What nobody told you about ANIMAL SACRIFICES in the Bible
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Lions and tigers have to eat meat to survive. We humans have a choice in the matter. As for animal sacrifice, there is no reason why an infinitely powerful God would benefit from the activity.
Yep, I agree with you. I can understand why ghosts, ghouls, vampires, werewolves, and witches require blood for survival or for doing magic, but why would God require a few spoonfuls of blood from a sacrificed animal? Doesn't make much sense to me. As for humans having a choice, that really depends. A lot depends on geography. For example, the Inuit who live near the Arctic Circle simply can't survive on a vegan or vegetarian diet. They live in a totally frozen world. Their diet is very high in animal proteins and fats. They eat salmon, caribou, bears, elk, etc. With all the snow and ice by the arctic circle there's no way that those people are going to plant crops of pineapples and coconuts. It's not realistic and not practical. Also, please remember this. Hunters and fishermen in traditional societies work maybe about 20 hours per week, leaving plenty of time for other activities, such as art, music, storytelling, raising and teaching children, keeping written records, exploring neighboring tribes and villages, etc. Farming is actually EXTREMELY HARD WORK, and in traditional societies farmers often work 60 hours a week or more, leaving much less time for those activities that help to advance any civilization. If all human beings had been vegan from the beginning of our species, we probably still would not have discovered penicillin and the other antibiotics! Science, math, engineering, research, art, music....all these endeavors require a tremendous amount of time. If people are constantly farming and cooking, planting, sowing, etc, that leaves way less time for doing the things that need to be done in order to help civilization progress. I had lunch once with a vegan friend. Wow! All he talked about was food. After lunch, we visited a Barnes & Noble bookstore. He ran over to the Culinary section and spent a lot of time looking through books on cooking, diet, nutrition, etc. The guy had a serious obsession with food, and I've noticed this with many or even most vegans. Food preparation consumes a huge amount of their time. To me that's insane. Before I retired I was a math and computer science professor. That took a great deal of time. Now that I'm retired I spend a lot of time with my two dogs, and I'm also learning the Russian language. Honestly, I can't spend my whole day worrying about FOOD. This obsession with food is really a problem with vegans. I've got better things to do with my time than constantly worry about whether or not it is moral to eat the food on my plate. Oh, and that's another thing. Most vegans believe it's a sin to keep animals as pets. I've had dogs and horses my whole life! I'm not giving them up! This is yet another crazy obsession that vegans have.
God didn't necessarily need the blood of animals, I'd say it was more for people to understand, symbolically,
1) about sacrifice and that it costs you something. Losing an animal means a lot more than say losing money which someone could give away with no attachment
2) that when you do wrong something innocent pays the price / dies. Similarly, if we physically die in with our sins unresolved and we haven't been made right with God, there will be a much larger price to pay later, spiritually. Sin causes loss and death(loss of life, joy, peace, goodness, love, etc), that is the penalty. On this earth, some wrongdoing can cause you to go to prison for life or sentenced to death. Hell is similar, separation/isolation from God, and since God is the source of all goodness, being separated from God (the source of all goodness, life, energy, joy, peace, happiness, ability, love, etc) is hell
Humans self-inflict problems and then highlight their own inventions to solve those problems as some grand discovery. Since the beginning of time, all animals are "obsessed" with food, that's what their life revolves around. Only humans see it as some type of obligation, because they are removed from nature. You want to talk about hunting and fishing? Go back before modern tools and you'll realize how long it takes to hunt or catch enough prey to feed your family/village. And how are antibiotics some type of thing we needed to discover when it's only necessary due to the diseases we have self-inflicted by eating the wrong foods in the first place... Or why are pain killers necessarily when people aren't at constant conflict over pride and ego because they are removed from nature. Your thinking is backwards and very surface level, you analyze symptoms rather than root causes. "I have better things to do than spend my days in nature" - modern men riddled with modern problems, thinking their symptom solving is the solution.
It's not about vegan vs carnivore. It's about humans being unable to analyze where their problems stem from in the first place. Most solutions would not even be necessary if associated problems were not first self-inflicted by unnatural living. Remove all subjective variables and additions and ask yourself what you'd like to eat? I doubt it's raw unseasoned meat and fish. Just be honest with yourself. Cooking and flavor combinations are the true obsession and addiction of mankind. We mask things behind processing and additives to hide the fact that we wouldn't want it in its natural state.
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Eating raw meat and fish? No way. Very dangerous. What about bacteria and parasites, or are those also part of God’s plan?
There is no need for sacrifice. It was added to impress our own selves, our own conscience so we would feel the magnitude of loss of a beautiful precious sentient being which we were guardians of, which we led to green pastures and watched in fondness, play and grow. With the sacrifice of the animal as a substitution for our guilt of sin, God apparently accepts it because it hurt us to do this, to cut it bleed it unto death. I suppose because we once had a closer connection with nature, it meant something to us, impressed us but today animals are not loved, are abused and disrespected, tormented in settings of crowded living quarters and it's just a desecration to God and his planet what we do to these dear animals today.
The amount of pain, misery, fear, and suffering an animal goes through during the slaughtering process is just incomprehensible!
For what it's worth, my take on animal sacrifice is about us sacrificing certain animalistic or beastly inclinations of ourselves. We are to put the sinful activity to death, so to speak. Much like the concept of repentance.
Is it? Don’t they cut their throat?
I’ve killed animals before with a knife. In all circumstances it was the terrible and my heart hurts to this day but a far quicker option in a terrible situation. If you live in the wild you will see that a knife is quicker then other horrors out there. Eg the baby bore being played with by dogs. Slowly terrifying it, chasing it for 10 minutes. Cornering it and playing. biting off it’s foot and eating it while the baby pig lies screaming. Better to intervene and execute this baby animal before such happens . Just saying that’s been my experience
Now if the slaughtering is purposefully hurting the animal that’s awful. But it’s not supposed to be hurt. The sacrifice is not the pain or suffering it is the death and eating of the animal.
