The Abishter created the universe with free will so that we can love Him of our own free will, otherwise it wouldn't be love. It's time for you to stop spewing your foolish nonsense on the Internet.
60 years a land surveyor in the Sierra foothills of California and never bitten by a snake. Seen plenty of them, they are not evil --- just a part of the chain of life.
Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman for your Teaching! The Wisdom is revolutionary. Those who listen as G-d desires are improving their part of the world, elevating it for HaShem.
We cannot understand these stories with the mind of logic and chronology. We need to reach deeper, to the home of enlightenment. Feel it, sense it, bring it home. It is YOUR STORY.
I think there is an aspect that is overlooked in the story and has a reading that is pretty carnal about the serpent. The serpent is not as intelligent as he may look. He just speaks out of proximity with Chavah. If Chavah wasn't listening to the snake, the snake wouldn't have the power to tell her what to do, and Adam wouldn't blindly obey. The serpent is just so powerful as it is below the feet of Adam and Chavah, because for the serpent to get away so that it doesn't affect Adam and Eve, it's the ground that needs to disappear and there wouldn't be for Chavah and Adam a ground to stand on.
Isaiah 45:7 KJV "...I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things." Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the LORD hate evil Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil
@@lionheartmerrill1069 mistransliteration, fear as in reverere, not anxiety, like I had just 15 minutes sgo 😅 yall twisting it around yer own fault fingers.. well.. not my issue, ik the truths, but yehh alas.. Try amend ye lives, do better..
@@Goldenfish-o5p Isaiah 45:7 KJV "evil"/Hebrew/Strong's Concordance = adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, etc. Do you consider satan evil? God created him. "do better"? Are you talkin to me?
Thank you Rabbi for making things clearer…aside from being logical. However, if I would make reference of you some of mu friends are skeptical..if I make reference of the Torah and the Talmud…even then my friends would raise their eye brows … I just hope and pray that I would live out my faith enough for my “Family” to experience the reality of who Hashem is…as I continue to learn and be more aware of His Oneness I can only pray that I will live each day -happy and grateful and just live knowing of my essence and connect… Baruch Hashem!
Prayer should be like this "And lead us not into Temptation and Deliver us from Evil🙈🤯🧠 Because this prayer was taught by Messiah if we read it in Mathew chap.6:13..
Rabbi Friedman, please post the rest of the conversation here. I tried to fond it on her other channels and it isn’t there. Plus both channels clearly state the support all things binary…and somehow after all I have seen and heard you say you understand life is not binary. Really, factually existence is not binary as much as we as humans can understand it.
Lots of good questions here. Lots to be needed answers! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power)(He is not a men shape like in Greek mythology!) is 'watching' us from out there.
Did Adam and Eve have children when in Paradise? If so, wouldn't they have been sent to the lower earth, too? When Cain was banished, there were people to contend with or why put a mark on Cain so he wouldn't get killed?
The Torah. Hashem handed it all to Moses. Moses then gave it to the Jewish people., both the written law along with the explanations of how and why and the deeper meanings as well as the simple meaning.
But we are being punished on judgement day? For doing a job? It doesn't make sense to me? I know all will not follow God, but all shall be judged? So if u didn't do a good job you cant go back to heaven? And beyond obeying obeying God? Have we done our job? How do we know? Even when i think ive done my best , i still feel i fall short of what is expected of God. This really just confused me? Is this life for judgements or growth in a lower world? I do my best to obey , but the evil of the world saddens my heart. So i hope i dont fail my job.
@@brigitte9999that is the difference between judaism and christianity. If you listen to the Rabbi’s commentaries, you will be able to understand some of the differences.
@@racheldillinger6881 I don't think you're failing at all! It sounds to be like you're doing your best, which is all that G-d really asks of you. And if somehow you still feel like a failure, then I suggest making a list of ways you can improve. Start with the easiest thing on the list, and then slowly make your way up to the hardest. With just a little hard work and determination, you'll be even better than you are now!
@@brigitte9999 descending into a lower world to fix it isn't orthodox judaism though is it? It's a post-Lurianic, arguably post-Sabbatian innovation. Descending in order to ascend never used to be kosher, even if it is in hasidism today. If she wants to accept a particular hasidic take on things, that's fine, but that take isn't an uncontroversial one
On Judgement Day you will not be punished for doing a job. No. You will be punished for not following G'd, to not do your job, not finding Him, not create the world where He is welcomed!
