WHY JEWS DON'T CHOOSE JUDAISM? - Rabbi Michael Skobac 

You are such a gift to the world 🌎 💗🌞 Shavua tov Rabbi Skobac!

*Jews for Judaism:* Really appreciate this video, Rabbi Skobac! Just want to point out however, that actually, porcupines don't throw their quills. They're just on their backs to prevent any other animal from biting into them. I also used to believe that they threw their quills, but my sister set me straight - I was shocked! 😉😆 May Hashem continue to bless you and your family, and all those who make Jews for Judaism the success that it has become in returning Jews to Hashem!

Thank you Rabbi! This was wonderful.

I'm converting. No question

I have always wanted to know the life of a jew. Raised on the lower Eastside of N.Y.C. I was always surrounded with Jews. I was then 11yrs old and now I'm 68-year-old. Now I come to understand the ways of life and their religious beliefs and their true G-d. I now am a believer of their G-d. Thanks to the teaching of Rabbi Michael Skobac and other Rabbis. Ha-Shem bless them all....👍

The job of a teacher is to both Comfort The Afflicted and Afflict The Comfortable.

Such a great talk, Rabbi!

Beautiful Thank you

Hot Damn! Loved the Menu Mashal.

rabbi skobac's best speech ever. brilliantly crafted. i loved the use of "inchoate". the storytelling/personal accounts were just marvelously entertaining. i still think though that his argument will be hard to justify, as in my understanding his adhesion to religion was more of an emotional one than a rational one. religion is effectively accepted when new members are eased (not to say seduced) into an environment of friendliness and mutual support, which still doesn't make its tenets true. the basic philosophical issue is: even if something makes you feel better it does not mean it is true.

So very true.

Personally I think we use excuses. For different reasons.

Thank you Rabbi, You right on point.

Like I told my kids when they were growing up and new foods were introduced, “try it. Take a “no thank you bite” and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to eat it, but can try it again later in life. Just don’t discount something you haven’t actually experienced yourself.

Ya know, Rabbi, your talk was interesting, but you seem to believe that Jews just decide not to pursue Judaism, as though it were completely up to them. I would like to share my experience. I am a Jew. I do not have a congregation, nor do I have any affiliation or any connection to a Jewish community. I live in Chicago, where there are plenty of Jews. But I have not found a group that welcomes me. I know that sight unseen, I can walk into just about any church, or ashram, or non-Jewish temple, and be welcomed. There is a Buddhist temple just down the street. I've never set foot in there, but I am confident that if I ever did, they would welcome me. I know this, because I've done it with many religious locations. I've met many caring, sincere people in these places. But I also know that I don't belong with them. I also know that in general, if I walk into a synagogue, I will not be welcomed. The sole exception I have found is the Lubavitchers. Otherwise, no one talks to me or even looks at me. Why is this, I wonder? I know I don't exhibit Yiddishkeit. I don't wear a kippa; don't wear the other items that often identify a Jew. I don't "look Jewish." Still, as a stranger, should I not be welcomed? Now, I have made great efforts to learn Jewish teachings. I went to Israel where I learned Hebrew on an ulpan. Since then I have tried to maintain my ability to read Hebrew, mostly through reading religious texts. This has been quite difficult, since ulpan Hebrew isn't very close to biblical Hebrew, but I did what I could. I have a Tanakh. I have a Chumash. In more prosperous days I had Rashi in five volumes; I was working on acquiring volumes of the Talmud, one by one. I read these texts as well as I could. As you often have pointed out, you don't just read these texts. But I didn't have any other options. Oh, and I also had volumes about Midrash, the Baal Shem Tov, Zohar, Tales of the Hasidim, various books that were either religious, or about the Jewish eligion. I was not apathetic or lazy. I did everything that was in my power to learn Torah. But sadly, it was always alone. And yet, I know that I an more likely to be welcomed at the Hare Krishnas or the Jews for Jesus, or even most evangelical Christian churches, than at a Jewish synagogue. So it's not as though I just decided that Judaism was irrelevant to me, or that I didn't need a "crutch" or that I felt I didn't need God. I didn't decide not to participate in being a Jew. I simply found that I wasn't welcomed by the Jewish congregations. At some point, you just give up. Obviously I haven't quite given up, or I wouldn't be watching your videos or bothering to write this comment. But I really don't have the heart to try walking into yet another synagogue to see whether maybe these people will be a little friendlier than the others. I choose not to go to the other groups, the Hindus or Buddhists or Christians. I don't belong there. I know I don't belong there. But where do I belong?