I don’t do such but to be fair from what I read in the Bible it was not about producing pain or suffering like in “some” pagan forms of sacrifice
You didn't really explain the purpose and the need for sacrifice. And what about those who sacrifice human beings? What is the difference between human sacrifice and animal sacrifice?
WTF?
Sacrifice human is cannibalism.
@@demonhunter8533there are belives in africa when somebody dies they kill a child or just a human being as an sacrifice
@@demonhunter8533since when?
Consuming human flesh as another human is cannibalism, if you simply sacrifice and end it there, ie burnt offerings, wholly consumed by fire, that is simply murder.
You’d have to take that next step to be a cannibal
@@demonhunter8533anyway listen to the song Cannible by Scratch Acid and the same song covered by Leviathan on their Black of Cult Demo
God tells us in Genedis 1:29-30, that are to consume for food every seed besring plant, fruits and vegetables.
Yes but after the flood in Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
@@MetGasonSouOuActually, that is incorrect. The Hebrew word used in Gen 9:3 is "remes" and means (creeping/crawling) maggot worm.
The verse that immediately follows -- Gen 9:4 -- forbids the consuming of blood. Have you ever tried draining every drop of blood from a maggot worm?
@@victoriahart1630Some green plants are toxic and quite harmful when eaten even though God says to eat green plants. if God allows them to eat "remes" - creeping things, moving things - they will eat animal not all for some are toxic. Gen9:4 says But you shall not eat "flesh/Meat" with its life, that is, its blood." this time the Lord did not use Remes but "basar " that is "flesh/Meat". Many kinds of animals are as quite toxic to eat as some green plants. So we have to know and kill the non toxic ones that we need to eat. There is no way you can drain every drop of blood from an animal. If someone harm you and cut your arms and legs off you will shed blood and may be not die, and if some else kills you without shedding your blood (poison), which of the two God is referring to in V5-6? . the most important thing is LIFE not the BLOOD as you focus on it. All people of God have been eating have been eating "basar " that is "flesh/Meat" for ever and God never promise to judge us for that. If someone chooses to eat only green plant that is amazing for them, if someone else wants to add to their green plants some "basar " that is "flesh/Meat" that is also amazing to them. We kill animals "basar " that is "flesh/Meat" to eat them; we also kill green plants (Not all) to eat them
@@MetGasonSouOu 1000 % agree. It was written in the Bible
I am vegan fyi I been a dead flesh eater and it made me sick from doing so.
Thank you. Have a great day.
Same I do not eat animals because there is no need to abuse and kill innocent animals. No where in the Bible does it say we have to eat animals. The first page tells us to eat the plants. Genesis 1:29
@@undergrace1808 Yes but after the flood in Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
I understand you. I really like animals too and I almost became vegetarian.
Then I came across cases where people were seriously injured due to lack of B12, for example. A propper meatless diet requires strategy and suplements, it's costly and just not for everyone.
I also learned that although no cow is on your plate many snakes, spiders, birds and thousands of different animals were killed in order to create the space needed for planting your bananas or apples.
They burn the area, sometimes.
Plus, killing for eating does not equal suffering for the animal. Don't think the lamb I eat would be better off in the wild. It deppends on a bunch of factors.
So, basically, I don't believe humans were built not to eat meat and animals still die unless you buy crops from very specific places. On the other hand, mixing growing animals and growing plants can be benefitial because the animals fertilize the land.
i am not vegan but i am against the killing of animals for food, i wouldnt do it myself, and i only eat meat as its already been done and prepared and otherwise would waste the animals lifetime and meat. But there is no escaping the horrid weirdness of nature, even as a vegan. Plants eat nutrition from dead things and waste products and fluids from animals. the best natural fertilizers for plants are bone, blood, dung, etc, dead insects make up a majority of plant food. Plants are also living things and the parts we eat of plants are usually reproductive organs. So when you eat plants you are still indirectly eating the grossest parts from animals.
To be honest I have never felt it ok for any animal to eat another animal..I'm a retired veterinary tech of over 23 years..Ask yourself why does that have to be in our nature or animals nature...because I don't get it...
Survival. You don't understand survival? Overpopulation if animals didn't eat other animals? Conflict with animals of their numbers increased to overpopulation?
G-d created all of it to balance. That's the beauty of His Creation here on earth.
It's called hunger. The compulsive need to eat is all about our fleshly body.
@@nomorecensoringmeJehovah God. Not G-d
after the flood in Genesis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
0:44 what is the “firmament” that was created on the second day and talked about throughout the Torah about 17 times? :)
Rakia, that refers to the Mazzalot , it was envisioned as a flat sheet because when mapping coordinates using star maps that’s how you did it, also when looking at the stars through tent at night in ancient Mesopotamia imagery of the house of man reflecting the house of Hashem in the heavens, He Who Is seated above the Rakia, the rakia represented time as well as all time is and was kept records via the rakia where the fixed points of reference are, these Sons also gave us mathematics as well as prophecy in other manners
It is what's above this flat plane of earth we live upon
Yes, Rabbi Friedman, thank you for mention about Animal Sacrifices. It reminds me what we need to know about which animals to eat or not to eat that is written on Moses's book. I wish to thank you for all important lessons you teach us; we need to know throughout our life, and transfer to generations as a good cultural guidance. It was given to Moses from our Father in the haven .
The Torah is not Moses's book. It's G-d's. He gave it to Moses, a person, so that he could share it with us.
The forbidden animals are only for Jews, so if you're a Jew, learn. If you're not, enjoy all of what you want. It is what G-d wants for each of us.
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God is Universal.
No Religion is universal.
Therefore, God is not religious.
If you belong to a religion that discriminated against other people because of their ethnicity,
or a religion that demands animal sacrifice...
QUIT.
Respect ALL life.
God is life.
Religion is Division.
God is One, not division.
If you want to debate go ahead.
