The TRUTH about the Golden Calf few people know

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  • @user-xr2ht1sw5o
    @user-xr2ht1sw5o Před 3 měsíci +2

    "A great leader, gets his greatness from the people, he is not greater than the people" - what an absolute profound statement.

  • @ms.blueeyes3210
    @ms.blueeyes3210 Před 11 měsíci +40

    As a woman that identifies Christian I love his speeches

    • @dejablue5746
      @dejablue5746 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Me too!

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 11 měsíci +2

      But is it true what he says? No way.

    • @allonifrah3465
      @allonifrah3465 Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@Esico6 Yes way. what he sais is true.

    • @jzzanetis
      @jzzanetis Před 10 měsíci

      Discernment is something practiced by both Jews and Christians.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 Před 10 měsíci

      @@allonifrah3465 - Go read it for yourself, it is not true.

  • @randywilliams9531
    @randywilliams9531 Před 10 měsíci +7

    I am a Christian and have studied the Torah. I enjoy your talks it's very informative and opens up new inroads for me

    • @user-rk1my2yh2y
      @user-rk1my2yh2y Před 10 měsíci

      A-holes like yourself usually end up alone. Sad. 😔

  • @eminikol3014
    @eminikol3014 Před 11 měsíci +11

    God knows everything. We are limited as humans. And for this quite naturally we have this sense of justice between brothers with brothers and sisters with sisters. Only God is limitless, He moves within His own limitations without disturbing the will of men.
    Glory to God for All Things!

  • @jjsalles12
    @jjsalles12 Před 11 měsíci +8

    אמן 🙏🏾 תהילה לה' 🙏🏾 הרב אני צמא לדבר יתברך של אלוהינו.

    • @jjsalles12
      @jjsalles12 Před 11 měsíci +1

      הכרת הטוב הרב, ואלוקינו ימשיכו לברך אותך תמיד, ובתפילותיך זכור אותי 🙏🏾

  • @NemesisDawn
    @NemesisDawn Před 11 měsíci +7

    I heard a wise Christian once say..."If you wanna study the new testament of the bible, study with a Christian Pastor...If you wanna study the old testament bible, study with a Jewish Rabbi".
    You have answered many questions I had about much of the confusion surrounding this amazing story.
    Thank you. Rabbi Friedman! You are a blessing.

    • @nickgoldring1446
      @nickgoldring1446 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @chico...2349 are you suggesting that there are Jewish pastors...and Christian rabbis?

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 Před 10 měsíci

      And if you do as the "wise" Christian said you will end up totally confused.

    • @lolabrown863
      @lolabrown863 Před 10 měsíci

      Makes sense, I was thinking the same thing.

    • @lolabrown863
      @lolabrown863 Před 10 měsíci +1

      A Christian pastor almost always preach from the New Testament, and a Rabbi studies, follows, and preaches from the Old Testament.

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@lolabrown863Rabbi's/Jews never preach only teach.

  • @hebamadi265
    @hebamadi265 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Thank you Rabbi Manis may God give you long life and a bounty of blessings

  • @egyur
    @egyur Před 11 měsíci +4

    שבת מבורך לך ולשלך אמן ואמן🙏

  • @schalkburger2128
    @schalkburger2128 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Thank you for the depth of happenings.

  • @firefightingdrums
    @firefightingdrums Před 11 měsíci +4

    Thank you for you insightfulness of this issue. Always extremely interesting content

  • @rizmauriz4719
    @rizmauriz4719 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Thank you very much Rabbi for your wonderful inspiring teachings

  • @marctompkins3001
    @marctompkins3001 Před 11 měsíci +17

    Rabbi, I’ve never heard this story explained this way. Thank you for you insightfulness.
    WOW

    • @iosta5694
      @iosta5694 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Skillful manipulator is Mr Friedman

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 11 měsíci

      @@iosta5694
      He is not skillful.

    • @kennethbrownsher1264
      @kennethbrownsher1264 Před 10 měsíci

      @@iosta5694 manipulate, like you do not

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@iosta5694Most of what Rabbi Friedman spoke of is from classic Jewish literature that was first transcribed 700 years ago.

  • @michaelmcgovern84
    @michaelmcgovern84 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Rabbi Mannis Friedman is a wealth of wisdom! 👍

  • @akai.christo
    @akai.christo Před 11 měsíci +9

    Thank you Rabbi Friedman!!
    ✡️🙏♥️🔥
    Wish you and everybody here a beautiful day!!
    💪🙂✌️

  • @Unknown17
    @Unknown17 Před 11 měsíci +20

    The scripture says AARON fashioned the calf with tools (Exodus 32:4) but when he was asked about it by Moses, he claimed the calf appeared (miraculously) after he threw the gold into the fire (Ex 32:24). It wasn't a "great multitude of sorcerers" who "used their magic" to make the calf, as the Rabbi said. That's not what the scripture says. It says Aaron made the calf himself, then claimed the calf appeared on its own. So Aaron himself fashioned the calf, then lied to Moses.

    • @curtrn
      @curtrn Před 11 měsíci +1

      I was thing the same thing as he was saying that. I do also believe that some of the people of Egypt went with them. Powerful people try to stay in power. I'm sure they had influence in this great sin.

