Beyond The Male Ego

Thank you Thank you so much for this information. This is very timely for me in being able to be a help to one who is very close to me. Reply

This is astonishing and helpful Dear Rabbi Friedman,
This shiur hit me like a lightning bolt to the heart. It startled me awake.

I'm am in deep contemplation of its truth, and will G-d willing listen to it many times.
The soul knows the truth when it hears it.
Thank you beyond words for this limitless mitzvah - teaching me the reality of the female - male dynamic.

May G-d bless you and keep you and shine His countenance upon you and upon all at Chabad.
Shalom,
Ezza Reply

I see what Rabbi is saying We have a teenage boy and soon to be teen girl. I love Rabbi Freidman's lectures because what he says in the beginning may rub me the wrong way, however, towards the last 20 to 10 minutes the messages comes all together and I see my life so clearly. Reply

Didn't feel it. I have been listing to all the lectures chabad.org has to offer, and in large part I have learned, appreciated and grown from the wisdom.
In this lecture, I found little pearls of wisdom, small ideas that rang true.
The idea that I man needs respect, and a woman appreciation...ok. It works.
However, the fundamental idea that a man comes from nothing and a woman comes from him, not only goes against the reality of all nature, but some might say, against the Torah itself. What of the "androgynous being," many great scholars say was first created? What of the misinterpretation of hebrew that "rib" and "half" were confused?
After all....in all evidence of life on this planet, with the exception of the sea horse, man comes from woman!
But truthfully, it makes much more sense in the principles of balance, that one was created and equally became two. Since the entire lecture was based on this fundamental disagreement, it was difficult to listen to.
To conceive, it is not necessary for a man to face the ground and the woman to face him... any doctor could tell you that conception comes in a variety of ways.
Anyway.
I will listen to more lectures by Rabbi Freidman...and I will try to be open minded...however, this one put me way off.
Thank you to chabad.org for allowing so many different perspectives. Reply