I can provide you with evadence that your religion is Satanic. YHWH and El were cannonite gods that become one biblical god and both demand animal sacrifice. The oldest book in the Bible is Job. We learn that Satan works for god and god sends Satan to test Job by killing his family, his livestock, and giving him leprosy. Job worships this god with animal sacrifice. El is the cannonite god Saturn. The Sabbath day is Saturday or Saturn-day. Saturn is worshipped by modern satanic occultists as the phisical representative of time, entropy, and the material universe. The phisical planet Saturn even has a hexagon on it! According to the Tulmid, Solomon's Temple was built by devils.
If you want to debate me, I will at least respect you.
If you don't want to debate, your religion is fake and you know it.
That makes you a liar and a very low person.
I know Judaism wants to take over the world and enslave others like myself. Sorry but Judaism is a racist religion and I dislike racism.
I have no problems with any ethnicity, it is religion I can't condone. I have studied your religion, and I understand why Jews don't want anyone non-jewish to read the Tulmid, but I don't think people would be interested in being slaves under a Jewish messianic dictatorship.
Become a vegan and be at peace with all living things. God is Life.
According to the Torah, an animal should never suffer, all animals suffer if they come from commercial farmers.
There's no such thing as kosher in today's world. Period.
Just don't eat meat.
By the way,
God is universal.
No Religion is universal.
Therefore, God is not religious.
Period.
Be a vegan and your good with the true Creator.
Respect life.
God is life.
Respect for life is respect for God.
The biblical god is not God.
God is universal.
The god of the Bible demands animal sacrifice and promoted one ethnicity above all others.
God is not racist.
That is why the biblical god is not God.
@@TheProphetofLogic How did you conclude that biblical God is racist ? As far as I know it says that there was a multitude that no one could count - it had people of every nation, tribe and language
@@pankaja7974 I was speaking about the old testament.... Christian "thiking", lol. Yes, the old testament god is racist, or tribal. The Jewish talmud is even more so. Jews were historically racist as recorded in Acts, Peter would not sit and eat with gentiles. It says that Jews should not eat with gentiles and it's better to eat with a dog than with a gentile in the Talmud. The Talmud is a commentary on the Bible that rabbis consider Just as authoritative as the Bible. So how did they come to the conclusion that it's better to eat with a dog than a gentile??? Because reading the Bible brings you to have the opinion that the Jews are chosen by god and therefore suppirior. Try going into a Jewish community nowadays. You will feel very unwelcome. If you haven't read the whole Bible, quite commenting on CZcams, Christians are lazy and Ignorant when it comes to their faith. You must Do some research before you've earned the right to debate. Check out Holy Koolaid channel, by a former missionary.
Another good talk. I always feel I an learning something when I listen to your talks. You appear in the videos as a very wise person that knows things about life and God.
He gave a very stupid argument.
A animal who eats another animal is an animal. A human who has the morality of an animal sees nothing wrong with eating animals has the consusness of an animal. A human who doesn't support animal suffering is on the path of spiritual evolution. Look at supporting vegan evidence. Kosher food is not really kosher. Look at "Earthlings" documentary to see how kosher meat is really made. Anyway, no Religion that is not progressing forward is holding us back. Compassion is universal. No Religion is universal.
I like how this explanation is full circle, it also gives insight to why certain sins like gluttony are wrong, because it is using these resources for only self pleasure rather than a higher purpose.
Hi rabbi! Why don't you reveal the true face of this god called jahve who is telling the jews they are superior to non jews these so called gojjim who are supposed to be treated as cattle as untermenschen by the jews who are considered ubermenschen according to the talmud. Does the bell ring now?
"Nothing exists to remain as it is"
Gold remains
Well, the golden ratio is “pure” gold too🤓
Animals would complete the circle by dying eventually on their own. No excuse for sacrificing animals.
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"The End"
The Doors, 1967
@@jennyclark6183
You are right, also, God never commanded sacrifice.
((Jeremiah 7:21-28- GOD))
21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. 28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Think about it if there wasn’t anything to eat, just humans and plants. What would we be eating or sacrificing?
I would say that there is a certain ratio between how many godly things a human can do and how many animals they can eat. I myself used to eat a lot of animals and not doing a lot of useful things. And I developed problems with my digestive tract.
There's a lot of people that only eat meat and claim that 99% of their health problems vanished. Dr. Jordan Peterson is one of them that claims such.
Eating too much, of anything, is an issue. Doing what G-d wants is not. We're not meant to have too much.
@@nomorecensoringme But what do you measure the amount of eating against? If you participate in triathlon and you just put a painting on the wall, wouldn’t there be two different amounts of what is too much to it. And what I meant was that there was probably that ratio that made that amount of allowed animal food correspond to the amount of godly deeds, meaning that described difference.
A group of people, that is not yet self-aware, is sometimes called a flock of sheep in the (oldest) books of the Bible. The Shepherd is self-aware.
@@Odihmantich okay you're taking two different time periods with different scenarios. They aren't linked. Let's separate them.
More modern times, post Torah, If one does physical activity, like a triathlon, it doesn't mean he's "entitled" to more meat. Maybe he wants more, personal choice.
'Amount of allowed food'? The sacrifices were not food for the community. They were the priestly portion which had to be consumed ten, not left to the next day. One offering, one not "required", like a sin or guilt offering, only one was allowed to be eaten for a second day.
Baruch HaShem
Thank you Rabbi Manis Friedman for sharing this teaching 🤗
Minerals, plants and animals have no choice, but we us humans have a freedom to choose compassion towards animals.
I agree! our real fight is our EGO we always want to please our body we don't need meat to survive we just love the taste of flesh to please the body
May the True Creator bless you.
True Spirituality is simple and universal principles of mortality and empathy and compassion. In other words common sense objective morality.
God is universal.
No religion is universal.
God is not religious.
The god of the Bible is not God.
I'm just wondering about human beings eating and sacrificing other human beings.what purpose does it serve ?
We are souls in bodies...
this is so much better than any priest or preacher (christian) ive ever heard. when you aren't burdened with an inescapable dread of a horrific burning afterlife i suppose you can actually think about religion and existence without just fear
I have never understood the sacrificing principle. Thank you!
Understand it. It is sick and evil.