    • @davidmillward3108
      @davidmillward3108 Před 10 měsíci

      In a far removed English translation or original Hebrew or Aramaic text ?
      There was/is the oral Torah as well handed down through the ages.

    • @dwanbarnes8246
      @dwanbarnes8246 Před 10 měsíci

      Right. I was saying the same thing

    • @dwanbarnes8246
      @dwanbarnes8246 Před 10 měsíci +1

      It says Aaron formed it

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@dwanbarnes8246Aaron formed it by receiving the Gold from their hands. They weren't just ethnic Egyptians, but a mixed multitude that were living in Egypt at the time, Egypt being a booming Metropolis at that time. In Hebrew they are known as the 'Erev Rav' which means 'Great Evening' which was the time that they practiced their divinations. There was a couple of the Pharos's magicians from Egypt that were vocalising the Incantation/spell while Aaron collected the gold from others. It says that Aaron received the Gold from their hands and that was his naivety for if they had put the Gold on the ground and Aaron then picked it up nothing would have happened as the spell would have been broken. So because he took the Gold from their hands the Golden Calf emerged from the fire. The Erev Rav are a problem for Israel to this day!

  • @nicholasbattaliou5882
    @nicholasbattaliou5882 Před 11 měsíci +2

    That was intense. Thank you Rabbi for giving me so much to think about.

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 Před 10 měsíci

      And while you are thinking about it - read it and get the real story.

  • @jeffreyrwilliams9345
    @jeffreyrwilliams9345 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thank you

  • @Programmer-Space
    @Programmer-Space Před 11 měsíci +23

    Thank you, Rabbi.
    I believe that choosing a Calf had a different reason, because the word עגיל (earring) is almost the same word as עגל (calf) in Hebrew, both words share the same root letters and also עיגול (a circle)..
    So.. from their golden Earrings to a golden Calf to circle and dance..
    At the end Moses came and broke their circle of dance then broke the calf to dust and scattered it on the water and made them drink...
    The cycle of slavery was broken at that moment.
    Finally, The chains of slavery were broken in spirit and in body and now they are ready for the covenant.

    • @lynetterowberry2
      @lynetterowberry2 Před 11 měsíci +3

      A golden calf represents the zodiac sign of Taurus. Earth element ... represented by pentacles. Meaning they were worshipping money. Money is not bad unless it's worshipped.

    • @sarpiyapantong8342
      @sarpiyapantong8342 Před 11 měsíci

      But why is there a narrative that it was because of Moses disobedience that he died and didn't enter the promised land?

    • @LogosInsula
      @LogosInsula Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@lynetterowberry2 money is always evil

    • @msmith7472
      @msmith7472 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Satan trying to stop prophecy from being fullfilled ....but it failed

    • @msmith7472
      @msmith7472 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@sarpiyapantong8342 that's when GOD told him to speak to the rock to produce water instead he struck it with the rod...there for he disobeyed GOD. It had nothing to do with the golden calf.. Read the Bible it tells you all the answers

  • @goodmorning6827
    @goodmorning6827 Před 9 měsíci

    “Religion is a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce -

  • @kevinkingston6488
    @kevinkingston6488 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks Rabbi , love your videos ...

  • @liskern9496
    @liskern9496 Před 11 měsíci +11

    "It was the riff-raff" - priceless! 😄

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @liskern9496 The hangers on!

    • @liskern9496
      @liskern9496 Před 9 měsíci

      I just don't understand why the hangers-on are not considered also as part of the group, since the very existence of the group led to the generation of those "attachments".@@michaelsmullen9891

  • @emoran5875
    @emoran5875 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thank you Rabbi…

  • @simosc2
    @simosc2 Před 11 měsíci

    Thank you, Rabbi

  • @burcu4711
    @burcu4711 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks rabbi🙏

  • @hebabakry7184
    @hebabakry7184 Před 11 měsíci

    Thank you God bless you

  • @Oscar-wb4jb
    @Oscar-wb4jb Před 11 měsíci

    Honestly I'm very happy about this now bcz many times the message was misinterpreted.. thanks

  • @jasonrobbins7589
    @jasonrobbins7589 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Shalom Rabbi

  • @uzolpakhrin1283
    @uzolpakhrin1283 Před 11 měsíci

    Thank you so much

  • @francisfischer7620
    @francisfischer7620 Před 8 měsíci

    What an excellent explanation!

  • @Butterflys3436
    @Butterflys3436 Před 11 měsíci +12

    Thank you Rabbi. Most excellent and truthful. Our Hashem is always helping, guiding, teaching, and patiently waiting

  • @leonardanderson2470
    @leonardanderson2470 Před 9 měsíci

    I have gained insight through your ingauging explanation of the Torah.

  • @edbutzwiggle4227
    @edbutzwiggle4227 Před 11 měsíci

    Awesome! Thanks Rabbi

  • @Lebowski098
    @Lebowski098 Před 11 měsíci

    Peace be wit u

  • @elaineerskine
    @elaineerskine Před 9 měsíci +2

    Aaron asked for the golden rings of 'your wives, sons and daughters.' He fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it a molten calf.
    Maybe there were Egyptians among them but Aaron was the ring leader. (Ex 32:4)

    • @erastusoluoch9227
      @erastusoluoch9227 Před 9 měsíci +2

      He actually fashioned the calf unlike what the Rabbii is saying

  • @BOAZ818
    @BOAZ818 Před 4 měsíci

    You’re the best rabbi manis!!!!!!!!

