Is Judaism Even A Religion? | University Students Question Rabbi 

Ask not what HE can do for you, but rather what you can do for HIM

"Judaism is a lifestyle." "I was born that way."

This student group brought the best out of Manis - brilliant!! ✡️

Thank you Rabbi Friedman

Thank you. G-d bless the children and land of Israel. ❤

This is aboslutely Brilliant. You cured me of my depression. I've been trying to escape this whole time. I get why that pastor guy was crying.

Love this guy, hilarious!

Christians also talk about having a relationship with God.

Consider THE GREAT PARTNERSHIP by the late great UK Head Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Jews believe in living life in this world. We bring Hashem down to earth in the way we live and the mitzvot we do! The Torah is authentic, deep and full of wisdom!

This was excellent! Thank you! God bless God chosen Jewish people! Greetings from non Jewish Polish lady in Australia

Thank you rabbi

Rabbi, I don't know if you will read this, but I was taught that Torah starts with letter Bet. The Bet (looks like a squared off C for those who don't know) means that we are not to look back, look up, look down, and only to look forward. Thus the Earth was here way long before G-d made us. Curious what you think of that.

The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder explains the convergence of science and Torah, including an explanation for how the 6 days is very much backed by science

Thank you for such an interesting and intelligent debate🙏 As a non believer, I believe in what Rabbi Friedman explained that we must bring God to Earth. To clean the mess he has created!!! This concept of God has played in my mind since my teens years in a semi believing Islamic Iranian family. Those days I cal it Good years, we were a multi cultural and multi religious society, Sadly our world was shattered with rising of a cultish fundamentalist Ayatollahs regime. Outside of Iran for years I was busy trying to educate myself and earn a living, but the thought of existence of God never left me. Till the time came to study Chinese Medicine/ philosophy. Then everything fell into place that, “I” made the God🪷 The earliest men created the unique God, part by part, after every disasters, he looked up towards the sky, because the Earth he was standing on was either rumbling with Earthquakes opening its mouth to swallow him or melted lava from the Volcano turn him to ashes or flood will carry him to the oceans or even Hurricanes will twist him around like a grain of sand. And if he was lucky and didn’t have those colossal scares in his primitive life. Then Rain wouldn’t come to feed his crops, or Hot Blazing Sun will cook him and his animals with his crops. Yes I, You, Us!!! Made the GOD. It makes sense to think that all the believes and subsequent religions stems from Hinduism( multiple Gods) then Brahmanism will develop . I agree strongly.❤️

The oldest Vedic inscriptions are found in Syria which is north to where Abraham supposedly lived. Also the Vedas are much older than Torah. Sanatan Dharma is not confined to any particular geographical region, tribes, time or group of people.

thanks rabbi🙏🏼

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.(Hebrews 11:1)

Ezekiel 34 is relevant here: "... therefore, O shepherds [Rabbi's and leaders of Israel], hear the words of the Lord: this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them"

I think this fails to really address what a religion is. Absolutely on point on belief, but the legitimate reason why people don't believe in HaShem is that HaShem doesn't work on command. When people say they "believe" in science, they're just trying to say "we accept scientific findings as reliable", the semantics game only works if you assume people think that deeply into what words they use and what they describe. So the thing these people want addressed is something that they actually can only address for themselves. It's not the angle to look at this from if we're in any sort of "solution-focused" approach...

I like the conversation but we should all want to go to heaven. It’s the most beautiful thing we could ever imagine.

After sleeping on it, this should explain exactly why these kids are being done as diservice and are leaving here entirely unequipped for real world discussions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lz6qUG-3UBc.html Rabbi's should not try to go outside their expertise, certainly hearing a Rabbi practically say "The Torah IS a history book" is something no serious student of Judaism should come close to hearing. Playing lingustic games and semantics will not help, especially among people who see these from a mile away. The truth is these conversations will take at least an hour to really explain, and these methods won't make more Ben Shapiros... they'll make the people Ben rips apart. This is an amazing topic, completely mishandled.

