1. It would take more than an hour for Adam to make all the animals. 2. It was a cluster like grapes, see the book of Enoch. 3. God told him if he ate from the tree he would return to dust. Yes he KNEW what dust is. 4. This is a great example of God blinding the Jews eyes
Yes. The usual tricks. This story is from the Talmud btw. Written thousands of years after the real Genesis and Torah. If anyone has read the Talmud they understand fast those writings did not come from God, but they invented it.
The problem with this view is, what about the snake? The snake knows before Eve, the serpent must be a prophet! The serpent has been doing so well to tell people he did not exist or that he is no trouble. Make people stay blind to the truth of spiritual warfare.
Can anyone explain where he's getting all this extra context about some sort of mission? From my prospective there are additions he added to the story that are simply not there or even implied. His version sounds more fulfilling to me, but doesn't seem based any any text.
Beautiful. I attend a christian prayer group. Im just waiting to get kicked out. Another member told me, "It's never boring when you are there.". Your words help me to know Im not crazy.
You begin to realize those dishonest leaders of the church elevate themselves to be greater than God, and you see the fruits of this all the time in the news.
Yeah, but he is wrong. Did you notice that the adversary is "a helper" in the story? It makes no sense at all. Adam and Eve ate to help WHO? Humans? But humanity fell because of them. Fallen angels? They are already condemned. The Bible is clear: death entered this world BECAUSE of sin. Adam and Eve decided to do a "political coup" and be in the place of God, that is the problem. God wanted them to have a choice, but they would have to suffer the consequences of their choice. Now, why does evil exist? Everything that exists was part of the infinite, but was NOT the infinite. In the future, the infinite will purge evil forever. That is the separation between light and darkness mentioned in Genesis. In the new Jerusalem, there is no darkness. And also everyone there chose God. It's just that He doesn't have to put up with evil.
@@beatrizn.5278thank you someone with some sense and could see through this b.s ....must be trying to find the answers as well. Like where cains wife came from was adam and eve truly first .. if so why did Abel get the mark of god who was gonna kill him if not his own family. So many questions just from first chapter
@@fallenninja5239 Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, they didn't have just 2 sons. So, yeah, Cain married his sister. Keep in mind that was only option available to him and humans were different back then. Marrying a relative became a sin after the number of humans was big enough and I dare say there has been a genetic change as well. If you do that nowadays, it's gross. But to them, the circumstances were completely different.
@@beatrizn.5278 He is not wrong. You're just very unwilling to consider that the theology that you were raised with could be wrong. It is. Most likely that same christian theology taught you to distrust and hate Jews. How perfectly they have made you unsusceptible for the truth. How perfectly they have locked you into the lies they indoctrinated you with. The only reason that you are affraid that your theologic beliefs are being challenged by an alternative interpretation is because your beliefs are shaky and deep down you know they can't be right. That is the voice of reason; the voice of G-d, within yourself and this is you actively covering your ears to it. You are wrong in your beliefs about G-d and the truth is MUCH more liberating and hopeful than your gloomy, erroneous beliefs of Him. It is no wonder to me why christians are so eager to condemn others and why they sin, in secret, more than the average atheist sins openly; Off course such a loveless, senseless and tyranical G-d is not worthy of worship. And you could not bring yourself to worshipping this imagined tyrant either. But go ahead and believe in a senseless and cruel G-d who doesn't honor free will and punishes people for excersizing the free will that He himself gave them. Go ahead and believe in a tyranical G-d that created people with "oRiGiNaL SiN" and them punishes them for being sinful. It is your G-d given free will to do so.
I have one question: If there was already a lower world with pain and mortality etc. for them to try and elevate, then does this mean that Adam and Eve were not the first humans?
@@brizziepc I suppose it is perspective, but I think Christianity is a mix of Greek and Roman culture, whereas the New Testament is foundationally Jewish.
@MacLevisteinthat’s the most foolish and ignorant statement I’ve heard in a long time. A book filled with filth,written in Greek, full of idolatry and antisemitism all over is not a Jewish book.
The Christian pastors I’ve heard in my life who constantly berate their congregations into “committing the original sin over again” are usually the ones who want to exert toxic control and ironically fall into gross sin. If they just once saw this story on a deeper level, the forced need for a halo would go away, the assumption of what we really are would return, and the congregation could grow from little minions trying to fake angelic righteousness and instead realize they are on a mission from God to make things right in the lowest of worlds. What happens instead is that the “righteous” remain in dishonesty and sometimes gross sin like drugs and incest, while the ones who feel something isn’t right about this narrative leave the church and God completely.
Such a refreshing explanation that makes sense!!! God is perfect, HE never makes mistakes!!! If every person did their part to fight evil properly, the world would be perfect. God is spirit and angels and demons are part of our world!!! God is awesome!!! Thank you Rabbi!!! You're an awesome teacher and I love all that I've learned from you about our wonderful perfect God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob!!! God bless the world!!!
How would the world be perfect. We'd still have natural disasters and child cancers and many more sicknesses, not caused by mam. Maybe you see these as part of a perfect world.
