@@Qrayon Why are you surprised ? I am an Atheist, I am subscribed to Rabbi Tovia’s channel, and I am respectful of religious people, I don’t agree with their dogma, but I respect them as human beings, the same can’t be said about the majority of religious individuals towards Atheists. Have a nice day
@@Qrayon How about religious people not being respectful of other religious individuals from different religions or even different denominations from the same religion ? I think that for religious people that’s a much bigger issue. Thank you
@@joeycan6801 They should be respectful too. A lot of them are, and a lot of them are not. As with atheists we can't generalize about religious people. Everybody is different.
I find the message of Outreach Judaism to be very inspiring personally. My family were forced to convert in medieval times, and did they become church goers? No. They have always been fractured Catholics, believing in God but not hearing the message or applying it. I came to learn after I began conversion to Judaism that there are an estimated 15 MILLION people sharing history like mine living all over the Western Hemisphere. I want to be something like yourself Rabbi, and I want to help those people learn about their heritage and give them the chance to come back to the Jewish faith like I had. Thank you for all you do Rabbi Singer!
Rabbi Singer, this video was absolutely perfect!! I believe this video explains many of the questions people have, especially gentiles. I was not born a Jew but converted numerous years ago. So long ago that I have been a Jew longer than not and I am now a senior citizen!! I really hope that many of my gentile FB friends will take advantage of watching this video. Ya'asher Koach! I did not get the name of the "Atheist" who interviewed you, but I do feel he needs to get much credit for asking the correct questions to bring out your perfect answers. Ya'ashe Koach to the Interviewer too!
The authenticity of Moses is based on the public revelation at Sinai: God revealed Himself to the entire nation of Israel, at least three million people, and proclaimed before them the Ten Commandments. The entire Jewish people personally experienced that revelation, each individual in effect becoming a prophet, and each one verifying the experience of the other. With their own eyes they saw, and with their own ears they heard, as the Divine voice spoke to them, and also they heard God saying, "Moses, Moses, go tell them the following ..." They did not receive the occurrence of that event and accept it as some claim or tradition of an individual, but they experienced it themselves. That public revelation, therefore, authenticated the bona fide status of Moses as a prophet of God, and the Divine origin of the instructions he recorded in the Torah. That, and that alone, is the criterion for the belief in, and acceptance of, Moses and his teachings, as God said to him, "I will come unto you in a thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with you and will also believe in you forever" (Exodus 19:9).
@hrvatskinoahid1048 Except the Exodus never happened. There is absolutely ZERO historical or archeological evidence to support the Biblical Exodus. 2M+ people wandering for 40 years would leave massive amounts of archeological evidence. On top of this there is zero evidence that the Jews were in Egypt in any large numbers at all. The Exodus story stems from the exile to and from Babylon not Egypt.
Christians TALK about the elusive, subjective, abstract "Holy Spirit", but Rabbi Singer exudes the Holy Spirit through his actions, interactions and his loving countenance.🚸
As a former Confused Patrilineal who was Self-Hating due to being forced through Christianity with the Anti-Jewish NT, I wish I had the money to build a Noahide Education Center called: " Jewish Education Center for The Confused". All the big names could come.
There’s already an organisation to help non-Jews become practicing Noahides, it’s called “Brit Olam-Noahide world center” and the chairman is Rabbi Oury Amos Cherki, you can look it up
1. Noah and his family were saved because they obeyed seven laws. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 2. God punished the people of Sodom because they did not observe seven laws. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 3. Abraham observed seven laws plus the law of circumcision. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 4. Jews follow seven laws plus the Abraham Ibrahim covenant of circumcision through Isaac Ishaq plus additional laws like the Sabbath Day. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 5. Muslims follow seven laws plus the Abraham Ibrahim covenant of circumcision through Ishmael Ismail. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 6. The laws of Noah are in all the stories in the Torah which teach that the righteous in history followed these 7 laws. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 7. The laws of Noah are in all the stories in the Torah which teach that the wicked in history did not follow these 7 laws. 1. Know God. 2. Respect God. 3. Respect life. 4. Respect marriage. 5. Respect property. 6. Respect animals. 7. Preserve justice. . 8. The Torah teaches that 1. Everyone needs to know God. 2. Everyone needs to respect God. 3. Everyone needs to respect life. 4. Everyone needs to respect marriage. 5. Everyone needs to respect property. 6. Everyone needs to respect animals. 7. Everyone needs to preserve justice. . Gentiles follow the 7 Noahide laws given to Prophet Noah which does not include circumcision. Muslims follow the 7 Noahide laws given to Prophet Noah and the circumcision covenant given to Abraham through the descendants of Ishmael. Jews follow the 7 Noahide laws and the additional laws in the Torah given to Moses and the circumcision covenant given to Abraham through the descendants of Isaac.
