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'Whatever you do with your life, don't think about what you need, think about what you're needed for"
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Omen !!!
You get more credit then the Rabbi. 😂
@@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth me? Oh.. i dont want this.. just to underline this idea.. atb
Here is the ugly truth. You are needed to pay taxes. You are needed to contribute your kids to war and to keep the GDP growing. You are needed to buy, buy and buy to keep the economy growing.
If you want to get real, you are needed at home next to your kids. Yes they need you, they don't need a bigger house.
As a 41 year old man who grew up as a Christian in Texas, from my perspective, these young men don't realize how fortunate they are to be taught such wisdom. The idea that God has needs from me is a game changing paradigm shift.
Me too, raised in a vaguely Christian/agnostic setting and became atheist, now I believe in God and am most impressed with Judaism, especially Hasidic and Rabbi Friedman. I suppose I’m a Noahide, I’m still have a lot to figure out. I don’t know if I’ll be able to go to a synagogue or what.
@@Travis_Trauma As a convert to Judaism from Catholicism myself, I can say there's never a bad time to seek out a Rabbi in your area, or start going to a synagogue.
@@MrFignutan how do they feel about Noahides who never convert going in the Sheoul?
@@Travis_Trauma considering there is a growing Noahide movement within the Orthodox branch, I would say your local Chabad-Lubavitcher center is probably your best bet. I should add that the Noahidism movement within Orthodox Judaism does not require conversion as long as the 7 laws are observed.
But you’re not this is a dummy account you’re a CZcams ex-three letter employee and here to destroy conversation or push narratives….so why is he saying he’s “Jewish” ? That isn’t a thing ….there’s “Judeans” and Khavarian’s that took over …lying about who they are and what they do …Judaism isn’t the religion of the Khavarians … he’s a Kabbalist….which according to true Judaism is Heresy of the highest order !
We are here to make the world Godly, the rest is negotiable!
I loved this lesson. We need to teach our youth this!! This is the Key! Please make T-shirts of this. Something that captures the essence that we all work for HaShem. 😊
Wonderfully empowering and liberating teaching Rabbi Friedman.
God sends no one to hell. People choose to go to hell. True love doesn’t force relationship.
Thank you for turning my morning around
Wow. What a powerful message. Indeed, your mother needs to call her 💯 And yes serving god is more meaningful than serving yourself. Thank you Rabbi for your great teachings 🙏
❤ Thank you for the messages , Rabbi Manis Friedman 🙏!! Thank you for the teaching!!
Todah Rabbi, now whenever I make an important decision if I hear a little voice in my head saying, “I really don’t need this.” I think to myself…. Perfect, right on track!
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Ur comment is helpful to a situation im going thru rt now. Thank u for commenting. Shalom
what happened to the Levites?
Thankful to Hashem for this wonderful lesson Rabbi.
May it be Hashem's will to grant you more days to live so you can enrich us as youths
Thank you Rabbi Friedman, everytime I hear this lesson I hear more of what Hashem needs , it becomes clearer. I too live in a rural part of the world but I am learning that I must do what He needs and it makes life better, thank you for doing what He needs so that we can hear that we are needed and begin to learn to listen.
Very well said and beautifully, too ...thanks
I'm Christian - this commentary talks to me on the highest intellectual level . I hope it helps everyone listening / watching .
Do you like the bit where he lies about Christianity?
@@southpolesurfer6936 what is the lie? Christians live their lives to go to heaven and avoid hell by believing only correct?
@@southpolesurfer6936 no
@@southpolesurfer6936 I didn’t catch on that. Can you tell me what part it happened?
These kids are so lucky, receiving great knowledge from a great teacher 🙏🙏🙏🙏
We don't need. We want or it's better to have and to cut it short we say "we need" when we don't mean it. Thank You Rabbi!!
Thank you for sharing! Im very happy to have found this video and channel
This message is brilliant, beautiful and so meaningful. Through whatever lense you might understand it (whether you are religious or maybe not), it adds to life. Thank you!
Thanks Rabbi, these lessons changed my brothers and I. From Kenya 🇰🇪
I wish I was never born. This life is suffering. And I also cause suffering to others. If I was never born then these problems wouldn't exist.