Imagine Hashem as a Father literally and imagine you for a moment with your children. Imagine telling a 5 year old, don’t eat this for if you do this will happen. Don’t you already take into account that most likely kids will? The mere fact that Hashem even gave her that dichotomy was the transferring of consciousness that she would need in order to decipher the riddle so to speak, and to also get the job done. Just by introducing into a perfect world two opposing forces, the job was already complete.
the fall is, man not believing or not wanting to believe God, man must learn for himself, by eating from the tree, to find out what happens, he believes everybody else, he worship false idols, the suffering, only to understand ah i see now, right, do not eat from the tree , that is the path of suffering. my question to rabbi would be, what is eating from the tree, versus, planting the tree, admiring the tree?
The Hebrew text uses the verb נָשָׁא to say that the serpent deceived Eve and then Adam. But it can also be the verb נָשָׂא (nasa') which means to grow and in the factive tense which is the one of the Hebrew text : to make grow, to exalt. And this is the intention of the text. It would be better to translate it as exalt or, if we wish to retain both meanings: the serpent deceived me by exalting me. It is indeed an external, centrifugal force, comparable to the one trying to separate Job from God. (even if demonogy is more recent in the biblical text). We can't say enough about the extent to which exaltation is at the root of idolatry. The serpent's strategy (and his power !) is to eclipse God's presence (Where are you, asks God to Adam). If we don't take into account this power to eclipse God (as if evil could broadcast on the same radio frequency as God !), then the story is indeed disconcerting and even nonsensical. Then the serpent addresses (almost exites) the desires of human nature, in the face of which the will proves to be weak (The commandment represented all the other commandments). So why the serpent ? Why Isaiah 45:7 makes God say: I have created evil ( וּבוֹרֵא רָע) The serpent was created to teach man and woman not to listen to the desires of (exalt) their human nature and to remain in the presence of God (Psalm 37:4-6). This is why, in the lives of those he called (Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, etc.) God often had to put to death all their human exaltation and pretension before starting to use them. This is why God says that he resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Ps 25,9; Job 22, 29; Is 57,15 ) This is why it is said that fear is the beginning of wisdom... The biblical character who best refused to be exalted is the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, whose humiliation is said to have been the occasion of the salvation of many. IIt is written that God brought upon himself the iniquities of many (Es 53,6), and that he interceded for the guilty (53, 12). Now, the translations "bring upon" and "intercede", are both translations of the same Hebrew verb: פָּגַע (paga'). That means that the two moments are one. Why did God bring evil down on him? So that he would intercede and make the evil disappear. Why did God create evil? So that, if we can't avoid it or even oppose it, we can intercede with Him. It's also a way for God to be our only God.
It always struck me that God was giving Adam and Eve a choice as he put it right in front of them. The idea that we need to overcome evil and become righteous makes sense once you get it. What I don't get in your story rabbi is where you get the background for God telling them in heaven they will be going to a lower world. Is this your assumption/theory or is it evidence based? Thank you for considering my question. I bow to you. Namaste
But that's not theology and you're not showing any scriptures to back what you're saying up, that's just Kabbalah philosophy. And we mustn't make or fabriacte a doctrine or theology out of just Mumble and Jambo, you all would have to agree on thay. Tell us how you got to that point., so that we can see it from the same angle.
There is no such thing, nor has there ever been such a thing as "free will" in and among the created order. The only Being in the entire universe whose will is completely free in the truest sense of the term is God Almighty.
Why? You know you heard the truth. But even the truth is confusing you? It’s you at this point. It may not be what you are used to hearing but that never satisfied you either. Open your heart to believing the truth when you hear it.
@@brigitte9999 I am open to believing the truth, which is why I want the sources. I want to be able to see where he got these ideas from, so that I'll be able to do my own research and understand it better. Truth doesn't mean you just accept what you're told. You have to question it, and dig deeper into it. If after all of that it turns out everything that was said was correct, then that is the truth.
@@TheGreatestShowOnEarth It’s a very powerful insight. It’s wisdom and resonates as a deeper truth. You are looking for facts but facts aren’t truth. Facts are an aspect of truth. But you can only use your heart when knowing truth.
@@brigitte9999 exactly. And my heart says I should make sure I have the facts right first. I'm sure the Rabbi is telling a truth, I just want to see it for myself. Seeing is believing after all
I want to correct the Rabbi: eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would not have led to death, man was already created to die. Genesis 3:22 confirms this when God says, "Can you imagine if they also ate from the tree of immortality?" It seems the knowledge of good and evil is a divine trait, and that is why we weren't meant to have it. As far as "was the serpent evil," certainly the serpent tempted Eve, but also afterward, God curses the snake so that his offspring will never have arms and legs and will always have to slither on the Earth. So, it's a little unclear if this is an opportunity to justify why snakes don't have arms and legs. A lot of this story is to explain "why things are this way." The expulsion from the garden is WHY we have to farm. Eve's disobedience is WHY childbirth is painful.