The Tanakh Jewish scripture describes salvation without anyone needing to die for anyone's sins. Anyone who behaves like Noah will be saved like God saved Noah. Adam, Eve, Job, Noah, Abraham, David, Solomon, Josiah, Hezekiah and Daniel teach each generation that God will forgive the sins of any person who repents and corrects their behaviour meaning all such people were forgiven by God and they will be resurrected as sinless people meaning these people are examples of how God wants humans to repent and correct their behaviour.
The Torah says that the sin sacrifice is only for unintentional sin in Numbers 15:27 - 15:31 meaning intentional sin is forgiven by obeying Genesis 4:7. Repentance started from the time of Adam and Eve where God said humans can rule over sin in Genesis 4:7. In Isaiah 1:16 - 1:18 God tells humans to reason and know that when you repent and return to good behaviour all your sins are forgiven meaning you become sinless. Adam and Eve were trained in the Garden of Eden until they had the knowledge and experience necessary to become the caretakers of the Earth. The first human sin forgiven by God was the sin of Adam and Eve so that everyone knows God forgives the repenter who returns to doing good deeds. The story of Adam and Eve and their children is teaching that humans can overcome sin in Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 4:7 meaning God rewards good behaviour. . To humans, God gives forgiveness which is the fruit of the tree of life. In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve understood that humans have the capability of everlasting life represented by the tree of life in the same way as they were given knowledge of good and evil represented by the tree of knowledge meaning Adam and Eve understood the knowledge of good and evil and forgiveness of sin through repentance which existed from the beginning of time and was confirmed to later generations in Ecclesiastes 7:20, Proverbs 24:16, 1 Kings 8:46 - 8:50, Ezekiel 18:20 - 18:23, Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 55:7, Hosea 6:6, Hosea 14:2 - 14:3 and Micah 6:6 - 6:8.
I love your mind and soul, Tovia. TANACH, the Stone Edition you suggested, is a brilliant masterpiece I treasure and read daily. Please continue sharing your knowledge and understanding of our Creator's will for all of us... regardless of race, religion, or gender.😇
Also, as stated at the end of the book of Malachi, the Jewish Messiah will be heralded (announced) by the Prophet Elijah. So, until we hear from from Elijah, we are still in a 'holding pattern', waiting to hear from him.
Baruk Hashem! great interview, great questions, great answers, this is what I call being a light to the nations. There is no way I could have figured out the whole story of cursing in context. Learnt a lot. Toda Rabba Rabbi and the Questioner.
I learnt something new once again. Growing up in a christian household, there was always confusion around "slavery" in the bible. But now I know what it really was. I see all those stories in a new light now. I'm always learning new things about these stories, and it seems like there is always something new to learn about them.
Chattel slaves in the Bible were property. They were slaves for life and were bequeathed to their children. They could be beaten as long as they didn't die within two days. That's real slavery. I wish she had pressed Rabbi Singer on this (or on anything). I'd love to hear his response about this.
FINALLY i find someone also taking my stance on the jewish view of slavery. Some famous (not mentioning names) jewish thinkers seem to say that it isnt a good thing and the torah only speaks about it because of those times where slavery was mainstream, it had to give guidance on how to have slaves in a moral way. But that answer didn't sit well with me, and i thought it was more like a butler in recent times or a nanny, where the "slave" (such a un-nuanced translation, probably from the chrstian translators, but the easiest one to one word correlation i guess) is actually part of the family, so much so that he has to keep many of the commandments and in fact we have a commandment to make sure our children and slaves keep the shabbos, again alluding to him being part of the household. In fact in jewish law, the standard form of a slave was he actually went through a conversion process (willingly) and we have to treat him like any other jew, with love and compassion. As a rabbi i know (Rabbi Yosef Grunfeld the founder of SEED jewish outreach organisation) used to say "they say the devil is in the detail, however in judaism it is the divine we see in the detail". Thank you so much AGAIN Rabbi Singer for addressing a question which has been bothering me for some time!