@@jennyclark6183 it's not a practice of today so why are you so upset? G-d had a reason for it, so we did it. The reason no longer exists. Be happy about that.
@@nomorecensoringme Oh but it is a practice of today! The orthodox Jews still do it! Muslims also sacrifice millions of animals every year to celebrate Abraham! Anyway I see no justification for it at any time just because God said so. What kind of god would put innocent animals in the world and then treat them like that?
I wonder what percentage of Rabbi Friedman's audience are non-Jewish. I am absolutely loving these videos.
Does it matter? The teachings are meant to be enjoyed beyond the global Jewish community.
Probably most ...
fwiw I am a pagan and found this very illuminating
i think the more matter is following abraham God. God promise if a man follow His law they will saved.
@@youtube_chose_word_for_you too bad that god doesn't keep his promises
Thank you Rabbi Friedman
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Wish you and everybody here a beautiful day and a great week!! Shavua Tov!!
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A gut voch.
It was a very stupid argument 😜
Thank you Rabbi
gen 1.29 isaiah 11.6-9 reveltion 22.2 jeramiah 7.21-26 isaiah 66.3 hosea 6.6-7 mat 9.13
Thank you Rabbi Friedman for this elevating teaching.
So animal sacrifice is no longer in practice. How is sin dealt with in the modern day?
That Truth--you won't find on this channel.
Simply repent to HaShem ❤🙏🏽
Thank you Rabbi for a wonderful lesson.
Fully agree with everything rabbi says in here with one tiny exception. We've no idea of the shape of the universe. All the measurements indicate that it is rather flat, or if it isn't then it would have to be, at least, 250 times larger than the observable universe.
Thank you Rabbi for a such a wonderful message. חג פסח שמח!!!
Gut Yontif
Actually it is a stupid argument.
A human who eats animals is a animal in human form.
Period.
@Galex Artist there is no argument. This is what the truth is.
If you don't want to eat animals that's your choice but eating living beings is how we ALL survive on planet earth.
@@Secondrunnerup613
You're Wrong. Humans have reached a point where it is possible to survive without harming billions of other sentient beings. The concept of God presented here is completely Stupid. Animal level consusness is survival. Humans have exceeded their natural limitations and to evolved further, and raising the ethical standards is part of the prossess. God is Universal.
No Religion is universal.
Therefore, God cannot be religious. A religion that is centred on a particular ethnicity is ethnically biased ( racist ) and a religion that not only allows but DEMANDES the killing of other brings is barbaric and primitive.
Veganism is universal because it is based upon the principal of RESPECT for all life.
God is life.
To respect life is to respect God.
The god of the Torah is not God. There is a God, but the universal God is not and cannot be religious.
The universal God is an evolutionary force of progress and is helping us move forward from being primitives worshiping with blood sacrifice, to empathic and compassionate beings who are interested in the elimination of suffering.
YAWH and El were cannonite pagan gods that become one biblical god, El is Saturn hence the command to worship on the Sabbath, Saturn-day, Saturday, or Sabado in Spanish...the planet Saturn is seen by dark magicians and occultism as the phisical representative for time, entropy, and the material universe--- in other words, Satan. Satanists offer blood sacrifice also. In the oldest book of the Bible, Job we see that Satan works for god and Job worships this god with animal sacrifice. I am not saying all Jews even know that Judaism is Satanic, but it is a religion derived from satanic paganism.
I am not antisemitic, being Semitic is fine by me. I am against the religion, not the ethnicity.
Everything I said is easy to look up and a little research will provide you with more information.
@@Secondrunnerup613 With 1.5 BILLION vegatarians in the world, your remark is woefully Ignorant. This rabbi is a crackpot, first for not being a good rabbi. There's no such thing as kosher meat anymore. Unless you SEE for yourself how the animals are treated, you must assume that they suffer, because unfortunately when money is the incentive animal welfare is not. Kosher slaughterhouses have been found to be worse than others hanging cows upside down and bleeding them out while STILL alive! If you want to follow Jewish tradition, do as Daniel did and simply don't eat meat.
You don't need meat to survive.
Selfishness and spirituality don't mix.
Doing what is easy isn't spiritual.
Spirituality requires making difficult choices and taking a stand, even if you're the only one doing it.
Second, we vegans know that the earth is round. A good person let alone a spiritual leader wouldn't make a stupid inference like that.
I am currently homeless.
I am surrounded by a culture that eats animal products.
Well intentioned people offer me food with animal products all the time.
I politely refuse.
Spirituality and Character amount to the same thing.
God is Universal.
No Religion is universal.
Therefore God is not religious.
God is one.
Religion is Division.
God doesn't favour any ethnicity above others.
God is not racist.
If God favoured one ethnicity above others, than God would be a racist.
God is Life.
Respect God by Respecting life.
Don't enjoy the suffering of others.
Animal products come from suffering.
Have a great life.
Reminds me of The Lion King
Perhaps the creator of The Lion King drew from the Torah.
@@nomorecensoringme but is the Torah actually trying to make this case, or is someone reading this into the Torah?
@@becausestuffbreaks the Torah doesn't 'make the case' per se. It is the whole encompassing of life, the how, the why, the wherefore, G-d did it. It's Him. There are no answers that aren't from Him, about Him, include Him. It's whether or not, when, we see it all.
Animal sacrifices have always upset me....this is a comforting explanation and very helpful....thank you and wishing you a wonderful Passover....
That's all you'll ever do is search for something that makes you feel good and accept anything that pretty much somebody else will tell you as long as it. Sounds good this is the reason why you are a sheep. Follower. Because you need to be led. Literally so you can be sacrificed and consumed.
Rationalization for killing animals. Sick and evil.
I am the manager bul😂
@@the2ndcoming135 It is evil.
Basically this is convoluted religious thinking. Everything may be circular, but if humans didn't kill the animals they would eventually die on their own, completing the circle anyway. There is no need for humans to kill animals to complete the circle. This is just sick and evil thinking trying to justify cruelty to animals.
