I realize human beings need to be needed far more than they need to be loved.

If I'm needed then I got a life and you love me also then my life is sweet. But if you just love me all I have is sweet with no life

so we've been barking up the wrong tree

pushing love love love your children love them more love them a lot

and in the meantime they don't feel necessary at all and it's lopsided

welcome back everyone to another episode of inspiration for the Nation and we are so excited

to have YouTube's most popular rabbi, Rabbi Manus Friedman.

I'm never sure how to actually pronounce his first name.

But we didn't want to just have him on.

You may have seen his lectures, his speeches, his videos,

and if you haven't, go ahead, we'll have a link in the show notes,

check him out. He is fascinating, incredible, and so authentic.

But there's these two people in this episode as well who are on a journey themselves and they're slowly becoming more and more

observant, more and more tapped into their purpose and they grew up secular and they stumbled across

Rabbi Friedman's videos on YouTube and were so so enthralled by what is going on and they're like, whoa, this is something happening and one's a professor, one's a filmmaker, and they change their lives around and I thought it would be so interesting to have a

conversation with Rabbi Friedman about what did he say that made them go hey

there's something about our lives that we should shift.

And what did they feel from those videos that they're like, hey, this is something we've

been missing.

Maybe we weren't even looking for it, but we're something we're missing.

So it's definitely a different kind of episode.

In this episode we talk about extremely big ideas, why we exist, what's more important than love, does God need you or do you need God and

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