Judaism is a way of life. It is about following the Golden Rule Practice justice. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Leviticus 19. 🕎

Watch online Rupert Shedrake's TED TALK "THE SCIENCE DELUSION "

Amazing.💝 Shalom

It's a way of life 😀

My ex husband said many times: Don’t use G* d as your cosmic bellhop. Other words saying the same thing.

Somehow I made it through this entire video, triggered over 20 times, I think what sums up the problem with this man’s influence was that the girl at the end said she has more questions than she started with. He is not representing Torah.

Religion is a set of beliefs, that is what Manis Freidman just said, the Ramba outlines the 13 core beliefs, which are the basis of Judaism. Above the religion, we are a nation, yes, the indigenous people of Judea.

His claim about the Brahman is not true. Monotheism began in Afghanistan with Zoroaster & then spread west not the other way around.

The difference between believing and knowing is like the difference between believing in a big bang where nothing exploded and became everything in space, and that you are spinning in circles at 1000 miles an hour and hurtling through an impossible expanding vacuum of space at 1/2 million miles an hour and seeing stars that are billions of miles and billions of light years away. Instead, you can KNOW what shape the earth is by standing on the seashore and using your God-given common sense. It is just as Genesis 1 says it is, small and calm and close.

After oct 7, there's been so many of these videos popping out of nowhere on my RU-vid, I've always been curious about judaism and what they believe. Now I see why they act and move as a group a certain way. They have no accountability, and they don't believe that even God can hold them accountable. They have corrupted the scripture. I am more affrim in my religion, which guides me in this world and holds me accountable to God for every action. This rabbi sounds confuse, i bet these students are more confuse. He's speaking from his opinion and not from scripture. Misguided and Misguiding others.

Rabbi did not say the Brahmans are G-d. Listen to what the Rabbi said!

Fantastic, Baruk Hashem!

What should we say Avraham, our forefather, obtained by his own efforts? For if Avraham came to be considered righteous by God because of legalistic observances, then he has something to boast about. But this is not how it is before God! For what does the Tanakh say? “Avraham put his trust in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness.” Now the account of someone who is working is credited not on the ground of grace but on the ground of what is owed him. However, in the case of one who is not working but rather is trusting in him who makes ungodly people righteous, his trust is credited to him as righteousness. In the same way, the blessing which David pronounces is on those whom God credits with righteousness apart from legalistic observances: “Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered over. Blessed is the man whose sin Adonai will not reckon against his account.” Now is this blessing for the circumcised only? Or is it also for the uncircumcised? For we say that Avraham’s trust was credited to his account as righteousness; but what state was he in when it was so credited - circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision! In fact, he received circumcision as a sign, as a seal of the righteousness he had been credited with on the ground of the trust he had while he was still uncircumcised. This happened so that he could be the father of every uncircumcised person who trusts and thus has righteousness credited to him, and at the same time be the father of every circumcised person who not only has had a b’rit-milah, but also follows in the footsteps of the trust which Avraham avinu had when he was still uncircumcised. For the promise to Avraham and his “seed’’ that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces. For if the heirs are produced by legalism, then trust is pointless and the promise worthless… The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God’s free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had - Avraham avinu for all of us. This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.” Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence. For he was past hope, yet in hope he trusted that he would indeed become a father to many nations, in keeping with what he had been told, “So many will your seed be.” His trust did not waver when he considered his own body - which was as good as dead, since he was about a hundred years old - or when he considered that Sarah’s womb was dead too. He did not by lack of trust decide against God’s promises. On the contrary, by trust he was given power as he gave glory to God, for he was fully convinced that what God had promised he could also accomplish. This is why it was credited to his account as righteousness. But the words, “it was credited to his account . . . ,” were not written for him only. They were written also for us, who will certainly have our account credited too, because we have trusted in him who raised Yeshua our Lord from the dead - Yeshua, who was delivered over to death because of our offences and raised to life in order to make us righteous. (Romans chapter 4; Emissary Sha’ul)

The holy Bible says, 'day 1 was light, day 4 the cosmos:'='big bang:'

Getting healthy enough to go to heaven. Will get us healthy enough to stay on earth with God 😊

Hinduism is not descendant of Judaism. This rabbi says many wrong things

Thank you for this interessant Report God plessinf for Israel 🙏🙏🇨🇭🇨🇭❤️❤️

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It was a religion till Jews started skipping Mitzvot 9 and 10. Then it turned to something else !