But... I also exist to lessen the suffering of others. That alone makes my life, difficult as it is, worth it.
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
God has a sense of humor and Rabbi Manis Friedman is my proof! :)
I'm a Moslem. The moment I heard him that God needs us I said oh it contradics with Islam because the Quran says الله الصمد meaning Allah is He on whom all depend, but a few days latter I remember another verse that says ان تنصروالله ینصرکم meaning if you help Allah, He will help you.
Thak you Rabbi Manis Friedman
I am grateful for how freely the Rabbis give their wisdom, and how great the wisdom is.
Rabbi Manis Friedman
Just wanted to thank you for your manly knowledge / courage. Raised as a catholic, continues studies, really appreciate your teachings. Especially when I learned about "the only living book". Incredible this meaning, the care in conception and it's care in rest.
Because of new phone and y-Tube is how I found you.
Thanks again
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It's liberating listening to your message.
I'm reminded of a dream I had. I was riding a wave or being carried by the wave down a river. i was trying to get to higher ground at the time. I reached the top of a mountain which was the goal but i was alone. I remembered seeing people watching me ride that wave as they stood on the riverbanks. i then felt i needed to go backdown that mountain to get the people to the top of the mountain. i knew there was risk going back down but i knew it had to be done. Then I woke up.
I sincerely hope you all are okay. It's a mysterious planet we're on. I've learned to question authenticity by follow up and transparency. When people have nothing to hide, they don't.
I don't understand fully what ur meaning to say here & I want to. I tried moving past ur comment, but continue to b pulled toward it. Plz elaborate on what u were thinking about when u decided to leave it. I hope I do not sound anything other than resonating w it. I'm just not sure I fully understand what exactly ur referring to or implying.
Thank u, shalom
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I've been giving the task to straighten out this paper 67
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@@dadedowuh what book?
Brilliant. Baruch HaShem 👏👏👏
So we can’t/don’t have any needs…but your mother can/does have needs….
Make your mind up.
He accuses them of lying whilst saying someone else needs something they can’t because they don’t have needs.
This good man, has stumbled upon an idea, a good idea, which he is stretching across all of existence to turn into a drum he can play this one beat on.
It’s a very interesting point and it contains many good understandings but it does not fit all matters. Life is not a drum.
What he is trying to say with this ‘needs’ issue is that GOD IS LOVE - but He does not need love to be love. Love does not need, it is. And we are necessary for that love to be in relation to everything which is in material reality.
It is indeed necessary that we love because that is who and what he is, but it is not all that he is.
Christianity doesn’t teach vulnerability?
Dude……one word….
CRUCIFIXION
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."
Romans 12:1
I think that sums up what God wants from His children.. for His children.
Take care of yourself your needed.
Everything really amazing explained! ❤🙏
Thanks! You make this wisdom stuff look easy..... We naturally think the goal in life is to achieve a level of success where all our needs are met. We'll be independent, secure, and happy. Unfortunately, this goal is unreachable. But there are moments we experience it. It feels great for a little while. Then, you realize when all your needs are met, there's nothing more to do! You're now pretty much useless! The only way to become valuable is to be needed..... When we're needed by an infinite/eternal God...... we have infinite/eternal value!..... Especially to God!
Excellent points.
Hello Rabbi , Eugeme here. Please consider the possibility that Elohim has always been a creator and has always had a creature to consider valuable that He could bring pleasure to. Is it possible that someone gets their pleasure from giving from their abundance rather than receiving to fill their emptiness? If His creation is mortal it will need to be sustained and if it is aware of reality, it will know these things, and be able to respond. To love something or someone is to believe that it/they are "precious". We always love what we believe to be precious no matter how little or how much we "know" about it/them. I know that I need to be sustained and I know that I did not cause myself to be, that others did that. That makes them precious and I love them for that. When I became convienced that Elohim was the original and final cause, I knew He was precious and I can't help but love HIm.
Great comment
The youtuber who posted this video needed me to watch it to get more views and to grow his channel. I didn’t need it 😄
God wants live with his breadth in all humanity. God faces failure in human being, so blessed with short period and agreed the human to face failures. But still added a mercy way like exposure of forefathers history.