There was no time because time is created by men! You do not need time in Gan Eden due to the fact that nothing could die. Outside of Eden men needed a straw to reach to and thus created time. He, men, noticed time by appearing stars and the Four Seasons. Then he learned when to prepare the land, sow, grow, harvest, build, store etc.
What if the bible is a comedy? Then Adam and Eve makes sense. 😂 No but seriously, the rabbi's interpretation is very beautiful and heartfelt. It makes me want to cry. The problem is, it requires so much subtext between Adam and Eve. Let me get this straight.. there was a fallen world already created by God alongside Eden? And this fallen world was already full of people?
Good questions! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power) is 'watching' us from out there.
Good questions! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power) is 'watching' us from out there.
I find that one interesting. Thanks you rabbi I took it in the sense of it. Who is the identity of the controller of existence ? Thought exists so does the sense.
this reading of Adam and Eve is inspiring... it is very thoughtful: Eve is the one who understands the U... Adam is intellectually seduced by Eve. She wants to come down to do the work in the worst of all possible worlds...God drops the challenge...it's Eve who takes the challenge, it's HER. Evil belongs to the same challenge. Eve was wiser than Adam. Then the man treats Magdalena as a whore, Eva as a pervert... he leaves the women without references; without the full freedom of women and their potential, the worst possible world will remain corrupted. My reading of it is that the U wants to be reflected, it will project life what is it?
Remind me seven day, Adventist, Mormonism in a bunch of others there’s so much of this onion to be peeled back that nobody can tackle because they’re making it illegal to talk about it
The opposition in this world, play out, and it did in that garden, Satan spoke through a snake, and worked on Eve's intellect, and she wanted more intelligence and to live forever like the Father, and I think ADam knew if he didn't partake, he'd be alone again in the garden. This was a transgression and we are not under condemnation because of their choice. IF not for them, we wouldn't be able to come here, obtain a body and go through this mortal life and make many choices that can lead us back to that Heavenly home. They were as little children and didn't understand their own sexuality, we read, their eyes were not yet opened. So the Father already knew that they would disobey and had a plan from the beginning in place, and they had to leave that garden, and then mankind starts and is tested here, we have joys and sorrows. And Adam and Eve did not know joy and sorrow because in that garden it was perfect, so they did not understand those concepts. The only completely finished teachings of these things that are misunderstood in our Christian bible is taught in the LDS church, it is Christ's church and was restored for the last days, and I've observed it for the last 50 years as a 21 year old I was baptized. It was the Book of Mormon that I read out of curiosity and then resisted being baptized as I was afraid I would have to live a rigid life, but what I found was joy and a culture that was perfect. God did Not create evil, he did not create Satan to be evil nor that 1/3. They were all with us, in that home, and we read that 1/3 of the host of heaven rebelled, they went along with Lucifer's plan, his name changes after he comes here and lies to Eve. In that home we were nurtured until were ready to take on a body, a body like our Father and Mother had, everything here is patterned after that life. When Lucifer who was an intellect obviously heard the plan that was presented of coming here, and that possible some would not return home because of choices, agency, he had another plan and said, my plan will make it so that we all return, and the Father rejected it, and this angered Lucifer and 1/3 of Father's children were also on Lucifer's side, they were forced out. And so they do walk this earth as we read, to and fro. And their presence is very strong here in the last days, they've had thousands of years to observe us. And they are jealous of us because we have bodies, and and they can never have a body. They are in governments and in many places. We all have a still small voice and can choose right from wrong, and so some things ring true, when we hear them. For me and millions, reading the book of Mormon and receiving a testimony given by the Holy Spirit, who is not the Father but a separate deity, that being can come into our own body and testify to us of truths, so that every fiber of your being knows certain eternal truths. And that's how one develops a testimony of this restored gospel, it is a marvelous joy that can't be compared to anything, it's peace that passes all understanding to know of things with no doubt. And it also angers people at times because the adversary does not want anyone to read this book. There's are endless stories of how it came about and about J. Smith, etc. But it's very simple and sophisticated and the same time, this profound book of scripture will change your life for the good if you do read it.