God started a family in heaven with angels but was kind of failed when most Angeles turned rebellious so he is training human beings for heavenly life to be with him asa farmily in heaven

Utterly beautiful. That I would be drawn to Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism after fleeing the LDS Cult I was coercively forced into...was no coincidence then?

It was a black swan - not a kangaroo…

All Experts of Religion knowing last massage for human Islam

7:24 “Will I be rewarded? So far it’s been 2000 years…” what happened 2000 years ago that he’s counting from?

The comment about reward is not quite correct. Refer to the Covenant.

My father a”h wrote Sefer bereishis for children it’s a text book called Ma’aseh adoneinu, he was a very big advocate for science and Torah. The missing link in evolution is very problematic, other than that my father was a very big supporter of the sciences and he had smicha from Rav Moshe Feinstein. I’m not sure where Manis Friendman got his smicha but I’m sure the rebbe is crying right now. Someone should speak to rabbi Abraham Shem tov. This man is spreading heresy.

Rewards in the afterlife? Not? Read the book of prophet Daniel, last paragraph...

There is so much to pick apart here just in the first three minutes, I cannot even listen to one more word from this man.

Well, he was completely wrong about the word Brahman having anything to do with Abraham. How does he know that the Messiah is coming? Where is his proof? And science is not a belief. It’s based off of proven evidence. You can’t prove the things that supposedly happened in the Torah.

On this subject, I heartily recommend a track I discovered by accident (it appeared in my 'recommended' feed) by a British band called UNIT. The track is A Tribute To The Israeli Defence Force and it is excellent - tuneful and forceful without being bombastic combined with a lovely lyric. I know next to nothing about the group but on investigation I see they've recorded a whole batch of Jewish related tracks such as Pesach, Yom Kippur, Bar Mitzvah, Israel Is Real, The 613 Mitzvot and probably others I don’t know about yet. Some of them feature Rabbi Moshe Bryski which is definitely a recommendation in itself.

Christianity may say they come from the Torah/Tanakh, when all of Christianity pushes the Christian testaments...

Not really in comparison to christianity!

If Judiasm is not a religion or a belief system then what is it? He says it's a way of thinking based on "facts", on "truth"? The rabbi says that the Torah is the truth. Isn't that a belief? He says the ancient Jews stood in front of Har Sinai and this is a fact, not a belief. Gd created a mature world. How does he "know" these things? How does that make any sense when our empirical senses and our logical brain tell us something else? Science and Judiasm can go hand in hand and the six days can be six time periods. Why pit one against the other? We perceive reality through our limited human perspective.

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Gentiles replaced the word kingdom with the word religion.

This rabbi is dangerous!

Catholicism is idol warship Armenian Orthodox goes against a core belief that god is not human - Ain Lo Demut Haguf. I don’t know all forms of Christianity but thirteen core beliefs are instrumental in spreading the seven noahide laws.

We can’t prove Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead ?

This is why Christianity is the ultimate form of the 1st century Judaisms. Jesus is the man who came down from heaven as the Word of God to preach the good news of forgiveness of sins by his sacrifice on the cross and the resurrection. Jesus mission was not to bring sinners to heaven as spirits, but for the bodily resurrection of believers, the reconatitution of Eden and for God to return to Eden with Jerusalem as his home ✝️

“O People of the Book! Our Messenger has indeed come to you, making things clear to you after an interval between the messengers so you do not say, “There has never come to us a deliverer of good news or a warner.” Now there has come to you a deliverer of good news and a warner. And Allah is Most Capable of everything.” Quran 5:19

Brahmans are people not god.

Was daly snik and gold bible shine evrh day I see

That when u arhunim with me see haw power u have then I breakit

Now this Ailen thing to support the christian whY?

