Q&A with Rabbi Rowe: Abortion, Teenage Challenges, Why Do Bad Things Happen, Messianic Era, Non-Jews

Watch Rabbi Rowe's responses to all sorts of interesting Judaism questions at this open Q & A with Rabbi Daniel Rowe as part of the NXT program of JFS 6th formers at Aish, on Tues 19th march 2024.

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0:00 - Intro - begins taking questions
0:48 - Charlie - 'Jewish view of abortion? Different opinions from different rabbis?'
0:58 - 'What's the biggest challenge facing today's teenagers?'
1:17 - Olivia - 'How can we see the good in God when there's so much bad in the world?'
2:20 - The Jewish view of abortion (answer 1)
8:12 - The Challenges facing teenagers today (answer 2)
12:32 - Connection with Purim (continuation)
17:30 - Bad things happening in the world (answer 3)
22:14 - Why does God allow painful things to happen? (continuation)
25:40 - The deeper meaning of the sin of Adam (continuation)
33:22 - Using pain to heal the world (continuation)
36:15 - The concept of Moshiach (answer 4)
37:18 - "Why hasn't the messianic era come yet" (follow up)
37:56 - Dillon - "Why doesn't Moshiach come now and make us better people?" (follow up)
38:49 - Yally - "If Torah was written down so long ago how does it stay relevant to us today?" 
41:05 - James - "Why can't we make our own interpretations of the Torah? Why rely on rabbinic interpretation from millennia ago?"
43:12 - "If Judaism's view of God is true, why do so many people not believe in it? How do we relate to other faiths?"
46:38 - The role of non-Jews (continuation)
47:46 - "Why can't Jews follow the teachings of Jesus as well as the Torah?"
48:42 - "What about Jews for Jesus?" (continuation)
50:21 - "Can non-Jews keep the Torah?" (continuation)
52:10 - "I wish I wasn't Jewish" (continuation)
53:09 - Harry - "What is consciousness? And what things are actually conscious?"
57:34 - Outro

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