The principle of "I don't need" and that God needs, is close to being foreign in Christian thinking; a first for me.
Judaism isn't supposed to align with Christianity. It is what it is.
The concept is new to a lot of people. Some embrace it. Some fight it vehemently though I don't know why, except that the idea of neediness is more familiar, more comfortable, even though it's not appealing.
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.....nor do I think it should; merely thinking out loud of my own understanding and experience.
We’ll obviously if The Creator being perfect and not needing anything, created a whole universe it stands to reason that He wanted it and He has an agenda or eternal plan for all of that
@@u.y.3643 The perfect being desired to give, which is the greatest need of all
"I didn't ask to be born" great lecture Rabbi, thanks 🙏🏼
A question: If nobody needs anything, how could my mother need me to call her? In that sense, can I even be needed by anything but god?
Yes, it's true! God needs to reflect Himself in something, that is the Creation. But the Humans unless they elevate themselves they can't reflect God's attributes so in order to serve Him, to be His mirror, we need to 'polish' ourselves! 🙏♥️🙏😄
Thank you brother family 🕎❤️🕎🇦🇺👍
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Good talk Rabbi
I didnt design myself😀.. Thanks Rabbii.. u have made me get off all uncalled for things. God bless
Isn’t a deceitful intention important when calling a statement a lie?
They’re guilty of framing the situation from the perspective of the self.
You can love everyone if you can see yourself as love. Doing this what is called love , but the one you start with on a daily basis is just YOU !!
Once you can understand this fully , then you are ready to actually love your humanity , but if you can not love you , then don't expect to understand what it is to love someone , because it will not make any sense to you , because you will be to busy in pointing your finger at the other talking about all the negative things you are seeing about the other , instead of acknowledging the truth that what that person is doing , you too did it in your own way !!
Look up the word/concept of Agape
I never asked to be born but here I am & I love that I am... I could lit shake the world in a good way... & I def don't feel like dieing...
Well at times I do ... cs I didn't really find my purpose ...
❤❤❤ yes this is god needed
Wise words on vulnerability. It resonated with me.
Agree 👍
On point my dear Rabbi
This was heavy
Thank you Rabbi
Thank you teacher.
If you say to someone ""I love you"' without costing you anything- that is manipulation - ok, that is right. What about: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I believe that as well, though everyone is generous with their advice to do so.
Thank you rabbi
God is Love. Have Faith instead of Fear. 😊❤
God brings many blessings thank you Rabbi this is my second mitzvah. I don't need to be here. But I am needed. Many blessings but if you are not looking you will not see them. Please brothers and sisters look and listen. Thank you Rabbi
thanks to you rabbi. find your place with god!!
It is my opinion and long time experience Jews and Christians are very different and act quite differently due to the nature of doctrine.
One is self directed and the other is about others.
Yes, that is part of conversion but that is also about treatment of others in life.
One is inside focused and one is more outside conscious.
It’s up to you however you want to view that in terms of life and living.
My biggest problem with christianity is the issue of sending people who didn't ask to born to hell just for things they do not control
Needed, not needing, not needy.......Needed! Thank You.
Thank you
Thank you rabbi Friedman are you saying we are born complete so we have everything we need in order to serve Hashem we are a ready made package we just need to access those
gifts talents knowledge I enjoyed this it ties in with your lecture that we are all needed to fullfill gods mission
Adam and Eve disobeyed G-d which makes all their future children (including us) born with a sin nature. We are not complete. Only G-d is.
As a Christian Mystic I completely disagree with your assessment of Christianity and your claim that God is unknowable. God is knowable, but we as mortal men are apart from Him. He speaks to us in many unseen ways. Aside from that there was a lot of wisdom in your lecture.
I’d love to know what the students said and felt after this meeting with R Friedman.
Stirring the mind in examples and ideas that just add sense with the experienced not the young searching for experience. Ian Armstrong.
Good morning, your teachings has changed me, please Africa need this teachings,our pastors has diviated from from bible
If you really sit down and really read the ten comenments and read the chumash. Then you know God. It's like a manual. If you can follow that then you can follow what our Father
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Show me one man that has done it. Not even King David did it. Show me just one man. (forget females, they aren't even in the same realm as men and men cannot even do it).