A.D. 2024 A.D. chant, Proof of Torah? Burnt mountaintops found and documented in Sinai. God is free, Praises to Hashem.

Не зашло. All over the place.

Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian.

How can you verify that 2 million people stood on Mount Sinai?

You defined a religion as “a set of beliefs”, and say that Judaism isn’t a religion because it’s about doing what G-d says. But if you don’t believe G-d said to do those things why are you doing them? If you actually reject the existence of G-d and you reject that G-d gave certain commands, would you follow his commands? I think not. You say, G-d is coming down and that he needs us to do certain things. Do you believe that? If so, isn’t that part of a set of beliefs? If not, why try to live like you do believe it?

God doesn't need anything

When u giv some one work u chang his life and him to fill up his seed with help and nolehge to his jjub God bring u bilding hawse for u he live on prapry to help wee sleave robot favert love us

I am come to Litauen/Janischken. 🙏 Shalom und Shabbat. 🙏

This is pure heresy. Shameful. Read the Bible.

Evry thing in head

God did mean for us to suffer on earth when we got born. It is the evil of the world that causes suffering. I can't change my blood if I choose to go from a Christian to a Jew. So Judaism is what you believe, that make's it a religion. Because to be a Christian, you believe in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

If Judaism is not a religion, Judas and Jesus creates the religions. I wonder if there is no calendar and time. Do they still argue what 7 days a week for.

Spirit is bring it smol pictures u magnifying to biger

This is such a lie and a distortion of the truth.

Obedience is the reward.

Be careful what bearded men you seek knowledge from. This man is full of nonsense

But cud take u ears

⚠a truly great *manipulator!* 👏👏👍

"If God speaks to you it isnt a belief." This is nothing but wordplay. No one including Jews, KNOWS that God speaks to them or spoke to Moses. They BELIEVE that God spoke to Moses. All he is saying is that only Judiasm contains certainty. This is chauvanism writ large.

Ok ,Jesus is not God so Jews are true about God than why I think I am wrong to be a Christian? That question itself proves Jesus is the God .

