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Manis Friedman
Rabbi Manis Friedman is a world-renowned author, counselor, lecturer and philosopher; and co-founder of Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota. He also served as simultaneous translator for the live televised talks by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

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Rabbi Manis Friedman, a noted Chassidic philosopher, author and lecturer, is dean of Bais Chanah Women's Institute of Jewish Studies.

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Posted: May 24, 2009
Okay posters...The Rabbi is correct.
We must understand here Who the Torah was given to...The Jewish people. Therefore, this command was to the Jew's neighbors..who by command were not to have non-Jews or idolaters with living them. It also did NOT say in Torah to love the world, love humans...it SAYS your neighbor or fellow Jew. So, I guess you will have to take this up with Hashem. They were His words...not the Rabbis idea. Ok? If we loved everyone the way it says, then why are we not allowed to inter-marry? It is an exclusive life. Like it or not. That doesn't mean we cannot love or be kind to a degree to everyone. Just not in the same way as a Jew. In addition, if we don't love each other more..who will? The world hates us!
Posted By Gavi, NM

Posted: Feb 10, 2009
Then again...
I get a kick out all of this foolishness. Was Ruth Jewish? Nope, not on your bippy (to borrow a '70s byword). Worse, she was a Moabite! One of the people who were never to mix with our people. Yet will anyone dare to say that she is not the grandmother of Kind David? In Solomon's Temple there was a court of the Gentiles and he asked Hashem to accept the prayers of the Gentiles. How can we dare think that we can fix the world if we cannot love our Gentle neighbors are ourselves?
Posted By Beverly Kurtin, Hurst, TX

Posted: Jan 23, 2009
Moshiach
Remember, this is all just commentary. Only Moshiach's interperatation of the Torah will be absolute and everlasting.

We establish logical propositions ascribed to the Torah, and these have varying probabilities tied to them. But they are just that. Propositions with probabilities tied to them. I think a major problem of contemporary Orthodoxy stems from an idea outlined in Laplace's Philosophical Essay on Probabilities; that men with positions of power and authority make statments to the masses, to which the masses take as "absolute".

So how was King David Jewish, according to your logic? You seem so confident in the idea that the child of a "Jewish" father and a "non-Jewish" mother is not "Jewish". Is there special consideration given to King David and Moshiach, then? Or is what is underlying Chassidism the push for rebellion against Moshiach which is outlined in Isaiah?
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