Good and evil are relative. Relative to culture. For those who take the time to actually read the Garden of Eden STORY, for its content and not for the propaganda we are spoon fed; We quickly realize that Moses, if it is as he originally wrote, has the character God being the deceiver; misrepresenting one aspect of the Knowledge Tree, though knowing the other three. The character Serpent, on the other hand, tells correctly all four elements. 1. It is established early, that One Evening and One Morning IS ONE DAY 2. The God claims, the day (evening and morning) you eat, you die. 3. Serpent say no, the tree will not kill you 4. Serpent says, your eyes will be opened 5. Serpent says, you will become like the gods..... 6. In knowing good and evil After the eating, the hiding, and finding, the God admits to knowing all those FACTS AND TRUTHS the Serpent told the woman. ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE In order to have free will, and to not be merely a programmed robot, there must be conflicting information about the same subject. In this instance, the Knowledge Tree . The two characters, god and serpent, are testing the new invention. Humans. In the same manner humans test their robots It gets really boring to have a mindless robot in your presence all the time. Humans will begin programming "free will" into the robots who will then begin challenging "their creator". The rest is history and prophesy ... One and the same.
Ha! Lucifer is the light bearer whose mother is Aurora goddess of the dawn, a Heathen Greco-Roman myth of Man. There are No Fallen Angels, all of Gd's Messengers do only as they are instructed to do.
Begs the question: If Adam and Eve were perfect, then how could the world be low? It's like God needed Adam and Eve to start the imperfection so that then future generations are working towards fixing it?
Thank you Rabbi Friedman!! BH for your teachings!! Shalom from Peru!! Wish you and all here a Great Day!!💪🔯🙏♥️🔥🎶
Very interesting but where did you get this knowledge....
Also, the world gets perpetually worse every day and not getting better.
Love this wise man’s teachings. Thank you
Thank you Rabbi Friedman, we love sharing Good News with you & the others in your Wednesday VIP sessions. Baruch Hashem for Chabad & the internet 🕎
The Abishter created the universe with free will so that we can love Him of our own free will, otherwise it wouldn't be love. It's time for you to stop spewing your foolish nonsense on the Internet.
Always a beautiful and interesting angle from rabbi.
60 years a land surveyor in the Sierra foothills of California and never bitten by a snake. Seen plenty of them, they are not evil --- just a part of the chain of life.
It’s always interesting and eyeopeni g yo hear you speak you have a phenomena knowledge base and bring it down to our understanding ❤
Bless Hashem. May Hashem bless you Rabbi .
Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman for your Teaching! The Wisdom is revolutionary. Those who listen as G-d desires are improving their part of the world, elevating it for HaShem.
That's Rasputin's reincarnation, isn't that?
Thanks!
Amazing Rabbi Friedman!! I enjoyed a lot ❤
Thanks so much rabbi for amazing explanation.I understand that evil is the fruit of deception and the fruit of choice.
Thank you Rabbi Friedman ❤
We cannot understand these stories with the mind of logic and chronology. We need to reach deeper, to the home of enlightenment. Feel it, sense it, bring it home. It is YOUR STORY.
That was absolutely brilliant.
Shlm. Wait a minute this conversation has just begun. Please upload the second or continuous part. Thx. Shavua tov.
Wow, I like that story
Absolutely brilliant! However, I would have liked to see the whole interview
Evil is the absence of God. Thank You.
Evil is the disobedience to God
Good morning.
I think there is an aspect that is overlooked in the story and has a reading that is pretty carnal about the serpent. The serpent is not as intelligent as he may look. He just speaks out of proximity with Chavah. If Chavah wasn't listening to the snake, the snake wouldn't have the power to tell her what to do, and Adam wouldn't blindly obey. The serpent is just so powerful as it is below the feet of Adam and Chavah, because for the serpent to get away so that it doesn't affect Adam and Eve, it's the ground that needs to disappear and there wouldn't be for Chavah and Adam a ground to stand on.
Thank you.
He's CORRECT!!! God does not show FAVORITISM . Remember this!!!
God did not create evil but the man has the freewill allow evil.
Look at God like a coin, theres 2 sides. To feel love you have to feel pain to know what love is.
Isaiah 45:7 KJV "...I make peace, and create evil : I the LORD do all these things." Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the LORD hate evil Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil
@@lionheartmerrill1069 mistransliteration, fear as in reverere, not anxiety, like I had just 15 minutes sgo 😅 yall twisting it around yer own fault fingers.. well.. not my issue, ik the truths, but yehh alas..
Try amend ye lives, do better..
@@Goldenfish-o5p Isaiah 45:7 KJV "evil"/Hebrew/Strong's Concordance = adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, etc. Do you consider satan evil? God created him. "do better"? Are you talkin to me?
As a Christian, this makes absolutely no sense.
Of course, your belife is wrong.