Just getting about half way through Rabbi Manis Friedmans book " making a life that matters" worth every penny/dime. Gives many fascinating insights but I will have to read it at least twice over.
I wish I had such a interpretetion of the scripture when I was little... I would look to the world other way. Thank God for sending you to let us know the real one. God bless us all
A deeper question: did God not know that they would eat? Or, did he intend for them to eat it and be banished? Also, the serpent is thought to be the devil by most theologians. In the opening writing it says that the serpent was more crafty than any of the animals that God had created. Did God create the Devil, like the book says?
(1) God knew that there was a possibility that they could disobey Him, but the choice was still _theirs'_ to make. (2) God did not intend for them to eat from the wrong tree. (3) Lucifer became Satan as a result of being polluted by his own false reasoning. God created an angel that was instructed to administer His laws over the angels that he led. The responsibility was entirely on Lucifer to remain loyal to what he was taught, and he deviated from it.
Scripture is very clear and distinct. Adam and Eve sinned against the most High, now we reap the fall out of their sin, YA is not capricious or malevolent, He wouldn't set up Adam too fail with an ulterior motive and inform him of His plan, they were warned and failed...
❌ It is very absurd to say that God wants Adam and Eve to eat and then become mortal when the Lord himself says in Deuteronomy 30:19 that “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life.” Listening to the words of this man you make Satan words be the real truth and God's lies. Before the fall there is no death, so what “low” should be saved? It is a nonsense. God once said to one prophet: “Go and tell this people: «Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.»” I am not surprised.
Interesting explanation. I'm not sure about Hebrew definitions of words but at Genesis 2:16 is says God gave a "command" not to eat from the tree. We as humans are created by God in his image so a good analogy of this is that we let our children play at the park and we command them not to run across the road because they could get hit by a car and die! We don't keep them on a chain so they won't run across the road but we let them have a relative amount of freedom. We don't secretly hope they will disobey us do we? Sometimes children do disobey the parents command resulting in untold pain suffering and heartbreak. As loving parents of teenagers we command them in a loving way to follow rules but sometimes teenagers are rebellious and follow their own reasoning and it ends up in disaster. I don't think the story is more complicated than the examples I mentioned above. The ultimate shortcoming starts with the serpent who planted a seed of doubt in the woman's mind implying God was lying about the results of disobedience.
That was amazing, thank you. My wife and I have been in hard times and she tried tried to tell Me it was coming and I didn’t hear it this is excellent and exciting thanks
Appreciate your very eloquent and clear thinking.... one must always bear in mind the vast layers within all of the various different latent meanings of what the Torah has to convey to us.... There are many different perspectives and nuances in comprehending these Concepts.... Especially when trying to comprehend an even slight prospective of an Infinite Source.... We are always hindered with our finite perspective so if we are utilizing terminology such as the notion of a need.... We are obviously applying a finite notion if only to maybe get a glimpse of what an infinite existence is conveying to us....
after eating the bad fruit, how could adam and eve hide from God? unless God could not recognize them. a good shepherd can track a lost sheep; unless the sheep "changes" its appearance. these are just my thoughts.
@@BWOOHAHAHAAA ok, let me think a moment on what you posted... would you recognize any of your ancestors from 500 years ago? would any of your ancestors from 500 years ago recognize you? i'm fairly certain God gets angry when His creation veers off their given path. that was my original thought. thanks.
that's was great, but nowhere in the bible, for example the reason eve was created not because adam needed eve to eat from the tree but rather as and i quote the bible "And man named all the cattle and the fowl of the heavens and all the beasts of the field, but for man, he did not find a helpmate opposite him."
God gave them a choice from the beginning to choose. And why threatened death if they take from the tree. Does death to a soul make any difference when the soul can never die.
If it wasn't for the serpent, even the woman would not have eaten the fruit. Therefore, blame all of the world's suffering on the serpent. But if what you are saying is true, then shouldn't everyone disobey the law of the Torah as well, because God actually wants people to disobey his Word? It defeats the entire history of God's Word and God's people. What nonsense. This kind of reasoning must be why God sent the flood the wipe out all flesh from the face of the earth: they felt no shame about their sins and wanted to disobey every single one of God's commandments.
You missed another fun point: They had to eat from the tree in order to know of good and evil. So when God told them not to do something, before they knew of good and evil, how could they have known that disobeying God was bad? They had no knowledge of evil. Or that obeying was good. No knowledge yet. So OF COURSE they just do things. Like babies: you can tell them whatever you want, they simply do not get it yet. So how could it ever be a sin?
When your mom told you to not to cross the street without looking did you need to get hit to understand why? Know you listened to your mom cause you don't know better. See listening to your parents as a child gets you further then when you are a disobedient kid. We need to learn to look at it from a LOVING creator's standpoint. He allows free will so he will not CONTROL you. Sadly folks who will try there hardest to make Yahuah out to be a bad guy are just dismissing the fact that YOU as a LIVING BEING have your own choice. When you hear something you have never heard before we naturally CONSIDER what we are being told before we dismiss it UNLESS the majority of the world already agrees. Eve CONSIDERED what the Serpent said to her because it was something she had never heard. Which brings in our curiosity now. The Serpent was LITERALLY the bad friend your mom tells you to watch out for because that friend has seen more then you in life hence "sheltered kids" vs "Street kids" they have seen more in life at a early age so they easily convince the other kids their age that the things they do are "cooler" then being a "good kid"
Rabbi, I come to you with genuine questions. where do you get that the two souls were already in heaven? Where do the conversations eve and Adam were having come from? Is this a hypothetical?
