobadia0786 Год назад

      How gods ur father if he Dont have any child nor any father, mother😊😊

    • @damian-795
      @damian-795 Год назад

      @@Abuobadia0786 😁😁🙏🙏🙏🤲🤲📿📿

    • @anitaefendi4674
      @anitaefendi4674 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@Abuobadia0786 our flesh father is our father?? But the Truth God is our real Father, because without Him, there isn't a man (Adam). God is the Truth in our parents body who form us to be a man. Ovum and sperm contain the Truth. And He gives His spirit in us, to gives us life.
      Our mother and father are only "statues", they are only dust. They can't make and give us life.
      Only stupid person who honor his/her flesh father without honor Father who give him/her life.

  • @bobbydaniels7263
    @bobbydaniels7263 Год назад +2

    Love you, Rabbi. You help me in dealing with living for God on a daily basis. Your sermons helps me to draw closer for a man ore meaningful relationship and learning to live each day in being holy in his eyesight. Thank you for your grateful knowledge.

  • @rachelkennedy2161
    @rachelkennedy2161 Год назад +1

    Beautiful, Thank you

  • @kennethdias9988
    @kennethdias9988 4 года назад +9

    He doesn’t have opinion he is truth. God stands outside of time and holds all that is in the palm of his hand.

  • @carmeladicen5157
    @carmeladicen5157 5 лет назад +31

    I like this rabbi...
    Of all the many things ive heard and read after searching answers about god..
    He is the only one who makes real sense

    • @albertshpak8993
      @albertshpak8993 4 года назад

      God or G-D, god is for idolatry, just letting yuknow

  • @philholman8520
    @philholman8520 2 года назад +4

    I am so pleased to have listened to Rabbi Friedman!
    Thanks for sharing! 🙏👍✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 2 года назад +1

    God is love in the form of light radiating throughout the universe . God is the tangential point between zero and infinity .

  • @deddykustedi5617
    @deddykustedi5617 Год назад +1

    So oppened my inner faith to know adonai

  • @brandonbruns7724
    @brandonbruns7724 5 лет назад +45

    In my experience God is full of mercy and grace sparing my life three times more than that I'm sure living in sin and I got into the occult but he still pulled me out of the pit I was headed to. God is good all the time.

    • @מאירחייםכהן-ב6ב
      @מאירחייםכהן-ב6ב 5 лет назад +4

      GOD bless you my friend

    • @mikitea68
      @mikitea68 5 лет назад +4

      God has spared me from myself, and I agree God is good all the time.

    • @alexandereisen3486
      @alexandereisen3486 4 года назад +1

      You’re very blessed be be careful... you are right god is good all the time, so if god had not saved you he would still be good. We have to accept god is good even when things don’t seem to go our way. This is very difficult sometimes for everyone.

    • @florencenyakio3856
      @florencenyakio3856 4 года назад

      @@alexandereisen3486 ,
      I know. It's really hard to believe in God when you're going through hard times. However, you need to find the strength and hope in God that He'll get you out of it.

    • @happiephonix6
      @happiephonix6 4 года назад

      To me God deserve all praises is always so good to me regardless of my sinful life. I praise , thank you ABba Almighty!

  • @ulbert123
    @ulbert123 4 года назад +32

    I grew up Islam. My dad was a muslim, my mom converted to Islam from Christianity - Roman Catholic. My dad died when I was 16 and I with my sis and mom converted back to Roman Catholic. Your message really hit me to the core. You've put things into perspective. Now I have a different view of God the Creator.

    • @SomeMan001
      @SomeMan001 4 года назад +4

      How did his lecture hit you?
      He says God needs while the correct thing to say God WANTS, not he needs. If God needs then he is incomplete and not a God. I have never seen such arrogance like in that rabbi. It is a total blasphemy and nonsense.