  • @MarcP5267
    @MarcP5267 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Wow never heard it like this. Thanks!

  • @BBQRando
    @BBQRando Před 11 měsíci

    God is Love ❤️

  • @yvonnesegers3214
    @yvonnesegers3214 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Isn’t this véry good! Oh Rabbi! Thank you, Shalom. 🕊

  • @anthonyrodriguez8143
    @anthonyrodriguez8143 Před 11 měsíci

    I had never thought of the story like this.

  • @mrmurray382
    @mrmurray382 Před 11 měsíci +9

    Judaism could have been great.
    But the reliance on texts outside the Torah itself to explain the Torah, suggests a few things. It suggests that persons may very well be making up and establishing their own interpretations.
    We see the Torah stating that:
    1. Aaron made a golden calf which the people accepted.
    So If they wanted to replace Moses, why would they accept a molten image?
    2. The Torah suggests that Aaron fashioned the calf with graving tools.
    So where do you get the idea that the calf just appeared after Aaron threw the gold into the fire?
    So my question is, since I'm assuming you will say God authorized the "commentaries" on the Torah:
    Why is it that the commentaries suggests the opposite of what is written in the Torah (e.g. Aaron fashioning the calf vs the calf arising from the flames)?
    God is not the author of confusion.

    • @pgman5416
      @pgman5416 Před 11 měsíci +4

      I guess it falls back onto the tradition of commentary itself. I don’t think the Torah is meant to confuse, since confusion comes from the expectation of static objectivity, but it brings many people together with different living subjective perspectives.

    • @mrmurray382
      @mrmurray382 Před 11 měsíci

      @@pgman5416
      Excellent idea...
      But do we get that idea from reading the Bible (whether Torah or KJV)? No. We see a being who demonstrates abilities less than Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience simply demanding we bend to His will or else.

    • @davidmillward3108
      @davidmillward3108 Před 10 měsíci

      There is another source being the oral Torah.

    • @mrmurray382
      @mrmurray382 Před 10 měsíci

      @@davidmillward3108
      If by "another" source, you mean a source that tells a different story, it reinforces the idea that it's all a sham... why would the two accounts have discrepancies between them?
      If by "another" source you mean another source with the same account, we are right back where we started.
      Why do we keep seeing either inconsistencies with history or discrepancies between accounts?
      Truth, is One.

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @mrmurray382 I will answer your question with my question. When the Jews were forced by the Hellenistic Greeks to translate the Torah into Greek (by the way Hebrew translates into Greek very well) that the Jews didn't give them a different text especially as the Torah doesn't make Jews look that great. The stories of the Torah are just the outer garment of the Torah. The soul of the Torah is hidden the same as the soul of a person is hidden inside the body. But those that have eyes to see penetrate further. Jews have an unbroken chain of Oral tradition that goes all the way back to Mt Sinai and they know that if someone comes up with an interpretation, whether from the simple meaning of the text or from the most hidden levels and that if what they say or put down in writing is something that is untrue that soul will be flung down to Gehinnom. A high price to pay for letting your ego get the better of you!

  • @marina.r.d.struse
    @marina.r.d.struse Před 11 měsíci +5

    At the beginning of your shiur: This is exactly the approach if you want to lift the veil even a little bit to understand the words of the Torah. Read the comments, note the grammar and the tenses. Thank you very much.

  • @barbaratatarcuk
    @barbaratatarcuk Před 8 měsíci

    I like his sense of humor!

  • @bobvanwagner6099
    @bobvanwagner6099 Před 10 měsíci +1

    My working theory was that someone buried a lost wax mold they carved out of wood in the fire pit, which somehow they tricked Aaron into throwing the gold on top of. Lessens the magic needed.

  • @AlwaysHopeful87
    @AlwaysHopeful87 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Items that popped into my mind, first, never heard that the calf wasn't formed with labor. Second, pondered the relationship between leader(s) and followers and how it affects behavior separately and as together. Third, I didn't realize that Egyptians were part of the crowd and that the spiritual battle was continuing. I thought that battle, not war, ended at the crossing. Finally, pondered connecting the narrative to our day, 08/2023. Where are we on the spectrum of being close to XXX and worshiping a golden calf? Which way are we moving?

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @AlwaysHopeful87 They weren't just ethnic Egyptians, but a mixed multitude that were living in Egypt at the time, Egypt being a booming Metropolis at that time. In Hebrew they are known as the 'Erev Rav' which means 'Great Evening' which was the time that they practiced their divinations. There was a couple of the Pharos's magicians from Egypt that were vocalising the Incantation/spell while Aaron collected the gold from others. It says that Aaron received the Gold from their hands and that was his naivety for if they had put the Gold on the ground and Aaron then picked it up nothing would have happened as the spell would have been broken. So because he took the Gold from their hands the Golden Calf emerged from the fire. The Erev Rav are a problem for Israel to this day!

    • @AlwaysHopeful87
      @AlwaysHopeful87 Před 10 měsíci

      Thank you.

  • @christianebers
    @christianebers Před 11 měsíci

    Thank you for bringing me back… wow

  • @johngalt2069
    @johngalt2069 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Golden calf aside this is the first time I’ve understood why Moses destroyed the first set of tablets. Thanks Rabbi another great lesson.