I have never heard such biblical misunderstanding in my entire life. And it sounds more Mormon than Jewish. Y'all viewers need to understand that trusting Yehovah rather than men (or demons disguised as watever) is the key here. Trust Yehovah and trust His Torah. Obey what God has revealed to us in His written word. Love God with all your heart mind and soul; and love your neighbor as yourself. He has shown you man what is good. And what has Yehovah required of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
That's insane. What's the serpent for if she was going to rationalize why she should eat it anyway? Also, why is Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming the serpent? It sounds like they fell by chicanery.
I think the snake represents eves intuition. God is always testing our intuition. Once that awareness is there, it is constantly being test to build it up. We have to learn to be able to understand our intuition vs the ego mind.
Hello Rabbi: Question: In the text about the creation of Eve is that not a rudimentary description of a surgical procedure? If Adam was a flesh and blood person like you and I, how and where was that surgical procedure done? Doesn't say God wiggled His nose or clicked His heels to make Eve. The description although rudimentary, is still precise. What say you Rabbi?
Interesting story and analysis. But how did you come to these conclusions ? Adam lived only 10 hours before the fall? They were reincarnated into new bodies? Where does that come from, imagination?
Why then is a need of a savior. Why Israel has to atone once a year for their sin offering sacrifices? It is a bit confusing for me. Is it there an explanation?
Rabbi, you should read the last revelation of God to Mohammad(meaning the praised) the descendant of Abraham through his first born Ismael(meaning God heard), to better understand the story of the creation of Adam.
Islam is the full submission of of one’s will to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. with that being said, I’d rather be the one to ponder and make use of my knowledge of which this original sin provided me with to not commit any further and in order to learn from it and believe with faith. Continuing this pursuit of working a job will not redeem you. Money is a way to make someone a tool and make them mechanics for system optimisation. That is self righteous and far from good in consensus between the the people of the book.
Really? Isn't that all of life? Our life circumstances are very heavily the fault (or credit) of our parents, of God, not us. It's a separate question altogether - why are we created against our will? Rabbi Friedman deals with that question extensively on this channel.
@@DrKaii it's the fault of Adam and eve, and Not God. All the suffering and pain wouldn't have happen if they obeyed God and didn't eat the fruit.. God created us to share his love and have a relationship with us not to make earth more Holy than heaven.. Wherever God is, that place will be more holier than others.
im going to begin here : what historians said nine hours and how did they determine that amount of hours? so you mean nine hours after eve was created? since they weren't created at the same time? im so willing to accept that an hour later they ate from the tree of knowledge but i am curious how an hourly specification was determined?
But where does the lowest world come from which follows after eating from the tree? Is that also made by god? How is it necesarry for us to undergo this?
Very interesting, food for thought. Can you please explain what the serpent's role is in this lower world, and why he was punished for his part in the story? I think punishment/consequence is the right word. At this time God also revealed his plan for the woman's Seed to bruise the serpent's head. I am enjoying the thought provoking talks, thank you.
Rabbi Friedman, although I do not share the same beliefs as your people do, if they all agree? But I value receiving these insights as a way to understand and respect our differences. Please know, your lessons are much appreciated.
Adam not understanding death because "nothing ever died" in his world kind of reminds me of a North Korean pilot who defected to the West with his Mig, recalling the pamphlets the Americans dropped to entice defection. He said that they offered lots of money, but no one in his country had a concept of money as there was never anything to buy, so there was no need for it.
This is really similar to my read on it. I assumed the fall was part of God's plan, as it didn't make sense to set the conditions for it otherwise. I really like the heroic interpretation though
Don't you people realize that he is making up this stuff ? He sounds like he was watching and listening as the story was happening. The Adan and Eve story is one of the many stories of creation. You don't have to believe stupidities in order to have faith in your God.