It's not only the Ten Commandments. There are 613 mitzvahs for Jews. 7 Noahide Laws for non-Jews, not the "Ten". Your other points are well taken.
There are teachings that there are four levels in sacred writings; from pashoot/ simple to sod/ secret. Judaism supports multiple interpretations of sacred teachings (how else can one reach to know an unknowable G-d?) and in the light of this approach sacred writings are not a
manual.
AND everyone must approach sacred texts in a way that is true to your own heart.
To you the texts are like a manual. This works for you & that is holy.
@@brynawaldman5790 that's all fine. The Torah is from G-d. His words, shared with us by way of Moshe. If you don't want to think that is true and fact, you don't. We do. That's fine for each of us to go along as we choose.
Thank you Rav.
Most needs or wants are not something we want to want. That's his point. Goodness is something we want to want.
Amazing Rabbi
Interesting ideas. I agree we don't really "need" pleasure per se.. but for starters, it would be very difficult to ignore physical pain.
If I agreed that I don't have an inherent need to take care of my body, therefore I'm going to stop eating and starve myself, get cold, or overheated - I will be in severe discomfort and pain very quickly. It would be really difficult to say that I don't "need" to do anything about this discomfort and pain. Only a staunchly stoic and disciplined person could do that. Maybe some kind of yogi.
Or we can make it really really simple: try not breathing for a few minutes and then see if you "need" to breathe or not ;)
I guess that what he meant would translate to something like my body needs me to stay well and align with my soul and God.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Maybe he is too comfortable to understand this. Or maybe I’ve been suffering for too long.
@@Beintentionallyweird I think it's a hyperbolic way to express himself. But to an audience like myself, that's not too familiar with the concepts he's approaching, it's quite confusing. It would be much better if he set forth clearly, what he's thinking we don't. need.
Years ago, I've spent a great deal of time figuring out what I need and what I don't. But food or water and sleep and basic protection from the elements - I've never considered that I didn't need those.. There are stoics and yogis who get into practicing that of sort severe deprivation; but I don't believe that's what he means here.
And also, the way he lays out his thinking, taken to it's logical conclusion would imply that we also don't "need" to worry about what God wants from us, just like we don't need to stay alive, comfortable, satisfied in any way, etc.. It would be the ultimate nihilistic denial of absolutely everything.
@@williamsilva5701 maybe he does mean that. But when he says things that on the surface are contrary to reality, it's difficult to understand the rest of the message..
God requires us to exchange our life for His.
Oh how I love the wisdom in the lectures. But you missed something about christianity - Mesiah dies on the cross just because of the vulnerability. He doesn't want Heaven without you. And He is never careless about anyone's death. He tries so many times to reach out for a single soul. Remember prophets? Remember Osiah? Oh how He loves us!!!
Rabbi didn't 'miss' anything 'about Christianity'. It's not his topic to discuss. That's yours to embrace elsewhere. We don't want or need it. If we did, we'd be elsewhere.
G-d is joining us here, not in heaven.
We all need love and to get attention. God has a god sized need for our love and our attention.
Fascinating
Make a lot of sense ,thank you
My suggestion is determine qualify balance
Need comes with many different interpretations I always wander why Rabbis start with a topic then finishing with another? I think it’s complexing the young mind, do they need it? You started with God infinite power and knowledge of God, a book can be written about this!
You talk your way. RMF speaks his. Why do people think they can do better? If you can, do. Go global.
Is it necessary to try to dictate to someone else what they 'should' do in your opinion?
Rabbi Friedman seems to have decades of success teaching, sharing and inspiring.
God bless everyone and protect Jewish people
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Shalom al Clem
Thank you
Hashem loved the world so much that He gave his only begotten Son, Jeshua, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. His love cost Him more than we can ever know.
Yes and none of these people will never know that wonderful love and the feeling of grace.
God is not deficient. God is trusting. Because love trusts.
in the human sense as well dear Rabbi,
vulnerability as the numerator
time as the denominator,
as a fraction of love; kind of like what one chose first (א).
