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so true, it is us who need the mitzvos and prayers, it's all for our benefit.

I love your writings, and i was thinking does God need anything?
Hmmmmmm? If he is our God, and we are his people,....and there is a covnant a bond of love and understanding between us, and he can be my friend and i can connect with him and he can answer my prayers...is there something i can give back to him? Can i make him happy? Make him feel good? I think i can! by following his ways and his words, im sure that that Gives him some sort of happiness, good feeling. that is what i think that i can give to God. Love! Thats the first thing he said, to love him with completness. thats what he wants from his people...Shalom!

The true one G_d chose the jewish people to receive the law of Torah. G_d offered the Torah to other peoples who missed the opportunity. All the while, G_d wanted us to receive his gift and that is our greatest contribution to the world. That is why we must follow the law of Torah as an example to the rest of the world which G_d created. We serve him, he does not have to serve us.

Gods other greatest contribution to the world was and is the Jew, a people
created and set apart to proclaim His Di
vine message of deliverance. THANK YOU!!

To Ariel, let me respond that, in fact, you are right. Jews only introduced the idea of a G-d of Goodness to the world--but did not, G-d forbid--'create' that G-d themselves. This is why I concluded that G-d was the 'discovery' of the Jews, not their 'invention'. I leave it to the Biblical minimalists and others of the 'higher anti-Semitism' to try to assert otherwise, ie, that Jews 'created' their deity out of a melange of ancient Middle Eastern demons and demigods. Unfortunately, from time to time, and from place to place, there are many who still reject, and fight, the idea of a G-d of Goodness and Lovingkindness, so Jews' work of introducing this Truth to the world is not completed, even now.

Lori - you are truly an inspiring speaker!
I like forward to watching more of your outstanding videos.
Thanks!

I think you had a fine point, but Judaism did not "introduce" anything, but rather made known what was already existing. It is true that there is one God whether it is "good" or not, and if theoretically there was more than one God that would also be the truth. God is truth. It does not matter that it sounds better or that it is "better" for us, but the fact that it is true is all we need to know. If it would be less convenient it would still be the truth. We did not introduce anything. As the joke goes "what was the tallest mountain before Mount Everest was discovered? Answer: Mount Everest."

Lori Palatnik is a talented treasure.
Her 2 to 3 minute video presentations are utterly remarkable. They are short, profound and piercing. I wait for her eyes to open wider, the slight wave of her head, and her powerful pauses to help her message better penetrate my spirit.
I have also read a number of her humorous pieces for Aish and thoroughly enjoyed them. I feel it is important to say "thank you" to Lori and to Aish and to let you now that your work is deeply appreciated.
Please continue doing your good work.

I suggest that what the Jews 'originated' was the concept of ethical monotheism, not monotheism itself. There were others, such as some Egyptians (the Aten cult) who had an idea of the unity of Power. Perhaps they were receptive to this idea because their own national power was unified in the person of the Pharaoh. Others, such as ancient Sumerians/Babylonians, had ideas of a major Baal; but the idea that G-d, and the way He creates and acts in the world, the ultimate structure of reality, is goodness, lovingkindness, what we came to regard as morality--that was the discovery of the Jewish people.

Great message, He doesn't need our prayers and mitzvos, it's us who need it.

there where other people before jewish people that love GOD like Noah and there is other people that love GOD now, but HE wanted jewish people to be the conection, the bridge the samlpe to lorne how to find HIM and to love and obey HIM and we love jewish people for that.

Excellent, resounds intellectually, incorporates commonsense and the familiar instead of the supernatural.

Yes, Monotheism is certainly the greatest gift of the Jewish people to the world, but shouldn't we -non jews- also ask what the greatest gift of G.d to the world is?

The answer is simple, it's His people, it's the Jewish people.

You are our gift from Him to us. Thank you.