    • @ms.s.t.2269
      @ms.s.t.2269 4 года назад +3

      khalid9999k well then desire also comes from the ego. Since God is perfect he has no ego therefore no desire.
      We should understand no matter how we try to describe God it will never be precise because the language is limited tool!
      Thanks ❤️

    • @sultanmahmood6396
      @sultanmahmood6396 3 года назад

      I take a view of the secular scholar Mr. Rabbi Manis some of his incorrect teachings of [Allah] God, it will be necessary to say something of the two sciences by which all disputed questions among intelligence are determined their Scholastic and Practical Divinity. The scholastic view of Mr. Manis made up of a mongrel science, consisting of logical metaphysical, theological, and philosophical disquisitions, and built on principles and methods of reasoning very different from what is used by those who pass among the orthodox Jews, or Muslims for the sounder divines and, therefore, in the partition of the sciences the secular scholastic view is generally left out, as unworthy a place among Believers. The traditionists have labored to expose the principles and systems of the secular scholastic view, as frequently repugnant to the nature of the world and the order of the creation, and intolerably absurd.
      Quran 2;96 And you will surely find them [Jews] the most greedy of people for life - [even] more than those who associate others with [God] Allah. One of them wishes that he could be granted life a thousand years, but it would not remove him in the least from the [coming] punishment that he should be granted life. And Allah is Seeing of what they do.

    • @provideme1000
      @provideme1000 2 года назад +1

      @@SomeMan001 you might consider that 'god' is incomplete and that 'god' needs us to complete him. in other words, we are actually partners with 'god' in the creation.

    • @SomeMan001
      @SomeMan001 2 года назад

      @@provideme1000 When your delusion takes you to say we humans are partners in creation, then I must ask if you are high as a result of using weed or u have it naturally? 😂😂

  • @truthmatters3449
    @truthmatters3449 5 лет назад +48

    so very very very powerful!!! thank you!!!! a loving, respectful gentile!!!!

  • @brianmayes1397
    @brianmayes1397 Год назад +1

    I'm Catholic but very much the same beliefs about how we believe in GOD and why he believes in us

  • @qadeerkhan1593
    @qadeerkhan1593 Год назад +2

    Thank you Rabbi for giving us enlightenment. I m not a jew but am very much impressed for jews' teachings , wisdom, way of life. You are doing very important and wonderful job.
    Regards

  • @rodb54321
    @rodb54321 2 года назад +5

    It is like having a great mountain rising out of the plains. Well, everywhere you look at the mountain, it looks slightly different, depending on where you are looking. If you are up close, if you are far away, if you are to the north, the south, the east or the west-it all looks different, you see. But it is the same mountain. It has not changed with your perspective.
    You may debate with others about the appearance of the mountain. You are looking from the north and they are looking from the south. Oh, the mountain looks so very different. You argue about its features and its manifestations. To someone up close, it is huge and monumental. To someone at a distance, it is just something out on the horizon. The experience is different. The perspectives are different. But the mountain has not changed. It has not adapted itself to people’s perspective or people’s position around it.
    ~Marshall Vian Summers

  • @giogarcia4002
    @giogarcia4002 4 года назад +10

    God is the ultimate in everything. I have been in his presence on four occasions in my life. There is nothing like it. Being in his presence is the ultimate experience beyond all all comprehension. God is real wether you believe it or not.

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 5 лет назад +6

    LIFE IS AN ART, GOD IS A CONCEPT BY WHICH WE ORGANIZE AND MEASURE OUR LIVES.

  • @dawncurran7807
    @dawncurran7807 2 года назад +2

    I spent my whole life trying to find God, and most importantly how I fit. I was raised a Roman Catholic my whole life but never believed in it. I have spent years questioning what you have answered in minutes. God has blessed me with questions, and he blessed you with all the answers.

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 Год назад +1

    Humans....have been around...for millions of years...now they have found out....I am very grateful...that I was born...and experienced...life....even though it is very challenging..at times...

