Convince Me: Why is saying God NEEDS our Mitzvos so important? (Full Interview)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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I love when these 2 make an episode, we need this weekly
Yoni, this is the best of Manis. Like the posting of “Greatest Hits”.
So deep. Love it.
MY OPINION:
As a person who got in trouble and was hated for the first time in my life just just for saying that I wanted to be Jewish and lost my voice after that,
I could now say that the answer to why we do the Mitzvahs are in
Deuteronomy 6:24
The Lord commanded us observe all these laws, with reverence for the Lord our God, for our lasting good and for our survival.
Answer:
For our Good & Survival
When God created us many many years ago, we were like little children that needed constant guidance and baby sitting so the Torah was formed to guide us.
Example:
Deuteronomy 21:6
Hand washing Mitzvah
As a Registered Nurse,
the Handwashing Mitzvah should have been into effect at all places of gatherings before the Covid Pandemic.
Homes- Churches- Schools- Gyms- Workplaces.
Hi Rabi. I really appreciate all your podcasts, and I'm fully interested in learning Judaism. I have a big problem. I don't know the Hebrew language, and many times, you naturally mention words and frases in Hebrew, which may be the important keywords in understanding the whole ideology. In some cases, you're translating them, but in many don't. I am asking you that just if you can, if not, I'll try to assume or to use my intuition regarding all terms words and frases. Otherwise, how can I say? I'm enjoying all your efforts in making the world a better place. Baruch Hashem.
Why is there God? In the beginning... There are ways in which I really enjoy these debates but so often I'm quite astonished at the perceptions and become shocked. However I bow to the knowledge and many hours and years of study of Torah. I really respect the Rabbis' yet I still feel that trying to figure out who God is is alien to me. God is simply God, the creator, perfect in every way... Because I believe. I have faith. He says "I am." He says the same today, yesterday and always.
TORAH = Tremedous Oratory Reflecting All Holy
God does not create evil since 'evil' is simply a privation of the good.
Blessed or needy. Can't have both. Desire and need are two different things. Listen to the Rolling Stones. Is YHWH a bum with His hand out for your obedience? No. That's blasphemy of His character.
This is pseudo-profundity at best. Everything that the Rabbi says here lacks precision and rigour.
Your comment lacks precision and rigour...
@@menachr What I wrote was clear and to the point. You just didn't like it. Moses Maimonides teaches that God does not have any needs of any kind.
@@bayreuth79 1. Your first comment, lacked any sort of explanation or counter argument, by definition, it lacked rigour. You also didn't show how he lacks precision... 2. You are wrong about the "Maimonides" argument, you are understanding god from the perspective of a limited human looking up at god. Of course god is complete and not lacking. Human wants and needs are not the same thing, but for god, wants and needs are exactly the same. And god wanting something doesn't take away from his completeness. If god didn't want anything, why did he create a world at all? He was already complete, he didn't need anything to complete him, so why did he create a world then? Obviously god wanted something, and that thing is us doing his will ....... Its so basic, that if you dont understand it or get it, you are missing the main point of existence. I hope this reply had enough "rigour and precision" for you, thanks.
@@menachr 1. Since it was a comment- and not an argument- it cannot lack 'rigour', for only arguments can lack rigour. 2. Maimonides clearly and unequivocally writes that God has no needs whatsoever (Guide for the Perplexed). You need to explain why the word 'want' and the word 'need' mean exactly the same when applied to God. Words, as Wittgenstein pointed out, are defined by use; and in use these words mean different things. Rabbi Manis is simply playing a game with words; its pure semantics. In your response you were equivocating between the words "need' and "want" but you haven't justified this equivocation. 3. It seems to me that its irresponsible to claim that God 'needs' something, for the word in usage implies a lack, an absence of something. I need food, I need to sleep, I need to rest, etc. The word 'need' only creates confusion, so lets get rid of it in this context. Does God 'want' something? God does not want something in a way analogous to the way we want something. I want something, generally speaking, because I want to improve my experience in some way: but does God need to improve his experience in some way? I think not. Why do I want coffee? It makes me feel more energetic and focused. Why do I want chocolate? Its taste gives me pleasure. Why do I want to go for a run? It keeps me healthy, etc. Thus: need implies lack and want implies a desire to improve myself or my experience in some way. Clearly, God cannot need or want in that way. Why use those words then? It seems to me that creation is simply and solely an expression of God's love: its pure gift; its entirely for creation itself. And the mitzvahs are to enable use to flourish as the kind of things that we are. God does not need or want any of this (in the usual acceptation of those words). Creation was created for the sake of creation; its pure gift. Rabbi Manis says "God needs us more than we need God". That is an absurd misuse of language and I suspect that he knows it. Most rabbis do not agree with Rabbi Manis, as you know.