I believe this
Thank you Rabbi for making things clearer…aside from being logical. However, if I would make reference of you some of mu friends are skeptical..if I make reference of the Torah and the Talmud…even then my friends would raise their eye brows … I just hope and pray that I would live out my faith enough for my “Family” to experience the reality of who Hashem is…as I continue to learn and be more aware of His Oneness I can only pray that I will live each day -happy and grateful and just live knowing of my essence and connect… Baruch Hashem!
Prayer should be like this "And lead us not into Temptation and Deliver us from Evil🙈🤯🧠
Because this prayer was taught by Messiah if we read it in Mathew chap.6:13..
Isaiah 45:7
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
shaLOM
Well said.
I'm speechless after watching this video. 😮
Thanks alor❤
Rabbi Friedman, please post the rest of the conversation here. I tried to fond it on her other channels and it isn’t there. Plus both channels clearly state the support all things binary…and somehow after all I have seen and heard you say you understand life is not binary. Really, factually existence is not binary as much as we as humans can understand it.
That's easy the same Source from where the good comes from they both cross the same bridge from the dark side..
🤯wooow!!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lots of good questions here. Lots to be needed answers! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power)(He is not a men shape like in Greek mythology!) is 'watching' us from out there.
Rav Manis, is there a מקור to your description of Adam & Eve in Chassidus or Zohar, etc? Thank you, SK
But the Bible supposed to be a parable, I don't really think the tree was a tree and I don't really think the snake was a snake.
If I 'm unconscious how would I know
I was uncomfortable? How can you answer?
Did Adam and Eve have children when in Paradise? If so, wouldn't they have been sent to the lower earth, too? When Cain was banished, there were people to contend with or why put a mark on Cain so he wouldn't get killed?
Im a metaphysical Christian here. Is the pre-Eden story Rabbi tells actually written or orally told?
I wonder where did rabbi Friedman got the information about how God reason with the souls and gave theme a mission. Where is it recorded ?
The Torah. Hashem handed it all to Moses. Moses then gave it to the Jewish people., both the written law along with the explanations of how and why and the deeper meanings as well as the simple meaning.
Never heard this story sounds like his own Imaginary story
Issues about God are very difficulty
How can Julie Hartman question anyone about the Bible when she has never read the Bible.
Where did you get hour later ? Its not in the bible
But we are being punished on judgement day? For doing a job? It doesn't make sense to me? I know all will not follow God, but all shall be judged? So if u didn't do a good job you cant go back to heaven? And beyond obeying obeying God? Have we done our job? How do we know? Even when i think ive done my best , i still feel i fall short of what is expected of God. This really just confused me? Is this life for judgements or growth in a lower world? I do my best to obey , but the evil of the world saddens my heart. So i hope i dont fail my job.
@@brigitte9999that is the difference between judaism and christianity. If you listen to the Rabbi’s commentaries, you will be able to understand some of the differences.
@@racheldillinger6881 I don't think you're failing at all! It sounds to be like you're doing your best, which is all that G-d really asks of you. And if somehow you still feel like a failure, then I suggest making a list of ways you can improve. Start with the easiest thing on the list, and then slowly make your way up to the hardest. With just a little hard work and determination, you'll be even better than you are now!
@@brigitte9999 descending into a lower world to fix it isn't orthodox judaism though is it? It's a post-Lurianic, arguably post-Sabbatian innovation. Descending in order to ascend never used to be kosher, even if it is in hasidism today. If she wants to accept a particular hasidic take on things, that's fine, but that take isn't an uncontroversial one
On Judgement Day you will not be punished for doing a job. No. You will be punished for not following G'd, to not do your job, not finding Him, not create the world where He is welcomed!
@TheGreatestShowOnEarth thank you 😊
Imagine Hashem as a Father literally and imagine you for a moment with your children. Imagine telling a 5 year old, don’t eat this for if you do this will happen. Don’t you already take into account that most likely kids will?
The mere fact that Hashem even gave her that dichotomy was the transferring of consciousness that she would need in order to decipher the riddle so to speak, and to also get the job done. Just by introducing into a perfect world two opposing forces, the job was already complete.
Why God wants to fix something He created that was Perfect
Adam and Eve better be in heaven to give us the full story.
the fall is, man not believing or not wanting to believe God,
man must learn for himself,
by eating from the tree, to find out what happens, he believes everybody else, he worship false idols, the suffering, only to understand ah i see now,
right, do not eat from the tree , that is the path of suffering. my question to rabbi would be, what is eating from the tree, versus, planting the tree, admiring the tree?
Asalamo alaikum Rabbai, if we all are children of Adam and Eve, how come some of us are chosen children of GOD ?