I so appreciate you! These are the questions I had from a young age and onward and boy did my Pastor hate to see me coming 😂. He never could answer my questions reasonably and most certainly not as well as you do good sir. Thank you, from the bottom of my ever curious little heart, Thank you! 😁
Thanks Robert I never give a comment unless I mean it I am not trying to manipulate a person flatter or bs I usually say something to build up a person raise self esteem I am as forth right honest i font know I shared that probably because I am a beat off
I believe everything God creates does exactly what he created it do, however giving the angels and man free will was a great risk but a necessary one. God doesn't need robots he wants angels and people out of their own hearts to choose him and not be programmed to just follow orders, hence the tree of choice
1. Who are those historians who said that Adam received the commandment concerning the tree of knowlege in nine hours after creation? What are their names? 2. Where did you get this information that Adam and Eve first were created in heaven? 3. Why were they sent to save the Earth when it was good? Instead is answering questions, you create more questions. 😩
I just finished reading Gensis this afternoon. One of my biggest takeaways, and one of my favorite lessons in life, my best days are disguised as my worst days. Its interesting to see the timeline of the unolding of this first book. It makes me think of the Serpent/Satan, "the bad guy", from a certain point of view. Meanwhile, the "bad guy" is, in a sense, one of the Fathers of the world we live in to today. Had the Serpent/Satan not "tempted" Eve, where would we be? Who would we be? Would we be at all? So quick we can be to demonize rather then show gratitude. And even forgiveness. Why forgive? The alternative is holding resentment. We know that its unhealthy to hold resentment against other ppl. Why is it not the same for Non-Human-Entities as well? Thank you, Serpent/Satan. I forgive you, for those who cant. I love you. Every happens for Divine Reason. Its all part of the Plan of the Greater Will. We get so hung up on "good" vs "evil" that we ignore that at its neutralized foundation it comes down to +/- and/or -/+. But what can you do? Be the change you want to see.
The meaning of words have been written but misunderstood totally for true reasons as to why we came here. Its too experience this life and how to live in it with the UPS and Downs to it. The book or many different books have the same misunderstanding as to why we are here and how to live. A choice free will to live the choice. We are all participants to this world to live it experience it to it's fullest no one dies you just leave the body that one has had the experience with it can be 300 years or 50 years you decide
If they weren't as corrupted as you say, why did their first offspring Cain murder Abel? Four wrongdoings right from the start (disobedience, unaccountability, murder, jealousy). In my eyes, humans were corrupted from the very beginning.
Cain and Abel were born in our world, the lowest world. Adam and Eve were not. Had the Garden of Eden event taken place in our world, your statement might be valid. Could be why God chose to create them and interact with them in a separate world. Why they had to start where they did.
1. It would take more than an hour for Adam to make all the animals.
2. It was a cluster like grapes, see the book of Enoch.
3. God told him if he ate from the tree he would return to dust. Yes he KNEW what dust is.
4. This is a great example of God blinding the Jews eyes
Yes. The usual tricks. This story is from the Talmud btw. Written thousands of years after the real Genesis and Torah. If anyone has read the Talmud they understand fast those writings did not come from God, but they invented it.
@@nicechockwas looking for this. People hear a soothing/eloquent voice and fall head first without thinking on it.
The problem with this view is, what about the snake? The snake knows before Eve, the serpent must be a prophet!
The serpent has been doing so well to tell people he did not exist or that he is no trouble. Make people stay blind to the truth of spiritual warfare.
On the sixth day God looked at what He had made and said "it is very good"
No fixing required.
The literal story of Adam and Eve does leave many questions unanswered. Great insight into a mysterious topic.
Not if you understand neurology, physiology and psychology.
Amygdala as an example.
@jesse75
Hows that apply to common which most are?
There is so much love in your speech that I know that Truth must be the source of your words❤
I agree, He is hugging us with his wisdom.
Can anyone explain where he's getting all this extra context about some sort of mission? From my prospective there are additions he added to the story that are simply not there or even implied. His version sounds more fulfilling to me, but doesn't seem based any any text.
They are mystical explanations from the chassidic sages
Beautiful. I attend a christian prayer group. Im just waiting to get kicked out. Another member told me, "It's never boring when you are there.". Your words help me to know Im not crazy.
You begin to realize those dishonest leaders of the church elevate themselves to be greater than God, and you see the fruits of this all the time in the news.
Yeah, but he is wrong.
Did you notice that the adversary is "a helper" in the story?
It makes no sense at all.
Adam and Eve ate to help WHO? Humans? But humanity fell because of them.
Fallen angels? They are already condemned.
The Bible is clear: death entered this world BECAUSE of sin.
Adam and Eve decided to do a "political coup" and be in the place of God, that is the problem.
God wanted them to have a choice, but they would have to suffer the consequences of their choice.
Now, why does evil exist?
Everything that exists was part of the infinite, but was NOT the infinite. In the future, the infinite will purge evil forever.
That is the separation between light and darkness mentioned in Genesis.
In the new Jerusalem, there is no darkness. And also everyone there chose God.
It's just that He doesn't have to put up with evil.
@@beatrizn.5278thank you someone with some sense and could see through this b.s ....must be trying to find the answers as well. Like where cains wife came from was adam and eve truly first .. if so why did Abel get the mark of god who was gonna kill him if not his own family. So many questions just from first chapter
@@fallenninja5239 Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, they didn't have just 2 sons.
So, yeah, Cain married his sister.
Keep in mind that was only option available to him and humans were different back then.
Marrying a relative became a sin after the number of humans was big enough and I dare say there has been a genetic change as well.
If you do that nowadays, it's gross. But to them, the circumstances were completely different.