    • @hake_999
      @hake_999 Před 11 měsíci +1

      You all do not know because you are not reading Bible

  • @christinesotelo7655
    @christinesotelo7655 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thank you again! I am learning so much about the Old Testament and I am intrigued! ❤

  • @marina.r.d.struse
    @marina.r.d.struse Před 11 měsíci +1

    About the Golden Calf and the relationship between Moshe and his people brings me to some thoughts. In Dewarim 1, 37 Moshe says:
    גַּם־בִּי֙ הִתְאַנַּ֣ף יְהֹוָ֔ה בִּגְלַלְכֶ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר גַּם־אַתָּ֖ה לֹא־תָבֹ֥א שָֽׁם׃
    …Because of you…
    Has the „sin“ of the Golden Calf something to do with the decision of Hashem not let Moshe guide his people into the Land? What would have happened if Moshe had entered the land as its leader instead of Yehoshua?

  • @tonicastel2390
    @tonicastel2390 Před 11 měsíci +22

    Very interesting, Rabbi. Where in the Scriptures do we find authority for this interpretation? For example, Exodus 32 seems to me to be clear that Aaron had a very direct & active role in the creation of the golden calf. For example, in Ex. 32:4: “He [Aaron] took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf;…”.
    Also, I have never read about a large multitude of Egyptian elite accompanying the Israelites out of Egypt or that it was they alone who fashioned & worshipped the calf. Please cite your sources as I would love to read the source text, myself.
    Many thanks.

    • @beyondfirstthought6814
      @beyondfirstthought6814 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Following.

    • @IsraelMartinezM7
      @IsraelMartinezM7 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Let me ask you this. Why did the people of Israel complained so much while traveling in the desert? And who were the ones complaining? Well Egyptians following us to the wilderness they weren’t used to the things they live in. So what is actually said is that there are certain groups of people that complain to God how it was better off in Egypt. And the people of Israel are joining to group to protest and they ask Moshe as well. The Egyptians saw Gods power and what he could do. So of course they would follow the Israelites with God because the Egyptians gods didn’t exist.

    • @beyondfirstthought6814
      @beyondfirstthought6814 Před 11 měsíci +6

      I get the idea. That’s easy enough to grasp. My wondering is that of authority for this interpretation, and the text that supports this interpretation.

    • @gracefullosco6112
      @gracefullosco6112 Před 11 měsíci +4

      All the fixing up to a story to make wrong look righteous…cause these people do no wrong…there’s always stories that make what they do wrong look right.

    • @vojtechferencz3729
      @vojtechferencz3729 Před 11 měsíci +1

      So called Group of EREV RAV
      by the way source you can find in the Zohar there you can find more interesting information about the golden caff how far I know it was even talking and it will again happen in the end times after shutting down the altar in Jerusalem

  • @christianebers
    @christianebers Před 11 měsíci

    Omg thank you!

  • @elizabethbooth5446
    @elizabethbooth5446 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Thank you rabbi

  • @kennedycorrea2500
    @kennedycorrea2500 Před 11 měsíci

    Beutiful story

  • @tiffanygrever8092
    @tiffanygrever8092 Před 11 měsíci +15

    This is very interesting,when I was in Sunday school I always assumed the calf was human build and I didn't know some of the Egyptians came other then maybe Moses stepmother lol.but this is a new take on the story.thank you rabbi.

    • @msmith7472
      @msmith7472 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Non of us where ever taught this, we were all taught the same as you.

    • @hake_999
      @hake_999 Před 11 měsíci +2

      You need to read Bible Than u will get to know everything

    • @fredgillespie5855
      @fredgillespie5855 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Do any of you people ever check out what a Rabbi tells you?
      If you did you would realise that you had just listened to another Jewish fairy tale.
      In Exodus 32. You will find that the people (Israelites) demanded that Aaron make them "gods to go before them", that Aaron collected their gold and that he made them a golden calf and said "these be thy gods O Israel. Aaron then made an alter before it and declared a feast on the following day.
      "Then "the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people (Israelites,) which thou brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
      They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt". (It tells you just the same in the Orthodox Jewish Bible.)
      Although a "mixed multitude came out of Egypt with the Israelites there is no mention of them being involved - the Israelites demanded the golden calf, Aaron made it and the Israelites worshipped it.

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@msmith7472 In Judaism there is an unbroken chain of Master/Disciple going all the way back to Moses at Mt Sinai and many books have been written that detail that information throughout the whole of the 2,000 years of the diaspora. This knowledge was part of the original 'Oral Tradition.'

