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A lecture on the philosophy and hashkafa of Derech Hashem by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
A 1h 12m hashkafa shiur by Rabbi Mendel Kessin. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.


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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
so we are now in the end of parag gimal actually not bad 3 years uh what yeah but we we did a lot of side things you know a lot of deviations and different different topics and you know so really it's a tremendous amount of material when you really think about it you know if you really go through all of you know if you really go through all of it you'll know a massive amount of really what it is you know so anyway so we were talking about last week talking about uh the concept of the physical universe and the illusions that it presents if I remember correctly the illusions that it represents uh and what it does and the barriers that we have to break through because of a physical Universe you know because of a physical Universe you know um what's important to remember which I had mentioned actually is that um the physical Universe in of itself is a barrier that's true you know and certainly when aish was created and even though he wasn't physical the way we are but he was relatively speaking not really spiritual you know so you look at it that way you know so that clearly is a barrier to being a barrier to being mic the Rish you know our problem today is much worse than he was obviously and the reason for that is because we have what's called Z we have the concept called t z so we have the influence of the S and because of that he pervades the Brio that's why we have so much problems you know didn't doesn't doesn't the ra say that the when Adam did the the itself became more we'll call it
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- 0:20so we are now in the end of parag gimal actually not bad 3 years uh…
- 6:28forever so therefore in of itself G materialism of physicality is a barrier you know but…
- 12:38you become God and therefore you're Eternal that was your belief fine then I'm out of…
- 18:48without namua no so therefore what happened was is that since he destroyed the B no…
- 24:59millions of miles away how there's no technology is going to be so much more advanced…
- 31:11to Ras you know and so on you know um that's yin and yang well yeah…
- 37:23Jews uh name is is is the name of hasem which is the spark of the…
- 43:34main between and like I said the is a manifestation is like a representation of the…
- 49:44you see it's a very important idea the concept that there's always a Giver there's always…
- 55:57when a evil happens when a guy marries a woman it's it's the formation of an…
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- Rambanat 1:05:20
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- Hashkafa — 1h 12m, by Rabbi Mendel Kessin
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