Than you rabbi Friedman this was great and engaging😊❤
Wonderful explanation, thank u so much 💗
"the animal becomes the human, the human dies and becomes the earth the circle of life continues
Damn man this is awesome I wish they went deep like this in Christian church.
Christianity is a shallow puddle. They go as deep as possible.
By ששת ימי בראשית did animals eat animals ? When did that start was there a point when animals killed to eat each other and humans were forbidden from killing animals to eat / use them?
I have 2 questions regarding sacrifices, why does God need sacrifices? And were non Jews required to offer sacrifices as well or was that only for the Jewish people?
Good question. Noah was not a Jew and after the Flood, Noah built an altar and sacrificed to God. Genesis 8:20 states, "And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."
You are the best....I love your beautiful explanations....
Thanks! 🤔🤔🤔 Interesting wisdom…
More like perversion.
well then why don't we eat raw meat? or why don't we eat roast meat without salt, spices? if we need to eat meat?
We can and do. There are raw meat dishes.. We can eat a cleanly cut steak as well. Some people only sear the outside killing bacteria and eat the steak basically raw.
People cook and salt and season their vegetables too to make them better... Ever had a plain salad, no dressing? Not so appetizing.
We eat meat the way we do (cooked and seasoned) because we are capable of doing so.. I don't need anything on a steak for it to taste wonderful. It's a blessing we have the ability to make it taste even better.
R' Friedman, first and foremost, I appreciate your many talks about traditional family values within the Torah community, and exposing the erroneous, and antisemitic Christological claims, doctrines and dogmas created by the various flavors of Christianity.
Secondly, I do not have a problem with animal korbanot (aka: offerings) in the Tanakh, especially when the supplicants get to eat the majority of the cooked meat. In fact, when I imagine the numerous animal offerings occurring within the confines of Har haBayit (aka: the Temple Mount), I think of it as an incredible place to eat holy BBQ. The aromas of roast lamb, must have been awesome.
Although personally watching / hearing the animal getting it's throat cut would not be easy for me, as I've seen people slaughter animals that way, and I always felt squeamish.
Having said that, most atheists do NOT deny the existence of "God". Rather it's that religious apologists cannot emphatically / demonstrably prove that a God, or gods exist.
However, ignoring the existence of a divine being, the other problem for religions - at least the three Abrahamic faiths - is the claim that their bibles / scriptures are the recordings / transmissions of utterances of 'the Divine', or at the very least, that what is written was inspired by "the spirit" of the Divine.
And then there are problems within the religious texts themselves, with things that do NOT comport with observable, and/or verifiable reality, and that there is little to no verifiable evidence for many pre-Davidic historical narratives within the Tanakh (aka: the Hebrew scriptures).
For example, the worldwide flood, or the Exodus. In fact, the emerging consensus amongst historians is that Canaanites = Israelites, and that essentially the "12 tribes" are just a faction, or subset of Canaanites that essentially had a territorial / tribal dispute within the area of the Levant, and that the story of mass slavery in Egypt, the plagues that resulted in freedom (essentially the entire exodus story), is a mere legend at best, or a deliberate gross exaggeration, or outright fabrication.
And finally, there are immoral instructions within the Tanakh, e.g.,
- the permission to beat slaves severely, and if those slaves die after suffering for one or two days, Hashem says the beatings were kosher (Shemot / Exodus 21:20-21), or
- that Hashem gave Israelites permission to own Goyim / Gentiles as slaves in perpetuity, and pass them as an inheritance to their [Jewish] children, (Yayikra / Leviticus 25:44-46).
- or how about creative capital punishments like strangling a person, and then pouring molten lead down the throat of the condemned when their mouth involuntarily opens when they are gasping for air? However, it's a nice Talmudic injunction that the rope used for strangulation be wrapped in a soft cloth first. /s
I have a theory that as humans become less violent, have a lower level of predation, eating lower on the food chain...that animals will follow suit...i.e....big fish will stop eating little fish... all animals will develope lower levels of predation. I believe controlling diet is a big part of spiritituality...fasting and consuming less. Predation is a result of sin...not God's plan.
Not true. What you call 'predation' is what G-d gave us to eat, to survive, to exist. In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were probably vegetarian. For all of nine or so hours, after which they were put in our lower world. Eating animals came into being, for our existence being the perfection of Eden.
The 'sin' of which it sounds like you're condemning, was what G-d wanted and needed to happen. Adam and Eve were doing exactly what He wanted. This world wasn't meant to be "perfect" until we do the work to get it that way, meriting the coming of Moshiach, the Redemption and all of the winder to follow thereafter. Well then be with G-d here, in His perfect world.
Your idea of what our world "should" be like if we'd all just be that way isn't G-d's idea. His Vast Eternal Plan is what matters.
That was a beautiful message Thank-you.
It's only beautiful if you're not an animal.
@@TheProphetofLogic That's right. Convoluted thinking to justify cruelty.
Likewise the relationship goes the other way. Just as God cares for us, we are supposed to care for the animals. God has dominion over us and we have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth (Genesis 1:26).
Wooow!!!!
They are living being, with feelings and they have family. I understand that predators animals eat prey. They have no choice. But human being has a choice. I don't see a reason why animals should suffer so people can have 1 kilo of meat on the plate.😢
Baruch HaShem! Thank you for the teaching.
I was told about animal sacrifices in the Bible when I was in Sunday school about 6-7 years old. but much later in life by a person who is supposed to be Jewish but I think he's Messianic. He said the lamb was brought into the housethey loved and they said it for a year so when they as a family took that lamb to be slaughtered our animal sacrifice, they would count the cost of what it truly meant for an animal to give up or a human to give up their life for this family and many other families sake. Now that's the best explanation of the whole. For all mankind. I refuse to go to hell
This little animal that loved and trusted them they betrayed.
That's not a teaching in Judaism have ever heard.
@@nomorecensoringme It is true. They would take this innocent baby, that loved and trusted them, and sacrifice it, or turn it out into the dessert to die of starvation, lack of water, predators, etc. Dennis Prager has talked of that. To those of you who know him, Prager not only says that, but approves of it, and defends animal sacrifice. I kind of suspect he has participated or has close relatives who have also.