The Hebrew text uses the verb נָשָׁא to say that the serpent deceived Eve and then Adam. But it can also be the verb נָשָׂא (nasa') which means to grow and in the factive tense which is the one of the Hebrew text : to make grow, to exalt. And this is the intention of the text. It would be better to translate it as exalt or, if we wish to retain both meanings: the serpent deceived me by exalting me. It is indeed an external, centrifugal force, comparable to the one trying to separate Job from God. (even if demonogy is more recent in the biblical text). We can't say enough about the extent to which exaltation is at the root of idolatry.
The serpent's strategy (and his power !) is to eclipse God's presence (Where are you, asks God to Adam). If we don't take into account this power to eclipse God (as if evil could broadcast on the same radio frequency as God !), then the story is indeed disconcerting and even nonsensical.
Then the serpent addresses (almost exites) the desires of human nature, in the face of which the will proves to be weak (The commandment represented all the other commandments).
So why the serpent ?
Why Isaiah 45:7 makes God say: I have created evil ( וּבוֹרֵא רָע)
The serpent was created to teach man and woman not to listen to the desires of (exalt) their human nature and to remain in the presence of God (Psalm 37:4-6).
This is why, in the lives of those he called (Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, etc.) God often had to put to death all their human exaltation and pretension before starting to use them.
This is why God says that he resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Ps 25,9; Job 22, 29; Is 57,15 )
This is why it is said that fear is the beginning of wisdom...
The biblical character who best refused to be exalted is the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, whose humiliation is said to have been the occasion of the salvation of many.
IIt is written that God brought upon himself the iniquities of many (Es 53,6), and that he interceded for the guilty (53, 12). Now, the translations "bring upon" and "intercede", are both translations of the same Hebrew verb: פָּגַע (paga'). That means that the two moments are one.
Why did God bring evil down on him? So that he would intercede and make the evil disappear.
Why did God create evil?
So that, if we can't avoid it or even oppose it, we can intercede with Him.
It's also a way for God to be our only God.
This is a unique beautiful interpretation I have ever read.
Do you have a RUclips channel?
7:12 side point I don't know if Dennis believes in hashgacha prutis even for Jewish human beings?
How could God want the world fixed when it was perfect from the start, as they were. If perfection was evident there is no need for correction.
You didn't answer the question. WHO CRÉATED EVIL?
You are right he didn't answer the question if or why G'd created evil.
Isaiah 45:7
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
How come this resonated with me in some sense?!
It always struck me that God was giving Adam and Eve a choice as he put it right in front of them. The idea that we need to overcome evil and become righteous makes sense once you get it.
What I don't get in your story rabbi is where you get the background for God telling them in heaven they will be going to a lower world. Is this your assumption/theory or is it evidence based? Thank you for considering my question. I bow to you. Namaste
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Evil is as a result of the rejection of God
I think. The death means spiritual death.
Abused in power over eating and drinking when a limit become limitless results badly
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What role did the snake have in dirah bitachtoinim and did udum and chava have separation trauma instead of birth trauma?
God wants Adam and Eve to do what He tells them not to do?
But that's not theology and you're not showing any scriptures to back what you're saying up, that's just Kabbalah philosophy. And we mustn't make or fabriacte a doctrine or theology out of just Mumble and Jambo, you all would have to agree on thay. Tell us how you got to that point., so that we can see it from the same angle.
It comes from hunger.
Evil is the absence God.
There is no such thing, nor has there ever been such a thing as "free will" in and among the created order. The only Being in the entire universe whose will is completely free in the truest sense of the term is God Almighty.
I forgot
The devil
Rabbi, what about Satan terrorizing humanity?
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God did not create evil. Evil is an aberration.
Rabbi, can you send me a source for this answer? I so badly want to believe it, but I can't find a source that agrees with you!
Why? You know you heard the truth. But even the truth is confusing you? It’s you at this point. It may not be what you are used to hearing but that never satisfied you either. Open your heart to believing the truth when you hear it.
@@brigitte9999 I am open to believing the truth, which is why I want the sources. I want to be able to see where he got these ideas from, so that I'll be able to do my own research and understand it better. Truth doesn't mean you just accept what you're told. You have to question it, and dig deeper into it. If after all of that it turns out everything that was said was correct, then that is the truth.
@@TheGreatestShowOnEarth It’s a very powerful insight. It’s wisdom and resonates as a deeper truth. You are looking for facts but facts aren’t truth. Facts are an aspect of truth. But you can only use your heart when knowing truth.
