They Called Him a Heretic Over God’s “Real Hand” — Rabbi Botton Proves them Wrong

So what about the Rambam? Most of what I'm saying is actually based on the Rambam because the Rambam statement which is very sharp and very clear that all all human characteristics attributed to God are a mush. He didn't say they're not true. forch. That mean one of the things that the heretics utilize to cause people to fall into the trap of materialism is by materializing God, giving God material or physical attributes. When they say, "Look, it says he has an arm, so of course he has an arm. It's just that his is real, but yours is not real." God's right hand means kindness. God's left hand means strict judgment and gora severity. The zora says so. God's right hand is God's left hand is strict judgment. Now famous rabbi says that at the end of the day our hand is just an analogy for God's hand. God has the real hand. We have the makebelieve hand. You two personalities think that Rabbi Vanis Friedman is telling everyone that God has a big fat hairy hand like me. And so they they quote the Rambam and they can quote you all these and say, "Uh, he just broke the 13 principles of faith." Obviously, a 10-year-old understands that if I have a fake hand and my hand is physical, that God's real hand that is not that doesn't live in this physical world, he lives it's in heaven God lives. If he lives in heaven and heaven is not physical, then then the hand that Rabbi Freriedman is saying which is real is not physical. So, he's not a heretic because he's saying that it's not a physical hand. Obviously, a 10-year-old knows that. And what the rabbi is trying to teach us, because people [clears throat] maybe a long time ago didn't didn't understand this is don't think it's a real physical hand. But the world of where there is the divine divine attribute of that's very real. It makes things can't get more real than they are in. And so the of which is created in the in the image of of anam of a man. The the spiritual image of a man. The divine image is is the the formation of the in the in the likeness of a man which ultimately really means the likeness of which is the highest the most sublime manifestation of this system of head, arms, legs and brites. Of course that's Adam Kadman because above Adam Kadman Hashem himself doesn't have any image not even the image of a man because the essence of Hashem as he's onto himself has none of this. So the hand of God of course for the Rambam now we we'll start to understand a little bit of a Rambam because because because the Rambam understands and when he talks about God from a philosophical perspective which he was a great Jewish philosopher he means he means the infinite one he means Hashem God as he is unto himself before there even exists a world before divine exists before divine kindness or divine severity exists. It's God before all of that. And he wants you to know that God, the essence of God that's above and before creation doesn't have a hand, has no hand. He can't have a hand. I mean, he could have whatever he wants, but he doesn't have a hand. But the there is a concept of a divine hand. A divine hand is not God's essence. It's it's it's godliness revealed. And it's revealed in the world about salute. And over there where the name Yud Vud is the right hand of God. The name Elohim is the left hand of God. And you better believe that's fairly real. The world of is very real. It's really it's divine. It's really it's divine. So there's the God's hand which is a very real godly hand which is which is spiritual and not physical whatsoever. And that's what my manuscript means. And that's what the Zohar means. That's what means and that's what the the the schlah and and there's many rabbis I've been I sat in listening to the wholeidic approach that this is the real end this is not the real >> how many times in the Torah does it say God's eyes hashem how many times only twice as how many times did it say yad hashem how many times did it They pay hashem. So, does he have eyes? Does he have a mouth? Does he have an arm? Yes. No. >> No. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> Isn't that I mean, come on. So many times Hashem, >> does he really speak? >> If you were there, would you hear him? >> No. >> Like real speak or or mental talk. >> Real speech. Okay. Okay. So many people say and and and it says in the in the mafarian that it is not literal. It's only a mushel. Why do we have such a mushel? to help us understand like every mush but to help us understand what that he doesn't have an arm or a mouth and he doesn't really speak and he so listen to this example my daughter my granddaughter was crying because her doll broke so I sat down and I said I feel so bad because it must have hurt the doll terribly so she started to laugh. She says, "It didn't hurt." I said, "What do you mean it didn't hurt?" The arm came off. She said, "It's not a real arm." I said, "How [clears throat] do you know?" She said, "It's plastic." She's right. A plastic arm is not a real arm. It looks like an arm, but it's not a real arm. What's a real arm? A real arm has to have a bone and skin with muscle, right? That's a real arm. A plastic arm is just plastic. A bone and skin is just a bone and skin. It's not a real arm. Looks like an arm, but it's not a real arm. It's just a bone. God has a real arm. A real one. Since we were created in his image, that's why we also have something like an arm. But his is the real thing. Ours is just like a doll. So, does he really have a mouth or we have a real mouth? He has a real one. We have something like it. Does he really speak or we really speak? >> He said, "Let there be light. You try it. [laughter] Say it. Say it 100 times. Nothing will happen because our speech is not the real. His is the real. So who is the mashall and who is the nima? We are the example. It's not him. So does he really have an arm? >> Yes. Is it literal? An arm? Yes. An actual arm? Yes. You mean like mine? No, cuz yours is not the real thing. Now [clears throat] it makes a little bit of sense. I call my arm an arm because it's a tiny little example of his real arm. So, it's not confusing. It's a little bit helpful. But don't think that his arm is like yours because his arm is the real one. So, the Torah is not using words incorrectly, saying he has an arm when he doesn't really. Every word in the Torah is true. So, if it says an arm, then it's an arm. Just don't think it's an arm like a doll's arm, because it's a real arm.