  • @samray397
    @samray397 5 лет назад +30

    The Almighty is Love. He created us through His Divine Love. We should worship Him through Love. Love makes us need Him & He needs us. We are barren & dry without His Love.

    • @ricdavid7476
      @ricdavid7476 5 лет назад +7

      You should hear the Rabbi's teachings on love as i dont think he shares your view. I too am a Christian but i believe his understanding . I think his teachings are much deeper and real than much Christian teaching and understanding today. The stuff that passes for Christian teaching these days is very shallow specially that which is coming out of the US and the Uk which is where i am from.

    • @johnraymond1861
      @johnraymond1861 5 лет назад +2

      Question how is God love? If God is 3 in the Father the son and holy spirit
      Why do I say this? For love to exist it needs to be shared and God is perfect without man or Angel so the trinity 3 in 1 this means God is LOVE
      In same way man an woman become one flash! If you love God keep his commandments?

    • @ricdavid7476
      @ricdavid7476 5 лет назад +1

      @@johnraymond1861 Do you really love God or do you just fear Him? It is the same with sin do i really want my sin nature to be removed or do i just want the consequences of my sin to be removed? The Rabbi is spot on about love. He says do not marry for love. You marry the person because you want to be with that person because they mean your existence becomes a life eventually and hopefully some love will flow from that sometimes. To marry because you want to feel or be in love is the wrong motivation.
      Getting back to what this guy posted how do you worship in love?

    • @ricdavid7476
      @ricdavid7476 5 лет назад +8

      @@johnraymond1861 Hello again i have to admit i was dead when Christ lifted me up when i was 53 and i have been a pretty committed Christian since then 12 years ago. That said and i am sad to say it because it shows how shallow my faith is and perhaps double minded but listening a lot to the Rabbis Torah teachings over the last few days particularly on the nature of God and also his videos on how the concept of love has become idolatrous in the west have led me to question my Christian faith. I dont question the Torahs teachings at all.
      It is confusing for me as the depth of the knowledge that comes from thousands of years of Torah study simply cannot be compared with what passes for Christian teachings which pale in comparison. Modern evangelical Christian teaching resembles a bazaar and bizarre circus most often and i think of things like Todd Bentley and all that crowd and all the prosperity brigade.

    • @cleveland3357
      @cleveland3357 5 лет назад +2

      ric david if you feel this way could be you have a Jewish soul searching for Jewish wisdom
      Once you feel the spark it will take you to further learning

  • @gcnewd
    @gcnewd 4 года назад +12

    I appreciate you asking the hard questions.
    Too many Christians pastors evade difficult subject.
    Thank you

  • @allanagard5177
    @allanagard5177 5 лет назад +9

    Maximum respect Rabbi Friedman! Blessed love to you. Give thanks!

  • @janejohnstone5795
    @janejohnstone5795 Год назад +1

    God..is everwhere....the creator of everything..that exists...as we see it...this man...makes sense..

  • @dhannt5875
    @dhannt5875 Год назад +2

    G-D needed his creations calls more than we needed him, we here to serve and give back to society outcast with a purpose.
    Shabbat Shalom

  • @yeslamo
    @yeslamo 5 лет назад +72

    Very insightful thought, thanks Rabbi. I think will take me a bit of time and exercise to adjust to. it's nice to think that I can be part of serving a bigger cause. I am a Muslim and love the spirit of Judaism. There is a wisdom, logic, critical thinking and Calmness . That I admire. Great to see we have such great wisdom teachers in our time. God bless

    • @1995yuda
      @1995yuda 5 лет назад +5

      Bless you from Israel!