God is Universal.
No Religion is universal.
A universal God cannot be religious.
Catholic means universal 🤦
@@PersianApologetics Yes, and black people are actually brown.
Calling black people black doesn't change the fact that they are brown and calling Catholic church catholic doesn't make it universal.
By universal, it means *common sense* , not a bunch of Theology and beliefs that people fight over for centuries before finally having a council and making official doctrine for everyone else to follow.
True Spirituality is simple and universal principles of mortality based on Empathy and Compassion.
The golden rule in other words.
See Luke chapter 10 verses 25 -37
WHY did you become a Catholic?
Did you study all the other religions and concluded that the catholic church was the most Logical choice, OR..... is it the religion that you were simply born into 🤔?
The Catholic church is one of the most IMMORTAL organisations ever throughout history.
@@TheProphetofLogic But what if The theology is actually correct?
יישר כח
Interesting, it feels like Rabbi only just touched on the subject but there is much more to it...I guess its time to get the book
In Judaism there is always much more to know and learn. It's an ongoing process. More books to read. More knowledge and wisdom to gain. And use. It's active. We learn and use.
Earth is a Disk/Circle, not a ball: Isaiah 40:22, Proverbs 8:27, Job 38:13-14
Earth Measured with a Line, not a curve: Job 38:4-5
Waters are Straight, not curved: Job 37:10
Earthquakes shake Earth, and does not move: 2 Samuel 22:8 Isaiah 13:13
Earth is fixed and immovable: 1 Chronicles 16:30, Psalm 33:9, Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, Psalm 104:5, Psalm 119:89-90, Isaiah 14:7, Isaiah 45:18, Zechariah 1:11
Earth has Pillars, and hangs on nothing (it doesn’t hang): 1 Samuel 2:8, Job 9:6, Job 26:7, Psalm 75:3,
Earth has a Face (a geometrical flat surface): Genesis 1:29, Genesis 4:14, Genesis 6:1, Genesis 6:7, Genesis 7:3, Genesis 7:4, Genesis 8:9, Genesis 11:8, Genesis 11:9, Genesis 41:56, Exodus 32:12, Exodus 33:16, Numbers 12:3, Deuteronomy 6:15, Deuteronomy 7:6, 1 Samuel 20:15, 1 Kings 13:34, Job 37:12, Psalm 104:30, Jeremiah 25:26, Jeremiah 28:16, Ezekiel 34:6, Ezekiel 38:20, Ezekiel 39:14, Amos 9:6, Amos 9:8, Zechariah 5:3,
i once saw a documentary where a crocodile ate a zebra and i wondered why God would create such a universe
If there are some humans that feel it's wrong to eat an animal, is that not an aspect of God's grace extending towards the animal?
Perspectives are formed by different ways of cognition from different experiences in different circumstances. To say that one perspective is truth and everyone must think in the way "I" think, is to assert that you know the only way. Within any topic there is a circular approach that is evident. For the topic of eating animals, there is one point on a circle which represents the perspective that it is godly to eat an animal. On the opposite side of that point, that if a line were to be drawn from the first point it would be it's diameter, there is a perspective that it is ungodly to eat animals. Moving around the circle's circumference there are perspectives that vary between these two polar perspectives, each with different circumstances that shape those perspectives. God is within each perspective, because God is in each of those circumstances. God is in every person that has a perspective that is different from you. To serve God is to serve his creation, try not to get lost in justifying your actions by dismissing others.
G-d does not give "grace" to animals. If He gives it, it's to people, creatures he created in His Divine image.
@@nomorecensoringme thanks for your perspective 👍
@@michaelmckague6839 you're welcome.
This doesn't make me more comfortable with the concept of sacrifices
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm not even comfortable with the damn experiments that Anthony Fauci did on dogs during the Covid pandemic. I thought a lot of that was just disgusting and probably even unnecessary. I understand that there's a certain amount of cruelty that we have to accept in the world. I get it. But I think part of being a good person is learning to maximize the good and minimize the bad. You'll never totally eliminate evil. You can't. But evil should not be indulged often or glorified. And killing an innocent animal as part of some stupid religious ritual is just evil to me. It's cruel and an unnecessary waste of life. And besides, how on earth can a couple pints of blood help a spiritual being who is infinite and eternal? I mean, if you're God and you have the power to create and destroy entire galaxies, then why do you really need a few pints of blood from a sacrificial victim. I understand why Count Dracula needs blood! I understand why vampires need blood! It's their food! Is God just some giant invisible vampire? Why does God need food? For that matter, why does God even need us to believe in him? If you're God, then you don't need anything at all, right? That's why I kind of hate religion. Religion doesn't make any sense to me. God is supposed to be infinite and eternal, and yet he is going to punish me if I don't sacrifice goats and rams to him? Why would I even want to worship a god like that? That type of god is actually pretty horrible to me!
So true Rabbi Friedman everything in life is a circle a life Cycle from Einsof love your talks !
'Einsof' is not a circle. It means "without limits". A circle is a limitation G-d doesn't have.
@@nomorecensoringme It has been said, "God is an Awesome Sphere, Whose Center is Everywhere, but Whose Circumference is Nowhere."
The circle of life would be completed when the animal eventually died a natural death. It is no excuse for sacrificing them. Sick sick sick.
@@thomasjorge4734 not familiar with that. Don't agree with it. It's fine for you. Enjoy.
@@jennyclark6183 animals were out here for us to have food besides vegetation. You're not required to like the idea. It is what G-d did though.
It never ceases to amaze me, how humans can consider that they know better than God. The Creator, who is the owner of everything in the universe, commanded animal sacrifices and said that people may eat meat whenever they like, yet humans argue and claim that God got it wrong and they know better and deny Him what He has commanded. I suggest that those people do not read the Bible. Who is a man to tell God that they know better than He does. Know before who you stand!
You mean a desert pagan god of weather and war? That one? That fiery jealous god of Abraham?