Interesting about the grandmother not being a descendant of Native Americans comment. My grandma told me she was a descendant of Natives but she didn't specify where these Natives came from. I was told by relatives her mother was Cherokee and her father was Blond haired and Blue Eyed but 100% Cherokee. I took a DNA test and found out she had Native ancestry, but it was Siberian Inuit and no Native American ancestry whatsoever. Her mother came from Russia as a child but had a Russian name when she got here (Kamilla Romanova) then she later started using the name Ruth David. I'm drawn to Judaism because of them but I am aware I am not Jewish. I just like the teachings. I don't know if my great-grandma converted or not but she didn't have Jewish ancestry from what I know. At some point someone taught them Talmud because my grandma's views on the Bible, I couldn't find any other place than in the Talmud. She used to say "Look at this world. You think anybody came?". She went to church off and on but never really got into religion. A pastor witnessed to my mother when she was in her 30's and asked her if she was saved and my mom said "saved from what?". That's how much my grandma influenced our views that my mom could go to church off and on her whole life and never heard anything about Jesus saving anybody. My grandma would give her a math booklet or a pocket dictionary when they went to church. Honestly, we had no concept of denominations or religion. My Muslim friends thought I was Muslim, my Catholic friends thought I was Catholic and my Buddhist friends thought I was Buddhist.
Rabbi is so clear and understanding in his own points, after watching his videos so much I learned so much and I think I still am gonna remain a Christian.
Great questions! And of course Tovia is great as always. I really appreciate this one, in particular. I grew up as Catholic, but never had any interest whatsoever. I had very little contact with Jewish people and had no idea what a Rabbi's perspective even was. They do very little marketing.
Very insightful interview & back and forth with both sides listening. Enjoyed hearing the rabbi's take on slavery back then since it was brought up in other videos and not answered very satisfactorily.
“I’ve been to the Temple Mount, there’s no Temple there” lol! His dry humor and delivery cracks me up. I don’t agree 100% with his take on what the Tanakh is saying, but I still learn a lot from him and he presents many good things to think about.
Take Rabbis advice, he protects other Jews from not converting to Christianity. But then all the pagans tought the same after this. So self protection from any foreign and domestic enemy or even "friend" we need to protect ourselves.
“Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent” Isaac Newton
Really? How did God treat innocent woman and children....remember Korach's family. It says in Ezek 18 that now one else could die for your sins....but Israel children and woman had to die for their fathers sin! When it comes to the nations, God cared less for innocent children that could not even make a inlightend choice yet and just killed them all. Is that a good God? Read Num 31 and see how little virgin girls is treated the same way as the animals.....is that a good god? We should read our bibles critically and ask questions and take it for what it is. In Deut 32:8,9 we see that YHVH was a lesser god that received only a small portion (Jacob) as inheritance from the almighty god (Elyon). YHVH is only Israels god. All the other nations received their owns gods. The translation in Tanach is also wrong in that scripture where is says " according to the sons of Israel" It makes NO sense at all The correct wording is " according to the sons of God" (Elyon) So how many gods did Israel have in that scripture? A father God (Elyon) and his son god (YHVH). They are NOT the same God. Like Christianity there is so much confusion in the Hebrew Bible
In the gemara the rabbis still argue about whether JOB ever even happened. Many meforshim agree that it's allegorical & never happened. There's also arguments about whether that last chapter was added later.
Hello Rabbi Singer. I enjoy studying your teaching very much. Please expound and clarify what the trending Rabbi meant when he interpreted the verse in Genisis as meaning the deeply melanated not being part of the new world? Can you expound, please?
But he's talking about Judaism and how it's passed on. If a child is born out of a union between a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father, the child is not Jewish.