@@beatrizn.5278 He is not wrong. You're just very unwilling to consider that the theology that you were raised with could be wrong. It is. Most likely that same christian theology taught you to distrust and hate Jews. How perfectly they have made you unsusceptible for the truth. How perfectly they have locked you into the lies they indoctrinated you with. The only reason that you are affraid that your theologic beliefs are being challenged by an alternative interpretation is because your beliefs are shaky and deep down you know they can't be right. That is the voice of reason; the voice of G-d, within yourself and this is you actively covering your ears to it. You are wrong in your beliefs about G-d and the truth is MUCH more liberating and hopeful than your gloomy, erroneous beliefs of Him. It is no wonder to me why christians are so eager to condemn others and why they sin, in secret, more than the average atheist sins openly; Off course such a loveless, senseless and tyranical G-d is not worthy of worship. And you could not bring yourself to worshipping this imagined tyrant either.
But go ahead and believe in a senseless and cruel G-d who doesn't honor free will and punishes people for excersizing the free will that He himself gave them.
Go ahead and believe in a tyranical G-d that created people with "oRiGiNaL SiN" and them punishes them for being sinful. It is your G-d given free will to do so.
Thank you so much, it's the best interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve I've ever heard.
"Did God really say you must not eat that fruit?
No, it's a hidden task!"
I've always kind of thought that God DID need for us to make the choice because God wanted us to CHOOSE good rather than be "robots" of righteousness.
This blew my mind and brought a tear to my eye. So beautiful ❤
I have one question: If there was already a lower world with pain and mortality etc. for them to try and elevate, then does this mean that Adam and Eve were not the first humans?
Because this Rabi is not correct.
God did say they should not eat the fruit.
a way better story than what we are told in the Christian Bible. thank you Rabbi for this illumination
In the Christian Bible a new child was born through us. Unless we believe in Him we will never be able to know 🙏
@MacLevisteinyou got that wrong.... The new testament is a mix of the Greek and Roman culture..... Not Hebrew 💯
@@brizziepc I suppose it is perspective, but I think Christianity is a mix of Greek and Roman culture, whereas the New Testament is foundationally Jewish.
@MacLevisteinthat’s the most foolish and ignorant statement I’ve heard in a long time. A book filled with filth,written in Greek, full of idolatry and antisemitism all over is not a Jewish book.
@@billiebickers....one god
Made of 3 parts
That was really profound. Thank you Rabbi Friedman, for sharing your wisdom and insight.
The Christian pastors I’ve heard in my life who constantly berate their congregations into “committing the original sin over again” are usually the ones who want to exert toxic control and ironically fall into gross sin. If they just once saw this story on a deeper level, the forced need for a halo would go away, the assumption of what we really are would return, and the congregation could grow from little minions trying to fake angelic righteousness and instead realize they are on a mission from God to make things right in the lowest of worlds. What happens instead is that the “righteous” remain in dishonesty and sometimes gross sin like drugs and incest, while the ones who feel something isn’t right about this narrative leave the church and God completely.
Such a refreshing explanation that makes sense!!! God is perfect, HE never makes mistakes!!! If every person did their part to fight evil properly, the world would be perfect. God is spirit and angels and demons are part of our world!!! God is awesome!!! Thank you Rabbi!!! You're an awesome teacher and I love all that I've learned from you about our wonderful perfect God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob!!! God bless the world!!!
How would the world be perfect. We'd still have natural disasters and child cancers and many more sicknesses, not caused by mam. Maybe you see these as part of a perfect world.
So there forth I cannot like nor dislike your video.
I am just Blown Away by this interpretation I hadn't ever known or heard of previously.
Just getting about half way through Rabbi Manis Friedmans book " making a life that matters" worth every penny/dime. Gives many fascinating insights but I will have to read it at least twice over.
I wish I had such a interpretetion of the scripture when I was little... I would look to the world other way. Thank God for sending you to let us know the real one. God bless us all
A deeper question: did God not know that they would eat? Or, did he intend for them to eat it and be banished? Also, the serpent is thought to be the devil by most theologians. In the opening writing it says that the serpent was more crafty than any of the animals that God had created. Did God create the Devil, like the book says?
(1) God knew that there was a possibility that they could disobey Him, but the choice was still _theirs'_ to make. (2) God did not intend for them to eat from the wrong tree. (3) Lucifer became Satan as a result of being polluted by his own false reasoning. God created an angel that was instructed to administer His laws over the angels that he led. The responsibility was entirely on Lucifer to remain loyal to what he was taught, and he deviated from it.
I just finished this book...thank you. Its healing ❤
Thank you, Rabbi, for such a profound and beautiful explanation! I could not agree more ✡🌄
At least a few people understand him here. The rest are listening to him through a self-imposed filter
@@madeincda 👍
Scripture is very clear and distinct. Adam and Eve sinned against the most High, now we reap the fall out of their sin, YA is not capricious or malevolent, He wouldn't set up Adam too fail with an ulterior motive and inform him of His plan, they were warned and failed...
❌ It is very absurd to say that God wants Adam and Eve to eat and then become mortal when the Lord himself says in Deuteronomy 30:19 that “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life.”
Listening to the words of this man you make Satan words be the real truth and God's lies. Before the fall there is no death, so what “low” should be saved? It is a nonsense. God once said to one prophet:
“Go and tell this people: «Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.»”
I am not surprised.
Yes.. your right
Completely misunderstood everything he said. So sad.
@@madeincda that s why God punished them everytime. Cuz "they are misunderstood" ..