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So for example:
“when things are great, when food is plenty, when happiness attends; what is the first choice for that love?
- and in parallel when things are not good, there is no food, sadness is overcome” what is their target of love?
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• and then when the past and future also becomes meaningful with the Olam,
• the credit of that love goes to ?
(Then, i believe it is more allowed to say “that love”)
+ and also for all that when it is: “it’s all my fault…” this can be that love too
and that all my fault part:
• that has a very very high cost: costs pride, costs recovering all selves to help carry the blame, and to somehow make that all at least meaningful enough to “take the blame” - suuuuper vulnerable
You're focusing on 'love' being the "solution" for the equation. It's not. Your "givens" are not valid. Your hypothesis, though accepted by many, does not hold water. Have to start all over on your drawing board.
@@archanglemercuri nothing to 'blame' for.
@@nomorecensoringme i see what you mean, because to be more specific, it would be something like:
“Oh i may have ignored my soul for a long time, and in very real sense; that’s not the souls fault. And it’s not the best idea to blame this or that (because this or that won’t necessarily take responsibility), i (one has to do that)”
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so for example an alcoholic (and i don’t drink), but if an alcoholic is too often drunk ignoring the soul, that’s the drinkers fault. And it takes vulnerability for that drinker to approach that
@@nomorecensoringme so to add that, love is an element of the aiming of solution, it is also the yield: at the very least, the solution could also be seen as; a foundation strong enough to hold up the yield
Vulnerability is one of the first lessons of the more spiritual Christians . So am not sure why Rabbi labored that one.
I've grown up with Christianity AND Judaism, and I just DO NOT GET the division.
G-d is good.
Just all get over ourselves already.
Somebody bigger than us is coming soon..
Need? Yes please. A house in the country.....
Was born by two mentally sick parents who denied and even invested in me not actualizing who I am..in my mid 20s I need to be me and realize my dreams..it truly is my need to step away and breath. Learn who I am and putting in work my projects if anything was to stop this,I would be a very miserable person..I think these are my needs..being bigger than life
Love you Rabbi
NEEDED YES SIR absolutely
Wanting and needing are two different things. G-d can choose someone else if we don’t want to do what He wants. That would be scary to turn down G-d. Demons are behind mental illness and I hope to prove it one day.
So let me get this right, we (Jewish people) are here to make the world Godly. I have seeing thousands of people through my life from Catholic, Christian and many others preach to me the word of God, But NEVER EVER A JEW, so how is it that you are planning to accomplish that mission? Lets be honest here, Jews don't care much about none Jews.
good Lord I love you man.
Yes we needed a Saviour because salvation comes not from the law but from the Saviour.
You go be 'saved'. I have nothing to be 'saved' for or from. Don't let that stop you though. Enjoy.
Moshiach is not a 'saviour'. He's the one to lead the way to our final destination here, with G-d.
I can’t even tell you all how many times the Law has saved me😊
Why don’t Jews like the Christians who like them?
@whoknew770 something in me is resonating w ur comment, plz elaborate!
@G D haha I totally get what ur saying. Love this comment
A true man of God repeats what God says in His Bible
A false man of God makes up his own version
The boys watching r so cute....
Amazing 👏
I respect you for your wisdom and for your age, but I have to strongly disagree with what you said about Christianity. God never says “don’t love me? Fine go to hell”. I kindly remind you, in case you have forgotten, that according to Christians God send himself to the Earth, lived among us sinners, ate with us, smiled with us, suffered and cried with us. And finally took all our sins upon himself and died a horrible death in pain and agony on the cross. Love is sacrifice, it have always been sacrifice, it never changed. He sacrificed himself for us showing his vulnerability and love. A sacrifice many of us didn’t deserve.
Yes, God does not need our love. It's faith in his Son he is asking for!
What can I say Rabbi, you have explained existence much clearer than a scientist and proving G-ds existence!
tried downloading the app will get help, love to talk with you Rabbi.
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Bedankt
Wisdom can be found when we relate in debate yes sir why we need marry
Hate was a free will emotion word not needed fellas HATE comes within not without inner consequences on our consciousness
The rabbi makes a great point, but could we not extend it and say that God exists but he did not consent to His own existence? So how can He need?