What’s the Meaning of Life? An Interview with Rabbi Manis Friedman 

Rabbi Friedman…..we need more men like this….Bless You

Julie, I love your questions, just like I had my questions. So I had to study the whole Bible, including the New Testament and I got all my answers. Praise the Lord. Your life will change forever, that's a promise from God.

we need you Rabbi Manis, you are so loving and beautiful wise being. we want to have life, and life can be life only with god . and Julie you are beautiful and wise soul. . thank you 💜💙💜i wish you will interview rabbi Manis again and again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Outstanding interview, Julie. Rabbi Friedman is such an impressive individual with a vast wealth of knowledge. Had a friend I met in college who was born in communist Czechoslovakia. He was amazed at how much people who he encountered in America took their lives and freedoms for granted. And how Americans are taught very little if anything about such historical events as Prague Spring/the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and/or the velvet revolution of 1989 and Vaclav Havel. Anyway, thank you Julie and Rabbi Friedman for inspiring thought into the most fundamental of questions.

I have liked this man since his talks on the Jewish Channel….he takes the most profound subjects and breaks them down so that everyone can understand

Julie, you are God’s helper~Thank you for doing such meaningful interviews. It’s always a great experience viewing your Timeless episodes!

This is profound. Great work, Julie!

That was a profound conversation. Thank you both!

This was such an amazing conversation. Rabbi Manis Friedman is the best… 🤍 thank you!

I’m liking this conversation for both Julie and Rabbi Friedman. I loved the questions Julie asked and the answers given by the Rabbi. I will definitely come back to this channel for Part 2. Thank you!

In this episode of Timeless, Julie dons her drysuit, straps on her Nitrox tanks, adds some lead weights to her BC and takes a Deep Dive in to Why Are We On Earth? Once again, Julie's mind circumnavigates the Universe. I learned the answer to that question as a teenage ... and I re-learn the answer everyday.

Everybody Share, this is very good, I will watch it again.

Liked it for Rabbi Friedman.

I am crazy about this Rabbi. Have him back!

Baruch HaShem Blessed be 🇮🇱 ✡️ 🇮🇱 Thank you for your wisdom & Guidance Rabbi. To the Host thank you for reflecting true and responsible Feminism!

So you have a link to part two?

The angelic question is asked in the opening of Maria Erich Rilke in, "The Duino Elegies." He paints the picture of the heavenly hosts as being all powerful, terrifying and majestic to the extent, if we comprehended them, their very nature would annihilate us because man isn't meant to stand in the light of holiness; he can only exist in its shadow. We're alienated from the divine and the divine is alienated from us. That's eloquently brought home in Wim Wenders film, "Wings of Desire." An angel wants so desperately to be like us. When given that freedom, being a mortal human is better than being an immortal angel. A brief life such as ours, is far more meaningful than a limitless existence in which every possibility is already fulfilled. It all circles back to the Garden. Its mentioned only like an outro in Jewish literature and its never mentioned again. Compared to the reality of the world, heaven will always remain a dream. Everything that's meant to be human, is in the here and now and not over there in the hereafter. You could draw from it the paradoxical conclusion, that for all the vast difference in station between men and the angels, the truth is man is far more fulfilled than them.

Speaking of morality, how is Tel Aviv doing?

Great interview. One comment. Rabbi Manis Friedman is in error about the alleged difference between Judaism and Christianity in relation to humans and errors. Christianity (Orthodox or Roman Catholic) clearly and unequivocally state that humans are greater than angels. I do not know where he got that from.

I found this more disturbing than anything. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind. It seemed he talked in circles much of the time.