    • @yeslamo
      @yeslamo 5 лет назад +4

      @@1995yuda thanks, God bless u too. Shalom

    • @manisfriedman
      @manisfriedman  5 лет назад +11

      Thank you Khal for your kind words. Looking forward to serving G-d together - Zalman

    • @IzzaMMA-Malaysia
      @IzzaMMA-Malaysia 5 лет назад

      Chapter 35 of the last and final revelation from God: Oh mankind, you are those in need of Allah , while Allah is the Free of need, the Praiseworthy. - Qur'an

    • @yeslamo
      @yeslamo 5 лет назад +9

      @@manisfriedman Amen 🙏 Thanks Rabbi again for sharing your beautiful and intelligent Teaching with us. Speaking wisdom to mind and love to spirit. God bless you

  • @loukiaadamou4949
    @loukiaadamou4949 3 года назад +3

    Thoroughly enjoy listening to your teachings.
    You are a credit to your listeners who’re listening and learning from your knowledge and teachings .

  • @corbettroberts
    @corbettroberts 5 лет назад +14

    Friedman, Your Humility is a gift to the World!

  • @doubtannihilator2895
    @doubtannihilator2895 3 года назад +2

    Excellent! This water comes from deep deep mountain spring and is so clear and fresh. Thank you Rabbi for this drink... Kristian.

  • @naomie793
    @naomie793 2 года назад +3

    God needs me i am needed 😊 thank you Rabbi

  • @thewaytruthandlife
    @thewaytruthandlife 5 лет назад +9

    Good speach dear Rabbi,
    Gods purpose is LOVE, God want to share His love with us and wants our love and acceptance in return.

  • @njathipeter6900
    @njathipeter6900 4 года назад +4

    Am Peter , a Christian you impress me with your deep teaching about God , God bless you sir

  • @imeldapearce
    @imeldapearce 5 лет назад +23

    he has a unique way of framing knowledge.

    • @katherinoday1458
      @katherinoday1458 4 года назад

      he sounds like a kindergarten teacher teaching four year old's

    • @MrToontuber
      @MrToontuber 3 года назад

      and framing Religion.

  • @markcurcio9928
    @markcurcio9928 Год назад +1

    Thank you. You have opened my eyes to many things. GOD Bless

  • @deborahdicembre9579
    @deborahdicembre9579 Год назад +1

    I love this guy ! So smart. We are here for relationship with God. That is why He made the universe and that is why He made us. The whole thing makes me very emotional.

  • @markanthony7622
    @markanthony7622 5 лет назад +17

    God is in us all God is pure light God is every emotion we are an image of God

    • @morningglory9288
      @morningglory9288 3 года назад

      The "True God" is a female entity.

    • @damian-795
      @damian-795 Год назад

      @@morningglory9288 sexless, but likely more female in nature because God is the ultimate parent

    • @anitaefendi4674
      @anitaefendi4674 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@morningglory9288there is not gender for God. He can become a Father for a man whenever a man need father figure. But He can become a mother whenever a man need a mother. Because He is God, He can do all things.
      God is Spirit, He doesn't have organ parts like us.
      Why you man always blaspheme God? Like satan does.

    • @BeiNacht
      @BeiNacht 6 месяцев назад

      @@morningglory9288yeah you’d like that I bet, morningwood.

  • @infinityhouse450
    @infinityhouse450 5 лет назад +27

    Anyone can come to know God
    It's called a personal relationship with God

    • @allencolvin4320
      @allencolvin4320 4 года назад +1

      Which one, from which sect of which religion, from which melinium?

    • @PrintOfLife
      @PrintOfLife 3 года назад +3

      @@allencolvin4320 The Living God of The Bible.

  • @jorgemc4220
    @jorgemc4220 5 лет назад +5

    This is something well worth of the highest attention, whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you have in your mind/heart/soul whether you feel like having any.

  • @xelakram
    @xelakram 3 года назад +1

    I write as a non-Jew. I should like to say that I found this talk most enlightening and most enjoyable. I have never heard such common sense spoken on the subject of God before - by anyone: Christian, Muslim or Jew! Thank you so much. I feel enlightened. My way of thinking about God has been changed fundamentally; and for the better.

  • @mary333j
    @mary333j 3 года назад +1

    God has no beginning he's ETERNAL

  • @poletype12
    @poletype12 5 лет назад +15

    I really appreciate “Jewish viewpoint” תודה רבה.

