00:00 Why is Judaism so difficult?

06:35 The build up to 9th of Av Ashkenazim vs Sephardim

14:26 How can we relate to the loss of a Temple we never knew?

29:56 Did Hashem plan that Adam would sin? (and what would the point of life be if he hadn't sinned?)

32:17 If someone is naturally great and holy why do they get the credit for it? (Judging others)

37:05 Were the great biblical characters born great? or did they achieve it?

40:09 Can human freewill impact the world in a way Hashem did not already plan?

43:10 Is it ok to ask Hashem for signs?

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00:00 Questions 04:30 If God has unconditional love for us, then why are there so many conditions? Why did God not just create a world that was purely good? How do we know that there is an afterlife?

16:33 Do non-religious Jews have a place in the world to come? Are we all judged the same way? How to keep growing in small steps. We don't know who is holier to God.

25:41 What if being observant interferes with our career and life goals? If all Jews kept halacha would there be less contributions to medicine, science etc? The contribution of Judaism and the Jewish people to the world.

41:15 The Jewish approach to IVF and surrogacy.

47:00 Should a Jew live in Israel?

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Rabbi Daniel Rowe responds to questions about Jewish belief and Jewish philosophy in a weekly Q&A with students in the Aish Jerusalem foundations program. Today's topics include:

00:00 A recap of the Questions asked

01:30 Does the improbability of intelligent life prove God?

14:20 Could there be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? If so would that impact Torah or make our lives less significant? 16:51 If aliens exist why are they not mentioned in Torah?

18:30 What about Rabbinic laws that seem no longer relevant?

24:49 An example of kosher milk

25:52 An example of horse-riding on Shabbat

29:00 An example of 2-days Yom Tov (Jewish festivals) outside of Israel

31:10 An example of reading the Torah with Targum (Aramaic translation)

31:46 Bible criticism and claims of different writing styles in Torah

50:30 Do Jews want a promised 'Greater Israel' from the Nile to the Euphrates?

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This class was given at the Aish HaTorah Jerusalem Women's seminary, 'Aspire' program, as a question and answer session. The topics raised include:

What are the 6000 years of history and the 7th millennium?

Moshiach (Messiah) son of Yosef and Moshiach son of David?

What is the World to Come?

Who does and does not make it to the World to Come?

Is it just for Jews? or Non-Jews as well?

What is the Resurrection of the Dead? and how does that fit it?

Why is belief in Moshiach considered a fundamental of Jewish belief?

the Torah reading of Vayigash starts mid sentence, following the cliff-hanger anding of last week's Torah reading Miketz. With Binyomin (Benjamin) framed by the Egyptain viceroy Tzafnas Pa'aneach (Yosef/Joseph) thre brothers face the looming catastrophe of the loss of the last reminaing child of Yaakov (Jacob)'s favoured wife Rachel. 

This week begins with Yehuda (Judah) stepping forth to confront the Egyptian leader and do all he can to save his borther. Then in the great plot twist Yosef reveals his true identity, and the whole episode transforms from catastrophe to salvation.

Yet the theme of 'vayigash' literally drawing near, involves far more than fraternal reconciliation. Yehuda's speech is one of the longest recorded in Torah, and adds nothing that we do not already know. Within its meanidering lie subtle clues that this is not merely a healing of the brothers and their relationships, but a reconstruction of Yaakov Avinu, our forefather Jacob, and the ability of the nation to survive exile, to live with difference and treu be truly diverse and truly one.

In this mini-series, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explains the deeper meaning and understanding of the Jewish festival of Chanukah and how it applies to our lives. This episode brings out the essence of the ideological clash between the Seleucid oppressors and the Jews of the Chanuka story.

It addresses the curious selection of 4 areas of observance that were banned: Circumcision, Shabbat, Forcing us to use a calendar instead of witnesses for the New Month, and a seemingly futile atempt to ban the oral transmission of the Unwritten Torah. Why these? What is their common root? and how does the Chanuka story redefine our place in existence, and personal meaning and value?

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In this mini-series, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explains the deeper meaning and understanding of the Jewish festival of Chanukah and how it applies to our lives.

Previous episodes showed how Chazal (Rabbis of Talmud and Midrash) locate the deep spiritual roots of the Chanuka story to the divisions within the Jewish nation and family going all the way back to Torah (Hebrew Bible) with the sons of Jacob.

This episode locates the solution to national schism to the tribe of Levi. It is the elements of passion and peace that they exemplify as teacher sof Torah that can go wrong if misused, but when used correctly can heal the rift between Yehudah (Judah) and Yosef (JUdah), unify the nation and bring an end to exile.

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In this mini-series, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explains the deeper meaning and understanding of the Jewish festival of Chanukah and how it applies to our lives.

This episode examines the two aspects of the Jewish people as manifest in the Biblical ancestors Yehuda (Judah) and Yosef (Joseph). The schism in the first family that becomes national division in the First Temple period and the Greek era can and must be reconciled in order to survive exile. 

This episode demonstrates how the two end up coming together in the essence of Chanuka. 

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In this mini-series, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explains the deeper meaning and understanding of the Jewish festival of Chanukah and how it applies to our lives.

In the previous episode we traced the roots of Chanuka (Hanukkah) back to the sale of Yosef (Joseph) in the Torah (Hebrew Bible). Rather than a mate rof simplistic jealousy, we discovered the dangers inherent in the charm, charisma and beauty of Yosef (Joseph). Time and again the idolatry of latre generations is linked back to the descendents of Yosef (Joseph). Even the assimilation of so many Jews into Hellenism and the internal schism central to the Chanuka (Hanukka) story is linked to him.

But the brothers, family of Israel, got it wrong. Torah and Chazal (Rabbis of the Telmud and Midrash) make it clear that yosef (Joseph) is indispensable to the ability of the Jewish people to survive in exile, whether in Egypt, in the Chanuka story, or the exile we remain in today. This video explores the indispenasability of Yosef (Joseph), his beauty and charm, and in which we disciver that the light of Yosef is the very light of Chanuka!

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In this mini-series, Rabbi Daniel Rowe explains the deeper meaning and understanding of the Jewish festival of Chanukah and how it applies to our lives.

This episode explores the fraternal tension in the first family of Israel. The Torah (Hebrew Bible) recounts the story of the brothers who sell Joseph. In this video we discover the fear they had that his beauty and charm could lead to narcissim and self worshp, and even lead to paganism. What it is that they feared in fact came true in later generations as the Tenach (Hebrew Bible) recounts episodes of Joseph's descendents falling into precisely the same trap. It turns out that the weaknesses they detected and vulnerability to societal approval, assimilation, and betrayal also came true in the Chanuka story.

Yet the rejection of Yosef/ Joseph was the wrong approach. His ability to internact in the world was never manipulative, and always loyal. And without his attricbutes the Jewish nation can never survive exiles. It turns out paradoxically that he carries the root to survival in Egypt, in the Chanuka story, and ultimately in the long exile before the Messianic era.

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