If god knows our hearts why would he have tested Abraham with Isaac? Saving him at the last moment.
The only question I can formulate to oppose this philosophy of eating meat, as a meat eater myself, is that yes it is fine that a carnivorous animal eats another animal as a matter of necessity. If we have come to a point where killing another animal is unnecessary to nourish us then is it really still the right thing to do? That is the pertinent question of today, this clearly was not the case when Judaism came about, but it is now. So... When is it the time to stop the unnecessary killing of animals? Is it up to the individual to decide if they can meet their nutritional needs without, or at least by reducing their consumption and ensuring they only consume animals that have been treated with respect and dignity (that is my aim, which I haven't had the resources or discipline for yet) but surely there will be a time when all animal consumption is considered unnecessary and therefore ungodly to continue. Any thoughts?
Wise
why a lamb chose for sacrificial? why not other animal?
how do i know if I am doing something Godly?
i think the spirit in which you kill any living creature, be it plant, insect, animal is a factor.
i read somewhere Natives would perform a ritual fasting before a hunt, to ensure the hunters' spirits were pure.
@@waterofsouls7639 you're talking about concepts far removed from the teachings of Judaism here.
After you study what G-d wants and needs, in the Torah, you will know. You'll know that what you're doing is good, natural, as it "should" be. Don't use "should" often though here it's appropriate.
Can't get there without the guidance of what G-d says, meaning in the Torah, which comes directly from G-d, through Moses.
@@nomorecensoringme thank you I will study the Torah
@@danieldrazenovich935 it is recommended to study with someone's since the text is more complicated than what's written.
The rabbi was being specific… animal sacrifice was the focus. He didn’t seem to intend to address the entire connection of animals & humans. He briefly mentioned animals as food, clothing, or medicine. That list is not all inclusive. He could’ve added other connections of which animal companionship & service could be one. I’ve been vegan since the early 90’s. I do not eat animals but they enrich my life by being part of it. Service & support animals are another.
I’m being brief here.
The rabbi said only what was justification for animal sacrifice. He didn’t go the whole route to justify anything else. It is much too involved of a discussion and so much is still being discussed of the rest. With the mitzvahs regarding animals and the kosher laws, it’s clear there is great love for animals. The commandment forbidding cruelty speaks volumes.
'Great love for animals'? Think not. Appreciation for, enjoyment of, not 'love' if you listen to Rabbi Friedman's teachings. We can't 'love' what can't 'love" us back. It's an overused word that comes to mean nothing special.
I still have no clue why any good god would want or desire a sacrifice? 🤔
To teach early humans to give up something in the present in order to get something better in the long run.
Do you think that you could not eat pork because in the past they did not properly cook it? Or what is the reasoning?
Left hand path. God bless.
Hey mister Friedman I was just curious who or what is Azazel
Panentheism Ephesians 4:6 ►
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
You're invited to take your Christian doctrine elsewhere where it will be appreciated, discussed and enjoyed. It's not wanted or needed here. You're not converting us. Simply showing lack of respect.
אתה הכי טוב!
הודעה טובה
It seems to me that the desire to become something more than we are, has led to great tragedy and suffering. The peasant aspires to be the national leader; such as Hitler and Stalin. But my question is - is it bad for a person to not want to be greater; to be content to have sufficient and be happy?
The world is round, flat can be round as well like a quarter. Now just wanted to clarify your intro. In the beginning, we were to eat what?
It sounds like Sacred geometry you're talking about They didn't the great philosopher Pythagoras teach some stuff about this And also the Egyptians This is a very great video tonight and interesting I like what I'm hearing it's scientific And very religious at the same time that's why I like it because It's different
Geometry isn't 'sacred'.
This teaching predates Pythagoras by thousands of years. He extrapolated from it, not vice versa. We don't focus on what individual people built on from the Torah, except as it relates to what G-d wants and needs from us.
Judaism isn't a 'religion' as such. No "benefits" religions offer its adherents. Judaism is a relationship with G-d. It's knowing Him, what He wants and needs from us. That's why it sounds different to you.
No, it's a stupid argument based on the philosophy of "might makes right". A very dangerous world view. Because we are more sophisticated than animals, doesn't grant us the right to use them for food. Do a little bit of research on where meat comes from. There's no justification for the mistreatment of animals given the level of technology we enjoy today.
God is Universal.
No Religion is universal.
Therefore, God is not religious.
God is Life.
Respect for life is to respect the creator of life.
Being vegan is universal in principle as it is a philosophical world view based on respect for life.
Being vegan is both selfish and selfless alterisim. Selfish because you enjoy health benefits, and alteristic service because you are not contributing to the suffering of others.
I encourage you to move forward in your spiritual awareness and have more regard for the animals.
There's no such thing as spiritually that demands animal sacrifice.
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As a Christian , I Respect you Rabbi
God bless you ✝️✡️❤️
As a Catholic, you haven't done any *Actual Research* , otherwise you wouldn't be a Catholic.
@@TheProphetofLogic why ?
@@TheProphetofLogicI Am not catholic , I'm just Christian
I don't understand the explanation that says that the animal was created to be eaten by the people since it seems that humans were only permitted to eat meat after noah . Can you explain why this is when g-d decided that we can eat meat?
That still does not explain the mechanics of why the animal death has intrinsic value in its death, only to decompose. This was great though regardless I just struggle with this one
Circle of life,
6 Days?
Not to be confused with pantheism It's a completely different understanding from panentheism
Who cares?
thank you. thereisnoneelsebesideshim ❤
Thank you rabbi
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Very informative Rabbi be blessed we need this wisdom.
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I͟ ͟h͟a͟v͟e͟ ͟s͟o͟m͟e͟t͟h͟i͟n͟g͟ ͟n͟e͟w͟ ͟f͟o͟r͟ ͟y͟o͟u͟ ͟͟w͟h͟a͟t͟s͟a͟p͟p͟✙͟➊͟➎͟➍͟⓿͟➌͟➒͟➐͟➐͟➊͟➍͟➋͟ ✍͟✍͟️͟✍͟️͟
round is not a ball
square is not a cube
God I love this guy
Lovely video!