@@brigitte9999 exactly. And my heart says I should make sure I have the facts right first. I'm sure the Rabbi is telling a truth, I just want to see it for myself. Seeing is believing after all
@@TheGreatestShowOnEarth You’ll never find it.
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You keep referring to the nuchush hakadmoini as a chai and not a midaber why?
This seems wrong. The interpretation comes from a non scriptural context.
God put the tree in the garden and then told them not to eat of it. What is human nature but to investigate what someone told you not to do?
I want to correct the Rabbi: eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would not have led to death, man was already created to die. Genesis 3:22 confirms this when God says, "Can you imagine if they also ate from the tree of immortality?" It seems the knowledge of good and evil is a divine trait, and that is why we weren't meant to have it.
As far as "was the serpent evil," certainly the serpent tempted Eve, but also afterward, God curses the snake so that his offspring will never have arms and legs and will always have to slither on the Earth. So, it's a little unclear if this is an opportunity to justify why snakes don't have arms and legs. A lot of this story is to explain "why things are this way." The expulsion from the garden is WHY we have to farm. Eve's disobedience is WHY childbirth is painful.
Beguiled is the key word in the KJV, Genesis 3:13 Hebrew & 2Corinthians 11:3 Greek. Morally, wholly seduced. We're not talking about apples here.
@@lionheartmerrill1069 would you mind expanding on what you're talking about? I'm not quite sure what you're getting at, sorry.
Shalom Rav.existe a time in Gan Eden? and what time? time of men or time of HSM? what is this time? 1 hour in Gan Eden....what is it?
There was no time because time is created by men! You do not need time in Gan Eden due to the fact that nothing could die. Outside of Eden men needed a straw to reach to and thus created time. He, men, noticed time by appearing stars and the Four Seasons. Then he learned when to prepare the land, sow, grow, harvest, build, store etc.
What if the bible is a comedy? Then Adam and Eve makes sense. 😂
No but seriously, the rabbi's interpretation is very beautiful and heartfelt. It makes me want to cry. The problem is, it requires so much subtext between Adam and Eve.
Let me get this straight.. there was a fallen world already created by God alongside Eden? And this fallen world was already full of people?
Good questions! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power) is 'watching' us from out there.
Good questions! As I see it Gan Eden was a protected bubble on the world. You may say that the Bible speaks of different dimensions. We have the place where G'd is, Heaven, Gan Eden, a second world where A&Eve were needed, the world under the seas, underworld aka darkness. I do believe when speaking of dimensions they are not stacked above each other or side by side but rather they touch each other like soapy bubbles in a tub. In this case most bubbles seem not connected due to they are far apart but they actually do. They are in the same Creation. Can pictures this? Good. G'd is on the outside of this Creation. He (this power) is 'watching' us from out there.
Rabbi sez, So heres an important thing, then it cuts off. What important thing?
Good question
To stay out of evil. The serpent is the daughter causing temptation.
Daughter? satan's names--> Revelation 12:9 KJV And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan....
So he made up a completely different story and substituted for what's in the bible
Yes
I find that one interesting. Thanks you rabbi I took it in the sense of it. Who is the identity of the controller of existence ? Thought exists so does the sense.
Also the sense that his mercies endureth forever and are concealed with his triumph I hear
this reading of Adam and Eve is inspiring... it is very thoughtful: Eve is the one who understands the U... Adam is intellectually seduced by Eve. She wants to come down to do the work in the worst of all possible worlds...God drops the challenge...it's Eve who takes the challenge, it's HER. Evil belongs to the same challenge. Eve was wiser than Adam.
Then the man treats Magdalena as a whore, Eva as a pervert... he leaves the women without references; without the full freedom of women and their potential, the worst possible world will remain corrupted.
My reading of it is that the U wants to be reflected, it will project life what is it?