@@Nkosi766There were no Jews in the time of Ruth, there was Israelites. And, Any person that accepted Israelite laws and God became part of the Israelite/Jewish nation. The 12 sons of Jacob, (the Israelites had Nobody to marry that was an Israelite, except their own sister Dinah) The 12 sons of Jacob married 3 Canaanites, 2 Arameans, 1 Egyptian, 3 Mesopotamians, 2 Ishmaelites. There was no Israelites to marry!!
When atheists criticize believers in God, they are usually criticizing protestant fundamentalists. The Torah also records that God commanded men would be chosen to decide cases.
I use to be an atheist and I have always liked Jewish people, they always say incredibly wonderful things. Many are wise but if not so knowing, they are often kind. Rabbis Singer and Skobac are the best as are the other rabbis and sitting, listening, I often think this is the belief system I want in my life. All of them are good at spotting lies, so one walks away with understanding if nothing else.
I'm a Baha'i - a Messianic Muslim. I've spoken with the Rabbi. He's a jewel of a human being. I'm am experimental philosopher and systems theorist. I'm wrestling at present with an existential crisis: in 2020 I received a direct Revelation from God in exact manner prohibited by my faith to believe in. I'm preparing to go public with this on the 8th. After I do go public, I intend to resume conversations with the Rabbi. God has a plan for him. He's doing good work. He's not combating Christ; he's combating Antichrist, though he doesn't know it.
Interviewer - Re: your thinking Job got a “new” wife This is not necessary a different person but after going through everything perhaps she became “new” in her heart. She changed so much in that way she was so different that she could be considered new. I don’t know if this is the correct interpretation because I cannot read Hebrew for myself although I am Jewish
Based on the stories of Abraham, I find it impossible to conclude that Biblical slavery was a good thing. There are rules for buying foreign infants as slaves and then ritually cutting part of them off. Slaves are born within homes of their masters. Slaves are drafted into tribal warfare. Kings Abimelech was punished by God by having his female slaves made infertile (albeit temporarily) -- implying that it was expected for men to have children with their slaves, and losing that reproductive potential would be a punishment to the master. Biblical slavery is not just a contract to fulfill a debt, or to help out a struggling person. Calling this good, or trying to spin it as such, can only be done by ignoring the way these people were actually treated in the text.
My husband is Morman. I think I'd rather he be Jewish than Mormon, although I don't know much about Judaism. One of the best men at our wedding ( we had 2) thought he was Jewish. He looks sort of classically Jewish. Pick out a classically Jewish-looking person in his 70's, with a long white beard, & that's him. I can't feel comfortable betraying my faith, but I know you know what I mean: "God created Mormons so Christians know how Jewish people feel".
Rabbi Singer I completely disagree with you that a Jew is determined by mother, according to the holy scriptures given to the prophets from God that supersedes every other doctrine clearly teaches all throughout the entire bible that the Israelites lineage is determined by their father, 1 chronicles 16:13, Psalm 105:6.
I think you’re right. Were there not several women in the lineage of David that were not Jews but for example Moabite? Wouldn’t that make David then a non-Jew according to this logic.
Reference Rabbi Tovia Singer - Time Index 28 minutes: Satan Created by God ? Isaiah 14:12-16 [12]How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13]For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: [14]I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. [15]Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. [16]They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; Ezekiel 28:13-19 [13]Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. [14]Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. [15]Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. [16]By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. [17]Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. [18]Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. [19]All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Tyrus is relevant to the first portion of the chapter, but the scriptures I referenced are specific to Satan, the description of him being in Eden is clear and Prince Tyrus never got into the garden of Eden. Think of Ezekiel 28 as a double prophecy that references two separate individuals.
Whatever respect I had for Rabbi Singer is lost now. I did not expect this level of apologetics for slavery. How can you say being a slave was a good thing?! Exodus 21: 20-21 says owners can beat their slaves as long as they don't die within a few days; "for the slave is the owner's property". Not family. Levitcus 25: 39-46 gives permission to take foreigners as slaves, but not Israelites because you're not to treat them harshly. If being a slave is so good, why does Leviticus no longer permit Israelites to be slaves? There are many other passages like these. To say that "slavery was a good thing" is either ignorant or dishonest.
That shocked me as well. For a rabbi that is well versed in the Bible, his response was the most dishonest response to slavery I've ever heard, even more so than the response of Christian apologists.
