Q&A- Is it Heretical to Say God Needs Us? Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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is it heretical to believe say or teach that God needs us because I have seen classes online that say yes yeah yeah yeah are both opinions valid or is only one right this is the great controversy about Rabbi Manis Friedman who is extremely popular Chabad speaker in fact uh the advertisement goes the most popular Rabbi on the internet I feel I feel cheated that way I'm not even here I'm not even near his numbers uh and near his numbers uh and um Rabbi Friedman almost has a mantra borrowing on the Eastern uh religion thing uh you know you don't need God you know God needs you God needs you and therefore uh you know you got to do your job so people like reviews you know uh attack Revelations half of Revelations Shear is devoted to attacking modest Freeman uh sometimes it's an amazing thing again this is all public so I I don't think there's less than our info Andrew and uh mizraki's argument is that Andrew and uh mizraki's argument is that God is perfect right it's really a standard argument god is perfect God is whole God has no needs uh this is the prophets that say you can't give anything to God and if you can't get better you've got all the Mysteries are just for us so how could somebody say that God is needy that's a contradiction to God's omnipotence so he takes the position that Rabbi Friedman is a heretic and not because and and elect well here's the thing um

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1. 0:00is it heretical to believe say or teach that God needs us because I have seen…
2. 0:30near his numbers uh and um Rabbi Friedman almost has a mantra borrowing on the Eastern…
3. 1:01Andrew and uh mizraki's argument is that God is perfect right it's really a standard argument…
4. 1:32there may be an issue I mean again I don't want to criticize anybody I mean…
5. 2:02goodness right everyone everyone in North America has learned that passage or that idea a million…
6. 3:02the ramaqal now I'll say this God's needs are self-created meaning to say God does not…
7. 3:32hunger when I'm hungry I have to eat I can't will I mean maybe I could…
8. 4:03so Rabbi Friedman's statement that God has needs is not as Preposterous as you would assume…
9. 4:34that we keep the Torah well God needs that we keep Torah because that's God's desire…
10. 5:04and that's really the Robbie Freeman's point that we have a job to do that's really…

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