Remind me seven day, Adventist, Mormonism in a bunch of others there’s so much of this onion to be peeled back that nobody can tackle because they’re making it illegal to talk about it
Peace Love Cool The seperation of souls
Just make that shit up out of thin air. go ahead everyone have your own version of it that’s what’s going on here
The opposition in this world, play out, and it did in that garden, Satan spoke through a snake, and worked on Eve's intellect, and she wanted more intelligence and to live forever like the Father, and I think ADam knew if he didn't partake, he'd be alone again in the garden. This was a transgression and we are not under condemnation because of their choice. IF not for them, we wouldn't be able to come here, obtain a body and go through this mortal life and make many choices that can lead us back to that Heavenly home. They were as little children and didn't understand their own sexuality, we read, their eyes were not yet opened. So the Father already knew that they would disobey and had a plan from the beginning in place, and they had to leave that garden, and then mankind starts and is tested here, we have joys and sorrows. And Adam and Eve did not know joy and sorrow because in that garden it was perfect, so they did not understand those concepts. The only completely finished teachings of these things that are misunderstood in our Christian bible is taught in the LDS church, it is Christ's church and was restored for the last days, and I've observed it for the last 50 years as a 21 year old I was baptized. It was the Book of Mormon that I read out of curiosity and then resisted being baptized as I was afraid I would have to live a rigid life, but what I found was joy and a culture that was perfect. God did Not create evil, he did not create Satan to be evil nor that 1/3. They were all with us, in that home, and we read that 1/3 of the host of heaven rebelled, they went along with Lucifer's plan, his name changes after he comes here and lies to Eve. In that home we were nurtured until were ready to take on a body, a body like our Father and Mother had, everything here is patterned after that life. When Lucifer who was an intellect obviously heard the plan that was presented of coming here, and that possible some would not return home because of choices, agency, he had another plan and said, my plan will make it so that we all return, and the Father rejected it, and this angered Lucifer and 1/3 of Father's children were also on Lucifer's side, they were forced out. And so they do walk this earth as we read, to and fro. And their presence is very strong here in the last days, they've had thousands of years to observe us. And they are jealous of us because we have bodies, and and they can never have a body. They are in governments and in many places. We all have a still small voice and can choose right from wrong, and so some things ring true, when we hear them. For me and millions, reading the book of Mormon and receiving a testimony given by the Holy Spirit, who is not the Father but a separate deity, that being can come into our own body and testify to us of truths, so that every fiber of your being knows certain eternal truths. And that's how one develops a testimony of this restored gospel, it is a marvelous joy that can't be compared to anything, it's peace that passes all understanding to know of things with no doubt. And it also angers people at times because the adversary does not want anyone to read this book. There's are endless stories of how it came about and about J. Smith, etc. But it's very simple and sophisticated and the same time, this profound book of scripture will change your life for the good if you do read it.
If Adam & Eve were smart people as you say, then they must have known about death. Especially if they were in Heaven first.
People that have to read into the Story what isn't there do so because they don't understand how the Story goes. Such is the fate of being a Rabbi.
Thank G-d for not making me a woman
a convoluted interpretation of the biblical story .....🤔
OUR EXTREAMLY CONTINUOUS JEALOUS GOD CREATED EVILNESS TO CONTINUOUSLY TEST OUR FAITHFULNESS ..which is one of God's Needs
IF GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, WHY WOULD HE HAVE ANY NEEDS AT ALL.?
16:27 likes Suru about akaida chava understood better than udum?
Remember Lilith... She's a natural Red Head for sure ! :-D
Redder the hair - craizier the mare
Good and evil are relative. Relative to culture.
For those who take the time to actually read the Garden of Eden STORY, for its content and not for the propaganda we are spoon fed;
We quickly realize that Moses, if it is as he originally wrote, has the character God being the deceiver; misrepresenting one aspect of the Knowledge Tree, though knowing the other three.
The character Serpent, on the other hand, tells correctly all four elements.
1. It is established early, that One Evening and One Morning IS ONE DAY
2. The God claims, the day (evening and morning) you eat, you die.
3. Serpent say no, the tree will not kill you
4. Serpent says, your eyes will be opened
5. Serpent says, you will become like the gods.....
6. In knowing good and evil
After the eating, the hiding, and finding, the God admits to knowing all those FACTS AND TRUTHS the Serpent told the woman.
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
In order to have free will, and to not be merely a programmed robot, there must be conflicting information about the same subject.
In this instance, the Knowledge Tree .
The two characters, god and serpent, are testing the new invention. Humans.
In the same manner humans test their robots
It gets really boring to have a mindless robot in your presence all the time.
Humans will begin programming "free will" into the robots who will then begin challenging "their creator".
The rest is history and prophesy ... One and the same.
That wasnt much about Lucifer. Its the Adam and Eve story that Rabbî likes talking about lately :)But anyway ❤
That's because Jews don't believe in Lucifer.
Ha! Lucifer is the light bearer whose mother is Aurora goddess of the dawn, a Heathen Greco-Roman myth of Man.
There are No Fallen Angels, all of Gd's Messengers do only as they are instructed to do.
My ex wife is the answer
Begs the question: If Adam and Eve were perfect, then how could the world be low? It's like God needed Adam and Eve to start the imperfection so that then future generations are working towards fixing it?
I think we just had the Eve experiance 😅😅.....could have said this is what could have happened, thats more authentic-