Thank you for the beautiful message dearest rabbi Tovia Singer. May Hashem bless you and your family materially, emotionally and spiritually. May you be blessed with health joy and peace. Baruch Hashem!! Am Yisrael Chai ❤
There was No curse of Ham, Canaan was cursed, not Ham. And, Ham didn't see Noah Naked, Ham slept with Mrs. Noah (Naamah), this act produced Canaan, that's why Canaan was cursed, not Ham.
Rab. Tovia, you're awesome. But, I know the lyrics are uplifting and glorifies haShem, but the song at the end of all your vids, has become essentially your "end credits theme song." Please switch it up. Throw in some Yidcore, NoFX or the Clash!
5:00-5:25 - With all due respect to the good Rabbi, this is utter nonsense. Judaism (such as it is) has in fact changed quite dramatically - even fundamentally - over the last twenty-five odd centuries; before that there is precious little evidence that anything remotely resembling what we today would recognize as Judaism even existed: all the textual and archaeological evidence currently at our disposal point in the direction that the traditions of Judaism arose from much earlier Canaano-Aramaic, Jehudite, Israelite, Midianite and other Levantine polytheistic antecedents, and were subsequently greatly exerted upon primarily by Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Persian and Greek influences. Jewish monotheism as reflected in Scripture was a very late development. The narratives, material descriptions, social environment, and theological ideas contained in the Pentateuch and subsequent Books of the Hebrew Bible definitely reflect a post-Exilic topos; more precisely, an incipient form of Judaism appears to have emerged sometime during the Achaemenid and early Hellenistic periods (late sixth - early 2nd centuries BCE) in Canaan and the wider Near East.
They become an Israelite. A general Jew. It only matters if you're a levity or priest today. You have a few extra ceremonies & rituals. I'm a levite. Even have the genes. Everybody else is an Israelite today.
Although there are 613 laws, it is impossible for any human to observe all of them, not because of difficulty, but because of applicability: 1] Some laws are only for men 2] Some laws are only for women 3] Some laws are only for married couples 4] Some laws are only for kohanim (priests) 5] Some laws are only for Levites 6] Some laws are only valid in the land of Israel 7] Some laws are only valid in the temple
Wonderful exposition of jewish hashkafah, but the title is clickbait. The rabbi wasn't "pressed" at all. It was softball after softball. And while it's true that slavery in the bible didn't resemble in any way shape or form the idea of slavery that we have from the terrible treatment that african americans endured, it's not entirely accurate in my humble opinion and limited knowledge compared to the Rabbi, that slaves were just "people without a family joining a family". Chattel slavery was permitted (buying slaves) and nowhere in the Torah is it written that it was limited only to orphans. Slaves were bought, traded and inherited. The topic needs more explanation. Also, the word "arur" definetely has a negative connotation. We say "Arur haman, baruch mordechai" in Purim, and I've never heard that we are wishing to "shed light" or "illuminate" the wicked genocidal Haman.
@@screamtoasigh9984: Actually, anyone is welcome to convert if they wish, after the proper learning with an Orthodox Rabbi, but nobody is obligated to convert, since they can live by the 7 Noahide laws, established for non-Jews, which Noah followed.
Lemme see if I comprehend: if you’re a Jew through your mother, a convert is a stranger,( I think that’s what he said) now Ruth children are Jews because she’s a covert . I still don’t get it.
....and??! On the Hebrew calendar, we are now in the year 5784. The Gregorian calendar that we use in secular society is false, since it only counts time from the birth of the "Jesus" character, when clearly there was time BEFORE his birth! I started to notice this discrepancy, even while I was still an Evangelical Christian.
The purpose of Religion is not to validate or invalidate the existence of G-d. Rather the purpose of Religion is to answer the question... In what manner should we, who believe in G-d be in relationship with G-d. I believe in G-d and that entirely belief is based upon science.
Reference Rabbi Tovia Singer and Compare - Time Index 26 min. & 25 sec. Isaiah 59:1-2 [1]Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: [2]But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Jeremiah 14:11-12 [11]Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. [12]When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
There are 2 different types of slaves. The one tipe was Jewish people who was in dept and they were taken in a Jewish household .....and could be released after 7 years is so wished. BUT:: the nations slaves were bought and their children were born in captivity and were slaves to their owners children......this is a sad thing. If the father of the captive children were freed, he had to leave his family behind(wife included) as slaves.....so how is that for family building?