    • @unrelativistic
      @unrelativistic Před 10 měsíci +2

      Well, if you read Exodus 32, it disagrees in some regard with the Rabbi's statement that the calf popped out of the fire (that was the excuse offered). They brought their gold to Aaron telling him to give them a god.
      Verse 4: "He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said 'This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.' (5) Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it..." So according to the text, Aaron made the calf and Aaron made an altar for the calf. Skipping ahead, when Moses comes back on the scene: verse 21: "Then Moses said to Aaron, 'What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?' (22) Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil. (23) For they said to me, 'Make a god for us who will go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' (24) I said to them 'Whoever has any gold, let them tear it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf."
      So the story that it popped out of the fire as a calf, was Aaron's excuse, not what had really happened. God himself told Moses in verse 8: "They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said 'This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'". God himself said that THEY MADE it.
      I understand the Rabbi's point, but I will stand by the text.
      As to why a calf? The Israelites came from Canaanite stock--if you doubt that, go read the story of Abraham--he clearly was in the region of Jerusalem, then called Salem, and was blessed by Melchizedek, priest-king of the city.
      The polytheistic Canaanite pantheon included El, Ashura, YHWH, Ba'al, and others; and the figure of the bull was used extensively. This is known by archaeology. Clearly, the people were reverting to their polytheistic ways, worshiping a graven bovine figure; and Aaron was instrumental in making it so (likely, as the Rabbi points out, feeling that his life was in danger if he did not).

  • @philipg7765
    @philipg7765 Před 11 měsíci +4

    Where in the Torah can i find “ these other people” that you speak about ie the riff raf?

  • @russrussel3947
    @russrussel3947 Před 11 měsíci +6

    I'm stunned by the complexity of this story that I've only heard preached with meaningless simplicity. It's shocking to hear such a CALM and INTELLIGENT explanation, after hearing preacher-yelling "Jews were so disobedient" because they are evil TROPES. Gosh, I never knew Egyptians were in the mix. My Jewish Grandpa was right. Christmas Tree People are quite Silly and Lacking.

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 Před 11 měsíci +1

      You are easily fooled.

    • @russrussel3947
      @russrussel3947 Před 11 měsíci

      @@Esico6 What Denomination are you?

    • @russrussel3947
      @russrussel3947 Před 11 měsíci

      @@Esico6 Declare your loyalty to your DENOMINATION

  • @silvergibson2656
    @silvergibson2656 Před 10 měsíci

    love u paps

  • @Patrick-zg7hg
    @Patrick-zg7hg Před 11 měsíci

    I really Dig It Man'

  • @Patrick-zg7hg
    @Patrick-zg7hg Před 11 měsíci +1

    I was under the impression that Ahaaron ( bbhm)...was under duress cause the people built themselves up into a frenzy ...

  • @lapassion24
    @lapassion24 Před 9 měsíci

    Order , and moral , on how to live to breathe , to see, to understand what the things around you are, the way they are ..!!??

  • @hemispace641
    @hemispace641 Před 11 měsíci +1

    At this point, right here tonight, this is the most profound shit I've heard in my entire fuckin life...
    And that's Word to Everything...
    Lower East Side in the House...
    God Bless us all forever...
    MUCH RESPECT to Rabbi Manis Friedman for sharing with the world the Manifold Wisdom of God...

    • @hake_999
      @hake_999 Před 11 měsíci

      You all should rear Bible than you will understand

  • @ninadart9028
    @ninadart9028 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Yes in Hawai’i my friend’s name was jezebel

    • @allonifrah3465
      @allonifrah3465 Před 10 měsíci

      And her single mother was named Lilith?

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@allonifrah3465 How unfortunate. I bet she led an interesting life.

  • @jameskeating4719
    @jameskeating4719 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Hi sir

  • @eyobb4052
    @eyobb4052 Před 2 měsíci +1

    ...The ancient Egyptians, unlike the majority current occupiers were prosperous in agriculture along the River Nile due to the annual flood bringing rich soil from the highlands of Ethiopia.They were aware of cyclical drought that could occur & (sometimes lasts 7 years);and they were combatting the waste of yield by raising Cats(Cat Mummies found in 100K) - to control rats, in the farms and the graineries; doing so thus wisely control distribution from disrupting the society-[you see,- they have Pyramids to build and Monuments to erect for the here after...!!❤] ...Tribes from all over around Pharaoh's Egypt, to distant lands including the 12 Tribes of Israel were welcome to save their tribes from famine. While all these are happening, some tribes didn't t want to go back to where they come from while the getting was good - there by multiply, get to know how to work in Pharaohs Egypt system (Joseph).This knowledge made some "trusted" citizens, apparently enabling them to gain access to Pharaohs Gold Stock Pile (The Hitites' Kings were corresponding with the then Pharaohs saying"you have gold in abundance as the desert sand"..."why not get our daughters for your wives")...They were dreaming to get their hands on some of the gold by means of marriage! While all these happening, the Israelites in Ghoshen and around every area of ancient Egypt is having a conciderable visible demography increase and Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt and the population felt threatened of their way of life - Ancient Egyptian Abundant Life!? - At this point, you can see how the ancient Israelites could lay their hands on... Pharaohs' GOLD BEFORE THEIR EXILE TO SAINAI DESERT!...there you have it rabae!😏😎😎🙂🙂

  • @hebamadi265
    @hebamadi265 Před 11 měsíci

    Idolatry and adultery so similar in pronunciation and both have deadly Consequences!!!! Praise be to the one true God

  • @edeancozzens3833
    @edeancozzens3833 Před 10 měsíci

    The same problem happened when unbelieving "strangers" joined the pilgrims on the Mayflower. They ended up causing problems. Happened in Pennsylvania too.

    • @shavoshaco2402
      @shavoshaco2402 Před 10 měsíci

      Lol the pilgrims coming on the mayflower was a part of American history, not he Bible. Stop romantizicing America as Gods country, cause every country is God's Country.