@@andreipopa9180 I have no idea what you're even talking about... Good try though!
@@madeincda 🙏🙂
I would have never thought about Adam and Eve this way. That's i a very valuable insight, thank you so much
Thank you Rabbi you make things easier to understand, bless you.
Thank you
Interesting explanation. I'm not sure about Hebrew definitions of words but at Genesis 2:16 is says God gave a "command" not to eat from the tree. We as humans are created by God in his image so a good analogy of this is that we let our children play at the park and we command them not to run across the road because they could get hit by a car and die! We don't keep them on a chain so they won't run across the road but we let them have a relative amount of freedom. We don't secretly hope they will disobey us do we? Sometimes children do disobey the parents command resulting in untold pain suffering and heartbreak. As loving parents of teenagers we command them in a loving way to follow rules but sometimes teenagers are rebellious and follow their own reasoning and it ends up in disaster. I don't think the story is more complicated than the examples I mentioned above. The ultimate shortcoming starts with the serpent who planted a seed of doubt in the woman's mind implying God was lying about the results of disobedience.
Thank you somebody else realizes Yahuah didn't make it complicated at all. Men want us so confused that they come with their OWN interpretations
Eve had wisdom? No. She looked at the tree and saw that is was pleasurable to make one wise.
No sin?
Your tongue is like the Serpent, Mannis!
That was amazing, thank you. My wife and I have been in hard times and she tried tried to tell
Me it was coming and I didn’t hear it this is excellent and exciting thanks
Listened to a few different versions of this exposition. Good to hear every time.
I assume you are getting this from Midrash or apocriphal books, but which ones? Thanks
His smite is on the way 🙏
7:39 into this, and I already draw huge issues with this, as, there is a lot that simply isn't true
Appreciate your very eloquent and clear thinking.... one must always bear in mind the vast layers within all of the various different latent meanings of what the Torah has to convey to us.... There are many different perspectives and nuances in comprehending these Concepts.... Especially when trying to comprehend an even slight prospective of an Infinite Source....
We are always hindered with our finite perspective so if we are utilizing terminology such as the notion of a need....
We are obviously applying a finite notion if only to maybe get a glimpse of what an infinite existence is conveying to us....
after eating the bad fruit, how could adam and eve hide from God? unless God could not recognize them. a good shepherd can track a lost sheep; unless the sheep "changes" its appearance. these are just my thoughts.
Just because you hide does not mean you won't be found.
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ok, let me think a moment on what you posted...
would you recognize any of your ancestors from 500 years ago? would any of your ancestors from 500 years ago recognize you?
i'm fairly certain God gets angry when His creation veers off their given path.
that was my original thought. thanks.
@@waterofsouls7639 Do you base your idea that God could not recognize Adam and Eve on any scripture?
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"But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”" genesis 3:9
@@waterofsouls7639 That doesn't mean that God could not find them.
God is all knowing.
Thank you Rabbi Friedman!!
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A faithful and proactive day for you and all here!!
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This was a beautiful tribute to Eve. ❤ Thank you Rabbi.
Wauw this moved me ❤️🙏🙌🫶
that's was great, but nowhere in the bible, for example the reason eve was created not because adam needed eve to eat from the tree but rather as and i quote the bible "And man named all the cattle and the fowl of the heavens and all the beasts of the field, but for man, he did not find a helpmate opposite him."
God gave them a choice from the beginning to choose. And why threatened death if they take from the tree. Does death to a soul make any difference when the soul can never die.
Good point Stephen
If it wasn't for the serpent, even the woman would not have eaten the fruit. Therefore, blame all of the world's suffering on the serpent. But if what you are saying is true, then shouldn't everyone disobey the law of the Torah as well, because God actually wants people to disobey his Word? It defeats the entire history of God's Word and God's people. What nonsense. This kind of reasoning must be why God sent the flood the wipe out all flesh from the face of the earth: they felt no shame about their sins and wanted to disobey every single one of God's commandments.
I don't know if Adam and Eve were real. Does anyone know where garden of Eden was/is?
You missed another fun point: They had to eat from the tree in order to know of good and evil. So when God told them not to do something, before they knew of good and evil, how could they have known that disobeying God was bad? They had no knowledge of evil. Or that obeying was good. No knowledge yet. So OF COURSE they just do things. Like babies: you can tell them whatever you want, they simply do not get it yet. So how could it ever be a sin?
When your mom told you to not to cross the street without looking did you need to get hit to understand why? Know you listened to your mom cause you don't know better. See listening to your parents as a child gets you further then when you are a disobedient kid. We need to learn to look at it from a LOVING creator's standpoint. He allows free will so he will not CONTROL you. Sadly folks who will try there hardest to make Yahuah out to be a bad guy are just dismissing the fact that YOU as a LIVING BEING have your own choice. When you hear something you have never heard before we naturally CONSIDER what we are being told before we dismiss it UNLESS the majority of the world already agrees. Eve CONSIDERED what the Serpent said to her because it was something she had never heard. Which brings in our curiosity now. The Serpent was LITERALLY the bad friend your mom tells you to watch out for because that friend has seen more then you in life hence "sheltered kids" vs "Street kids" they have seen more in life at a early age so they easily convince the other kids their age that the things they do are "cooler" then being a "good kid"
Amen
Rabbi, I come to you with genuine questions. where do you get that the two souls were already in heaven? Where do the conversations eve and Adam were having come from? Is this a hypothetical?
