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 Rabbi Manis Friedman (born 1946) is a Chabad Lubavitch Hassid. He is a Torah scholar, author, counselor and speaker and is the dean of the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1946, Friedman immigrated with his family to the United States in 1950. He received his rabbinic ordination at the Rabbinical College of Canada in 1969. He currently hosts a cable television series, Torah Forum with Manis Friedman, syndicated within North America. Friedman's first book, Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore?, was published in 1990. It is currently in its fourth printing. Since the 1970s more than 150,000 of Friedman's recorded classes and lectures have been sold.
[edit] ActivitiesIn 1971, with Rabbi Schneerson's guidance, Manis Friedman founded the Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota, which became the world's first school of Jewish studies exclusively for women with little or no formal Jewish education[citation needed]. He has served as the school's dean since its inception. [edit] TeachingsThough not extensively published, Friedman's teachings have been cited by many authors writing on various secular issues as well as on exclusively Jewish topics. Friedman's student and fellow author Shmuley Boteach cites Friedman often, including in his books The Private Adam (2005) and Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments (2001). B. Holstein quotes Friedman in his book Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy (1997), Angela Payne quotes him in her book Living Every Single Moment: Embrace Your Purpose Now (2004), and Sylvia Barack Fishman quotes him in A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (1995; part of the Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life). Lynn Davidman, in her book Tradition in a Rootless World (1993), credits Friedman with playing a key role in the resurgence of Orthodox Judaism among women. In two separate autobiographies, Playing with Fire: One Woman's Remarkable Odyssey by Tova Mordechai (1991) and Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew by Neal Karlen (2004), both authors credit Friedman for their own returns to Judaism. [edit] ControversyIn a statement to Moment Magazine Friedman was quoted as saying: "I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)."[1] In response to the offense that Jews, Muslims, and others took to the statement Friedman responded: "It is obvious, I thought, that any neighbor of the Jewish people should be treated, as the Torah commands us, with respect and compassion. Fundamental to the Jewish faith is the concept that every human being was created in the image of G-d, and our sages instruct us to support the non-Jewish poor along with the poor of our own brethren. The sub-question I chose to address instead is: how should we act in time of war, when our neighbors attack us, using their women, children and religious holy places as shields. I attempted to briefly address some of the ethical issues related to forcing the military to withhold fire from certain people and places, at the unbearable cost of widespread bloodshed (on both sides!) -- when one’s own family and nation is mercilessly targeted from those very people and places."[2] [edit] With Bob DylanIn the 1980's Manis Friedman accompanied Bob Dylan to a farbrengen (hasidic gathering) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Brooklyn. Dylan had frequented Friedman's home in St. Paul. Friedman's book eventually won a blurb from Dylan, "Anyone who is married or thinking about getting married would do well to read this book." [edit] FamilyManis Friedman is married to Chana Friedman. Chana is the daughter of the late Rabbi Sholom B. Gordon, former director of Chabad of Maplewood, NJ and co-founder of the Rabbinical College of America and is from a chassidic family.
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