I want to convert but I can't. My location does not allow me to do so. The best I can do is to listen to this great man of God and improve myself. May God continue to bless you Rabbi to enlighten us.

Wow Rabbi Skobac was a hippie! Awesome

There is nothing more fascinating in life than Judaism.

It would be interesting if a Rabbi could explain why the word "pray" is interpreted to be "talking to God" (or something like that). I personally would be a lot more interested in Judaism if it would give me the tools to understand why the interpretations of some Hebrew words are what they are. (These interpretations seems to be taken for granted for hundreds or thousands of years - What if some genius would come up with some new way of interpreting Hebrew words ? Perhaps the word "pray" could mean something else depending on the context it is used in). I would like to be able to think by myself and I am not interested in any kind of imposition of some very old interpretation of Hebrew words. If Judaism would give the tools for people to think by themselves instead of imposing on to them the way people thought 2000 years ago, I think it would be much more interesting. regards, JA

Love being a jew and proud of it Thank you Rabbi

This was absolutely wonderful!

The "Jews" I know, believe in Humanism, not the G-d of the Torah!

The spirit of Judaism is lacking immensely.....the fire is going out, sadly. Get rid of the alfoil and 'laws' - get back to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and our wonderful Rabbi, Moshe.

So what happens to jews who don't believe In God or they don't fallow Judaism?

Woe, unto the Shepherds of Israel wich pastor themselfs. Won't The Shepherd take care of the flock? The Sheep were scattered, each one by his own way like sheeps with no Shepherd, wandering aimlessly, sometimes into the mouth of the wolf. Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. But shall the Lord God redeem his people, when he gathers you and take you from all the nations he had scattered you, for the sake of his Holy name that thou hast profaned. And he shall give you a new heart of flesh, and take from you your heart of stone. He shall put his Spirit within you and make you to obey his mitzvot and follow his precepts and his law. When you look unto him whom you have pearced, and morn for him as one morns for his only Son. Then you shall know that he is the Lord.

Judaism is The Creator’s way of showing how much we are loved

Do You know how You can become a truck? Tell everyone You are one and come up with a gimmick. Only marry other trucks though.

It isvery difficult to follow the torah and rejecting the shroud of turin, at the same time. Son they dont follow anything. it is more easy.

Because they don’t know the truth. They are ignorant concerning the plans of God in Judaism. God will judge this case and manage this matter Himself.

Judaism; is the Creator's way, of showing that he loves the whole world not just Jews. Are Jews really the light of the world, are you sure?

Respectfully, many people of color are waking up to their connections to Torah, Hebrews, and Israelites. So, I am confused about the title of this lecture. Perhaps, he’s referencing Caucasian Jews are not choosing Judaism because I see many son’s and daughters of Africa re-establishing connections to this ancient way of life. Perhaps, Judaism is attracting the true adherents around the world, which is increasingly people of color reconnecting to their roots after centuries of White Supremacy and colonialism. Thank you for listening. I welcome anyone that’s a serious student of Torah, the questions is, do you?

The answer to the question in the title: Because they dont fear YHWH.......

"I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David(his son Yeshua) ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd." When you be set free from the bondage of iniquity from the Rod of your opressor(sin and death) and from the vicious Wolves that are attacking you and from the fat arrogant sheep opressing the weack ones. Then you shall dwell safely and shall know by faith that Yeshua is the Lord.