  • @methylmike
    @methylmike Před 5 měsíci +1

    That's wild how Jews read it to protect Aaron
    It was the Levites who made the calf, that's why Moses was pissed at them when he came down from the mount
    Levites were possibly the worst out of the bunch
    Hard truth to swallow

  • @jamesfmarquess6466
    @jamesfmarquess6466 Před 6 měsíci

    If you are good humored about yourself and laugh at at our feeble attempts to wisdom, you'll always be in a good mood.

  • @marleneschoenfeld4939
    @marleneschoenfeld4939 Před 10 měsíci

    Seriously my answer works

  • @michaelmelamed9103
    @michaelmelamed9103 Před 10 měsíci

    Sapphire cubes! Mel Brooks had it wrong in the movie when he dropped the third tablet.😂

  • @emilee9821
    @emilee9821 Před 10 měsíci

    Question: didnt Moshe come with the commands after they made the calf? It's confusing...

  • @MyMezouar
    @MyMezouar Před 9 měsíci

    al-A'la Maududi
    (20:85) He said, "Well, listen! We put your people to a trial after you and the Samiri *63 has misled them. "
    Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
    *63) It is obvious from the last letter `ya' that Samiri was not the proper name of the person, for this Arabic letter is always added to show a person's connection with his race or clan or place. Moreover, the prefix `al' (definite article 'the') in the original Arabic text clearly denotes that the Samiri was a particular man from among many other persons of the same race or clan or place, who had propagated (he worship of the golden calf. In fact, this does not require any further explanation than this, but this has been necessitated because many Christian missionaries and the Western Orientalists have tried to criticise the Holy Prophet and the Qur'an on this account. They say, (God forbid,) "This is a proof of the grievous ignorance of history on the part of Muhammad, the author of the Qur'an, and is one of the anachronisms of the Qur'an." They base this absurd criticism on the assumption that this Samiri was the inhabitant of Samaria, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Israel, which was built in 925 B.C. long after this happening; then centuries after this, a generation of the Samaritans came into existence as a result of inter-marriage between the Israelites and the non-Israelites. As the Samaritans worshipped the golden calf, the critics accuse the Holy Prophet of inventing this story on the basis of mere hearsay. They say that the Holy Prophet might have heard something like this from the neighbouring Jews and inserted it in the Qur'an. This is not all. They also criticise that Haman who was a courtier of Cyrus has been mentioned in the Qur'an as a minister of Pharaoh. It is a pity that these so-called scholars seem to think that in the ancient times there used to be only one person bearing one name in a clan or a place, and there was absolutely no possibility of another person or persons having the same name. They do not know, or pretend they do not know, that during the time of Prophet Abraham, a famous people known as the Sumerians inhabited 'Iraq and the neighbouring regions, and it is just possible that during the time of Prophet Moses there were some people known as the Samiris who might have migrated to Egypt from 'Iraq. Besides this, according to the Bible (1 Kings, 16: 24), Samaria itself was built on a hill which was bought from Shemer and named Samaria after him. This is a clear proof that there were people named Shemer (or Sumer) even before Samaria came into existence and it is also just possible that some clans might have been called "Samiri"

  • @marctompkins3001
    @marctompkins3001 Před 11 měsíci +8

    I’ve always wondered why people would name their Baby, Arron. Knowing that he was was responsible for the false God image of the calf. Just to try and prove my point…… have you ever met anyone who’s parents named their daughter Jezebel? I’m in my 60’s and have never met anyone with Jezebel for a name. However I’ve met many Arron’s.

    • @Jack-xy2pz
      @Jack-xy2pz Před 11 měsíci

      Good topic to unpack

    • @jacobfeller2967
      @jacobfeller2967 Před 11 měsíci

      Oh, with all due respect Rabbi, the Jews did make another golden Calf again, having leaned absolutely nothing from their history. It was during the Reign of Jerobaum in the northern kingdom after the split up, when Solomon died! How do you explain that double insanity? Furthermore, Why didn’t Aaron just casually & calmly without debate tell them to adjust their clocks. They are only a half day off! That is not an intolerable amount of time. He could have explained their mistake like you did and they would test his sincerity by waiting another half day before attempting to kill him?

    • @balurmoshiyakgova2261
      @balurmoshiyakgova2261 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Aaron was not responsible for golden calf.

    • @balurmoshiyakgova2261
      @balurmoshiyakgova2261 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Listening and processing information is very crucial. Listening to the lecture more than once .

    • @balurmoshiyakgova2261
      @balurmoshiyakgova2261 Před 11 měsíci

      Dynamics of human behavior while emotional is explained. One needs to learn from this event.

  • @zigginzag584
    @zigginzag584 Před 11 měsíci

    Rabbi, please go into the erev rav
    Who are they today?

  • @GerardoLoynaz-dn7kd
    @GerardoLoynaz-dn7kd Před měsícem

    Thanks Friedman..I appreciate very much your sapiens knowledge in our traditions..
    I would think that mixed company it could not be a mixed race company?
    I mean Israel and Egypt blood mixed then This violation would bring spiritual transference..?
    I think it was demonic spiritual transference ..
    The same way it happens with the the report over the Israel..
    I would like you to touch these theme ( spiritual transference)
    Husband and wife.
    Kurios and doulos
    Between friends..
    Boss and workers..etc
    I really appreciate your teachings..