Jews are a religious group that anyone can convert and historically many of the jews were converts (Tanakh Esther 8:17 tanakh other gentile people become jews) and a jew who leaves the religion is not a jew (Yevamot 17a descendants of israelite tribes become goys ) so jews are not an ethnic group they are a religion and religions are not entitled to a land people do, hebrews are the ethnicity jews are the religion and a high proportion of jews have hebrew ancestry but not all hebrews are jews and not all jews are hebrews. just like arab- muslim dialectic and the state of israel is formed on basis of religion (while weirdly claiming to be a secular state and not appliying jewish religious laws) as they let anyone who converts to judaism become their first class citizens and count them as jews (and they also deny the right to return to jews who converted to other religions and dont count them as jews) then they let these converts settle in palestinean land this makes their existance illegitimate, Refuting common arguments that defend classifiying jews as an ethnicity;-At first i would like to make definition of ethnicity;ethnicity is combination of ancestry and culture, culture alone can't be sole basis of an ethnicity the nations like american mexican colombian brazilian etc cant be classified as ethnicities because while they have a common cultural framework they don't have common ancestry, adding into my point to relevance of ancestry to ethnicity i cant claim to be an ethnic english person just because i speak english languange and have english culture because to be an ethnic englishman one must have english ancestry and i can't claim to be ethnic japanese just by speaking the languange and immersing with the culture and so on; so just by the jews being a group that anyone can convert (and historically the fact that many people in fact have converted to judaism Esther 8:17 and two kingdoms in history Khazars and Himyarites did convert to judaism in fact the arab himyarite king dhu nawas historically forced many non jews to be jews and yemeni jews are mostly descendants of arab converts to judaism) rule out classification of jews as an ethnic group - On the argument that according to jewish law that people who have jewish mothers are jewish and since this is ancestry jews can be clasified as an ethnicity;The clasification of the notion a jew can still be classified as an jew despite being an apostate just because he has maternal jewish ancestry is a unhistorical view that only has emerged in the 19th century in response to the antisemitic persecutions in europe and to foster jewish solidarity in an ever secularising world but jewish religious scriptures say that people who have full jewish ancestry even the the ten tribes of israel are no longer jews (Yevamot 17a descendants of israelite tribes become goys) and apostates from the jewish faith should be killed as they are no longer jews (Talmud mishne Torah (Laws of Murderer and the Preservation of Life 4:10) and Shulhan Arukh (Hoshen Mishpat 425:5) And Hebrew Bible Tanakh Deuteronomy 13:9 ) (Another thing to note that in the past the jewish identity was so tied to the religion that maimonides the scholar who wrote 613 mitzvot (which is considered the obligations of jewish law as we know today wrote in mishne torah 30:15 that a jew who no longer keeps shabbat is no longer a jew but a goy ! yes you heard it right a jew who doesn't keep shabbat is a goy even though he has jewish mother according to maimonides who basically created the jewish faith as we know today ) and adding to the fact different jewish denonimations such as karaites and reform jews disagree with the maternal ancestry thing are proof that jewish maternal ancestry cant be interpeted as an factor of an ethnicity and the fact that islam also says that the child of a muslim father is a muslim unless he becomes an apostate according to sharia (muslim religious law equvalent of jewish halacha) but it would be weird to clasiffy muslims as an ethnic group. Another facet of my point is that the state of israel agrees with me on this one according to israeli law of return the apostate jews who convert to other religions are no longer jews and that they are barred from the right of return and can't emigrate to israel and the israeli goverment does not reconise them as jewish ! -On the argument that judaism unlike the spiritual focused religions like christianity and buddhism has civil and penal code inside it and regulates all aspects of life there can be understood as an culture and thus a religion, the islam also has all of these but wouldnt it be nonsense to claim that muslims are a nation ? So coming to my closing statement jews were historically always viewed as a religious group but antisemitic persecutions and cases like albert dreyfuss where ex jews were persecuted and the Holocoust where according to hitler ''jews were race'' so he persecuted apostate jews too, in response to this a secular movement that began to see jewness as an ethnicity began to form which have birth to zionism, to this day jews remain the only ''ethnicity'' which you can convert.

God spoke to Abraham then Abraham became a Jew? 😅😅😅😂😂😂

Not every Hebrew is Yehudah. 11 tribes didn’t practice Judaism. Judaism was not the religion of Abraham

Yes our clothes are expected to reflect Yet this day? This is a religious thinking. If I came with nothing I take nothing. This is my knowing. This is where the Idols fade. up northwards.. His people know. northwards. duh to the stupid one who was taught wrong.

This Rabbi's etymological deconstruction of Abraham and Brahmins is excruciatingly ignorant and, therefore, racist. I am shocked that, once again, ideologues are confusing Hindu concepts with their own. The last time a westerner attempted such etymological mind jitsu with a Hindu concept, the word was "Aryan". Ultimately, though, this Rabbi fails in his own analysis because Abraham's name was not Abraham until late in his life, but Abram cannot be contorted in Brahmin. In his opening remark, this Rabbi proclaims proudly he never recieved a higher education. It's never too late, Rabbi. May I suggest studying linguistics?

If you reading this please i’m begging you !!! just read the Qur’an and you will make sure that this guy knows nothing Everything will make sense and the Qur’an will answer all your questions with the simplest way ever

No evidence is not a Faith

Iam from India Shalom

Obedience vs LOVE not all this we are under now... Yes we need a King yet we still need Hashem. These were raised in it yet how do I see...LOVE

Listen to what Rabbi Manis Friedman is saying!!!

Judaism is not a religion, and it is the stem of all religions. All religions borrowed the core teaching of Judaism such as Ten Commandments and today this law is implemented in courts system and moral courses in all nations except for Shabbat and No idolatry. All religions are idolatry so they are not really divine.

I thought judaism, theologically like islam… God created Men and Djinn for them to worship God

U say bodasm is u my people send booda gray

This guy is full of crap.