Did God create evil? Isaiah 45:7 is a lie. 7. There is God and there is a creation. The creation is the visible part of God we call light. Before God created the light He was darkness, through His creation He emerged from the darkness. The darkness back then was not evil because good did not exist, nothing existed other than God's thought by His Spirit. His desire was and is still today to become brighter still in all His Glory. Well you may ask is God not already omnipotent, yes He is but that does not stop Him in becoming greater still. There is no other God to compete with Him so there is no competition to become greater. He is becoming greater out of love for Himself who is His creation. Growth in the light stops decay, which is backsliding. The moment He created the first kindle image of Himself-the light-He at the same time became good. There was then the possibility of evil to exist which is backsliding back into the darkness. The moment God created the light which is good the possibility was there for the light to be switched off again which is the concept of evil. There is a tremendous gap between the darkness and the light and we who are the light have this constant tendency to want to know the darkness because we only know the light. God on the other hand knows both the darkness and the light. God never goes back into the darkness but we who are the light have the free will to choose if we want to be God's loyal subjects and continue in God's light or become evil and return to the darkness. Evil just means returning to the darkness. We can never return to the full extent of darkness because it will become too unbearable for us, which is hell. That does not stop us from trying but God knows we can never succeed, He allows the will of the light to experience evil so that the light can understand it can never succeed and therefore will continue in the light. The reason why we have free will is because we don't know God, we can only have faith in God, which means believing in God without fully knowing Him. How can we fully know God when we don't know the darkness nor do we know the full extent of God's brightness. Whatever brightness we may know God knows more. So because we don't know God we cannot blame God for the predestination caused by His omniscience. Faith in God does not prove God exists, it is just a belief without knowing the existence of God. This gives us “who are the light” the concept that we have a free will to choose between good or evil, continue in the infinite greatness of the light or return to the infinite depth of darkness. So just because we may believe in God does not give us the reason to blame Him for the choices we make, if or when we choose to pursue the darkness. We are God's creation “the Light” therefore we are the best part of God which excludes the darkness and for that reason also we have free will just like God has free will being a part of Him. It's a simple concept really, we are part of God's body let us not become cancerous, every cell has a free will to grow well for the benefit of the whole body or rebel and become cancerous to bring the body down where both cancer and body will burn in hell-the cancer will burn-be surgically removed-not God's body because God's body has immunity, it immerged from darkness. God has made thoughtful surgical provision for this by the way of hell. If we choose the darkness we create our own hell, God never created hell we create it if we choose to pursue it by backsliding. The prohibition to take the apple in the garden of Eden represented the darkness and we should never backslide to try to be like God. Only God has this knowledge of being the darkness. God was never evil even when He was alone in the darkness because the light did not exist then. He was just a thought in the darkness and He emerged from it, so God was never evil. Only we who are the light and who try to go back to darkness become evil because we lose faith in God and stop being God's loyal subjects by pursuing the darkness. We must let God give us the prohibited fruit not take it ourselves because we don't know how to digest it. Only God can present it to us in a fruitful way for the benefit of the greater light. This is why Abel was killed by his brother Cain. Abel did everything good for the light and Cain chose to pursue the darkness to the point that he killed his brother so that the light could be extinguished. However the light can never be extinguished, it can only be removed from where the pursuit of darkness is. Darkness is the absence of light, at any point those who have chosen to pursue the darkness can repent and turn towards the light again. The light may seem far just like when we look up in the night sky and see the stars far away. The light who is God's loyal subject can never be destroyed because they are who God wants them to be and have remained faithful to Him. So God has no part in evil those who where the light have chosen to become dark or evil not God. God made the light but the light can choose to be extinguished as far as they can bear. It will become very unbearable for them because light is life and darkness is an endless death in hell. We can be born again-meaning-we as the light can experience death by sinking into darkness but can be reborn by accepting God's light again. God the Father through His Spirit emerged from His darkness and became His Son who is the Light of the Universe, we all are THIS LIGHT if we choose to follow Him. So did God create evil? We who are the light and choose to backslide create evil and we who are part of God the Father are responsible for the evil we create. God the Father and His Spirit are not responsible for our backsliding simply because our faith in God cannot prove God exists. This is how God can allow us to believe in free will so that we can share in His creation, God remains anonymous by His Omniscience. God's desire is for the light to become like Him so that we can become fully aware that we are Him. God became man so that man may become God. Only a God can know God, which is what God wants. Then we will know for sure it was our will all along.

Lol. Skip. Amazing vapidity from two preeminent narcissists.