  • @calebjoeymhay
    @calebjoeymhay 3 года назад +4

    Thank you so much, Rabbi! Learned so much from you today. ❤ Toda raba.

  • @NoRushpk
    @NoRushpk 5 лет назад +24

    Muchas gracias Rabbi. Perfection in the message. Healing words for mind body and soul were delivered. Curing the sickness. Thank you

    • @manisfriedman
      @manisfriedman  5 лет назад +4

      Thank you! Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and visit itsgoodtoknow.org

  • @woodstockxx
    @woodstockxx 2 года назад

    We are here to have a multitude of various experiences, which assist the universe (God) in learning about itself !

  • @yvonneollivier7088
    @yvonneollivier7088 Год назад +1

    This is so heart lightening, so happy a view, touching and deeply beautiful.

  • @fourftr
    @fourftr 4 года назад +10

    Just stumbled on your channel. I’m a Catholic and I will say you are amazing. You make great common sense. I hit the subscribe button. 😇

  • @akbarkanji5368
    @akbarkanji5368 4 года назад +14

    Sir, we are dependent on God for everything, as we are nothing not even dust

    • @davidkonevky7372
      @davidkonevky7372 3 года назад +3

      But God in a way is dependant on us too. He is giving us commandments for a reason, he needs us to be a way for a reason. If we give him his "food", he gives us our "food". Without us, he can't have no "food"

    • @dzirisenior
      @dzirisenior 3 года назад +2

      @@davidkonevky7372 God doesn't need anything from us

    • @PrintOfLife
      @PrintOfLife 3 года назад +1

      @@davidkonevky7372 That might be true to some Gods but it is not with The Living Biblical God. The Living God of The Bible does not have any needs.

  • @antoniagreco6316
    @antoniagreco6316 4 года назад +15

    I just found him and I love the way he explains what he is saying.❤

  • @arilambertus6060
    @arilambertus6060 3 года назад +2

    I've a perspective like this ever since i was still at junior high school and i've been really enjoying my thought up to now i am 45 years old. Thanks Rabbi for the enlightenment for those who also like to quest what this thing is. Greeting from me in Bandung, Indonesia.

  • @comimica5644
    @comimica5644 3 года назад +2

    Thank you Rabbi Friedman for teaching and sharing your great knowledge.

  • @skilletHappyDays
    @skilletHappyDays 4 года назад +8

    Wow, I have never heard any of this before. It answers so many questions I have. Thank you so much for sharing!! I appreciate it very much!!

  • @daleremine4695
    @daleremine4695 5 лет назад +10

    Beautifull and clear. Thank you

    • @thomasranjit7781
      @thomasranjit7781 5 лет назад

      Sir please watch Zac poonen on RUclips and google Christian fellowship centre Bangalore for free Holy Bible study and free Holy Bible messages. All resources are free to download and watch. Zac poonen is one of the greatest servants of God alive on planet Earth. Please download CFC app from the app store free of charge....all questions we are seeking Zac poonen is answering in his answers.....

    • @janishart5128
      @janishart5128 5 лет назад +1

      @@thomasranjit7781: Christianity and its "New Testament" did NOT come from God, Creator of the universe. Do some honest research on the origins of your false, pagan, man-made, anti-God, anti-Jewish, hate-filled, replacement theology religion FOR YOURSELF, and you will discover, as we have that it has ZERO to do with what God said to us on Mt. Sinai! When God gave us His Torah, He told us it is ETERNAL (i.e. STILL in effect today!) and that we are NOT to follow ANY OTHER TEACHING than what is in His Torah. Christianity IS another teaching, therefore, we are NOT to follow what its false pages teach! PLEASE do the research, and continue listening to what the rabbis are saying - they are teaching us God's Truth, as given to Moses on Mt. Sinai!

  • @keishab7522
    @keishab7522 5 лет назад +27

    Shalom Aleichem.