Nice esoteric discussion on earth and "everything" the box that contains prayers that is used at the west wall is square --why?
The earth being round implies that it's flat as we all know a circle is a plane shape how come you say it's not flat when in the first place it's round? Explain for me.
I love my people... 🙏🙏😇
Then when we leave this body, it returns back to minerals in the soil.
It's a big difference between eating an animal than ritual killing. So no, it didn't sound right to me.
Interesting talk Rabbi. Question: Did the Priests in the Temple after slaughtering the animal for sacrifice sell the leftover meat to the worshipers or public? I was wondering if the Temple also served a dual function one to honor God and one of a butcher to the people.
(Not the rabbi)
Sell? No. Give, in case you wonder? No. There are very specific detailed laws about what is done with each part of the sacrificed animal, for each kind of sacrifice.
The Temple was only entered by specific people, at specific times, for specific purposes. The inner chamber was the "Holy of Holies", as a place where G-d would be present.
No, there was no butchery done there.
@@nomorecensoringme I appreciate the response. I am very interested in Judaism. I was raised in the Lutheran Church and I was told something quite different. I just completed Leviticus and the detail of sacrifice is discussed there. I have questions for clarification purposes. In my Introduction to Judaism Class at the Reform Synagogue we have not discussed the topic of animal sacrifice to any great length. The real focus has been on the Jewish holidays essential for conversion.
@@davidl2438 interesting. Learning is what it's all about. Unfortunately it seems there are Christians being told the wrong things, which they doggedly believe is true. There are Jews who also, for whatever reason are confused. These YT offer a great place to learn, deepen our understanding.
Sounds like you want more than the Reform community is offering you. You might want to explore a conservative or an CHaBaD synagogue.
Enjoy your journey.
Yes, excess meat was sold to people. It is only noted in the Christian ✝️ New Testament and mentioned as Pagan rite. It also show up in Acts as a requirement of the early Christian ✝️ movement. Essenes do not partake in buying or eating altar sacrifices. They only eat fish. The idea gains popularity and ends what is left of animal sacrifice among Jews. This was back when the Christian movement was just a Jewish Reform movement. The Ebionites disappear about the Seventh Century CE. The Mandeans (followers of just John the Baptizer) live in Iran 🇮🇷 today.
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1:25 yes God is everything so show love by preserving not destroying. like what?
Beyond thank you I wish there many Jews in Trinidad
So you mean we can not always remain humans and would become God at some point in evolution,well Adam and eve were both tempted by Satan into believing that they can become angels or immotals or acquiring the knowledge which only God and angels have to become their equal,now because God had created them humans,and we know that God can do all things so if he wanted he would have created them,both Adam and Eve angels but he did not,now what does that mean if the creator created you human and you want to become God or angel,you said God created humans for worshipping him and he had plenty of angels worshipping him,so he diid not want to create more angels just to increase the number,rather he wanted something different and He told angels that he is going to creat man ,did he say I am going to create an angel or a God who would share the throne with me and become my equal,did he say it where is it in the scripture or if it is not there and God never wanted it the who is motivating such beliefs or inspiring men is he the old dragon?I am not talking about china,and is it difficult for the dragon to tempt the corrupt children than tempting the pure parents,and so the story follows when they (Adam and Eve) attempted upon becoming more than just humans,we know what befell them.
In Greek animal sacrifice myth, Prometheus tricked the Greek gods by wrapping up and burning only the inedible parts of the sacrifice. Worshippers partook in the meal after. Especially seen in Dionysian myths.
Penthesus was killed by his own mother and sister for violating a secret ceremony by watching from a tree. The Greek gods temporarily blinded them so that they thought he was a (mountain) lion - cougar - both lost their minds afterwards.
Watch out for Greek ceremonies! The sacrifice of young boys, the Zeus sacrifice, was banned at one point and limited to only Naxos. It vanishes historically and reappears in Turkey (Anatolia) along with Dionysos, a foreign god. Records are not kept but human sacrifices later recorded in Phrygia. Defeated by Romans who went home in those days, it reoccurs under the Cilician pirates, who are active slavers. Mithras is the primary god. Reenactment of the Crucifixion of Atys is a yearly event occurring about the time of the Feast of Hilaria. (This coincides with Ishtar (Easter) and the Jewish Passover.
(You do see where I am going with this? Or at least suspect it)
The Last Supper of Mithras is where Mithras slay the Cosmic Cow and shares it with his Father God. Twelve Zodiac signs (Apostles) watch. Then Mithras ascended into Heaven to become
A Mdiator over Mortals. He often called the New Covenant.
Oh, in earlier ceremonies, where Atys is whipped then crucified, Atys, somehow after death, reincarnates as Mithras. Real people were whipped and crucified at one time but in the 1st Century BCE, after the priest slices his arms and fills the Blood 🩸 Cup, the Mithrans only whip and crucify a wooden effigy. Amazingly, this resembles an Easter Passion play. What a coincidcee-dinky!
Well, remember the Ascension. It doesn’t end badly for Atys because by the First Century BCE, it’s only
a wooden figurine hanging from a cross.
By the way, where is Self-Proclaimed Apostle Paul from? Tarsus, the religious capital of the Mithran faith.
So when dealing with historic accounts of sacrificed lambs, do remember it could be worse. You could actually be worshipping Mithras and his Dad while occasionally getting stoned on hyssop and singing about “I have the Spirit in Me”.
Dionysians, right? What they do on weekends!
Now read the talmud and thoroughly analyze that...
If you want to find truth you must operate in the right spirit, so go ahead and study the talmud...and if you approach with a truly pure and humble heart you will discern what spirit is expressed there.
Human sacrifice is impossible to understand .
Jews didn't do it, so what's your point?
Diamonds are forever
Oh yh... Never saw it like that!
Joshua 10:13 So the sun stood still. Scripture depicts the earth as flat. "The world is round." What is it?