Most of what you say is correct except the last part seems a bit mixed up assuming i read it it how you intended. This rule of the going out free and having to leave the children behind ONLY applies with the first type of servant, the jewish born one who is released after 6 years. In that time the master has permission to give the jewish servant a "shifchah cannanis" which is a female servant of the SECOND category, in order to have children which will then be part of the household of the owner. It is with this intention that in the 6 years he may do that with the knowledge that they will not stay with him when he leaves and in fact according to jewish law they are not even considered his children and completely hers. I hope that clarified thing for you at least a bit. My attitude generally when it comes to these passages, is that the Torah was given by God and the default is that it is correct and moral, so if i dont see it straight away, i am happy in the mean time to leave it as a question and hopefully one day i get an deeper insight. What strengthens my approach in this is that so many times i see this play out, whether in moral questions or even very technical questions in the talmud, assume they are right and then it seems so much easier practically to find the answer. Great question and Shalom!
So you're basing the morality of the torah on modern times, instead of a time when all the nations raped, pillaged, stole, & murdered indiscriminately. I could go on & on, but this is not the proper format to have a lengthy discussion. Judaism is the most moral, humane, & feminist religion that ever existed.
Unfortunately Rabbi Tovia does not understand what it means that God does not change. God does not change and cannot be changed from His position as God, not the fact that God does not change His attitude or actions in time as a function of His plan and the evolution of man. Starting with Moses in the wilderness when he wanted to kill the all the Jews because he was fed up with their disobedience, Moses interceded for the people and changed Yahweh's intention to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Oticum, my opinion is the following, the god of the Israeli tribes from the Old Testament, Torah or Tanach, is not the Creator God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit that Jesus talks about, and unfortunately Christianity is in serious error in knowing the True God!
I've long thought the Book of Job, whether intentionally or not, was a great argument against "karmic" thinking. The idea of karma from Eastern religions, that good or bad coming to you means you deserved it. We have a man who is scripturally defined as righteous. He does nothing wrong, to offend God, & does everything right. In fact, he continues to do everything right throughout his experiences in the story. & yet he loses a lot & suffers terribly. His neighbors / community deduce, wrongly, that he must deserve all the bad somehow. That's the thing that comes close to fully breaking Job, all the community guessing he must deserve all this suffering, somehow. The narrative always seemed like a parable against thinking those who suffered or lived poor lives deserved it, and vice versa, that people who were fortunate & wealthy deserved those things. Or, at least, that people shouldn't jump to those very karmic conclusions.
A challenge refines a person and his faith, and humbles the heart, and thereby brings a person closer to God. Therefore, in truth, a test is a great benefit for a person.
@@hrvatskinoahid1048 I totally agree about challenges being opportunities for people to grow & improve. My main point was that out of all the challenges, the truly heinous, unnecessary challenge, the 1 that kind of broke Job, was all his neighbors falsely concluding that he must have been guilty / deserved the things that happened to him & his family. Instead of thinking these were challenges meant to test Job's mettle, they indulged in the same dangerous, toxic "karmic" belief that bad things happen to people because they did something wrong (& often, that good things happen to people because they're righteous). That's why I think the Job story, in addition to any other messages, also contains a clear warning about why we shouldn't automatically jump to karmic conclusions, that people must have deserved the things that happen to them (bad, or good).
There are no examples of patrilineal descent in the Hebrew Bible. The interviewer was probably referring to the wife of Moses and the wife of Joseph, but this was before the Torah was given. So there were no Jews then as we know them today. At Mount Sinai the entire people went through conversion, as detailed in Rabbinic sources.
What happens to convert that converted through conservative orthodox? Then stop practicing because of the racism amongst oshkonizzi , sephardic, And so forth politics in religion and religion and politics. I still love judicism in a history. I still study. I'm just not in the synagogue on chabis or on holidays
If PEOPLE can turn you away from Orthodox Judaism than do not convert. You are not required to convert. Just practice the Noahide Laws. Because to be a genuine JEW (not reform or conservative) but orthodox Jew requires total commitment. No half way.