  • @krishnantampi5665
    @krishnantampi5665 Год назад +1

    God is infinite mercy and wisdom and is beyond human intelligence and can be understood only by absolute surrender because out of dust he was created in his image that's the truth.

  • @morefiction3264
    @morefiction3264 2 года назад

    God is a spirit; infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

  • @trishp1449
    @trishp1449 5 лет назад +12

    I love the way this man thinks. The more I listened the more I smiled. I can so relate to this God.

  • @thetruth3322
    @thetruth3322 5 лет назад +6

    Rabbi you were senseable today and open hearted. The flow of the Word was evident and the Truth revealed.

  • @chrismassey7563
    @chrismassey7563 5 лет назад +26

    John 4:24
    God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."

  • @fyaerwe
    @fyaerwe Год назад +1

    I'm a Heathen, but I love this sermon!!!
    "If God created us, then who needs who?" --GOLD!!

    • @fyaerwe
      @fyaerwe Год назад

      On the topic of the commandments...
      I worship many deities. I can't help it. God made me this way. 🙁 Why??? (If God only wants us to worship him, why am I drawn to other [additional] deities?) I also am inclined to use idols to represent God/my gods. Why???

    • @marktravelinPI
      @marktravelinPI Год назад

      @@fyaerwe God gave us free will. With all due respect, you putting your free will choices on God are miss placed. YOU Choose him, that is why he gave you free will.
      A rock is a rock, a piece of wood is just a piece of wood.

  • @joshuacohen1039
    @joshuacohen1039 2 года назад +1

    You make my life has meaning and faith

  • @svetlanapavlenko5967
    @svetlanapavlenko5967 4 года назад +5

    Просто восхитительно, сколько мудрости, слушаю и мой дух во мне сокрушается, сколько любви у нашего Творца !!💕

  • @carlmorrison9789
    @carlmorrison9789 5 лет назад +8

    You are just a great speaker.

  • @lionflame21
    @lionflame21 4 года назад +9

    Thank you Rabbi, this is a beautiful insight

  • @sanasnarutam1380
    @sanasnarutam1380 3 года назад +2

    Thank you rabbi...this contributes to me a clearer vision of my faith and belief..god bless

  • @mohammadjavaidabdulrafi4708
    @mohammadjavaidabdulrafi4708 4 года назад +2

    He really enlighten my thoughts and increase my knowledge to understand God identification. Thank you Rabbi.

  • @christopherjacob8017
    @christopherjacob8017 5 лет назад +10

    Wow wow wow .....all I can say ..this is such a cool thinking...GOD so well defined...yes....gotta pray for what's my purpose here

  • @johnraju9816
    @johnraju9816 5 лет назад +5

    Wonderful talk. Bless you.

  • @valiindustires5470
    @valiindustires5470 5 лет назад +4

    Love Rabbi Manis speeches, he explains so truthfully

  • @teodorahuszak5919
    @teodorahuszak5919 2 года назад +1

    and again,Thank You Rabbi

  • @emmanuelagunloye4148
    @emmanuelagunloye4148 4 года назад

    We can not do anything without God. Because of human depravity we are unable to understand what god is doing for us. Yes He created us for his pleasure and ready to provide for us.

  • @rockinmoroccan1743
    @rockinmoroccan1743 5 лет назад +6

    Love this video! I grew up as a Muslim, stopped believing in god but there was always something missing, empty. This video just made me think! Thank you for this awesome video!

  • @dco956
    @dco956 5 лет назад +17

    GOD bless Israel ..... good lesson thank you

  • @benjaminajue645
    @benjaminajue645 5 лет назад +5

    Shalom Rabbi
    Thank you very much for your logical reasoning.🌼

  • @SairaNadeemzzd
    @SairaNadeemzzd 2 года назад +1

    Please tell us why God needs us… this video is mind blowing n put me on a very deep thought process…. Amazing
    A very different narrative about God … wow