Exactly it's a hypothetical, the rabbi never brings down the sources usually
I asked him he same question over a year ago. He never answered and didn't include it in his new video. He is making stuff up.
Loved this video. Loved hearing a knee point of view. Thank you so very much
Thank you Rabbi for explaining the story of Adam and Eve, you make things so clear and easy to understand
I have never heard such biblical misunderstanding in my entire life. And it sounds more Mormon than Jewish. Y'all viewers need to understand that trusting Yehovah rather than men (or demons disguised as watever) is the key here. Trust Yehovah and trust His Torah. Obey what God has revealed to us in His written word. Love God with all your heart mind and soul; and love your neighbor as yourself. He has shown you man what is good. And what has Yehovah required of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
you are not a Jew so this lesson is not for you and nothing was revealed to you. go troll xstn pages or somebody else
That's insane. What's the serpent for if she was going to rationalize why she should eat it anyway? Also, why is Adam blaming Eve and Eve blaming the serpent? It sounds like they fell by chicanery.
I think the snake represents eves intuition. God is always testing our intuition. Once that awareness is there, it is constantly being test to build it up. We have to learn to be able to understand our intuition vs the ego mind.
What a beautiful description
Fascinating.
Hello Rabbi: Question: In the text about the creation of Eve is that not a rudimentary description of a surgical procedure? If Adam was a flesh and blood person like you and I, how and where was that surgical procedure done? Doesn't say God wiggled His nose or clicked His heels to make Eve. The description although rudimentary, is still precise. What say you Rabbi?
Thanks!
I think it's a death of innocence and the separation from God is the same as death.
If they had everlasting life before eating from the tree of knowledge why was there a tree of everlasting life ?
Why the ninth hour? Why is that important?
Ninth hour is said to be at three in the afternoon. Was four o' clock the meal time?
Good teacher.
But aren’t we bringing injustice and making this world a bad place!? Then how are we fixing it?
I love so much when yuo tell this story and i know its true because it makes me cry, im so glad you r here 😘🌈🍏 🍎🕊
Interesting story and analysis. But how did you come to these conclusions ? Adam lived only 10 hours before the fall? They were reincarnated into new bodies? Where does that come from, imagination?
They not what they do one lick or sniff and your forget your first love ❤
Why then is a need of a savior. Why Israel has to atone once a year for their sin offering sacrifices? It is a bit confusing for me. Is it there an explanation?
Best question. Best answer. Best answer. Best question. ❤️
You keep showing up in my recommended but I think you're just full of hot air! You can talk all day and not say anything
Rabbi, you should read the last revelation of God to Mohammad(meaning the praised) the descendant of Abraham through his first born Ismael(meaning God heard), to better understand the story of the creation of Adam.
Your making most of that up
Islam is the full submission of of one’s will to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. with that being said, I’d rather be the one to ponder and make use of my knowledge of which this original sin provided me with to not commit any further and in order to learn from it and believe with faith. Continuing this pursuit of working a job will not redeem you. Money is a way to make someone a tool and make them mechanics for system optimisation. That is self righteous and far from good in consensus between the the people of the book.
Lots of respect to you sir. Thanks for sharing a very valuable insights...❤
So you have to suffer for the mission you never accepted, adam and eve took it not us.. Thus story doesn't make sense 😮
Really? Isn't that all of life? Our life circumstances are very heavily the fault (or credit) of our parents, of God, not us. It's a separate question altogether - why are we created against our will? Rabbi Friedman deals with that question extensively on this channel.
@@DrKaii it's the fault of Adam and eve, and Not God. All the suffering and pain wouldn't have happen if they obeyed God and didn't eat the fruit.. God created us to share his love and have a relationship with us not to make earth more Holy than heaven.. Wherever God is, that place will be more holier than others.
Did you actually watch the video?
@@madeincda I don't comment without watching like you bro 😂😂😂... Stupidity is amazing..
@@TitanXx621 If you say so boss. You're making excellent points here, keep it up 🙄
Thank you so so much ! I love your wisdom and truth 🌴🤍
im going to begin here : what historians said nine hours and how did they determine that amount of hours? so you mean nine hours after eve was created? since they weren't created at the same time? im so willing to accept that an hour later they ate from the tree of knowledge but i am curious how an hourly specification was determined?
i am curious about how an hour later is determined since time is really an illusion.
But where does the lowest world come from which follows after eating from the tree? Is that also made by god? How is it necesarry for us to undergo this?
This is pure brilliancy.
That’s just amazing. I have never connected those dots on this story. Thank you!
Thank you! Thanks for the gift and for the feedback! Continue to enjoy in good health :)
Very interesting, food for thought. Can you please explain what the serpent's role is in this lower world, and why he was punished for his part in the story? I think punishment/consequence is the right word. At this time God also revealed his plan for the woman's Seed to bruise the serpent's head. I am enjoying the thought provoking talks, thank you.
