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Friedman, Manis
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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Latest Comments:
Blessings to you Rabbi on job well done in breaching a very difficult topic that weighs heavily and every Jewish mind today. No, I am not going to be able to sleep better now because of new answers to old questions, but because you validated the way I have already thought and believed, with some gifted insight and analogies. As a middle aged Jew, I seemed to never have the time to answer my desire to attend Yeshiva, until recently, and as a result feel fortunate, closer to Hashem, and realize the purpose Hashem brought me jnto this world. I know many Jews who use the Holocaust or the premature death of a loved one as justification for living a secular life. I now will not only attempt to share my optimism with them, but also will refer them to this web site and your lecture on this subject. I feel as if I fabrengened with you this evening in Southern California, and I thank you with all my heart and soul for allowing me to welcome you into my home. Zai Gazunt, Hillel ben Mayer
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Rabbi Friedman, you can not imagine, how much you tought me in your lecture.
About the people I was born in, the Germans,
About us, the Jews (I am a ger),
About Pain, that it is not getting in my way, but it is my way,
And some things were totally new for me, because I heard them for the first time in my life.
This Lecture I will listen too more than one time. (As I do with many others.)
I was a child at the time of the holocaust.
But - even if it nearly does not count - may I, as a born German, ask your slicha, that we killed your grandmother? I can not change facts, but I feel so sorry for all that happened.
Michal
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Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
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Here is an authentically Jewish presentation of a painful subject which enables us to lay the groundwork for understanding G-d's justice. We come to understand the nature of Divine Providence, recognizing G-d's hand in every event. (1:19:29) | |
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| Torah brings peace to the world. More than a guide for social justice and personal morality, Torah brings harmony to nature itself making good and evil, light and darkness, serve a greater good - G-d's vast eternal plan.
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| Torah brings peace to the world. More than a guide for social justice and personal morality, Torah brings harmony to nature itself making good and evil, light and darkness, serve a greater good - G-d's vast eternal plan.
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| Torah brings peace to the world. More than a guide for social justice and personal morality, Torah brings harmony to nature itself making good and evil, light and darkness, serve a greater good - G-d's vast eternal plan.
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| Seeing the hidden goodness in every person; seeing the potential of mankind, and seeing the un-tapped reserve of wealth hidden in nature, together these visions make the impossible available, together they represent a messianic world.
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Bringing G-dliness into this World
Every created being needs to justify its existence because it was created for a purpose.
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| The soul descends from heaven - a perfect environment to a lesser one. The objective is to reveal the nature of the soul itself, which can only be revealed away from that perfect place
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Part 1
What is a soul? Where is it from? What is its significance in the world? A three part series; explaining and bringing down the kabbalistic term of ‘soul’, to a level that we can all relate to and understand.
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Part 2
What is a soul? Where is it from? What is its significance in the world? A three part series; explaining and bringing down the kabbalistic term of ‘soul’, to a level that we can all relate to and understand.
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Part 3
What is a soul? Where is it from? What is its significance in the world? A three part series; explaining and bringing down the kabbalistic term of ‘soul’, to a level that we can all relate to and understand.
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Part 1
The term ‘soul’ is so widely used in our lives. Does everything have a soul? And what is it in a practical application? A kabbalistic look at our relationship with our soul, and the souls of all that we encounter.
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Part 2
The term ‘soul’ is so widely used in our lives. Does everything have a soul? And what is it in a practical application? A kabbalistic look at our relationship with our soul, and the souls of all that we encounter.
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| The divine presence came down to this world and then the divine presence left this world. What will bring it back?
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| In describing G-d’s relationship with creation the Midrash says: The holy one blessed be He, desires a dwelling place in the lowest world. Desire, implies not that the project is unnecessary, rather it is essential to Him.
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| All resistance to G-dliness comes from un-holiness; through mitzvots we can bring G-dliness even to areas of resistance, and where G-d feels foreign and un-natural He eventually finds a home.
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The key to life: Making every experience G-dly
The purpose of life has two parts: Why G-d created us, what's in it for him? And why are we here, what does he want from us. The first question is high mystery, we may never know the answer. The second question is the key to life.
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| We learn that the freedom to choose, necessitates a choice. There is also a higher level, where an identity can exist without a choice -- freedom from choice. The information in this talk is indispensable in understanding the human condition, morality and Judaism.
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| What is the vast eternal purpose for which G-d creates the world? We are taught that there are two components to its fulfillment: to give G-d a voice in his world by making it more G-dly, and. to reach a state where-in the primary pleasure in life is closeness to G-d.
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