  • @red2blackprofits
    @red2blackprofits Před 11 měsíci +1

    so if Moses broke the contract was the contract reinstated? Why are the Ten Commandments so similar to the Laws of Maat?

  • @paulsegura7574
    @paulsegura7574 Před 10 měsíci

    Maybe someone can offer some insight.
    Every translation I've read says Aaron shaped it in to the shape of a calf.

  • @shahidchaudhry3942
    @shahidchaudhry3942 Před 9 měsíci

    What is your views on he Calf story in the Quran. Where Moses asked his people to kill in thousand who worshiped cow, and brought commandment “ though shall not kill ,,,,,,,,

  • @justselect3599
    @justselect3599 Před 11 měsíci

    Exodus 32:4
    32 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
    2 Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,[b] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”

  • @jeffstarrunner1
    @jeffstarrunner1 Před 9 měsíci

    In the voice of Muary- You said at the beginning of this show that the Egyptians made the calf with magic. Exodus 32:4 determined that was a lie.

  • @franklix
    @franklix Před 10 měsíci

    I will always and forever be perplexed with God not already knowing this? Doesn’t God know everything? Why did he get angry that they made a golden calf?… Didn’t God already know this would happen? I’m so perplexed that some things God just don’t know.😢😢😢

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @franklix Of course he knew, but the narrative is from our perspective.

  • @egyur
    @egyur Před 11 měsíci

    שבועה מבורך אמן ואמן

  • @abelchavez8786
    @abelchavez8786 Před 11 měsíci

    Sometimes these stories read like God but sometimes read like Aliens 👽 and humans are either like equals and sometimes like pets and sometimes like it is ourselves and I think we are at the brink of finding out who created us and the balance is tipping …with Christianity and Islam as also guides somehow .. it’s the biggest story ever made but if for some whatever reason anything is true at least we existed for a short period of time .. at least we lived and tried , most , because we did tried otherwise there would be no kind of civilization at all more like pets running around wild we are not like that idk 🤷‍♂️ all this studying religions and faiths has clutter my 🧠 but at least I tried so for whatever is worth here I go .. I was chosen .. see y’all on judgement day Goodluck and God Bless

  • @saeedahmad8477
    @saeedahmad8477 Před 9 měsíci

    The Egyptian magician Sambri built that calf telling people that it was their new god while Moses was away for 40 days.. the calf was placed at a certain place when the wind blew it would make some whistling noise. They believed it was their new god.

  • @matthewaislabie7354
    @matthewaislabie7354 Před 10 měsíci

    Recommend one plays at x 2 speed so you don't fall asleep.

  • @lilithsrainb23lionsrloose19
    @lilithsrainb23lionsrloose19 Před 11 měsíci

    The riff raff of the milky calf 😇

  • @blayomusic
    @blayomusic Před 11 měsíci

    Fine, Ill goto the zoom session, better not cost a million sheckles. Lol I am just kidding around but I really do want to speak to you personally.

  • @Christopherurich33
    @Christopherurich33 Před 11 měsíci +1

  • @Esico6
    @Esico6 Před 11 měsíci

    Sounds like a fantasy novel based on the famous golden calf story.
    The most sad thing you say is that: luckily there was no idolatry with a golden calf anymore. No indeed, BUT MANY other idolatry cases followed (unfortunately).

  • @biblethumper1624
    @biblethumper1624 Před 10 měsíci

    "And he [Aaron] received them [earrings etc] at their hand and FASHIONED IT WITH A GRAVING TOOL, after he had MADE IT A MOLTEN CALF: and they said, These be thy gods, Israel, which brought the up out of the land of Egypt.
    And when Aaron saw it, he BUILT AN ALTER BEFORE IT; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord."
    (Exodus 32, the Bible).
    Please people, we have already been warned not to be drawn into fables! This is a Jewish(?) tradition which directly contradicts the account as found in the Hebrew scriptures, Holy Bible (Torah).

  • @brigittaashandoz5762
    @brigittaashandoz5762 Před 11 měsíci

    It's a bean, lovely today. No advrt😂😂❤❤❤❤

  • @walterfoulger6340
    @walterfoulger6340 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Things Rabbe should not talk about ;
    Truth on Political History.
    Truth on Archeological history.
    Truth on biblical history.
    Truth on Judaism ancient history.
    Truth on hard science.
    Better off keeping silent rather than leading people astray on such matters.
    It is always embarrassing. Especially when one cannot or should not correct Rabbe.
    Just stick to Biblical Wisdoms.

    • @SharkSandwich451
      @SharkSandwich451 Před 11 měsíci

      So, the person who has been studying this their entire lives (with others as guidance) is wrong and “Walter” from nowhere’s Ville is correct? You have a giant ego.

    • @walterfoulger6340
      @walterfoulger6340 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@SharkSandwich451
      I never stated i could match in total knowledge. Which would be as an ant to a mountain.
      But yes. You would expect someone who has studied for so long on the subject would of learnt something by now.
      Ego does not come into the equation. How do you know that i am not a Sage that has also studied his whole life ?
      You dont !!
      I dont defend the man, i defend the truth.
      Shalom

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @@walterfoulger6340 There are Hebrew/Aramaic sources for the information given. It is from mystical commentary on the Torah first transcribed in the 13th century but is around 2,000 years old. I am familiar with the work.

