It's Your Choice: The 11th Principle of Emuna

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Lazer Brody’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Amuna my Lord. Amuna, it's from you my Lord. [Music] It's all good, my Lord. Oh Lord, with Hashem's loving grace, welcome to Amuna Hour number 211. Tonight with Hashem's help, we're learning the 11th Hashem's help, we're learning the 11th principle of amuna. This is the principle. It's called it's your choice. This is reward and punishment and free choice. Principle 11 as my manes teaches us. I believe with complete belief that the creator, blessed be his name, rewards those who observe his commandments and punishes those who transgress his commandments. Which means we have to take responsibility for actions. We can't blame anyone else. It's all up to us. And so what's up? Everything comes from Hashem. We learned the first principle of Muna. Uh yes, but the Gammor clarifies that everything the Gammor clarifies that everything comes from Hashem except for the reverence of Hashem. Fearing Hashem, honoring Hashem, this is up to us. So whether we're going to honor Hashem's Torah and the mitzvah or not. This is up to each one of us. We have to take responsibility because Hashem grants us the free will to do good or the otherwise. And with the Ramal explains there's no concept of a reward and punishment outside the context of free will, free choice. Therefore, there can't be the slightest coercion in any

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