I am curious where this interpretation came from?
There is another Rabbi that wrote down by One man Adom Sin had entered but by the second Adam ( Moschiac ) sin is atoned for.
Seems by the comments this video was about financial investments?
I love this! But how do you explain the word "cursed" in this context? Why does G-d curse them, rather than just sending them off?
Cursed them, the earth, all the animals and all of humanity
Which 9 hours? inside the air or the hour whitch is out side of the air.
Rabbi Friedman, although I do not share the same beliefs as your people do, if they all agree? But I value receiving these insights as a way to understand and respect our differences. Please know, your lessons are much appreciated.
Adam not understanding death because "nothing ever died" in his world kind of reminds me of a North Korean pilot who defected to the West with his Mig, recalling the pamphlets the Americans dropped to entice defection. He said that they offered lots of money, but no one in his country had a concept of money as there was never anything to buy, so there was no need for it.
Ummmm he did understand because 1. Adam knew what dirt was. 2. Adam was told what would happen if they did.
@@MissGodsChild within the context of the explanation offered in this video
@@dailysmelly9756 read scripture don't listen to false prophets. If opnion is one of a whitewashed tomb
No Meaning No Balance Without By Both
This is really similar to my read on it. I assumed the fall was part of God's plan, as it didn't make sense to set the conditions for it otherwise. I really like the heroic interpretation though
Don't you people realize that he is making up this stuff ? He sounds like he was watching and listening as the story was happening. The Adan and Eve story is one of the many stories of creation. You don't have to believe stupidities in order to have faith in your God.
I so appreciate you! These are the questions I had from a young age and onward and boy did my Pastor hate to see me coming 😂. He never could answer my questions reasonably and most certainly not as well as you do good sir. Thank you, from the bottom of my ever curious little heart, Thank you! 😁
So what is to fix or make G-dly on Earth if there were no humans on the planet when they arrived?
In the story, the first mention of humans being created is in Genesis 1
now im super confused.... how can you refer to Adam's mother? who is Adam's mother? am i missing something?
at 645 he say this is weird. so are you saying this is not how it happened? who is this ?
Thora is book of life of Jewish people for thousands years we have paradise today in brighter future life
How can you sin if you have no knowledge of evil
What is the good that Adam and Eve did not need knowledge of in the perfect Garden?
Amazing
Thanks Robert I never give a comment unless I mean it I am not trying to manipulate a person flatter or bs I usually say something to build up a person raise self esteem I am as forth right honest i font know I shared that probably because I am a beat off
where does this story come from?
I believe everything God creates does exactly what he created it do, however giving the angels and man free will was a great risk but a necessary one. God doesn't need robots he wants angels and people out of their own hearts to choose him and not be programmed to just follow orders, hence the tree of choice
1. Who are those historians who said that Adam received the commandment concerning the tree of knowlege in nine hours after creation? What are their names?
2. Where did you get this information that Adam and Eve first were created in heaven?
3. Why were they sent to save the Earth when it was good?
Instead is answering questions, you create more questions. 😩
I just finished reading Gensis this afternoon. One of my biggest takeaways, and one of my favorite lessons in life, my best days are disguised as my worst days.
Its interesting to see the timeline of the unolding of this first book.
It makes me think of the Serpent/Satan, "the bad guy", from a certain point of view.
Meanwhile, the "bad guy" is, in a sense, one of the Fathers of the world we live in to today.
Had the Serpent/Satan not "tempted" Eve, where would we be? Who would we be? Would we be at all?
So quick we can be to demonize rather then show gratitude. And even forgiveness.
Why forgive?
The alternative is holding resentment. We know that its unhealthy to hold resentment against other ppl. Why is it not the same for Non-Human-Entities as well?
Thank you, Serpent/Satan. I forgive you, for those who cant. I love you.
Every happens for Divine Reason. Its all part of the Plan of the Greater Will.
We get so hung up on "good" vs "evil" that we ignore that at its neutralized foundation it comes down to +/- and/or -/+.
But what can you do?
Be the change you want to see.
Why does it sound almost the Same as Sumerian Stories which they say are older than Moses Time.
And where did you come up with the extra commentary on adam & eve?
Imagination
How can be a lower world if they were the first humans . What are they going to fix if everything is new . Did God create other humans first ?
The meaning of words have been written but misunderstood totally for true reasons as to why we came here.
Its too experience this life and how to live in it with the UPS and Downs to it.
The book or many different books have the same misunderstanding as to why we are here and how to live.
A choice free will to live the choice.
We are all participants to this world to live it experience it to it's fullest no one dies you just leave the body that one has had the experience with it can be 300 years or 50 years you decide
If they weren't as corrupted as you say, why did their first offspring Cain murder Abel? Four wrongdoings right from the start (disobedience, unaccountability, murder, jealousy). In my eyes, humans were corrupted from the very beginning.
Cain and Abel were born in our world, the lowest world. Adam and Eve were not. Had the Garden of Eden event taken place in our world, your statement might be valid. Could be why God chose to create them and interact with them in a separate world. Why they had to start where they did.