    • @walterfoulger6340
      @walterfoulger6340 Před 10 měsíci

      Manis is obviously experiencing dementia. It says it straight out in words in Ex 32...the people asked for a new " god". Not to replace Moses at all !! And scripture says it straight out that Aaron uses a tool to craft the calf. I luv Manis. But he is simply teaching lies here.

  • @mikewilliams235
    @mikewilliams235 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Maybe when they put the gold into the fire and it melted it just looked like a calf when it solidified? I can imagine solidified metal looking like an animal.

    • @davidmillward3108
      @davidmillward3108 Před 10 měsíci

      These were Egyptian sorcerers. Of the type that presented serpents.

    • @mikewilliams235
      @mikewilliams235 Před 10 měsíci

      @@davidmillward3108 19They made a calf at Horeb ♦
      and worshipped the molten image.
      That's from Psalm 106

  • @NotNecessarily-ip4vc
    @NotNecessarily-ip4vc Před 11 měsíci +4

    In this scene we get a glimpse of what it's like to follow the false Elohim "Yahweh", from Genesis 2, where some Priests of Leviathan graduate to Priests of Yahwism (the polytheistic religion of Iron Age Israelites; not to be confused with the the true Elohim from Genesis 1 or Bronze Age God (El) worship) by killing 3,000 of their relatives, friends and neighbors:
    Exodus 32
    Names of God Bible
    25 Aaron had let the people get out of control, and they became an object of ridicule to their enemies. When Moses saw this,
    26 he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “If you’re on YAHWEH’s side, come over here to me!” Then all the Levites gathered around him.
    27 He said to them, “This is what YAHWEH ELOHIM of Israel says: Each of you put on your sword. Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, and kill your relatives, friends, and neighbors.”
    28 The Levites did what Moses told them, and that day about 3,000 people died.
    29 Moses said, “Today you are ordained as YAHWEH’s priests. God gave you a blessing today because each of you fought with your own sons and brothers.”

  • @Mudguaard
    @Mudguaard Před 11 měsíci

    Did the gold from the calf get used on the Arc of the Covenant

    • @jaredellis2439
      @jaredellis2439 Před 10 měsíci

      Nope read verse 20 of chapter 32 and u will find out that moshe is a gangster. God had moshe tell the people to destroy the idol and grind it into dust and eat it

    • @Mudguaard
      @Mudguaard Před 10 měsíci

      I wonder what ingesting gold does to one?

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@Mudguaard Monoatomic gold is a term used to describe a specific group of elements that were discovered in the late 1970s by an Arizona farmer named David Hudson1. These metals do not have the metallic properties that are typically associated with those elements. In their monoatomic form, the electrons are re-arranged so that they avoid any chemical reactions2. Monoatomic gold is also referred to as ORME (Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elemental forms)1. It is claimed to have amazing benefits for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, promoting brain coherence, mental clarity and increased level of awareness2. However, there is no scientific evidence to support these claims and the concept of monoatomic gold is often associated with mysticism and conspiracy theories

  • @lynetterowberry2
    @lynetterowberry2 Před 11 měsíci

    Another lesson I see is that God took the Jews out of Egypt but didn't take Egypt out of the Jews just like God took Lot out of Soddom and Gamorrah but the cities remained in Lots daughters. Metaphor for generational programming. The Egyptians tasked clever Jews to be scribes among them ... the scribes gained knowledge. Ancient Egyptian consciousness and Jewish mystic consciousness share many similarities. I think Egyptians who gained powerful knowledge lost it when they thought they were G_d. Perhaps humility was the true power of the Jews. Pls correct me if I'm wrong Rabbi.💫🙏💜

  • @dennismingus
    @dennismingus Před 9 měsíci

    The cow and the calf are constantly being used to symbolize the God of the Earth, Nature's God. The idea of the Golden Calf is to describe the Wonderfulness of the system the God of the Earth is offering to mankind.

  • @IMAHMS
    @IMAHMS Před 10 měsíci

    Who is the Samiri?

  • @kingshese1230
    @kingshese1230 Před 11 měsíci +2

    No no no, they made a golden calf with their hands. The calf was not miraculous

  • @NormanF62
    @NormanF62 Před 9 měsíci

    I’ve recently come to the view Moshe’s anger was wrong and he didn’t hold himself accountable. Everyone thought he was dead, he never kept in contact with the tribal leaders and the result was the Golden Calf. That was as much his fault as it was the people’s - plenty of blame to go around. Raw anger is never a good thing and makes matters worse. This is why G-d prevented him from entering the Promised Land and not for what transpired later in Meribah. Being a leader in a crisis is the most difficult thing in the world and Moshe failed his most important test. To rally the people around G-d and put what happened behind them.

  • @franklix
    @franklix Před 10 měsíci

    So why does the Red Heifer’s ashes become a requirement in todays Jewish ceremony for the temple?could this have some left over influence from the Egyptian sorcerers who were among the Jews?

    • @michaelsmullen9891
      @michaelsmullen9891 Před 10 měsíci

      @franklix The ashes are to purify a person from the impurity of being next to someone dead and that includes cemeteries. That is why Kohanim(Jewish Priests) don't attend burials as it would disqualify them from temple service and the ability to transmit the priestly blessing.